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 89
... unconscious material . The unconscious is the very bread and butter of the artist , so mistakes and slips of all kinds are to be treasured as priceless information from beyond and within . As our craft and life develop toward greater ...
... unconscious material . The unconscious is the very bread and butter of the artist , so mistakes and slips of all kinds are to be treasured as priceless information from beyond and within . As our craft and life develop toward greater ...
Page 158
... unconscious thoughts , are not passively floating " down there " ; they are moving , growing , and changing on their own , and our con- scious mind is but an observer or interloper . That is why Jung called the depths of the unconscious ...
... unconscious thoughts , are not passively floating " down there " ; they are moving , growing , and changing on their own , and our con- scious mind is but an observer or interloper . That is why Jung called the depths of the unconscious ...
Page 174
... unconscious , the collective unconscious , the bil- lion - year history encoded in and as our bodies . Artworks , dreams , events that touch us deeply play across the liminal interface between conscious and unconscious reality . They ...
... unconscious , the collective unconscious , the bil- lion - year history encoded in and as our bodies . Artworks , dreams , events that touch us deeply play across the liminal interface between conscious and unconscious reality . They ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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