Finding my Creativity
Quotes, HTs, Ideas on how to find, encourage, and use my very own creativity
Finding my Creativity
1. Spirituality is ambiguously inclusive by its nature and cannot be easily defined, but at heart it is about the fact that we are alive at all, rather than our personality or status; it’s about our ‘ground’ in the world rather than our ‘place’ in the world. It is possible and valuable to give spirituality improved intellectual grounding and... See more
Dr Jonathan Rowson • Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges
Spirituality as a ground in the world
In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Shaping our world
Spirituality is knowing that there's more to our limited idea of ourselves. To realise who we truly are.
Reaching Beyond
Concepts and Language
Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Hmmm. Food for thought.
Through my work, I present all my dreams, my fears, my ego, my insecurity, and it takes a level of being OK with being “seen” like that to really create work that speaks to the human condition. I laugh thinking back on an example I can give — I have a dress from one of my first collections that has my nightmares printed on it from when I was a... See more
Thebe Magugu - Brené Brown
Being Seen in creativity
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us... See more
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Filling the Well
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.
Brené Brown • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Connection to each other and all of life
Tippett:
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Universality of Art