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We have been taught that human beings basic needs are physiological, safety, love, esteem and self actualization. These form the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from the lowest to the highest. Contrary to mass thinking, the highest need is actually the most basic. Self actualization is the reason why all other needs exist. They are all part of self actualization. Without self actualization, all other needs are not truly met at all. There is only meaning for the fulfillment of all other needs when a person self actualize.

The essence of self actualization is creativity, and therefore creativity is the most basic of all human needs. We all need to express ourselves. We have the need to create our world, ourselves and our dreams. The need to experience safety, love, esteem and wellbeing is to experience our true nature of abundance and divinity. As creators, we have the need to create, because that’s what we are. The creative urge is the primary force of life. It is what created the physical universe and the purpose for our living.
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Without self actualization, living would have been in vain, and life would have been wasted. The reason why we all desire to have meaning in life, to create it and to even search it out is because meaning is creativity. When anything is creative, we find it meaningful. That includes any experience, action, work or art. Our work is meant to be our creative expression. That is it must be something that gives us meaning. It is the kind of work that would fulfill us. We want this more than anything else in this reality.

Our purposed work, our calling or our life path is the central pillar that pertains to all other areas of our lives. It is the core of who we are and what we are here for. Once we have found our life’s calling, we gain a great deal of stability that doesn’t come from anything else. All our relationships, our success, our prosperity and spiritual growth revolve around it. Any relationship that doesn’t serve the core will not be that fulfilling. The most important decision we can make in life is in regards to living our life calling.

Our life calling is not for the purpose of spirituality. Rather it is the other way around. Spirituality would be meaningless if we do not do what we came here to do. We seek God for the purpose of drawing from the Source what we need to create our reality. Enlightenment is not the end point. Rather it is the beginning by which we act and live from. Once we’re enlightened, we don’t just stay in that state and do nothing else. That’s pointless. We move on to create our reality from a state of conscious awareness.

Creativity is an in-built impetus in man, far more important than, say, what science calls the satisfaction of basic needs. In those terms, creativity is the most basic need of all. What is being referred to here is a powerful drive within the species for creativity, and for the fulfillment of values that are emotional and spiritual. And if man does not find these, then the so-called basic drives toward food or shelter will not sustain him. To live is to create, and if you are not creating, you’re not living and you feel not alive.

It isn’t simply that man does not live for bread alone. It is that if man does not find meaning in life he will not live, bread or no. He will not have the energy to seek bread, nor trust his impulse to do so. The creative impulse is the life impulse. Physiological, safety, love and esteem needs do not drive a man to live. They all can be overridden by a person’s state of mind. A person takes care of those needs when they have something to live for. One would not eat nor care for safety if one has lost the urge to live.

You are born to seek the actualization of the ideal. You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world. You have a gift to share that none else possesses. The world needs your gift in order to experience that portion of value fulfillment. If you do not create from the real you, the world is denied viewing your gift.

Everything we experience in life has to give us meaning, otherwise it isn’t fulfilling. Quality experiences and things are those that contain creativity and meaning in them. The more meaning there is, the more enjoyable and valuable it is. This is how we view the things that we get, the activities that we do, the people that we relate with and the work that we do. It is all relative to the meaning that we find and to the extent that it fulfills our creative self expression. What has meaning to others may not be for us.

The higher one has progressed, the more one is in search for advanced meaning. That is why highly intelligent people tend to be bored with most people on earth and the interactions they have with them. The more intelligent one becomes, the harder it can become for that person to find people and interactions that are meaningful enough of a level to engage with. In that situation, life can be rather frustrating to live at times. It’s still better to be higher in intelligence because one can enjoy higher meaning more.

The more advanced we become in consciousness, the more we want to play at a higher level and to create in a bigger way. We are bored with playing small or living at a lower level. We do not wish to continue interacting with lower lessons that the rest are still involving themselves with. We want to move onwards to bigger things. We want to move faster and to progress even more. If we are not growing at an acceptable rate, we feel like we are dying. You determine how much of the full life you wish to attain.[/hidepost]