Ultimately, Tagore’s insight urges us to shift our focus away from ego-driven identity toward the transcendent possibilities dreams embody. The real work is to recognize when the self is obstructing, rather than enabling, our engagement with genuine purpose. As in Plato’s allegory of the cave, we are invited to step beyond the shadows of falsehood and perceive a higher, shared reality born of vision and imagination—a reality where the dream endures more steadfastly than the fleeting self who dreams it. [...]
