SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you practice "being yourself and not merely exist as a number in a world of billions of numbers"? How do you relate to creativity being a process by which you give meaning to what is meaningless in the universal scale? Can you share a personal story of value-creation out of a moral obligation?
Working in a full-day job I've been wondering where has the artist in me gone...but this gives it such a beautiful meaning, especially the last few lines. I needed to hear this, this morning. It resonates deeply, and I think I'm going to keep coming back to it. Thank you for sharing this, and for inspiring me to share more. :)
This is beautiful! Thank You!
The creative in me sees the potential in all . . . the lovely . . . the use . . . the Light in all. Be it a dead branch, cut off from a tree to a living person, the creative mind can find 1000+ different thoughts to think related to that one person /thing.
God did NOT use a cookie cutter in His creative work and neither should we.
You make me smile!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just today I awoke with an understanding why "judging" is so "bad". When I judge , "good or bad" it removes me from the experience. When I am removed from the experience I cant accept. When I cant accept, I am feel lost & disconnected!
Excellent & pragmatic article: It's true that we pass much time in observing & criticizing others rather introspecting ourselves. This act of ours increases negativity with in us. If we are organized with in, only then we can & should expect such behavior from others.
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I love the article. It expresses what I am actively doing in my life right now - stretching into who I am by accepting all that is in me. I do this through a prayer practice which gets me into my heart. Once there, well, I get to see what is there(at any given time), own it, feel it, ask for healing for it, give thanks for it, or whatever route it takes. It widens me, it humbles me, it releases me, it brings me into me and then, even in my fractured, imperfect condition, I am somehow whole. In this wakeful state, I am not a number, and everything has meaning. I am alive and in ownership of this "being alive" by being more aware of my heart.
There can be no art without being true to oneself.
Immitation may be entertaining but is not art.
I love the idea that life is essentially meaningless unless we use creativity to give it structure. There is poetry in that idea.
The expression 'creativity is the process which gives meaning to what is meaningless' really struck home with me because that is what I want to show thru my work---the ordinary beautiful.
This is a life changing article everyone should read. By practicing a life suggested, one can change the world, first changing oneself. It is very difficult to describe the feelings I have, for this article is a priceless gem.
Excellent, insightful, "creative" & thought provoking . Well done. Thank you. Each of us unique & marching to our own beat. United by oneness at the same time.....different branches of the same tree, each blooming as it will.