Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being – that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings.
Modern art is childish – not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.
Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack – meditation.
The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.
To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation – and participating in creativity is participating in God.
Real creativity comes only out of silence.
Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.
When a man’s life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word ‘sannyas’ does not matter; what matters is the content.
When love moves to the fifth center then whatever talents you have, any creative dimension, is possible for you. This is the center of creativity. It is not only for songs, not only for music; it is for all creativity.
When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.
Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.
The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.
The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed.
Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.
When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment.
When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are reflections of your frustrations, dreams are reflections of your repressions, dreams reflect your day-life.
A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.