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Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life

Amy Hollingsworth
One passage, two verses, four words.
As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an expert on creativity. But just days before delivering her rst professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream, she soon discovers its contents reected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the rst time creativitys core, its spiritual roots, and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reection and study, it conrms the very scientic theories shes been teaching all along. In fact, she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago, kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper, she uncovers for the reader Gods blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life, through a practical outworking of her spiritual ndings. In the end, both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilitiesand a profound sense of whats truly holy about holy curiosity.

is the author of The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the Worlds Most Beloved Neighbor (2005), based on her nine-year friendship with televisions Fred Rogers; and Gifts of Passage: What the Dying Tell Us with the Gifts They Leave Behind (2008). She taught as an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, Jeff, and their children, Jonathan and Emily. She has written for various magazines, including ParentLife, and was a writer for eight years for a national television program. She was named one of USA Today entertainment blogs Top 100 People of 2010 for her inuence on pop culture and featured in the documentary by MTV News VP/producer Benjamin Wagner titled Mister Rogers & Me.

Amy Hollingsworth

Amy brings her uniquely lyrical style to the subject of creativity, its origins, and its purpose in our lives. This book is personal, practical, and poetic all in one, and will be a welcome addition to your shelf. DANIEL H. PINK, New York Times best-selling author of
Drive and A Whole New Mind

So sensitive, intelligent, and gutsy. THOMAS MOORE, New York Times best-selling author of Care of the Soul You know that best afternoon ever, with the rain outside, and the comfy chair inside, and the good booka glorious, quiet revelation of a bookand the family dog sleeping at your feet? This is that book. SEAN HERRIOTT, Host of national Catholic radio program
Morning Air on Relevant Radio

Amys blueprint for how to live the creative lives we are all meant to live is clear, awakening, profound, and practical. CARLA HANNAFORD, PhD
Neurophysiologist and author of Playing in the Unied Field: Raising and Becoming Conscious, Creative Human Beings

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