Article February 21, 1970 Issue

What Is Inspiration?

WILLIAM ROBERT SUDDABY

Inspiration—one of the rarest and most prized dimensions of consciousness—often eludes even its best definitions. But when inspiration comes, we know it as a heavenly song within us, a wordless and all-encompassing reality. The magnificent grandeur of the sea at sunrise, the ringing harmony of a favorite symphony, or even the profound thought of a sensitive writer does not hold the origin of our inspiration. These but hint at absolute reality. They are the cloud-chasers that help to clear away the mist of conventional human thinking.

The light of divine Science discloses the source of our inspiration. It reveals infinite God at the dazzling center and man ceaselessly bathed in the divine radiance.

Inspiration flows from the recognition of pure spiritual consciousness; it comes as we realize perfection's reality; it is the inescapable, present fact concerning you and me. Firsthand awareness, our experience of actual spiritual being, which is conceived in perfection by God, is inspiration. And lack of inspiration is identical with unawareness of our real selves as reflections of infinite good.

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