What Do Your Values and Your Imagination have in Common?
August 28, 2025
What do you value most? I have asked this question of people around the world — people of many different races, ages, religions, and politics. The answers are the same. Throughout the world the similarity of the things we value is one of our strongest commonalities.
Time and again, people from all cultures listed the following among the things they value most: peace, freedom, family, friends, love, environment, quality of life, spiritual beliefs, financial sufficiency, service to others, fulfilling work, education, beauty, kindness, goodness, authenticity, honesty, wisdom, hope.
These are what we value, and yet our worlds can seem so different, often lacking enough of what we value most. Why?
Naturally it follows that we would do well to ask which values we are living. Are we, perhaps, living our ego values by bickering and gossiping? Is intense judgment of ourselves and others the value we express most? If we value family most or friends, or our spiritual life, but have no time for them, what are we really valuing?
In truth, what we are living out is what we are valuing most. And what we value most is what we begin to actually imagine into the world. The relationship between what I value and what I imagine has always interested me.
Going back to the common values we share around the world:
Imagine your personal boundaries expressing your better values — what would that look like?
Imagine yourself living your higher political values. That’s novel to explore!
Imagine your daily mundane being more expressive of your higher values. What would that be for you? Would you wake differently? Care for your home differently? Interest yourself in different things in your random thoughts?
What are you valuing into being?
We can actually do this to an amazing degree, can’t we, this imagining? I think we are discovering this now and as a result our own lives are changing, beginning to reflect more of our better values. This feels great to us.
Many, many people are doing this now — imagining and reimagining such things into existence. No matter what the nay-sayers would like to spread abroad, it is happening. And it does have far-reaching results.
Think of the ordinary people you know who live more elevated values. We each have friends, coworkers, schoolteachers, neighbors, church leaders and acquaintances who are living higher values — they are living more of their innate goodness. Look for them, they are there. They are not doing it perfectly but they are many parts of their lives better.
In many cases our work, friendships, families etc. are beginning to change; our lives and our world are transforming. As the singer, John Lennon, so beautifully suggested long ago we are now imagining the world better.
What things of greater value are you imagining into being?
May the world begin to reflect what we truly hold most dear. This is my prayer and my aim for our world. It is in this that our hearts are truly joined, I know, and I love you each for this camaraderie we share.
Thanks a thousand thanks for this wonderful dance together and enjoy the coming days as you turn ever more joyously to your determination to imagine your most essential Self into being.
Hugs,
Mayet Leilani
One of those funny things happened that often does for us here. I sat down to get a Heart of Love Message for us today and kept getting interrupted. Each time I came back to the computer to continue, it would open to someone else’s session I did a couple of weeks ago.
This morning a friend shared this quote she especially loved.