Hopes & Dreams - "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much"

As controlled planners of our lives, we can often keep our eues to the ground, calculating evert step and thus depriving ourselves of the joy and elation that comes along with hoping and dreaming. This May 24th excerpt from "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much" highlights that while "dreaming is not safe for our illusion of control...it is infitely safe for our soul."

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Meditations for people who do too much.

Hopes and dreams.

As long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility,

All that is real or can be real,

We will never see the ship.

We will never feel the wind blow.

From Sonya Johnson.

People who do too much have grown afraid to dream.

We know how to lust.

After power,

After money,

After security,

After relationships.

But we have forgotten how to dream.

Dreaming is not limited to the unreal.

Dreaming is stretching the real beyond the limits of the present.

Dreaming is not being bound by the merely possible.

Dreaming is not safe for our illusion of control,

And it is infinitely safe for our soul.

When we deprive ourselves of our hopes and dreams,

We relegate ourselves to keeping our eyes to the ground,

Carefully calculating every step,

And missing the pictures in the clouds and the double rainbows.

To hope and dream is not to ignore the practical.

It is to dress it in colours and rainbows.

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