- Imagine that your imagination of solutions and your love for others can extend an infinite distance
- Consider what an hour a day -- a commitment to an hour a day could accomplish in the greater cosmos of “you”…
I was urgently looking for creative new strategies that qualify as "thinking way seriously out of the box." I was surprised at what a practical and uplifting exercise came when I asked for guidance. We just do not ordinarily think of ourselves as having "wild imagination"... But what if we did? What if we devoted ourselves to an hour a day contemplating changing our lives and planet through wild imagination? What might happen?
If there was ever a time to find out, this is it!
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- Imagine that your imagination of solutions and your love for others can extend an infinite distance...
- Consider what an hour a day -- a commitment to an hour a day could accomplish in the greater cosmos of “you”…
SHR: Grandmother, do you have a message for us today as we navigate our way through our current worlds?...
GRANDMOTHER:
You are a being of many thoughts and therefore, many worlds. You perceive far beyond your imagination, which may come as a surprise. You might think that imagination is as far as you go with your wild dreams and wild ideas. But it is not.
You can imagine much farther. Your very being and presence and aliveness extend much farther. So, when someone says to you, “Hm. Let us think out of the box,” take this to heart, with love.
Imagine that your imagination of solutions and your love for others can extend an infinite distance, that you can imagine anything that would ever exist, that you can love all beings everywhere in the universe. When you begin to consider these kinds of contemplations of the many worlds you inhabit, then you begin to, by definition, redefine yourself.
It is your narrow perception and exercise of imagination which leads to a narrow perception and imagination about who you are. Do you see?
So, the more time you devote on the calendar to imagination and expanding your perception of identity, the greater these become. And oddly, the happier you become. You see many more choices.
Now, you think, “Well, what if I become distracted with lots and lots of choices?” And I say to you, that the identity which imagines greatly, across the expanse of the universe, also can not only handle but thrive upon many, many, many perceptions and worlds as fodder for life and growth and, particularly, of service to others.
It is in the expansion of your imagination about love -- just how much can you love all beings; in your imagination of services to all beings – what is truly and deeply in the heart a true service to another being, to many beings? – all of these move you to a different state of personhood, of participation in one infinite universe.
It is a different identity which expands the imagination and the ability to love. To move into that identity, put on the calendar this meditation time of imagination. Meditate upon a question – “How shall I solve X or Y or Z?” And then begin to imagine… And whatever you imagine which seems “impossible” -- double that, triple that, 10 times that, in your wildest ideas and dreams, how you might solve it!
And put a lot of love into it! “What would be the most loving, creative, imaginative, wild, solution idea? And what would be of the greatest way that I could be of service to others, which is real and genuine and compassionate?”
And then, that simple hour -- you put an hour of that in your day, with those ingredients – imagination and great love, far beyond your wildest dreams – you change your identity.
And, believe me, you change your relationships with all other beings; you change your relationship with reality -- it is not the same reality – and you are definitely not the same human being.
You become a different kind of being. Consider what an hour a day -- a commitment to an hour a day could accomplish in the greater cosmos of “you”…
-- Grandmother from Another Planet
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
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“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” ―
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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ―
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“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” ―
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