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Quotes About Unconscious

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.
~ David Jeremiah
I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.
~ David Toop
There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.
~ Frederick Lenz
Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.
~ Julian Jaynes
Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.
~ Malcolm Morley
still greater problem resides in the fact that memory in relation to abduction experiences behaves rather strangely. As in the cases, for example, of Ed (chapter 3) or Arthur (chapter 15) the memory of an abduction may be outside of consciousness until triggered many years later by another experience or situation that becomes associated with the original event.
~ John E. Mack
TMS is a strategy of the brain to keep unpleasant thoughts and emotions from rising from the unconscious into the conscious mind. The brain, through established physiologic pathways, creates pain as a distraction. By focusing our attention on physical symptoms, we keep these painful thoughts and emotions repressed. This is a very effective strategy, as there is an absolute epidemic of mindbody disorders in our society.
~ John E. Sarno
TMS patients cope only too well in reality; it is their unconscious minds that are cowardly. The best evidence of the validity of this concept is the fact that patients are able to stop the process simply by learning about it.
~ John E. Sarno
Incidentally, one should make a distinction, as Freud did a long time ago, between mental items that are not conscious but that can be brought to consciousness with effort, like the things in our memories—Freud called that mental domain the preconscious—and things in the unconscious that are unavailable and cannot be recalled. We simply don't know they are there.
~ John E. Sarno
It is appropriate to designate Freud as the grandfather of psychosomatic medicine since his genius introduced us to the world of the unconscious mind, a contribution to medical science of inestimable importance. Psychosomatic processes begin in the unconscious and, though it has yet to be widely appreciated by either physical or psychiatric medicine, unconscious emotions are a potent factor in virtually all physical ills.
~ John E. Sarno
Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.
~ John Eliot Gardiner
The King was stretched unconscious on the floor, an overturned chair beside him. Horace was shaking his right hand, nursing his obviously bruised knuckles. "Horace Altman," Halt said, "what on earth have you done?" Horace gestured to the wardrobe full of official garments. "I've just elected you King," he said. "Start getting dressed.
~ John Flanagan
But a second, equally prominent, emphasis of the early days was learning to navigate without fixed maps; that is, to learn at an unconscious level. As I soon discovered in doing trance work, a hypnotic induction is a set of communications that de-frames or dissolves fixed maps, thereby allowing new experiences unhindered by the map bias.
~ John Grinder
Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.
~ John Katzenbach
Los sueños eran acertijos inconscientes e importantes que reflejaban el alma.
~ John Katzenbach
Hers was the unconscious tyranny of inexorable great expectations.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Marion Woodman—the great Jungian analyst and author—says that we come to the mythic Crossroads during "moments in our lives where the unconscious crosses consciousness; where the eternal crosses the transitory; where a higher will demands the surrender of our egos.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Culture shapes and influences our life and all of our beliefs. Most people are not aware of the profound influence that culture has on us. But even if we don't realize it, we use culture to order our lives, interpret our experiences, and evaluate behavior. It's our resource for understanding our experiences and making sense of our lives. Since this is largely a mental reflex—an unconscious process
~ Aubrey Malphurs
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." - Liebniz
~ Aubrey Rose
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. 'Learning' will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.
~ Austin Osman Spare
the unconscious cannot be civilized.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Her secrets weren't kept just from other people but also from herself.
~ Geling Yan