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Anonymous Tue Oct 23 16:46:26 2018 No.11977809 [Reply] [Original]

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE DREAMING (I)
Make sure, first of all, that you respect nothing, believe nothing, nothing. But while showing disrespect, you should hold on to the desire to respect something; while despising what you don’t love, you should retain the painful longing to love someone; and while disdaining life, you should preserve the idea that it must be wonderful to live and cherish it. Having done this, you’ll have laid the foundations for the edifice of your dreams. Remember that you’re embarking on the loftiest task of all. To dream is to find ourselves. You’re going to be the Columbus of your soul. You’re going to set out to discover your own landscapes. Make sure you’re on the right track and that your instruments can’t mislead you. The art of dreaming is difficult, because it’s an art of passivity, in which we concentrate our efforts on avoiding all effort. If there were an art of sleeping, it would no doubt be morphine, and become intoxicated from the idea of the opium, of the morphine of your dreams, then you deserve to be praised: you are performing like a perfect dreamer. Always think of yourself as sadder and more miserable than you are. There’s no harm in it. It even serves as a kind of trick ladder to the world of dreams.

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE DREAMING (II) Postpone everything. Never do today what you can leave for tomorrow.* In fact you need not do anything at all, tomorrow or today. Never think about what you’re going to do. Don’t do it. Live your life. Don’t be lived by it. Right or wrong, happy or sad, be your own self. You can do this only by dreaming, because your real life, your human life, is the one that doesn’t belong to you but to others. You must replace your life with your dreaming, concentrating only on dreaming perfectly. In all the acts of your real life, from that of being born to that of dying, you don’t act – you’re acted; you don’t live – you’re merely lived. Become an inscrutable sphinx to others. Shut yourself in your ivory tower, but without slamming the door. Your ivory tower is you. And if someone tells you this is false and absurd, don’t believe it. But don’t believe in what I say either, because one ought not believe in anything. Disdain everything, but in such a way that your disdain doesn’t disturb you.Don’t think you’re superior because you disdain. This is the key to the art of noble disdain.
THE ART OF EFFECTIVE DREAMING (III)
By virtue of dreaming everything, everything in life will make you suffer more..... That’s the cross you will have to bear.

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