Let Your Dream In

Today’s guest blogger in the Desiderata Project is Karen Lynch from Live the Power.

Neither be cynical about Love
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is perennial as the grass.

Love is a rather Universal desire among humans. We all want to have Love, feel Love, experience Love. Even the most distrusting among us tend to respond to the emotion of Love.But as I have read and studied the Desiderata since it became my favorite poem back in the fifth grade and I have read this passage over and over again, I would like to expand the word Love as it is written here to include all of our dreams and aspirations for life, yes, all of our dreams that we have for accomplishments, achievements, health, wealth and of course, Love.

The act of being cynical can be one of the most destructive of human emotions if one wants to deliberately create an extraordinary life. Cynicism suggests a disbelief in the sincerity of human motives, a distrust in the flow of life, and a habitual disposition to see the only the worst of life and the dark side of a situation. A cynic tends to believe that the worst will happen and their general outlook is one of pessimism for the future.

If we bring about what we think about and we create our own reality, the cynic creates a miserable life. After all, that is what they are expecting. That is what they are creating. Their very act of cynicism and pessimism brings to them the people and situations that confirms their beliefs. As with all of us, the world brings to them what they focus on.

The advice of the desiderata is “Neither be cynical about Love”; good advice indeed. Don’t be cynical. Cynicism and pessimism will never serve you in creating a good and happy life. The act of cynicism will never assist you in making your dreams come true.

As we read on however, the desiderata brings us a profound truth, a beautiful description of life as it truly is.

For in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, It is perennial as the grass.

Aridity, such an uncommon word. How many times have you read that word in a sentence? Used it in a conversation? Yet its placement here is so perfect, so profound when you know the meaning. When we think of an arid climate we think of a climate devoid of water, a desert, a barren land, a land lacking the moisture to sustain the growth of trees or woody plants. But as we delve further into the meaning of the word we also come up with “lacking interest or feeling, lifeless and dull” and “the quality of yielding nothing of value” . Pair that with the word “disenchantment” and isn’t that an apt description of emotions that we have all felt at one time or another?

“Aridity and disenchantment” fittingly describes how we often feel when we have those inevitable disappointments, failures and defeats that life hands to us all at one time or another. We have the disappointments, we have the failures and we feel as if all of our preparations and all of our actions have yielded us nothing of value. We often feel as if it would be better to forget it and believe that our lives were not meant for such things. Our dreams of Love, our dreams of accomplishments, our goals and our aspirations do not seem to be available to us in our future.

Our visions become arid, our disenchantment palpable.

Yet in the face of the disillusionment is the promise. And the promise is true, whatever your dream.

It is perennial as the grass.

Perennial is the quality of being perpetual, everlasting, continuing, recurrent. Your dreams, your goals and your aspirations, be they for Love or for something else are perennial. You will always have dreams, new desires, goals and aspirations. Your dreams are not going away. Your dreams are yours for a reason. You wouldn’t have them if you couldn’t make them come true.

Within every dream is the seed for its fulfillment.

We live in an infinite Universe. Your dreams can and will come true if you allow it to happen and you let them in. It’s never too late. Now it may be true that your exact dream may not turn out as you originally envisioned it, but if you open up your heart and your soul, the “Essence” of your dream can come to you.

The “Essence” of a dream is what you truly want, the reasons why it is your dream in the first place,. The “Essence” of your dream is what the fulfillment of your dream will give you.

The Essence of what you want is always out there for you. Oftentimes, the Universe gives you something better than you could have even imagined yourself. But you must open up your heart, your mind and your soul to the infiniteness of the Universe and you must let it in.

It is never to late to have your dream.

Because….

“It is Perennial as the Grass”

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