by Peggy Molloy

Created on: February 04, 2008   Last Updated: January 02, 2011

How can creativity die? O ye of little faith! Creativity has nothing to do with any outside influences. Creativity is a divine gift that few are granted, and no-one can take away.

Some people experience huge bouts of creativity for short periods of time, and some people have the awareness of self to make being creative a habit, like breathing.

It is personal choice. One must be brave and go against the grain to be creative. Our culture loves the creative child but disdains the creative adult. Being creative is power, true mindful, unimaginable power.

There is not a test for creativity because it doesn't live on a graph or a chart. It wiggles around with a life of its own. Each person has the gift to be highly creative, and I think they are obligated to use it by being authentic about who they are.

Is passion a dying art? Is thinking a dying art? Creativity is not an art, unless one defines it as the art of living. Creativity isn't separate from us, it's part of us, it's in our DNA.

Creativity is a state of mind, heart, and soul. The more relaxed we are, the more creative we are, it is during our altered states of consciousness that we can pull together the colors, the fabrics, the sounds, the feelings, of our daily lives and making something else.

Creativity is transforming, transcending, shifting us out and away from ourselves into something else, something new, something original.

Risks are involved in being creative. No one will like me, they will put me in the crazy bin, ...it's not normal. Well, so what? At the risk of repeating myself, being normal is over-rated, and it certainly isn't a goal, at least for me.

The Catholics call the state of mind when we are creative "the graces", or at least one manifestation of them. The thought is that when we offend God, we lose our gifts. How many expamples of very talented successful people have lost their gifts by living lifestyles that offend the principles of most honored religions. Let's think about Britney Spears? Such a beautiful, talented, well-spirited young women, who now clings to her own sanity. How sad. The list goes on and on...

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