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The problem isn't with the external world, but with our concepts about it. If we conceive the external world as existing completely independent of us, we will fumble in our goals. But if instead we see the physical world of forms as feedback to our own inner desires and goals, then we can begin to work creatively within it.

It’s important that we realize we can’t create life in the world from the non-living. Only life can beget life. Different levels of reality have different innate powers. We can for example, express our creativity by making statues and artifacts within the world, but statues can only temporarily express something in us that is made external. Statues can't substitute for our ongoing living creativity.

We need the material world to manifest, model, and reflect what's within us so we can see it. Statues however, are very poor substitutes for the gifts of our ongoing living creativity. Meditation can be a means for us to marshall our deepest resources into fully and consciously enacting our reality within the world.