From Wuthnow’s ‘Creqtive Spirituality
• Moments of transcendence … “But in the final analysis, these writers, musicians, sculptors, and painters are less concerned with identifying aspects of the social world about which to be optimistic or pessimistic than they are in providing small experiences of transcendence that in themselves become reasons for hope.” (262) (Bolding is mine. mba)
• “Living with ambiguity and mystery is what we’re called to do.” Unknown artist. (264)
• Comment on the above quote: we are all called to live with mystery and ambiguity – I think it was the British monk H.A. Williams who cited this as the scandal of the human life. Artists, though, seem to process this ambiguity regularly, filtering it repeatedly through their work, perfecting their ability to reflect externally whatever it is they witness in the motivating spaces that live within them. The ability of the artist to cope and to create in the face of, or in spite of, an ongoing poignant awareness of life’s unbreakable code – this is something worth understanding. (Comment is mine. mba)