Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To see with the mind's eye is to see with the imagination. The mind's eye is the world seen by the intellect, which is why it is called imagination. The mind's eye looks at things differently than the physical eye because it imagines them differently. When an object is viewed through the physical eye, it is viewed without imagination.

It's just a thing. As soon as you imagine it, you also see it. You can't do both at the same time, so when you put your imagination on an object it becomes transparent to you.

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