Tag Archives: wisdom

The Importance of Imagination

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 very young age was geared towards developing our imagination and creative thinking skills? New inventions and solutions to existing problems require creative thinking. Our world is really in need of more creativity right now, not more “by rote”.

If you feel 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 percolating:

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,

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


Susan L Hart | HartInspirations.com

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Nature’s Common Sense

Nature presents to us constantly the reminder of our roots, our organic selves, our place in the natural and creative world. It also brings us back to what is real and sensible. In short, we are able to retrieve our commons sense and sanity in what is increasingly an insane society.

Today I’m bringing you some of my favorite quotes from American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau:


“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

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“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

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“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”

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“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

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“Every blade in the field – Every leaf in the forest – lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

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“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

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How would you like the future of our children and grandchildren to look? A world dominated by computers, machines, and robots, or one where we are connected to the heart of Nature? The question is important, because we need to make intentional choices for our future now.

Have a beautiful weekend. I hope you enjoy at least a little part of Nature to feed your soul. We all need that sort of nourishment and healing right now.


Susan L Hart 2023 / HartInspirations.com

Discarding the Super Hero

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Why are we so drawn to the idea of a super hero? Heroes dominate some of our greatest stories of transformation. I would say that the ones wearing flashy uniforms are a bit dangerous, as they represent saviors who will rescue humanity. The cinemas and video games are consumed with this idea.

Hey, Spider-Man, I have the real news for you. We’re not weak, we’re capable of saving ourselves…

The Lord of the Rings primary hero, dear humble Frodo Baggins, is just an ordinary guy answering an inner call. And therein lies the true power of those stories. Do we not all have a hero inside of us? We rise to the occasion in small and big ways, and it all counts!

You are the hero of both your own story, and the world’s story.

More on the hero’s journey here: Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”


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Susan L Hart 2023 / HartInspirations.com

John Lennon, we miss you

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“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”


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Susan L Hart 2023 / HartInspirations.com

The Right Words

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These are such times…

Speak.

Speak about life, its essence, its beauty, your loves, your passion for it all, your ideas and inventions, the things you’d like to change to make the world a better place. Try as much as possible to make your words positive ones, because words are seeds.

Speak. Speak before they take away your right to do that.

Most importantly, speak about that too.

Speak.


“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
~ Coco Chanel


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Susan L Hart 2023 / HartInspirations.com