Don’t think outside the box – burn it.
Rob Bell has a book out called “Drop like Stars”.
I like Rob Bell cuz he says a lot without having to write a million words.
But chances are you would only understand it if you’ve thought about similar stuff.
Which is good cuz what he writes about – lots of people have thought about it.
This book is about creativity and suffering. So its true that suffering is a key to creativity. I don’t mean to be insulting, this is what I do when I was younger, but I’m more confident now that mainstream(or pop, but thats not very fair, because shallowness infiltrates ‘rock’ culture or every other genre too) culture culture is a very, very poor representation of art. Because most of our “artistes” are not people conditioned to the art of living – perfected by suffering. I’m sorry, but your music on the radio is mostly stupid, at best, hollow. Sorry.
He says it with the box paradigm. When you have your boxes being smashed to bits, when you’re going through suffering, you have no option but to think outside the box.
I’m not without box yet still. I probably only go from one box into a bigger box, or another box. I just hope I keep progressing to find the edge of every box and push it.
