Posts on the importance of personal growth or becoming an individual.
The ego is your conscious mind, or conscious identity. It is symbolized in dreams by the person of the dreamer or the vehicle that the dreamer is in. By analyzing your dreams you learn more about your conscious attitudes towards your deeper self (the unconscious) and outer life.
Dreams of oppression and protesting often symbolize the need to address egocentricity so as to provide greater expression to the soul.
Some risks make sense; they are fairly safe, reasonable, or logical. But other risks are gambles we are asked to make for God. They may seem irrational, illogical. But they come from somewhere inside us, our soul, our heart, our intuition. These are irrational risks and they are often the most magical and meaningful.
In order to grow as people, we must learn to harness our emotions, contemplate them, learn from them, express them appropriately, and let them transform us.
Neil Young’s song “Heart of Gold” offers an opportunity to reflect on what is most important in life. You can look outside of yourself, but your real gold is found within you.
To Love yourself and, indirectly, to love others, is to care enough to become the unique individual you were created to be. The spark of God is within you; it is your soul. It is the most valuable thing you’ve got.
