By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.