purpose

Purpose stirs creativity, without purpose you life will be in abnormal use(abuse).

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

All our contemporaries...had some big ideology to live for. Everybody thought he had to either fight in Spain or die for something else, and most of us had to be in prison for one reason or another. And then at the end it turns out that none of these great ideologies was worth your sacrificing anything for. Even doing personal good is very difficult to be absolutely sure about. It's very difficult to know exactly whether to live for an ideology or even to live for doing good. But there cannot be anything wrong in making a pot, I'll tell you. When making a pot you can't bring any evil into the world. - Eva Zeisel, ceramist.

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Preceding the birth of every religion, there was someone who was an incarnation of this process: imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which causes imagination_the dynamic that takes place in the dimension of spirit. That is, for whatever reasons that will remain mysterious, although they are suggested in various schools of thought, someone got the cause thing down right, and the rest flowed. After the fact, an effort was made, almost always by others, to control both the impact of this and the possible benefits from it. Ambition and desire took over. Where you had an exact presentation, or manifestation, of beauty and truth, somebody began using it for other purposes.

There is a pivot point, however, to become an adult. That transition comes from recognizing and acting in accordance with your own deepest impulses. On the responsibility front, that means acting in harmony with your conscience, not because you__e going to be punished if you don__, or paid for it if you do (heaven, enlightenment, salvation, or whatever), but because you know it to be right. On the freedom front, that means acquiescing to your deepest inspirations, following what truly compels you, even when it__ difficult to do so. These two principles brought together in the same time and space is what integrity is all about. And it is only through such integrity that you resolve conflict between the two of them: what you __now to do_ and what you __ant to do.

There__ a long tradition in many disciplines regarding the breath, so I__ certainly not the first to suggest its importance. Unfortunately, though, having so much tradition, that gives the sense to many that there__ nothing really new there, nothing extraordinary to discover. The traditions themselves in most cases haven__ really evolved and haven__ succeeded in compelling the general public. Everyone knows to __ake a deep breath_ when stressed, but the immediate impact is minimal at best (actually, a deep breath is not much help; a long, smooth, slow exhale is, however). And the idea of another obligation, studying or relearning how to breathe, lacks inspiration.

There are some things that don__ function as one would assume. For example, the impulse and linear thinking associated with the search for happiness most often produce questions like, __hat__ in it for me?_ or __ow do I get what I want?_ Paradoxically, if you will, that very question pushes authentic happiness away. Now, to try to explain that to someone in such a way that they hear and are interested by the idea is going to probably involve some paradox and non-linearity.

Traditional stoicism, indifference to pleasure or pain, is a form of imposing conscience so as to block more immediate desires. The problem is that it eventually collapses on itself because natural emotional and physiological impulses are being ignored or repressed. To pass beyond that dichotomy___ want to eat ice cream, and yet I don_____equires conceiving and creating an integrated mind in which our passions and childlike impulses find expression through conscience. In other words, what we feel like doing and what we __hould_ do become one and the same.

More focus has been placed on these subjects through human history than on anything else__ystery and mysticism, God, imagination, intuition, the nature of relationships, human purpose, happiness and salvation_

In the construction of one__ life, we define ourselves largely by the problems we engage and the debts we incur. The greater and more sophisticated the problems, the greater and more sophisticated the person. True resolution, or transcendence of endless dichotomy, is rare indeed. To truly make a debt vanish requires, in a way, a certain kind of magic. In all traditions, this is looked upon as one of the great mystical tricks. It is not forgotten, fixed, or hidden perfectly; it disappears. To have this occur, one must do more than simply forgive (another or oneself), although in action that__ an important step. One intuits the value of the problem as the birth of possibility.