Who looks outside, dreams; who looks within, awakens. 

– Carl Jung –

This quote is at the beginning of a book “Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow: Is God an Illusion? The Great Debate Between Science and Spirituality”. Mlodinow is a physician and I doubt Chopra needs any introduction.

It is true that the inner world is of immense value. It is here that soul-making occurs. Our own dreams point the way.

I look back over this year to when I started my own garden of eden blog and I am deeply grateful to all of you who have read the blog and to the many of you who have left comments.

Many of the comments have been quite elaborate and I really feel that have learned much from them! Thank you!

I know that in a previous blog on dreams I have used these quotes before, but I am using them again as they are worthwhile repeating.

Talmud: An unexamined dream is like an unopened letter –

Socrates (in Plato’s Phaedro): An unexamined life is not worth living –

Thank you for being with me on this journey! I wish you and your families all the very best for 2013 – health, joy, dreaming, awakening.

10 Comments on dreaming – awakening

  1. I just received this today…while I was watching a movie about dreams…

    It’s called “what dreams may come”. About a family who dies, except the wife commits suicide….

    This is beautiful Susan……very beautiful….

    Love
    Linda

    • Thank you so much Linda! I guess there was synchronicity at play here. Maybe my next blog will be on synchronicity .. One of the most wonderful qualities of our lives when we are open to it.

  2. Susan,
    It’s been an honor and a pleasure getting to know you this year. I’ve enjoyed your book and blog tremendously, and have much appreciated your insights into my own writing.
    I wish you all the best and hope to read more of your work in 2013.
    Your Friend,
    Lilith oxo

    • Thank you Lilith (aka Stacy)! May I return the compliment 10 fold. I hope to see more of your writing and blogs in 2013 and beyond!
      Your friend,
      Susan

  3. Susan I love your wise words and the quotes — again thought provoking and a good way for me to start the New Year! It has been a pleasure getting to know you. I have so enjoyed both your book and your blog. You are an inspirational lady. My wish for you and your family is that each New Year brings you more joy and fulfillment than the last! Happy New Year! Gwynn

    • Gwynn, so dear as always! Almost the witching hour this side! Back from thekiffness and a real jive! So many good wishes to you Gwynn and your family and may 2013 be the best year yet! I have so enjoyed our contact and so look forward to its ongoing flow.
      xxx Susan

  4. Beautiful, Susan. So much wisdom told in so few words. Perfect thoughts to contemplate at years end. My best to you and your family in 2013. I am so glad to know you as a friend; one of my great gifts this year — a flower that grew beautifully from some seed I planted in my garden. I love the image at the top of this post — beautiful and says a lot.

    –Carol

    • Thank you Carol, your reply is quite beautiful thank you!

      I am so glad of your gift of friendship Carol, thank you – it is so precious to me.

      May you and your family and those you love be blessed this coming year .. happy happy! Merry merry!

      Yes, isn’t the image quite something … some where, some time ago, I had saved it on my computer (it was a FB posting which I loved and no doubt shared and somehow managed to save) because it is so striking and beautiful and blow me down I got it up – a complete fluke! I am so happy to have this as an image and, at the end of and the beginning of, it seems extra apt.

  5. My Dear Susan,

    I too wish you a succesful walk over into the year 2013. It has been delightful discussing and exchanging thoughts with you. Your blog and especially your articles about dreaming has been tremendously helpful to me in my own life.

    Keep up the good work and keep looking forward. It is a pleasure to know you.
    Shalom,
    Patricia

    • My dear Patricia,

      How lovely of you to write and say what you said! I too have derived much from your writings Patricia and I thank you for them! It has been my great, great pleasure to make your acquaintance over the airwaves and to have you now as a valued friend.

      May God bless you and your family now and for always and may 2013 be the best of the best.

      Walk On and Shalom to you.

      Susan

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