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Creativity And The Outbreath
The process of seeking the oneness mentioned above, in which the individual goes within and, drawing his attention away from the outer worlds of form, seeks to rise to a higher level, is symbolically (and sometimes by actual technique) a process of inbreath. Inbreath is a drawing inward. This process describes well the orientation of man for centuries in both his physical and spiritual life in general. He has sought to draw life and its expressions into himself. He has been a centre that pulls inward. This has its positive aspects in the upbuilding of his being, but it has its negative aspects as well. It leads him to orient his attention outward on what is coming to him from his environment rather than on what is creatively seeking expression from within himself…
This is a process of outbreath. It is a release of ourselves and our love into the world… The new culture is one of taking the riches of the inner life, of high spiritual consciousness, and instilling them into the earth…
…many people have difficulty in achieving anything concretely beneficial out of their meditations and periods of silence because they do not have the balance of putting the energies of their life into creative expression and action. They inbreathe but they do not outbreathe…
Then, by expressing our own creativity, our own powers of externalizing something of…
