The best place to find inspiration is where no one else is looking.
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The creative act is characterized by a playful pursuit of inspiration, that is both eager and relaxed, willful yet undemanding.
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It's no coincidence that inspiration has been mythologized in all human culture as a muse or an immaterial spirit that is invited & invoked.
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Our ancestors codified the creative process and separated inspiration from the individual, and for good reason.
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The myths and stories were meant to illustrate that inspiration requires will through action and spontaneous impression which is not willed.
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That spontaneous impression translated into action is divine inspiration, or the god within, as the literal translation from Latin.
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The Greek word έμπνευση, which translate to inspiration, comes from έν (with) and νεύμα (breath)—with breath, or to breathe in, to receive.
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But νεύμα has the curious property of also being translated into "blow" or "blowing in". So inspiration is to both breathe in, and blow out.
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The inspired creative act is a perfect balance between receiving the breath of inspiration, and blowing it out; both will and spontaneity.
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We can only account for the part of creativity within our will: our practice, our preparation, our daily creative rituals.
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These prepare us to receive the breath of inspiration; to notice it, engage it, and deliver the potentialities it suggests into reality.
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In doing so we are always left with the impression of having transcended our mere individuality and taken part of something greater.
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That, in and of itself, is the real value of the creative act, and the human need for it. We all need it, seek it, and can receive it. /FIN
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