Creativity means being imaginative and inventive. I strengthen it when I approach tasks with full energy, originality, artistry and intuition. The opposite is unoriginality.§
Comparing the actions of one who is creative to one who is unoriginal§ |
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Situation§ |
Creativity§ |
Unoriginality§ |
When given a difficult assignment, you…§ |
seek for innovative solutions, thinking out of the box.§ |
use a past solution, thinking that is the easy way out.§ |
In your daily life, you…§ |
strive to explore new patterns and find better ways of doing things.§ |
find comfort in your routines and avoid anything different.§ |
After studying others’ ideas, you…§ |
build on the basic concepts to develop a fresh approach.§ |
complacently adopt one of the ideas without alteration.§ |
Gurudeva explained: “We must remember that to restrain and moderate desire allows the energy which is restrained and moderated to enliven higher chakras, giving rise to creativity and intuition that will actually better mankind, one’s own household and the surrounding community.”§
“A devotee who can command his mind to be instantly creative, and be consistently successful, has acquired a conscious control of the use of the subsuperconscious state of mind.”§
ASSIGNMENT: For two weeks, at night just before sleep, write down a task you are working on, describing it accurately and completely. Go to sleep with the expectation that a creative new approach will come to you from your intuition soon after you awake in the morning.§
Date you began this assignment ____________________§
MY THOUGHTS ON THE BENEFITS OF CREATIVITY: 
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