The Seven Date Seeds - The fourth seed - Imagination — YouTube from the CEC Library

The fourth date seed in The Seven Date Seeds is imagination. Imagination is essential, as are all forms of need. The question is: how should each of them be handled? A lack of food is called hunger; a need for someone's energies is longing; a need for sexual energies is passion; a lack of life is death; and a lack of freedom is dependence. The need for love, however, does not exist. Love is a state that most of us confuse with emotion. Love is being free from everything that bothers us and that we have incorporated through living with others. Our path is made up of needs repeated at every level, often sustained by ignorance. Without knowing it, ignorance constantly helps wisdom.

A woman was motionless, sitting and looking ahead. Observing her brought back important memories for me, because although she was motionless, she seemed to be in a state of intense perceptual movement. Before her there was only a stone wall, but she was probably seeing something that only imagination makes possible. Imagination is the infinite space of knowledge and freedom, allowing us to dream, explore the Earth, and discover our deserts and oases. It is a safe refuge from fear and bitterness and can be constructive or destructive, companionship or solitude, but in the end, it is only imagination. Use your imagination. This is the fourth date seed: with imagination, we can travel through the universe. Einstein and several other people traveled through it too. The human imagination is an infinite space, but we need to replenish ourselves from it; otherwise, we remain in ignorance.