Make
Your
Life
by Linda Sechrist
c
reativity is
often perceived
creativity is about artful living,
as a blessing
bestowed upon those
not just making art.
who call themselves
artists. Observed
“Creative acts,” said eminent psychologist J.P. Guilford, “can be expected of all
and encouraged
individuals. Those persons who are recognized as creative merely have more of
what everyone has.”
in most children,
Another scholar of the human psyche, Jean Shinoda Bolen, believes that
creativity seems to
every person has a treasure trove of original natural talents that may lie buried, or
overlooked. Like most hidden treasures, these talents need to be excavated, and
disappear when playful
recognized for their true value.
youngsters become
“It is a mistaken belief that mechanics, carpenters, seamstresses,
mathematicians, psychotherapists, business owners, mothers,
responsible adults.
fathers, gardeners and many others aren’t artists,” says Bolen, au-
Where does it
thor of The Tao of Human Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self.
go? The late
“Creativity has much to do with intellectual and practical wisdom,
and it is inseparable from mastering something and knowing how
psychologist J.P. to do it in our own way.”
Guilford might
Bolen says all “spiritual beings on a human path” are respon-
sible for discovering and developing their unique talents “because
have answered
they serve to shape our life, which I like to refer to as our Magnum
that it’s not gone,
Opus, our true Great Work of art.”
but forgotten.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Westchester/Putnam Counties
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