• inspiration - inspiration 
  • arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
  • a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"
  • a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
  • divine guidance: (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings; "they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance"
  • arousing to a particular emotion or action
  • inhalation: the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
• creativity - creativity
  • One can define creativity as the mental phenomena, skills and/or tools capable of originating (and subsequently developing) innovation, inspiration or insight.  
  •  the ability to make or otherwise bring into existence something new, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form.
• afflatus - afflatus
  • A sudden rush of divine or poetic inspiration. applies to the inspiring influence rather than process or the effects,  a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
• thought   - thought
  • Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Concepts akin to thought are sentience, consciousness, idea, and imagination.
• epiphany - epiphany
  • a sudden, intuitive realization through an ordinary circumstance.
  • A sudden revelation or insight.
  •  a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
  • an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking
  • an illuminating discovery
  • a revealing scene or moment
• idea - idea
  • the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
  • An idea (Greek: ιδέα) is a specific thought or concept that arises in the mind of a person as a result of thinking. The term arises in both popular and philosophical terminology.
• insight - insight
  •  grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
  • penetration: clear or deep perception of a situation
  • a feeling of understanding
  • the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
  • grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
• intuition  - intuition
  • instinctive knowing - without the use of rational processes
• brainchild  - brainchild
  •  a product of your creative thinking and work
• revelation - revelation  -
  • an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
  • communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
• enlightenment  - enlightenment  
  • Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed. A blessed state in which the individual transcends desire and suffering and attains Nirvana.
  • education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
  • Nirvana: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
•  illumination -  illumination
  • clarification: an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"
• vision - vision
  • imagination: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
• ecstasy - ecstasy
  • a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
  • a state of elated bliss
•  motivation - motivation
  • In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of an organism.

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afflatus, animus, approach, arousal, awakening, bell-ringer, big idea, brainchild, brainstorm, brainwave, creativity, deep think, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash, genius, hunch, illumination, impulse, incentive, inflatus, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, rah rah, revelation, rumble, spark, spark plug, spur, stimulation, stimulus, thought, vision, whim

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