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the deep breath your ideas take before they decide to live.
means A sudden surge of mental stimulation or creative energy that prompts you to feel, think, or make something — and also, literally, the act of drawing breath into the lungs.
from From Latin inspirare, "to breathe into," from in- ("into") plus spirare ("to breathe") — the same root that gives us spirit and respiration. Early religious use was quite literal: a god or the divine breathed life, knowledge, or prophecy directly into a person. The metaphorical sense — being filled with a creative or intellectual impulse, as if breathed in from beyond — grew from there, which is why we still speak of inspiration as something that arrives rather than something we manufacture.
- literal meaning
- comes from Latin for breathing in
- medical sense
- doctors still call inhaling inspiration
- ancient theory
- Greeks blamed it on visiting muse goddesses
- timing
- ambushes you in showers, never at desks
- poet's view
- Picasso said it must find you working
bhagavad gita — hindu scripture that inspired gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance
rosa parks refusing seat — december 1, 1955 montgomery bus act that sparked the civil rights movement
malala's nobel speech — 2014 address by 17-year-old activist that mobilized global education advocacy