This Week’s Quotation:
Generosity is the source of all virtue. Relative to any aspect of your experience, it is the knowing that you have more to give. When you bring generosity to your thinking, you have more ideas, and more compassionate understanding, along with more beautiful plans and designs to manifest.
~ Becoming a Sun p. 228
Receiving Inspiration
Enlightened Thinking describes the relationship between the spiritual and mental dimensions of ourselves. Our spirituality holds generosity and gives the gift of inspiration to our minds. Our mentality holds intelligence and gives the gift of imagination to our spirit.
The spiritual dimension of ourselves is designed to be generous because it is connected to the infinite.
Inspiration contains seeds for the future that are relevant to the present. It shows up as a thought of possibility. When inspiration is present, the mind has to be available and willing to receive it with intelligence. When that happens, the presence of inspiration sparks the mind into imagining a new range of potential for what its attention is focused upon.
As the mind engages in imagining different outcomes and new ways of operating, it gets out of its own box of limitations and assumptions. The willingness to imagine frees up space to allow more inspiration to drop in and land in the fertile soil of imagination. Every time the mind responds to the inspiration of a new possibility and activates the imagination to explore its potential, the mind becomes more receptive to the greater inspiration that’s already there waiting to be received and imagined into.
Inspiration comes from a generous place, but the imagination must be intelligent for it to work well. Otherwise, it’s the uncontrolled imagination of fanciful daydreams. We want the consciously directed imagination to intentionally act in response to the divine seeds of inspiration.
Use your imagination frequently and purposefully to co-create with the divine source providing inspiration for your life!
What does it mean to become a sun?
Every human being is already a sun on the inside—a being of intense love and light. The difference is that some people have the vision and courage to become a sun on the outside. This difference is our human destiny.
4 Responses
Yes. DIVINE imagination is always needed. It takes us upward and forward… not to the u-turn of dead daydreams. THANKS, Gary. Here are the lyrics to a song on this theme:
Thought can be creative, ideas have wings,
Statistics speak in monotones, IMAGINATION SINGS
They’ve all divided one Truth into lots of little lies
And then to hide behind them, you have two special eyes (pronounced “to specialize”)
We can send mankind to th e moon
But can we keep one politician down to earth
We can pay big money to economists
To tell us that money has little worth
Have you ever met a classicist who knows the world today?
Or have you ever met a linguist who has anything fresh to say ?
Which of our daring Socrates is guilty of stirring up the youth
And which of our brave Galileos will be tortured for telling the truth
Our Doctors put their appendixes IN … back of what little is known
To publish in thirty editions that … a rock is really a stone. …
Thought can be creative and…
Ideas have wings
Statistics speak in monotones
Imagination SINGS! SINGS! SINGS!
Aloha, Tom C.
Gary, you have nicely blended inspiration, imagination and generosity. My imagination of a pristine garden state where human beings are living together in peace and harmony has inspired my spiritual work, in which generosity plays an essential role.
Thank you Gary for your generosity in sharing these creative thoughts with us. I find them to be very inspiring.
Love this – thank you Gary – “Use your imagination frequently and purposefully to co-create with the divine source providing inspiration for your life!”