4 posts tagged “you”

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

'8.  Profundity is all that matters - to feel something deeply and intrinsically, without a mediating idea.  The universe is not after our allegiance, our success, our knowledge, even our happiness.  It does not handicap or sorrow.  It has no particular use for our edifices or technologies - here today, gone tomorrow. When we feel creation's depth through our own, then alone does the universe acknowledge and guide us.  We can't force, charm, or calculate our way into heaven.

9.  The heart cannot be erased as easily as the mind.  Thus, keep all true things in the heart.  Vet all truths through the heart first.  That other stuff we have learned and then committed to cultural vocabulary - mathmatics, philosophy, behavior - will disappear, a slate wiped clean.  But if something we experienced deeply and wondrously, with awe and compassion, it will endure.  It melds with karma.  It is who we are.'

 - Richard Grossinger, The Bardo of Waking Life

'There is for each man, perfect self-expression.  There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which on one else can do; it is his destiny...'

'...He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is, possibly, some marvelous talent, hidden deep within him.'

 - Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It.

'Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh the things you can think up if only you try.'

 - Dr. Seuss

'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