The Source of Creativity

I took this picture yesterday before we got a really big snow!  I loved the view of the tulips and how I had to look thru them to see out the window at the snow outdoors. Photography is a great creative outlet.  The flowers were a gift from my son for my birthday!

 

Giacomo Puccini said, "The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God; I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the public."

We are creative by nature. We are divinely infused with creativity.  It is innate.  Julia Cameron, author of "The Artist's Way" says that creativity is God's gift to us and that using our creativity is our gift back to God.  One of her principles is that our creative dreams and yearnings come directly from a Divine source and that as we move toward these dreams, we move toward that place in ourselves that is Divine. She states, "...creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing that you must invent."

There are many people today who feel their lives are flat. They feel powerless in creating their hopes and dreams or living a more creative life. I'm wondering if perhaps the first step toward reawakening and reclaiming one's creativity is to simply acknowledge this Divine Source within and then step back and see what begins to happen.  However you define God or whatever your name for this Source, I think its about putting first things first.

 

In the esoteric Judaism of the Cabalah, the Deep Self is named the Neshamah, from the root of Shmhm, "to hear or listen": the Neshamah is She Who Listens, the soul who inspires or guides us.  Starhawk