Marcel Proust Quotes

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

I love dreaming!

Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

The better you look, the more you see.

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.