Category: The Inspirer’s Wisdom

The Inspirer sometimes enters into a dark mood which most people cannot understand. During such times, she must find consolation alone and not expect anybody else to uplift her. Why? Because people can only uplift those whose darkness they can fathom, whose pain they have suffered before.

In order to uplift another, we must go down where the other is suffering and find healing for both of them, the one helping, and the one being helped. The Inspirer can do this with many, but rare are those who can do this for the Inspirer.

The person who is not afraid of pain has already conquered it. It is this person alone who is fit to heal another.

There was once a troubled fellow who came to ask the Inspirer for help.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life. Please help me,” the troubled fellow asked.

To this the Inspirer responded by writing something in a piece of parchment. After writing for some time, the troubled fellow was finally given the Inspirer’s answers as he received the parchment. To his surprise however, he saw that he merely received a poem.

“What is this? I sought for answers and all you gave me was a poem! I want a step by step guide on what to do. Can’t you see how lost I am?”

After a short pause, the Inspirer answered, ”Had I given you what you asked, you wouldn’t have followed it anyway. You don’t need a manual. Deep within your heart, you know what you should do. There is a little voice there that needs only be awakened. The poem I gave you is not for instructions, but for awakening.”

One day, the Visionary visits the Inspirer with news of gloom and misfortune.

“I see darkness looming ahead, quickly casting a shadow upon the earth. I see plague and hunger. I see chaos and fear spreading everywhere. Go forth somewhere safe and befitting the Light that you carry. It will not be safe for you here anymore,” thus says the Visionary.

The Inspirer sometimes wears a mask that her true nature may be hidden from those who have no ability to appreciate it. She knows that each soul has her own journey and her own phase of growth.

She wouldn’t force her wisdom to those who are not yet ready to receive it. It would only be a waste of time and energy and an encroachment upon the freedom of others to choose their own path.

The Inspirer is often seen in solitude but that doesn’t mean she has cast the world away. It doesn’t mean that she cannot connect with other people.

In truth, the Inspirer connects better and deeper with other hearts, and it is such a connection that overwhelms her.

It is for this reason that she seeks out solitude so that she can renew her strength and so that she can assimilate and heal the many hearts that have entered her own.

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When was the last time you felt you needed time alone? What have you achieved after your retreat?