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.
