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Great Ideas Aren't Ours, They Arrive To Us

From: Xavier Ginesta

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Speaker B: This is a very clear example to me that the festival has been almost a spiritual master. I've learned so many things about the festival. And one of the main things I've learned is that these great ideas, like the Festival of Consciousness and many others, they are not really ours. They arrive to us, but they are not ours. They come from, let's call it our higher mind, from higher up.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: And when they come, if you don't understand what I'm going to say now, the first thing most of us do—and that was my case before, now I'm starting to understand how this works—but what usually happens is that the idea comes to you and you don't realize that's not coming from you, it's coming to you. So you immediately take ownership of that idea. You think it was your idea. And that's the fundamental mistake we all make.

That mistake comes from another fundamental mistake, which is our misunderstanding about reality. Maybe we'll talk about this later. But when we get so confused that a great idea like this comes to you and you don't know what the purpose of that idea is, and you take ownership of the idea, you think it's your idea. The very next thing that you do is feel the passion about it.

You want to unfold that idea. Rather than letting the idea unfold through you, rather than letting the plan unfold to you, because the idea comes obviously with a... Thanks for the idea. Now it's mine.

Let me plan it. Let me see what I'm doing with it.