Is inspiration brought on by an external creative force or is it something that sparks inside us?

Question

Each day when I awake in the morning, I lie still in silence. Not only because I'm too lazy to get out of bed and start my day. Not only because I'm still sleepy. Not because it is too cold outside of my covers and I would rather stay in a place that is warm and comfortable. We all sometimes prolong our mornings for those reasons but I try to find a much higher reason to start my day. I lie in silence and try to create what my day would be like. I wait until my mind reveals to me what I need to do that day and I imagine the task completed. I try to imagine what I need to do that day being completed. I focus on the feeling I get after finishing the task. Once I get a feeling that inspires me, I jump out of bed with excitement. I love starting my day like this. Rather than going through the day taking things as they come, I create what my day would be like and I would get inspiration to make it happen.

Inspiration has kept me awake late until the early morning and has fil

Answer 1

Cool! We are all creators, just as our Creator is!

Answer 2

Nice morning routine! As for your question, I believe that inspiration wells up within us from multiple sources...the spark within each of us that is part of the external divine. The creative life force that caused all things and is in all things. (i should clarify that I do not believe in some sentient being in the sky watching us and controlling us....but a force...the life force that is eternal and ever moving.)

Answer 3

I think we can view this as either a function of the individual human being - or divinely inspired - or a combination of both.

I love the ancient Greece idea of the Nine Muses. Often I do feel like I am being influenced by one or more of Them.

Answer 4

It's a byproduct of evolution and our resulting self-awareness.