Antonio Machado Quotes

Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams, there are things about the human condition that we can learn only from a systematic study of literature.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.