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"There can be creativeness only through self-knowledge. Most of us are not creative; we are
repetitive machines, mere gramophone records playing over and over again certain songs of
experience, certain conclusions and memories, either our own or those of another.
Such repetition is not creative being - but it is what we want. Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness. ...To be creative does not mean that we must paint pictures or write poems and become famous. That is not creativeness - it is merely the capacity to express an idea, which the public applauds or disregards. Capacity and creativeness should not be confused. ...Creativeness is quite a different state of being, is it not? It is a state in which the self is absent, in which the mind is no longer the focus of our experiences, our ambitions, our pursuits and our desires. Creativeness is not a continuous state, it is new from moment to moment..." The First and Last Freedom, p.48 |
