creative genius and inspiration

This talk by Elizabeth Gilbert at TED touches something so wonderfully deep. I love how genius is the pixie, the shoe-making elf, the imp outside that touches us, passes through us, comes to us but is not of us. Creativity comes to us from daemons, from a divine genius. It removes the pressure of blocks, in some ways. Of course we need to work, to exercise our craft and skills and be ready, it's not that it can lead in all ways, but that there's this possibility of a spirit of creativity that can come through us. wonderful.