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Interlude

The boy pondering Jung in study hall at St. Paul’s

Hold fast to your dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

—Langston Hughes

Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.

Wayfarer, there isn’t any road; you make the road as you go on.

—Antonio Machado

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

—Ram Dass

How to Follow a Dream—The First Lesson: Boys can follow a deep recurring dream if they pray about it and come to feel a spiritual trust in its meaning over time, but some dreams are just made up, so careful discernment over time is the key. A boy has to feel that the dream is more than likely a calling, but that does not allow him to have absolute certainty. If he follows the dream on a highway pilgrimage he does so in faith until he arrives at he knows not where, and there he will know that he really was guided, and he will feel validated in believing that there is an infinite connecting Mind of cherishing love. This experience of arrival need only happen once to shape the course of a lifetime. A boy may feel strongly about a dream but resist following it because he does not want to upset family expectations, but discovering a destiny usually means setting aside acceptability and little human goals.

Once a boy sets out on such a pilgrimage and if he starts thinking he should turn around before it’s too late, the way will somehow be blocked. The car will break down. Otherwise it was not really his destiny after all, but at least he would have tried.

So many young people pursue materialistic goals that disappoint them in the long run. It is better to give all that up early and follow a pilgrim’s path because we need to know ourselves as in essence eternal spiritual souls connected with others, with nature, and with the universal Mind to truly flourish. Every day young people die of emptiness and affluenza. Following a dream can save them. Be free. Only the worldly will laugh.

Evil is the absence of the good. It happens when we get out of spiritual touch with the infinite Mind of love, and break into a free fall of emptiness, ego, and self-destruction.

The boy in art class at St. Paul’s (top row, fourth from left)

Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you call love. It will not lead you astray.

—Rumi

The main school building after chapel