Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative
force. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so
silly and trivial? Look at those words again: ‘greatest creative
force’. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that
imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably
powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him
away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two
U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy
Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come
true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around
the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F.
W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth’s), Woodrow Wilson (former
U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M.
Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley’s), and many others have used his
teachings to manifest their dreams.
Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never
been.
Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief. Walt Disney said
that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the
world would not have seen it on earth. Bill Gates first imagines
his products before they become actual software that we rely on.
And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world’s
greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had
a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let
them experience their imagination. The universe always lets you
experience your imagination, whatever it may be.
The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he become’. It also
says ‘Without vision we perish’.
Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your
world is built.
Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits,
except those that you say are so? Why else would two different
people have different ‘limits’?
Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that
Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the
instructions by which to create your reality in the material
world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality.
To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate,
convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself
and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects
that can be experienced, here in the physical world. You
experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your
mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which
ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you
experience your self, and that is how you grow. This is the
supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is
designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed
to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and
consequences. Life does not select which ones of your images to
express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It
therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them
and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is
truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon
without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because
of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just
some of the time, and it gets them exactly.
Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the
prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can
predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self
today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self
today.
As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people
that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts,
people who have something to learn from you in line with your
thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn
from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes
for places and conditions, situations and environments.
Many things influence your imagination – past fears, desires,
poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack
of goals – any much more. But anything that influences your
imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by
becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where
awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your
mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages
your success. If you would like to know more about these things
and download Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, see
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About Author :
David Cameron Gikandi, CEO ImagesOfOne.com and author of A Happy
Pocket Full of Money: Your Quantum Leap into the Understanding,
Having and Enjoying of Immense Wealth and Happiness. Available
for download at http://www.ImagesOfOne.com.