God is creativity, not a Creator.
God is the very creative energy of existence – creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.
God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.
God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.
If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.
If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.
In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.
Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.
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.