The Alchemy of Unattached Creativity.... Part 1
Why Do We Impoverish Our Lives With Wanting?
“Your heart will give you greater council than all the world’s scholars.”
~ The Talmud
The creative flow is an organic process that embraces and defines us when we open to it from the heart and not the mind. Its success cannot be defined by fame and fortune. Its success is a deepening of soul, a greater awareness of the expansiveness and truth of our being and our purpose in life as well as our connection to others. For as we serve our own deeper truth, we are serving as a guide into the deeper truth of the greater society. Creative spirits have been historically and mythically the light bearers for human kind. We are the risk takers, those who journey beyond the boundaries of human consciousness into the Mystery where knowings that serve as keys to destiny can be found.
When we become skilled practitioners of creativity, we journey with a kind of unattached consciousness. By this I mean, we are mindful that we are on the journey without needing to control the journey itself or its outcome. We are present without needing to control. Lack of control is vital. Lack of mind/ego control, that is. For creativity rises up the great seething chaos of the unmanifested and moves towards the manifesting of that which has not been before. Creativity embraces the unmanifested and brings it to the light. This is the ongoing journey of transfiguration of the human soul and creativity is its midwife.
To be “successful” in creativity we cannot lust after outcomes. This does not mean that we do not desire to have our book published, our play produced, our song heard, our garden flower, our path known. It does mean that we have to, as Emerson said, "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
Does nature want her flowers to bloom, her grass to green and her sun to shine? Does nature want day more than night or summer more than winter? Does nature, the most creative force in life, want anything?
“Your heart will give you greater council than all the world’s scholars.”
~ The Talmud
The creative flow is an organic process that embraces and defines us when we open to it from the heart and not the mind. Its success cannot be defined by fame and fortune. Its success is a deepening of soul, a greater awareness of the expansiveness and truth of our being and our purpose in life as well as our connection to others. For as we serve our own deeper truth, we are serving as a guide into the deeper truth of the greater society. Creative spirits have been historically and mythically the light bearers for human kind. We are the risk takers, those who journey beyond the boundaries of human consciousness into the Mystery where knowings that serve as keys to destiny can be found.
When we become skilled practitioners of creativity, we journey with a kind of unattached consciousness. By this I mean, we are mindful that we are on the journey without needing to control the journey itself or its outcome. We are present without needing to control. Lack of control is vital. Lack of mind/ego control, that is. For creativity rises up the great seething chaos of the unmanifested and moves towards the manifesting of that which has not been before. Creativity embraces the unmanifested and brings it to the light. This is the ongoing journey of transfiguration of the human soul and creativity is its midwife.
To be “successful” in creativity we cannot lust after outcomes. This does not mean that we do not desire to have our book published, our play produced, our song heard, our garden flower, our path known. It does mean that we have to, as Emerson said, "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
Does nature want her flowers to bloom, her grass to green and her sun to shine? Does nature want day more than night or summer more than winter? Does nature, the most creative force in life, want anything?
posted by Emily Hanlon at 7:54 PM
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