Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
I'm down for indefinitely chilling as long as I'm not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose … Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
We don't know our own story.
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
In 1985, I was the host of a talk show, 'Hot Properties on Lifetime.' Hulk Hogan was on the show. He put me in a headlock and rendered me unconscious and let me fall to the ground. I split my head open and got nine stitches - and this was on live TV.
But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
The Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak. He cannot move.
