- The Alchemist defining Destiny
"Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep."
- The Wikipedia taken from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000. Retrieved 2009-05-07
So just like the chicken and egg conspiracy, dreams and destiny are also quite interlinked and its difficult to predict what comes first.Dreams have been subject of study in philosophical and psychological contexts.It has also been part of "Visioning" or "Day dreaming" that a lot of men do and succeed in.
"He believes in his dream for, ‘It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting"
On the contrary, there is also a Freewill theory that states that Character is non deterministic. So probably dreams and destiny are also not related.One of the key lessons for me in destiny had unfolded last year leading to a life long tag.This was not something that I had dreamt of but probably some one else had already conspired about it.And all the universe conspired in achieving the goal and help it in making part of my destiny.Probably it was all about freewill.
These have been moments of doubts, lack of self confidence and a lot of detachment.I don't know if and when will I be back to normal.But going into a down time brings a lot of courage in you and makes you relate that in the end its only between you and God.
"Courage is the most essential to understanding the Language of the World…"
No one will remember you for the colleges you went or the companies you worked for or PPTs you had made or the happy family trips or the functions /get togethers you went to.
"Don’t think about what you have left behind, everything is written on the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever…"
"When the old man says, “The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation. All things are one.”
"You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love".
“If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure."
Probably last year this time, I was overconfident of doing everything right at being at the right place at the right time and all that. I had no fear of failure and then came the shock that was to change everything.
There were 4 failures that the Alchemist had referred to and I have probably experienced all of them to some extent - >Fear of thinking the dream is realizable,Fear of losing love when its the stimulus,Fear of failure and Fear of realizing the dream when its near.
And inspite or despite of these failures we continue to work towards our destiny for there are so many things that life has to offer and one cannot stop living just because there are so many risks all the time.So just believe in the omens like the "boy" and work your way to destiny.
