Fox brings back the intended meaning of compassion in his book, A Spirituality Named Compassion. This kinship in turn urges us to celebrate our kinship. As Ram Dass's life exemplifies through his devotion to service and as Fox readily indicates, true compassion is action-based. Spirituality is creativity. Just as compassion is a way of life, Fox claims that creativity is also.
Creativity is equally necessary to a spiritual life.
F. David Peat in Synchronicity compares creativity to a spring of water. Creativity is the very essence of each aspect of reality. Like the pure spring that bubbles out of the rock unbidden, this creativity has no necessity and no end, and pervades ail of existence. Although the spring of creativity bubbles inside each of us, the current education system squelches it as David Purpel, Ron Miller, Philip Gang and so many other holistic educators point out. The snake must moult the skin.