someone have said “Build castles in the air and just replace the plent or base, when the right time comes”

Goal is in inspiration and dream leads can lead to a great bliss.
yes courage is needed and it will come from the interest of the dream, more we want the dream more courageous we will be. if we don’t don’t eat..don’t eat..but there will be a time when we will forget everything just get the food, even though we have die for it. So complete surrender will happen once we are focused on our dream and we will achieve it. sorry my thoughts- p

I concocted the most elaborate dreams and replayed them in my day to day living. Life was spent dreaming and living those dreams.
I achieved them and was happy. Or so I thought…

I grew slightly older and stopped dreaming, writing, reading, fear paralysed me and I was trapped within myself. I was lacking an outlet for passion, creativity and expression.

Until one day after a few fraught years of self-suffocation, I started to dream again. I was frightened and fearful but still pursued my dream. But I couldn’t achieve it.

I tried and tried but my attempts were in vain and I didn’t ask for help or listen to those around me. My heart was hurt, angry, furious. I exploded at everyone around me. My thoughts were cruel and my head was tired. I was exhausted using all the negative energy trying to pursue my goal.

I was short sighted.

Tunnel-visioned.

Blind.

Then my body stopped, I became weak, ill and frail. My soul was screaming out for peace, for stillness, for rest.

The minute I stopped focussing on the end and instead focussed on the journey, my wellbeing and the wellbeing of others, my spirit began to grow again.

My dream became true. I was given a second chance.

When I was young, I was courageous and didn’t value my dreams because they occurred naturally.

Children live their lives so instinctively, it is as adults that we have to re-learn the steps of our ancestors and listen to our ‘gut instincts’ – listen to our head, our heart, our soul’.

It is later on in life that I realised you have to fight for your dreams – it is the struggle that defines us. You also have to listen to your soul however, and decide which causes are worth fighting for.

I thought that my dream was little; just for me to “pull me out of a hole” and pamper my soul.
I now realize that I have gotten frightening competitors. I am longing for solving this conflict of competition, but it looks as if they are not interested in.

I am already beginning to miss my peace. I used to pull out and drop the work immediately when this kind of situation happened. but now I begin to doubt …

Thank you
Cheree

By the way in all of my day dreaming as a teenager of prince Charming well let’s just say I had to kiss many frogs in the swamp before finding the one that turned me into his frog and allowed me to share his lilypad with him… I’d much rather live in the swamp than in a castle anyday… Lilypad hoping can be dangerous but exciting…

Love
Olta

I hassled to work on this dream for 5 years. I started finally with it after I got in a bad situation, I had lost everything what was important to me. and it actually helps me to stay positive and move on now.

I try to look at it as if it is someone separate from me that accompanies me, a friend. it has its own rights to develop and be.

There are people that are not good for me. and the same with dreams. there are also dreams that are hidden addictions, or they support weaknesses of me. to sort this out, I talk with good friends about my dreams and discuss this with them. during the communication, I can see more clearly whether those dreams are actually dangerous.

I give it time, to “act”, I mean really I sit down and just dream, as I paint, knit, sing and dance, go for a walk, or cook. I try not to allow my perfectionism to comment on it.

I keep my expectations low, and be gentle, as I would be with a child.

however, every little growth is acknowledged by me with gratitude; and the dream gets praised and confirmed.

overall I have learned, that my current dream has so many aspects and good gifts to me, that all these little steps are accepted as “it’s enough.”

I have learned that whenever something does not go as I expect it and I am disappointed, and I think I lost a dream. overall, all the experience is accumulating and knowledge grows over time.

my current dream only can grow because of so many situations I had and some negative experiences ….

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

May you all be able to continue dreaming and may your most desired dreams become a reality in your life such that the warm thought of having accomplished the dream becomes engraved in your hear throughout eternity.

Love

Monica

This morning as the alarm went off to the morning news there was a report about an increase in the use of anti-depression drugs. I think, going back to your comment in regards to not enjoying what you are doing and struggling so much in doing things we don’t enjoy is what’s causing this incidence in usage of antidepressants.
But on that same token, there must be a way to find joy in everything we do. During the Christmas season I was fortunate enough to come across a couple who have been on a pilgrimage through the US for the last 4 months, they are two very spiritual people. They both agree that we can find joy in every single thing we do. Otherwise our spirit gets sick and thus our physical body as well. Lately I’ve been thinking about dreams and if I’ve been able to fulfill mine. Now I come to realize that dreaming is a never ending saga, and we must continue dreaming to feed our spiritual self until our path through this dimension is over or our spirit dies, which would be very unfortunate and sad. May you have a dreamful life and continue to awaken your spirit.

Love

Monica

I think one of the greatest bonuses of reading P.Coelho’s blogs, notes etc on the net is finding comments from people like you that come out with such beautiful and inspiring writing too! Thks for writing…I loved reading!

Have a lovely day,

Stellah