Unconsciousness Quotes

• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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• So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tasks, Belief

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

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• There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Workout, Arrogance, British

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Illiterate Person

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Roots, Secret Love

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• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Growth, Mind

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 340, 1928.

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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• Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

  Plato

  Death, Night, Men

  Plato (1947). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

  David Foster

  Inspirational, Freedom, Sacrifice

  David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Freedom

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the master - not you and not your soul! The mind says: Do this! And you do it! If you don't the mind creates problems. It become sad, and the sadness of the mind becomes your sadness. If you do as it says you get nowhere, for the mind is blind. Where can you reach by obeying the mind! The is unconsciousness. If you listen to it you reach nowhere.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Soul, Mind

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• At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

  Jenny Holzer

  Mind, Conscious, Conscious Mind

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• The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Consciousness

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Lying, Character

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• While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

  Rajneesh

  Impossible, Sin, Virtue

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• Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sleep, People, Demand

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.71, Vintage

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• Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creativity, Mind, Depth

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• Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enlightenment, Doe, Outsiders

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.173, New World Library

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• There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, True Power, Evil

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.103, Penguin

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• First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Self, America, People

  Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.39, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

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• You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Roots, Insanity, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.110, New World Library

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• The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

  Sarah Moon

  Thinking, Certain, Interest

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