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Existence is a continuous
creativity. It has not been created by anyone, it itself is divine. So I
would like you to replace it in your minds and in your hearts: the word
"god" does not mean the creator, it means creativity. And it
is my experience that the most blissful people in the world are those
who can create something. The most miserable are those who are
uncreative because the more uncreative you are, the farther and farther
you are from nature - from earth, from the sky, from the stars - whose
dance knows no beginning and no end. from the video discourse: Creativity - The joy of being yourself |
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Growth has something to do with energy; growth is an energy phenomenon. When you don't compare, when you don't compete, when you are not ambitious, when you don't want to be anybody other than who you are, you accumulate much energy - because all that energy that was being wasted in competition and conflict, is no longer wasted. You become a reservoir.
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Out of that energy comes
creativity. Creativity has nothing to do with competition, it has something to
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When you are overflowing with energy, aglow with energy, aflame with energy, it itself becomes creativity. You start growing, but now the growth has a totally different connotation. It has no goal - it has a source but no goal. Now you are not thinking what to be; you are not following a particular goal, a particular plan. You are such a big river that through your rushing energy you will reach the ocean. No river is searching for the ocean, but rivers reach the ocean; and no river is competing with any other river, but all rivers reach the ocean. The river reaches the ocean through overflowing water. That very energy is enough to take it to the ocean.
You can become an ocean of creativity if you are contented. Then creativity arises in you, grows in you - not for any ideal, but just because you have too much: you have to share it. You have to sing a song, because the heart is so full and overflowing. You have to pour it into songs. You cannot contain the energy, hence the overflow happens. And that overflow is creativity.
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When a tree is overflowing with energy it blossoms in thousands of flowers. Those flowers are just a simple statement from the tree: "Now I cannot contain any more. The colors are too many in me, and the fragrances are so much that I have to burst forth." The tree is not fulfilling any ideal; it has no goal. Unio Mystica, vol.2 |
In my vision....
If I succeed then there will be no possibility of any priesthood in the future, no possibility of exploiting humanity and driving people mad.
And this is the fundamental law of dissolving all kinds of madnesses: try to understand everything that arises in you with great love, with great caring. And you will be surprised - if you understand it, two things are possible: if it is useless to your growth it will be burnt and nothing will be found, not even a trace; if it is helpful to your growth, beneficial to you, it will be strengthened, nourished, it will start growing.
Then comes prashanti - then comes real, deep silence and that silence is very alive. It is not the silence of a cemetery, it is the silence of music, it is the silence of a garden. It is the silence which throbs with life. It is a silence that can sing, that can dance. It is a silence that can be creative; in fact it becomes creativity. It is silence that wants to share itself with others, a silence that wants to give itself to others.
It is a silence that becomes love.
from: God's got a thing about you
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