"Master, what is higher as happiness goes: the gathering of knowledge or to be creative?"
"Does the bird gather knowledge?"
"Indeed, Master, during its whole life."
"Is it creative?"
"I am not sure."
"Of course it is not. In producing even such a masterpiece as
a nest, it uses no more than what it knows, and that in the
forced way of an instinct. For creativity, one needs knowledge,
skill, schooling, maturity even, but uppermost the Man-typical
freedom over ideas. This is the answer then, creativity is higher
than mere animal-, instinctive-, routine-, gratification. It is
higher in the Way. One is happy when one feels himself so. Some
attain it through mere routine, treading the well-worn path, some
do it by being creative with their muscles & brain, some do it by
purely mental crativity."