Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” That’s a great quote, so why don’t we have schools of the imagination rather than schools where we learn [ Read more … ]
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Metaphor provides clarity we can’t get any other way.
This is true for all of us. We valiantly search for the explanation, the description, the words. But when those words aren’t there, we unconsciously drop into another part of our brain–the part of our brain that works in metaphor. Metaphor allows us to understand and speak about things that are unknown, vague, or abstract. [ Read more … ]
Beauty explains how the universe works.
Albert Einstein sought beauty in his scientific theories. For Einstein, a theory should not only be useful but also elegant. A beautiful theory was one that could explain something complex in a simple and graceful way. (He said, “when the solution is simple, God is answering.”) Einstein was convinced that beauty was a guiding principle [ Read more … ]
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.” ~ Einstein
Metaphoric images have the ability to take us into an intelligent field of potent, Source energy. But to take us into that realm of non-ordinary intelligence, the image must be SIMPLE. Simple is powerful. As Einstein said, “when the solution is simple, God is answering.” Complex images, on the other hand, keep us in our [ Read more … ]
Metaphor connects us with the Divine.
Metaphor connects our human brain with spiritual dimensions. When we shift from perceiving and knowing with our linear, analytical mind to a spatial, artistic way of knowing based in metaphor, we’re able to access a field of divine intelligence. This was documented in neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. But because our [ Read more … ]
