The Sacrifice of Creativity

"My question is about creativity. My tendency when I get involved in any creative project is to become obsessively thinking about it twenty-four hours a day. I would love to enjoy my creativity without my mind becoming so involved. Rupert says: ‘Creativity requires your mind – it’s the vehicle that manifests your creativity. Many artists tend to be a little obsessive-compulsive because they feel this energy inside them, they can barely contain. It keeps them up at night, wakes them at three in the morning. Creativity has an impersonal source – it’s the infinite flowing through your veins, wanting to give birth to itself in some new form. It’s a lot for a body-mind to handle. Being an artist is a kind of sacrifice – you have to sacrifice your body-mind for a cause bigger than itself. Your faculties and skills are being used in the service of love and understanding, an impersonal force way bigger than the body-mind can really contain.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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