Quote: Stephen Nachmanovitch

‘... intuition computes concentrically.’

From ‘Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art’

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Now It Is Clear - a poem by WS Merwin

Now it is clear to me that no leaves are mine
no roots are mine
that wherever I go I will be a spine of smoke in the forest
and the forest will know it
we will both know it

and that the birds vanish because of something
that I remember
flying from me as though I were a great wind
as the stones settle into the ground
the trees into themselves
staring as though I were a great wind
which is what I pray for

it is clear to me that I cannot return
but that some of us will meet once more
even here
like our own statues
and some of us still later without names
and some of us will burn with the speed
of endless departures

and be found and lost no more

Quote: Martha Graham

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.  And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

Excerpt in Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, by Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Quote: William James

‘The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It ‘becomes’ true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process, the process namely of its verifying itself, its ‘verification.’ Its validity is the process of its ‘validation.’ ‘

From the Preface to ‘The Meaning of Truth,’ 1909.

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Quote: Gregory Bateson

"... mere purposive rationality unaided by such phenomena as art, religion, dream and the like, is necessarily pathogenic and destructive of life; ... its virulence springs specifically from the circumstance that life depends upon interlocking circuits of contingency, while consciousness can see only such short arcs of such circuits as human purpose may direct."

from Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972