waking life (1-17-07)
"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?" -Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
We can visualize quite a few things. We can dream quite a few more. Some of us have such vivid imaginations that we can see and create so many glorious and stimulating things in our minds. But what of it? Why does it have to end at a thought? Just because we can see something in our mind, it doesn't mean it can be real right? I believe it can. Like the poem above you can dream it and then do it. I'm beginning to understand and believe this. The mind is powerful. It's powerful whether you are asleep or awake, sick or healthy, upset or content.
I've always had many dreams. Too often I neglect to make them reality. Instead I offer excuses, reasons or rationalization for this failure... but that's all it is, failure. Now I'm not going to get too hard on myself because not every dream is to become reality. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. But sometimes a dream is something we want to acheive. When that occurs, do we acheive it? The vast majority of the time I think we do not. Why is this? Why do we dream and hope for things we want that we do not even acheive, and sometimes do not even try to acheive? It doesn't seem logical to me.
I don't know about all of you out there, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately. At first I thought my dreams betrayed me but now after pondering this for many days, I feel more like I've betrayed my dreams... or maybe I betrayed myself by not chasing those dreams.
So what does all of this mean? Does it mean that I am going to make sweeping changes to my life, shake things up and try to become someone else? No, I will remain Eddie, but little by little and more and more I will begin to walk towards those grand dreams I have and perhaps one day soon I will be holding that flower I dreamt about.
"The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low and we do." - Michelangelo
"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?" -Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
We can visualize quite a few things. We can dream quite a few more. Some of us have such vivid imaginations that we can see and create so many glorious and stimulating things in our minds. But what of it? Why does it have to end at a thought? Just because we can see something in our mind, it doesn't mean it can be real right? I believe it can. Like the poem above you can dream it and then do it. I'm beginning to understand and believe this. The mind is powerful. It's powerful whether you are asleep or awake, sick or healthy, upset or content.
I've always had many dreams. Too often I neglect to make them reality. Instead I offer excuses, reasons or rationalization for this failure... but that's all it is, failure. Now I'm not going to get too hard on myself because not every dream is to become reality. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. But sometimes a dream is something we want to acheive. When that occurs, do we acheive it? The vast majority of the time I think we do not. Why is this? Why do we dream and hope for things we want that we do not even acheive, and sometimes do not even try to acheive? It doesn't seem logical to me.
I don't know about all of you out there, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately. At first I thought my dreams betrayed me but now after pondering this for many days, I feel more like I've betrayed my dreams... or maybe I betrayed myself by not chasing those dreams.
So what does all of this mean? Does it mean that I am going to make sweeping changes to my life, shake things up and try to become someone else? No, I will remain Eddie, but little by little and more and more I will begin to walk towards those grand dreams I have and perhaps one day soon I will be holding that flower I dreamt about.
"The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low and we do." - Michelangelo
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good points re: sex with god and then regular women.. i wonder... :S