Zen Stoic Path Show

What Happens When You Hoard Your Potential

Jul 21, 2021

11:46

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You don’t have to sacrifice all practicality in order to pursue your creative passions. There is no rule that your creative passions need to become your vocation and that you need to do what you love every day.
What happens to that creative energy when it’s suppressed? Life is full of pain, suffering, and unpleasant emotions. Our creative energy is born out of these experiences, and failing to explore and express these things through our creative outputs can be the path to resolving what we think to be meaningless suffering. What if your creative aspirations were a form of therapy for your soul?
Creativity is where you find your Zen. It is a place where time ceases to exist and all parts of you feel alive! This is how we make the most out of our pain and suffering.
The best thing you could do for yourself is to express what exists within you rather than hide it. Without doing this, you will never know your full potential.
It can be scary to show yourself to the world. We wonder “what if I’m made fun of?” or “what if someone turns this video into a viral autotune song?” This makes us feel lost and alone. As we said in a previous episode, find yourself through your practice, build your confidence through competence, connect with others by sharing your gifts.
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end, the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don't do it. It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God. Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.” -Stephen Pressfield “The War of Art”