“Life is but a Dream” Such a famous quotation, from the popular nursery rhyme - and one that used to really unsettle me, as a child. What did it mean , “life is but a dream”? What did it mean for me , for my life, for my place in the universe? What might it imply, for reality as a whole? From a very young age, I used to wonder… “Life is but a dream”… It’s not surprising, then, that as an adult, I’ve been gripped by films such as The Matrix, that question what reality is and how much of what we think we know is illusion - and also by scientific studies of our eyes and brains and how we perceive things differently from how they really are. One of my favorite quotations is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.” I think this applies to all of us, whoever we are, whatever our “philosophy” is. I also think that “Life is but a Dream” is an interesting idea - one that doesn’t unsettle me now,...
Women's Spiritual Poetry