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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... flow of time and with our own evolving consciousness , rather than with a preordained script or recipe . In composed or scripted art forms , there are two kinds of time : the moment of inspiration in which a direct intuition of beauty ...
... flow of time and with our own evolving consciousness , rather than with a preordained script or recipe . In composed or scripted art forms , there are two kinds of time : the moment of inspiration in which a direct intuition of beauty ...
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... flows through us , yet we do not own it ; it appears as a principal factor in the arts , in healing , in religion . Listening now to the Pablo Casals recordings of the Bach ... flow through time and space of this pattern of THE STREAM 33.
... flows through us , yet we do not own it ; it appears as a principal factor in the arts , in healing , in religion . Listening now to the Pablo Casals recordings of the Bach ... flow through time and space of this pattern of THE STREAM 33.
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... flow of choice , choice , choice , choice . When we improvise with the whole heart , riding this flow , the choices and images open into each other so rapidly that we have no time to get scared and retreat from what intuition is telling ...
... flow of choice , choice , choice , choice . When we improvise with the whole heart , riding this flow , the choices and images open into each other so rapidly that we have no time to get scared and retreat from what intuition is telling ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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