“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“The self pretends that things are getting serious, just like a great actor on the stage. Even though the audience knows that what they see on stage is only a play, the actor’s skill takes them in—they weep and laugh and sit on the edge of their seats with anticipation. They’re utterly involved in what they really know is just a play. So that’s what’s going on here. Brahman is a tremendous actor with absolutely superb technique, so much so that Brahman takes itself in and feels that the play is real. We are all the Brahman acting out our own parts and playing the human game so beautifully that Brahman is enchanted, and this is what enchantment means—under the influence of a chant, hypnotized, spellbound, fascinated. And that fascination is maya.”
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
“Self-criticism and criticizing others are one and the same. In other words, self-blame is part of the same Upper Limit pattern as blaming someone else. Both criticizing yourself and criticizing others are highly addictive and very popular ways of busting up the flow of positive energy.”
― The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
― The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
“If there was a big bang at the beginning of time, you are not something that is the result of that explosion at the end of the process. You are the process.”
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
“Everything is change. Nothing can be held on to. And if you go with the flux, you flow with it. However, if you resist the stream, it fights you. If you realize this, you swim with the flow—you go with it, and you’re at peace. This is particularly true when it comes to those moments when life really seems to be taking us away, and the stream of change is going to swallow us completely. And so at the moment of death, we withdraw and say, “No, no, no! Not that! Not yet!” But the whole problem is that we don’t realize that the only thing to do when that moment comes is to go over the waterfall—just as you go on from one day to the next, just as you go to sleep at night. When the moment comes, we should be absolutely willing to die.”
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
― Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
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