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“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”

Ifs Matter Happens Spirit Dark Conscious Opposites Thirds Unions Compromise Unconscious Something New Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Mysterium coniunctionis

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis

“The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.”

Trying Dark White Views Conscious Areas Monsters Unconscious Drag Lit Psychiatry Ankles Marshes

Book:Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

Source: Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

“To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”

Real Dark Personality Conscious Aspect Recognizing Shadow Self

Book:pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious

“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Writing Real Character Dark White Race Sea Lucky Conscious Continents Outsiders Portuguese Main Characters

Author:Jon Weisman

“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.”

Trying Self Felt Dark Grew Grew Up Conscious Pops Self Conscious Pop Music Exhausting African Music

Author:St. Lucia

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

Way Light Hate Sound Voice Dark Hair Clothes Conscious Moved Sat Dark Hair Trivial Things Deepest Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”

Ifs Years Doe Real Ends Sometimes Pain Lasts Beautiful Turns Memories Dark Situation Forever Impossible Lovers Conscious Partners Unconscious Concealed Hindsight Stay True Happy Marriage

Author:Bernhard Schlink

“Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.”

Littles Said Dream Felt Hours Dark Existence Approach Conscious Aspect Embrace Assuming Wave Landscape Insecurity Little Things Grey Drank Dreary Procession Dark Hours

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.”

Mind Dark Ability Consciousness Knowing Sea Conscious Remarkable Portions Floating Conscious Mind Jellyfish

Book:The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

Source: The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

“Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.”

Ifs Men Mean Facts Light Moving Dark Sleep Sin Walks Conscious Roots Originals Clouds Guides Awake Surround Robots Forgetfulness Original Sin Unconsciousness Inner Light Dark Clouds Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh