When your imagination is your passion, Will you let what you belive set you free?

Answer 1

My friend, despite what some here have said, in many circumstances your imagination can set you free.

Think about it this way: Only a person with the imagination to think they could fly, and the passion to make it happen through experiment, trail and error and setbacks, would ever be able to create a vehicle that enabled them the freedom to fly.

Take my experiences as an example if you will:

I am both a writer and an artist who's creative life thrives through the imagination. My desire to create is my passion and it is enhanced and driven by the imagination. Although imagination alone will not set anyone free the simple act of coupling the imagination with the passion to create provides personal, emotional and philosophical creative freedoms that would not normally exist if they were not bundled as a complete package.

The belief comes in knowing that answering to my restless and demanding muse produces results and these results equate to personal freedoms.

Musicians, artists, writers all instinctively recognize this even if just on a sub-conscience level.

It also applies to any visionary, from an architect to someone wanting to change the world for the benefit of all, etc.

Passionately believing in your vision, whatever it may be, is what sets you free to pursue that vision.

Answer 2

There appears to be some confusion here, so let's define things a bit better.

First, we all have an imagination, that's human nature. We picture what we want to make for breakfast, that's imagination. We think about which movie we want to watch, again, that's imagination. Just because someone isn't as creative and say, Picasso, does not mean they are without an imagination. We all have one, some good, some bad, some better than others.

That said, the question is clearly "if your passion is your imagination". Now, to answer that, would be to assume we have a passion in the first place. In truth, very few people have a passion, tis a rare thing to have a true passion. So, the two don't really go together for the average person.

However, if we assume some has both a good imagination AND passion, it is reasonable to say if we fully realize and understand both, will definitely set you free.

But, I would like to point out that having passion and imagination doesn't really free anyone, if gives you more, not less. You are burdened by your own beliefs and imprisoned in your passion.

I'm sorry, I know this doesn't really answer the question, but the fact remains, to be truly free is to be without any human sensibilities, like imagination and passion.

Answer 3

Yes. Imagine if Da Vinci or Aristotle, Plato etc. didn't. Unfortunately, I don't have an imagination, or a passion for that matter, so I guess I'll sit here and let other peoples great minds do the thinking for me *sigh*. Good question and take care.


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No offense, but to quote Repeat Offender, "You're the only one who knows what's going on in your imagination unless you write and share it with others."...ummm isn't that letting what you believe set you free or at least setting what you believe free? Aren't you setting free the ideas that you have imagined onto paper for all to see and read. In a sense, isn't that setting you free? Just saying is all, no harm intended :) Take Care!

Answer 4

No. Sometimes, if I've been pierced so sharply that my heart has been broken through and through, I'll let my imagination take me away for the moment, in order to heal and cope with the reality. But i'll always come back to reality by restricting my imagination. It's....complex.

But the reason why I say no for the majority of things, it's because I can't believe in my passions based off imagination, because it misleads me to be free of something other than reality, therefore ultimatley trapping me in another thing. It's like imagining walking out of a jail cell while you're really walking into one

Answer 5

It would be wonderful to have a passion for imagination. Sometimes imagination is hard to find. To believe in something can set you free if it is your passion.
So passionately believing in your imagination will set you free.

Answer 6

The Hanged Man can represent either wisdom or selfishness, depending on its position.
I wonder if the mayfly ponders imagination, passion or belief. Logic is often a snake that circles in on itself to eat its own tail. The "why" or "right" of things can be elusive, but we can find motivation if we look hard enough.
Is freedom what I believe, or what believes in me? Am I not free? Must I "set" myself free?

Answer 7

Reality is what "is"....Imagination is what "can be"....and that is why I am so passionate about imagination, because of what it is and because it is truly an intricate and intimate part of me...and as I walk the line between reality and the dream world....gathering belief with each step and trying to balance the two....I am as free as this diad would permit...And I am more Free now than I ever could have Imagined....(another circle I think...All My Life Is a Circle.)...purrrrrr.....

Answer 8

Solitary goals, being free and beliving. Imagining that you are serving a sentence, and beliving that your sentence is served making it true in your mind, and imagination, freedom is cusp.

Answer 9

i'm a passionated imaginator who keeps beliefs as far as possible from this process... what sets me free then is another question. give it a shot ;)

Answer 10

Imagine and then work towards make it a reality, most of them might become reality which in turn will set you free.