Quotes About Unconscious

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there's the real danger. Look at how long you walked across this desert without thinking about your face mask.

And … someday … Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

The ancient little dressmaker was at all times willing to talk of Old Grannis to anybody that would listen, quite unconscious of the gossip of the flat.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An analogy, of course, is found in any psychoanalytic treatment: the patient is rigidly determined by past experiences and previously developed patterns to the extent that he is unaware of these experiences and patterns.

People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one are dangerous. Such conviction is the essence not only of dogmatism, but of its more destructive cousin, fanaticism. It blocks off the user from learning new truth, and it is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. The person then has to double his or her protests in order to quiet not only the opposition but his or her own unconscious doubts as well.

Kavray??, bilinçli emekten ba??ms?zd?r, eme?in bilinçd???nda kalan k?sm? istirahat sonras?nda bilince ç?kan biçimi haz?rlam??t?r.

Tinin yarat?c?l??? ussal, düzenli toplum ve ya?ama tarz?m?z?n yap?s?n? ve önkabulleni?lerini tehdit eder ve etmelidir. Bilinçd???, usd??? itilimler tam da do?alar?ndan ötürü ussall???m?za yönelik bir tehdit olu?turmak durumundad?rlar, o halde ya?ad???m?z kayg? kaç?n?lmazd?r.

Forcing himself to stop gawking up at it, he went trotting to the fallen intruder. "Wonder if the guy's dead." No—he was breathing. As Pete was bending to touch the unconscious man, he heard a rustling to his left. Someone was approaching him. A tall man in coveralls and a wide-brim hat. In his gloved hand he held a prop ray gun. Straightening up, Pete said, "You're Dangler, aren't you?

Consciousness - what we call our identitty- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.

Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.

In sleep, Ross's face was unguarded, his expression soft. It made him appear much younger. He also snored loud enough to wake the dead. It made her think it would be a good thing did she fall asleep first every night for the rest of their marriage. Annabel

The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.

Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace—a gift of God, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair.

It is precisely because our consciousness is disordered that conflict occurs between it and the unconscious which seeks to heal it. In other words, mental illness occurs when the conscious will of the individual deviates substantially from the will of God, which is the individual's own unconscious will.

There's an answer to every question even if it's elusive. The Kabbalah tells us that there's a level of our souls where we all connect to all the world's accumulated knowledge. Jung agreed, just used different words and called it the collective unconscious. It manifests itself in an inner voice we all can hear if we listen deeply enough.

We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Drug taking starts as a rational, conscious choice and through repetition becomes an automatic, unconsciously motivated behavior. Addicted