“Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.” WayWritingDreamPrayerMeditationConsciousUnconsciousSubconsciousSubmissionTranceBangingTappingPoppingEsp Author:Carolyn Chute
“The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.” WorldDoeSelfDreamImaginationConsciousManipulationSelf ConsciousTrue FreedomDream World Author:Wendy Beckett
“When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.” WayDreamPurposeOur LivesConsciousUniversalPurpose Of LifeUniquenessOur Dreams Author:Andrew Schneider
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.” WorldDreamActionLawLyingEnergyExistenceNormalOrdinaryConsciousIndependentEverydaySurfaceImpulseOur ThoughtsOur ActionsCasualBeneath The Surface Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue
“Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.” PeopleKnowsDreamLevelsMysterySourceOceanConsciousDefeatSubconsciousUnseenCoastal Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.” SelfDreamMovingLostLeftLossImpossibleLetting GoIllusionExpectationsConsciousSafetyLeavingSeparationUnconsciousImmortalDepartureThose We LoveLetting Go And Moving OnConscious And UnconsciousYounger SelfIllusion Of Freedom Author:Judith Viorst
“We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.” HumansDreamBodyLife IsSufferingHuman BeingsSpaceBuddhismBirthConsciousEternityTime And SpaceBirth And DeathRecurringRecurring Dreams Author:Frederick Lenz
“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.” GivingBelievePersonsDoeShowsDreamSpeakSidesForgetSituationAuthorityConsciousAbsolutesUnconsciousSpeak The TruthReminding Author:Frances G. Wickes