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

Consciousness is health, self-consciousness is disease—something

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

And I tell you, there is nowhere to go. Here is all. The whole existence culminates in this moment, it converges into this moment. The whole existence is pouring already into this moment. All that is, is pouring into this moment—it is here, now. A child is simply enjoying the energy. He has so much! He is running not because he has to reach somewhe

The less of the artist is in his work, the more perfect it is. When the artist is absolutely absent, then the creativity is absolutely perfect—in this proportion, you have to remember.

When you are creative, desires disappear. When you are creative, ambitions disappear. When you are creative, you are already that which you always wanted to be.

Of course the need to relax arises! That’s why so many books are written every month about relaxation. And I have never seen a person who has become relaxed through reading a book about relaxation—he has become more hectic, because now his whole life of activity remains untouched, his obsession is there to be active, the disease is there, and he pr

Nature gives everybody energy which is creative. It becomes destructive only when it is obstructed, when no natural flow is allowed.

The devil never

These are your three dimensions: being, feeling, action. Action contains creativity, all kinds of creativity—music, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, technology. Feeling contains all that is aesthetic—love, beauty. And being contains meditation, awareness, consciousness.