I explore the status of image as handmaiden to thought to its role as harbinger and mediator of experiential realities. In the process, I touch an intimacy between image and the felt sense of experience, including a sense of the ineffable that is part of emotional life. Image may have been a second-class citizen in the history of Western thought, but it has always been valued by poets and mystics for its role in creative processes. An image-sense of plenitude and void, fullness and emptiness nourish varied forms of spirituality and form part of a basic rhythm in everyday life.