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“It’s hard to get to know your unconscious because … it’s unconscious. However, thanks to projection, we can externalize our unconscious, and that then gives us the chance to interact with it and come to an understanding of it, and finally allow us to withdraw our projections and integrate them into our consciousness. We make sense of our unconscious via its projections, via what it latches onto in the world around us.”
― David Sinclair, Lucid Sex: Revolutionize Your Sex Life

“...Whoever goes into the mirror of the water will first see his own face[:] whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. [...]

Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up.”
― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Logic, reason, and common sense are your best tools for synthesizing reality and understanding what to do about it. Be wary of relying on anything else. Unfortunately, numerous tests by psychologists show that the majority of people follow the lower-level path most of the time, which leads to inferior decisions without their realizing it. As Carl Jung put it, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” It’s even more important that decision making be evidence-based and logical when groups of people are working together. If it’s not, the process will inevitably be dominated by the most powerful rather than the most insightful participants, which is not only unfair but suboptimal. Successful organizations have cultures in which evidence-based decision making is the norm rather than the exception.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults