Among Fred's favorite topics was Creativity, and favorite authors was Nicholas Berdyaev. FYI - Berdyaev was born in Kiev (Ukraine) to a noble Russian family in 1874. He was exiled from Russia more than once, finally living and dying in France in 1948.
QUOTE: “Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world’s necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is a failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.”
Nicolas Berdyaev- Meaning of the Creative Act“Inexplicable and without foundation” means that we are radically free, having no idea to tell us who-we-are or how-to-be. We are alone with the Alone, responsible on the level of Being. Meaning comes from doing art with our existence, risking even our integrity to interpret Truth with and among others.
We are in existence, and we are above existence; our vocation is to bring Nature to perfection by creating values. Situated between freedom and necessity, we move into the coming-to-be of reality, taking from the old and the new, uncovering infinite quantitative and qualitative possibilities.
We are the evolutionary process of becoming conscious, liberating wisdom through humility; we are the ‘originating process’ by which existence manifests, uniting our will with the almighty Will. The entire creation is waiting for us to realize our vocation.