Pure focus is a different phenomenon entirely. Pure focus is the "oneness." Transitioning between pure focus and forced focus allows us to weave connections through patterns. This is the process we call "design." Through this we have tools like cellphones and cars. This things require "forced focus" which means paying less attention to everything else.
Civilized life is a loose affiliation of all these demanding tasks. As a result, our minds have become a thousand weak rays instead of a single bright sun. Thousands of weak rays enable our minds to reflect a single impression of our environment very quickly, but do not easily enable reinterpretation. Fortunately, we can be returned to pure focus and creativity through quiet spaces.
A quiet space is like the irregular ringing of temple bells, where the rational mind cannot predict intervals between tones and is then surprised, both expecting the next and thinking it was the last. When our diverted, "forced focus" finds a quiet space, it is not enough to reflect an impression. No diverted attention will fill a quiet space, so creative energy must be unleashed.
When my mentor takes on new students, he asks them to define light. There are no answers to this and many answers to it, but a relatively good way to explain light is to show a shadow, the absence of light. In the same way, a quiet space is the darkness and our existence is the light. When we enter a quiet space, the case shadows are creativity.
A quiet space is not so much a physical location as it is a construct of perception. So the shadows cast by our perception are different, just as the objects that reflect our light are different. In this way, we have a different emotional reaction to the physical and psychological places that we occupy when we touch a quiet space.
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