I've been thinking of collecting quotes that have some kind of connection to lucid dreaming and lucid living for me, as I've noticed that many quotes seem to have been given a new layer of meaning since I started my lucid dreaming journey. Then I thought I'd ask all of you if you have any you would like to share 😊 I know @G Um posted one in the Telegram chat a little while back!
I'll start:
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"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
-- Suzy Kassem
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"The dream of my life
Is to lie down by a slow river
And stare at the light in the trees--
To learn something by being nothing
A little while but the rich
Lens of attention"
-- Mary Oliver ("Entering the Kingdom")
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I stumbled across a Ted Talk recently by Thomas Peisel and he said this: "Our dreams have a present moment just as rich and vivid as this moment right now." I love this, because when we wake up and remember a dream, what we are remembering is simply the memory of that dream that has already happened and is over with. I think it's important for us to remember that our dreams do have that all-important present moment which makes it possible for us to become lucid to begin with. It reminds us that lucidity can only exist in the eternal now.
One of my favorites is "In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own."
"Dreams are real while they last. Caw we say more of life?"
Havelock Ellis