For the Days When It Would Be Easier to Quit: “Never Giving Up” by Manwol

We all have those tough moments. The in-between days. The not-quite-there-yet stretches. The times when things stall or take longer than we’d like.

And sometimes that slow doubt creeps in: Maybe it’s just not meant to be.

It might be the weight of a project, an unrealized dream, or the despair we feel looking at the state of the world.

It can be heavy.

But if we’re open to it, and we look inside, we can also find a glimmering thread of hope, even if it’s small. 

When we stand before the challenge and ask if we have the strength to keep going, something inside declares: Yes, I can.

A Talisman for the Turning Point

This is the energy that lives in Never Giving Up, a fortune talisman painting by Tao master Manwol. It’s message is not to invoke willpower; it’s to transmit perseverance from a place beyond the will. 

The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time. But let your trying be driven by inner alignment between head, heart, and body. Something that steadies you from the inside out.

Art can create a field of energetic support to help you keep moving toward your goals.  Like all of her artwork, Tao Master Manwol painted the Never Giving Up talisman in a meditative state, using color, form, and energy to transmit an inner quality.

When you look at it, you may see motion, or you may see balance. You may see an object or a symbol, or you may see nothing at all. There’s nothing to read or interpret with the mind. The point is its presence and the energy it stirs inside you. You can let this painting hold the space for what you already know, but may have forgotten.

Or, you can let it offer you the strength of the artist—a beautiful soul who has been on a spiritual journey for a very long time, doing deep and difficult work. You can bet she had many moments where it would have been easier to quit. That unseen source that kept her going can keep you going, too.

A Practice of Perseverance

Try the following while looking at Never Giving Up:

1. Gaze gently at the painting and breathe.
   Allow your awareness to drop from your thoughts into your body. Feel the solidity of your legs, your spine, your center, the ground that holds you. Settle yourself with a few deep breaths.
   
   
2. Let your eyes move slowly across the brushstrokes.
   Follow their momentum, noticing where they thicken or narrow, rise or fade or twist. Notice how this same changing, pulsing energy is inside you too.
   
   
3. Bring to mind that thing that makes you want to quit.
   Notice what awakens in your body and your emotions. Is there heat in your chest? A fire in your belly? A flutter behind your eyes? Whatever energy arises can move and transform, but only if you first allow it to be.
   
   
4. Ask the painting to give you something you need.
   Ask without urgency or struggle, but with the trust that life is always providing for you, and you need only turn your attention in the right direction to see it.
   
   
5. If you like, create an affirmation to repeat.
   “Just one more time.” “I can do this.” “I trust in life.” Whatever words will give you strength to keep going, let them land in your body and keep them close.

Bring Perseverance into Your Space

Manwol’s Never Giving Up talisman painting is available in our shop in multiple sizes and formats. It’s a steady, energetic presence that supports your forward movement, not by pushing, but by aligning.

Let it live wherever you make your efforts: by your workspace, your altar, your bedside, your quiet morning chair. Let it meet you when resolve runs low, and let it walk with you when you're ready to try again.

Get Never Giving Up as a framed canvas print or unframed paper print. Or, check out all of Tao Master Manwol’s energy art here.