Dream Yoga Quotes

“The second attention is available to all of us, but, by willfully holding on to our half-cocked rationality, some of us more fiercely than others, keep the second attention at arm’s length.

His idea was that dreaming brings down the barriers that surround and insulate the second attention.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Seeing children's assemblage points constantly fluttering, as if moved by tremors, changing their place with ease, the old sorcerers came to the conclusion that the assemblage points habitual location is not innate but brought about by habituation.

Seeing also that only in adults is it fixed on one spot, they surmised that the specific location of the assemblage point fosters a specific way of perceiving.

Through usage, this specific way of perceiving becomes a system of interpreting sensory data.

Since we are drafted into that system by being born into it, from the moment of our birth we imperatively strive to adjust our perceiving to conform to the demands of this system, a system that rules us for life.

Consequently, the old sorcerers were thoroughly right in believing that the act of countermanding it and perceiving energy directly is what transforms a person into a sorcerer.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Until the energy body is complete and mature, it is self-absorbed. It can't get free from the compulsion to be absorbed by everything.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Just like we don't take responsibility for how we actualize our confusion and its resulting view of duality, we don't take responsibility for actualizing wisdom and its view of nonduality.”
― Andrew Holecek, Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through Lucid Dreaming