connecting stories: 02/21/10

Sunday, February 21, 2010

An amazing program to hear this morning as Robert and I drove home, right after I filled in as substitute minister and preached the sermon at the Sherborn UU Church. SOF: Production Credits | No More Taking Sides, An Israeli-Palestinian Story This is a long video - you can just listen to it in the background if you like...the other two videos are short
but so powerful http://vimeo.com/9579415
http://vimeo.com/9579070 wish I had heard this BEFORE I preached.

No More Taking Sides from Speaking of Faith on Vimeo.

"Art ...enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light."

"Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." --Jerzy Grotowski