Brian Aldiss Quotes

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

I've got good intuition.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.