The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers. — Milton H. Erickson
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung
The unconscious is the repository of everything that we’re avoiding. — Oliver Burkeman
The unconscious psyche believes in life after death — Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. — E. Stanley Jones
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. — Jacques Lacan
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — John Sterling
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life. — Gustave Le Bon
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — W. H. Auden
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. — Sigmund Freud
In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form. — Louis Althusser
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. — Jean Cocteau
Short Unconscious Quotes
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. — Pierre Bourdieu
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. — Richard Wagner
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? — Milton H. Erickson
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. — Sam Abell
The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people... — David Foster
I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday. — Robert H. Jackson
Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. — Oliver Sacks
Unconscious Image Quotes
A stupid man's report of what clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Unconscious Bias Quotes
To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits. — Unknown
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism. — Judy Woodruff
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased. — James Baker
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. — Bertrand Russell
Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel. — Emma Donoghue
Psychology Of The Unconscious Quotes
A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious. — Robert Johnson
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. — Carl Jung
I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place. — Fred Alan Wolf
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 — Carl Jung
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. — Carl Jung
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. — Nathalie Sarraute
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. — Carl Jung
Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious. — Carl Jung
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung
The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious. — Carl Gustav Carus
Conscious And Unconscious Quotes
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on. — Virginia Henderson
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily. — G. I. Gurdjieff
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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." — Carl Jung
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. — Neale Donald Walsch
If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy. — Wallace D. Wattles
The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada. — Hans Richter
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. — Helen Garner
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. — Carl Jung
Unconscious Mind Quotes
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. — Milton H. Erickson
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. — Augustus Y. Napier
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. — Augustus
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls. — Maya Deren
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud
The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff
All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there. — Jeff Greenwald
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way. — Charles Eisenstein
Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain. — Patrick Rothfuss
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. — Stephen King
Collective Unconscious Quotes
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. — Miguel Serrano
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious. — Bill Hicks
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — Carl Jung
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. — Steven Spielberg
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. — Jon Krakauer
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. — Carl Jung
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. — David Letterman
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious — Carl Jung
Unconscious Thoughts Quotes
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. — Heinrich Heine
Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives. — Gregg Braden
Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness. — Gerald Zaltman
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain. — Arthur Fry
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth. — Lao Tzu
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now? — George Orwell
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light. — Emily Post
Subconscious Quotes
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind." — Joseph Murphy
Never go to sleep
without a request to your subconscious. — Thomas A. Edison
Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions.
Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much
more rapidly. — Joseph Murphy
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious. — Amrita Pritam
You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences. — Joseph Murphy
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life. — Joseph Murphy
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani
All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally. — Joseph Murphy
Superconsciousness Quotes
Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. — Frederick Lenz
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The holy trinity, the holy triad is a construction which is found in every aspect of life. Whether it is body, mind and spirit, or whether it is conscious, subconscious and superconscious. — Neale Donald Walsch
The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual. — Frederick Lenz
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual. — Frederick Lenz
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence. — Frederick Lenz
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division. — Frederick Lenz
The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation. — Frederick Lenz
Subconscious Mind Quotes
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy — Joseph Murphy
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Robert Collier
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Sidney Madwed
The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. — Joseph Murphy
The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life. — Joseph Murphy
You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind. — Joseph Murphy
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion. — Uell Stanley Andersen
As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. — Joseph Murphy
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. — Orison Swett Marden
Deep Conscious Quotes
Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious. — Joel Meyerowitz
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. — Albert Camus
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. — Christian Lous Lange
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness. — Sivananda
Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. — Langston Hughes
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. — Milton H. Erickson
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. — Albert Schweitzer
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. — Edgar Schein
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end. — Ramana Maharshi
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. — Franz Kafka
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. — Michael Chekhov
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . — Antonin Artaud
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. — Booker T. Washington
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. — Franz Kafka
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable. — Jack Kornfield
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. — Tom G. Palmer
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities — Marie-Louise von Franz
Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. — Max Ernst
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane. — Eckhart Tolle
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal. — Sherrie Levine
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. — Edward Sapir
The fix is easy: breathe less. But that’s harder than it sounds. We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much. With some effort and training, however, breathing less can become an unconscious habit. — James Nestor
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are. — Pablo Picasso
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. — Thomas Mann
When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity. — T. D. Jakes
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
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. — Sigmund Freud
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