the obstacles....

this happened at home wen hanny got a bicycle as a gift... so he started riding it around the house ... in the process he realized there are too many walls , furnitures in the house which made his cycling very difficult... so he came up with this solemn suggestion ... thatha! please destroy att these walls and displace all these furnitures that i can ride easily...we had a hearty laugh ! But so often I feel obstacles throttle and destroy me but like hany I fail to realise they infact liberate and make us develop better reflexes and balance (in the case of bicycle)....
the following was written by Stravinsky in Poeticsof music....
"It s in to this field that I shall sink my roots, fully convinced that combinations which haveat their disposal twelve sounds in each octave and all possible rhythmic varieties promise me riches that all the activity of human genius will never exhaust....
I have no use of rhetoric freedom. Let me have something finite and definite - matter that can lend itself to my operation only in sofar as it is commensurate with my possibilities...
In art as on every thing else one can onle build on a resisting foundation: whatever constantly gives wayto pressure, constantly renders movement impossible....
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limt my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminshes constraint diminshes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
Rhetorics and prosodies are not arbitrarily invented tyrannies, but a collection of rules demanded by the very organisation of the spiritual being, and never have prosadies and rhetorics kept originality from fully manifesting itself. The contrary, that is to say, that they have aided the flowering of originality, would be infinitelymore true. "