Unconscious Quotes - Page 38

• Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

  Dorothea Brande

  Writing, Mind, Arms

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Faith, Heart, Rooms

  Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)

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• 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

  Book, Hands, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

  Carl Jung

  Character, Men, Astrology

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• The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

  Carl Jung

  Shoes, Decision, Recipes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Ego, Evolution

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• A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Way, Blind

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• In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Collective Unconscious, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Healing, Creating, Fields

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

  Carl Jung

  Wish, Figures, Symbols

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Half, Assistants, Mere

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Commitment, Reality, Mind

  Richard Paul Evans (2009). “The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will reflect your vastness. The ocean will reflect your depth. The child will reflect your innocence. But if you look into the mirror that is unconscious humanity, you are looking into the wrong mirror. Your reflection will be distorted by their projections.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Children, Ocean, Flower

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• The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Artist, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, Routledge

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• Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

  Federico Fellini

  Mean, Dark, Reality

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• I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?

  Chuck Norris

  Character, Campaigns, Tables

  "Huckabee Hates 'Huckabees' -- Chuck Norris'll Choke You Out!". Youtube video, BarelyPolitical.com Interview, www.youtube.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

  Bessie Head

  Home, Skins, Earth

  1989 Tales of Tenderness and Power.

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• The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

  John Searle

  Principles, Consciousness, Phenomenon

  "Consciousness, Explanatory Inversion, and Cognitive Science". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, 4, December 1990.

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• How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Giving, Feelings

  Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

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• To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Real, Numbers, Foundation

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (1974). “Number and Time”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Collective Unconscious, Quality, Matter

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

  William Baziotes

  Artist, Collaboration, Fool

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• Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Christian, Children, Men

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• Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

  James Geary

  Sight, Mind, Influence

  "Metaphors in Mind". The Macmillan Dictionary blog, www.macmillandictionaryblog.com. April 11, 2011.

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• When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Baby, Drama, Party

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.10, Karnac Books

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