Drea believe and follow your heart Remember that the choices you made will lead you to your destiny.

We dream and fight with demons real and imagined.

To succeed at anything one must have a desire to dream of things some would think is impossible.

Why shouldnt I I demand silently. Why shouldnt I become a famous writer Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why cant I be like them I mean what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what youve writtenDamn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time Why cant I be like Lil with everyone praising and encouraging me Or Rainbow with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer.Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right Im not a writer after all.

Lacan as we have seen in our discussion of Freud regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy it is also because like language itself for the post-structuralists it is composed less of signs stable meanings than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse it is not immediately obvious what this signifies it may have many contradictory meanings may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. The image of the horse that is to say is not a sign in Saussures sense - it does not have one determined signified tied neatly to its tail - but is a signifier which may be attached to many different signifieds and which may itself bear the traces of the other signifiers which surround it. I was not aware when I wrote the above sentence of the word-play involved in horse and tail one signifier interacted with another against my conscious intention. The unconscious is just a continual movement and activity of signifiers whose signifieds are often inaccessible to us because they are repressed. This is why Lacan speaks of the unconscious as a sliding of the signified beneath the signifier as a constant fading and evaporation of meaning a bizarre modernist text which is almost unreadable and which will certainly never yield up its final secrets to interpretation.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask second by using friends as holy messengers.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream than if it had been actual and the intensity of our grief which is our atonement measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us why are we grieved at it

A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself.

Everybody wants a miracle we just dont want to be in a situation where we need one. You cant have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. Its about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.