By Chalice Circle Facilitators

Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email Linda Benson at chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our
Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Creativity this month are:

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

What are the sources of your inspiration?
Do you have practices that stimulate creativity?

“The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.”
– Vilayat Inayat Khan
Have you ever had a time when you broke a routine that felt oppressive?
What was necessary and how did you benefit?

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
– Henry David Thoreau

What habits or customs do you have that are unique and make up part of who you are? Do you have any tendencies that you feel forced to stifle in public?

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but making something from it after it’s found.”
– James Russell Lowell

What have you found that you’d like to share but haven’t yet discovered the way to convey it?