Wayne Dyer on "Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling"
I've been reading because an usher at Lincoln Center directed me to Wayne Dyer's "Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling". I was telling her stories from work about people impression of their calling and how they play them out and while she was seating people for the next performance of Bernarda Alba she directed me to Dyer.
Dyer said a wonderful thing that like "There is no failure, there is only feedback"
(so that is where weight watchers stole it)
lets us off the guilt-hook for not doing what we know we can or would want to. He said and I paraphrase: "Forget motivation to get to a goal, motivation is hard. Go for inspiration and it will take you where you need to be, every time. Get seized by a powerful, juicy idea that you absolutely must follow. Follow it and you will end up where you need to be."
Whatever it is you say that you want, cherish it and let the want to. Allow yourself to be irresistably attracted to the one thing that you cannot resist and give yourself completely to it. It may be that you are pulled irresistably to write, to paint, to dream, to make the dreams of others come true...it may be something else. When you do that, you are inspired, "in-spirit". Dyer says that when we do this we are the closest to Source that we can possibly be.
He quotes the Persian poet Jalalud'din Rumi in saying:
"The morning breeze has secrets to tell you
Do not go back to sleep"
Do you find yourself waking in the middle of the night for no reason? Is it at relatively the same time every morning? No matter when I go to bed, I have what I call a "five hour wall" that I hit and will waken, sometimes with no agenda, sometimes with a full bladder, needing the bathroom. Dyer says when we waken like this, to put your feet on the floor and don't go back to sleep but allow yourself to experience the morning breeze...or at least that quiet, fully-awakened state of mind that is closest to the Source. Get your biological needs taken care of and invite yourself to sit quietly and be open. Things will come to you in this time that you might never expect or have access to any other time of day.
When I waken like this I am fully awake, and usually talking to myself, itching to get on the computer and having completed another project, writing or plan in my sleep. I notice as Dyer says, that when I go back to sleep I have difficulty remembering these beautiful poems and fully-fleshed plans when I wake up later in the day. Good case for keeping a notebook or digital recorder next to your bed.
Dyer also quotes the great Indian sage Patanjali on the subject of inspiration:
When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all of your thoughts break their bonds
Your mind transcends limitations.
Your consciousness expands in every direction.
And you find yourself in a new,
great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents come alive
and you discover yourself to be a greater person
by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Go for what juices you, even though right now you can't see how it will pay the bills or possibly work with the living situation you have or, or, or, or...
Address these thoughts, beliefs and blockages to living fully expressed and in flow with the universe with your favorite energy therapy. These thoughts and beliefs bind us and keep us from fully expressing as Source. As you lose this bondage, those dormant forces, faculties and talents Patanjali speaks of will pop out of the woodwork with an energy and swiftness and appropriateness that will astonish and delight you.
And you will discover yourself to be a greater person that you ever dreamed you could be, honest and for true.
