Father B.Gracian (S.J.) on Imagination

"Keep the Imagination under Control;

sometimes correcting, sometimes assisting it.

For it is all-important for our happiness, and

even sets the reason right. It can tyrannise,

and is not content with looking on, but

influences and even often dominates life,

causing it to be happy or burdensome according

to the folly to which it leads. For it

makes us either contented or discontented with

ourselves. Before some it continually holds

up the penalties of action, and becomes the

mortifying lash of these fools. To others it

promises happiness and adventure with blissful

delusion. It can do all this unless the most

prudent self-control keeps it in subjection"