“Imagination,” said Einstein, “is more powerful than knowledge.”
Imagination enlarges vision, stretches the mind, challenges the impossible.
Without imagination, thought comes to a halt!
- You awaken your imagination through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.
- You light up your imagination by stoking your mental fires through the senses; eyes, ears, nose, muscles, skin. You spur your imagination by giving it abundant data with which to work.
- You take time for dreams and fantasy, knowing that only as you become as open and receptive as a little child, shall you enter into the realm of ideas.
- You rub shoulders with others, watching for the creative sparks that generate new concepts and approaches.
- You learn from the great masters of imagination like Thomas Alva Edison, who when asked the secret of his inventive genius replied, “I listen from within.”
- You use your imagination to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day.
- Your imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to explore the darkness of the unknown that you may chart new paths to old goals.
- You recognize the reality of facts, but you use your imagination to penetrate beneath them and to project your though beyond them in your search for creative answers to problems.
- Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite.
- Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, “gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.”
You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.
Adapted from ‘The New book of the art of Living’ by Wilferd A. Peterson