Unconscious Mind Quotes

• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Mind, Unconscious

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• 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

  Mind, Important, Action

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

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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• 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

  Lying, Mind, Roles

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• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mind, Afternoon, Awareness

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Mind, Way, Unconscious

  "The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy".

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Unconscious Thoughts, Mind, Able

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.25, New World Library

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• 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

  Simple, Mind, Adults

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.79, Ardent Media

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

  Gerald Zaltman

  Mind, Emotion, Awareness

  Gerald Zaltman (2003). “How Customers Think: Essential Insights Into the Mind of the Market”, p.40, Harvard Business Press

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• You have to begin by posing questions to your unconscious mind, and then listening very carefully for the answers. If you pose the right kinds of questions, and listen well, you can begin to tap into the power of your unconscious mind.

  Nick Morgan

  Listening, Mind, Answers

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• Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

  Jo Coudert

  Mind, World, Detectives

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.30, iUniverse

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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

  Carl Jung

  Men, Mind, Blind

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Roots, Secret Love

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

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Powerful, Medicine, Self

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• After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

  Paulo Coelho

  New Experiences, Interesting, Challenges

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Mind, Left Alone

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Nick Morgan

  Powerful, Mind, Definitions

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• People often think of the unconscious mind as "the gut" or perhaps the Freudian "sink" of repressed sexual desires. It's neither one of those things. It's the repository of memory, and it's the seat of decision making.

  Nick Morgan

  Memories, Thinking, People

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• You have to learn to trust - and listen to - your unconscious mind. If you pose the question to your unconscious "is this person a friend or a foe" - safe or a threat - your unconscious mind is hard-wired to assess that brilliantly for you. It's just that we're not very good at paying attention to what our unconscious minds are telling us.

  Nick Morgan

  Mind, Attention, Safe

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• Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before. It is a quest to find ourselves: who and what we really are. To do this we must first cease to pretend to be what we are not. We must cast away our Persona or mask. We must be prepared to confront the Shadow, that which we are and rather were not. Only then can we unify our conscious and unconscious minds and so give birth to the hidden Sun - the Self.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Life, Self, Giving

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• 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.

  Nick Morgan

  Thinking, Mind, Tasks

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• 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.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Two, Scary

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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