Archive for creativity
I am speechless with excitement because I just discovered that one of my favorite poets, Dorothy Walters, has her own blog: Kundalini Splendor. It is filled with »»
Filed under: Beethoven, Birth, Blogs, Dorothy Walters, Healing, Illness, Making art, Mystics, Poetry, Stigmata, Virgin Mary, creation, creativity, womb | Beethoven, Birth, Blogroll, creation, creativity, Dorothy Walters, Illness, Making art, Poetry, Stigmata, Virgin Mary, womb|2 Comments
Clays are extraordinary, layered, crystal structures which have, built into them, what amounts almost to an innate tendency to evolve…Clay has plans.
-Lyall Watson, from An Introduction to »»
Filed under: Art technique, Earth, Garden, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, Mysticism, Sacred Art, Spiritual Path, St. Thomas Aquinus, Thomas Berry, Women Mystics, artist as vessel, ceramics, clay, creativity, via negativa | Art technique, artist as vessel, Blogroll, ceramics, clay, creativity, Earth, Garden, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, Mysticism, Sacred Art, Spirituality, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, via negativa, Women Mystics|3 Comments
Post Updated: I’ve bumped up this post from last month because I added photos of the sculpture it inspired at the end.
This poem by Thomas Merton »»
Filed under: Mysticism, Poetry, Sculpture, Thomas Merton, Virgin Mary, Women Mystics, artist as vessel, creation, creativity, fear, via negativa, womb | artist as vessel, creation, creativity, fear, Mysticism, Poetry, Sculpture, Thomas Merton, via negativa, Virgin Mary, womb, Women Mystics|2 Comments
Oh Sweet Irrational Worship
Wind and a bobwhite
And the afternoon sun.
By ceasing to question the sun
I have become light,
Bird and wind.
My leaves sing.
I am earth, earth
All these lighted »»
Filed under: Freedom, Mysticism, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Thomas Merton, artist as vessel, ceramics, creativity | artist as vessel, ceramics, creativity, Freedom, Mysticism, Poetry, Thomas Merton, Vanessa Hidary|3 Comments
Debra Ann over at Tangled Stitch had a recent post about accepting yourself that really got me thinking. Here she is talking about Thomas Moore’s Dark Nights »»
Filed under: Acceptance, Blogs, Courage, Judaism, Poetry, Predujice, Spiritual Path, Thomas Moore, Vanessa Hidary, creativity | Acceptance, Blogroll, Courage, creativity, Judaism, Poetry, Prejudice, Thomas Moore, Vanessa Hidary|1 Comment
A Creative Being
Mary Caroline Richards
We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves whether we like it or not, and that we must get out »»
Filed under: Richard Rohr, Spiritual Path, creativity | creativity, Mary Caroline Richards, Richard Rohr|4 Comments
During the first part of this video, I was close to tears. I’ve written about my deep connection to Hildegard’s life before. In college, I even made »»
Filed under: Blogs, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illness, Matthew Fox, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Scleroderma, Spiritual Path, Vickor Frankl, Women Mystics, creation, creativity | Blogroll, creation, creativity, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illness, Matthew Fox, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Scleroderma, Victor Frankl, Women Mystics|8 Comments
This is unbelievably amazing and inspiring. I felt a tremendous weight lift off my shoulders as I watched:
Filed under: Elizabeth Gilbert, Mysticism, Pain & Suffering, Spiritual Path, Video, creativity | creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mysticism, Pain & Suffering, Video|3 Comments
Perfection is not the elimination of imperfection. That’s our Western either/or, need-to-control thinking. Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There’s no other way to live: »»
Filed under: Dogen, Making art, Mysticism, Poetry, Richard Rohr, creativity | creativity, Dogen, Mysticism, Poetry, Richard Rohr|3 Comments
I just joined an interesting group, a kind of a Facebook for Creation Spirituality. Creation Spirituality is something I’ve become increasingly interested in as I explore my »»
Filed under: Earth, Healing, Making art, Matthew Fox, Mysticism, Otto Rank, Spiritual Path, Video, artist as vessel, creativity | artist as vessel, creation, creativity, Earth, Healing, Matthew Fox, Mysticism, Otto Rank, Spirituality, Video|No Comments
The Fountain
How well I know that flowing spring
in black of night.
The eternal fountain is unseen.
How well I know where she has been
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Filed under: Gratitude, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Spiritual Path, St. John of the Cross, creativity, via negativa | creation, creativity, Gratitude, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, via negativa|2 Comments
Of the Divine Word
Pregnant with the holy
Word will come the Virgin
Walking down the road
If you will take her in.
(The original Spanish is so much better…)
Del Verbo divino
La »»
Filed under: Birth, Christianity, Making art, Mysticism, Plotinus, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, Virgin Mary, creativity | Birth, creativity, Making art, Mysticism, Plotinus, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, Virgin Mary|No Comments
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