Creativity

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Creativity

“I put down the cup and examine my own mind. It alone can discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exists, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day.” “Remembrance of Things Past”

Where can one find more courage and creativity than in the wagon train crossing the Mississippi and driving West to the Pacific coast to create a new life in what is presently a wilderness? Or perhaps in the ships crossing the Atlantic with a small group determined to start a new life on a continent presently free of any such life as intended.

Can you think of anything that would be more creative than starting a new civilization?