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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• 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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• Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by different things - but I believe deeply in what Freud wrote of their relationship to the unconscious, which is that jokes come to help us. We laugh so as to dispense with, or to express, some ambivalence or discomfort with the things around us. That's what laughing is: a release.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

  David Foster

  Art, Real, Bullshit

  "David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film". "This Is Water" Speech at Kenyon College, www.businessinsider.com. 2005.

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• I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, Emotional, Reality

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• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Light, Found Objects

  Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press

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• Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

  John Turturro

  Winning, Games, Watches

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• We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.

  Dennis Quaid

  Dream, Dragons, Lines

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