When’s the last time your heart leaped for joy at the sight of someone or something? I want to be part of a community where lovingkindness is… Read more “longing”
Strength-building, inside-out
Learning to conquer our fears—probably one of the hardest things that all of us need to learn. It’s hard work climbing a rock mountain, but once we… Read more “Strength-building, inside-out”
A chief responsibility as creatives
One of the chief responsibilities in the light of our appointment as creatives is to create in such a way so as to elicit outbursts of songs… Read more “A chief responsibility as creatives”
When creativity plays hide-and-seek
“And why do we need to go through this again?” So that we don’t get too puffed up thinking that our creative capacities are entirely “self-made.” The… Read more “When creativity plays hide-and-seek”
How to find your creative voice and why you must use it
Listening to the voice of reason is not enough; acting upon it in a timely way is what is necessary. A problem is that it is becoming… Read more “How to find your creative voice and why you must use it”
How creativity can be a way to share in suffering with others
A fundamental fallacy of the common perception of thriving is to imagine it in terms of fullness or fatness or being full of the potential to grow… Read more “How creativity can be a way to share in suffering with others”
What makes your art worth it?
Creativity is strongest when it invites and makes possible participation in truth. Combined with truth such creative strength becomes a shield, impenetrable. Each thought, word, note played,… Read more “What makes your art worth it?”
What are you waiting for?
What are some core creative capacities that are developed as we learn to wait? Whether it’s waiting in a doctor’s office to hear the results of a… Read more “What are you waiting for?”
Waiting for justice
Among other things, creativity is an invitation to seek purposefully; not to aimlessly wander but to seek in order to actually find. We actively seek justice. But justice… Read more “Waiting for justice”
How creativity is prior to religion, and what this could mean for creative confidence
We tend to associate the idea of faith primarily with matters of religion, but in fact it is something more basic. Creativity as a common human capacity… Read more “How creativity is prior to religion, and what this could mean for creative confidence”
