THE CREATIVE ENCOUNTER

The Creative Encounter

The Creative Encounter

Introduction

The human being life comprises a two edge perspective, very apparently asserted by Thurman. First, there is the private edge of the individual's life. It involves his entire idiosyncrasies and needs. Second, there is the interaction of the one-by-one with others in the community and the way they interfere with his life and how he leverages their world.

Theme 1

The self perception is very important in our comprehending of self connection with God and with the world. In Luke 10:27-29, Jesus not only states that it is significant to love God and close by, but when we read the text mindfully we observe that he points to the significance of self love, as he commands to love our close by the way we love ourselves. It means that we should love the close by with the identical power which we love ourselves. It is inferred that we love ourselves routinely, so it does not need a commandment. The order of Jesus has two assumptions. The first is that we love ourselves. If we love us, we've got to love our neighbors in the identical way. The second is that the declaration suggests the likelihood that some persons could not love themselves. In this case, you should not love your close by the same way you love yourselves.

Theme 2

One significant standard we have to be aware of when we reflect about love is that to love anyone or any thing we shall realise, realise, the object of love. It concerns to self also. It is in this main heading that Thurman directs us in his consideration of the inwardness of religion. He calls it a “private life”, where “the large issues of our inhabits are determined”, he says. He furthermore states that “it is cut off from immediate engagement in what surrounds us”. This inward formation is going to work out how one “interprets the significance … of his devout experience”, Thurman says (Thurman, 1954, p.25).

The meet with God in his/her seek counts upon the one-by-one realization of self identification or of self perception, as well as comprehending the reality of God. This know-how then involves two individuals or two parties: self and God. The know-how of God by the one-by-one, according to Thurman, occurs when God encounters his/her needs, as though as at the level of his comprehending of God's meaning. I allow myself not exactly to disagree with Thurman but to point that God's meaning should come first in this “inward encounter”, then it regards to the matter of God's meeting self needs. It takes the one-by-one to become self attentive first; from there he/she accomplishes what we could call God consciousness. Thurman calls this “residue of God-meaning”.

Theme 3

When the relationship between self comprehending and God consciousness (Thurman residue of God-meaning) is achieved, it is attractive much clear in mind that “God is the Creator of life itself” and there is a “living value present in all living things”, what in our ...