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"- so what happened? i mean how did you finally get out of it?

- oh man. it was just like one of those like life altering experiences. i mean i could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.

- yeah, but i mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? see, that's my problem. i'm like trapped. i keep, i keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. it seems like it's going on forever. i can't get out of it, and i want to wake up for real. how do you really wake up?

- i don't know, i don't know. i'm not very good at that anymore. but, um, if that's what you're thinking, i mean you, you probably should. i mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. so just, um ... but it's easy. you know. just, just wake up."

(recognize the problem? or is it just me?)

(from the same place)

...

"actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. and it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? do you want to be in heaven?' and we're all saying, 'no thank you. not just yet.' and so time is actually just this constant saying 'no' to God's invitation. i mean that's what time is. i mean, and it's no more 50 a.d. than it's two thousand and one. and there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in.

and then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. that, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the 'no' to the 'yes'. all of life is like, 'no thank you. no thank you. no thank you.' then ultimately it's, 'yes, i give in. yes, i accept. yes, i embrace.' i mean, that's the journey. i mean, everyone gets to the 'yes' in the end, right?"

(right?)

(from the script of waking life)