3/08/2005

Spirit above, spirits within and spirits without

As we move from the physical through the intellect into the Spiritual, a universal question becomes evident–Why?. Why do we exist? Why do we continue? Why do we change? Why do we seemingly quit? Why do we not continue? Why do we suffer?
Inspiration is the key to beginnings. Begin, begoing?, begone. Why start? Why not stay? Why did we not stay? Because we were moved to move! Motivation, so many words to describe this precept, encourages us to change. To change position. To change placement. To change perspective. Inspiration as a key opens the door to understanding the source of ongoingness. Remembering that a rabbit sometimes goes on by being very still and quiet. Inspiration is a progenitor of instinct and concept. Many things we consider concepts were actually given to us, inspired in us from outside of us. Inspiration grabs us by the nape of the neck and points us in the direction we need, like blinders on the head of a draft animal it focuses us, it gives us our escape. Why are we not more inspired? Perhaps our vision of ourselves has disjointed that ability to see outside our box, to hear from beyond our self.
Concept, our vision of our self, is more an ongoing assimilation of outward conditions with and into the inward processes that make us distinctly our self. It is an important operand in the formula of life. This Concept is something which, though affected by outside forces, is a mentality wholly our own as individuals. It is our own as a part and parcel of inalienable rights, responsibilities and consequences. We make our bed, we read our life, scribble the borders, and crib our speech. But we do not live in a vacuum. Concept is derived from our experience. Concept, from the early years of dependance upon parentage, where it is very similar to its inspirational source, and through the sliding scale toward maturity--trial, rebellion, serendipity, and adaption--becomes personal. It is that thing which most ably describes who we think we are and thus who we are. It determines what we think is important and what we expect. What we expect is determined by whether we are continually looking inward or striving to see beyond our horizon. If our concept is valid then our interaction flourishes.
Vision describes that ability to discern and focus upon the significant influence. Although our vision helps determine our direction, timing and interaction. A part of our vision must appreciate our inner talents, limitations, and potentials. With experience, training, and a concept that is developed with vision in mind, vision improves, experiences become more in accordance with expectation, and inspiration can be more readily assimilated into the process of conception.
These three, inspiration, concept and vision, while similar and often interchangeable in usage, must, as the precepts described here, be independent, yet unavoidably synergistic to one another. This enables the self to be centered yet outgoing while resilient concerning the elliptic influence of living within earthly constraints.

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