Contemplative Creativity

"The artist and monk are indeed one."

In her book The Artist’s Rule, Christine Valters Paintner follows the legacy of other spiritual teachers like Evelyn Underhill and Matthew Fox, each of whom discerned an affinity if not unity between the paths of contemplation and creativity. She writes,

The way of the monk and the path of the artist are teachers of slowness, of savoring, of seeing the w…