You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is one of the forces by which men and women live.
To dream is the easiest thing in the world. There are no limitations to dreaming. But as we grow we experience pain, failure, criticism, and disappointment, and we gradually limit our dreams. We seek to live in the comfort zone. There is no such thing. It is much more difficult to try to live in a comfort zone than it is to follow our dreams, because the comfort zone is only an illusion, but our dreams are real. Will you spend the rest of your life chasing an illusion or following your dreams?
I will never forget a question I once heard Robert Schuller pose in an interview with Larry King. They were discussing the effects of the fear of failure on our decision-making process, and Schuller offered this question as a guide: "What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"
Do not be afraid to dream. Perhaps your fear is of failure. There is no shame in trying to attempt mighty things and failing. The shame is in failing to attempt those things. Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist and poet, knew the value, power, and need for dreams when he wrote, "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Our dreams are a self-revelation.
Tell me what your dreams are and I will tell you what type of person you are. Define your dreams clearly and precisely and you will know for yourself what type of person you are. If you do not like what you discover, remember, you created your dreams, and in so doing, you formed the person you are today. If you don't like who you are and the life you are living, it may seem like bad news to hear that you have created the person you are today and the life you are living. The good news is, you can re-create your dreams and become a new creation.
Don't let the hustle and bustle of life drag you down. Don't allow the day-to-day drudgery of life distract you from your essential purpose-becoming the-best-version-of-yourself! Take time to dream. Imagine what you are capable of, and live that life.
Let us live every day in the counsel of Thoreau: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
~ excerpt from The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose - Matthew Kelly
To dream is the easiest thing in the world. There are no limitations to dreaming. But as we grow we experience pain, failure, criticism, and disappointment, and we gradually limit our dreams. We seek to live in the comfort zone. There is no such thing. It is much more difficult to try to live in a comfort zone than it is to follow our dreams, because the comfort zone is only an illusion, but our dreams are real. Will you spend the rest of your life chasing an illusion or following your dreams?
I will never forget a question I once heard Robert Schuller pose in an interview with Larry King. They were discussing the effects of the fear of failure on our decision-making process, and Schuller offered this question as a guide: "What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"
Do not be afraid to dream. Perhaps your fear is of failure. There is no shame in trying to attempt mighty things and failing. The shame is in failing to attempt those things. Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist and poet, knew the value, power, and need for dreams when he wrote, "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Our dreams are a self-revelation.
Tell me what your dreams are and I will tell you what type of person you are. Define your dreams clearly and precisely and you will know for yourself what type of person you are. If you do not like what you discover, remember, you created your dreams, and in so doing, you formed the person you are today. If you don't like who you are and the life you are living, it may seem like bad news to hear that you have created the person you are today and the life you are living. The good news is, you can re-create your dreams and become a new creation.
Don't let the hustle and bustle of life drag you down. Don't allow the day-to-day drudgery of life distract you from your essential purpose-becoming the-best-version-of-yourself! Take time to dream. Imagine what you are capable of, and live that life.
Let us live every day in the counsel of Thoreau: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
~ excerpt from The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose - Matthew Kelly