Dreams

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We are caught in such a profusion of dreams

Competing to dream the ultimate dream

All dreaming of that which is not

 

That which is neither a dream

Nor which is anything at all

 

The dream of reality

The dream of that which we forestall

 

Each of us but a dream

Of a dream to each other

 

Dreams of easy dreaming

Dreams of dreams dying hard

 

Dying hard,

Living easy

In ourselves'

In each others'

 

Cheap dreams

Exorbitant

Multi billion dollar

International corporation

Dreams

 

Both God

And genocide

Both aids

And suicide

Both Hollywood

And Harvard hood

 

Twin tower screams

Eisenhower themes

 

Dessert creams

Desert extremes

 

Or so it seems

 

~*~

 

Note: " We are such things as dreams are made on, " not 'of,' ( " and our

little life is rounded with a sleep " ).

 

" We are so far from knowing all the various modes of their action that

it is not worthy of a philosopher to deny phenomena because they are

inexplicable in the present state of our knowledge. The harder it is

to acknowledge the existence of phenomena, the more we are bound to

investigate them with increasing care. "

-Laplace

 

" If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and

endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a

success unexpected in common hours. "

-Thoreau (Walden)

 

" None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the

future is. "

-Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

 

" We are such things as dreams are made on, and our little life is

rounded with a sleep. "

-Shakespeare: The Tempest

 

" There is nothing abnormal in the world - there is only the lack of

understanding the normal. "

-Swami Puri

 

" Our unconscious existence is the real one, and the conscious world is

a kind of illusion, an apparent reality constructed for a specific

purpose like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it. "

-C. Jung

 

" From within or behind a light shines through us all upon things and

makes us aware that we are nothing but the light is all. "

-Emerson

 

And the dream of love?

Just the love of dreaming?

 

Or the light of seeing?