QUOTES
"Dreams are a manifestation of the subconscious. Any (personal) condition before becoming a reality is first dreamed". [EDGAR CAYCE
"Sleep is that period when the soul takes stock of what it has acted upon, from one rest period to another; drawing comparisons, as it were, that make for harmony, peace, joy, love, long suffering, patience, brotherly love, and kindness- all fruits of the spirit. Hate, harsh words, unkind thoughts, and oppressions are fruits of Satan. The soul either abhors what it has passed through, or it enters into the joy of the lord." [EDGAR CAYCE] .
"While awake we move through our lives in a sequential, linear moment by moment fashion with a point representing birth and another point the present moment. But when we go to sleep and begin to dream, we create pictures of what's going on in our psyche from points in space and time which are outside of our waking organisations". [MONTAGUE ULLMAN] .
"Leaping too quickly to the dreams specific relations to waking often leads us away from the intrinsic beauty and wisdom of the dream itself". [P. ERIK CRAIG]
"Yesterday and today are like a dream and tomorrow and day after tomorrow are a dream not yet come". [LONGCHENPA] ..
"Dreams and fables I call into being. And even as I put them on paper and adorn them, so much do they become a part of myself that (foolish as I am!) I weep and rage at the ills I invent. [PIETRO METASTASIO] ..
"If you are pursued by an ogre in a dream, and you become the ogre, the nightmare disappears. You re-own the energy that is invested in the demon. Then the power of the ogre is no longer outside, alienated, but inside where you can use it". [FRITZ PERLS .
"The soul slumbers while the body is active; but when the body slumbers, she shows forth in many a vision." [PINDAR] .
"Often a dream presents a ring from which to hang the latent questions of that moment in one's life." [DENISE LEVERTOV] ..
"Dreaming re-enacts the origin of consciousness from unconscious shape." [RICHARD GROSSINGER] .
"Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely will be yours." [RALPH WALDO EMERSON] ..
"Hope is a waking dream." [ARISTOTLE] ..
"In dream there is neither the real object nor the senses
to perceive (it), yet there is the perception; so also is the case with all our perceptions which we falsely take to be the direct copies of the thing itself." [SHASHI BUSHAN DASGUPTA]
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." [SHAKESPEARE] .
"The beauty of dreams is that even when under serious study, they defy classification. They can be described, they can be put into categories, but they cannot be captured." [ELIZABETH ROSE CAMPBELL]
"Once I, Chuang Chou, dreamed that I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly. I was conscious that I was quite pleased with myself, but I did not know that I was Chou. Suddenly I awoke and there I was, visibly Chou. I do not know whether it was Chou dreaming he was a butterfly, or the butterfly dreaming it was Chou." [CHUANG CHOU]
"If there were dreams to sell, merry and sad to tell, and the crier rung his bell, what would you buy?" [THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES]
"As one, who from a dream awakened, straight. All he hath seen forgets; yet still retains impressions of the feeling in his dream." [DANTE] .
"All that one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." [ELIAS CANETTI]
"Do not look for anything behind phenomena; they themselves are the lesson." [GOETHE] ..
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke - and found that life was duty; Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie? Toil on , sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream shall be A noonday light and truth to thee." [ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER] ..
"Reveal thyself to me and let me behold a favourable dream. May the dream that I dream be favourable and may the dream I dream be true." [A BABYLONIAN DREAM PRAYER] ..
"Let not our bubbling dreams affright our souls." [SHAKESPEARE]
"Last night's nightmare is done. Whatever you do, do quickly." [PADMASAMBHAVA]
"In a closer sense, dreams are realer than life. That is, they are closer to the roots of our being than daily waking events." [RICHARD GROSSINGER]
"Dreaming provides us with an existential time and space in which we may encounter and live out as real an enormous
range of possibilities for being in the world." [P. ERIK CRAIG]
"Anything can happen in a dream. There are no boundaries." [ELIZABETH ROSE CAMPBELL] ..
"The inquiry into a dream is another dream." [HALIFAX]
"The state between sleep and full waking is where I often come upon, or find my way in, a story." [URSULA K. LEGUIN] .
"The wild dream is the first step to reality by which we set our highest goals and discern our highest selves." [NORMAN COUSINS]
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem most crazy." [SIGMUND FREUD] .
"How odd is the world of dreams! Thoughts, inner speech crowd and swarm - a little world hastening to live before the awakening that is its end, its particular death." [JULES RENARD] ..
"Methinks that dreams from a remoter world visit the soul during sleep." [SHELLEY]
"We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a paradise lost, in which we should feel ourselves lost, too." [MARCEL PROUST] ..
