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Play Is Creativity
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“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man…. Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
Joseph Campbell
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For thousands of years many indigenous people knew this. Native Americans trusted the “Great Spirit” or the “Great Mystery” to provide all they needed — food, shelter, clothing, etc.
— Robert Roskind
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It’s that being open — not scratching for it, not digging for it, not constructing something but being open to the situation and trusting that what you don’t know will be available to you. It is bigger than your overt consciousness or your intelligence or even your gifts; it is out there somewhere and you have to let it in.
— Toni Morrison
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built…
