On Imagination...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 
“Your mind effects the universe, and it also creates it. Your thoughts absolutely determine you reality. How you generally feel inside and what thoughts you generally carry in your head is what’s going to keep coming at you. This is the huge part. The biggest. The rest is all minor detail, actually.” (From an interview with David Horvath in Subvert Magazine)
I’m dreamer. I spend a lot of time imagining impossible things.
From Through the Looking Glass…
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."(From Through the Looking Glass)This sounds like the typical going-ons in my head. The crazy part is…these impossible things that I imagine…they usually come true. Whatever it is that I spend my time imagining comes out. Imagination is a way of working things out in my mind. At first things might be outlandish and unorganized. They are still ideas. Then I want them to fit into the story…my story. How can I make that impossible thing make sense in my world. And I think about it and mull it around until it fits in my story. Then, usually, those once crazy imaginings happen in a real life kind of way. Either I’ve thought them over long enough to send enough karma and positive energy into the world to bend it to my way OR…more likely…I’ve enabled myself to bend the way that I saw the world before, and the way that I move in that world, to allow something better or just different to happen. Almost everything that I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about has happened…good or bad. And usually, if it didn’t happen, it’s only because when it started to really happen I realized that I didn’t really want it anymore.
So, the real question is. What do you spend your time thinking about? Everything that can go wrong? Every negative thing that you absolutely don’t want to happen? Or every great thing is this world that you want? Every great thing that you know has value and is true? What do you tell yourself, about yourself, everyday? What can you imagine will happen today?
P.S. The header to this post is the result of letting my imagination run during a staff meeting...oops! :)
Reader Comments (2)
Wow. That is stuff I've always wanted to say, but I never knew quite how to put it into words. The problem is, I'm one of those people who spends her time thinking about everything that can go wrong instead everything I would LOVE to go right. I have some changing to do.
Jenny. You are amazing. Again.
inspired. truly. many tears. this is what gave me the push to make it through this weekend.