The Endgame of Creative Pursuits: Reaching the Flashpoint of Stillness

Fair warning: The following considerations from Art Ticknor, who studied self-realization under Richard Rose and Douglas Harding, may short-circuit your most cherished activities and attitudes if they really catch hold. They’re drawn from several pages of Ticknor’s book Solid Ground of Being, about his own spiritual quest and what he found. Writers and other creative-intellectual types especially beware.

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