It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.
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No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
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Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.
There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.
Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas we have actually conformed with expectations of others, driven by the fear of isolation and by more direct threats to our life, freedom, and comfort.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.
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