SpiritualWiki - Inspiration

What is usually implied by the term 'spiritual pride' is the product of the illusion that there is a personal self that is doing the spiritual work. These tendencies are countered by humility, thankfulness, and gratitude, and it is merely the spiritual inspiration which emanates as a supportive energy from the Self.
The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 246, 2001

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"Love brings up its opposite."

The foremost goal of the pathway of the heart is to reach that level of consciousness called Unconditional Love. The energy of inspiration and devotion facilitate surrender of positionalities and results in reliance upon God's grace. Although this process sounds conceptually simple, as everyone has found by experience, it is often more difficult than one had expected. The sincere devotee discovers that striving for unconditional love has the unpleasant faculty of bringing up the opposite of one's dedicated goal. This is represented in the terse spiritual saying that "Love brings up its opposite." I. Reality and Subjectivity, chapter 19, S. 325, 2003

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No doer of deeds, no credit or blame

Question: How can one prevent the development of a spiritual ego? Each success seems like it would feed it.
Answer: Realize that there is no such entity as the doer of deeds or actions. There is no doer/self to take blame or credit. Progress is the result of a quality of consciousness that has been activated by the assent of the spiritual will. Spiritual inspiration becomes the energy that is operating; it doesn't emanate from the ego/self. Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Reflection of May 23rd, S. 77, January 2011

The realization and knowingness of God is radically and purely subjective. There is not even the hypothetical possi-
bility that reason could arrive at Truth. Truth is knowable only by virtue of the identity of being it.
Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. 153, quote 1, Hay House, August 2011

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Spiritual Success ⇔ Worldly Winning

The inspiration to evolve spiritually is already a manifestation of the presence of God within, and it's certainly indicative of good karma.

Just to want to know truth,

to evolve, to improve oneself,

to become a better person,

to fulfill one's potential – those are all inspirations.

And the person doesn't make them up; they just come to them. It's like an innate desire to fulfill your potential.
That potential as one evolves it becomes more and more identified in spirituality – the capacity to love, to forgive, to appreciate, to see the beauty in all that exists, to live in peace and harmony instead of discord and strife.
And I'll tell you what happens. It becomes more important to succeed than to win. Anybody can win. It doesn't
mean anything. It's success.
Spiritual evolution is the willingness to give up games and seeming wins for a greater goal which is the evolu-
tion of your own consciousness. […] to give up selfishness because what is the ego except selfishness in all its de-
sires. […]
The universe responds to the willingness to surrender that. As I said it's like an electrostatic field. You start praying to
God for spiritual guidance and all and your life begins to change.
It unfolds automatically. […] The only requirement is to do whatever you do to the best of your capacity and leave the
rest up to God. Untitled audio interview, presented by the suspended US American web radio station "Beyond the Ordinary", hosts Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young, 60 minutes duration, aired 10. February 2004

When you decide to walk the edge of the knife, there can be no deviation. There come accumulations of spiritual energy – I think from the heart. It is the inspiration of one's love for God and for theTruth that gives you the profound commitment the same as to walk into a hail of gunfire for your country.
Sedona Seminar Causality: The Ego's Foundation, 3 DVD set, January 2002

Divine inspiration comes in its own way to each of us. It CAN be intellectual. It's not linear. You can't track it. It's
not of causal origin. You ask God for understanding of the experience.
Cottonwood Seminar Handling Spiritual Challenges, 3 DVD set, 24. April 2010

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Schlussfolgerung

Kein Künstler ist während der ganzen vierundzwanzig Stunden seines täglichen Tages ununterbrochen Künstler; alles Wesentliche, alles Dauernde, das ihm gelingt, geschieht immer nur in den wenigen und seltenen Augenblicken der Inspiration. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) österreichischer Schriftsteller, Sternstunden der Menscheit. Vierzehn historische Minia-
turen, Insel Verlag, 1927, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1964, 56. Ausgabe 1. Oktober 1983

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Mündliche Mitteilung, 1903

Genie ist ein Prozent Inspiration und neunundneunzig Prozent Transpiration. Thomas Alva Edison [BW 470] (1847-1931) US-amerikanischer Erfinder der Glühbirne und des Kraftwerkwesens, Wissenschaftler, Geschäftsmann, präsentiert von dem US-amerika-
nischen Monatsmagazin Harper's Magazine, September 1932

Die Quelle von Motivation liegt in der Persönlichkeit, die Quelle von Inspiration in der Seele.
Lance Secretan (*1939) englischer Wirtschaftsvisionär, Führungsexperte, Unternehmensberater, Theoretiker der Teaminspiration, Dozent, Autor, Inspirieren statt motivieren!, Kamphausen Media, Bielefeld, 15. März 2006

