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“The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“The unconscious is structured like a language.”
“The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.”
“The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.”
“The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.”
“The unconscious is the psyche that reaches down from the daylight of mentally and morally lucid consciousness into the nervous system that for ages has been known as the "sympathetic." This does not govern perception and muscular activity like the cerebrospinal system, and thus control the environment; but, though functioning without sense-organs, it maintains the balance of life and, through the mysterious paths of sympathetic excitation, not only gives us knowledge of the innermost life of other beings but also has an inner effect upon them.”
“The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.”
“The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.”
Source: Psychology and religion: West and East
“The unconscious is very serious today - even a little bit sad - because we repress serious things into it: sex, death, libido, desire. But if it were irony and offhandedness which were repressed, what form would the new unconscious take then? It would become ironic; we would have ironic, breezy drives and fantasies, which would surface in our dreams and our slips, in our neuroses and madness. But isn't it already that way, in a sense?
Television will perhaps only have been invented in order, by a delectable detour, to give back its force to the silence of the image.
We certainly have to accept an authority, but one more stupid than ourselves. That is the great law of the political world. This is wonderfully apparent in the USSR (Zinoviev tells of the pharaonic stupidity of the Soviet leaders, equalled only by the pharaonic servitude of the Soviets themselves), but you can see it in France just as clearly. Why prefer Marchais, Le Pen, Chirac and other such hollow figures to more sophisticated people? Why have they not long ago sunk beneath their own idiocy? The fact is that these figures are the surest remedy against the anxiety we all feel at the reign and the primacy of intelligence. They reassure us about our own stupidity, and this is their vital function as it was that of the shaman. And how can you ward off stupidity, if not by a greater stupidity?
I notice that on windows which have been left untouched, which have not, in other words, seen the faintest shadow of a duster for ten years, there is not more than a fraction of a millimetre of dirt and dust. No more, in the end, than the wind and rain scratch from the surface of a rock in the same period. There is a dreamlike slowness to both erosion and sedimentation.”
Source: Cool memories
“The unconscious mind always operates in the present tense, and when a memory is buried in the unconscious, the unconscious preserves it as an ongoing act of abuse in the present of the unconscious mind. The cost of repressing a memory is that the mind does not know the abuse ended.”
Source: Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
“The unconscious mind distracts and deceives. Aware presence reveals and enlightens.”
“The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you have to push through. The real thing is that you want to push, you are in a hurry. And because you want to push, you have to imagine a wall. It is your imagination. Just try to laugh at your imagination, at your hurry, because this is not the way meditation happens. Laugh, relax, and just be in the moment – watching whatever is going on, outside or inside, in the world or in the mind. You are neither the world nor the mind. You are behind all, just a pure watching consciousness.”
Source: Watch and Wait: relaxing and waking up - instinct and intuition
“The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions.”
“The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“The unconscious mind is open terrain - no walls or barriers, for better or worse. Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Terrors roam, and so do yearnings. Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.”
“The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion
“The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are it―we become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close to this pleroma. His consciousness is still uncertain, wobbling on its feet. It is still childish, having just emerged from the primal waters. A wave of the unconscious may easily roll over it, and then he forgets who he was and does things that are strange to him. Hence primitives are afraid of uncontrolled emotions, because consciousness breaks down under them and gives way to possession. All man's strivings have therefore been directed towards the consolidation of consciousness. This was the purpose of rite and dogma; they were dams and walls to keep back the dangers of the unconscious, the "perils of the soul." Primitive rites consist accordingly in the exorcising of spirits, the lifting of spells, the averting of the evil omen, propitiation, purification, and the production by sympathetic magic of helpful occurrences.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.”
“the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993) has described a pattern of 'phobic-counterphobic' marriage in which an ambivalently attached person will be attracted to an avoidant 'counter-phobic' spouse in a system of mutual defence against separation anxiety.”
Source: John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
“The unconscious psyche believes in life after death”
“The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“The unconscious system of guidance is millions of years old, speech less than a hundred thousand. The brain had no idea any of this was coming. The unconscious must have had to do all sorts of scrambling around to accommodate a system that proved perfectly relentless. Not only it is comparable to a parasitic invasion, it’s not comparable to anything else.”
Source: Stella Maris
“The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.”
Source: Collected Works: Psychology and religion: West and East
“The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.”
“The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“The unconstitutional attitude that supports and influences matters of policies; certainly, eliminates the neutrality and stability of social, judicial, and governmental systems.”
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.”
“The unconventional is dangerous at times, but we must...splash our personal canvasses with bold strokes and daring colors and give no thought to what the finished work may look like. It will somehow self-organize into a more worthy piece than can be constructed by the deliberate planning so common with the way life is lived today by most of our fellow humans.”
Source: Dispatches from Saint-Tropez: Reminiscences of La Vie en Rosé
“The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.”
“The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?”
“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
Source: Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft
“The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II.”
“The Uncultured Idiot (Sonnet 2501-2502)
My roots run deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.
Starting out with an insatiable spark of expansion,
I spent my early teens devouring scriptures,
then my late teens and early twenties I spent
assimilating neuroscience and psychology,
but it wasn't until my late twenties,
a few years after my first publication,
that the original Naskarian voice started
to awaken, a voice not only beyond nation,
religion and culture, but also beyond
eurocentric intellectual convention.
So many things were unfolding in my mind
at once, that it's impossible for me to
piece together a coherent timeline of events.
But one thing was most striking, it's that,
influence of the puny eurocentric schools of thought
was beginning to wear off, as cultures of the world
found an ideal vessel with zero chains of tribalism.
I became empty and let the world pour its wonders
into me, so it did, and I burn day in, day out, and
each time from the ashes a new pluralist text is born,
blasting all archaic, elitist and exclusivist narrative.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Uncultured Linguist (Sonnet)
The way apes understand what's cultured,
I'm not that sort of cultured -
I'm humanly cultured - which means,
I live as cure for tribalism, not coddle;
I abolish chains, not worship them,
I do not entertain stereotypes -
I question and denounce prejudice,
both external and internal.
MAGA, Zionism, Hindutva, Prima gli Italiani,
Khalistan, Islamism, Türkiye Yüzyılı,
these are proof, we come from the monkeys;
while humans take a snooze, monkeys roam free.
Dogma is barrier to understanding,
blind faith is obstacle to holiness.
Assumption is obstacle to communication,
stereotypes are obstacle to awareness.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The Uncultured Poet (A Sonnet)
There is a reason I never translate my works,
You can translate information but not sentiment.
So I carve humanity with not one but many tongues,
Yet due to alphabetical wall, much remain unspoken.
Human and culture must grow together in harmony,
All traditions of stagnation must be thrown away.
If a human can come forward across conditioning,
Why can't a culture do the same and meet halfway!
I sacrificed my language so I could feel you better,
Now I can't read the tongue of Tagore I was raised in.
Such an uncultured poet whose culture is the world,
Asks the cultures with borders just one little thing.
Take some lessons from Mustafa Kemal in modernizing.
A culture is enhanced, not diminished, by latinizing.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.”
“The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”
“The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading