If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place. - Tim Hurson

If you let it, your mind will celebrate new stimuli by automatically making dozens of unexpected connections for you. If you pay attention to them, you may discover the answer you've been looking for.

Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past.

Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore.