It was a wonderful dream. So vivid and real.
I was with one of the great loves of my life. We were talking and laughing and hugging. So happy to be together again.
He had been everything I wanted – handsome, charming, brilliant, funny, caring and successful.
There was another person in the dream. A woman I did not know. But this was nothing new when it came to him. There was always another woman somewhere in the wings. I just ignored her. Nothing was going to spoil this reunion.
The long relationship ended bitterly. He broke my heart.
I was ready for a committed arrangement. He was not. I told him to get back to me when he was ready.
He never did.
When I woke in the morning after the dream, it was with a startling breakthrough revelation.
I STILL LOVED HIM!
We are so likely to blame when a relationship does not work out. It is the other person’s failure to love enough.
It could be that it was all that was meant to be at the time. Perhaps as simple an answer as that.
Now, from long ago and far away, I can see that –
LOVE NEVER DIES.
Love exists as a separate, valid entity in the Universe and nothing can change it. No matter how the physical events worked out.
I hear that this man has become very ill in the past few years. He married his caretaker.
It brings to mind a saying, “Be thankful for the prayers that God did not answer.”
That caretaker would have been me.
How limited and different my life would have been! So many opportunities would have been beyond my experience. How much of my life would have been missed.
There is an Infinite Intelligence who knows what is right for us. And the Divine Purpose we had set for ourselves before we arrived on this planet.
Perhaps we should stop telling this Intelligence what is in our best interest and follow the energy right in front of us.
We are just drops in the endless soup of the Universe – but important in consciousness as a ripple on the ocean. The Ocean treasures every wave.
Godspeed my dear love. I wish you everything good. You were a significant chapter in my journey.
It was wonderful meeting you again in my dream.
I wrote a poem for you a few years ago. I am not sure I meant it at the time.
I mean it now with all my heart.
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Corinne, I believe if things had worked out and you were now his care taker, you would be blessed and he certainly would be. I have a feeling that nothing could ever limit you…you would find a way to flow around any obstacle.
You say in your article “Perhaps we should stop telling this Intelligence what is in our best interest and follow the energy that is in front of us”, and this follows right along with something I learned in a Spiritual class I took in the mid 90′s. The thought was “Don’t script write for the Universe. Put out the want, need or desire and let the Universe bring it to you in what ever form it will”. There have been times that I thought a certain venture was the best thing for me only to learn after the fact, that it would have been awful.
Once again, your article has been a blessing to me. Sharon
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Dear Sharon -
Well, you are probably right. I would have worked it out somehow.
But, he had moved to another city by the time he became ill.
So – even – IF
I like that expression – “Don’t script write for the Universe!”
Corinne –
I think I love you the most because you love the most. I have read your books and poems many times and am always amazed that someone like you who appears to play it “close to the vest” in speech and body language can let it all hang out in writing. You have no problem in telling it exactly how it felt, how it hurt, what it meant in really emotional gut- wrenching detail… and then you publish it!!!!!!!!
Can’t wait until the next one.
Ladies … read Corinne’s “reflections of a woman alone” if you want stark truth … Gentlemen, why not you too andsee how some women deal with pain and rejection. I guess we show our emotions where we can.
Me? I talk out loud to my cats and guides and also write with a special pen on a yellow legal pad and then
I SHRED THE PAGES. For my information only. I have been doing it for years .. not so much anymore . I got most of it out.
I have had 2 great loves in my life (not husbands) – one still alive and the other gone over 10 years now, but I still sleep with a beautiful blue glass paperweight in the shape of
a heart that he gave me about a year before he departed this planet.
His blue heart. He died suddenly and I thought I would follow…I sure tried for the next 6 months.
I know his spirit is with me always – I can feel the love and aren’t I blessed?
The other one ———- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.????
Corinne – You had the big one and at a good time. Maybe it wouldn’t be so wonderful now. Woody Allen says there is actually no “now” – only memories … and you had the moment with this guy – more than most people can truthfully say.
I’m not done yet. My Violet side is nudging me. All right all ready!!
Dear VLR – better known as Violet Lily Rose -
You bring up such an interesting point.
I think I write as though no one will ever read it. So, I can be completely honest and transparent.
