Like any currency of value, the human imagination is a coin with two inseparable sides. It is our faculty of fancy that fills the disquieting gaps of the unknown with the tranquilizing certitudes of myth and superstition, that points to magic and witchcraft when common sense and reason fail to unveil causality. But that selfsame faculty is also... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Often our loneliness and isolation is due to a failure of spiritual imagination.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Her imagination, she knew, was a means to escape this cul-de-sac of despair.
Lynell George • The Visions of Octavia Butler
“Fiction results from imagination working on experience. We shape experience in our minds so that is makes sense. We force the world to be coherent—to tell us a story.
Not only fiction writers do this; we all do it; we do it constantly, continually, in order to survive. People who can’t make the world into a story go made. Or, like infants or
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