The great philosopher and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” So saying, he added his own affirmation to the postulate that inspiration comes from within. Just as your connection to spirit is an internal connection.

How else could it possibly work? Indeed society will try to instruct you that god or spirit is an anthromorphic manifestation that sits on a throne in the sky. So if god ‘wrote’  the bible,  just how did this work? He wrote it out with his own hand and tossed it down to Earth? Or did he sit with a cosmic megaphone, dictating it to some poor slob on Earth, shouting;

“IN THE BEGINNING…”

“Huh? What was that? Slow down please, I’m still om the first page of the begats…”

 I love Dr. Wayne Dyer’s analogy that, if god is like the ocean, then we are each a glass of that ocean water. If we are all part of god or spirit or consciousness, (whatever overburdened term you like) then we each have our own source and connection back to that spirit and that is the source of our inspiration.

Indeed, society will instruct you until you can’t see straight. It will give you memes and all manner of blocks and knots to keep you from your own inspiration. Then solitude may actually be necessary to still the voices of society and to hear your own inspiration again.