My book, Reflections from A Woman Alone” is still on Amazon, although it is out of print.
THEY ARE SELLING IT FOR ONCE CENT!
(“How rude,” my daughter in law said)
I believe spirits do not die. Just our bodies. I am sure your “Blue Heart” person is still with you.
On to the new. Violet says “GO!”
OMG I often have dreams about my first love! I realized that I do still love him even though we weren’t meant to be together. I think people limit love. They think if you love each other than you must be together. I know in my heart that you can still love someone and walk away. I know that love doesn’t die when a person does and I know that our hearts have an unlimited capacity to love.
Thank you for sharing your story and your beautiful poetry.
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Hi Corrine,
I always believe in the arrangement of the universe than my own arrangement. This is because I trust that the universe can see a whole entire big picture better than I can.
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Dear Raymond -
I believe in that too -
But we are inclined to take back our arrangements very quickly if the Universe is not quick enough.
Working on it!
Dear Melissa -
Happy to hear that you share my story.
We can’t marry everyone we love. Think of the legal fees!
But I do believe our capacity for loving increases as we live our lives!
Enjoying your blog. Good writing!
I believe life serves us up opportunities every day. Most of which we never recognise. An some of the best opportunities in my life have been in the ‘bad’ things that life has served up, although I only realise that in hindsight. It’s not about what what life serves up to you, it’s all you do with it.
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August 24, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Corinne,
Your insight into your dream is profound. I believe love is a form of energy and it swirls around us all the time. There are times when that energy is focused on a person, and the love for the new person is born out of all the love we have experienced before and can continue to attract to us.
But love being energy, we can’t hold on to it as though it were physical. It is not matter, it flows. Can one hold a beam of light from the sun? No. Love works the same way. Though we cannot possess it, we influence it strongly with our thoughts, feelings and actions. One cannot hold onto a beam of light, but one can reflect it, refract it or absorb it, changing it.
I’ve come to this conclusion by studying Grand Unified Field Theory, a subtopic of theoretical physics. Albert Einstein sought a “theory of everything” but he thought quantum physics was bunk. It turns out he was wrong. Quantum theory is what led Dr. John Hagelin to finally derive the equation for Grand Unified Field Theory, the theory of everything. Einstein was right that there is a theory of everything. He didn’t see the path through quantum physics that would lead to his deriving it, although I’m not sure the technology existed to provide the data needed to derive such a theory. Particle accelerators weren’t around until Einstein’s late years and those were rather small compared to what we can do now.
It does show we all make choices and some choices thwart our deepest desires. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
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I loved the part where you implied that the universe knows better than us in terms of what’s best for us. Granted, you were not to play the role of a caretaker but you could have. What then?
Regardless of whether you ended up as a caretaker or not, I agree with Sharon that there are wonderful lessons on both sides of the equation.
Having this dream is very telling about your inner longing for someone to come into your life. Are there any prospects for you on the horizon? I surely hope so! You have abundant love and strength to offer someone.
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Dear Karen – Karooch -
This is such a wise comment -
“It’s not about what what life serves up to you, it’s all you do with it.”
I believe there is good that comes from even our most painful experiences.
If nothing else, it makes us more compassionate with others.
Dear Sherri -
I so appreciate your great contribution in your comments.
This is so wise. I wish I had written it!
“But love being energy, we can’t hold on to it as though it were physical. It is not matter, it flows. Can one hold a beam of light from the sun? No. Love works the same way. Though we cannot possess it, we influence it strongly with our thoughts, feelings and actions. One cannot hold onto a beam of light, but one can reflect it, refract it or absorb it, changing it.”
I am learning more and more about you. All good.
Now I know you are a scientist!
Dear Stephen -
This is some food for thought!
“Having this dream is very telling about your inner longing for someone to come into your life.”
I don’t know if that is true. But everything I have read says that you have to have a whole life of your own that is peaceful and happy – before you can welcome someone else in.
If that is true, then I am definitely ready.
You’ll be the first to know if that person shows up!
It is out of my hands.
Yes, it’s definitely out of your hands – turn it over to God and see what shows up.
You’re right on a number of fronts that you have to have a life of peace and happiness before you can bring someone else in because otherwise it’s more of the same – we attract people of like mind, etc.
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