1. How do you define “spirituality”?

For me spirituality is a virtual thing, and it exists in people’s mind. This is about philosophical research. I think spirituality is people how to look this world and how people deal with things. Some spirituality is gifted. When people born, people already have some view about things in their mind. They know how to make things, and how does things work. Some spirituality is based on people’s development during their life time. This is depends on the environment that people live, and how clear their self-analysis is. Spirituality is a magical stuff, it will slide into people’s mind. The spirituality is about how long that people live, the longer that people live the view about things is more clear and intensive. Spirituality is the key that people create things. When an artist wants to create an artwork, the artist must have some spirituality of his career. Then, he will make a great artwork depends on how much spirituality he has. The more spirituality the person has, the more creativity the person will be.

2. Does spirituality differ from religion?

I think spirituality have some commons like religion. Spirituality is the development of people’s mind and heart. When people think about things they think about it depends on his believe. In religion, people also believe things. People always judge things or look at things depends on what they have learned from their religion. Religion is also a development of mind. Religion also need people have spirituality, people could understand the profound meaning of religion. Both of spirituality and religion need people inspect themselves. From inspecting themselves, their spirituality could get improved.

3. How do you define “creativity”?

In my mind creativity is ability that animal could have. Bird have creativity to build their nest, ants have the creativity to build their kingdom under the ground. I think creativity is gifted when animal born. People are the primate species in the world, so they have more knowledge than animals. Their creativity is much broader. Creativity depends on how much imagination that you could have, because some people could think about new stuff that other could not imagine.  This is the creativity, to create other people cannot imagine. Creativity also depends on what have you seen, where have you been.  This is also about the experience. When people’s view is open, their creativity would be better.

4. What is the source of creativity?

I think the source of creativity is the spirituality of people. Why? This is because how clear that you analysis things. If you understand something very well, then you can use this thing do something, or make some improvement on this thing. This is kind of creativity. Creativity also could be motivated by some idea spark. When you see something, this thing could make you associate another thing. Why people could create things, this is about the spirituality inside people. Spirituality could let people see other people could not see. When you have spirituality, you will associate this thing to other things. This is because spirituality could make you understand things, not only the appearance of that.

Reflections:

From my article, I know that every people have spirituality in their mind. The level of it is different from each other. The level of spirituality depends on people’s talent and what the time leaves for them. Experience is very important for a person’s spirituality. People will improvement their spirituality from learning things. Spirituality also depends on what this person believes. Moreover, spirituality is the key for people’s ability to create. When an artist wants to make an artwork, they need to conceive an idea before they start to make it. This should relate to the spirituality. For the spirituality of artists is very clear when they doing their artworks, and artists also need to have the ability of self-analysis. When a people have the high level spirituality, they are easy to lose themselves. Not only artists are easy to lose themselves, normal people also could do the same thing. When people think they are knowledgeable, some people look down the people they think is not good enough. They have already losen themselves. Like Steve Jobs said, “stay hungry, stay foolish.” These words told us, there is no limit to study, and there is no smartest person. Spirituality is very mysterious in our world. People will understand it more with our civilization’s progress.

Future goals:

For me, I feel my spirituality is very weak in my mind. I want to believe a religion in the future. I hope I can learn more about the spirituality from it. I also will keep being a good person and develop my spirituality. I think the spirituality also could decide a person’s personality. I hope I can learn more about Buddhism, because I am easy to be angry. I hope Buddhism will make me feel peace. I will also keep the habit of imagine things, I hope I can invent something with my spirituality.

Sources:

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