Life is imagination

November 21, 2010 1:58pm CST
Albert Einstein once said that "Imagination is more important than knowledge". Others say that your imagination is the force that can take you to places you've never been. My interpretation of that (as a student of The Law of Attraction) is that you can use your imagination (some call it viualisation) to create your world, abundant wealth etc. What do you think?
5 responses
21 Nov 10
I think imagination is an incredible source for happiness however it is not like the real thing, well not in my experience anyway. You are always conscious that it isn't real and therefore whatever world you create, will never be as good as the real one except perhaps if it is your dreams, where you are more likely to belive what is happening. Also, I think imagination can be a source for distress as well because you may constantly compare the real world to a fantasy one that you have created, which has the potential to drive you crazy. Especially if you have created a dream world to escape the one you are in because of a distressing situation that may have happened, you will not be able to easily get over what has happened if you keep living in a fantasy world.
21 Nov 10
Hi chocoholicx, I think that's the whole point. The Law of Attraction uses the principle of Deliberate Creation to make it a reality but as Astraea says only if you really believe. As for it being a source of distress then by the Law of Attraction negatives attract negatives/ dislikes attract dislikes, so be careful what you ask for. You need also to understand that your conscious mind is not your ego (the little voice that prompts worry and bad news) but a means to create and find inspired action when properly aligned with your emotions (your subconscious).
@Astraea (175)
• Sweden
21 Nov 10
My thoughts are similar to yours. When you imagine something you eventually starts to believe in it. If you believe you can get a good job, you have higher chance of getting it than someone who believes they never can get a good job. While nothing is impossible, I don't think positive thoughts can solve things such as "incurable" diseases, but maybe they can make you feel better.
21 Nov 10
Hi Astrea, I think you are absolutely right. From my study of the Law of Attraction so far you need to imagine/ visualise then absolutly believe that whatever you asked for will materialise. I think this is known as the principle of Deliberate Creation.
@hushi22 (4928)
22 Nov 10
indeed! i appreciate imagination more and more these days because i am practicing as a Special Education teacher and i really need it to help my students for arts and crafts.
• United States
21 Nov 10
Imagination allows the mind to gain knowledge. As not having an imagination will not allow our minds to think in different directions.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
12 Apr 11
Taken as a reflection of Einstein's advice, for ideas to come, I'll let your imagination roam its endless road to finding an answer, rather, across the economy. Are there limits to knowledge? Resonance that has the word "knowledge" in mind urges me to imagine an area absolutely untouchable. In a strange way when I hear of knowledge, I do not think of one that acquires all of us, the general or the universe. I see it as an area where no matter how supreme it seems that before you actually get lost constantly. When the desire for knowledge of each of us is in its infancy it seems feasible. Does it seem plausible that after a period of intensive work with all the information you can juggle a field. You'll master so well that anything you say will not surprise anyone. Tacitus, you agree that you are omniscient. You forget that you, man, you are limited? Skip atotcunoasterii is ephemeral illusion? You forget that there are other areas of dissected? Evolution is not stopped. You are in the same step with it? Information and experiences from a diverse multilateral minute. Are you able to assimilate them? Welcome to the first chapter released, looked, felt and cut from your list of aspirations! What next? Next point ... You're confused. Novice to follow the original scheme of an optimist or you refocus, just little, indigested detail, from the previous chapter? And so you get lost, that in a maze. You can hear the sand in the hourglass waiting at the end. Do not care. You just have to make clear. Trying to untie the threads, but if you do not have time to sit them all. They may be of puberty are so joyful? You stubborn. The mystery in mystery. You feel exhausted. Involuntarily, the aspiration for knowledge becomes pathology. A term used to describe an exaggerated type of people who believe they can fetter knowledge. Interpreting it wrong? Knowledge of self is not identical with what I know the truth. In my view, human knowledge is limited, which Einstein says. It is a quarter of a figure who wants to reach infinity. Being human, by nature, is limited. Is limited, allow limited and restricted. Limiting the disinterest is reflexive for personal development through a lack of ambition and convenience. At the extreme "suffering from illusion" man is bad, erased, uninterested in intangible wealth. Limit that is shaping our society. Limits, that we leave off, voluntarily, in the way of knowledge are social problems. Although it would be real problems, have an unexpected impact on us. Politics, economics, racism, there are limits could be exceeded. What about limits? Push the divinity of nature. Time yank us from the infinite supreme knowledge. We are located a few meters from home unsatisfied. We limit it rises triumphantly ambitious vacating any way. We are throwing in another room that does not assume knowledge. So, knowing their own ends, in a state that is not satisfactory. My conclusion is that human beings are limited by internal factors or external, illusory or real, to overcome or invincible. So, in my view, even the concept of self-knowledge "is impossible to explain the limited mind which knows all the mysteries of life. To me knowledge is unattainable.