The master sticks to his traditional customs because he knows from
experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously
in the right frame of mind for creating.  The meditative repose in
which he performs these preparations gives him that vital loosening
and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence
of mind, without which no right work can be done.  Sunk without
purpose in what he is doing, he is brought face to face with that
moment when the work realizes itself, as if of its own accord.  The
right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the
preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the
material and the spiritual, the project and the object flow together
without a break.
	- Eugen Herrigel, *Zen and the Art of Archery*