If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
The tension between spontaneity and limitations
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
The spiritual idea
An idea or practice is “spiritual” when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.
Creativity is trusting
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
The images of the old world
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works. images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.
