Imagination is the cognitive ability to form mental images, sensations, or concepts of things not currently perceived by the senses or never before experienced. It is the mental capacity for creativity, problem-solving, and visualizing possibilities beyond current reality.
"The course of the world is not predetermined by physical laws . . . the mind has the power to affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior."
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington,
English Mathematician And Astrophysicist
"I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.”
~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist
"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man."
German Theoretical Physicist
“When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.”
~ Aeschylus, First Greek Dramatist
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."
~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
“Until one is committed, there is a hesitancy, the chance to draw back; always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man would have dreamed would come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.’”
The quote is from W.H. Murray, in The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951.
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Can you believe in a future you cannot yet see or experience with your senses but have thought about enough times in your mind that your brain is actually changed to look like the experience has already happened ahead of the physical event in your external environment? If so, then your brain is no longer a record of the past, but has become a map of the future."
~ Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."
"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
"When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image."
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
"Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and FEEL its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer."
"Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being."
“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”
~ Ariel Horacio Franano Cabrera
“What you hope, you will eventually believe. What you believe, you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, you will eventually experience. What you experience, you will eventually express. What you express, you will eventually become. This is the formula for all of life.”
