Fwd: Andrew Cohen Quote of the Week - The Creative Edge

[Edward Schreiber]

Dear Colleagues,
I thought this would be of interest to some of us.
Best,
Ed

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> Quote of the Week
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> The Creative Edge
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> Truly creative people are always pushing the edge. If you see very  
> talented musicians lost in spontaneous improvisation, they'll often  
> tell you that in that state something comes over them. There's a  
> certain place they describe out of which all authentic creativity  
> springs—a mysterious point between the present and future, where a  
> deeper current is flowing. This place is alive with the thrill of  
> the unknown, full of risk and insecurity. It's the very point where  
> something comes from nothing.
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> In order to create something new, a risk has to be taken, a leap  
> beyond the known. And the thrill of that creative leap is a very  
> impersonal human experience. Great artists, writers, musicians,  
> scientists, engineers, athletes and many others all experience this  
> same thrill. We find that we feel most alive, most liberated, when  
> we're expressing our own creativity, pushing the edge in the right  
> way for the right reasons. This potential for creativity seems to  
> be an inherent part of the human capacity. The creative process is  
> an evolutionary process. When you experience the creative impulse  
> awakening in your self, it's no different than the original impulse  
> that became the whole universe. It's nothing less that the Big Bang  
> itself, working in you and through you. That's why it is always so  
> thrilling.
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> Now, it is one thing to take the risk to leap beyond the known in  
> music, art, writing—in any kind of temporary process where we are  
> creating something. But in an evolutionary context, we want to  
> aspire to a relationship to life itself that would be constantly  
> creative. I'm not just talking about creativity with a canvas or  
> with a musical instrument. I'm talking about creativity with our  
> own souls. It's much more challenging. There's no time out. You  
> can't put the brush or the instrument down and go back to your  
> safe, secure, ordinary life. Living like this requires a radical  
> letting go and a kind of care that few people dare to even  
> consider. It means perpetually living right on the cutting edge of  
> the life process—where the flowering of spirit as evolution is  
> occurring in every moment. It's ultimate creativity of self in a  
> total response to life.
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> Andrew Cohen
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> Creativity and Spirituality
> Watch a video clip of Andrew Cohen in dialogue with artist Alex  
> Grey, filmed on New Year's Eve, and visit Andrew's blog to read  
> about the event and much more...
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