The Artist as Yogi, The Yogi as Artist

In a poem in which he reflected on the source of the creative impulse¹, Martin Heidegger wrote that "We never come to thoughts. They come to us."

The transformative genius, as the philosopher experienced it, enters one's being from the outside in a moment of inspiration which Heidegger likened to the moment

When through a rent in the rain-clouded sky a ray of the sun suddenly glides over the gloom of the meadows...