Per Robert Öhlin excellent blog (partly in english) is about branding and creativity. His new project is a book about creativity – The Mental Orgasm – and I am really looking forward to read it… From his blog: “…Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, who nailed the difference between a madman and himself: the madman thinks he is sane, while Dali said he knew he was mad.” Years ago I went to see Dali’s Exhibition in Spain (Figueres) and it was of course amazing… like walking inside his surreal mind of creativity.
Another quote from Öhlins’s blog: “Ray Bradbury went further. Way further. The famous science fiction writer encouraged us to stop thinking. He believed that thinking is the chief enemy of creativity. Because it’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.” According to my teacher in meditation – Osho – stop thinking is of course so true, if you want to connect to your creative inner self. Osho says: “If your act is your love-affair, then it becomes creative. Small things become great by the touch of love and delight.” Osho describes well the obstacles or blocks to creativity – this link is a nice read! Or buy his thoughtful book on on creativity “Unleashing the forces within” (what a cool title!) – I have read it many times. Also: The Independent wrote an interesting article on the creative mind – and how it links to mental illness…
Seneca: “There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.
Have a nice NO THINKING day!
