The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Sophia as a figure who reconciles the opposites.

Healing:

If you know the figure in your dream from waking-life, you can ask yourself, “What are their most defining qualities?” If you don’t know them, ask yourself, “Who do they remind me of?” or “What do I like or dislike about them?”

When you have successfully understood a chain of metaphors, you will be able to walk across that bridge into a new way of seeing, as Fatima was able to do.

Out of our need to belong, we learn to hide what’s magical in us to survive in the modern world.

There is a danger in believing the death phase of the cycle might be perpetual—that we may never feel alive again. Grieving and railing against our losses is necessary, but when we are ready, we must actively turn toward that questing field and actively imagine a new way forward.

One of the greatest skills honed in dreamwork is your symbolic capacity, which is part of your natural heritage.

I think this is true of vulnerability overall. It tends to feel riskier to be authentic than it does to witness it.

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