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“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.”

Mean Reality Unconscious

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.”

Mean Ideas Moments Hands Vision Sun Effects Style Objects Produce Color Materials Perception Impression Desperate Unconscious

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“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

“Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.”

Mean Dream Common Share Humour Jokes Forgotten Arise Unconscious Similarity Outwitting

Book:Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

Source: Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.”

Mean Body Mother Values Eating Conscious Negative Tasks Refuse Poison Unconscious Disorder Destroying Rescue Tolerate Resorts Eating Disorder Allergic Vomiting

Author:Marion Woodman