Question: Lately I've been thinking about how to make the inspiration-bird my constant friend, and to be receptive and aware of it all the time.

Sri Chinmoy: Whether the seeker is a poet or an artist or a musician, in any field, if the individual wants to achieve something, he needs inspiration. Inspiration, like imagination, is a world of its own. In that world some people really have free access, while others knock at the door, and at times the door opens, and at times it does not. Just now I was telling you about the soldier and the commander. If you can take inspiration as the soldier and aspiration as the commander, if you can please the higher authority, automatically the lower authority will be pleased with you. Aspiration is infinitely more powerful, meaningful and fruitful than inspiration. So if you can constantly aspire, then automatically inspiration-bird will come.