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Creativity means making mistakes. It means flexibility and letting go. An idea moves one way and then it moves another. When ideas begin to become real and move into the world of form they encounter resistance and friction from unforeseen complexities and contact with human emotion and drama. We have to be so yielding to see a creative impulse through all the way and it will have a life of its own. Every endeavour, book, play, business has its own destiny.
The really creative people are humble, not fixed. They’re open rather than rigid. They’re soft rather than hard. They’re dull rather than shiny. To be close to the mystery we must be like the mystery. We must be vulnerable, fallible, naked, pliant. To really understand fire, to shape it with our fingers, we must be just like water.
Beauty is fostered by nature. It’s cradled by silence. It’s nurtured by mystery. Forget trying to find beauty on the outside. That’s a wild goose chase, a fool’s game. Beauty is a lens provided by love. It’s a jewel hanging in the immensity of space.
This is why its Shadow is Dislocation, because it’s been dislocated by human consciousness. It’s in the wrong place. It’s been put into second place. It’s been superseded by the masculine, by evolution. The feminine is being, the masculine is becoming. We have to understand that there is nothing wrong here. No one need be concerned. It’s a perfect mistake! Evolution has an agenda. Evolution is an agenda.
All agendas emerge from distrust in life. It doesn’t mean we don’t act to help, but we help as a response from our love. We don’t help because we feel lost and we need something to fill the void. It’s so rare to find a truly loving heart in this life – a heart that doesn’t want to help us, a heart with no agenda.
How do we find our way in life? How do we know what to do in life? How do we know what’s right? These very questions are so revealing. They presuppose that we’ve totally lost our way. The rest of nature doesn’t ask these questions.
Every human being one day reaches a stage in which they get so tired of looking outside for home, they get so disappointed by the outer world, that finally they begin to turn inwards and seek the true source of their suffering. We have to follow the river back towards its source.
The more we surrender to everything, to every moment as perfect, the more oriented we become. The more we drop our agendas, our trying, our incessant concerns about our lives and those around us, the more we radiate the presence inside us. Then the magic occurs. Our aura, our vibration, animates our environment. It opens up the currents of the quantum field; it catalyses transformation. We become a force of orientation for all life forms. Simply by doing nothing we become a field of transformational forces. The Gift of Orientation is so profound that it creates a torus around us. That is what our trust does, we trust the suffering of another. We open our hearts to them without agenda, and they receive our trust at a cellular level. Energetically, we let others know that fear is safe. Fear is safe. That’s the key sentence to this Gift. Let it sink into us deeply. Fear is safe.
The consciousness is so light, so delicate, so feminine. It’s the subtlest breeze. It’s indescribable.
But if the endlessly dead could awake a symbol in us, perhaps they would point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel-trees…
AI Summary
The 64 Ways by Richard Rudd presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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