Replying to LO23773 --
Thank you Don, for bringing up this issue. Joy fits well to creating, the
predecessor of learning.
I would like to cite the first two paragraphes of Robert Fritz Creating -
A Guide to the Creative Process. At least I could refeel many joyful
moments in my life while reading.
"Love is what creating is about. (Boy, that sounds dumb, doesn't it?) And
yet creating is about love - although not as we usually mean the term.
Love is often thought of as a passive response to something or other -
something we can "fall into", something that evokes in us a complex of
emotions, something that happens to us. When we think of someone as a
lover, quite often we think of one who is filled with appreciation for a
particular person, family, surroundings, art, music, fun, food, work, and
life. But what came first? The person, family, surroundings, art, music,
fun, food, work and live - or the love? People commonly experience the
situation first and the love second. Therefore, the love is a response and
not a cause.
"When you are creating, it is the other way around. The love comes first,
and the situation later. In the creative process, love is generative
rather than simply responsive. The object of your love does not yet exist.
Quite often, it isn't even established in your mind. It may be just a
glimmer or impulse, or even a vague impression, or it may not even be that
much. But a creator is able to love something that does not yet exist -
even in the imagination - and bring it into existence. From nothing,
something is formed."
Joy being an adjoint of generative action as opposed to reactive action.
The nectar freshly squeezed out of your own, authentic entropy production.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
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