dichotomy resolved?

I recently wrote about walking the line between acceptance and creation in my post A Novel Idea. I was sensing that that these two activities were in opposition, but also suspecting there was probably another way to look at it.

Earlier today everything sort of gelled internally, and this afternoon I bounded up to my keyboard clutching a little scrap of paper that I had scribbled some notes on while waiting at a stoplight in my car.

When I take one step back, I lose sight of any dichotomy between acceptance and creation. As humans, we want. It's simply what we do. It happens naturally that as we move through our experiences, we generate preferences and desires. And perhaps this is by intelligent design.

At the risk of WAY oversimplifying this, maybe Consciousness created us as its physical instruments so that it could experience itself, and use that feedback to further create and expand. A big ol' blob of awareness has no sensory organs, and that's no fun! Maybe Jewel was onto something when she sang: We are ... God's eyes, God's hands, God's heart.

I think it's also a Hindu myth that God/Source/The Big Cheese could not know or experience Itself when it was in a state of Oneness, so one day it clustered itself off into little bits that seemed to be separate from each other, and the play of interacting with Itself-in-Disguise began.

I'm liking the idea of Source as pure potential consciousness that occasionally crystallizes just for the fun of it -- for the joy of experience and expansion.

So how does this help answer the question of whether to just lay back and accept it all or get busy dreaming?

I'm testing out a probe to determine whether a desire is the kind that will likely lead me into a feeling of suffering (in the Buddhist sense of the word) or joy:

Why do I want this?

If the answer is Because it will ______ (bring me peace, make me feel better, improve me or my life in some way, etc) then it's probably leading to suffering, and I might want to apply a little bit of acceptance to my current circumstances instead.

If the answer is Why not? or Just for the heck of it! or Just to see how it feels! then it's probably creative expansion at its finest, and ripe for the dreaming.

Both acceptance and creation are valid choices, each leading eventually to the same destination of Experience. Like good ol' Abe says, You never get it right because you never get it done. We are creative beings, and each moment brings another opportunity for some kind of experience that will expand Consciousness in one direction or another. So it's all good.