Ausschlüpfendes Hühnchen

Es ist nicht schwer, den Unterschied zu spüren zwischen motiviert sein und der glücklichen Erfahrung, inspiriert zu sein. Motivation ist eine Beziehung zwischen Persön-
lichkeiten; Inspiration ist eine Beziehung zwischen Seelen. Inspiration hängt nicht von Machtverhältnissen ab. Im Gegenteil: Wenn wir inspiriert sind, sind wir im wahren Sinne mächtig. Um andere Menschen inspi-
rieren zu können, müssen wir eine Umgebung schaf-
fen, in der sie eine Kraft spüren, die über Menschen hinausgeht – eine höhere Macht, einen göttlichen Einfluss, der von tief innen emporströmt und sie mit dem Atem Gottes erfüllt. Mit anderen Worten, wir müs-
sen so effektiv darin werden, die Energie der Seele ein-
zubeziehen (Inspiration), wie wir es darin sind, die Ener-
gie der Persönlichkeit zu nutzen (Motivation).
Lance Secretan (*1939) englischer Wirtschaftsvisionär, Führungsexperte, Unternehmensberater, Theoretiker der Teaminspiration, Dozent, Autor, Inspirieren statt motivieren!, Kamphausen Media, Bielefeld, 15. März 2006

Wenn wir aber von unserem Bedürfnis ausgehen, zu lieben und geliebt zu sein, muss Inspiration die oberste Priorität für Individuen und Organisationen sein. Wo Menschen zu Leistung motiviert sind, sind Habgier, Angst oder Genuss-
sucht die Energien, die sie antreiben. Die Energie, die zur Inspiration führt, ist Liebe. Motivation ist selbstbe-
zogen, Inspiration ist auf den anderen bezogen. Motivation dient mir, Inspiration dient Ihnen. Der Unterschied für Unternehmen, Teams und Familien ist greifbar: Inspirierte Menschen bewegen die Herzen anderer und inspirieren daher die Welt. Lance Secretan (*1939) englischer Wirtschaftsvisionär, Führungsexperte, Unternehmensberater, Theoretiker
der Teaminspiration, Dozent, Autor, Inspirieren statt motivieren!, Kamphausen Media, Bielefeld, 15. März 2006

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Videopräsentation (engl.):

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, YouTube Film, 15:05 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 7. März 2008

Ihre Zeit ist begrenzt, verschwenden Sie sie nicht damit, das Leben eines anderen zu leben. Lassen Sie sich nicht von Dogmen gefangen nehmen – das bedeutete, mit dem zu leben, was andere Leute erdacht haben. Erlauben Sie nicht, dass der Lärm, den die Meinung der anderen erzeugt, Ihre innere Stimme, die Stimme Ihres Herzens, Ihre Intuition überdröhnt.
Steve Jobs (1955-2011) US-amerikanischer Computerindustrieller, Erfinder, Mitgründer und Geschäftsführer von Apple, Steve Jobs Stanford-Rede (Deutsch), Abschlussrede vor Studienabsolventen der Stanford Universität, Palo Alto, Kalifornien, 12. Juni 2005, YouTube Film, 14:42 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 13. Oktober 2011

Sie halten die Welt zusammen. Frauen sind inspirierend, sie haben so viel Humor und besitzen oft großartige Seelen. Bei den Männern bin ich mir da nicht so sicher. Die Männer nehmen sich im Vergleich immer viel mehr zusammen
und warten mit ihren Emotionen bis zur nächsten Geschäftsreise.
Sigourney Weaver (*1949) US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, weiblicher Actionstar, zitiert in: Artikel, präsentiert von der zweiwö-
chentlich erscheinenden deutschen Frauenzeitschrift Brigitte, S. 88, Nr. 21, 24. September 2008

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Inspiration

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Quotes by various other sources

Personal avowals

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Guided on faith by the "inner voice"

I do not know what you call a vision and what you will call prophetic. When I announ-
ced my fast of 21 days in jail, I had not reasoned it. On retiring to bed the previous night, I had no notion that I was going to announce a fast for 21 days. But in the midd-
le of the night, a voice woke me up and said,
"Go through a fast."
"How many?", I asked.
"21 days", was the answer.

Now let me tell you that my mind was unprepared for it, disinclined for it. But the thing came to me clearly as anything could be. Whatever striking things I have done in life, I have not done prompted by reason but prompted by instinct, I would say God. Take the Dandi Salt March of 1930 (the single most important event that set the Indian freedom move-
ment onwards to victory). I had not the ghost of a suspicion how the breach of the salt law would work itself out. Pandit (who later became the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru) and other friends were fretting and did not know what I would do; and I could tell them nothing, as I myself knew nothing about it. But like a flash it came, and as
you know, it was enough to shake the country from one end to the other.
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, Prayer, India, 1977, Berkeley Hills Books, reprint edition July 2000

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Remarks on the invention of the induction motor

As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. […] A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence. Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. Nikola Tesla [LoC 460] (1856-1943) Serbian US American physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer, inventor, My Inventions, chapter 3 "The Rotary Magnetic Field", first published in the magazine The Electrical Experimenter, February-June
and October 1919; republished as My Inventions. The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, 1983

