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peace and prosperity. And all those things are just by-products of meditation.
An authentic meditator is bound to be creative because he will be constantly in touch with life. That touch with life gives him energy to create, a passion to create, because life is nothing but creativity. The alive person overflows with creativity.
All the so-called religious people are uncreative, for the simple reason that they don't live in the present, for the simple reason that they are afraid of being alive and they are trying in every possible way to avoid life, to by-pass it. It seems to be too risky to be alive; to be dead is very secure.
Creativity needs a kind of gambler's mind, otherwise one goes on repeating the same pattern because one is more efficient in it. To be creative means to give birth to the new; of course one is not efficient with the new. How can one be efficient with the new? Only with the old can one be efficient. With the new you are always experimenting, exploring; one never knows what is going to come out of it. The new is unpredictable; there is no guarantee that you will succeed in creating something.
Meditation releases all your energies of creativeness. Whatsoever one's dimension of work is, meditation brings great energy to it. It comes like a flood. It brings a kind of madness, a madness which is far superior to the so-called average sanity. All the great creators have been mad people -- poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers -- they cannot be called average sane, otherwise they would be businessmen, they would be politicians, they would be priests. These things are secure, insured; there is no risk in them. The sane person behaves in a businesslike way, calculatedly.
When I say creators are mad I mean they behave like gamblers, like drunkards -- they can risk all for something which is not guaranteed. But they are the salt of the earth, these people; these few people are the whole joy of the earth. They bring prosperity in every possible way, they raise the consciousness of humanity.
The whole evolution of man has depended on very few people; they can be counted on ones fingers. The masses have not
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