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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... human society , the arts , the cosmos , and history . These creative processes are a paradigm for how our own creative processes work at those especially beautiful moments when the work flows and work is play and the process and the ...
... human society , the arts , the cosmos , and history . These creative processes are a paradigm for how our own creative processes work at those especially beautiful moments when the work flows and work is play and the process and the ...
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... human growth cycle , and one of the great primal life functions . Without play , learning and evolu- tion are ... humans , as Johan Huizinga has shown in Homo Ludens : A Study of the Play Ele- ment in Culture , play pervades every facet ...
... human growth cycle , and one of the great primal life functions . Without play , learning and evolu- tion are ... humans , as Johan Huizinga has shown in Homo Ludens : A Study of the Play Ele- ment in Culture , play pervades every facet ...
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... human freedom , community , and cre- ativity are to be absorbed and transcended in the full hu- manization of the person . Culture and the arts are a vital resource for survival . Creation , in the arts , science , technol- ogy , and ...
... human freedom , community , and cre- ativity are to be absorbed and transcended in the full hu- manization of the person . Culture and the arts are a vital resource for survival . Creation , in the arts , science , technol- ogy , and ...
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A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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