Creativity in the classroom and beyond.

Creativity Presentation Haabjoern

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You've got to do the work. Be your own best guide.

For those on a pilgrimage... A quote from a great source of inspiration for me Tom Robbins and his novel ‘Skinny Legs and all’. “The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the Iman, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn’t follow you home and park your car. Was there a more difficult lesson for a human being to learn, a paradox harder to accept? Even though the great emotions, the great truths, were universal; Even though the mind of humanity was ultimately one mind, still, each and every single individual had to establish his or her own special, personal, particular, unique, direct, one-on-one, hands-on relationship with reality, with the universe, with the Divine. It might be complicated, it might be a pain in the ass, it might be, most of all, lonely – but it was the bottom line. It was as different for everybody as it was the same, so everybody had to take control of their own life, define their own death, and construct their own salvation. And when you finished, you didn’t call the Messiah. He’d call you.”

The Call of the Mountain - Arne Naess

Where did it begin? This is my friend Arne Naess. When I first read about Deep ecology it was as if I was reading the words directly to my heart and soul. I thank him for his lessons on humility, inter-relatedness, reason, feeling and for deepening and widening my perspective for my service with planet Earth. Here's the Documentary: The Call of the Mountain - Arne Naess