“It's always the same old pitfall: neither evil or the imagination. In the former, in the final center, the simple and adjectiveless feeling, blind as a rolling stone. In the imagination, for it alone has the power of evil, just the enlarged and transformed version: beneath it the impassive truth. You lie and stumble into the truth. Even in her freedom, when she chose cheerful new paths, she later recognized them. To be free was to carry on after all and there again was the beaten track. She would only see what was already inside her. Having lost the taste for imagining.”
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“Don't you ever imagine?"
"What's the imagination got to do with anything?"
"It's better than your ever increasing accuracies. They're as phoney as silicon boobs. Like proper tits, inaccuracies are much more entertaining.”
Source: The entertainment bomb
“The religion of growth won the imagination of the people and it became the universal religion for the last few years.”
“The imagination can become our own free and wild territory. When all else fails, it can offer a refuge.”
Source: Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
“We’re reaching a point in human history, where we will have to reimagine imagination itself. The boundaries of what the human mind could fathom, even just a few short years ago, are changing and extending. As the landscape shifts, we will need a new cartography and new skills to go with it.”
Source: Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business
“Books cannot be written using imagination alone. Imagination is involved only is rearranging the sequence of events.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
Source: Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“Expressive arts therapy--the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing, and imaginative play--is a non-verbal way of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic.”
Source: Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
“Deed of the virtuous, dead and buried
World under curfew, solitary
My love never peaked now my soul is weak
Leaving reality dimmed and blurry
Imagination wild, Johnny Lennon
Speaking up my mind, taste my venom
Blinded by the lies, eyes in lemon
Paradise I will find, Day of Judgement”
Source: Letter 19
“The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we've dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that's being created by our culture or by our genes - we feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts.”
Source: Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being