Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room.
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious. . . that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. . . . The kind of esteem that's given to brightnesssmartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.
