What is Reality?
Today people tend to regard as "real" what they can touch with their hands or measure with their instruments - but this is a rather limiting view.
The greatest power of our mind - Imagination - is often regarded as not real. People say things like: "this is just your imagination," belitteling imagination with that little word "just." |
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Instead, I suggest to regard everything as real which can be the cause for a new effect.
In that sense, imagination is more real than anything else: All things of our lives (what we consider good things as well as bad things) have their origin in our mind. Dreams, visions, beliefs are most originally real, for they set the causes for thousands of things. Think of a nightmare, which might cause a sleepless night and an accident perhaps the very next morning. Think of Ghandi's vision, which freed a country - or Hitler's which enslaved another. Think of beliefs which feed the hungry, and think of beliefs which blow up buildings. Our greatest achievements as well as our greatest shames originate in the mind, and were once upon a time "just" imagination. |
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs in the only thing that counts. You never enjoy the world alright, til the sea itself floweth through your veins, til you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars. |
There is a general assumption prevailing in our modern world, namely that the seen world is more important, or more "real" than the unseen world. However, imagination is where everything in our lives ultimately originates from. Therefore I suggest we pay utmost attention to our imagination and the stories we tell to ourselves. For some stories are empowering, but others cripple us, and often we are not even aware which ones we are telling.
As soon as you pay due attention to the unseen world, it will reveal secret upon secret to you, and you will discover that life is infinitely more interesting that you have previously thought possible.
And this is a promise.
As soon as you pay due attention to the unseen world, it will reveal secret upon secret to you, and you will discover that life is infinitely more interesting that you have previously thought possible.
And this is a promise.