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Midweek Reflections on Treasures and Dreams

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

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The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 1002
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." Thornton Wilder Do you agree? What are your thoughts on this?

Our treasures are the spiritual attributes we develop while we are living on this earthly plain. We live when we are developing these attributes through the tests and difficulties we face as we move through the journey of matter. When we practice the sacred virtues of prudence, justice, temperance (restriction or restraint of our lower nature), courage (fortitude), tolerance, hope, love (charity), faith, and patience. There are other spiritual attributes or virtues, but these nine cover those I can think of right now. While our souls and bodies are partners in this world, we have the choice to develop these virtues. When death separates our souls and bodies then we move into the spiritual realm and the grace of God.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1483
"The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not -- which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams." C.G. Jung" What do you think about this?

Dreams come from the unconscious mind. They come to us for a purpose which is either to relax our conscious mind, review the events of our day, or for some other reason. From my own experience with dreams, I suspect sometimes they are messages from loved ones whose souls have ascended after death. I also believe, from my experiences, that some dreams are message from God or one of God's messengers. I think people have to look at their own dreams and interrupt them from the point of view of their own life and experience. True there are some dream symbols that have common elements, but even in these cases individuals have to look a dreams to find any message that they contains.