Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art"There is an old Sanskrit word, lîla, 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. Lîla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love. Lîla 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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... expression a unitive experi- ence that is the essence of the creative mystery . The heart of improvisation is the free play of consciousness as it draws , writes , paints , and plays the raw material emerging from the unconscious . Such ...
... expression a unitive experi- ence that is the essence of the creative mystery . The heart of improvisation is the free play of consciousness as it draws , writes , paints , and plays the raw material emerging from the unconscious . Such ...
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... expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply . This applies as well to our own ... expression bursts out , of its own accord , when you and it are ripe : My belly is as wine which hath no vent ...
... expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply . This applies as well to our own ... expression bursts out , of its own accord , when you and it are ripe : My belly is as wine which hath no vent ...
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... expression ) is the opposite of galumph- ing ( the profligacy of nature and imagination ) . Both tenden- cies contribute to the artfulness of our work . Having whatever qualities " quality " might possess , an act might be skilled ...
... expression ) is the opposite of galumph- ing ( the profligacy of nature and imagination ) . Both tenden- cies contribute to the artfulness of our work . Having whatever qualities " quality " might possess , an act might be skilled ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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