Save Your Life

Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time Or any length of time you wanted to have And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say Well, that's pretty great, but now let's have a surprise Let's have a dream which isn't under control Where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be And you would dig that and come out of that and say, Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it Then you would get more and more adventurous And you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream Finally, you would dream where you are now You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have Of playing that you weren't God Because the whole nature of the Godhead according to this idea is to play that he's not The first thing he says to himself is, Man, get lost Because he gives himself away The nature of love is self-abandonment Not clinging to oneself Throwing yourself out Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality Not God in a politically kingly sense But God in the sense of being the self The deep, dark, basic whatever there is And you're all that Only you're pretending you're not So I dream I dream while awake In my mind And nothing is wrong Nothing is right Nothing is fine Nothing is anything at all It's just a game we play for fun But I'm not having fun anymore