Quotes about Unconscious

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Votes: 6

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Votes: 6

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. Votes: 6

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. Votes: 5

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Votes: 4

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Votes: 4

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. Votes: 4

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. Votes: 4

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. Votes: 4

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. Votes: 4

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Votes: 4

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. Votes: 4

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. Votes: 4

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. Votes: 4

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Votes: 4

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Votes: 4

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Votes: 4

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. Votes: 4

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. Votes: 4

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal. Votes: 4

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. Votes: 4

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." Votes: 4

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. Votes: 4

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. Votes: 3

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious. Votes: 3

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head. Votes: 3

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. Votes: 3

Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor. Votes: 3

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. Votes: 3

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. Votes: 3

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness. Votes: 3

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster. Votes: 3

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication. Votes: 3

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. Votes: 2

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. Votes: 2

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. Votes: 2

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. Votes: 2

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Votes: 2

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. Votes: 2

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Votes: 2

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. Votes: 2

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. Votes: 2

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. Votes: 2

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. Votes: 2

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. Votes: 2

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. Votes: 2

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results. Votes: 2

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. Votes: 2

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Votes: 2

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Votes: 2

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Votes: 2

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. Votes: 2

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. Votes: 2

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Votes: 2

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. Votes: 2

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance. Votes: 0

Most wonderful things are unconscious. Votes: 0

You can trust the unconscious. Votes: 0

You're always running into people's unconscious. Votes: 0

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. Votes: 0

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. Votes: 0

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious Votes: 0

The unconscious is our best collaborator. Votes: 0

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female. Votes: 0

The unconscious creates, the ego edits. Votes: 0

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking. Votes: 0

We are all at times unconscious prophets. Votes: 0

She can't say no if she's unconscious. Votes: 0

The unconscious is structured like a language. Votes: 0

The greatest sin is to be unconscious. Votes: 0

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. Votes: 0

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. Votes: 0

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death Votes: 0

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge. Votes: 0

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to. Votes: 0

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm. Votes: 0

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. Votes: 0

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. Votes: 0

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive. Votes: 0

Art always has something of the unconscious about it. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. Votes: 0

Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts! Votes: 0

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. Votes: 0

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Votes: 0

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Votes: 0

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. Votes: 0

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality." Votes: 0

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. Votes: 0

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking. Votes: 0

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. Votes: 0

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit. Votes: 0

Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. Votes: 0

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious. Votes: 0

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. Votes: 0

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious? Votes: 0

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. Votes: 0

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do? Votes: 0

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. Votes: 0

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious. Votes: 0

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. Votes: 0

World praises the amalgamation of conscious & unconscious, History is the testament. Votes: 0

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. Votes: 0

World praises the amalgamation of unconscious & conscious, History is the testament. Votes: 0

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. Votes: 0

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. Votes: 0

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. Votes: 0

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious. Votes: 0

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. Votes: 0

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry Votes: 0

Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state. Votes: 0

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. Votes: 0

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it. Votes: 0

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. Votes: 0

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role. Votes: 0

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. Votes: 0

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. Votes: 0

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. Votes: 0

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. Votes: 0

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. Votes: 0

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. Votes: 0

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Votes: 0

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Votes: 0

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. Votes: 0

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. Votes: 0

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Votes: 0

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? Votes: 0

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious) Votes: 0

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. Votes: 0

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective. Votes: 0

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. Votes: 0

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious. Votes: 0

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy. Votes: 0

Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious. Votes: 0

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious. Votes: 0

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. Votes: 0

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean. Votes: 0

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Votes: 0

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. Votes: 0

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. Votes: 0

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political Votes: 0

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties. Votes: 0

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are. Votes: 0

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Votes: 0

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor. Votes: 0

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. Votes: 0

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever. Votes: 0

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. Votes: 0

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. Votes: 0

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. Votes: 0

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers. Votes: 0

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts. Votes: 0

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Votes: 0

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. Votes: 0

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. Votes: 0

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. Votes: 0

Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room. Votes: 0

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. Votes: 0

Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. Votes: 0

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. Votes: 0

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. Votes: 0

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. Votes: 0

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human Votes: 0

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. Votes: 0

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. Votes: 0

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. Votes: 0

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious. Votes: 0

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. Votes: 0

Transformation begins in the darkness of your unconscious with the notion of something you can become. Votes: 0

Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. Votes: 0

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. Votes: 0

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. Votes: 0

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Votes: 0

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. Votes: 0

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied." Votes: 0

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. Votes: 0

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. Votes: 0

Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected. Votes: 0

I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him Votes: 0

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' Votes: 0

The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious. Votes: 0

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. Votes: 0

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind--that is, without our awareness, Votes: 0

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. Votes: 0

When you smile, I become unconscious and I cannot open my eyes. Where is the justice! Votes: 0

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. Votes: 0

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Votes: 0

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life. Votes: 0

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. Votes: 0

You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence... Votes: 0

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. Votes: 0

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it. Votes: 0

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. Votes: 0

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. Votes: 0

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. Votes: 0

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. Votes: 0

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. Votes: 0

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. Votes: 0

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Votes: 0

The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive. Votes: 0

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity. Votes: 0

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. Votes: 0

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. Votes: 0

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. Votes: 0

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. Votes: 0

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. Votes: 0

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. Votes: 0

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. Votes: 0

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. Votes: 0

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. Votes: 0

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing. Votes: 0

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing. Votes: 0

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. Votes: 0

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. Votes: 0

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work. Votes: 0

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious Votes: 0

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Votes: 0

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious. Votes: 0

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious... Votes: 0

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. Votes: 0

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Votes: 0

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past. Votes: 0

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another Votes: 0

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. Votes: 0

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. Votes: 0

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful. Votes: 0

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. Votes: 0

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Votes: 0

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it. Votes: 0

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa. Votes: 0

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. Votes: 0

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations. Votes: 0

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. Votes: 0

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females. Votes: 0

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Votes: 0

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others. Votes: 0

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. Votes: 0

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. Votes: 0

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same. Votes: 0

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. Votes: 0

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. Votes: 0

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory. Votes: 0

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious. Votes: 0

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives. Votes: 0

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it. Votes: 0

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. Votes: 0

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious. Votes: 0

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. Votes: 0

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. Votes: 0

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness. Votes: 0

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula. Votes: 0

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. Votes: 0

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious. Votes: 0

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground. Votes: 0

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. Votes: 0

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. Votes: 0

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent. Votes: 0

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Votes: 0

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change. Votes: 0

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. Votes: 0

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. Votes: 0

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them. Votes: 0

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. Votes: 0

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. Votes: 0

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy. Votes: 0

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. Votes: 0

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Votes: 0

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. Votes: 0

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. Votes: 0

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. Votes: 0

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. Votes: 0

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. Votes: 0

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. Votes: 0

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. Votes: 0

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. Votes: 0

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. Votes: 0

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. Votes: 0

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious. Votes: 0

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous. Votes: 0

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Votes: 0

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. Votes: 0

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. Votes: 0

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility. Votes: 0

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine. Votes: 0

The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. Votes: 0

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . Votes: 0

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head." Votes: 0

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. Votes: 0

Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us. Votes: 0

Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons. Votes: 0

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. Votes: 0

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. Votes: 0

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not. Votes: 0

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool. Votes: 0

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level. Votes: 0

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. Votes: 0

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark. Votes: 0

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. Votes: 0

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not Votes: 0

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. Votes: 0

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. Votes: 0

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy. Votes: 0

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity. Votes: 0

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it. Votes: 0

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Votes: 0

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. Votes: 0

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free. Votes: 0

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. Votes: 0

each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life Votes: 0

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out. Votes: 0

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it. Votes: 0

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. Votes: 0

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated. Votes: 0

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia. Votes: 0

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. Votes: 0

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others. Votes: 0

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. Votes: 0

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious. Votes: 0

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do. Votes: 0

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. Votes: 0

Most humans are but beasts and bitches, till the One in All - this unconscious seeking, and conscious finding of it - 'em itches. Votes: 0

