Dreams can have the power to shape lives.
- Our dreams come from a place inside that is ancient and powerful.
- Some say, "You don’t choose who you fall in love with", I say, "You don’t choose your dreams. They choose you."
- Dreams shape our future, archive our past, and inform our present.
- Luis Bunuel once wrote, “Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Rock Dreams vs. Soul Dreams
Our rock dreams are the who-do-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up dreams or the what-will-my-life-look-like-someday dreams.
- Rock dreams are goals we set about the kind of work we want to do, or the type of family we want to have, or the types of achievements we want to hit.
- At twenty-one, rock dreams are the promises we make to ourselves to build a life of fulfillment and meaning.
We all have soul dreams in one form or another.
- People refer to their soul dreams as callings, visions, destinies, gut instincts, and dozens of others descriptions.
- Put simply, your soul dream is the purpose of your life.
- It represents a design for your life that you did not construct for yourself.
- It includes chapters in your life that you can’t write for yourself.
- It’s timeless and was written over your life before you were born.
- Soul dreams reveal themselves differently to each of us, at different times in our lives, if we are willing to listen.
That soul dream is your purpose. It’s what the world needs from you.
- Your ambitions and your purpose make up a whole far greater than the sum of their parts.
- Don’t make the mistake of believing that the only way to find purpose is to do something you don’t enjoy.
Two dreams. One life. One purpose. Intertwined. One is the good you do for yourself, and one is the good you get to do for others.
- The desire to spend some of your valuable life for the benefit of others is already inside your soul.
- But only you can access it.
Step outside of the planned path you’ve made for yourself into the uncharted path toward meaning.
Re-source: Reflection
serious thinking or careful consideration : the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected
We ask ourselves existential questions such as:
- Where do I fit in? Am I good enough?
- What is my purpose?
- Am I worthy of being loved?
- Am I fulfilled by my work?
- Am I operating at my top potential?
- Will my rock dreams be enough, or should I be chasing another kind of dream?
The deep need for meaning and purpose in our lives is one of the greatest forces for change in the history of humankind.
- The need, if acted on, can change the world.
- Meaning isn’t measured in resources, but resourcefulness.
Don’t Let Your Dreams Become Dreams.
- It’s a valuable warning. The dreams we have, whether lucid or from the soul, are ours to either pursue or neglect.
- Our dreams become wispy memories inside a mental truck full of “almosts” and “wish I hads.”
- Popular wisdom today teaches us to go after our dreams with wild abandon, but it doesn’t offer a usable map for failure.
Our ambitions are woven with our purpose.
Somehow in the pursuit of my rock dream I found what the world needed form me. I want you to know that the world needs something from you as well.
- The desires, ambitions, and interest that make up your rock dreams, whatever it is, can play a huge role in fulfilling your purpose.
- All that we want for our own lives can be leveraged for the lives of others.
Your life has so much more potential and purpose than your self-constructed rock dreams.
- There is a bigger narrative yet to be uncovered in your life, and it can take you to unexpected experiences and unscripted places.
- It will authorize entry into places you never imagined you could go.
craving and resource from “A Selfish Plan to Change the World” by Justin Dillon
