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DREAMS AND VISIONS
DREAMS AND VISIONS
The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the
visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials
and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of
their solitary dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives
in them; it knows them as they Realities which it shall one day see and
know.
Composer,
sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the
after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have
lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.
He who
cherished a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus
fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and
he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless
beauty and perfect peace and he entered into it.
Cherish
your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart,
the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly
environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last
be built.
To
desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Shall man’s basest desires
receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve
for lack of sustenance ? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can
never obtain : “ask and receive.”
Dream
lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise
of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at
last unveil.
The greatest
achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird
waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams
are the seedlings of the realities.
Your circumstances
may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal
and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.
Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labour; confined long hours in
an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all the art of refinement. But he
dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and
beauty. He conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life; vision
of a wider liberty and a larger scope possession of him; unrest urges him to
action, and he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though they are, to
the development of his latent powers and resources. Very soon so altered has
his mind become that the workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so out
of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is
cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his
expanding powers, he passes out of it forever. Years later we see this youth as
a full grown man. We find him a master of certain forces of the mind, which he
wields with worldwide influence and almost unequalled power. In his hands he
holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks, and lo, lives changed;
men and women hang upon his words and remould their characters, and, sunlike,
he becomes the fixed and luminous center round which innumerable destinies
revolve. He has realized the vision of his youth. He has become one with his
ideal.
And you,
too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of
your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always
gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love. Into your hands will
be placed exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you
earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will
fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your ideal. You will
become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant
aspiration : in the beautiful words of Stanton Kirkham Davis, “you may
be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so
long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself
before an audience- the pen still behind your ear, the ink stains on your
fingers and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration. You may
be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city-bucolic and open-mouthed;
shall wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the
master, and after a time he shall say, ‘I have nothing more to teach you.’
And now you have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things
while driving sheep. You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon
yourself the regeneration of the world.”
The thoughtless,
the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and
not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance. Seeing a man
grow rich, they say, ”how lucky he is!” observing another become
intellectual, they exclaim, “how highly favoured he is!” And noting the saintly
character and wide influence of another, they remark, “how chance aids him at
every turn!” they so not see the trails and failures and struggles which
these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have
no knowledge of the sacrifices they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised,
that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable and realize the Vision
of their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only
see the light and joy, and call it “luck”. They do not see the long and arduous
journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, an call it “good fortune” do not
understand the process, but only perceive the result and call it chance.
In all
human affairs, there are efforts, and there are results, and
the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not.
Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits
of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
The Vision
that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this will
build your life by, this you will become.
By :
James Allen, British Philosopher
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Very nice post. Our dreams pave the way for our achievements. Dreams has to be there in every one's life . Without it man will become a robot.
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