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Dreams And Reality
Alarming dreams are unpleasant events. But they offer valuable opportunities for learning and growth. They may draw our attention to potentially threatening situations and to important inner or outer work we are ignoring or failing to confront. Understanding these dreams may become an urgent necessity in helping us to grow and deal with the threats in our lives.
Dreams may appear frightening especially when their language is poetic, alien to the ways we’ve learned to process information. And we don’t feel safe when things are going on within us that we don’t understand. But with attention and practice, it isn’t that difficult to become at home with this other voice in our lives and fluent in its own varied and rich vocabulary.
— from Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance, by Bud Harris PhD
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… I realized that the child never dies: every human being, if he has not completed some spiritual work, is a child disguised as an adult. It’s wonderful to be a child when you’re a child and it’s terrible that at such a young age someone forces us to behave like adults. It’s terrible to be a child when you’re an adult…
..Being sick is a metaphor. It’s a child’s protest turned into a representation…
…The greatest anguish of a human being is that of not being loved by his…
