Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.
I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.
The day is conscious of itself.
I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way that you're being seen, which is of course completely antithetical to the work you want to do, which is completely free and bold and truthful and honest and brave.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.