The Alchemy of Unattached Creativity...... Part 2

The Quality of Yearning

(Read Part 1 first...it's just below...)

Let’s look at the word “wanting”. According to Webster’s wanting is derived from the Middle English and Old Norse words meaning wanting, deficient – wane.
Want comes from a lack… I am not successful. I want to be successful... I have not made my mark. I want to make my mark… I am not creative. I want to be creative… I am not…I want… I am not…

This kind of thinking will, like the hamster wheel, keep you going endlessly around in circles, wanting, wanting. Instead, try this: want nothing. Sound impossible? It’s not. Wanting is a dry well. It is antithetical to creativity, which is born out of the richness of undiluted possibility.

What’s the alternative to wanting? Let’s look at the word yearning. According Websters, yearning is derived from Middle and Old English, Old German and Norse words meaning desirous, eager, willing, Latin to urge, incite, encourage, cheer, Greek to rejoice, enjoy and Sanskrit haryati he likes, yearns for.

That’s quite a blood line for a world and what a different approach! Wanting derives from deficient and wane, while yearning derives from desirous, eager, urge, incite, encourage, cheer, rejoice, enjoy.

Is this discussion merely word play? I don’t believe so. Rather, I think it goes to the core of what makes us both shy away (sometimes bolt!) from our creative desires. Wanting has nothing to do with creativity and the creative journey. How can it when wanting has such an empty resonance? Yearning, on the other hand, is rich with the resonance of the flowering of human heart and the joy of possibility. Yearning is immediate. It is eager, filled with urges, it goads us on, encourages, cheers, rejoices and enjoys. This is the kind of passionate immediacy that precludes judgment and evaluation and, therefore, is outside of the success or failure syndrome of the outer world.