Christ The Servant
Catholic Church
Cold Springs, Ontario
Homily Selections
Creativity....Outline and rambling thoughts from "The Artists Way"
Basic principles of Creativity
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusiong all of life---including ourselves.
When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's (Universe, whatever works here) creativity within us and our lives.
We are ourselves, creations. And we, inturn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.
Creativity is God's (the Universe etc) gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.
When we open ourselves to exploring creativity, we open ourselves to God: a good orderly direction.
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
The Basic Tools
The morning pages
The artists date (details on these later)
Recovering a sense of safety
Recovering a sense of identity
Recovering a sense of power
Recovering a sense of identity
Recovering a sense of possibility
Recovering a sense of abundance
Recovering a sense of Connection
Recovering a sense of Strength
Recovering a sense of Compassion
Recovering a sense of Self Protection
Recovering a sense of Autonomy
Recovering a sense of Faith
Sacred Circle Rules
Creativity flouishes in a place of safety and acceptance
Creativity grows among friends, withers among enemies
All creative ideas are children who deserve our protection
All creative success requires creative failure
Fufilling our creativity is a sacred trust
Violating someone's creativity violates a sacred trust.
Creative feedback must support the creative child, never shame it
Creative feedback must build on stregths, never focus on weaknesses
Success occurs in clusters and is born in generosity
The good of another can never block our own.
Interesting quotes:
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fufill his destiny....Paul Tillich
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.....Mary Daly
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes....Peter Koestenbaum
I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight...Amos Ferguson
Why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, houful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.....Brenda Ueland
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us...Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves...Jung
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Picasso
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness...Shakti Gawain
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues: Duke Ellington
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open........Shakti Gawain
Creative work is play It is free speculation using the materials of one's chosen form. Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creativity is....seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God...Michelle Shea
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. MC Richards
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