Creativity and Spirituality
Spirituality and Creativity
1. I define spirituality as the search for an acknowledgement of one’s ultimate nature and purpose. It is the belief or the actions that speak to belief of being connected to something greater than one’s self in this life. People are usually looking for an answer to the big question in life, of why am I here? Spirituality, no matter what form, is a great answer to that question and it leads to many different beliefs.
2. I believe that spirituality can be very closely tied with religion or faith, and in most cases that is what people tend to compare or contrast it to. However, I do not believe that people have to have a specific religion to be so called “spiritual”. Thinking back to the 60’s or 70’s (excluding the drugs) many people considered themselves to be spiritual or one with the earth and that isn’t really a religion. Also, when someone goes through a near death experience and decides to live differently he may or may not turn to religion but that particular change could be spiritual for him.
3. Creativity seems to be more of an abstract process than something easily definable, but I believe that creativity can be closely tied to originality. To create something is to make something from new or original from idea generation, therefore creativity really is more of a process of thinking. A process that involves ingenuity and imagination to complete a task or a project. I don’t think however that it only involves imagination I think that it takes a lot of analytical thinking as well.
4. Everyone has the capacity to create something. The source of creativity can come from many aspects of humanity, a person’s values can influence how the person creates, a person’s spirituality can influence what a person will create, and a person’s dreams or aspirations could very well influence what he may wish or hope to create in the future. In Greek mythology the belief is that there are muses who inspire creativity, therefore in the current day it is said that if one feels like he has lost his creativity he needs to find a new muse. That is exactly what spirituality can do for a person.
1. I define spirituality as the search for an acknowledgement of one’s ultimate nature and purpose. It is the belief or the actions that speak to belief of being connected to something greater than one’s self in this life. People are usually looking for an answer to the big question in life, of why am I here? Spirituality, no matter what form, is a great answer to that question and it leads to many different beliefs.
2. I believe that spirituality can be very closely tied with religion or faith, and in most cases that is what people tend to compare or contrast it to. However, I do not believe that people have to have a specific religion to be so called “spiritual”. Thinking back to the 60’s or 70’s (excluding the drugs) many people considered themselves to be spiritual or one with the earth and that isn’t really a religion. Also, when someone goes through a near death experience and decides to live differently he may or may not turn to religion but that particular change could be spiritual for him.
3. Creativity seems to be more of an abstract process than something easily definable, but I believe that creativity can be closely tied to originality. To create something is to make something from new or original from idea generation, therefore creativity really is more of a process of thinking. A process that involves ingenuity and imagination to complete a task or a project. I don’t think however that it only involves imagination I think that it takes a lot of analytical thinking as well.
4. Everyone has the capacity to create something. The source of creativity can come from many aspects of humanity, a person’s values can influence how the person creates, a person’s spirituality can influence what a person will create, and a person’s dreams or aspirations could very well influence what he may wish or hope to create in the future. In Greek mythology the belief is that there are muses who inspire creativity, therefore in the current day it is said that if one feels like he has lost his creativity he needs to find a new muse. That is exactly what spirituality can do for a person.
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