Faith and Dreams – Positive Thinking or Self-Sabotage
People love to believe.
To believe that tomorrow will be better. That their dreams will come true. That there’s meaning in waiting. But if we look honestly, faith in the future is not an awakened state – it’s a refusal to be.
A refusal to accept what is.
Faith is an attempt to comfort ourselves in the face of absence by dressing it in hope.
It’s a beautifully justified escape – a way not to look directly at the fear that our life isn’t what we want it to be.
When you say “I believe,” you’re really saying “I am not, but I want to be.”
And from there begins the inner conflict – between what is and what must be for you to feel whole.
Dreams appear more innocent. They seem like expressions of inspiration, inner calling. Yet even the dream, in its depth, is the expression of desire – and every desire arises from lack.
A person dreams when they cannot be.
The dream is the subtlest form of escape from the present moment – the mind’s refuge from a reality it cannot accept.
True inner fullness does not dream. It creates.
It does not imagine another future – it manifests what already is.
There is no need for dreaming, because there is no lack.
When you are in consciousness, you do not dream – you express.
When you are in fear, you dream – because you cannot bear what is.
And here again, guilt appears.
Guilt is the root from which both faith and dreams grow.
It is that quiet, almost unconscious feeling that you are not enough, that you’ve been cut off from the light, that you are unworthy of life’s wholeness.
From that inner emptiness arises the urge to become something else.
And from there comes the dream – as a promise of redemption.
But no one can redeem what was never lost.
Guilt is an illusion – as are faith and dreams.
They are the three faces of the same thing: the refusal to be what you already are.
When you allow yourself simply to be, all of this falls away.
Not because you stop desiring, but because you see there is nothing to desire.
You already are what you seek.
Then dreams disappear – not because they are meaningless, but because they are already fulfilled.
Not in the future, but in the being itself.
Believers and dreamers live in the guilt of the past and the hope of the future.
In other words – they live outside of life. Never here and now.
Faith in the future and dreaming are not positive thinking. They are a gentle denial of the present.
They are forms of ego’s self-preservation – ways to avoid meeting yourself now.
The truth is – there is no future that will save you, no dream that will make you whole, no faith that will return you to the light.
There is only awareness.
It does not believe, does not wait, does not want.
It simply is.
And in that is, guilt, lack, and fear dissolve.
What remains is pure presence – deep, accepting, real.
With love and presence,
Aleksandar Danailov
Maitreya
Choose the Light 
