Keeping your head in the clouds.

Many of us have lofty aspirations and dreams. Growing up we want to be all sorts of things. Professional athletes, firemen, astronauts, ect. Some people are blessed enough to have the ambition, desire and/or a support group around them and they eventually achieve their dreams and go on to be trail blazers in their field and live happy, successful lives.

There are also those who get to a place where they give up on pursuing the things they want to do in life. This can be from an authoritative figure telling them to "get real" and try to be more practical. Others meet with some form of failure and immediately give up. There are still others that just have no idea what they want to be when they grow up.

I was personally of the mindset that there was no way to make a decent living and enjoy the work I was doing. I believed that I would either be happy and poor or be wealthy and miserable. I have found this last sentence to defy the laws of the universe. One cannot be miserable and truly wealthy and there is no way for a person to be truly happy and remain unwealthy.

If we take the phrase "getting real" literally, then the true form of reality would be within ourselves as that is where our subjective reality is generated. I believe that the needs and desires that we possess are God-given and therefore the spirit of our creator wanting to express itself. If we truly listen to it and tap into that expression, then there is no way that we cannot succeed at whatever it is that spirit calls us to do.

I have found that when we give up on these dreams and desires, then part of us dies on the inside and we become like the walking dead. Doing this that we don't want to do, living a life that we really don't want to live and constantly putting our happiness in tomorrow or next year or some distant date that never comes. When we tap into our inner being, everything sparks with aliveness. There is magic in all that we do and coincidences are just par for the course.

It doesn't matter at what age or time we gave up on our dreams and started living a life that we didn't want to live, we can always tap back into that side of ourselves. It is always there because it is who we are in the purest form. It is our spiritual selves and on the level of spirit, there are not limits and everything is possible. If we can move from a world of black and white to a world of possibility, then we have tapped into spirit and begun the journey.

Once we make the conscious (or unconscious) decision to walk with spirit, then life takes on a whole new meaning. We go from just killing time to living life. The joy of being in the moment far outweighs some lackluster promise that tomorrow will break. We become who we are and can dream into physical reality anything that we can clearly focus our attention on. In this place it is only appropriate to keep your head in the clouds as there is where we can imagine with the most clarity. This, I believe, is what the great master said when he spoke "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." With the imagination of a child we can create a kingdom of heaven here and now.