What do you WANT with ALL of your heart?
What do you DREAM about for your life?
I believe we all have a dream. It is never too late to chase your dream! And I think it is that dream that causes a fire to burn in our heart. It is that dream that gives us life!
In Paulo Coelho's classic book The Alchemist there are some great quotes about dreams that really speak to the power of our dreams and how we should treat them.
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
I love this quote because I believe it IS the POSSIBILITY of the dream coming true that makes life interesting. Even more so than the dream itself. It's the pursuit of the dream that is enlightening! The hope that it will come true is intoxicating to me. The POSSIBILITY drives me!!
Santiago, the main character, asks the Alchemist how a dream can come true and he responds:
"I only know how to interpret dreams, I don't know how to make them come true. "
Isn't that the problem? How do we make our dreams come true? I believe only WE know how to make our dreams come true! And only we have the power. If we don't BELIEVE...the dream has NO CHANCE! WE HAVE TO OVERCOME OUR OBSTACLES!!! Obstacles like COMFORT, LACK OF VISION AND FEAR!
COMFORT kills dreams!
We have to be willing to take a chance and get out of our comfort zone! The comfort zone holds us back! Be ready to JUMP IN and GET UNCOMFORTABLE!
COMFORT kills dreams...
"He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he greatly desired to have..."
LACK OF VISION kills dreams...
When we have a dream or an inspiration and we are just too busy or preoccupied, that dream will die. And a dream that dies, that was never pursued with passion, will be a curse. Don't let busyness impair your VISION!
"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."
FEAR kills dreams...
We must be able to extinguish the fear that keeps us from even trying. Fear will paralyze our passion.
"There is only one thing that stops a dream, fear of it not coming true!"
In the book, the Refugee at the pyramid had his own dream that he failed to follow because of his fear and so he never realized his dream. It is this that is often what keeps us from realizing our dream... we are wracked by fear!
A MIRACLE always starts with a DREAM! It is the pursuit that lies in between the dream and the miracle that depends on YOU!!
MOEO!!
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