... away. Theses conditions are ripe for "the zone." I believe that the zone is the perfect example of how athletes use things along a spiritual path to explain their success and attempt to repeat them time and time again. From the very beginning we are lead on a journey to find the art within ourselves and how to achieve greatness with it. Finished artworks are a trace of the passage that we have made through improvisation. Michelangelo said that every sculpture he made was within the stone, that he was not the one being creative, but God was, and he was merely chiseling it away. I have a friend who I think came across the same lines in her athletic career. No doubt there are differences between arts and athletics, but the ideas are the same. Nachmanovitch said that there were "certain principles that apply to a particular field, ...

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