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‘The perfect moment of creation is the moment of silent perfection which is just before the illumination of a thought; an idea; a revelation. The silence before the first note, the motionless moment before the pencil scribes’ paper and paintbrush slides deliciously into the paint.
That is the perfection and true magic of creation. It is the ‘no-thingness’, the infinite void of potential from where all things come.
That is the divinity of creation – the moment ‘before’.
Once the first note is played, the first line is drawn, the first brush stroke swept, the moment is gone.
When the creative moment is transferred into the physical, the beauty of perfection diminishes. So how do we capture true intangible creative potential in the physical world? An honest expression of true creative potential would be to just sit, in silence, in ‘no thought’. A conduit for the creative spark to feed in to, and through, and into form a pipe.
To try to control, direct or influence the process muddies the crystal-clear flow. To direct with intent and ‘mind’ causes the output to be contrived and inauthentic. So, allowing the process to flow and bring ‘no-thing’ naturally into form, is to be truly creative. It is to surrender to the process. It is to sacrifice one’s own desires and thoughts and allow uninfluenced creation to pour forth.
How long can that moment be held? How long can one facilitate the manifestation into the physical without influencing it?
Is it seconds, or can it be maintained for longer? Is it sustained by one’s ability to surrender, to ‘be’, and to exist for as long as possible in the ‘zone’?
The act of surrender, I believe, is similar to the act of surrender one needs to connect to one’s spiritual nature. To surrender, to trust and to allow the process to bring a connection to the divine.
Forcing this process pushes the desired illumination of one’s spiritual nature further away. To force spiritual or creative connection pushes it away.
Allowing, surrendering, trusting, and sacrificing one’s own thoughts and desires give space and allowance of flow into the conscious mind… But physically capturing, translating and expressing true creativity and true spirituality is tricky.
The perfection is the connection.
The creation of form from that connection is so clumsy, so inadequate, so primitive and so utterly futile it seems pointless. But still, we creatives quest to express. Whether it is in images, music or words, we are compelled to continue.
We need to express this beautiful space from which all things emerge.’
Extract from ‘Is-Being – The Spiritual Evolution’ by Mel Cross
That is the perfection and true magic of creation. It is the ‘no-thingness’, the infinite void of potential from where all things come.
That is the divinity of creation – the moment ‘before’.
Once the first note is played, the first line is drawn, the first brush stroke swept, the moment is gone.
When the creative moment is transferred into the physical, the beauty of perfection diminishes. So how do we capture true intangible creative potential in the physical world? An honest expression of true creative potential would be to just sit, in silence, in ‘no thought’. A conduit for the creative spark to feed in to, and through, and into form a pipe.
To try to control, direct or influence the process muddies the crystal-clear flow. To direct with intent and ‘mind’ causes the output to be contrived and inauthentic. So, allowing the process to flow and bring ‘no-thing’ naturally into form, is to be truly creative. It is to surrender to the process. It is to sacrifice one’s own desires and thoughts and allow uninfluenced creation to pour forth.
How long can that moment be held? How long can one facilitate the manifestation into the physical without influencing it?
Is it seconds, or can it be maintained for longer? Is it sustained by one’s ability to surrender, to ‘be’, and to exist for as long as possible in the ‘zone’?
The act of surrender, I believe, is similar to the act of surrender one needs to connect to one’s spiritual nature. To surrender, to trust and to allow the process to bring a connection to the divine.
Forcing this process pushes the desired illumination of one’s spiritual nature further away. To force spiritual or creative connection pushes it away.
Allowing, surrendering, trusting, and sacrificing one’s own thoughts and desires give space and allowance of flow into the conscious mind… But physically capturing, translating and expressing true creativity and true spirituality is tricky.
The perfection is the connection.
The creation of form from that connection is so clumsy, so inadequate, so primitive and so utterly futile it seems pointless. But still, we creatives quest to express. Whether it is in images, music or words, we are compelled to continue.
We need to express this beautiful space from which all things emerge.’
Extract from ‘Is-Being – The Spiritual Evolution’ by Mel Cross
Article and image by: Mel Cross
2020
2020