“We often forget that there are creative ways of bringing about change in our communities and society at large. When Jesus suggests we love our enemies, he is imaginatively expanding our concept of what it means to be a good person.” -Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
What religious or spiritual lessons help you expand your concept of what it means to be good?
“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it.” -from “Pure Imagination,” by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Where do you see paradise around you today? How can you imagine it?
“The great instrument of moral good is imagination.” – Percy Shelley
How has imagination led you to do good things?
Imagination is tied to curiosity for me. Being curious about the world around me sparks my imagination…why is that flower that color? what kind of evolution had to happen to make the platypus? Imagine if that had gone a different way! -Christina Rivera (CLF)
What sparks your imagination?
Sometimes, when I feel a lot of stress, I imagine myself sitting on the shore in Homer, Alaska, a place I visited once–in 2007. There was something magical about that place where, under the 24-hour sunlight of late May the mountains gleamed across the Kachemak Bay from a tiny fishing village at the end of all highways. And so, I picture myself sitting on the gravel spit and painting the awesome beauty all around me, watching bald eagles take flight across the steel gray water. – Michael Tino (CLF)
Where might you imagine yourself today?
