John O'Donohue Quote

In the beginning was the dream...In the eternal night where no dawn broke, the dream deepened.Before anything ever was, it had to be dreamed...If we take Nature as the great artist, then all presences in theworld have emerged from her mind and imagination. We arechildren of the earth's dreaming. It's almost as if Nature is indream and we are her children who have broken through thedawn into time and place. Fashioned in the dreaming of theclay, we are always somehow haunted by that; we are unableever finally to decide what is dream and what is reality. Eachday we live in what we call reality, yet life seems to resemblea dream. We rush through our days in such stress and intensity,as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the worlddepended on us. We worry and grow anxious - we magnifytrivia until they become important enough to control our lives.Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporarysojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowlyin the infinite night of the cosmos...[.....]There is no definitive dividing line between reality and dream.What we consider real is often precariously dream-like.Our grip on reality is tenuous...