The Creative Process Blog

Where to start - not with some profound statement because I can’t come up with anything more profound than I am delighted to have gotten The Creative Process blog at least ready to start.

The Creative Process of creativeprocess.net is a publisher of posters, notecards, and bookmarks of great individuals as exemplars of the creative process. We also host pages for Collegium, The Heart Forest, The Future Is Now, the Center for Global Community.

I want the blog to be a record of the process of being creative, of accepting the responsibility, and the freedom, of creativity, and being able to share these experiences, not as externals that can be matched to a model of how creativity “happens”, rather realization we are all creative by virtue of the choices we make every day. Every choice is creative.

QUOTE The Meaning of the Creative Act by Nicolas Berdyaev
“Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world’s necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.”

“Inexplicable and without foundation” means that we are radically free, having no idea to tell us who-we-are or how-to-be. We are alone with the Alone, responsible on the level of Being. Meaning comes from doing art with our existence, risking even our integrity to interpret Truth with and among others. MORE

The word ‘beyond’ is primary to my spiritual thinking: the Infinite cannot be grasped; God is beyond any and all thoughts; there is no idea that contents the intensity by which I know; . . . joy, joy, joy.

Humility is more than saying, “I am not adequate,” or “Who I am is not suitable.” Humility is staying open to ‘profound knowing’ even when there is an “infinite, qualitative difference.” MORE

Many intensely creative people suffer from bipolar disorder . . . with the list going on and on. My advice to many of my suffering friends, “Do not let them call you sick!” This is not meant to diminish the concern I have for them, nor to lessen the intensity by which they live and struggle. MORE

“Make a profit at any cost!” We are ‘competing ourselves to death’, (which is not a very ‘competent’ thing to do). This criticism requires, of course, understanding that economy is the way to build community, not simply a way to make money. Almost everyone is aware that the global economy is so severely ‘out of balance’, that in some instances, it is creating a psychotic world. MORE

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

Hum, I wonder how many board feet it has
. . . and how much it is worth in today’s market?

And then, how much for the Amazon? MORE