#subconscious

When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #chances #discernment #evil #good

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why? ↗

— Robert Wright

#self #subconscious #nature

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#ki #meditation #mind-and-body-unification #nakamura-tempu #negative-thoughts

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#subconscious #truth #strategy

I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage. ↗

— Todd Barry

#committed #consciously #doing #driving #even

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#come #decide #how #i #just

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#dream #i #interested #lives #mind

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#attempt #believed #both #both sides #brave

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#creative #creative process #dishes #head #hear

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back. ↗

— Max Ernst

#exploration #subconscious #art