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Consciousness Quotes by Carl Jung
- That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.
- The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
- From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
- In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the…
- Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
- Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence…
- Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of…
- In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under…
- It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
- ...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in…
- The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a…
- There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
- The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.
- The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
- Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural…
- The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',…
- Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding…
- The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality,…
- The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self…
- The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,…
- Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to…
- The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness.…
- That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what…
- The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
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- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are… — Hans Bender
- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
- Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to… — Annie Besant
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
- Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black… — Steven Biko
- The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a… — Steven Biko
- As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there. — Juliette Binoche
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois