Moderation is Lukewarm Tea
"Moderation is lukewarm tea ..... the devil's own brew!"
These are words from a book I'm currently reading by Dan Millman entitled Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and for this reason was undecided whether I should place this thread in the Writing From Elsewhere section, or whatever it's called.
Anyway, when I read this it seemed like such a marvelous metaphor for our writing that I just had to share it with you all .....
"Moderation is mediocrity, fear and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's reasonable deception. It's the wobbling compromise (when you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble) that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation is lukewarm tea."
In other words, once we make a choice on what to write and how to write, we must do it with all our spirit. When we write we must never be like the Evangelist who thinks about praying while shagging his wife, and thinks about shagging his wife while praying.
Does that make sense?
And if we make mistakes in our writing then "it's better to make mistakes with the full force of our being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit."
