Tuesday, August 18, 2026
I just can’t “picture myself there.” I just can’t “imagine myself doing that.” Aren’t these admissions that you have pictured yourself there, and you have pictured yourself doing that?
If you truly haven’t pictured yourself there or imagined yourself doing something, then it would not appear in consciousness. What then, are we talking about, when we say we “cannot” picture or imagine?
Which of these things do you love – the picturing or the “not picturing?” You hold two images at once in this mental conundrum. Picturing yourself there or being unable to picture yourself there. You are secretly admitting you have a dual vision. Stuck in duality.
I can’t imagine living here another day! I can’t picture myself staying at this job for more than 4 years. I can’t see myself going to graduate school. It’s hard for me to imagine kissing a girl – yuck. I can’t picture myself taking another person’s life. I can’t imagine dying. I can’t picture myself being old, senile, and lonely. Ooo – I just shudder to think of being a quadriplegic.
Contrast. What a lovely thing our imaginations do. To imagine doing the “unthinkable.” Yet, the unthinkable is thought of – murder, incest, rape, sodomy, thievery, torture, death. That’s already thought of. Many people have “done” what you “can’t imagine,” like showing up to work unclothed.
What is truly unthinkable? That which has not arrived in your consciousness or the negation of something that has? The worst graven images are not wooden crosses and stained glass, but our thoughts. Even the unthinkable is a thought.
What cannot be imagined? The imagination? If you cannot picture yourself, then you’d be blank.
Picture the impossible? If something is impossible (like the so-called inability to afford something), you’ve fallen for the oldest trick in the book.
Affordability has nothing to do with ability. Ability is what makes all things possible. If you can’t afford it, you are not sentient and able bodied. Do you really believe in that nonsense?