Sutra of Possibility

Sutra of Possibility

In your imagination
can your heart embrace all of creation?
Now, can you imagine
new possibilities besides?
In your imagination
can you touch the cause of the hummingbird's
beating heart?
Now, can you imagine
the atom's secret attraction besides?

Truth
is the possibility that you can.

For better or worse, we live in a time in which imagination is not understood to be a core human (interbeing) characteristic... a characteristic, though, that needs to be nurtured and developed in every child and then appreciated when they have matured into adults. Imagination is, with compassion, the essential characteristic we have inherited from the Divine. Imagination is the Sacred Key to unlocking and releasing divinity once again into our experience of community. Religion especially needs the liberation imagination can give! The "principalities and powers" of which Paul wrote in the christian scriptures will pass away -- for power is meant to serve not to oppress! As they grasp for more and more wealth and propagandize themselves silly, imagination will free the rest of us into our possibilities -- and into communities of equality, and justice and peace.