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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:02:48 EST
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/24/04 11:13:45 PM, nobleheart@WIDEOPENWEST.COM writes: << Anyone have suggestions for good 'surrender' stories? Not waving the white flag surrender, so much... but where you finally stop fighting yourself and are able to embrace a higher truth. >> Kathe, One that comes to mind for me appears in the Prologue of Stephen Nachmonovitch's extraordinary little book, Free Play: the Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts. The story is called "The New Flute." It tells about how a master musician comes to a small village and plays "like a god." A talented young flute player is singled out to to be an apprentice with this master. Try as he will, the master keeps saying to him "something is lacking." In despair, the young pupil goes off, wanders on his own, ekes out a living. Years later he is unexpectedly invited to play at a concert. Feeling by then he "had nothing to gain and nothing to lose," he steps forward, plays, and someone in the back of the room murmurs in awe "...like a god." Nachmonovich's book offers a short chapter on the theme of surrender--in this case, surrender as an important aspect of the creative process. Cristy ********** Cristy West Washington, DC ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||