Quotes About Imagination

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history's illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Although this was his first visit to Brazil, Magellan was familiar with the brilliantly evocative descriptions

Prester John's letter was actually written by imaginative monks toiling in anonymity

the account was embellished with various wonders of

The uncertainty, the void, is the perfect place from which to create. It is the place where you can re-invent yourself.

What makes dreams so fascinating to this discussion is that when a person is dreaming, he or she believes that the dream is real.

The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how people enjoy today's movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, depiction of various wars, or life during the Renaissance.

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.

Tales and images transcend duality.

Humanity has the power of imagination, the quwwat al-khal, as does the Omniconscious Unicity. When the Omniconscious Unicity uses this power, worlds are created. When humanity uses this power, the Omniconscious Unicity is created. In our eye, the Omniconscious Unicity sees Its eye.

Through stories and tales, we can bypass the egoistic conscious mind and see through the veil of our Limited Selves to a larger view of reality.

Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.

One of the arts is creative writing and profound secrets are hidden in novels.

Magick is the bringing into being the form of your desire.

If you are performing magick while asleep, you will only manifest more dreams.

Fourth, visualize a brilliant star blazing above your head, inside the egg.

Fifth, in your mind's eye, imagine that this shining star explodes into a million tiny sparkling silver stars that twinkle and crackle with energy all around you while you are inside your Electric Shield of Protection.

The big secret is that all of humanity has created reality.

I will never again read an author of whom I suspect that he wanted to make a book, but only those whose thoughts unexpectedly became a book.

The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.