Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.
Interpretation
Dreams represent the connection between the spiritual and the material world, where possibilities and realities coexist.
This quote by David Mitchell reflects on the profound nature of dreams as a bridge between what exists in the spiritual realm and what is tangible in our material world. It suggests that dreams allow for exploration of various states of being and possibilities, including what has been, what could be, and what will never come to pass, all coexisting in a moment of contemplation and imagination.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing aspirations, one could say, 'As David Mitchell wisely put it, dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter.'
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.
Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee.
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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