“God, the one substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying, I want to have hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures. I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truth and to sing marvelous songs.”-Wallace D Wattles.
The year was around 2012. I had been living in the Adirondacks for more than four years. The process of getting here required me to face the biggest obstacles I had encountered up to that point in my life: financial, emotional, spiritual, psychological... you name it!
Living in the Adirondacks represented the fulfillment of a childhood dream I’d given up on as an adult! Surviving severe burnout emotionally, spiritually, and physically resulted in the remembering and reclaiming of my dream! What a journey it was leaving behind my grounded, safe life in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and finding a way to move my family 400 miles north into the gorgeous promised land called the Adirondacks!
I was aware that Life wouldn’t be perfect there. I was not completely unrealistic. I knew that life would still be hard and have struggles. But I was going to be living my dream! Surely, this would mean a whole new level of fulfillment, peace, and joy. I would live every day with a realization that I was fulfilling the reason I was alive. How could it be better than that?
The journey from living a good enough life to living my dream was an amazing, adventurous expedition of destiny. I wouldn’t trade that chapter of my life for anything. But it was also one of my life's hardest, most stretching growth seasons.
Here I was four years in. During the past four years, we survived and overcame building a hospitality business during the financial crisis of 2008. That is a story in and of itself for another time. The Snow Goose Bed and Breakfast was a success. We had risen to the top 10% of Tripadvisor! We were a respected business within our community. We had served thousands, and although I worked hard, every day was filled with the joy of knowing I was blessing my world. I, indeed, was living my dream.
I also lost 95% of the friends I had before I moved. I struggled to find like-minded people to replace them in my new home. The combination of being a biracial adoption family, having an out-of-the-box approach to spirituality, and being entrepreneurs. engaged parents, and personal wounds, our family's day-to-day life was intense and a daily opportunity to question if I had made the right choice.
By this point in the journey, I fully intended to teach others how to live their dreams. Instead, I was questioning the living of my own dream. At one point, my daily life was filled with such emotional pain I joked my motto should be “Come live your dream, suffer more than you thought you could!
In reality, I was deeply lonely. Yes, my life was filled with things I loved, but right alongside them was struggle, emptiness, disappointment, and the hardship of trying to be a good husband and father. In the midst of the deep turmoil was the disappointment that living my dream was less than I had hoped. My kids were experts in pointing out my shortcomings and failures, causing me an even deeper struggle, wondering if I had made a terrible mistake.
Understanding the Origin and Purpose of Dreams.
If we could see reality from reality’s viewpoint, we would see a very different world. I get it; we live in a three-dimensional world, and we, as humans, are equipped to perceive a three-dimensional physical world. For many years, science has held a Newtonian viewpoint of the material physical world being reality made up of the invisible.
The mystics of old, however, held a very different viewpoint. They perceived that our physical world was a manifestation of the mystical or invisible one. Fortunately, the new quantum sciences align much more with the mystical version of old, revealing a physical world that is a reflection or an unfolding of a spiritual or mystical reality.
The mystics and the new sciences perceive reality from a perspective of a formless Oneness from which all things manifest. Within this formless Oneness lives the “One Idea,” which serves as the inspiration of all creation. This “One Idea” can best be described as thought, and all physical forms can rightly be called “Thought Bodies.” In other words, all matter within the universe is a physical manifestation of the formless idea within the “One Idea” desiring to manifest or be expressed. This idea is planted into every living thing in the form of a seed. The seed is what I call the “Dream.”
A great example of this is the acorn. Properly understood, an acorn contains the blueprint for the oak tree. In other words, the acorn is the idea or dream of a great oak tree. When we begin to recognize that the urge within us that is calling us to a life of destiny finds its origin within the essence of the divine, the significance of living our dream takes on a greatly elevated perspective.
“God, the one substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying, I want to have hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures. I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truth and to sing marvelous songs.”-Wallace D Wattles.
The Purpose of Your Dream
Viewing the creation of the physical world and our lives as part of it, from the perspective of “One Idea” of the Divine being manifest through the implanting of seed, shifts the focus from our dreams simply creating a life of fulfillment for us to the joy of knowing that the “Source” of all things is accomplishing a cosmic destiny through us!
Dreams are God‘s way of making sure we are never satisfied with life as it is presently. Dreams are not destinations but merely vistas to view the endless summits of destiny that await. When the oak tree stops growing, it dies. Its destiny lies within growing or in the journey. The same is true for us. The moment we make our dream simply about a life of fulfillment, we ask it to be something that was never intended to be.
Coming to understand the origin and purpose of my dream, I realized that my Adirondack experience, though painful and difficult, was exactly what it needed to be. My dream was about expressing my little slice of the glorious “One Idea” of the Divine. All of the loneliness, hardship, and struggle were essential for shaping my avatar into a fitting Earth Suit to express that glory!
Funny thing… Ultimately, this resulted in me living and experiencing a deeply fulfilling life!
The byproduct of a well-lived dream is a life of happiness and fulfillment. But seeking that alone will cause us to misuse the dream and miss the greater purpose of allowing the Divine Cosmic Drama to be written and lived out through us.
Welcome to The Quest, my friend. Welcome to a journey of Destiny. May you know the joy of a journey experiencing the reality that the Divine is expressing its great desire through your very existence! This is what it means to live truly ALIVE!
Love and blessings‼️
Wayne