The Creative Process Blog http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog musing, dialogue, exogenous/endogenous Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en starting… http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/05/starting/ http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/05/starting/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:40:01 +0000 rae Creative Process http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/?p=3 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.

]]> http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/05/starting/feed/ Creative Vocation http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/14/creative-vocation/ http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/14/creative-vocation/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:28:41 +0000 fred Creative Process http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/?p=4 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

]]> http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/14/creative-vocation/feed/ Infinite Qualitative Difference http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/17/infinite-qualitative-difference/ http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/17/infinite-qualitative-difference/#comments Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:16:14 +0000 fred Creative Process http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/?p=5 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

]]> http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/17/infinite-qualitative-difference/feed/ DIPOLAR instead of BIPOLAR http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/16/dipolar-instead-of-bipolar/ http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/2006/12/16/dipolar-instead-of-bipolar/#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:51:19 +0000 fred Creative Process http://www.creativeprocess.net/blog/?p=6 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

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