A large number of people end up as adults who have little or no sense of themselves as legitimate creators. This blog explores the idea of creativity in its widest sense (painting, dancing, felting, cooking, writing, poetry, film-making etc.) and starts with the question 'how do we inhibit and block our naturally creative response to life?'
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Slowing down even more
All these interactions. All this emergence. As an experiment, I'm stopping the blog for the summer. To see what happens when you slow it down completely.
The obvious answer is that it stops. That’s actually that’s not quite true though is it? I guess it all depends on what it is, where it is and what condition it was in when it started to slow down.
“”The right art’, cried the Master, ‘is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have too much wilful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.’”
All these interactions. All this emergence. As an experiment, I'm stopping the blog for the summer. To see what happens when you slow it down completely.
The obvious answer is that it stops. That’s actually that’s not quite true though is it? I guess it all depends on what it is, where it is and what condition it was in when it started to slow down.
ReplyDelete“”The right art’, cried the Master, ‘is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have too much wilful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.’”