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Imagination’s Power

Do you use the power of imagination to to create and expand your life? If not, you are not alone. Although right-brained creative thinking does come naturally to some people, it does not to others.

Personally I think our educations systems need an overhaul. We are taught “known knowledge” and we’re expected to regurgitate it by rote. There is some value in that, but it is also very limiting to the innate potential of our human consciousness.

What if part of our education from a young age was geared towards developing our imagination and creative thinking skills? New inventions and solutions to existing problems require creative thinking.

If you recognize that your brain is too locked down in “what is” and you’re not giving any time to “what could be”, here is a good article with 10 tips on how to get your creative mind purcolating:

10 Ways to Boost Your Imagination and Achieve Big Things

Inspirational Quotes:

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.
~ Albert Einstein

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
~ Albert Einstein

“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
~ John Green,

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
~ Roy T. Bennett

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

Be Yourself

As Oscar Wilde so succinctly put it, “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”

Society has this need to shape and mold us, to make us “be acceptable”. Perhaps this has never been more strongly true then it is right now.

Becoming our most authentic selves, learning to be true to ourselves, is sometimes a lifetime journey. But it does not have to be! We are not born with the masks that society encourages or demands that we wear. We acquire them to “get along” and to “fit in”.

Look to nature as an example. There are no games; nature is authentic. No giraffe is wasting his life hating his “too long” neck and trying to be the best zebra ever.

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Finding Truth

Humanity is struggling to find the truth. With the incessant yackety-yak of media and the so obvious inconsistencies in various controversial political narratives (including about COVID), how do we know what is true? People are turning to fact checkers, and I ask you, how do we really know for sure they speak the truth? It is a very deep rabbit hole and one has to wonder, how far does it go? Society appears to be riven with lies,. Our big challenge is uncovering the truth.

Have you considered that the real “truth barometer” resides inside you? Listen to the narrative(s), have discernment, use your critical thinking skills, question, question, and question more, then listen to your gut. Does the news you process resonate as truth? Or, does it make you squirm? Is there a niggling piece inside you, which in spite of being contrary to what you previously believed, just won’t be suppressed? Therein lies your clue.

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Building a Life

There are two essential things, I believe, which bring happiness to people. One is to love and be loved. The other is to feel productive, to have a sense of purpose in life.

If we are lucky, we do work that we love. If we do not love our work (I have been
there, done that, and likely most of us have at some point in our lives), nonetheless, there is satisfaction in the expending of energy to build a life.

Building a life. Within the current scenario in society right now, let’s not lose sight of our desire, and our right, to build lives that we love. Much of our sense of fulfillment is rooted in our deep human drives.

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Path to Knowledge

There are many paths to knowledge. The Earth has been speaking to humanity forever and she has not stopped. Our heartbeats are intertwined, and yet lately humans are abandoning her in favor of technology.

Keep technology in its place. It has its uses, but we are still organic beings. The Earth and nature speak of ancient wisdom that no computer will teach you.

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." John Muir