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12 Powers of Unity – Understanding – Desmond Tutu – #1

Spiritual Empowerment Series 2008

Imagination: J.K. Rowling and Ritual

June 1 ~ Guest Speaker, Tica Sance

June 8 ~ “It’s All Magic”

Charles Fillmore    “The imagination is that faculty of mind which images and forms.  Everything that is manifest was first a mental picture and was brought into expression by this forming power.”  (From Keep A True Lent)

Albert Einstein        “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”

June 15 ~Guest Speaker, Chuck Sances

June 22 ~ “The Magic Of Imagination”

HIGHLIGHTS FROM J. K. ROWLING’S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT HARVARD:
The Issue of Failure        (Perception ~ see the world as full of miracles)
Stripping away of the nonessential ~ stopped pretending ~ all energy toward what
really mattered ~ free since still alive tho greatest fear realized ~ can survive
“You will never really know yourself, or the strength of your relationships until both have
been tested by adversity.  Such knowledge is a true gift.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you
might as well not have lived at all ~ in which case, you fail by default.”
Imagination        (Creativity ~ see the world as full of your own magic)
“I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense.  Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.  In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
Plutarch    “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Call to Use Imagination to Change the World with Compassion
“If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”

June 29 ~ “The True Magic: Love”

The World as A Place of Magic and Miracles

Albert Einstein        “Imagination is more important than knowledge”
“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“The power that will reshape and transform the outer world will come forth from the innermost part of each of us . . . The great Power within us is the Creator and the creation, the Giver and the gift, the Dwelling and the dweller. Never relinquish this vision, for this is our purpose for being.” (Only Believe by Unity’s Sue Sikking)

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” (Wayne Dyer in The Power of Intention)

The Greatest Power/Truest Magic is Love     Greatest Commandment ~ for all ~ sharing

Harry Potter & The Power of Love    Mother’s love put seal of protection on him ~
Then he did it for his friends ~ willingness did it ~ secret love also broke evil

MBO ~ Most Benevolent Outcome or Magical Blending as One
“I request a Most Benevolent Outcome for __________.  Thank you.”

Compassion’s Automatic Reflexes    Constantly give so paying in advance, barriers melt, vibration in fabric of cause & effect, makes way clear, synchronicity/One with God

The Alchemy of the Christ    See the Divine in all ~ See yourself as co-creator in a world of magic & miracles ~  Master all the aspects of life & lay down life in love
Touch/emotions . . . Time/thoughts . . . Talents/spirit  . . . Treasures/manifestation

JK Rowling at Harvard        Her hope for the graduates: lifetime friends ~ love/affection
“As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” (Seneca)