–the introduction to “Walking Sleep, Waking Dreams”
The naysayers will say the book you hold in your hands is a work of fiction.
Let them.
With ideas like that they will never come to know the dreams contained inside this manual — and the countless dreams inside of you.
This simple book, the result of years of research and testing and practice, can change your life in extraordinary ways.
Reading these pages, you will come to know that all of the feelings that you have about the way the world works, about what is true and good and right, are true. You will come to know that the voice inside of you has been right all along. The path to greatness, to unlocking your true potential, to being a force for change, to being one of the few who have the drive, the passion, the fundamental courage to make their dreams come true, is right before you, and has always been inside.
Right now, search yourself. It takes courage to question others. It takes passion to find your true calling. It takes an inner drive to to change, yourself or the world, and you, by reading these six paragraphs have proven to yourself that all of these things are a part of you.
They may have been lying dormant.
They may have been held down.
They may have suppressed.
But they have always been there.
Again, you have this book, this single, simple guide in your hands, and you are reading it because some inner spark inside of you desires to be kindled, it desires to burn, it desires to be explode.
No matter where you are in your career, your life, this applies to you. You are likely already successful. Your friends see you as such. Your family sees you as such. And you see yourself as such, but there is so much more to you, so much more that you can be, so much more that you can become, so much more that you can awaken.
And it’s inside you.
It always has been.
But the world has gotten in the way.
The world has stepped in front of you.
The world has blocked you from seeing it fully.
From experiencing it fully.
From living it fully.
From being it fully.
And you are a being.
You are an action.
You are an event that is unfolding.
You are a change.
A shift.
A progression.
A step.
A leap.
A charge.
You are the spark that will ignite your soul, your world, your life, your way of understanding, your way of being, your way of becoming, your way of being you.
And you are you.
You always have been. But you haven’t always seen it. At least not with your waking eye. That eye doesn’t see clearly.
Sometimes it only focuses on that which is right in front of us.
Sometimes it only focuses on that which is far away.
But rarely, at least to those who are untrained, does it see everything around us, for what it is, for how it distorts, for how it distracts, for how it dissuades.
The young man who is crippled by anxiety, who knows that he has something to say and that people will want to hear it, they need to hear it, who fears that speaking before a crowd is something he cannot do, is something out of his reach, is something he cannot do — this book is for you.
It’s just words, it’s just people, it’s as simple and natural as breathing. And if it’s as natural as breathing, it’s natural to you. It’s innate. It’s inside you. It is you.
Close your eyes and look inward. Breath deep and let your mind wander, let it dream. You will see it. And you will see that it has always been there.
You will feel it.
You will find it.
You have found it.
It is the foundation upon which you have been built.
That hard-working mother who is juggling a full-time job, raising a family, being a loving and attentive lover — this book is for you. You have allowed your responsibilities and obligations and considerations to keep her from unleashing your true power, your true self, your true statement to the universe.
But it’s just life. It’s just family. For years, for decades, for centuries, this has been the life that we have lived and millions have lived before us.
They did it.
We can do it.
You can do it.
You have been doing it.
It’s just life, it’s just living, it’s as simple and natural as breathing. And if it’s as natural as breathing, it’s natural to you. It’s innate. It’s inside you. It is you.
Close your eyes and look inward. Breath deep and let your mind wander, let it dream. You will see it. And you will see that it has always been there.
It’s the would-be entrepreneur with a world-changing idea, but who looks at the task ahead and feels overwhelmed by the obstacles, the hassles, hamstrung by conditioned doubt, hobbled by false starts and all to brief flashes of inspiration. But the idea is there.
It’s just an idea waiting to be released, it’s just ideal waiting to grasped, it’s just a new identity that is ready to be born. It’s as simple and natural as breathing. And if it’s as natural as breathing, it’s natural to you. It’s innate. It’s inside you. It is you.
Close your eyes and look inward. Breath deep and let your mind wander, let it dream. You will see it. And you will see that it has always been there. It has always waiting to be.
This book will help you see this. And it will do so by teaching you to close your eyes, to look away from the distractions, the doubts, the deceptions of the waking world. Those are the nightmares that plague our days.
But in our dreams, the nightmares of the world cannot harm us. And when you realize this, you too will realize they cannot harm you in the waking world as well.
Your dreams are your reality.
Reality is a dream.
And in order to wake up, we must first close our eyes, we must first fall asleep.
Wake up, my brothers and sisters. Wake up.
It’s time to go to sleep. It’s time to dream.
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