It is concentration.

Excerpt

The man who forged swords for the Minister of War was eighty years of age. Yet he never made the slightest slip in his work. The Minister of War said to him, "Is it your skill, Sir, or have you any method?" "It is concentration," replied the man. When twenty years old, I took to forging swords. I cared for nothing else. If a thing was not a sword, I did not notice it.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 22, §11 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, an old swordsmith explains that his whole secret is that he always did the same work: what you repeat with constancy ends up becoming natural and spontaneous, and then it succeeds. Today, choose a small kind gesture (a smile, a thank-you, attentive listening) and repeat it at every opportunity, until it comes to you without thinking.

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