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picture11 Apr 2010 @ 02:35

IMAGINATION

Imagination is pale and fragile,
Dreams grip with a false reality.
Imagination can build bridges,
Dreams can deceive.


When we dream, the experience is often deeply involving. Frightening
dreams make us awake trembling and sweating. Pleasurable dreams leave us
with lingering desires. Certain dreams are a form of healing, a way for
our minds to recircuit and adjust themselves. No matter what, these
dreams have no objective reality in our waking world.

Imagination is also a form of mental involvement. It is a way of
projecting our thoughts into believable images to be contemplated and
manipulated. We can play with our imagination, use it to inspire
creative projects.

Both imagination and dreams are similar activities of the mind, and
yet they differ in the level of conscious participation that they
permit. In the case of the dream, there is a total suspension of
rationality and consciousness, so there is little or no direction
possible. There is no mode of control. By contrast, imagination is a
tool through which we can make our lives better, different, and
creative. By cooperating with it, we can achieve things that "we never
dreamed possible."




365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao


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