"Only when you dream, you can do it. "
Dirubhai Ambani.
Dirubhai Ambani.
Dreams possess power. ‘It inspires man like anything. It stretches out one’s internal self-image and maximize one’s performance. It transcends his limitations and enables him to reach out to the so-called ‘impossibles’. It expands his personality to the boundaries of success so that he can enjoy it peacefully.’ He conquered the Everest, flown through the sky or landed in moon only because he dreamt of it.
Man could conquer Everest only because he constantly dreamt of it.
Edmund Hilary as a young man always looked at the picture of Everest and said. “ Everest, You can not grow further, but I will grow beyond your magnificent weights and will conquer you one day”. He always dreamt of it and he realized it.
Man could fly into the skies only because the two sons of a Bishop dreamt of it.
In “ A Saviour of Seasons’, William Barker relates a story of a bishop from the East Coast (of America) who many years ago paid a visit to a small, Midwestern religious college. He stayed at the home of the college president. After dinner the bishop declared that the millennium could not be far off, because just about everything about nature had been discovered and all inventions conceived.
The young college president politely disagreed. When the angered bishop challenged the president to name just one such invention, the president replied he was certain that within fifty years men would be able to fly.“ Nonsense” sputtered the outraged bishop. “ Only angels are intended to fly.”
The bishop’s name was Wright, and he had two boys at home who would prove to have greater vision them their father. Their names were Orville and Wilbus. The father and his sons both lived under the same sky, but they did not all have the same horizon. People who have dreams are capable of changing the world into unimaginable realms.
Man could land on the moon only because a leader inspired the whole nation to dream of it.
On May 25, 1961, U.S President John F. Kennedy delivered an address to a joint session of the U. S congress. He fitted it “ urgent National Needs” and in it he made a breathtaking announcement: the United States would put a man on the noon and return him safely before the decade was out.
It was both a race to beat an opponent and a challenge to achieve an impossible dream. When kenned mode his announcement, there were many in the space program who didn’t believe it was even possible. Yet in nine years later, the dream became a reality.
Dreams possess immense power. The more important thing this: our personal dream of mission is influential in shaping the future of the world. We can touch the life of others with the dreams of our personal dreams. This is the communitarian dimension of dreaming positive.
Martin Luther King proclaimed, “ I have a dream …” His dream was translated into powerful flow of hope and became the freedom for black community.
Mahatma Gandhi had a dream of Self-reliant India. He traveled along the breadth and width of the country and created a personal dream about India. Millions shared his dream and it became freedom for India.
While traveling in a train, a poor man had a dream- to serve the sick and to protect the abandoned children of Kolkotha. She became mother Teresa and a multitude of destitute enjoyed her care.
The world’s most successful school drop out had a dream- to make computer a household necessity of the modern living. He became the richest man on earth- Bill Gates and a virtual global knowledge community emerged as a result.
Such is the power of positive dreams. That is why Jesus initiated his mission with a great positive dream – the Kingdom of God. Besides being positive it was also big.
