I believe spirituality is beyond outer appearances and the five senses, and comes from deep within someone and actually it is found in everyone, which will make each individual different. From my perspective, spirituality is something that encourages me to explore something that I do not know. For instance, when I meet some challenges and think I have limited source with a small capacity. Spirituality will be as a divine light (or faith and believe) exists inside of me and tell me I am greater and more powerful than I have ever imaged. Also, when I am going through happy time, I think my joy come from my spirituality because it is a hope and help me to enjoy and understand from within myself.
- Does spirituality differ from religion?
I believe spirituality does differ from religion. At first, from the definition, Religion is an institution established by man for various reasons like shared values, shared rituals, and mutual support. But spirituality is born and develops in a person and is about living life without a net. On another side, Religion is often the same for a group of person but spirituality is different and is from within oneself. That is, religion is often seems as a container in which spirituality are preserved and passed on. If someone find and know this container and found it is helpful or same with his or her spirituality, then he or she will choose to belong to a specific religion.
- How do you define “creativity”?
Creativity is the behavior of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. This ability needs people to think outside of the box and it usually is original and different than someone else’s idea. But it is not just imagination and it should bring this idea into our life by producing the new thought or idea. I believe everyone has creativity because they come from in different sources. Most creativity is from our spirituality because they will influence many aspects of our life.
- What is the source of creativity?
I believe the main source of creativity is from spirituality as I said before. Spirituality is a personal inside believes or faith, which often can inspire some artists to have a creative thinking and generate some new thoughts differ than others when they face a same topic. Also, to be a creative man, an individual need an open mind and open perspective, then they can absorb more information to lead inspiration, therefore creativity.