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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Page 94
... pull . Nor does the work come from a compro- mise or halfway point ( averages are always boring ! ) , but from a ... pulls on us . It is as though we have become a group organism that has its own nature and its own way of being , 94 ...
... pull . Nor does the work come from a compro- mise or halfway point ( averages are always boring ! ) , but from a ... pulls on us . It is as though we have become a group organism that has its own nature and its own way of being , 94 ...
Page 166
... pull . It is like the com- plex dance of coming back to an old love . Eros invariably embodies not only closeness ... pulling and being pulled in an erotic union with powerful , deeper patterns still emerging from unconsciousness . We ...
... pull . It is like the com- plex dance of coming back to an old love . Eros invariably embodies not only closeness ... pulling and being pulled in an erotic union with powerful , deeper patterns still emerging from unconsciousness . We ...
Page 182
... pull us out is the fresh perception fostered by a creative attitude , as well as openness to the free play of possibilities . In politics more than in any other sphere of life , what most clogs creativity is fear . What we see behind ...
... pull us out is the fresh perception fostered by a creative attitude , as well as openness to the free play of possibilities . In politics more than in any other sphere of life , what most clogs creativity is fear . What we see behind ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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