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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... surrender . Perhaps we are surren- dering to something delightful , but we still have to give up our expectations and a certain degree of control — give up being safely wrapped in our own story . We still engage in the important ...
... surrender . Perhaps we are surren- dering to something delightful , but we still have to give up our expectations and a certain degree of control — give up being safely wrapped in our own story . We still engage in the important ...
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... , flexibility , strength , endurance , muscle tone , and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument , but rather of keeping open an unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse 140 Surrender.
... , flexibility , strength , endurance , muscle tone , and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument , but rather of keeping open an unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse 140 Surrender.
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... surrender , and that surrender is not defeat but rather the key to opening out into a world of delight and nonstop creation . One of the great traps at times of blockage is that we may accuse ourselves of a deficit of concentration and ...
... surrender , and that surrender is not defeat but rather the key to opening out into a world of delight and nonstop creation . One of the great traps at times of blockage is that we may accuse ourselves of a deficit of concentration and ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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