“Our waking consciousness, so contained within our heads, so ego-centered, so floodlighted, makes the dream seem dim and ill-defined. It naturally flees from the light and from a consciousness that would grab it, badger it for subliminal messages, interpret it, handcuff it, and interrogate it for its secret. If, however, we were to cultivate a more daimonic consciousness, we could slide more easily into dreams, adapt to them, changing shape if necessary, and so return to wakefulness with full memory of our otherworldly sojourn. We might even learn to let the dream surface while we are awake, for dreaming goes on all the time - it is nothing other than soul’s imagining.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The ego breaks free of the soul, its matrix, in order to reflect soul, to make its potential actual, and eventually to be reunited with the realized soul to form the totality of the self.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The soul needs feeding - where “feeding” signifies heeding.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“There are many other worlds - but they are all in this one.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“As part of the Soul of the World we are part of a cosmic dance of which it is meaningless to ask the purpose and meaning - because it is all purpose and meaning.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“Emotion and intellect, matter and spirit, body and soul, One and Many, male and female, human and divine, freedom and necessity - all the contradictions of our fractured existence are most marvelously woven together in the wedding of soul and spirit, which preserves our twofoldness right into the heart of the One.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“In patience you shall possess your soul.”