Creating is active - but more like choosing, than a willed-striving (a comment on Laeth's comment)

I had missed Laeth's comment on an earlier post of mine about creativity. here is my comment on his comment.

L & I may or may not have the same underlying understanding of creativity; but perhaps I should clarify my meaning when I said that creativity is Not a matter of striving. 

I wanted to clarify that being creative is Not a matter of "will-power" as that is generally understood; which is a conscious willing rooted in the mundane self, the everyday personality and based upon our understanding of things. 

I believe that creativity is much deeper than that; because it comes from the soul, or divine self. 

Creating could be characterized as first the decision to act and live from the soul, rather than from anything more superficial; and secondly that creativity happens "in a context of" love of God and divine creation. 

We cannot be creative unless we are tapping-into our real self, and we also cannot be creative by deciding to do in so accordance with our conscious understanding of what God wants and does. 

Creativity must come from an actuality that the individual just-is acting from the soul; and just-is operating from the reality of loving and despiring to participate in God's creative project. 

This is always a matter of free choice - creativity does "not just" happen as a consequence of our nature and environment.* 

Mere nature and environment can lead to an individual being harmoniously but passively going-along-with divine creation - however, he will not be adding to it. 

To add to divine creation - to be creative - entails the above two things (at least): choice of soul, and living from love. 

Such creating is, of course, an active thing - but activity is a property of being - activity is part of being-alive. 

So, in this sense, activity is not something we need to will, or to worry about: it will happen anyway!  

*(Indeed the spontaneous default of beings in this creation is probably close to being hedonistic by motive, and selfish in terms of scope. And that is what changes after the willed-choice of resurrection into the second creation of Heaven; when individual beings are enabled to make a permanent commitment. The change to positive-cooperation in having their natures made wholly-good {purged of evil and the tendency to revert to chaos: i.e. entropy}; and then living always from love of divine creation. Once resurrected, all beings are spontaneously creative, because each is unique and each is living in harmony with the divine.)