“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”
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Of his Eleventh Symphony.
Testimony (1979)
“Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”
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Variant: We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) <!-- page 120 of the mass market paperback edition -->
Context: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over