Posts Tagged ‘Pearls Of Wisdom’

IMAGINATION WAS GIVEN TO US TO COMPENSATE US FOR WHAT WE ARE NOT                  —AND A SENSE OF HUMOR WAS PROVIDED TO CONSOLE US FOR WHAT WE ARE

Robert Walpole

WE MAKE IT SO - BY WHAT WE DREAM

Let me recommend (again) Covey’s new book, EVERYDAY GREATNESS.  I think it is so appropriate for anyone who is trying to “carve out a little better lifestyle.”  Afterall, we are not going to find “AN ORDINARY MIRACLE” in our living, if we don’t go after ourselves with something great to work on.  All it takes is “…just one great new idea.”

I have started a quest to try to focus more on my “strengths” than keep messing around with everything else that interests me (and I do have a wide range of interests).  I have always had a fascination with people who specialize their life and living.  They are the ones who seem to be able to “unlock the secrets of the universe – paint and sculpt the masterpieces – write the incredible poetry – and reshape the directions of humanity.  I pick up “pearls” of wisdom from time to time and this quote is one.

As you know by now, I think there are SEVEN SENSES – not just five and I also think that they all work better together and influence each other.  SIGHT is such a magificent gift.  SOUNDS are a distinct pleasure in our lives that I sure wouldn’t want to live without.  And TASTE is something that brings with it such a level of satisfaction. But  what about TOUCH, who wouldn’t want to have such wonderful sensations, and then to SMELL too, oh, the memories that are rekindled with smell.  And I think there are two more (and perhaps many more.  INTUTION is starting to have its place as the “sixth sense.”  After all if hollywood is promoting the same thing – it must be true.  But the big one in my own life is IMAGINATION.  The playground of my life has been the joy I find in dreaming things up and making unlikely connections.  “Stretching your own thoughts and thinking,” isn’t just a “pass-time”, it should be our “full-time” effort.

When I first read Wolpole’s thought, it hit me so hard.  Imagination is to help us with what we are not.  What an idea.  WHAT IF… we are all here to figure this out and learn to use our “IMAGINATIONS” more?  Bingo, I think that is it exactly.  A life without learning new skills and trying to get the new doors open on all the possibilities and opportunities that lie all around us – would be a dull run – at best.

IMAGINATION is the key that can unlock any problem, so what should we be most about?  And if the eternal gifts of our “senses” are there so we can live with enjoyment and satisfaction, then trying to learn how to “use our intutions and imaginations and intuitions are why we utilmately need to encourage and learn to use more.  And you can take this too the bank.

The searching and seeking for new levels of understanding and capacity are not a curse.  I think that is the whole blessing of being “…alive.”  So, promise yourself that “today and every day” you have left that you are going to “focus your efforts” and “stretch” you thinking to consider all the new POSSIBILITIES S all around you.  So, that when you cross that intersection of OPPORTUNITY, you will be prepared and capable.  To be able to die, and point to one or two things that you “…did well” and contributed to the world, is to have done a good job with our personal world.

JUST IMAGINE- AND MAKE THIS A GREAT WEEK

DR. LEW

p.s. Wolpole is considered the “first” Priminister of England in the mid 1800′s and he served in that post longer than any other.  His magnificent art collection was “sold” to Catherine and resides at the Hermitage in Russia.