Here’s an excerpt from an article that is close to my heart! True creativity, especially the experience of insight, is a profoundly spiritual experience.
I love the experience of grace along the creative path. For me, creative insight is a form of grace, an unexpected sense of openness and a penetrating experience of the world in the moment that seems to arrive out of nowhere. I can relate with the author, Patricia Crisafulli, and her enjoyment of the profundity of those unexpected moments of openness that appear in unexpected places.
We could all use a little grace now and then. Whether you define it as an unexpected blessing, a stroke of luck, or a spiritual wink from above, grace breathes into ordinary life with encouragement and inspiration. Fortune and fortitude rolled into one, grace keeps us going, particularly on the creative path that is so fraught with self-doubt and discouragement.
I have looked for grace in cathedrals and forests, and along beaches. I have beckoned it with candles lit in sacred places and beseeched it with prayer. Although grace, like oxygen, may indeed be all around us — omnipresent, as it were — I have become aware of it most acutely in unexpected places: in undeserved kindness, the helpfulness of strangers, and once, about five years ago, in the Department of Motor Vehicles.”
For more of Patricia’s article see, “Unexpected Grace on the Creative Path”