20 posts tagged “dreams”

403. 'In dreams I feel I've rediscovered the roots of a natural religion.'

Jul 6, 2009
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'What of those two famous antonyms, dream and reality? Can I really say that dreams are necessary to live a complete life? Can I say that dreams are real and that reality as we know it has its root in dreams?...

Day follows night; the waking images follow the images in the dreams. The dream-mind and the conceptual mind alternate and play. We see the world we imagine, and we imagine the world we see; there is no end to this sort of running and returning. Is the dream real, or is real real? There is no single answer as I keep moving between them. This is the path of dreams and of poetry. It is a path between reality and soul.'

- Rodger Kamenetz, The History of Last Night's Dream

'Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.'

'The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.'

- Both from Anais Nin

402. You are part of everything.

Jun 30, 2009
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Fantastic

'Stuff your eyes with wonder... Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.'

- Ray Bradbury

'There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is miracle.'

- Albert Einstein

'The wind is low

The birds will sing

That you are part

of everything'

- The Beatles

399. 'My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.'

Jun 11, 2009
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Dream-2

'It is a funny dream, with an exact sense of humor. It fits my brain like a glove fits a hand; it fits my life. A dream is never off the rack. A dream is always sewn with your exact dimensions in mind, your humor, your obsessions. A dream fits.

When I began to study my dreams closely, I noticed how exquisitely made they are, how difficult to communicate that exquisite beauty to another because in most dreams the exquisite is idiosyncratic. Each dream invents its own beautiful language, and something always gets lost in translation. My dream was made for me as your dream is made for you.

A dream provides an exact tincture of the soul, a strong whiff - ammonia or perfume - to wake us from a faint-hearted life.'

- Rodger Kamenetz, The History of Last Night's Dream

397. Reach out and touch faith.

May 28, 2009
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Key

'It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.'

- Virginia Woolf

'When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.'

- Cy Twombly

'I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.'

- Andrew Wyeth

'The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.'

- Banksy

'It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.'

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

378. 'like a newly hatched chick beside its eggshell...'

Feb 27, 2009
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Door

'I used the word Xanthos a moment ago. I don't know whether there is a Xanthos or not, and I really don't care one way or another, but there must be a place in the world, perhaps in the Grecian islands, where you come to the end of the known world and you are thoroughly alone and yet you are not frightened of it, but rejoice, because at this dropping off place you can feel the old ancestral world which is eternally young and new and fecundating. You stand there, wherever this place is, like a newly hatched chick beside its eggshell. This place is Xanthos...'

- Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

365. 'If it's not what you are wanting, don't go there.' - Esther Hicks

Feb 23, 2009
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Sparkler

'We all hunger for stories. Stories give form to our desires, feelings, and goals, molding how we view just about everything - from our own bodies to what is sacred or profane, good or bad, possible or impossible. Stories give us figures to emulate, imitate, admire, or abhor. And it is from the stories we are told that we in turn unconsciously fashion our own life scripts...
...the more integrated we become as we strive to fashion our own life scripts, the more open we are to further changes in consciousness. And the more we dare to try out new paths, like all explorers of new territory, the more we open up further paths that make it possible for us to experience life in ways we never thought possible.'
- Riane Eisler, Sacred Pleasure

360. 'This is true love... you think this happens everyday?' - The Princess Bride

Feb 14, 2009
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TwoDolphins

'Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.'
- Erica Jong

358. My aim is true...

Feb 12, 2009
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Deer

'The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.'
- Oscar Wilde

346. Making love stay...

Jan 21, 2009
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Red

'Next, she thought, "When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, especially when it seems superfluous or redundant, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay." She was unsure if that idea was profound or trite. She was only sure that it mattered.'
- Tom Robbins, Still Live With Woodpecker

339. Honor this time.

Jan 13, 2009
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Clouds

'You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!'
- Eckhart Tolle

'Enthusiasm: a little thing that makes a big difference.'
- Unknown