{"id":981,"date":"2009-04-26T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2009\/04\/26\/meaning-vs-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:32:51","slug":"meaning-vs-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meaning vs Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/creativeinquiry.org\/2009\/04\/26\/meaning-vs-inspiraton\/\">Meaning vs Inspiraton<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>During the phone session today there was some discussion about the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meaning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It seems the word, with its multiplicity of uses, points two different directions: one toward the mundane the other toward inspiration.<br \/>\nWe have already seen how we impose or construct meaning in our lives and how these meanings usually freeze and close that which is inherently open and dynamic.<br \/>\nThen there is the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meaning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the quest for what gives life aliveness.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest that we agree on certain utilization of language to avoid this apparent confusion. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meaning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to represent our tendency to organize and make sense of appearances. Lets use the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inspiration\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to reference the fruit of the questing.<\/p>\n<p>Then we would not ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what is the meaning of life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (for we ascribe and impose meaning on life) but rather we would ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what gives inspiration to life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In this manner we are staying true to the TSK intention that the vision provide an opportunity to have a lived sense of its reality.<br \/>\nWhatever gives inspiration to life enables me to feel alive.<br \/>\nHayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning vs Inspiraton During the phone session today there was some discussion about the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meaning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It seems the word, with its multiplicity of uses, points two different directions: one toward the mundane the other toward inspiration. We have already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}