One’s arms are never shorter than their imagination. Our arms can reach as far as our imagination can conjure, and bring its musings into reality.
The cliche is true: you can achieve whatever your mind can conceive. Your mind isn’t some wild, idiotic, impractical wasteland. At least not if you tend to it. Ignoring the grandeur kindled by your imagination is like a man who discovered a vast gold mine in his backyard, sealed it up, and never mined it. Yet he lives in squalor and indigence.
Your imagination is not just a dreamer of dreamers. It is an infallible indication of your potentialities and abilities, a harbinger of things to come. What the mind sees is an authentic blueprint for the feet to walk and the hands to build.
This indicates man’s dual nature- you are both spirit and body, non-physical and physical, visible and invisible, eternal and mortal. You can’t live an existence that is half of who you are. The mind and the body are one. The invisible world and the visible world are one. Your mind’s inventions and your hands creations are one and the same thing. The two- mind and hands- are a team. They collaborate to produce the same outcome.
So what you imagined is what you are absolutely capable of achieving. There is nothing like a pipe dream. The dream is real. Your dreams are real! They are real in your sacred, inner man, and that is proof positive that the external, physical man can achieve it. What you see within you can be fully, exactly replicated in your physical life. Your dreams are merely a foreshadowing of what is to come in your physical life, if you work at it, if you permit it to come alive.
The only obstacles are fear and lack of faith.
Never let anyone, not even yourself, tell you that your dreams are unattainable, or that they are a “shitty pipe dream”, like Ellis Redding told Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption, one of the greatest works of cinema.
Dream and build, for so is the make of man.
Happy dreaming, and happier building!
Cheers!
