This is an important principle you are reflecting on in your question, that tremendous passion and dedication, a zeal that keeps people going, round the clock and sometimes for days at a time, is characteristic of the artist consumed by their passion that burns fiercely within and propels them forward, even at times depriving themselves of nourishment and sleep to keep working feverishly on their project. This is not because they are a slave to an idea or being manipulated somehow by us as lovers of beauty and wanting that for each of you, but a personal response to that inner fire burning brightly within that is recognizing the divine inspiration and seeing it as something quite special—that is what sets the soul on fire and creates such dedication. If you ask someone exhibiting that behavior, they will tell you unfailingly that they are not suffering but are in a special state of being, living their dream and fully engaged in a way that to them is the ultimate experience of their existence when they are truly in the groove, in the act of creation, and thriving from its unfolding success.
While these heights of productivity are not an everyday occurrence for people, all get a taste of this at times in doing any kind of productive work that is useful and gives them a sense of purpose. People rightly take pride in their accomplishments, even doing something ordinary and mundane in responding simply to the motivation to please an overseer, even if it is an uncaring and somewhat harsh and critical boss only thinking of the company's benefit. A successful worker will be working for themselves always in at least recognizing their worth in being able to meet the challenges, even unfair oversight and excess criticism, but can see for themselves they are doing something that makes a contribution to bring something new into the world that didn't exist before, and feel personal satisfaction they have a hand in it and feel successful however they are judged by others.
In a sense, all are simply cogs in a vast enterprise, a kind of machinery, making everyone interdependent to some degree and, in a sense, each individual may feel diminished in contrast to the size of the whole, but all recognize, to some extent at least, that they would be missed, that their contribution, if absent, would have to be done by others and without them there would be a diminishment, and rightly take the credit for what they do. But the possibility of greater reward is a function of how in divine alignment one's efforts become. People’s efforts are often caretaking, to organize and arrange, as most activities are more prosaic and simply related to the physical limitations of your existence in physical form, and are relatively mundane forms of housekeeping. This does not make them less valuable and less important; it is simply that the soul will not be thrilled to the same extent if that is solely what one experiences and never has the experience of doing something unprecedented that truly sets them apart from others. The act of creation is divine and everyone senses this, regardless of their inner beliefs about such things.
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