Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history o…

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or l…

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in…

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the…

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever …

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

- Stephen Nachmanovitch