Being creative is not only about thinking. It’s about feeling … Feeling, hunches, subconscious perceptions can all play a central part in creative work, and not only in the arts.*
Sir Ken Robinson

Conceptualisation isolates consciousness from its object, thought from experience, and the local consensual reality, from the larger Reality about.**
Jean Houston

I had found myself fascinated by a Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros^ in Edinburgh zoo,
I wanted to feel its presence by being still and watching it move, but
I could also have deepened my listening, my feeling, my smelling –
Perhaps I would have more fully sensed what we call a rhino but
is far more.

When we discover something then we
quickly follow with a name,
And when we think we know something we have
a shortcut for understanding that leaves a lot of knowledge behind,
The kind that may help us be more creative;
It’s understandable for anything from fitting everything into a day to
having a picture of our world, from communication to human progress,
But sometimes we need to be open to our senses.^

*Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds;
**Jean Houston’s The Possible Human;
^Whose name is Qabid;
^^A simple playful exercise based on John cage’s 4′ 33″ symphony, that you may like to try, involves setting a timer to four minute and thirty three seconds, closing one’s eyes, listening deeply, adding feeling (the sensation of breeze, etc.), followed by smelling, and then opening eyes.