Andrew Cohen Quote of the Week - The Creative Edge

[Grace]

Yes I like that very much. he is talking about spontaneity I reckon.

Cheers

Grace

 

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Quote of the Week

The Creative Edge

 

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.

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.

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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Creativity and Spirituality
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Year's Eve, and visit
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iverse-project-continued/> Andrew's blog to read about the event and much
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