The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Anxiety:

the longing we feel in our bodies is the natural response to being separated from divinity.

Our dreams are made up of metaphors: symbols that generate wisdom by revealing kinship between seemingly unrelated situations.

these patterns are like imperishable truths that transcend our differences.

imagination as another reality, and Wisdom as the animating force behind our dreams.

As helpful as it is to have another person mirroring for us, we can also engage this process on our own. Being self-reflective is what builds emotional intelligence. As we understand our own motivations, they can no longer govern us autonomously or behave destructively in our relationships. In reflecting on psyche’s experience of events, we learn t

By redirecting even a measure of your devotion from external life to the imaginal, you are contributing to the shifting of power in the world.

This isn’t a matter of learning something new so much as remembering what you’ve always known. Perhaps you knew it in childhood, or even further back in your ancestral memory.

we are so often dismissive of our feelings, overriding them with conventional behaviour.