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Spiritual community

Environment is stronger than will power. If you want to be spiritual, seek good com-
pany and don't mix with those whose bad habits may wrongly influence you. Be always with people who inspire you; surround yourself with people who lift you up. Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian Hindu sage, yogi, philosopher, author, # 20., cited in: Paramahansa Yogananda – Quotes on Success

Conclusions

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be Ralph Waldo Emerson [LoC 485, work
LoC 475] (1803-1882) US American philosopher, Unitarian, lecturer, poet, essayist, The Conduct Of Life, 1860, revised edition 1876

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation. Tony Robbins (*1960) American businessman, builder of a cultic life coach empire, philanthropist, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

It is very important to know that we ourselves don't make decisions. […] when something inside us moves us we want to be clear that it is an inspiration from the Divine, not from data plane from the past. Audio interview with Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len (1939-2022) Hawaiian master teacher of "Self Identity through Ho'oponopono" (SITH), Dr. Len, presented by the Canadian web radio station News for the Soul, Vancouver, host Nicole Whitney, 57:16 minutes duration, aired 2./3. August 2007

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Spoken statement, 1903:

Complete quote; None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison [LoC 470/475] (1847-1931) US American business man, scientist, inventor of electricity, presented by the US American monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts Harper's Magazine, September 1932

Motivation is when you take hold of an idea and inspiration is when an idea takes hold of you. Dr. Wayne Dyer [LoC 450] (1940-2015) US American self-help advocate, spiritual lecturer, author, cited in: Interview With New Age Retailer, host Ray Hemachandra, November, 2005; cited in: AZ Quotes

There are, it seems, two muses:
1. the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and
2. the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is
  the muse of form. […]

It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course.
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which
way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is
the one that sings. Wendell Berry (*1934) US American academic, cultural and economic critic, farmer, man of letters, Standing by Words. Essays, 1982 essay Poetry and Marriage. The Use of Old Forms, 1983, Counterpoint, paperback issue 12. July 2011

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher during the Enlightenment, art critic, co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopédie, writer, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the seas.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French writer, aviator, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

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Elevation ♦ Reverence ♦ Awe

Yet an unsubstantiated thesis supported by David Whitford

When an elevation story is told well, it elevates those who hear it. Powerful mo-
ments of elevation, whether experienced ﬁrst or second hand, sometimes seem to push a mental 'reset button,' wiping out feelings of cynicism and replacing them with feelings of hope, love, and optimism, and a sense of moral inspiration. Article by Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. (*1963) US American professor of social, cultural and moral psy-
chology, New York University Stern School of Business, Wired to be Inspired, presented by the free online publication Greater Good magazine, 1. March 2005

When you get an insight or an inspiration, do something about it within the first 24 hours – or the odds are against
your EVER doing it. ⚡ Bill Gates [LoC 200+] (*1955) US American multibillionaire, co-founder and owner of the company Microsoft, "philanthropist", source unknown

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Inspiration

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Englische Texte – English section on Inspiration

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Questions for inspiring leaders

༺༻	Question	Remark
1.	What is my destiny?
2.	What is my cause?	What do I stand for? What is my passion?
3.	What is my calling?
4.	Are my destiny, my cause and my calling aligned?	Are my "What?, Who?, Where?, When?", "Why?" and "How?" completed? See (Principle 3 in 1)
5.	How do I inspire with what I say and do?
6.	How do I serve?
7.	How do I guide brilliant contributions to actualization?
8.	How do I become the essence of beingness?

Inspired by: ► Lance Secretan (*1939) British economic visionary, expert on leadership,
business consultant, theorist on inspiring teams, speaker, author

See also: ► Questions and ► Leadership

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BW-Werte: Inspiration

BW 155	Überwältigt von Emotionen / Wünschen	BW 155	Motivation	Niederes Ego-Mind
BW 275	Getragen von Vernunft / Inspiration	BW 275	Inspiration, spirituelle Intention	Höheres Ego-Mind (Selbst)

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LoC calibrations (engl.): Topic

LoC 390 – Enthusiasm¹

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Links zum Thema Inspiration und Motivation

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Literatur

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Literature (engl.)

Scott Jeffrey, US American business and marketing consultant, founder of dissolved website Consciousnessproject.org, cult busting author, Creativity Revealed. Discovering the Source of Inspiration, foreword Dr. David Hawkins, Creative Crayon Publishers, 1st edition 1. June 2008
E. Steven, US American compiler, Lee Beard, US American compiler, Wayne Dyer (1940-2015), US American author, Ben Abba, US American author, Wake Up...Live the Life You Love. Wake Up Moments of Inspiration, Global Partnership, 16. January 2009

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Audio and video links (engl.)

Video presentation by Shekhar Kapur (*1945) Indian Hollywood/Bollywood film director, producer, actor, visionary, storyteller, We are the stories we tell ourselves, presented by TEDIndia, 21:14 minutes duration, filmed November 2009, posted March 2010

On the source of creativity: sheer, utter panic at the intersection of art, myth and activism

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