| Imagination
is a flame that ignites the creative spirit.
Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental
fires. It can be stimulated from the outside
through the senses, or from the inside through the
driving power of curiosity and discontent.
Imagination
stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind
abundant data with which to work. It opens the
gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become
receptive, as a little child, in exploring the
Kingdom of Ideas.
Imagination
guides you in your contacts with individuals and
crowds, so you can discover new concepts and
approaches.
Imagination
inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes,
as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel
into the light of day. Imagination becomes for
you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness
of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or
chart more productive paths to old goals.
Imagination
helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but
then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them,
to rise above them in your search for creative
answers to problems. Imagination "stirs
up the gift of God in thee." 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.
Wilferd
A. Peterson |
