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IMAGINATION
An ability to perceive possibilities.
‘Seeing’ what has
never been seen before.
Compulsion innocently
striving for perfection
Innovating that leaves
nothing safe or sacred.
License to rearrange …
whimsically or with purpose.
Misused, powerful
resource of a fool or fanatic in coercing others.
Anarchy of inventive
ideas constantly roiling in a universal psyche.
‘Tinkering’ that
provokes ambivalence: Safety in sameness challenged by change.
A scepter wielded by a
dynamic mind bent on destroying myths and creating new ones.
What precedes your
confidence and your will to change and preserver: Your vision of
what can be.
- Perhaps a
palliative for critical gods.
- Perhaps integral
to a ‘creating’ which never ceases.
- Perhaps your
palate is only a speck of an infinite spectrum.
- Perhaps a talent
you develop as a prodigy of the Grand Designer.
- Perhaps you can
only be more than what you are by imagining it.
- Perhaps your
imagination is feared because it threatens complacency.
- Perhaps you have
just begun the serendipitous activity of remaking ‘worlds’.
- Perhaps you have
a gift for seeing what can be and a Divine license to use
it.
- Perhaps true
progress is not your physical innovations but your growing
self-awareness.
- Perhaps
self-preservation checks wonton folly judiciously but
entrenched can impede innovation and progress.
ESSAY ON IMAGINATION by
EDWIN O'SHEA
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