Heroes Not Zombies

James Hollis, in his “Creating a Life” says

As powerful as the will is, as urgent and insistent the élan vital, the imagination creates the world in which we live. The only question is: whose imagination, whose images, whose myth are we living in the course of that which we call our life?

I couldn’t agree more. Imagination is one of our most powerful qualities. We need imagination to see the possible. We need it so see the invisible. We need it to create. We need it to put ourselves into the shoes of others (and without that, where is compassion?). We need it for hope.

But imagination also allows us to fear – and how often is fear used now to control us?

So whose imagination are you living?