CREATIVITY YOUR PURPOSE ILLUMINATED
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~George Bernard Shaw
Creatively we came into being. It is this same creative heritage of ours that has bound our existence to one of creativity. The urge to create runs deep within our veins. By way of creativity, I mean we are in a constant state of becoming through experience. We seek to enrich our lives through creative physical experience. We feel our state of becoming constantly through our insatiable craving for experiences. We are creative creatures.
We grow and expand through creativity. All living creatures are creative. To that extent, all is creative because everything is made up of the same tiny bits of matter each tiny bit with its own self-awareness and drive towards expression. It is through our conscious awareness that we express ourselves physically. Our purpose is revealed. We are here to expand and enrich ourselves through our creative physical experiences.
Creativity holds court in all lives including that of drug addicts, the destitute, the seemingly content, the hopeless and the helpless for creativity is not artsy. It is not molded or sculpted or decorated. It is both constructive and destructive. For both are just degrees of experience measurable only as references to one another and made meaningful according to your beliefs. As you cannot know freedom without a notion of boundaries, you cannot interpret a constructive purpose without an awareness of a destructive purpose.
None of us are in a state of perfection. A state so enriched, so content and so experienced that further opportunity for experience ceases to exist. We are eternally in a state of becoming. Perfection is a state of absolute completion. Perfection is void of creativity, growth, desire, and enrichment. It is the end of potential and possibility. Perfection is a finished product. We are unending; infinite. We do not seek the finite of perfection. We seek the creative expression of the infinite. We seek expansion and enrichment. Eternal creativity gives us infinite potential and infinite possibilities. We are eternally unfinished.
This state of becoming brings with it the seeds of discontent and the raw nagging nature to “be,” our motivation to create. It is through these seeds of discontent that the roots of creativity drive us like a plow horse. We want to be something more, something different than we are today. Something that we perceive is enriched from our current state. We desire more meaningful relationships, higher degrees of knowledge, an abundance of experiences and possessions. We want to be thin and healthy. Without fail, most of us crave money. Money feeds this creative craving fast tracking our creative expression into physical form. Money is the opiate fix to our creative addiction. Money seduces us into an illusion of temporary happiness. It allows us to secure physically what mentally we have not learned to produce. Like all fixes, the cessation is only temporary. Complacent we can never be because we are eternally in a state of becoming. Once we have money, possessions, success and happiness we will endeavor to create yet again. Money is not what we are after. Thus, the satisfaction is only ever temporary. Happiness comes always from within.
Why do you suppose people who are extraordinarily wealthy continue to want more and people who appear eternally happy find more ways to be happy. What they seek are more creative experiences. It is your creativity that fulfills you, not the physical effect. Material possessions are physical effects. Money is a physical effect. Physical effects hold only temporary satisfaction as we beam over our accomplishment in producing the effect. But the pleasure wears off and the urge to create grips us again. Physical effects offer no lasting satisfaction. Creativity feeds our addictive urge to become. There is no end to our creative potential and to that we discover our eternal purpose for being.
Creativity casts her net in all directions. All potential experiences and all possibilities are explored. We bask in the glory of the good and remorse in the bountiful of the bad. Both experiences enrich and expand us. When we create our conscious awareness expands. We are challenged and we feel accomplished. It is that on-cloud-nine sensation that we strive for. When we are not creating we are bored, discontent, and fickle. There are some people who occasionally find it difficult to attain that on-cloud-nine sensation. Often they will try to produce the feeling artificially through physical effects such as indulging in drugs and alcohol. Others engage the feeling through adrenalin producing activities, food, shopping and even attention seeking illnesses.
If you recognize yourself in one of these descriptions, do not worry. You are not broken. There is nothing wrong with your ability to creatively produce harmony for yourself. In fact, you work quite well. You could use a little redirecting, but otherwise you work! Up until now you have had no instruction manual. Consequently, your efforts at harmony have been capriciously attempted. However, from this day forward you do not have to settle for erraticism.
You are capable of creating anything. We create all sorts of experiences for ourselves both good and bad. We do this through our thoughts and emotions filtered through our belief system. From your present moment point of view, you desire perfected experiences. However, you will learn that experiences are only understandings of occurrences. Good, bad or neutral experiences are indistinguishable until or unless your thoughts and beliefs establish a personal reference point. You will realize that experiences are relative to one another.
Already you might consider several situations that you categorize as bad defending that you would not intentionally create such a situation for yourself. But you do create what you define as bad experiences unintentionally through unguided thoughts. You think thoughts to produce experiences fulfilling your drive to create. While you cannot avoid creating, you can avoid creating what you do not like by guiding your thoughts to a constructive purpose. However, it is important to understand there is no linear relationship that defines experiences. How you interpret experiences depends upon your belief system in place at the moment the experience is viewed. You give experiences emotional intensity based upon your beliefs, and in relationship to other experiences. Yes, we do often create less than ideal circumstances for three reasons.
