on diligence

It's nice to notice that by concentrating patiently on life's long projects, things will happen and you notice the needed progress. With my wife, I've renovated our house quite extensively this year. The main results is the almost ready new second floor. Now, just before it's almost ready, there are several small things that have to be done before we can move in there.

But those are things that have to be done, only after them we will have the two new living rooms. Autumn has been quite busy and it is not always to find time to do these small things. A while ago, we decided that we will just do these small things one by one, even though they'd be realised only in very small development steps.

The same set of rules apply when you are studying druidism, trying to explore new possibilities that learning new paths brings ahead. All the books I've read on druidism tell that only by being patient and practicing with diligence, concentrating, brings you results, what ever you are trying to achieve on your own path.

In my musical workings which are seamlessly wrapped within my mystical explorations, I've always tried to be honest me. I like to bring pure, primitive and forgotten, and spiritual dimensions in to my songs. And I've always tried to play in my own style. I concentrate on my strenghts and try not to copy anyone else's (who I might admire) style directly.

It's often funny and also quite wondrous to notice your own development. Yesterday, I listened few of our old synth tapes and I immediately knew how I should play them now in order to make them better. And those were tapes, I had recorded only two years ago. I believe that the diligent practice and concentrating on your own musical identity brings you nearer and nearer the pure universal source, from where the unconscius ideas pour.

Jethro Tull did not become Jethro Tull overnight, it took years and years of hard and diligent work.