Be Unreasonable

George Bernard Shaw wrote that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

One thing I have come to know by experience is that if something is widely accepted by people then you should doubt it. Just because something is “common sense” and “common knowledge” does not make it the truth.

Looking through history, and even in contemporary times, it is clear that the people that have made a difference and excelled above their generation are those that challenged the general view of things during their time.They are people who ask why and find the answer before they accept something as gospel truth. If they do not find a satisfactory answer they change their perceptions and views in accordance with what they have found to be the truth.

Your ultimate dream should be unreasonable and senseless. If it is not, you are not dreaming big enough. When you have a dream that is big enough it will be totally mind-blowing. It will be one that will challenge you and scare you at the same time. It will be a dream that is so huge you will get excited and question your own sanity at the same time.

Your senses enable you to see, smell, hear, taste and touch.

The senses exist in the physical realm in that they are designed to perceive the physical environment around you. So your senses cannot perceive things that are of a mental or spiritual nature.

The spiritual and mental aspects of a man are limitless, boundless, free in every respect and more powerful than we could ever understand. They are unreasonable and senseless.

In the book of Hebrews this principle is well illustrated because “through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Learn to utilize this power within you. Be unreasonable.

You are all you can be. Go on and be it.

As a dreamer, you must realise that life is lived from the inside-out and not from the outside-in. It all starts in the mind. That is the real battlefield of life. That is where the war is raging. If you can create your ideal life in your mind and live that life like a reality everyday in your mind, you have won the battle. It will have no choice but to manifest itself in the physical.
Success, riches, happiness, fulfillment, recognition and all, do not come as a surprise to dreamers when they get those things - because they have been living it in their minds all along. It had to happen. The physical world cannot resist the spiritual and mental world. In the hierarchy of life it was designed so. One has to obey the other. The physical has to obey the spiritual and mental.