Article: Don't Wait for Inspiration

Don't Waste Time Waiting For Inspiration

"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired", says Ernest Newman, "but becomes inspired because he is working." Beethoven, Bach, Mozart settled down day after day to the job at hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Action Becomes Charged With Energy

When you set yourself into motion and act upon what you want to accomplish, the action becomes charged with energy and you become a part of the process rather than an onlooker.

Commonly, when musicians write musical scores, they become so concentrated that they feel part of the music. The same is true of writers, inventors, or anyone who puts a great deal of concentration or energy into their work.

The action and energy that you lend to a project attunes you with the project. If the work progresses smoothly, it is because there is enthusiasm and momentum to carry you through your tasks.

You can immediately tell the difference between those who provide selfless service and those who hold back and just get by. No matter what your job, you can perform it as a service if you live close to your spirit.

You've seen workers with menial jobs perform their tasks while smiling with sincerity and warmth. Not only do they smile and treat people courteously, they work as if the business was their own. As a contrast to these people, owners as well as others who hold high positions may treat their customers disrespectfully; the poor attitude of these people shows their low regard for themselves as well as for their work.

Service Is Not Self-Gratification

Work is joyless for people whose selfishness obscures their spirit. Service is not self-gratification. Service is an attitude of giving. Those who truly serve uplift themselves and are an inspiration to others.

Selfish people think about what benefits them -- they don't recognize the opportunity for satisfaction that kind and loving service produces. Selfishness sets them apart; being fragmented, they don't see themselves as part of the whole -- they don't serve.

Service is natural. Have you seen an ant farm? If you haven't, an ant farm is contained in a glass terrarium narrow enough to view ants tunneling and making a nest. It's fascinating to watch the ants in their constant motion. They're always working. Certain ones go out on search parties looking for something to bring back to the nest. You'll often see a couple of ants talk to each other -- their antennae waving.

Ants are like us in certain ways. They were born to be active. They scout and bring back little treasures to the nest where others can benefit from the find as well. Instinctively, they fulfill their role in a manner that benefits the entire colony. They're humble and they eagerly serve.

We Can Learn Alot From Ants

We can learn a lot from ants, or from any living thing. Creatures live according to the dictates of nature -- fulfilling their roles as scripted by the Great Screen Writer -- they don't argue, complain or storm off the set.

Ants serve the Creator by maintaining in their way, the natural balance of creation. We, on the other hand, are the temperamental, directionless beings that don't seem to get the gist of what this movie is all about. Rather than cooperating, man attempts to control nature; we're usually outside the natural rhythms of life.

Living in nature, you must be alert to constant danger. During lapses of concentration, disaster is less than an eyeblink away. A spaced-out animal is soon to be a dead animal.

Man creates protective measures that allow us so much leeway, that often, we're not attentive. However, our primitive ancestors most likely had great concentration, as well as a highly developed intuition to guide them. They no doubt lived their lives in harmony with natural laws.

We Must See Where We've Come From

Concentration and intuition enhance our sensory dulled existence. The sounds, sights and activity of mechanized society bombard our senses - clogging them. The beautiful spectacle of the environment goes mostly unobserved by modern man.

How will we know our relationship to the rest of existance to see where we've come from - to go forward? We learn this by serving others and caring for the environment. We have come a long way technologically; yet, we have much to learn about serving.

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