All That's Needed is a Still Mind

Is this so?
When the mind is clear and at rest and the observation is full and free, it is said to be possible to connect with something deeper within oneself.

The clutter of ideas, impressions, likes and dislikes, which so often fills the mind, prevents this connection. When that clutter is let go of then the deeper creativity that lies within can rise to the surface.

This description was given by the composer Mozart :
"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer - say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc.

All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.

What a delight this is, I cannot tell."
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Perhaps we don't all have such profound experiences, but what moments of clarity and insight do we have?

Are these insights spontaneous, or is it possible to invoke them?

Or, is stress and being under pressure a better way of inducing those 'eureka' moments?

Discuss!

Handout including quotes available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjK0qN98F04jXYUCE4N3JQBbZgC13Wae/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108914814178375137957&rtpof=true&sd=true
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We have great venue, CAFE QUENCH in Hove, with our own space on the 1st floor.
Walking distance to Hove station. Free parking.

Please arrive in time to order your refreshments and find a table.

NOTE TIME is Still: 2.30 - 4.30 PM

IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR
RSVP.

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