But real life is only one kind of life — there is also the life of the imagination.

Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, How can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, Can we find a way for the two to coexist?

I could live almost completely in imagination.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

il n’y a rien dans monde qui puisse entrer en comparaison avec l’éternité.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.

Imagination is rich, abundant, full of marvels, existence poor, dry, disenchanted. One inhabits, with a full heart, an empty world.

Life is only a dream and we are only the imagination of ourselves.

People who want to acquired powers over somebody else, for them imagination is a powerful tool. If you are seeking liberation, if you want to become free, the first thing that you must become free from is your imagination, because that is the deepest trap. Your memory and your imagination are the two traps. Do you see? One of your legs is stuck in memory; another leg is stuck in imagination. If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday, isn't it? If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

There is no greater freedom than the freedom to be what you are now.