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What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
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Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
Robert Grudin
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The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
Robert Grudin
Source: Time and the Art of Living, Page: 182
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Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you. ...with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

Wayne Dyer : Gaia Child
Wayne Dyer
Source: The Power of Intention
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...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

Wayne Dyer : Gaia Child
Wayne Dyer
Source: The Power of Intention
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Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

paramhansa yogananda
Source: Man's Eternal Quest, Pg. 60
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The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.

Emily Dickinson : American poet
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Source: The Emily Dickinson Handbook
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We live in a world of color.  All nature is color: white, black, and grey do not exist except in theory; they are never seen by the eye - they could only exist in a world that was colorless.  Such a universe is beyond imagination: a world without color would be a world without light, for light and color are inseparable.

E. Ambrose Webster
Source: E. Ambrose Webster: Early Modernist Painter
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Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

Rob Brezsny : Gaia Explorer
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May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep.

May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses...

My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet...

May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.

Rob Brezsny : Gaia Explorer
Rob Brezsny
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Be what you would seem to be - or if you'd like it put more simply - Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

Kedar : Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
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If I was to survive, I must literally believe myself into being. This, of course, was essentially no different from what I'd always done. I'd simply believed in myself until, in fact, I existed.

Sol Luckman
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Ours is a sacred imagination created from blessings above which if used in the spirit of love will guide us to walk the earth in friendship all our days.

Micheal Teal
Source: Micheal Teal - Poet , Philosopher and Shaman
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Mid-December is thus one of the most positively magical times of the year.  Things are possible during December's darkening days that are not even dreamt of at other spokes of the Wheel of the Year.  We should use this magic as a vehicle for deepening our awareness of the world around us and preparing our souls for the ongoing pilgrimage of our lives.  A seeker of Wisdom in the thrall of Winter's Solstice should consider their celebrations as a spiritual pilgrimage or even a quest, during which, through the disciplined use of the spiritual imagination, he or she may encounter one's own truest self along the way and in communion with Spirit.

Montague Whitsel
Source: The Fires of Yule
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What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
Source: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
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The mix of illusion and reality that runs through the play is also a particularly relevant theme at this time.  For this is at the heart of what we do each year.  With your participation, we visit people and worlds where the normal, earthbound laws of physics no longer apply. ... Not only is the play filled throughout with the imagery of dreams, but Puck even addresses the audience at the play's close with the advice that if they've not been pleased with what they've seen, they should just tell themselves that they've been dreaming, and will wake up with nothing lost.  And what's to say that we haven't been dreaming while this parade of characters has performed across the stretch of our imagination?

Harland Meltzer
Source: commenting on Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*
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There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

Robert Moss
Source: The Three “Only” Things
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As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher : American preacher, speaker & writer
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient & Modern
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The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.

Emily Dickinson : American poet
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Source: The Emily Dickinson Handbook
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Gustav Jung : Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytic psychology
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Source: The Inspired Workspace
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There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Japanese Proverb
 
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them

Ralph Gerard
 
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"The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind"

Alan Moore
 
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Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
 
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We meandered through Billy’s ritzy neighborhood in the general direction of Jefferson Street. In the lamplight the houses looked identical, grand façade after grand façade of pale gray with black windows, as if for all their monumentality they were nothing but wallpaper, black-and-white prints, two-dimensional murals similar in their deceptive insubstantiality to the gossamer buildings of New Age City. I was struck by the idea that Billy and I, to the extent we existed only in our imaginations, were just as shallow, just as superficial—and equally susceptible to being erased without a trace.

Sol Luckman
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