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Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology QUOTES

Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology QUOTES

1 " Those who wish to enter this path must accept that they can never explain either to themselves or to others the mysterious inner unfolding that is taking them home. "

― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology

2 " The Sufi path is subversive rather than confrontational. It works from within, from the Self which lives in the very depths of the unconscious, in the secret recesses of the heart. The changes begin far away from the conscious mind, where they cannot be interfered with. Then slowly the energy of the Self filters into consciousness, where it begins the work of altering our thinking processes. "

― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology

3 " As a Canadian psychiatrist observed: When a human being is standing with both feet firmly on the ground, with both legs on the earth, and is “quite normal” as we medical practitioners call it, spiritual life is very difficult, perhaps impossible. But if something is not quite right with the mind, a little wheel not working properly in the clockwork of the mind, then spiritual life is easy. "

― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology

4 " When the Sufi Abû Sa‘îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: “Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it! "

― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology

5 " The Sufi is interested in neither this world nor the next, in neither heaven nor hell. He will pay any price to reach Reality in this life. The price is that “everything has to go,” and like any mental belief, the values of good and bad can be a limitation. Even the desire to renounce must be left behind. One Sufi poet wrote: “On the hat of poverty three renouncements are inscribed: ‘Quit this world, quit the next world, quit quitting. "

― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee , Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology