Unconscious Quotes - Page 36

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

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Science, Order, Numbers

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.245, Shambhala Publications

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• The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Self, Long

  "The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth".

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• Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Miracle, Forgiving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.194, New World Library

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• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  Edwin Muir

  Character, Reality, Literature

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• Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Men, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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

  Richard J. Mayer

  Motivation, People, Motivated

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• Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.2, Psychology Press

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• From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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• You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Typewriters, Trying

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• Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

  Guy Finley

  Bad Day, Dark, Dwelling

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Problem

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• I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Inspire, Firsts

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• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

  Thomas Cole

  Art, Nature, Perfection

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• Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• 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.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Real, Race, Mystery

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• Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

  Perry Farrell

  People, Should, Dies

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• 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.

  Rod Serling

  Believe, Void, Consciousness

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• I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

  George Carlin

  Food, Cooking, Sushi

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• All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Littles

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.146

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

  Bill Hicks

  Collective Unconscious, Ego, Trying

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• SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

  Gregory Benford

  Dream, Attitude, Spring

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