worldview and perspective on Subconciousness

When Freud says…that consciousness is the tip of the mental iceberg, he was short of the mark by quite a bit-it may be more the size of a snowball on top of that iceberg. The mind operates most effici...

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The final mystery is oneself.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Imagination “completes the picture” by transcending the actual memories and provable facts.

We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

One helpful, practical tool to understand our blind spot is what’s called the Johari Window, an image developed as a counseling tool in the 1950s. Subjects were given a list of fifty-six adjectives, a...

The insight that we can exercise some control over our thoughts and feelings is deep in Christianity.

There is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Without the binding force of memory, experience would be splintered into as many fragments as there are moments in life. Without the mental time travel provided by memory, we would have no awareness o...

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self'...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Psychologists have estimated that we have anywhere between twelve thousand and sixty thousand thoughts a day. The majority of those—as high as 80 percent—are thought to be negative: obsessing about mi...

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

We have immense difficulty practicing God’s presence and keeping God’s reality before our mind’s eye because we have dismissed or denigrated our capacity to intuitively and imaginatively apprehend and...

The mind is an instrument of staggering potential, but its potential is not measured by IQ or academic degrees.

All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence. . . . Silence is the general consecration of the universe.

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these...

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Our propensity to deceive ourselves about our place and purpose makes it so very difficult to see the truth of our lives, to understand the meaning of our moment in history and our responsibility to i...

People can say one thing and do something totally different. You see the darkness that is often hidden from polite society. The thing that you see is a widespread insecurity. I think people put on a f...

We ignore so much stuff for a simple reason: if we didn’t, we’d quickly be overwhelmed, our brains flooded until they seized up. Depending on the kind of information, it takes our brains some amount o...

The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would know quite well the interior lives of others, has this to say of our inmost thoughts: I have most invariably found that the very feeling which has see...

The Clinical psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi describes how our minds, without stimuli, tends to quickly turn towards negative thoughts, our dissatisfaction. Contrary to what we tend to assume, ...

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appear...