This morning, I saw a strange object standing in a neighbor’s yard. It seemed to be some sort of rabbit with a heart on its belly. I have never seen anything like it, and I thought to myself, “You are imagining things.”

Then, as I looked at the way the snow was piled at the sides of our front walk, I imagined these forms to be ocean waves. Indeed, they looked just like ocean waves. I scolded myself that I was “imagining things.”

I have an aversion to imagining things; when I draw I try to draw what I see and not allow fanciful forms to come in; if they do, I want them to be “real” on an energetic plane. This produces a sort of inner conflict. I have a kind of prejudice against the completely “fanciful.”

As I reflected on this, I was reminded of what I have learned (through teachings and meditative experience) about the primordial “substance” within which the entire world dances.

The entire manifest and unmanifest world is made of Divine Light, including every aspect of our own being. Whatever forms, thoughts and sensations we behold are comprised of this Light.

When we see the world in this way, we are seeing from the highest perspective. This seeing is possible for humans to attain.

When we imagine, we are creating forms within this Light and comprised of this Light. When we return again and again to remembering this Light, experiencing this Light, we are living from the highest perspective. We have the experience that we are dancing with the Divine.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

— Julia Cameron