Dream Great Dreams

Someone rewrote some lines in Edgar Guest’s poem Equipment. Guest says: “So start for the top and say I can.” The rewrite said: “So dream great dreams and say “God can.” I’ve always liked the rewrite better but I don’t know who to attribute it to. I believe that James Allen would also go with the rewrite. Allen’s words in As A Man Thinketh go like this:

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your
Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is
the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The
oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the
highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the
seedlings of realities.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long
remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities. What an awesome quote. What do you need to do to sustain your dreams so that they grow from seedlings to giant trees? The idea is the same as we see expressed by Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles – your thoughts are things. Your thoughts grow from seedlings into a great reality. Like the seedling thoughts need nurturing and the need some work.

A seedling needs suckering – the offshoots that just take away nutrition from it and which would stunt it’s growth need to be removed. Did you have a nice dream that has gotten confused and unclear by following too many offshoots and neglecting the real dream? You need to deal with that.

A seedling needs nourishment. You’ve got to feed your dream or it will die. You’ve got to hold it up in the light of your mind so it can get the nourishment from the light. If it’s just a seedling and blocked from light by all the other stuff that is happening in your life soon it will be crushed and lost forever. Hold that vision, see it, experience it, and be thankful for it.

Life

These dreams the seedlings are actually a microcosm of your life. People are born and endowed with promise and hope as all new babies are. Some grow to be the tall trees while others don’t fully meet their potential. The Edgar Guest poem Equipment mentioned at the beginning talks about that. You and your dreams together are these seedlings. Dreams really are all the equipment that even the great ever have, this is the promise and hope that wraps each of us as we are born. Can you get rid of the suckers in your life, can you hold your dreams and your hopes in the light and give them the appreciation and the care that they need to take you into a great future?

Read what Allen said again:

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long
remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

This is what Wattles and Hill are saying. It is yet another statement of the law of attraction. Hold the vision and it will come to pass. Let me say it again in another way:

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and I will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what shall I answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

—Habakkuk 2:1-3, King James Bible

I have long loved that scripture. Write the vision – make it plain – because it will surely come, it will not tarry. When we were born a vision was written upon our souls but many of us have not nourished the vision and have allowed suckers to take us off into paths that will not take us to the great heights that we are intended to achieve. But as Allen says those circumstances won’t long remain if we but perceive an ideal and strive to reach for it. Again – it is the law of attraction.

“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

Carpe diem – seize the day. This is your day take a moment and reach for that dream and hold it in the light, hold in the “Thinking Substance” as Wattles calls it. See it, nurture it, and soon live it. But it starts with today, it starts with you, that dream and holding it up to the light, holding it in the thinking substance.