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Your Inspiration
Inspiration is maybe not as straight forward as it might sound. What is inspiration, friends? Inspiration is a divine intent. Inspiration, to be filled with motivation. Inspiration is the cause of everything, even what we judge to be “uninspired”. May I ask, What moves you, friends? What moves me is the opportunity to evolve. That…
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Your Theme
Could it be stated truthfully that we were inspired to be born? In effect “I can be” or “I will be”? Yes, and any creative act is just bringing more of self into being. A sort of spiritual midwifery, but we need more. We need a clear view of what we are trying to do,…
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Song Of Life
There is an old saying that should give us a valuable map to the core of our inspiration. I paraphrase, Beauty is truth and truth beauty. We have a dark side to what moves us, and the most discordant strains of a familiar song will still be recognizable. But we know the measure of truth…
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Color Of Life
Color. People tend to have preferences for not one color, but patterns of color, and the set of their favourite colors can give me as much if not more insight into their inspiration. Blue, green, yellow. You are a sensitive who embraces vitality more than any form of absolute principles. You probably find “moral” discussions…
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What Awes You?
Anyone want to share what awes them most? The look of astonishment in a child’s eyes. Ok, then for you, living the inner child. Natural animal is your path. Does inner child conflict with a role of leadership? Not at all. You lead by playing “follow the leader”, and you remind everyone it’s just a…
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Your Viewer
People often struggle to find inspiration. It’s one of those things we tend to lose track of, because it’s right there with us hidden in plain sight. There is a lot of thinking about life and experience out there, and we often get ideas that are just a bit confusing, like attributing the source of…
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Your Very Life Itself
I knew a strange case of a young woman who was inspired to have a grey life. Her family was loud. I remember going to her house, colors everywhere, but she felt that they made her stand out and it embarrassed her. So she aspired to have a dull life, be an accountant and have…
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What You Want
Do you want anything? I’m not asking a specific person. Does anyone want anything? Of course, yes. Doesn’t mean we actually get it. Actually, yes it does, or rather it can mean that. People mistake want for what it is not. They attempt to embody inspiration in objects. It has links to objects. I won’t…
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One Truth
There is one truth in this beingness we all share. This truth is, “I am.” There is one great error in this life. That error is to conclude, “I cannot be.” This is what makes us shove our imaginations, and passions, and feelings into that deep dark closet. But for all our obedience to the…
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Powers That Be
Everyone familiar with the phrase, “The powers that be”? Where are these powers referred to? Where are they found? At a higher level? In the self? No. In plush corporate offices. Political as well. What about the forces of nature? Would they number among those powers? Yes, they’re also referenced in terms of cosmic forces.…
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Two Faces to Our Minds
We have two faces to our minds. One in which our normal thought occurs that reminds us that we need to go grocery shopping, or speculates about what some strange comment from a co-worker might have meant, or even corrects our application of a skill like writing. This is the top down flow of information…
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Attune to the Heart of Nature
Where do we go in life through thinking as we commonly understand it? Has your thinking ever changed your life? It leads to routine. Sometimes for the worse. Perhaps for the worse in that it tends to blind us at times to important truths. Caught in tight little circles. Would the opposite effect not be…
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Possessed by a God
Let’s look at something even more concrete. Did your career use very much of your engineering education? Oh, a minor amount. Honestly, the engineering education is more a system to filter the number of people interested in the field. What about you? I rely on my physics knowledge more in my private life to solve…
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What Would Ogoun Do?
Shall I show how to use this using my wife as an example? Give me a problem you would like to fix, or someone would like to fix in general. I am thinking about your website. Well, that is an entity rather than a problem itself. Shall we use popularity? Yes, sure. Assume the point…
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Eshu Helping Ogoun
Let’s look at our classes first, or no, personal relationship then class. Seeing my wife (Bev) from the point of view of Eshu, I would get the impression to stay out of her direct path, watch what she does and how she does it, and change things she isn’t paying attention to in such a…
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Path of Isis Through Kitchen Repair
Perhaps a practical example before we wrap up? Not from myself, those tend not to go well or be very useful. Any takers? A problem solving example? Like changing a garbage disposal that was too heavy to lift? Ok. First, let’s find your “god”, your core idea. This is nothing you ever see directly. It…
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Connecting to the Living Intelligence
If I procrastinate on tackling a problem and it just resolves itself, I feel guilty. You are Apollo. Apollo had his shortcomings as well as his strengths. One shortcoming was exploited by Hermes. He had his chariot stolen right out from under him. Though I’d have trouble getting up early in the morning to drag that…
Category: Inspiration
What inspires you is what you are, and when you think that the object of your inspiration is separate from self or unattainable to self, that is what leads to the belief “I cannot be”. There is one will and that will is “I am”. There is but one sin, and that sin is “I cannot be”. Ones personal inspiration is like a song, but experiences can inspire “variations on a theme”. Your theme will endure, but which variation you are singing may differ from one circumstance to another.
Can you life a life without inspiration? The answer is no, because inspiration is your very life itself. It’s your spiritual fingerprint and the essence that has let you have any awareness at all, let alone take any actions or have any experiences.
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.” Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)
“The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.” Ovid (Ancient Roman classical Poet and Author of Metamorphoses, 43 BC-17)
“Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration” Napoleon Bonaparte (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)