Posts tagged creativity
Posts tagged creativity
Discipline is not essentially life-denying. Rightly used, it is essentially life-affirming. It is the direction, the focus, the concentration of all our energies upon the highest values of the full life. It is a matter of attainment and restraint, with the emphasis upon the attainment. To be rich, creative, full and free, life must know discipline.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin;
A grass-blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
Faith must kindle the creative imagination and wrest the initiative from the forces of evil.
I cannot rest. I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me, it is a stronger desire than ever.
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen
A deeply religious person is one who is sensitive and alert to the evidences of an indivisible creativity. He/she is one who seeks to find the sacred everywhere
For me, the energy I experience in the process of creating a work of art is clearly the same energy I’ve experienced in mystical moments of spiritual insight or relationship. Creativity is core to any Unitarian Universalist theology.
Artistic works from various cultures compellingly express the profound dimensions of the human condition, feed our longing for beauty, summon us to reverence and nurture our individual and collective creativity
But winnow my heart, O God; torture my mind
With doubt. Let me feel the clean gales of the open sea,
Until Thy creative life is my life and my joy;
One with the miracle of Spring and the blowing grain,
The yearning of my fellowmen and the endless reach of the stars.
