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Monday
04Jan2010

Monday Musings: Into Dreamt-for Reality

Blooming bud at Garden Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

"Our wishes foretell the capacities within ourselves: they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours, in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is already possible into dreamt-for reality." — Goethe

This is the first full week of 2010. I know that the start of the New Year is an arbitrary marker, but there is something that, for me, feels so fresh and full about beginning the year anew.

As I have been thinking of what I would like to accomplish in 2010, I am paying particular attention to those inner callings of my heart — my wishes — and seeing which ones are ready to open into full bloom this year.

Like Goethe, I believe that our innermost dreams and desires are really inner callings of a higher order whispering us into the greatest we came here to be.

Tell me, what wishes are calling to you for the New Year? What small step can you take this week toward creating that "dreamt-for reality"?

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Reader Comments (1)

Ahh...how vastly true...and how connected to this quote do I feel...esp in my now when shedding layers of assumed qualifiers to the right path of self expression. I'm humbled by the truth of this quote...my main wish: to stop hiding behind any project..finding the most authentic vehicle for self expression..simply being..and trusting her unfolding...still. :) love you for your example of perpetual being ...:) and willingness to share her. ;)

January 4, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTre ~

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