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.
3 Responses
This is all so beautifully put – and – “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.” Is such a wonderful reminder.
Thank you
Your words, Gary, give evidence of word and thought mastery and suggest how our faculty of imagination can come under the control of and be inspired by the intelligence of Love flowing from the core of spiritual identity.
Our outer selves are designed to receive inspiration from our inner, spiritual selves. It was meant to be our natural condition. That it isn’t now is why we need the word, inspiration. The root of the word means “to breathe into” which recall the passage in Genesis about God breathing life into mankind, and that other passage about life being the light of mankind.
To receive inspiration, I find, our mind must be open and receptive, nor busys-busy with plans and whatever; the heart must be still, and thankful. The mind must be clear to perceive inspiration accurately; the heart must be still to sense the truth of it.
Again, I find that thankfulness upward to source opens the gateway for love upward, as gratitude outward become blessing; thankfulness is loves’ younger sister, so to speak. So, the more thankfulness, the more love, the more love, the more inspiration so, in truth, the more pure in heart the more we see of God, even in the littlest things that reveal themselves to us in the flow of meaning and inspiration. Praise Him!