It is in the present that creative work converges with the spiritual because it is only in the present moment that we can be aware of the forces of life entering us, sinking into that buried part of ourselves that Rilke said is "beyond the reach of one's own understanding." And it is only by making ourselves vulnerable to the present — which is a wild place, an unknown — that we can begin to be sensitive to the movements in the deepest reaches of ourselves and to be truly open to those moments of authentic response.
— Tracy Cochran, Jeff Zaleski, Transformations