Unconscious Quotes - Page 26

• The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

  Carl Jung

  Mankind, Unwritten

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technique, Individual, Servant

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, 1964.

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• We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?

  T.C. Boyle

  Book, Knowing, Space

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• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  Nancy Friday

  Dream, Expression

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• 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.

  John Welwood

  Soul, Feelings, Desire

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Blow, People, Example

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Mean, Autobiography

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• Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Eye, Sight

  The Blind Watchmaker ch. 1 (1986) See Paley 3

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• Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Media, White

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.69, Verso

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• Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Play, Roles

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• Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.115, Macmillan

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• When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

  Edward T. Hall

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• 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.

  Francis Galton

  Republic, Life Is, Individual

  Sir Francis Galton (0101). “Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development”, p.83, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.

  Morris Berman

  Eye, Hands, Self

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• We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Long, People, Levels

  "Marilyn Yalom and the Language of Lovemarilyn Yalom and the Language of Love". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.

  Rachel Pollack

  Mean, Energy Of Life, Evil

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• Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Ignorance, Character, Names

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity”, p.60, Thomas Nelson

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• Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Expectations, Signals

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• The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Mind, World

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

  Miguel Serrano

  Collective Unconscious, Greek, Esoteric

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.56, Penguin

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• The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

  Henry Adams

  Beauty, Women, Glowing

  "The Letters of a World Watcher" by William S. McFeely, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1983.

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• The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Lying, Answers

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