I know it is valuable to look within, yet when sadness pursues you, look outside. Look, the sun falls on the trees just as it did before you were sad. Look, new flowers have blossomed! The air is sweet. The sky is a blue cloak over the world, and white clouds glide by like swans. Look not at your sadness but out beyond yourself. How can you live in this world I have painted and maintain sadness?

Even if you look out, and it is raining, what a painting that is! Go outside and get wet. Feel what it is like to be outside in the rain. Listen to the rain. Embrace the miracle of rain.