Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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1 | "Everything of which we are conscious is an image, and that image IS psyche." C. G. Jung The Secret of the Golden Flower (Richard Wilhelm, translator) | |
2 | "There is no power on earth like imagination." Laurens van der Post, 'Venture to the Interior' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor) | |
3 | "Let thy imagination be guided wholly by nature. And observe according to nature, through whom the substances regenerate themselves in the ..earth. And imagine this with true and not with fantastic imagination." Rosarium philosophorum, Art. Aurif., II, p. 214 (medieval alchemical text), Collected Works (Carl Jung) | |
4 | "Our imaginations are holy, the Holy Spirit works through us when we create and participate in the ongoing Creation of self, society, universe, and mind." One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox) | |
5 | "We might call the unfathomable depth in the image, love, or at least say we cannot get to the soul of the image without love for the image." A Blue Fire (James Hillman) | |
6 | "Before linguistic capabilities were well developed in early humans, we already had the capacity for creativity, imagination, and problem solving….Visualization, creativity, and problem solving are all required to create tools, cooperate in the hunt, or to organize socially – all of which are developments observed in the animal behavior from which we emerged. This is clearly indicative of an inner life of significance before the linguistic period." The Way of the Explorer, An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds (Dr. Edgar Mitchell, with Dwight Williams) | |
7 | "The imagination can, by a process of identification, extend the self out into the world and into other people. The result is….a fusing of the two." J. Engell, 'The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism' The Empathic Imagination (Alfred Margulies, M.D.) | |
8 | "The beginning of a cure for our ills is a revitalized imagination, one that truly recognizes that there is a sacred dimension to the everyday life that we live." Thomas Moore Angels: The Mysterious Messengers (Rex Hauck, editor) | |
9 | "The image of God in every person is precisely the imagination or the capacity of each person for creativity." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox) | |
10 | "Through enlivened thinking and the exercise of living imagination, humans will return light to the cosmos. Something will be added to the world through our cognitive activity." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton) | |
11 | "According to University of Georgia educational psychologist E. Paul Torrance, scientists have accumulated evidence that our image of the future determines our motivations. What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based on what we think is possible for ourselves. 'In fact', Torrance wrote in 'The Creative Child and Adult Quarterly' (VIII, 1983), 'a person's image of the future may be a better predictor of future attainment than his past performances.'" Marilyn Ferguson's Book of PragMagic (Marilyn Ferguson) | |
12 | "Increase of imagination is always an increase in soul." Care of the Soul (Thomas Moore) | |
13 | "The image is a principle of our knowledge. It is that from which our intellectual activity begins, not as a passing stimulus, but as an enduring foundation…An image implies the idea of origin." Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on Boethius's The Trinity', vi, 2, ad 5, & I, q. 35, a. 1 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox) | |
14 | "We must visualize the highest good we can imagine – peace on earth, brotherhood, a clean environment. For what we together focus on, we will create." Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium (Elizabeth Clare Prophet) | |
15 | "Every act of understanding or thought involves imagination." The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1 (Mortimer J. Adler, editor) | |
16 | "Every imagination of humanity comes through the heart, for this is the sun of the microcosm, and out of the microcosm proceeds the imagination into the great world….the imagination of humanity is a seed." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky) | |
17 | "You instantly color physical experience and nature itself with the tints of your unique imaginative processes." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts) | |
18 | "Images bridge the gap between the verbal and non-verbal modes of awareness; they allow the two sides of the brain to communicate, arousing the emotions as well as the intellect." The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Starhawk (Miriam Simos)) | |
19 | "The invisible replies and materializes in the form in which it is summoned and imagined." Gerald Heard (1889-1971), English author and philosopher, 'The Third Morality' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor) | |
20 | "Of all the ways in which we try to picture the world, that one alone is real which most completely satisfies our thirst for unity." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin) | |
21 | "The word disappears, the poetry is gone, but the imaginal form persists within the mind and works on the soul." Shamanic Voices, A Survey of Visionary Narratives (Joan Halifax, Ph.D.) | |
22 | "The spirit is the master, imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material." Paracelsus The Spirit of Shamanism (Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.) | |
23 | "The image is the seed that contains both the psychic DNA and the motivating forces that shape the fully bloomed flower that you become." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston) | |
24 | "Imagine, if you will, a time when human beings lived in intimacy with God, and so with all other living beings and with one another. Imagine, then, that humankind emerged and separated itself from God, and from intimacy with other living beings. Imagine further that in their separateness, individuals imagined themselves as autonomous beings, distant not only from God but from their own common humanity. Imagine, finally, that these autonomous individuals were to rediscover their common humanity, their connections to other living beings – and eventually reuinite with God. This could be the story of the religions of the West. It could also…be the story of the religions of India. It might, perhaps, even be the story of the world. In that case, it would be the story of stories, the myth of all myths – and no less true for that." The Book of Miracles (Kenneth L. Woodward) | |
25 | "If a man imagines in his thought that he has a certain quality, he is half way to possessing that quality; if he imagines himself free from a certain failing, he is half way to being free from that failing." The Mental Body (Arthur E. Powell) | |