Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week
January 25, 2008
CREATIVE NEGATIVITY
The basic honesty and simplicity of negativity can be creative in community as well as in personal relationships. Basic negativity is very revealing, sharp, and accurate. If we leave it as basic negativity rather than overlaying it with conceptualizations, then we see the nature of its intelligence. Negativity breeds a great deal of energy, which clearly seen becomes intelligence. When we leave the energies as they are with their natural qualities, they are living rather than conceptualized. They strengthen our everyday lives.
From "Working with Negativity," in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM and the Way of Meditation, page 94. Shambhala Library edition.
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