Have you noticed? When we accomplish a task and feel that "I" have accomplished this, the work is dry. It lacks juice, life-energy, and freshness. "My" work is a repetition of the past, a re-modeling of what I already knew and did before.
But when we do sometime that truly feels fresh, and people say, "Wow! That is amazing!" - no matter how much energy we expended, we feel like the work was a gift. It happened through us, not from us. We don't feel comfortable taking credit and saying, "I did that." In fact, we find the work as wonderful as others do.
The human mind does not create. The mind is a repository of old patterns and memories, useful for storage. The New is never the Knew. Fresh energy comes from a wellspring deeper than thought, ancient yet ever reborn from the silent womb of Shakti, the power of the Mother. Creativity is a gift of Grace.
Do our schools and colleges educate students to tap the well of creativity? Or do they only educate the mind?
"Merged in unity, there was nothing to do. So Shakti, the bringer of good fortune, created this world for the sake of divine play... Out of His great love to see Her, He becomes the Seer of the universe. If He could not watch Her play, He would have no reason to exist."
~Jnanadev, 'Amṛta Anubhāva: The Experience of Bliss-Nectar’
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