Quotes About Awareness

This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.

it would be a serious misunderstanding to confuse the existence of problems with neurosis. There is a marked difference between the two in that the neurotic is ill because he is unconscious of his problems. . .

by repressing disagreeable thoughts she created something like a psychic vacuum which, as usually happens, gradually became filled with anxiety. Had she troubled herself consciously with her thoughts she would have known what was lacking, and she would then have needed no anxiety states as a substitute for the absence of conscious suffering.

But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it.

Man today is painfully aware of the fact that neither his great religions nor his various philosophies seem to provide him with those powerful animating ideas that would give him the security he needs in face of the present condition of the world.

Schiller was also aware that the two functions, thinking and affectivity (feeling-sensation), can take one another's place, which happens, as we saw, when one function is privileged:

Até você se tornar consciente, o inconsciente irá dirigir sua vida e você vai chamá-lo de destino

I had the distinct feeling that they were something central, and in time I acquired through them a living conception of the self.

No sabes aún que el camino hacia la verdad sólo está abierto para el que carece de intenciones?

Deberíamos crecer como un árbol que tampoco sabe de su ley. Sin embargo, nos atamos a intenciones, sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que la intención es limitación, e incluso exclusión de la vida. Creemos poder aclarar una oscuridad con una intención y con ello pasamos por alto la luz. ¿Cómo podemos atrevernos a querer saber por anticipado de dónde nos vendrá la luz?

become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The psyche is still a foreign, almost unexplored country of which we have only indirect knowledge; it is mediated by conscious functions that are subject to almost endless possibilities of deception.

We must not attempt to tell nature what to do if we want to observe her operations undisturbed.

Non-directed thinking is in the main subjectively motivated, and not so much by conscious motives as—far more—by unconscious ones.

Before him exist neither question nor answer.

I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

He who is most guilty is most innocent; the most holy man is the one most conscious of his sin.

It is always dangerous to speak of one's own times, because what is at stake in the present is too vast for comprehension.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

He doubted that the drivers hurtling down the interstate even noticed the herd, the coyote, or the dogfight in the clouds. Like so many vistas in the state, Joe thought, it looked like a whole lot of nothing at first. But if one stopped and observed, really sat still for a few minutes and observed, there was a lot going on. The high-steppe desert was alive and complex. •

Her nightmares came from what she saw and experienced when the door had opened to reveal evil and violence that until that trip had been closed to her. Now she knew what some people—despite their manner and packaging—were capable of. It still shook her to her core.

Are you on the scene?

It came in horrible flashes, and Cassie found herself fast-forwarding, getting the gist but not dwelling a second longer than necessary on the actual details.

Saeed didn't need to answer. Instead, he turned to the