“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
~Albert Einstein
He was an old man, well dressed, slender, fluid. Gracefully living on the back nine of his life. One of those things some call random that occasionally happen, a more mysterious brief interlude than conversational.
Rising slowly after the long silence, he looked across the wide wooden park table, his face a mask of pure, absolute certainty.
“No more need be said,” he uttered softly and disappeared into the warm, still late summer evening.
“In giving birth to your ideal, you must bear in mind that the methods of mental and spiritual knowledge are entirely different. This is a point that is truly understood by probably no more than one person in a million. You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing it and defining it (by thinking of it); whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it (only by thinking from it).
“You must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it. You must be like the moth in search of his idol, the flame, who spurred with true desire, plunging at once into the sacred fire, folded his wings within, till he became one color and one substance with the flame.
He only knew the flame who in it burned, and only he could tell who ne’er to tell returned.
“Just as the moth in his desire to know the flame was willing to destroy himself, so must you in becoming a new person be willing to die to your present self. You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is. You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is.
“Therefore, to incarnate a new and greater value of yourself, you must assume that you already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption—which is not yet incarnate in the body of your life—in confidence the this new value of state of consciousness will become incarnated through your absolute fidelity to the assumption that you are that which you desire to be.
“This is what wholeness means, what integrity means. They mean submission of the whole self to the feeling of the wish fulfilled in certainty that the new state of consciousness is the renewing of the mind which transforms. There is no order in Nature corresponding to this willing submission of the self to the ideal beyond the self.
“Therefore, it is the height of folly to expect the incarnation of a new greater concept of self to come about by natural evolutionary process. That which requires a state of consciousness to produce its effects obviously cannot be affected without such a state of consciousness, and in your ability to assume a feeling of of a greater life, to assume a new concept of yourself, you possess what the rest of Nature does not possess—Imagination—the instrument by which you create your world.” Neville Goddard, The Power of Awareness.
Every child birthed comes intuitively knowing this.
“Come to me with the mind of a child.”