“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Science of Survival (1951)
“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“A word only writes its night and rides its dream.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
”A Word,” p. 81
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Source: The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu
Context: How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a border guard in Ai. When first captured by the state of Jin, she wept so much her clothes were soaked. But after she entered the palace, shared the king's bed, and dined on the finest meats, she regretted her tears. How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night.
“Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.”
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
Mattie Do (1981) Laotian film director
IDE2018 Symposium - Mattie Do - 13 Jun 2018, at 11 Min 32 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAj9_vsIzXg <br class="br">From IDE Symposium Presentation
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"Dusk"
By Still Waters (1906)