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If you have practiced the first four steps, the next one should be simple. Keep your ego out of the way, and be receptive to the flow. Swami Kriyananda says, “Once this clarity comes, inspiration flows.”¹⁹² He also warns, however,

The ego is an energy-stopper for creative activity of all kinds. The simple thought, “I am painting a tree,” is enough to hinder the clear flow of inspiration. The greater the flow of creative energy, moreover, the greater the stoppage of energy in the thought of “I.”¹⁹³

We will investigate this problem in Chapters 5 and 6 on the role of the self in creation. When artists become preoccupied with their own self-expression, they can lose the thread that binds them to the source of inspiration. When they are inspired like Kriyananda, works can come quickly.

Buddhist author Mark Epstein uses the metaphor of Thoughts without a Thinker: “‘Thoughts exist without a thinker,’ taught the psychoanalyst W.R. Bion. Insight arises best, he said, when the ‘thinker’s’ existence is no longer necessary.”¹⁹⁴