Dreaming the Future Into Being
Sep. 28th, 2011 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
It is an amazing thing about being human that we can feel something inside and then build it in the world. It seems we have this inborn need to love and to create. At their deepest, these drives of spirit appear to be the same.
I'm a creative person and have always been a creative person, and at around age ten that creativity manifested itself in the words that came from my heart and my imagination.
Here I am 33 years later, still filled with the same wordy creativity – only hampered by my ability not to be able to do so many things at once. I have work to do, a life to move to the correct side of the Atlantic Ocean, a family to create and books to write, publish and sell... and it's an intriguing set of dominoes where any one of them could lead to the toppling of the others into place.
I meditate and vision quest these things into my hands and out into the world on a daily basis, and even as I'm still working on them all, pray that the Universe will also bend and ear to the song of my creativity, and lend a hand. Perhaps it already has been helping, and I just haven't figured out how yet... because I've been too busy working on thing by myself.
We all have dreams... things that we envision for our lives. They aren't always practical, they aren't always what others would envision for us, but that doesn't mean that we should give up on them entirely. We might adjust them to fit in with our current realities and practicalities, but even as we do, should we not 'dream' them into our hand and into our vision of the world in their pure state... in what we hope for them – how can we empower ourselves, and our dreams if we are constantly downgrading ourselves and our dreams so that they will fit? What is the difference between 'ambition' and 'dream?'
Where love is deep
much can be accomplished.
--Shinichi Suzuki
It is an amazing thing about being human that we can feel something inside and then build it in the world. It seems we have this inborn need to love and to create. At their deepest, these drives of spirit appear to be the same.
I'm a creative person and have always been a creative person, and at around age ten that creativity manifested itself in the words that came from my heart and my imagination.
Here I am 33 years later, still filled with the same wordy creativity – only hampered by my ability not to be able to do so many things at once. I have work to do, a life to move to the correct side of the Atlantic Ocean, a family to create and books to write, publish and sell... and it's an intriguing set of dominoes where any one of them could lead to the toppling of the others into place.
I meditate and vision quest these things into my hands and out into the world on a daily basis, and even as I'm still working on them all, pray that the Universe will also bend and ear to the song of my creativity, and lend a hand. Perhaps it already has been helping, and I just haven't figured out how yet... because I've been too busy working on thing by myself.
We all have dreams... things that we envision for our lives. They aren't always practical, they aren't always what others would envision for us, but that doesn't mean that we should give up on them entirely. We might adjust them to fit in with our current realities and practicalities, but even as we do, should we not 'dream' them into our hand and into our vision of the world in their pure state... in what we hope for them – how can we empower ourselves, and our dreams if we are constantly downgrading ourselves and our dreams so that they will fit? What is the difference between 'ambition' and 'dream?'
