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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
  --Albert Einstein

These are interesting words coming from the person who is considered to have held greatest mind of the 20th century. What some may not know is that Albert Einstein received the first inklings of what would become his theory of

relativity—concepts that shaped the very way we view ourselves and the world and the relationships thereof—in a dream.  It would take eight years of gaining intimate knowledge and understanding of the math needed to form and shape his theory.

Einstein, I am told, had skipped all his math courses in that he was so advanced. But delineating the theory of relativity required a tedious comprehension of these concepts and equations that he otherwise could have forgone learning.  Hence imagination is more complex and valuable than knowledge.

Imagination shows us where we need to go, the direction in which the forces of the universe have destined we travel in body and mind, but in so doing highlights the skills we must attain to bring into physical manifestation raw and untried ideas delivered in the glimmers of our imagination.

Our minds swarm with musings, inklings and glimpses of what our hearts and souls seek to see our hand manifest in the physical form of words, paints, musical notes, etc.
But we do not always possess the skills to attempt the creative feats placed upon the altars of our dreams. Thus we must become apprentices to the process. We must, like Einstein go back and gain the capability and expertise to fully realize the wishes of our psyche.

The experience of educating ourselves becomes just one more in a level of inner discoveries where we, in vying with our despondency to hone yet another aspect of our talent, come to recognize aspects of ourselves yet known.

Quantum physics, as it relates to emotions, asserts that not only do the physical components of any sort of reaction influence the outcome, but that the presence of the human observer must as well be included as one of the variables effecting the out come.

Quantum physics is based on quantum theory, whose roots emanate from the theory of relativity.

Everything is related. And so all is relative.

Imagination can then be seen as the root beginnings of knowledge. Thus artists in practicing their artistry, like Einstein, are forever on the brink of uncovering what could forever change the way we humans perceive life, ourselves, and others, and the relationships therein.

Like Einstein, we too must develop patience and diligence.

Knowledge can be gained in a finite periods of time, like radiant energy that quantum theory proposes is transmitted in discrete units. But imagination comes in waves like the dual aspect of quantum theory—wave-particle theory—holds that light travels in. These waves, be they light, the fires of inspiration or the burning embers of imagination, mount a greater force to which knowledge must bow.

And to which we must also do the same.