The question of destiny can be better explained by the picture of an artist meditating on a certain design he has in mind. The first stage is to create the design in his mind. The second is to bring it on to the canvas; and when he draws this picture on the canvas, it may suggest something to him that he had not thought of when he made the design in his mind. And when the artist has finished his picture, he will see that it is quite different from what he had originally thought of.
This shows that our life stands before us like a picture; when all that has been designed beforehand begins to happen, our soul will receive a totally different suggestion from the picture.
Something that was lacking may have been put in, and in this way the picture is improved.
For there are two kinds of artists:
one who paints the plan which has been made in his mind on the canvas;
and the other who takes suggestions from the picture itself as he goes on painting.
The difference is that the one is merely an artist and the other is a master. The latter is not bound to the plan; the former has designed something and is bound to what he has designed; he is limited.
One sees the same thing with a composer of music. He composes a certain melody in his mind; he ponders over it and wishes to put it on paper. But when he plays his composition on the piano, the music suggests improvements to him. He plays the same musical idea that he first had, but he is able to perfect and complete it when he has heard it with his own ears.
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