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• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that…
• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
• The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
• Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning…
• There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more…
• We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.
• Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
• Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways
• Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way.…
• Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.
• It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

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