SPARK OF CREATIVITY

We should learn to live our life in appreciating everything, which is done with precision. But never measure creativity with a scale When a child makes a house of sand on the river bank, and gives the finishing touches, there is a beaming smile and a proud feeling that brightens his face, and he goes yelling ’see what I have made’. Now, if an architect has made a hundred storey building, he too feels very proud and says, ’see my building’. What’s the difference between the sand-house made by the child and a spectacular building built by an architect? Creativity can not be measured on these levels because this kind of comparison is too worldly and creativity is beyond all this.
There are not any peaks or lows, we can only say that sometimes the spark of creativity is small and sometimes the spark is very big but every spark has the capacity to burn-out.
Even a match-stick is very thin and all, but little flame on the head of this atch stick can burn the whole city. reativity is just like that; it is just a spark which has the capacity to ignite fire.

CREATIVITY & NEGATIVITY

One can be a great painter, a great dancer and yet be filled with all negativities. The biggest negativity which most of these artists, who are not real artists, have is that they are always dying for name & fame. Sometimes when they are not bothered about money, they have another added value i.e. their ‘huge egos.’ The biggest pitfall for artists is their ego. So, negativity can exist even if you are a creative person. These are very dramatically opposite things.
It’s only the master who can really kick them and straighten them up. And if the master is real, humble and a true master in every way, he/she will make sure that his/her disciple does not end up being only a perfect artist but also becomes a perfect human being.
A real artist has to be a real human being and you cannot be a real human being if you don’t have passion, love, and prayer in your heart; prayerfulness completes you as a human being. And once you are a complete human being then you can be a perfect artist.
Only a real human being, who has humbleness, love, nobility, purity can be really called an ‘artist’. A real artist should have all of the humane qualities like love, compassion, egoless ness, no competitiveness, not being over-ambitious, not dying to get recognition or name or fame or money or credits. Those who don’t have these attributes, and those who don’t give credit of their all achievements to the divinity, can not be called real artists.
If you are a meditator, a real meditator, negativities just vanish; they just melt away from you. And when these melt, true creativity happens to you.

BALANCED LIVING

You must excel in your fields, be rich, but don’t remain a pauper in spiritual world. Be a software engineer or a doctor but never loose your grip on your awareness.
Be rich both ways; live your life in abundance, not only in possessions but also in spirituality.
Money, fame and success are not adversaries to spiritual life, they are not enemies but if we have the insight, the wisdom, then we can use all the success, all the money, all the prosperity in uplifting not only our state but also the state of the world, the state of the people.

You and then only you can really make a difference in life of other people. To gift something, to donate something, or to do a charity, you first have to have money; if you don’t have it, you can’t do all these things.
To bring some meaning in life of other people, you have to be in a position to do that. You cannot be a failure and claim that you can bring some good change in someone’s life;
Be successful, be rich, live in abundance, but remember, all these outer things are not eternal. So, be focused and bring harmony in your inner and outer pursuits. There should be this right balance, where you are focused inwards and outwards. This will be the real definition of true creativity, that you are not living lop-sided. We should not be living in extremes; we should be living with great balance and create harmony in our inner & outer pursuits.

SIMPLY CREATIVE
The simplest thing a person can do is to greet someone. This smallest gesture can be made into a great, wonderful, creative and artistic expression. When you receive someone with love, warmth, affection, you are creating such a beauty in that moment, that you are not only enriching yourself, but also the person to whom this is being offered. Try it some day: When you see a child, who is sulking or irritating, then observe that just with your vibes, just with your love, which you’ll be sending to this child through your body, through your eyes, through your mind, through your heart, that child will begin to give you all the attention and then smile will come so spontaneously.