[sarettah]

It doesn't matter what activity anyone chooses. If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

And it doesn't matter what it is that you select, because when it has been pushed far enough it contains everything else.

I'm not talking about specialization. To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of everything else. That's not it. That's tame and insular and extremely limiting. I'm talking about taking one thing, however trivial and mundane, to such extremes that you illuminate it's relationship to all other things, and then taking it a little bit further - to the point of cosmic impact where it becomes all things.

TR