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“Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.”

World Way Mind Emotion Conscious Conscious Mind

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.”

Men Way Believe Long Soul Decision Secret Emotion Masters Conscious Mood Likes Factors Unconscious Arrangements

Author:Carl Jung

“Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.”

Mind Effort Emotion Brain Awareness Information Keys Exercise Mindfulness Training Conscious Driven Thinker Introspection Conscious Mind Raising Awareness

Author:David Bloor

“It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.”

Strong Emotion Doubt Possibility Conscious Impression Suspects Horizon Self-examination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”

Thinking Way Mind Moments Form Emotion Accepting Awareness Conscious Arguing Stillness Replaced Recognizing Compulsion Identification Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.”

People Knows Ends Emotion Half Power Dying Conscious Property Terror Despise Twisted Freeze Money Power

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.”

Thinking Mind Language Emotion Consciousness Conscious Direct Bridges Unconscious Cables Metaphorical

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.”

Shows Emotion Emotional Research Conscious Nerves Allowing Signals Pathways

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.”

Writing Mind Heart Kind Emotion Skills Conscious Affair Shy Courageous Factories Love Affair Conscious Mind Possible Love

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.”

Emotion Directors Conscious Manipulation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.”

Mean Certain Turns Forget Emotion Practice Materials Conscious Oneself Refuse Active Endeavor Passive Fiery Repetitive Haul

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes