Basic Creative Principles

Photo by Gayle Alstrom

The other day I was looking through some old books of mine, when I came across this list of Basic Creative Principles that I had typed a long time ago and pasted into the front of a book that I hadn't looked at in ages.  I don't know where I got this from, but I thought it really good and decided to put it in here:

1.  Creativity is the natural order of life.  Life is energy:  pure creative energy.

2.  There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life--including ourselves.

3.  When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.

4.  We are, ourselves, creations.  And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.

5.  Creativity is God's gift to us.  Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

6.  The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.

7.  When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God:  good orderly direction.

8.  As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

9.  It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.

10.  Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source.  As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Poetry

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Excerpt from "September 1, 1939"  

W.H. Auden was born on this day in 1907.

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Headless

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Tumminess

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