Live in-spirit. You came from Spirit, and to be inspired you must become more like where you came from. You must live so as to become more like God.

There’s a voice in the universe calling each of us to remember our purpose—our reason for being here now, in this world of impermanence. The voice whispers, shouts, and sings to us that this experience of being in form, in space and time, knowing life and death, has meaning. The voice, writes popular “in-spirit-er” Wayne Dyer, author of The Power of Intention and many other books, is that of inspiration, which is within each of us.

 In Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling, Wayne Dyer describes how we’ve chosen to enter this world of particles and form.

From our place of origin, in ways that we don’t readily comprehend now, we knew what we were coming here to accomplish, and we participated in setting this life process in motion. So why not think this same way? Why put the responsibility or blame on any one or any thing that’s not a part of us? On Earth we have the capacity of volition—we can choose—so let’s assume that we had the same capacity when we resided in the spiritual realm. We chose our physical body, and we chose the parents we needed for the trip. It doesn’t seem too great a stretch to move into the idea that we chose this life in concert with our Source.

Each chapter is filled with specifics for living an inspired life. From a very personal viewpoint, Dyer offers us a blueprint through the world of spirit to “inspiration, your ultimate calling.”

The personal nature of this book is a deliberate choice. I discovered as I went along that, in order to write about such a deeply felt subject as inspiration, I needed to convey what I felt as authentically as possible… By writing from my heart, I’ve been able to keep the flavor or inspiration alive here in these pages.