
The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

all decisions are valid in that they ultimately lead to more life experience.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
may feel as if you are “making it up,” but you can trust your imagination to reflect your true impressions of the dream and its inhabitants.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
Reflection is a kind of active spaciousness that allows the minutiae to fall away so meaning can reveal itself.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
are perpetually not-knowing, which is appropriately humbling for the ego. After all, wonder is a befitting gesture to extend to the unknowable mystery.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
Active receptivity, by its very nature, requires you to get comfortable not knowing where the dream will lead. Instead, you are practising at allowing yourself to be led.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
Much like creating an invitational field with children, when we refrain from imposing our wants or desires onto them, they often surprise us by coming to their own good conclusions.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
A good marriage is kept alive by seeing the other in a constantly changing light rather than settling into a single impression.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
approaching the symbols in my dreams wasn’t about getting what I want, but about discovering how I can be of service to that which I love.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
The actions taken in a dream are also symbols. Whether running is a metaphor for avoidance, or snuggling is symbolic of embracing something unusual, actions show you what movements, decisions, and strategies are at play in the issue at hand.