Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

Action is not activity; activity is not action. Their natures are diametrically opposite. Action is when the situation demands it and you act, you respond. Activity is when the situation doesn’t matter, it is not a response; you are so restless within that the situation is just an excuse to be active.

If your love is only a feeling and it is not translated into action, it won’t affect the

Poetry, love, and feeling give you a depth, a warmth. You become more melted, you lose your coldness. You become more human.

Your life has to be poetic, your approach has to be poetic. Logic is dry, poetry is alive.

If humanity becomes too logical, then humanity disappears;

Self-consciousness is morbidity. Self-consciousness is a frozen state, blocked. It is like a dirty pool—going nowhere, just drying out, evaporating and dying. Of course, it stinks.

The ego is your death, and the death of the ego is the beginning of your real life. Real life is creativity.

And that is the essence of wisdom—to be in harmony with nature, with the natural rhythm of the universe. And whenever you are in harmony with the natural rhythm of the universe, you are a poet, you are a painter, you are a musician, you are a dancer.

That’s the paradox of creativity. If you see a painter painting, certainly he is active, utterly active, madly active—he is all action. Or if you see a dancer dancing, he is all action. But still, deep down there is no actor, no doer; there is only silence. Hence I say creativity is a state of paradox. All beautiful states are paradoxical. The high