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money. Votes: 0

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. Votes: 0

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. Votes: 0

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. Votes: 0

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. Votes: 0

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious. Votes: 0

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity. Votes: 0

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. Votes: 0

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places. Votes: 0

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me. Votes: 0

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves. Votes: 0

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. Votes: 0

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you. Votes: 0

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. Votes: 0

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. Votes: 0

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me. Votes: 0

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision. Votes: 0

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. Votes: 0

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it. Votes: 0

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. Votes: 0

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity. Votes: 0

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. Votes: 0

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. Votes: 0

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. Votes: 0

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes. Votes: 0

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. Votes: 0

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious. Votes: 0

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. Votes: 0

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. Votes: 0

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes. Votes: 0

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space. Votes: 0

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious. Votes: 0

It turns out that we determine who our leaders are by unconscious undertones we all project with our voices - and of which we're completely unaware. Votes: 0

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing. Votes: 0

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls. Votes: 0

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious. Votes: 0

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy. Votes: 0

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail Votes: 0

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note. Votes: 0

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control. Votes: 0

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. Votes: 0

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness. Votes: 0

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said. Votes: 0

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge. Votes: 0

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with. Votes: 0

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious. Votes: 0

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us. Votes: 0

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep. Votes: 0

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. Votes: 0

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious. Votes: 0

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. Votes: 0

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing." Votes: 0

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow. Votes: 0

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. Votes: 0

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. Votes: 0

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me. Votes: 0

Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious. Votes: 0

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. Votes: 0

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career. Votes: 0

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good. Votes: 0

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. Votes: 0

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. Votes: 0

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is. Votes: 0

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively. Votes: 0

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live. Votes: 0

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking. Votes: 0

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die. Votes: 0

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. Votes: 0

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. Votes: 0

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge. Votes: 0

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make. Votes: 0

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row. Votes: 0

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. Votes: 0

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions. Votes: 0

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. Votes: 0

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. Votes: 0

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break. Votes: 0

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity. Votes: 0

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal. Votes: 0

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind. Votes: 0

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious. Votes: 0

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious. Votes: 0

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs? Votes: 0

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. Votes: 0

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious. Votes: 0

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road. Votes: 0

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind. Votes: 0

The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs. Votes: 0

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone. Votes: 0

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through. Votes: 0

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone." Votes: 0

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious. Votes: 0

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting. Votes: 0

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end. Votes: 0

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories. Votes: 0

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. Votes: 0

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical. Votes: 0

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world. Votes: 0

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. Votes: 0

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling. Votes: 0

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence. Votes: 0

A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious. Votes: 0

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16) Votes: 0

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911. Votes: 0

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic. Votes: 0

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one. Votes: 0

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort. Votes: 0

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations Votes: 0

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed. Votes: 0

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still. Votes: 0

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. Votes: 0

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another. Votes: 0

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime." Votes: 0

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. Votes: 0

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends. Votes: 0

As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth. Votes: 0

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand. Votes: 0

The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it. Votes: 0

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious. Votes: 0

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. Votes: 0

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind. Votes: 0

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. Votes: 0

If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin. Votes: 0

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. Votes: 0

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust. Votes: 0

When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious. Votes: 0

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. Votes: 0

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. Votes: 0

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious. Votes: 0

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively. Votes: 0

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real. Votes: 0

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism. Votes: 0

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you. Votes: 0

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. Votes: 0

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious. Votes: 0

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it. Votes: 0

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change. Votes: 0

I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death. Votes: 0

I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary. Votes: 0

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious. Votes: 0

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. Votes: 0

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon. Votes: 0

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice Votes: 0

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her. Votes: 0

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware. Votes: 0

Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead. Votes: 0

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results. Votes: 0

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place. Votes: 0

[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship. Votes: 0

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of. Votes: 0