Saturday, March 10, 2007
To Live Is To Create
I like this writing taken from "Zen Soup" by Laurence G. Boldt:
"To live is to create. While consciously creating, we move in harmony with life, actively participating with the creative power that is the Universe. There is no conflict between consciously creating your life and "letting things happen." Indeed, creation is what is happening, and we are "happening" to the extent that we are consciously creating our own lives. Rather than viewing ourselves as static objects, tossed about by the waves of life, we can identify ourselves with the vast ocean of existence and consciously participate in what it is doing.
Creativity is not a special genetic endowment reserved for a favoured few; neither is it the objects or events it produces. Creativity is fundamentally an attitude toward life. It requires equal parts receptivity and resourcefulness- an openness to intuitions and ideas and a readiness to put them to work. Spontaneous and disciplined, flexible and focused, the creative life is a marriage of opposites.
A creative approach to life begins with the recognition that we have all that we need, if we but know what to do with it. Nothing drains creativity like the thought that we are lacking, either in our inner or outer resources. Yet it is on precisely these kinds of thoughts that we too often dwell. The innate creativity which every human being is heir to returns to all who will give up complaining about the hand they have been dealt and learn to play the one they have."
Today I am choosing to create harmony, peace, and well being. I intend to create a day of relaxation, healthful eating and gratitude. What are you creating today? Whatever you would like to create, choose to create it with mindfulness and love.
// posted by Sacred Truth @ 9:26 AM 
