Will I Am about putting a dream into reality
When you’re living your purpose, it stops feeling like “work.”It becomes a dream-reality balance - like will.i.am says - where life and vocation are one. 

When you’re living your purpose, it’s no longer “work” in the conventional sense. It’s more like a process of bringing an internal vision into external expression. A dream-reality balance, instead of a work-life balance, like will.i.am suggests – where your life and your vocation aren’t separate but aligned.

For me, that means making conscious what is unconscious and pointing people to discover their true essence/authority, helping the world move toward sanity and maturity. That’s a dream I would like to see take shape.

At the same time, my perspective on dream and reality adds another dimension.

If I view Reality as the absolute – something beyond change, form, and duality – then everything within the realm of change, suffering, and human experience is part of the dream.

Instead of trying to force our dream into “reality” (which assumes they are separate), the work is to become conscious within the dream and shift how we experience and interact with it. This aligns with lucid dreaming: when you realize you’re dreaming, you don’t need to wake up to change the experience – you can shift it from within.

And if this dream is currently a nightmare, then the effort isn’t about “manifesting” the dream into “reality” but rather about shifting the quality of the dream itself.

 

When you’re living your purpose, it stops feeling like “work.”

But then there’s that lingering question: Is the nightmare by design? Is Earth’s chaos and suffering an integral part of what we signed up for? If so, then changing the dream isn’t about erasing suffering completely (because maybe it’s meant to be here), but we can certainly alleviate avoidable suffering – human-inflicted pain, unconscious cycles, and unnecessary burdens – we pile on top of it – after all, pain (old age, disease, death) is inevitable, but suffering (attachment, aversion, resistance) is optional.

Then changing the dream is about how we meet it, and whether we stay trapped in it or integrate it and thereby transcend it. Maybe the world isn’t something to “fix” externally but something to engage with differently. Maybe the goal isn’t to “wake up” in the sense of escaping the dream, but to dream lucidly – to wake up within the dream, and become aware that you’re dreaming and shape the experience from within, by engaging with it differently.

It makes me think: If the world right now is a nightmare, then what does a more “pleasant dream” look like? How does it feel? How do we move toward that while still honoring the purpose of being here in the first place?

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