Unconscious Quotes - Page 40

• There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

  Mitch Horowitz

  Doors, People, Boards

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the
  unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

  Brendon Burchard

  Ambition, Fire, Goal

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• Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Moving, Saws, Film And Television

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.

  David Toop

  Stuff, Energy, Needed

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Suffering, Our Actions

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

  Alain de Botton

  Real, Judgement, Intuition

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Weather, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

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• This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Age, Minorities

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• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Voting, Democracy

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• How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

  Milton H. Erickson

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Mind

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

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• ... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Friendship, Educational, Book

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• The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Desire, Deep Within

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  George Robinson

  Being Yourself, Perfect, Effort

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• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Rain, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Clothes, World

  Marcel Proust (2016). “The Guermantes Way”, p.461, Marcel Proust

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• Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Parent, Criticism, Generations

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• Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Educational, Angel

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.60, Routledge

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• The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiring, Angel, Something New

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• For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Fun, Light, Play

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.63, Wesleyan University Press

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• Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

  Stephen Covey

  Military, Commitment, Important

  "First Things First".

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• What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

  Richard Dawkins

  Cost, Benefits, Body

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• Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

  Thomas Merton

  Thinking, Grace

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• Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Breathing, Necks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.182, Anchor

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• The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Science, Religion

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• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

  Morning, Horse, Memories

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”

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