\u00abWho are you?\u00bb I barely found the strength to enquire.<\/p>\n
\u00abI am the Dreamer \u2013 said He \u2013 I am the Dreamer and you are the dreamed. An instant of sincerity, a crack in the wall of your lies, like a flash of lightning, allowed you to see Me.\u00bb<\/p>\n
The silence which followed spread like ripples in infinite circles. His voice became a rustle.<\/p>\n
\u00abI am freedom! \u2013 He announced \u2013 Now that you have met Me, you will no longer be able to live such an insignificant existence.\u00bb The following words would remain forever engraved in my memory. \u00abTo be dependent, even if involuntarily, is always a personal choice. Nothing and no one can force you into dependency, only you can do that to yourself.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Staring at me steadily, He stated that the propensity to lay the blame on the world and to complain about one\u2019s lot were the most irrefutable evidence of the fact that these principles had not been understood. A man does not depend on a company; he is not limited by a corporate pecking order or by a boss, but by his own fear. Dependence is fear.<\/p>\n
\u00abBeing dependent is not the effect of a contract, it is not related to any role nor is it the result of one\u2019s social class\u2026 Dependency is the effect of an unsound mind, enslaved by imaginary fears, by its own apprehensions\u2026 Dependency is the visible sign of having surrendered one\u2019s \u2018dream\u2019.\u00bb<\/p>\n
This conclusion, the way He pronounced the word \u2018dependency\u2019 each time and the slow enunciation of each syllable, unveiled the real meaning of the word and all the pain, the lack of self-love, masked by the banality of its common usage.<\/p>\n
\u00abDependency is a disease of Being!\u2026 It is the result of one\u2019s incompleteness \u2013 the Dreamer revealed \u2013 To be dependent means ceasing to believe in oneself. To depend means to stop dreaming.\u00bb<\/p>\n
The more I pondered His words, the more I felt them eating into me like acid. My resentment sharpened into a rage. The way His words cut a swath through the human condition was intolerable. What could a man\u2019s life or his work have to do with his feelings and fears? For me these two worlds, the inner and the outer had always been separated, and so should have remained. I firmly believed that it was possible to be dependent in the outside world and yet remain free on the inside and this certainty fueled my indignation.<\/p>\n
\u00abLike millions of other men you, have lived your life hidden in the folds of lifeless organizations \u2013 He said to me accusingly \u2013 You have bartered your freedom for an illusory assurance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time to wake from your hypnotic sleep\u2026 from your hellish vision of existence!\u00bb<\/p>\n
No one had ever treated me like that before.<\/p>\n
\u00abWho gives you the right to speak to me in this way?\u00bb I burst out defiantly.<\/p>\n
\u00abYou\u00bb<\/p>\n
His words had a solemn intonation when He announced: \u00abOne day there will be a society that merely dreams and will no longer have to work. A humanity rich enough to dream, and infinitely rich because it dreams.<\/p>\n
The universe is bountiful in the extreme, a cornucopia overflowing with all a man\u2019s heart desires\u2026 In such a universe it is impossible to fear scarcity. Only men like you, racked with fear and doubt, can be poor and perpetuate dependency and poverty in the world.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abBut I\u2019m not poor!\u00bb I shouted indignantly. \u00abWhy would you say that?\u00bb Inside I defended myself with all the reasons I could muster to demonstrate the absurdity of His accusation. The Dreamer was silent. \u00abI\u2019m not poor! \u2013 I shouted again \u2013 I have a beautiful home, a manager\u2019s position, friends who respect me\u2026 I have two children to whom I am both father and mother\u2026\u00bb Here I stopped, overwhelmed by the intolerable injustice of His groundless attack.<\/p>\n
\u00abPoverty means being unable to see one\u2019s own limits \u2013 the Dreamer explained\u2013 Being poor means you have bartered your right to be the creator of your own destiny for a job you do not like and did not choose.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abYou! \u2013 He added, just when I was hoping he had finished \u2013 you are the poorest of the poor, because you still do not know who you are\u2026 You \u2018forgot\u2019. To no one else have I given so many opportunities as I have given to you.<\/p>\n
This is your last chance.\u00bb<\/p>\n
All at once, that feeling of having been offended and unfairly treated, disappeared and all my defences gave way in the face of that battering ram. I felt the hinges holding together my very existence beginning to creak and my most deep-rooted convictions began to crumble like ancient temples shaken to their foundations.<\/p>\n
\u00abOpen your eyes, contemplate your condition. See how far a man can stray from magnificence.<\/p>\n
We appear to be here in the same room, and yet we are separated by infinite eons of time.\u00bb<\/p>\n
With those words, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning slashing across the darkness of the night, I understood the distance that existed between Him and I. I appreciated the falseness of my offended dignity and the insignificance of the \u2018I\u2019 I pronounced in the presence of the Dreamer like a tiny squeak in the universe.<\/p>\n
My illusions of belonging to a decision-making class, an elite of responsible men, possessing free will and independence and in control of their own lives fell like a curtain after the first act of a comic opera. My eyes were open now. Without realizing it, I had been sinking into a mire of self-pity.<\/p>\n
Providentially, the Dreamer intervened, launching a harsh command which seemed to be directed at the very depths of my Being. \u00abWake up! Start your own revolution… Rise up against yourself!\u00bb He ordered sharply, offering me a way out of the tight corner of contrition into which I had retreated. \u00abDream of freedom\u2026 freedom from all constraints\u2026 You are the only obstacle to everything you desire! Dream, dream… Dream without end! The \u2019dream\u2019 is the most real thing there is.\u00bb<\/p>\n
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