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“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.”

Desire Artist Bears Transformation Unconscious Rooted True Artists

Book:To the director and playwright

Source: To the director and playwright

“If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.”

Ifs Mean Persons Enough Whole Desire Strong Goal Conscious Unconscious Strong Enough Conscious And Unconscious Devising Devising Means

Author:Frederick Philip Grove

“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

“a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.”

Ifs Mind Book Desire Fire Anxiety Unconscious Going To Work Unconscious Mind

Book:From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch

Source: From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch

“But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.”

Way Has Beens Soul Feelings Desire Gone Seeing Conscious Unconscious Recognizing Kindles Revive Desire To Live

Book:Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

Source: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship