It is bigamy to love and to dream

“It is bigamy to love and to dream” says the greek poet Odysseas Elytis. As it is impossible for oil and water to mix, same goes for love and dream. You can always be dreaming in the world of fantasy, but love exclusively exists in reality. Love can only be experienced in the presence, whereas dreams merely exist in the past or in the future, since dreaming is the absence of mind. Someone can be daydreaming or sleeping and missing the presence, therefore the possibility to love and to be loved, but love is only experienced in a state of awareness and watchfulness, thus when the mind does not wander staying in the now.
And if death is connected with sleep and dreaming, then love is connected with life, for a life without love is meaningless. Finally we can say “God is love”(John 4:16) and in his love, we can live the true life, “for he is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him.”(Luke 20:38). As a psalm says “...Beware, therefore O my soul, lest thou be borne down with sleep, lest thou be given up to death, and lest thou be shut out from the Kingdom. Wherefore rouse thyself and cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou, our God, Through the protection of the Heavenly Hosts save us.” D.C