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- Every creative soul -- it does not matter
what he creates -- should be respected and honored, so that
creativity is honored.
- In a real, honest human society,
creativity will be honored, respected, because the creative soul is
participating in the work of God.
- It does not matter whether you paint,
sculpt, or make shoes; whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a
fisherman, a carpenter -- it does not matter. What matters is, are
you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your
creative products have something of the quality of divine. Except
creativity, there is nothing divine.
- The god is a creator. Whenever sex has
become a transformed force, your life becomes creative. Sex is
creative force. Right now it moves into biology; it creates new
beings, it gives birth. When there is no sex and the energy is
transforming, it moves into a new world of creativity. Then many new
dimensions of creativity become open to you. It is not that you will
start painting, or making poetry, or doing something else -- not
that. It may happen, it may not happen, but whatsoever you do will
become a creative act, whatsoever you do will become artistic. Even
Buddha sitting under his bodhi tree, not doing anything, is
creative. The WAY he is sitting, the very way he is sitting there,
he is creating a force, an energy, vibrations all around him.
- When sex energy is transformed, your whole
life becomes creative -- independent, free, creative. Whatsoever you
do, you create through it. Even if you do not do anything, non-doing
becomes creative. Just your very being creates much that is
beautiful, that is true, that is good.
- Be creative, and the more creative you
are, the more rejoicing, the more dancing, the more songful your
aloneness becomes. Those periods of sadness, of grumpiness -- old
habits -- will start falling like dead leaves falling from the
trees. They also cling for a little while, but they have to fall.
- Particularly, I want my people to know
that meditation is not just being silent -- that is only one part of
it. Finally, it has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of
your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of
this world.
- All these religious people and the
politicians are angry with me for the simple reason that I am
telling people that life is herenow -- not after death -- don't
wait. And life is in love, life is in being creative, life is in
understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become
a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love, and joy.
- Each creative act becomes a rebirth for
the creator, and each indifferent act becomes a suicide, a slow
death. Be overflowing. Don't be misers. Don't try to hold -- share!
And let care be your very center of life. And then there is no need
to go to the church, no need to go to the temple, no need to kneel
down before any god and pray. Your butterfly life, your way of life,
is prayer. Whatsoever you touch will become sacred. I say
whatsoever, unconditionally. Love makes everything sacred.
Carelessness makes everything ugly.
- CREATIVITY has nothing to do with any
activity in particular -- with painting, poetry, dancing, singing.
It has nothing to do with anything in particular.
Anything can be creative -- you bring that quality to the activity.
Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in
an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean
the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way.
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are
doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach -- how you look at
things.
So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to
anything in particular. A man is creative -- and if he is creative,
whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking
there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even
non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi
Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.
Once you understand it -- that it is you, the person, who is
creative or uncreative -- then this problem disappears.
Not everybody can be a painter -- and there is no need also. If
everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be
difficult to live. And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is
no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do
it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing it is not
purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something
growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is
spiritual, it is creative, it is divine.
You become more divine as you become more creative. all the
religions of the world have said: God is the Creator. I don't know
whether He is the Creator or not, but one thing I know: the more
creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity
comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live
in God. So He must be the Creator because people who have been
creative have been closest to Him.
- Creativity means loving whatsoever you do
-- enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God! Maybe nobody comes to
know about it. Who is going to praise Paras for cleaning this floor?
History will not take any account of it; newspapers will not publish
her name and pictures -- but that is irrelevant. She enjoyed it. The
value is intrinsic.
- When ambition enters, creativity
disappears -- because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because
an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he
is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to
get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead.
He is always in the future -- and a creative person is always in the
present.
We destroy creativity. Nobody is born uncreative, but we make
ninety-nine percent of people uncreative.
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