Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art"There is an old Sanskrit word, līla, which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Līla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love. Līla may be the simplest thing there is--spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard-won achievement imaginable, and its coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves."--Introduction, page 1. |
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... develop in context . You cer- tainly use your training ; you refer to it , understand it , ground yourself in it , but you don't allow your training to blind you to the actual person who is sitting in front of you . In this way you pass ...
... develop in context . You cer- tainly use your training ; you refer to it , understand it , ground yourself in it , but you don't allow your training to blind you to the actual person who is sitting in front of you . In this way you pass ...
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... develop or educe our original voice , but more often they bury it . It may be developed or undeveloped , excited or inhibited , by the way we are raised and trained and treated in life.35 Be- cause most of our institutions are built on ...
... develop or educe our original voice , but more often they bury it . It may be developed or undeveloped , excited or inhibited , by the way we are raised and trained and treated in life.35 Be- cause most of our institutions are built on ...
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... develop and revise your work to communicate more and more clearly ; but if you alter one word in order to please ... developing artwork that is more and more authentically yours , people will spot it as genuine . In resisting the ...
... develop and revise your work to communicate more and more clearly ; but if you alter one word in order to please ... developing artwork that is more and more authentically yours , people will spot it as genuine . In resisting the ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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