Unit 07

How do you define “spirituality”?

Spirituality is the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people, and people reflects it from inside. The spirituality is a concerned with or affecting the spiritual soul. Spirituality is instinctive, and it is not be swayed by the outside. We usually say that a person has a spirit, because we see or feel that people beyond the language and logic, and it is an intuition. Spirituality is more like the way you think about the outside, and it is spontaneous and personal.

Does spirituality differ from religion?

For me, Religion is the belief which people believe in, and religious is a perspective relating to religion. Religion may come from the outside. For example, a person may believe in Christ because of his/her parents or friends. It reflects how the outside influences you. Spirituality is more like the way you think about the outside, and it is spontaneous. The similarity of both religious and spirituals is that they are the reflection of human values. Also, spiritual is more personal.

How do you define “creativity”?

Creativity is a comprehensive human’s skill. Creativity refers to the production of new ideas, and the ability to discover and create new things. The real creativity always produces valuable results to society, and the essence of civilization is the history of mankind to achieve the result of creativity. What the base of creativity is the ability that to absorb knowledge, to consolidate knowledge, to gain practical experience, to broaden their knowledge, to apply knowledge, and to analyze problems.

What is the source of creativity?

Creativity is from the knowledge, and the knowledge is also from creativity. As the fundamentals of creativity, it includes the ability to absorb knowledge and ability and understanding of knowledge and memory of knowledge. Also creativity is from a comprehensive intellectuality and multiple capabilities including both acute and unique observation and highly focused attention. In addition, creativity comes from the physical qualities. It is based on the physical qualities of a person, because creative activities demonstrated by the creation of quality in a certain social and historical conditions social practices through the formation and development.

For me, spirituality is instinctive, and it is not be swayed by the outside. We usually say that a person has a spirit, because we see or feel that people beyond the language and logic, and it is an intuition. I think I can use the word “soul” to sum up the spiritual, because the soul touches you at some point if you see the spirituality from the others. The creative spirituality is king of an ability of a person who sees the world with unique perspective, and I think artist should have creative spirituality. Like the article states “The artist’s three eyes of knowing are inspired by the radiant spiritual beauty of the subject, fascinated by the subject’s harmonic structure, and motivated to express the unique wholeness of the subject by drawing a bounding line around it.” (Grey, 73), artists need to create art works with creative perspective, which comes from their creative spirituality. The article also mentioned “The artist’s spiritual eye recognizes the subject as a special aspect of the absolute.” (Grey, 73), but I don’t think creative spirituality is the quality only owned by artists. Everyone could have creative spirituality, and it depends on how you see the world. For example, I met a little girl few days ago, she looks lazy and stubborn, but I totally changed my mind after reading the sentences she wrote. She wrote that a caterpillar would become to a butterfly, the children more intelligent than her always need reminders. Maybe her thought is not logical and reasonable, but she is seeing and expressing the world with her unique way and I think she has creative spirituality. I think everyone comes with creative spirituality, but social stereotype strangled our creative spirituality along with we grow up. Stay confident and see deep to retain our creative spirituality.

Work Cited

Grey, A. (2001). Art as Spiritual Practice. The Mission of Art (1st ed., pp. 205-233). Boston & London: Shambhala.