Luminous Light

THE UNITY CENTER

Luminous Light

January and February Series

January 2, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” Pablo Picasso

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty.” Erich Fromm

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou

“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts…” Madeleine L’Engle

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” Edward de Bono

“People who live their creative passion live in the uncertainty of the outcome of what they create—and they’re fulfilled by the mere act of producing something despite that uncertainty.” Ana Degennaar

“What is creative living? Any life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.” Elizabeth Gilbert

Playful Rest

February 13, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” John Lubbock “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” Maya Angelou “Every now and then, go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” Leonardo da Vinci “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers.” William Burroughs “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Anne Lamott “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” Brene Brown “If you’re tired, learn to rest not quit.” Unknown

Joyful Oneness

February 6, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.” Muhammad Yunus “A person experiences life as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion to find the reality of Oneness.” Albert Einstein “If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts “Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” Eckhart Tolle “Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.” David Fontana “Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.” Alan Watts “…the cosmos is also within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself.” Carl Sagan

Cosmic Swarming

January 30, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” Dorothy Parker “Creativity is not a mood. Creativity is not a gift. It’s the very nature of God inside of you.” Dan McCollam “Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.” Julia Cameron “The ability to see the order in chaos is called creativity.” Simon Sinek “Chaos is the first step in the creative process.” Jill Bolte Taylor “If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.” Patricia McCormick “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk “Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.” Dan Wieden “In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Carl Jung