Creation Creates Itself

I remember a mystical remark by a Sufi master. He explained that all we see and experience is Creation creating itself to see itself, to engage with itself, to see itself being reflected back at itself.

Now that is something we can chew on, isn't it? 

When I heard this story on creation, I felt puzzled yet fascinated. I needed some time to see Creation as a force that enjoys creating a version of itself. Not really outside itself and not even separate from itself but just a bit away from itself, to be able to engage with itself, just how we see a reflection of ourselves in a mirror.

The more I thought about it, the more I understood God creating the world in seven days. I didn't see the seven days as an exhausting timeline of creation but his will to create, or his need to create to interact with his creation. After all, what is God without people believing in God?

I feel a need to create; an overwhelming need. Empty canvasses are painful. And I know for my sister that fabric also asks to do something with itself.

I imagine to be imprisoned in a white washed cell without a sketchbook or crayons and I know that I would grow demented in record time because I would die due to having nothing to interact with.

The Sufi’s cosmogony myth makes sense to me; creation needs to create. Without this creative force creating itself in order to interact with itself through thousands different manifestations all would deteriorate, seeps or drain away.

We need art; we need music. We need to make art and music. Let us not stop...ever! Go and paint the umpteenth apple; the umpteenth sunflower. Creating is a good thing.

And creating is what we do at Handmade Luxury Home and we hope you sense our creative urges and feel that what we offer here is Creation Creating Itself through our hands and skills. 

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Paula is the owner of www.paulakuitenbrouwer.com.