Divine Definitions: (1) Filling with the spirit; (2) Encouraging others to do and be their best; (3) The compelling influence to creative thought and action; (4) Persuading by positive means to be good, recognize beauty, and know truth; (5) Stimulating to service
Comments:
• The final step in learning something is the ability to give it away; to instruct others on the finer points. Experience is truly the best teacher
• The Spirit of Truth works as one with the presence of the spirit of the Divine Minister. This dual spirit liaison hovers over us, seeking to teach truth to each soul, and to spiritually enlighten, lead, and inspire all peoples to move toward our evolutionary and divine destiny.
INSPIRATION
Human Definitions: (1) filled with the spirit; (2) to stimulate to service; (3) having an animating effect upon; impelling; (4) inducing or influencing another to some creative or effective effort; (5) persuading by positive means to be good, recognize beauty, and know truth
Derivation: Latin, “to breathe in”
Quotes:
• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) British mathematician & philosopher
• Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure that it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. — Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Classical composer
Comment: If you focus on the positive, even in your criticisms of a person or a situation (with tact), you are helping to transform both the situation and the person.
There are many ways to be treated poorly. And it is easy to feel badly when it happens to you. But if you lash out in anger and frustration, you will only be successful in creating more anger and resistance. In hoping to control an ugly situation, you may be able to box it up. But the person or people who have created the negative have not been changed.
Containment may be necessary as a first resort. Society and the individual do have the right to protect themselves. But force is not the final solution. The final solution is for people to possess the qualities within themselves that will make it impossible to do the negative things they have done before. When inspired with the positive, people tend to act in accordance with their higher qualities.
Color: blue
Symbol: the torch