The first reason we create destructive circumstances is due to our unwillingness to control our thoughts and therefore direct them accordingly. We often create what we do not want because we think about what we do not want much more prevalently than we think about what we do want. We get what we think about. In turn we think about what we get; which ultimately is not what wanted, but what we thought about. It is the workings of the Law of Attraction, yet we do not recognize it. Since we do not recognize it we become stuck in thought corkscrews. We think most often about what we do not want for one reason: We do not realize we can have what we want. We have the blue prints for creating what we do not want already assembled within our mind. Our ideals have yet to be created.
Acquiring our ideals requires us to be grateful for what we already have. If we demonstrate gratitude we will acquire more opportunities to be grateful. If we demonstrate contempt for what presents in our life then more contemptuous experiences will present. The Law of Attraction never ever fails.
The second reason we create less than ideal situations is there is not a universal linear relationship defining experiences. Simply put, there is no magic number line of experiences to coincide with beliefs. What you consider bad luck someone else might consider good fortune. Your point of view depends upon your own personal viewing angle. Thought precedes experiences. Until you have an experience, you have no way to chart your response to it. How do you know what a good experience is without experiencing something unpleasant? In a baseball game, if every hit was a home run and each game ended in a tie would much pleasure be derived? Of course not. You need bad experiences to derive understanding of what a pleasurable experience is. Experiences are relative.
Consider an example. During World War II, Americans were shocked to see Japanese Kamikazes readily give their lives in defense of their country. The beliefs of Western culture viewed these stunts as fool’s errands. We could not comprehend the mind of a Japanese soldier who would so willingly give his life. To Americans this was disturbing to say the least. On the other hand, the Japanese soldier saw great honor and reward in the afterlife and so willingly commandeered these suicide missions. You see the same act, viewed differently, according to beliefs.
Accordingly, one person who holds a strong faith in God may see setbacks in life as tests of faith and so welcomes the opportunities to prove their faith in God’s eyes. Another person may view those similar setbacks as a string of ill-fated luck.
Consider the experience of winning the lottery, a fantasy most people share. How wonderful it would be to win the jackpot! Or so we think prior to the experience.
Meet William “Bud” Post who won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security as reported in The Washington Post. “I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare,” says Post. A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings. It wasn’t his only lawsuit. A brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit a share of the winnings. Other siblings pestered him until he agreed to invest in a car business and a restaurant in Sarasota, Florida. Two ventures that brought no money back and further strained his relationships with his siblings. Post even spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector. Within a year, he was one million dollars in debt. He eventually declared bankruptcy living quietly on $450 a month and food stamps until his death in 2006.
Like the layers within you, there are layers of experiences within experiences. Taking an event like winning the lottery, the experiences within that event are as multiple and dynamic as winning the lottery itself. But until you have the experience, and the experiences within the original experience, you have no frame of reference for the event. Since it is so personal, and created only by you, what is expressed outwardly is as dynamic as you. You do not know how you are going to feel about or towards an experience until you have the thoughts that promote the experience. Your thoughts always precede your feelings.
The point is that rather often what we intend does not appear. It does not appear because our thoughts are unintentionally hosted within our conscious mind. We have not learned to direct our thoughts. We allow their impulsive entry. You can take an experience like winning the lottery and turn it into a negative just as easily as you can take a life altering illness and turn it into a positive. Your thoughts determine your outcome and thoughts bare no linear boundaries.
Experiences ping pong when all-over-the-board thoughts are permitted. A person can win the lottery hosting thoughts of abundance but easily slip into thoughts of worry over losing the money. Similarly, a person can be diagnosed with an illness. Thoughts can be directed to curing this illness and seemingly the person will start to get better. Thoughts of doubt grip and the person condition worsens again. If we exercised awareness in the direction of our thoughts experiences would noticeably follow.
As you begin to understand that good and bad experiences are not plucked from the imaginary well of choices, but rather experiences are thoughts expressed; then changing your thoughts will change both your experiences and feelings because both follow thoughts, without exception.
Our lives take shape when we accept our role as creator of our experiences. If we deny ourselves our creative ambition, through failure to understand, then we deny ourselves the power to shape and change our lives. We feel victimized by circumstances because we place ownership of our power in the hands of circumstances. The circumstance then appears to be the cause of our problems, and we feel powerless to change it since our idea of where power resides is misplaced.
Knowing we have this propensity for creation, why not embrace that power through understanding and bring into our experience desirable outcomes. Once you accept your creative purpose, you are ready to take command of your vessel. You can direct your thoughts and therefore your experiences in any direction you desire. Your incurable appetite for creativity will drive you like a plow horse securing whatever ambitions you seek.
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