May
2015
Creative Spirituality-Reflection
How do you define “spirituality”?
I feel that spirituality stands as a basis for our personality and character. It could stem from our personal beliefs or life experiences in which we base our opinions and decisions off. I think our spirituality could come from our religious beliefs or anything that we believe in. It feeds our souls by allowing us to define who we are as a person. What is so amazing to me is that we have the ability to grow in our spiritual ways either through new experiences or through religious ideology.
Does spirituality differ from religion?
I think spirituality grows from our religion. Even if we choose not to have a religion it still influences our spirituality. I believe these two play hand in hand with one another. I believe what we believe in heavily influences our spirits. We don’t necessarily need religion to stand as a basis for our beliefs. Our religion could be based on something other than a god per-say but rather on ideology of the great philosophers before us.
How do you define “creativity”?
Creativity is our inventive imagination that allows us to provoke our thoughts and ideas in a way that is out of the ordinary. Our creativity is the formulation of ideas, theory, or even a way to solve a problem. It takes a great deal of imagination and your ability to think outside of the box to show creativity. This is a very abstract concept that I think could be synonymous to that of our definition of art.
What is the source of creativity?
My source of creativity are probably my past experiences. It is easy for me to take my past experiences and think about what could be improved in that moment in time or for the future. It is also influenced by my environment consisting of people, ideas, as well as ideas from different people. I love hearing other people’s thoughts to provoke some of my own. I think it is very resourceful and brilliant idea that we as people have the idea to feed off of each other’s thoughts and insights.