Conscious And Unconscious Quotes (page 2)

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• knowledge
• new
• appearance

One job of the unconscious is to act as a workshop for rough-shaping ideas; crafting notions as new parts or tools become available; storing observations until something relevant appears in the landscape -- generally soaking, simmering, and incubating ideas. Gradually, while combing through its inventory, it finds bits and pieces that create a pattern. When it slips knowledge of that pattern to the conscious mind, it's a surprise, like a telegram slid under the door. Diane Ackerman

• thinking
• vacation
• work

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

• difficult
• collections
• collectibles

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. Marc Maron

• sometimes
• may
• mind

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a... Bertrand Russell

• your life
• life
• fate

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung

• nature
• imperfection
• reality

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. Sigmund Freud

• nature
• science
• purpose

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. William Irwin Thompson

• feeling
• alien
• divorce

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. William Irwin Thompson

• change
• revenge
• history

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. Arthur M. Schlesinger

• determination
• mind
• mindfulness

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

• music
• lot
• musically

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. John Abercrombie