"Creative Life Writing" with Andrea Beard

 ~Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield

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Every person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....Every person's foremost task is the actualization of their unprecedented and never recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.  Rabbi Susya said, a short while before his death: "In the world to come I shall not be asked 'Why were you not Moses?' I shall be asked: 'Why were you not Susya?' "

~Martin Buber

The brush stroke at the moment of contact carries inevitably the exact state of being of the artist at that exact moment into the work, and there it is, to be seen and read by those who can read such signs, and to be read later by the artist himself, with perhaps some surprise, as a revelation of himself.

~Robert Henri

The Silent Pulse by George Leonard

 Excerpt from Chapter Eleven:  “Life Cannot Be Fooled”

 There are times when the ideas that have emerged in this book seem strange to me, paradoxical, an affront to the common sense passed down from generation to generation in this society.  Let’s list them now in some kind of order, nine theses:

 1. That we are composed of waves no less than of the stuff we call “solid.”

 2. That what we call objects and events are primarily are the precipitates from the relationship of these waves.

 3.  That each of us has an identity that is unique in all the universe, and that this identity is expressed as a distinctive wave function.

 4.  That each of us is also paradoxically, a holoid of the universe, containing universal information—past, present, and some of the future.

 5. That knowledge of the future fades away from us simply because the universe, by its very nature, is constantly creating unforeseeable new information, genuine novelty, and that the destiny of the new information is the evolution of higher forms.

 6.  That each of us is, in essence, a context, a weaving together of universal information from a particular point of view.

 7.  That what can be called “perfect rhythm” exists at all times in the paradoxical interplay, the silent pulse, between identity and holonomy within the context of each of us, and that, beyond custom, language, and ego, we can directly experience this perfect rhythm.

 8.  That intentionality, the vector of identity, is an essential element in the universe that is in each of us; and that it is possible, through intentionality, to influence this universe in extraordinary ways.

9.  That, in potentia, we know everything.