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Dialogue 1: The Mystery of the “I Don’t Know”

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

CHAPTER

The Power of Detachment

There is a connotation of the world detachment where it can feel like you're being cold, cold-hearted. It's actually stepping back at one level to be unexplainably closer at a deeper level. I also think an artist, for example, or a poet, there's a craft and the commitment to it. But there's a point of they're always in control that's just crafts. They're just replicating something. So they realize in some sense they have to step back to let something happen. That they themselves can't produce, but it flows through them in the detached commitment.

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