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"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance." -Napoleon Hill
The majority of my life I have tried to "be realistic". In line with the social conditioning of my surroundings, I too (like most) have squashed the dreams of my childhood. I have traded the grand creative imagination of childhood and youth, for the drudgery of being a "realistic grown-up", not living in "such imaginings".
And as Matt Morris said in his book "The Unemployed Millionaire", most people think that being a "grown-up" is being a "given-up".
In reality though, for those who recognize the truth of the matter (and are willing to face their own personal demons head on), life does not have to be such drudgery. How do I know this? Because I know that the good Lord did not give us an imagination for no reason. The imagination isn't something that we were meant to play with as children, and then discard as we became grown-ups.
On the contrary, the imagination has played an integral role in ALL great inventions and innovations.
As James Allen once said, "The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of the their solitary dreamers."
Reread the quote over again. The dreamers, those who spend time articulating their imaginations, such people are the "saviors of the world", according to James Allen. And when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.
Those who make history are those who spend their time in "unrealistic pursuits" (as critics would no doubt label them). Such people see that imagination is not just "child's play", but rather is meant to be used by all adults everywhere to enhance the world around them. But of course the dreamer can only do this if he or she is willing to look inside and stare down their own personal demons, not being scared or intimidated by self-sacrifice and ridicule from others.
To finish off the quote from James Allen:
"Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know."
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