Pastoral Resources

Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.