Sustaining connection to soul

“It’s very hard to sustain the connection to the deep self or the soul without a practice. Just counting on accident, it doesn’t happen that way.  The two big paths of practice typically are meditation and contemplation as one path, and the other is the creative arts. In the modern world the creative arts are not always seen as practices… they are seen as industries which shows you how far things have fallen. In is an inner contemplation, meditation, and the other is a move out into the world on the energy of creation. The contemplative style of practice is often associated with spiritual things, but the creative arts were also spiritual expressions. The spirit of life coming through people in order to put things of beauty and of meaning in the world. So they are all spiritual paths.  Originally all of the arts were in service of the divine… You back and look at the art of the world and it goes closer and closer back to divine things. So those are the two paths… some people are drawn to both”. —Michael Meade