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KIT 33 - Creativity

"God is all possibility; impossibility is born of the human mind."
PIR-O-MURSHID INAYAT KHAN

"Faith is the belief that one can extract something good out of
almost everything."
REVEREND ROBERT SCHULLER

An idea dawns upon the horizon of your mind. Are you moved to
grasp it as it flashes at you, or do you let it pass by?  If yes
to the first case, if indeed, the idea is sufficiently potent, you
are a creative person. It may be a catch word on an advertisement
poised to draw your attention. Maybe someone said something that
sparkled your spirit. Maybe you were moved by solemness suffering,
or plea for rescue, or by a heroic deed. You may have captured a
mood, a mode of being from the landscape or the skyscape that
spoke to you of a mysterious meaningfulness and many splendored
attunement behind this all. Maybe someone's prowess emboldened
you, and set a whole tidal wave of psychic energy rushing into
your adrenals. Maybe you were tickled by a humoristic thought or
witty remark, or by a curious constellation of events, like the
monkey earmarking in a flash of insight, a feasible link between
that nut outside his/her cage or that stick inside. Perhaps you
feel the surprising synchronistic concatenation of totally
unexpected encounters and impressions is trying to impress
cryptically upon you a message whose meaningfulness consternates
your mind. Maybe you are spurred by a self-generated thought
impinging impromptu upon your mind, or an evanescent feeling of
nostalgia or unaccountable anguish, or passion, even holy passion,
or cosmic wrath.

The idea could be crystallized in a single word, you may think of
it as a topic; in fact, it is a seed thought. It could be an
elusive emotion that gets spirited away if you try to hold it
without harnessing it. Most frequently, the idea sparkles an
emotion.

If these prompts were not meaningful enough to marshal your
energy, if you did not feel stirred by them or did not believe you
were up to making something out of them, possibly you lost a
chance in a million of manifesting your latent creativity. If you
rise to the occasion to which the loaded idea now challenges you,
you will be discovering a resourcefulness in yourself that you had
never suspected that you harbored. The idea/emotion served as a
catalyst for self-discovery. Now your turn to play ball. The
idea/emotion may constellate galaxies of related seed thoughts
interrelated with impelling emotions. If you remain stuck with the
thought/emotion without germinating it, it will be stillborn.
After you have responded to the input from outside, you need now
to cross-pollinate the input of the metaphors striking you from
outside with the metaphors that emerge from inside. The feedback
loop has spurred the software of your psyche, rather, that of the
universe!  One idea/emotion will conjure another in infinite
resonance, inviting you to endless variations. You are fluctuating
the order of the universe!

Yet at this stage, "How do you feel?" is more important than,
"What do you think?" All creativity is born of emotion. All the
levels of your being are affected from the soul downwards and the
body upwards. Do you sense the flutter of your soul as you gently
touch upon the magnificence of the mind of which your mind is a
ripple in the universe of thought behind the universe of atoms and
galaxies and bodies?  And do you feel the eddies of the thrill of
the spirit reaching right down into your heart - even your heart
of flesh - making it beat faster?  Yes the heart needs to be
shattered and overwhelmed, not just the soul, so that the divine
intention carried by the incredible planning of the universe may
be updated and fed back by you, yes through you.

You have become as a creator, the laboratory of the divine
experiment in creativity. If you react this way to the winds that
pummel you from out there and everywhere, you are a creative
person. You have plugged into the matrix of all potent
ideas/emotions that get actuated in this splendid universe of
ours. Yours is the pursuit of excellence. Your productivity will
not only aver itself to be a projection of a significant aspect of
yourself into the observable existential realm, but will prove
indeed to unfurl the potentialities lying latent in your
personality. It will confer upon you the charismatic self image of
the accomplisher; self-esteem and self-confidence. Your life will
open up; the mists of despair and despondency will clear.

This is the experience of discovering God in oneself; one's divine
heritage in the form of the All-possibility that moves the
universe as indeed, each and all, wheels within wheels, universes
within universes, minds within minds, souls within souls, hearts
within hearts, worlds without end.
    
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