"Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be..." - Quote by Carl Jung
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
More by Carl Jung
“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
“It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.”
“Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.”
More on Consciousness
“Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.”
“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”
“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.”