Monday, December 9, 2019

Chapter 57: Members of the community with creative gifts


If there are any in the community with creative gifts, they should use them in their workshops with proper humility, provided that the have the permission of the superior. (From para. 1 of Ch. 57 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

The term "being creative" often connotes some kind of rare gift of personal artistic expression, and so creativity becomes linked with the ego. In fact, I've found that the ego impedes true and selfless creative gifts. The best model for me of being creative is meditation, where I meet “the Creator of all that is valuable”.

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