Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest

“I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us—albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual. […]  Ideas are alive. Ideas do seek the most available human collaborator. Ideas do have a conscious will. I ideas do move from soul to soul. Ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth (just as lightning does).” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear