Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies
of the soul. When a man recollects his dream, it is like meeting the ghost of
himself. Dreams often surprise us into the strangest self-knowledge....
Dreaming is the truest confessional, and often the sharpest penance.
Dreaming is an act of pure
imagination, attesting in all
men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every
man a Dante or Shakespeare
Last night—I cannot know which way it cameOr what star-way it went—
There was a little dream without a name
That left my soul content...
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is
writing about you.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the
same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes,
"Meditations on First Philosophy"
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak
directly to our hearts when we are asleep
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom
as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about
it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and
perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within our
self.
Huge and mighty
forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day
and were trouble to
my dreams.
Our dreams
disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of
ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a
challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And
always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability,
the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.
If
addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will
sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I
would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the
fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles,
we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ignorance, greed and love of power
Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're
the scenic route.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the
window except that the birds might eat them.
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife
before engaging in a flirtation.
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who
flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only
wants him to want to kiss her?
Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the
prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry
of some is restrained by fear or by reason.
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves
it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when
once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them
hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.