Creativity as the Path of Soul

Most of us delegate our creativity to our writing and "other creative work." We compartmentalize our writing as something we "do", something that is outside our "normal life" - even outside our "real life." By compartmentalizing our creativity an separating it from our everyday life, we ensure that our writing will suffer; we will be in an anxious rather than a fluid relationship with our creativity.

I am coming to see that the more we allow the creative flow to support and enliven our life "outside our writing", the more integrated writing and life will be. Writing no longer is something we must "find time for", something we have to "fit into our busy schedule"; rather, writing becomes a natural outflow from life itself, just as life becomes a natural outflow of our writing. The more I explore this, the more effortless my own writing becomes. It is no longer, "Oh, my God, I have to sit down and write." Rather, the desire to write becomes a gentle guide to the writing itself.

This isn't something that our minds, stomping ground of the Inner Critic, can easily grasp. In fact, if we try to embrace this flow as a concept, it can become scary. This Life Flow is an experience that rises up from the knowing within the cosmic inner world of our deepest being.