Prompts to Illuminate Your Spirit
Food for thought to excite your creativity whether you are theist, agnostic, or atheist
I read in our latest welcoming story for new writers that one of the most frequent questions Dr Mehmet Yildiz and ILLUMINATION is asked is whether our publications provide writing prompts. So far, we have only issued challenges to create a certain number of stories in a certain amount of days.
I have found writing prompts from the publications Know Thyself, Heal Thyself (Diana C.), and Promptly Written (Ravyne Hawke), immensely beneficial toward my climb to now having achieved the rank of #2 in Top Writers in Poetry, and these can be equally applied to essays, fiction, or creative nonfiction.
Now, I provide additional food for thought to aid your creativity, and in no particular order:
- Is love an emotion or a feeling?
- If one falls out of love, does that mean the love was not real?
- Does unconditional love exist?
- What’s your best memory?
- What’s your worst memory?
- What does spirituality mean to you? Does it require belief in a metaphysical power?
Here’s how I define spirituality:
- When I use the term spiritual, I use it in a manner that transcends the binary of theism versus atheism. One can act entirely spiritual with or without a belief in “god” however one understands that term. Spirituality only requires love, empathy, compassion, humility, honesty, and courage.
- As I define spirituality, there is a flip side to the coin and all those positive feelings — accountability, both personally and holding others accountable
More prompts:
- What’s your favorite song or performer and why?
- What’s a song or band that you and your parents, or you and your children, all love and why?
- Can you forgive the unforgivable?
- Does forgiveness require reconciliation?
- What does it mean to make amends?
- Is life fair, unfair, or does the answer not matter?
- Do you believe that people have the right to be happy?
- Do you believe in the pursuit of happiness?
- Is contentment the more emotionally and spiritually intelligent pursuit?
- Can you accept the unacceptable, from moment to moment?
- What’s the most important form of intelligence?
- Do you have regrets?
- Are you ashamed of anything you have done?
- If I told you that every person’s date of death is predetermined, but you would never know what the date is, yet that how we live and how we die are each very much the product of free will, how would that knowledge affect how you live your life?
- What does the term nonconformist mean to you?
- What’s the difference between morality and ethics?
- Are you a judgmental person?
- What are your best attributes?
- What are your character defects?
- If you’re a parent, what is your prime responsibility to your children?
- Do you like your job (that includes being a house-spouse)?
- Who is more important to you, friends or family (other than children)?
- What advice do you wish a parent had given you?
- Is there anything you are determined to do differently in your life than a parent did?
- Do you fear change?
- Can you embrace uncertainty?
- Where do you fall on the political spectrum between left, right, libertarian and authoritarian?
- Is technology good?
- Is addiction a failure of willpower, a disease, or neither?
- Are you a reader or a writer?
- Why are you on Medium?
- Do you like poetry?
- Do you believe in extra-terrestrial life?
- Do you believe in synchronicity?
- Do you believe in soulmates?
- What does the term soulmate mean to you?
- What are your thoughts on suicide?
- What would you like to change about yourself?
If you choose to write a story inspired by any of these prompts (poem, essay, fiction, or creative non-fiction) please tag me in your story and please feel free to publish anywhere on Medium (in one of our pubs, any other pub, or self-published).
Please also drop links to your stories as a comment as the tag notification system is notoriously unreliable.
In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
