My favorite quote starts out, “What frightens you, if a dream was my teacher, and I still fear in my anxieties that I must wake up and find myself once again in my closed prison?”

I think about this a lot. The play is called, “Life is a dream…” And it has always struck me that even in that simple phrase there’s so much truth.

“What frightens you?” Is by itself a question too seldom asked.

“What frightens you?”

I think this quote resonates so much with me because it promises that once we’ve experienced something beautiful, it becomes part of us, even if that thing goes away.

The rest of the quote is below, “What frightens you, if a dream was my teacher, and I still fear in my anxieties that I must wake up and find myself once again in my closed prison? And even if it is not so, merely dreaming it is enough; for thus I came to know that all human bliss, in the end, passes like a dream, and today I want to make the most of it for as long as it may last, asking forgiveness for our faults, since for noble hearts it is so natural to forgive them.”