Creating

More thoughts on that subject. This morning I realized this:
When creating it is best to get out of the way of the music, to allow it to unfold on its own, informed and shaped by our experience, understanding and technique, but unburdened by our self. This can also be applied to raising a child. Getting out of the way of the child unfolding. In other words we can attempt to teach the child without pouring our fears and prejudices into it.


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One Stone


Glimpse of the Day
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.