Hope is a Happy Accident of FAITH

[otherbrother]

Interesting. I don't know if I'd ever thought of the relationship between hope and creativity. If I had had to guess at a relationship I guess I would have thought that hope and creativity went together. "I'm going to invent this. Boy I hope it will work the first time! When it does work I have great hopes it will make a difference!" or something like that.

Very good example of what I’m trying to get at. But the unrealized hope doesn’t make the creative mind give up, he or she immediately approaches it from new angles and/or new ideas. In a way, persistent creativity is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And somewhat akin to love. Love nurtures positive potential. Love finds a way. The creative mind loves to bring potentially life-improving things into the world. It works with potentiality to improve the realm of actual things. There is a good deal of loving nurturance in that. Just as a parent nurtures the potential of his or her child. Even simple protection from harm is part of the desire to nurture that potential, Love and creativity go together more than we tend to think. Faith, Creativity, Love…

 

[otherbrother]

Very good example of what I’m trying to get at. But the unrealized hope doesn’t make the creative mind give up, he or she immediately approaches it from new angles and/or new ideas. In a way, persistent creativity is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And somewhat akin to love. Love nurtures positive potential. Love finds a way. The creative mind loves to bring potentially life-improving things into the world. It works with potentiality to improve the realm of actual things. There is a good deal of loving nurturance in that. Just as a parent nurtures the potential of his or her child. Even simple protection from harm is part of the desire to nurture that potential, Love and creativity go together more than we tend to think. Faith, Creativity, Love…

Someone in another thread said it was a wonder why they turned out so philosophical and spiritual, considering the practical environment they were raised in. Same applies to me. A farm boy turned all philosophical and poetic. As it turned out, I was the dot on one side of the yin/yang figure. It was soooo practical, limited in grace (I can’t remember a single time my dad said I did a good job on one of the long farm chores/tasks). It was stark enough in that way that I was in a mini version of the resource-less wilderness that the founders of Jewish and, later, Christian, religions found themselves in. How to cope? Find the mind—the “tool” that creates countless means and ways to cope and develop resources (seemingly) out of nowhere. It was as though I was guided by an invisible Creator being. Or maybe it was the unknown potential of the mind itself. Whether the mind was the source of the innovative adaptation or not, it was the only door to whatever was the source. We (founders and me, and the participant in that other thread) found the mind! Others (in my view, less fortunate) continued using their mind, but never FOUND it, never discovered its vast potential. And so they subjugated it to overly “practical” tasks and views.

 

[otherbrother]

Someone in another thread said it was a wonder why they turned out so philosophical and spiritual, considering the practical environment they were raised in. Same applies to me. A farm boy turned all philosophical and poetic. As it turned out, I was the dot on one side of the yin/yang figure. It was soooo practical, limited in grace (I can’t remember a single time my dad said I did a good job on one of the long farm chores/tasks). It was stark enough in that way that I was in a mini version of the resource-less wilderness that the founders of Jewish and, later, Christian, religions found themselves in. How to cope? Find the mind—the “tool” that creates countless means and ways to cope and develop resources (seemingly) out of nowhere. It was as though I was guided by an invisible Creator being. Or maybe it was the unknown potential of the mind itself. Whether the mind was the source of the innovative adaptation or not, it was the only door to whatever was the source. We (founders and me, and the participant in that other thread) found the mind! Others (in my view, less fortunate) continued using their mind, but never FOUND it, never discovered its vast potential. And so they subjugated it to overly “practical” tasks and views.

I once had a very spiritual nighttime dream in which I carried around my own decapitated head! Something akin to my individual spirit was more “me” than my normal thinking mind/head. But I consistently view that “spirit” as being a DEEPER part of “mind,” as opposed to being other than mind. Even though the dream highlighted the difference between deep mind and regular surface-oriented aspects/dimensions of mind.