Leo Tolstoy writing on life as a dream…
“Now our whole life, from birth unto death, with all its dreams, is it not in its turn also a dream which we take as real life, the reality of which we do not doubt only beause we do not know of the other more real life? The dreams of our present life are the environment in which we work out the impressions, thoughts, feelings of a former life. As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other, more real life…and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the life of God. I wish you would understand me; I am not playing, not inventing this: I believe it, I see it without doubt.”
ASIDE: The book, A Course in Miracles, an international bestseller and basis for student groups all over the world echoes that our lives which seem so achingly real is but a dream. The Course teaches that the “goal is…to help us escape from the dream world….. by showing those who are open to this concept how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes.” In the Course’s frame of reference that means to recognize the truth of who we are, namely not a body and that our mistakes, usually referred to as “sins” are mistakes to be undone by forgiveness.”