Thank you for your beautiful, humble sharing, especially helpful to me in this time when humility seems to me to be like an endangered species. You inspired me to wonder how to weed and nurture spiritual gardens - within myself and in the world -in order to make the best possible place for seeds of humility to grow. In my experience, humility is the (sometimes hidden) door to grace that can unfold lovely solutions even to seemingly intractable problems.
Thank you, Lubna for that beautiful reading. It's a lesson I need to learn time and again. When I start writing for respect or recognition, I can feel my heart draw up and get smaller almost immediately. When I write from a feeling of abundance, in need of nothing, the words come out because they flow out of a full, contented heart. Poems I have written all come from a heart that aches, but usually with missing someone, not out of a desire for recognition, or live of money. Faith is a wellspring of creativity. Palestrina made maybe the most beautiful music in man's history, and all for worship. Look at the great art and architecture. The greatest examples were made for love of God.
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you, Jeremy, for your insightful comment. It is a lesson that I, too, need to keep learning over and over again. It can be so easy for us to fall into the trap of wanting greater and greater recognition and admiration from others, particularly when we first begin to notice that others are applauding us. We have to continually humble ourselves and remain unaffected by either praise or criticism, as in the way of the Stoics. You are right in stating that faith is a wellspring of creativity. I think about some of the world’s creative geniuses (Palestrina, Van Gogh, Chekhov, Emerson, etc.), and I see in them an unwavering faith and an indomitable belief in the value of what they had to say through music, painting, or writing. I notice that these enduring figures did not seem to pay much mind to whether or not they were respected or recognized by others. They simply loved something-a musical motif, a scenery, a story, an idea-and had the urge to express it. 🌸🦋🌷
@@Valenciano87 Exactly. It is just like the joy we feel when we sing along to our favorite songs while driving fast on the highway, or when we make a nice dinner for ourselves, or when we dress beautifully even if we are not going anywhere or seeing anyone, or when we write a poem that no one will ever see, just because we had something to express. We do all of these things because they make us happy, and not because we want to impress anyone. We do them for the effect that they have on our spirit. There are countless examples of “art for heart’s sake” in our daily lives. Let us sing, dance, paint, write, teach, love, and work forever, simply for the sake of doing these things. 🌸💞🌺
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Thank you for your beautiful, humble sharing, especially helpful to me in this time when humility seems to me to be like an endangered species. You inspired me to wonder how to weed and nurture spiritual gardens - within myself and in the world -in order to make the best possible place for seeds of humility to grow. In my experience, humility is the (sometimes hidden) door to grace
that can unfold lovely solutions even to seemingly intractable problems.
Greetings Lubna, blessings. 🙏👍👍🙂
@@WillMaiJunior Thank you, William. All the best. 💐✨
Thank you, Lubna for that beautiful reading. It's a lesson I need to learn time and again. When I start writing for respect or recognition, I can feel my heart draw up and get smaller almost immediately. When I write from a feeling of abundance, in need of nothing, the words come out because they flow out of a full, contented heart. Poems I have written all come from a heart that aches, but usually with missing someone, not out of a desire for recognition, or live of money.
Faith is a wellspring of creativity. Palestrina made maybe the most beautiful music in man's history, and all for worship. Look at the great art and architecture. The greatest examples were made for love of God.
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you, Jeremy, for your insightful comment. It is a lesson that I, too, need to keep learning over and over again. It can be so easy for us to fall into the trap of wanting greater and greater recognition and admiration from others, particularly when we first begin to notice that others are applauding us. We have to continually humble ourselves and remain unaffected by either praise or criticism, as in the way of the Stoics.
You are right in stating that faith is a wellspring of creativity. I think about some of the world’s creative geniuses (Palestrina, Van Gogh, Chekhov, Emerson, etc.), and I see in them an unwavering faith and an indomitable belief in the value of what they had to say through music, painting, or writing. I notice that these enduring figures did not seem to pay much mind to whether or not they were respected or recognized by others. They simply loved something-a musical motif, a scenery, a story, an idea-and had the urge to express it. 🌸🦋🌷
When the Bird sings does it care who’s listening? Sing for the sake of the song!
@@Valenciano87 Exactly. It is just like the joy we feel when we sing along to our favorite songs while driving fast on the highway, or when we make a nice dinner for ourselves, or when we dress beautifully even if we are not going anywhere or seeing anyone, or when we write a poem that no one will ever see, just because we had something to express.
We do all of these things because they make us happy, and not because we want to impress anyone. We do them for the effect that they have on our spirit. There are countless examples of “art for heart’s sake” in our daily lives. Let us sing, dance, paint, write, teach, love, and work forever, simply for the sake of doing these things. 🌸💞🌺