“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

I wonder can you tell me who said the above lines?  This storyteller could hardly imagine the one who is quoted in the insight above.

It was the father of modern day science and this to this storyteller’s mind, also a modern mystic – Albert Einstein.

I love this quotation. It is a quote that one could easily live by. You would think that a scientist of Albert Einstein’s stature would tell us that knowledge is more important than imagination.  How much time is given to acquiring knowledge in our schools and universities? How much time is given over to the imagination?

One instruction that we are invited to empower ourselves with is to “think outside the box.”  Albert Einstein, it appears, would have us imagine beyond the box and to imagine what it is to be the box and the emptiness outside and inside the box.

In “The Intuitive Way: A Guide to Living from Inner Wisdom” Penny Pierce writes:

People often ask me if they can trust their imagination. I remind them that the logical mind would have nothing to do but repeat itself ad infinitum. If it weren’t for the creativity and genius of imagination life would have no juice, no zest.

So what is important in your life is to be imagined. This is why you are given an imagination.  It is your connection to the creative force that creatively imagines all things into existence.

Here are four steps to getting in touch with the imagination.

1. Decide what is really important in your life

This is not the life of your children, your partner, or your community, but what is important to the being that you are.  This importance is not something you judge but that you express.  It is signalled by joy and inner excitement.

 2. Follow the yellow brick road

The yellow brick road is the metaphor for the golden thread that runs through your life.   This is what Ralph Waldo Trine, the writer who helped shape the current crop of self-help books such as The Secret: The Law of Attraction, calls this road. Where will you allow this golden thread to lead you?  This is the golden thread that runs through all wisdom teachings.

 3. Know the limitation of knowledge

Knowledge is not the same thing as knowing or insight.  Insight comes from within.  Insight is holistic and arises from being in tune with the infinite potential that is available to play through you.  Knowledge is information. It is useful but it is always partial in the sense that it arises from the rational (ratio meaning ‘in part.’)

 4. Trade your knowledge for bewilderment

This is an invitation from the poet Rumi.  This is an invitation to let your imagination run wild.  This is not something to be afraid of but to invite it, welcome it. Your brain is designed for imagination. You only use 5% of your brain. Invite imagination to light up your brain and claim your attunement to infinite possibilities for your life.

 

 

 

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