Creative Impulses

"The human spirit lives on creativity

and dies in conformity and routine."

Vilayat Inayat Khan

We grow complacent unintentionally.  It just happens that we get stuck in routine.  If we do not have any fresh sense of input, we stay the same.  People fear change but kindled passion is about expanding.  Creativity strengthens who we are ... the parts that make us thrive.

Being creative is similar to throwing a window open to let in a fresh spring breeze.  Breaking from routine can be refreshing like a rain shower.  It is an awakening to deep parts of our lovely selves wanting to burst forth to be fully participating in life itself.

We are creative when we change the furniture around; get a hair cut; select seed packets; or whip up a new dessert.  It does not take an artist to bring color and pattern into our world.  Start seeing objects through expanded vision and welcome the incidental handiwork.  Admire the carpenter's particular design, the vase of flowers at the diner and the bright colors swirling in the neighbor's dress.  Wake up!  Breathe life in deeply nudging creative impulses.