Creativity

Sacred texts often return to a difficult truth: creativity depends on limits.

Death, change, and uncertainty create the conditions for growth. Without them, there would be little reason to learn, question, or seek new understanding.

Omnipotence and omniscience have no need for discovery. Progress emerges through study, experimentation, and reinterpretation, through beings who do not yet know, who must encounter the world in order to understand it.

Creativity arises from this striving, from the desire to experience and make meaning within a finite life.

Creativity is divine.

Sunset from the Saugerties Lighthouse, Saugerties, NY