Who are you really?
How do we find out the language of our self? The language your soul?
How do we find our passion? Ignite our creativity?
Why is it important in recovery?
This episode is for you if you want to get on your way to have more creativity, more meaning and more spirituality in your life?
Wonder is the source of creativity, self expression and the moments we stand back and appreciate the majesty of the world.
Reading AJ Heschel ideas about wonder and radical amazement
“the state of maladjustment to words and notions, is therefore a prerequisite for an authentic awareness of that which is…”
When we think of it, Mental cliches, conventional notions.
Who wants that? There is a great beauty and great advantage to being a person in recovery sometimes. The brownness of it all , serves as an immune to the banality of it all. In the way that the the big book says ” turning your liabilities into your assets we can turn to our distrust of the system, the rejection of normal mores. To help us find wonder. to embrace our higher incomprehension.
Not understand and dismiss but to use it as a step towards discovery, something that might seem wondrous. Not to dismiss it because we don't seem to understand it!
Doing that feeds our sense of worthlessness and is toxic. Just because we don't understand at this moment does not say we cant.
We have to bravely ask, How can this be? How can it exist? Why is it so?
To take our maladjustment and to use it as a lens to see the world. To find radical amazement. To experience life and by doing so to live it. To be it.
Create practices that help us find our voice and our creativity like silence maybe ? As Father Richard Rohr suggests
The ego loves something it can take sides on. Yet true interior silence does not allow you to take sides. That is one reason contemplation is so liberating and calming. There are no sides to take and only a wholeness to rest in—which frees us to act on behalf of love.
we have to be challenging conventional wisdom. We have to ask questions, we have to create room for silence and observation and we have to keep finding new meaning. THAT is creativity and from there we get to see what we want to say to the world. To create. To smile when we see beauty that we perhaps created. We have to either find and art or a hobby.. something that we create....
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