Well, I’ve never seen Russia. Have you seen pictures of Russia, of Moscow? All right, assume that you’re seeing those pictures but near so that they’re right here. If you are, then you must be there. Then to prove you are there, think of America. Where’s America? Under your feet…well then, you aren’t there. You must see America relative to where you assume that you are. May I tell you, don’t treat it lightly…you’ll go! People treat it lightly. I know my son told me…I said, what on earth possessed you to volunteer for the Marines in the 2nd World War? This is after five years in the Marines. He hit Guadalcanal, Okinawa and North China…these where his theaters. And he said, “You know, Dad, I used to sit and read of Guadalcanal, and the women and the men there intrigued me. They had yellow hair from the sun, and it was all pushed up. Jet black at the roots but all of the top was yellow. I would lose myself in actually thinking I was seeing them close.” So he went to Guadalcanal. Little boys dream of being a hero and then comes a war, and that’s their opportunity. How can you take the coming festival, Christmas, and sell maybe a hundred million little toy guns plus all the million little guns on TV and tell me we are going to stop war? They will say, “After I get the first shot and shoot him first. Then shoot; then stop it.” It’s all part of our imaginal acts. We create by Imagination. Imagination actually creates reality. Repeat that phrase over and over and one day it will sink in, and you become very, very much aware of what you are imagining. If it isn’t something noble, then stop it. Good night.471 ¶43
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