"Other people see things and say why - but I dream of things that never were and say why not?" [GEORGE BERNARD SHAW] ..
"In dreaming we may be open to possibilities we still dare not acknowledge while fully awake." [P. ERIK CRAIG]
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." [JAMES A. FROUDE]
"Can I distinguish between dreaming and writing - that is, between dream images and those which come into being while I am in the poem-making state? I'm not sure." [DENISE LEVERTOV] .
"The most precious gift my dreams have given me....a capacity to think with my conventional brain shut down, the rigid concepts of time and space, cause/effect relationships banished." [ELIZABETH ROSE CAMPBELL]
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." [GOETHE] ..
"You may have terrifying dreams but by attending to them as dreams their terrifying features disappear by themselves." [LONGCHENPA] ..
"Most of our ills, blowing loudly in dreams at night, grow milder when 'tis day. [SOPHOCLES] ..
"If we did not dream, we would not ever be fully awake." [RICHARD GROSSINGER] .
"I talk of dreams which are the children of an idle brain." [SHAKESPEARE] .
"A dream is a condensed reflection of our existence." [FRITZ PERLS
]
"Anything that a man can dream, a man can do." [JOHN LILY]
"Foresight is a dream from which the event awakes us." [PAUL VALERY] ..
"Between living and dreaming is a struggle toward meaning." [BRENDA MURPHREE]
"What if we......consider the dream to be.....like consciousness itself, a delicate fabric, a tapestry behind which there is nothing? What if this tapestry itself is the lesson." [P. ERIK CRAIG] .
"Often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream". [ARISTOTLE] .
"Sometimes while asleep, a man may judge that what he sees is a dream, discerning as it were, between things and their images". [SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS] .
"There are some people who are quite clearly aware during the night that they are asleep and dreaming and who thus seem to possess the faculty of consciously directing their dreams. If, for instance, a dreamer of this kind is dissatisfied with the turn taken by the dream, he can break it off without waking up and start it again in another direction-just as a popular dramatist may under pressure give his play a happier ending". [SIGMUND FREUD]
"The integration of the psychic functions is so complete that the sleeper......reaches a state of perfect awareness, and is able to direct his attention, and to attempt different acts of free volition. Yet the sleep, as I am able confidently to state, is undisturbed, deep and refreshing". [VAN EEDEN] ..
"Sometimes we have dreams of total experiences of something that is going to occur in three or four months time. That means time, instead of being a longitudinal thing, is a vertical thing." [SWAMI VIVEKANANDA] ..
"Life is Love, share it, Life is a DREAM, realise it, Life is a challenge, meet it, Life is a game, play it." [SATHYA SAI BABA] ..
"Dreams constitute the manifestations of past impressions. Dreams have a meaning in them, yet they constitute obstructions on the path of realisation if they bear no relation whatever to the objective in view." [SWAMI SATYANANDA SARASWATI] .
"Compulsive acting on dream omens is dangerous to mental health, and irresponsible. But sensitive and prudent effort to carry forth the helpful action of loving, forgiving, healing, or building, suggested by study of the dream, seems to complete an arc of companionship with the divine which the dream only facilitates." [EDGAR CAYCE] .
If you believe that dreams can come true,
be prepared for the occasional nightmare too. [French proverb] .
The word 'nightmare' has nothing to do with horses - the origin of 'mare' is an Old English word 'maere' meaning incubus, a demon or evil spirit that descends upon sleeping persons. [SEIZE THE DAY] ..
There seems to be something in dream images. We have the feeling they might mean something. [SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE] ..
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, while all about it parted by the flimiest of screens there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. [WILLIAM JAMES] ..
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream. [WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE] .
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. [ROBERT FROST] .
We must inquire what dreams are, and from what cause sleepers sometimes dream and sometimes do not, or whether the truth is that sleepers always dream but dont always remember; and if this occurs, what its explanation is. [ARISTOTLE .
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. [ELIAS CANETTI]
The treasured dreams of times long past. [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH] .
Ive dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; theyve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. [EMILY JANE BRONTE] ..
Dreams are the touchstones of a character. [HENRY DAVID THOREAU] ..
Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream. [CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSETTI] ..
The glory and freshness of a dream. [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH]
Dreams are the inexpressible that can only be expressed in terms of symbol or allegory. [JUNG] .
My whole life has been a golden dream of love and friendship. [JOHN DRYDEN]
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. [HENRY DAVID THOREAU] .
In dreams begin responsibility. [W.B.YEATS]
Out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while, then closes within a dream. [ERNEST DOWSON]
Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed. [JUNG] .
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same....[CARLOS CASTANEDA........
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. [JUNG]......................
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. [JUNG].................
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