CREATIVITY - PART 18 - THERE IS A SOURCE

New ideas cannot be taught, because no one knows to teach them. They can only burst forth from, or through, the creative thinker. These thoughts can only come from within such a thinker, since they do not yet exist in the world outside of her.

This tells us there is a Source, a wellspring of ideas and answers, accessed from within us. If this were not the case, nothing new would ever be thought; we could only learn what others already know, and anything new could be only the result of accident, or perhaps the odd fortunate misunderstanding. That would not be enough to account for our progress.

Three quarters of an iceberg floats below the surface of the sea. We see only the top quarter floating above the water. This is similar to our conscious mind, the part we notice every day, the part we think we are thinking with. Below the surface, in contact with a sea of Universal Thought, is the subconscious, much larger, but invisible to us. Both parts are made of the same stuff as the sea in which they exist. As the iceberg is made of seawater, so the Mind is pure Consciousness.

The iceberg has form, and the sea does not. The sea pours in wherever form is created. So the stuff of Mind flows in where our thought provides form.

Pure Mind, or Spirit, is our source, and since it is everywhere, it is always within us.