“When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”

― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

What you call inspiration I sometimes call a channspiration, which is my wordsmithing of a channeled inspiration but the channeling is not intentional. I created a pub a few years ago, Channspirations and Coincidences, to celebrate these and other synchronicities but it never gained much traction and I only use it occasionally myself. In my piece introducing the pub https://medium.com/p/97516b44185a, I wrote:

“What are ChannSpirations, or, if you prefer, Co-Inspirations

Whats, include but are not limited to: a) innovative thinking often inspired, with or without the vessel realizing it, by a channeled spark from a guide, angel, oracle, divine Muse, or a God themselves; b) other-writer-triggered stories, but then the question is what constitutes a qualifying response to the trigger — it should be more than “it made me think of [something obvious]. It should be a significant and original building on the thought, or not directly responsive at all but leads to a significant insight or innovative thought in a seemingly unrelated realm; c) aha moments"