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. I believe this philosophy which is echoed in his later books to be in accordance with the philosophies of holistic educators like Montessori and Steiner. Both Rudolf Steiner and Maria Montessori, forerunners to modern holistic education, believe in the unfolding of the child-flower.