Inspire - ‘a divine being revealing a truth ’
The word Inspire comes from the Latin inspirare meaning ‘to breath into’.
The word was originally used to describe a divine being revealing a truth or idea to someone.
That’s more poetic. Sometimes behind what we think we know is something more inspiring.
When I think about the frustration and doubt I’ve been feeling about my current project (the Social Psychology module of my Psychology MSc). It does not feel like a divine being has been whispering deeper understandings into my ear. I’ve definitely not been breathing into it.
But there was a truth was revealed; ‘I’m not interested in this and I don’t need to complete this now’. But I didn’t hear it. When I feel frustration, I heard was ‘you just need to get into it', ‘you need this, what will you be without completing it?’, ‘you can do this you’re just lazy’.
But a truth did revealed itself to me; once I get frustrated, I stop hearing myself. It’s easier to continue pushing up hill and getting frustrated. It’s not easy to breath into (or out of) something, to trust yourself but you are guiding yourself, subtly hinting or whispering (like a divine being perhaps?).
Let’s see if this truth takes the pressure of so I finish this module if not I’ll come back to it but it won’t get in the way of what I want to do..
What does a divine being means to you? I don’t believe in God as a being but maybe as a law of physics we haven’t yet understood properly. Like a subtle gravity that we pull away from. Like the way we hide some of our nature and how we really feel, even from ourselves. Instead I’m trying to go with the guiding gravity..