Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Use Your Imagination?

Oliver Wendall Holmes said, "A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions", and Anatole France said "To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything!" But if you think about it using your imagination is something that we think of as being for kids. Kids have big imaginations and big dreams and all kinds of crazy ideas. When you get grown we're taught to deal with reality "the real world" we all have been told that something was not realistic, "be real" "keep dreaming." Are phrases you might hear when if a dream is mentioned. And many of us go through the day without taking a moment of reflection, just to think it's one of the hardest things to do. Have you ever imagined how you want your day to go, what you want to accomplish that day. Then it could go further then that, imagine the things you want in life coming to pass. Just use your imagination. Famous writer Napoleon Hill stated, "The imaginaion is the workshop of the soul wherein are shaped all plans for individual achievement. Man's greatest gift in his mind. It analyzes, compares, chooses. It creates, visualizes, foresees, and generates ideas. Imagination is your mind's exercise. It challenges and is the mirror of you soul." And if you want to get technical it says in the bible Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him." He imagined man in His mind. Even Einstein said "Imagination, is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

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