Speaking My Truth: The idol Conformity

John Chuchman, a graduate of John Carroll University has been a Hospice volunteer since 1990.

Speaking my truth:

The idol of Conformity

To create anything at all in any field,

and especially anything of outstanding worth,

requires nonconformity,

or a want of satisfaction with things as they are.

The creative person

 — the nonconformist —

may be in profound disagreement with the present way of things,

or he may simply wish to add his views,

 to render a personal account of matters.

To remain an accepted member

of the Roman Catholic Church,

I would have had to shed my non-conformity,

and hence my creativity.

But I had no really vested interest in the Church’s status quo.

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Source: Speaking My Truth: The idol Conformity

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• Speaking My Truth: The idol Conformity. 2016. Speaking My Truth: The idol Conformity. [ONLINE] Available at: http://apoetman.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-idol-conformity.html. [Accessed 20 December 2016].