Today I am grateful for Dreams — both those seen while asleep, as well as those felt while awake … I am initially thankful for the former — for their symbolic reflections of both previous experiences as well as current interactions between my material mind-body and the energies of the Cosmos – what some call “the Divine”.  My sleeping dreams come to me in forms varied; vision and fable, metaphor and archetype, emotion-laden confrontations and Peace-infused wonderments … As such, because they arrive in forms that scintillate unexpectedly and cryptically, they can be quite difficult to decipher.

And yet, because of their symbolic medium, they also come to me untainted by my ego’s known desires and unadulterated by my subconscious mind’s driving fears.  As such, if they can be deciphered, their messages are guaranteed to be accurate ones — the pain of nightmares calling for an adjustment of how I am living; the peace of pipe-dreams encouraging a continued stroll along current rivulets of compassionate unity …

 

Just as importantly, I am thankful for the “waking dream” that is my current life … Every instant I experience, both the thousands of which I am subconsciously Aware — as well as the few dozen I choose to focus intently upon each day — speak to me in many layers of Truth.  On their surface, they provide me with either direct challenges of pain or obvious rewards of joy.  And yet, underneath my tangible perceptions thereof, they also chant deeper Truths of the dance between the harmony of selfless Oneness & the suffering of independence-based duality — using methods diverse to guide me back to my Destiny: namely, to awaken and live again as a focused Force for Good …

And so it is that I climb to my proverbial mountaintop, take a deep breath filled with profound reverence, and let loose with a long & loud –

Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

 

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