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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... Questions game , in which one tries to guess what the other person is thinking of by asking a series of yes - or - no questions . Twenty Questions is best approached by first asking questions that cut a broad swath across unknown ...
... Questions game , in which one tries to guess what the other person is thinking of by asking a series of yes - or - no questions . Twenty Questions is best approached by first asking questions that cut a broad swath across unknown ...
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... questions of itself . Mistakes and accidents , or gifts of sheer inspiration , can enter at any time to fertilize the process with fresh information . The music flows on through all these changes , incorporating and assimilating them as ...
... questions of itself . Mistakes and accidents , or gifts of sheer inspiration , can enter at any time to fertilize the process with fresh information . The music flows on through all these changes , incorporating and assimilating them as ...
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... question to the next ; we are bugged by the question , which generates another answer , which is itself another question . We re - create the book as we read it . As in the Twenty Questions game , we start at the edge and work our way ...
... question to the next ; we are bugged by the question , which generates another answer , which is itself another question . We re - create the book as we read it . As in the Twenty Questions game , we start at the edge and work our way ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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