“Imagination is the outreaching of mind … the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions…"”

—  Rollo May

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 120

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