Inspiration On Demand

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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.

It was Jim Rohn, well known entrepreneur, author and speaker who said; “Wealth is not a matter of intelligence; it’s a matter of inspiration.”

The truth of the matter is that pretty much everyone has inspiration. The question is whether or not they listen to that ’still small voice,’ or say “No, that’s nuts! I had better keep my nose to the grindstone and play it safe. That’s the smart thing to do!”

People get into the habit of filtering out their own inspiration and doing the ’logical’ or ’smart’ thing which is usually always what society tells them to do. It was Earl Nightingale who said that cowardice was conformity.

If you want to do something in your life and ‘find your fortune,’ you have to be courageous and listen to your inspiration. You need to stand out from the crowd because conforming will only bring you the same predictable results which, if you read the news, are not good. By conforming, you will get the same results as everyone else.

If you were able to ask a lot of the great minds from the past just where their inspiration came from, that’s the one thing they probably couldn’t tell you for sure. Strange thing.

But, in all cases, they could agree that their inspiration ‘came to them.’  That is to say it was something given to them and, in that way, they would be taking only partial credit for the idea or perhaps just taking credit for ‘being there.’ Maybe Woody Allan was right to say that 90% of success is just showing up.

Certainly this idea of inspiration ‘coming to you,’ like a gift, is a large part of what it’s all about. By letting something ‘come to you,’ you’re acknowledging that you’re accepting help from perhaps a larger source and not trying to do it all by yourself.

Certainly to say that god or source is the origin of inspiration seems reasonable since god or source has created everything in existence, if you buy that postulate.

Joe Vitale has said that he believes god doesn’t just give one person an idea but gives the same idea to a number of people. Therefore, if you have an idea and don’t act on it, you can expect someone else to.

This would certainly go along with the idea that we are all one consciousness. So the ideas are there, in the air and it’s up to us to ‘be there,; and be open to accept the gift.

If it’s beautiful music, we need to be ‘up there,’ in the high energy, if it’s a brilliant solution we have to be more or less expecting an answer.