Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotes About Surrender

Quotes about: Surrender

• Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Moments, Surrender, Faithfulness

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Musician, Surrender

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Attitude, Mean, Knowing

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