Unconscious Beliefs Quotes

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you.

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.