The Lexicon
The mind beneath the mind
Subconscious
Beneath the chatter of the waking will lies a deeper mind that never sleeps, never argues, and never forgets. The subconscious is the deductive servant of consciousness: it takes whatever the conscious mind impresses upon it as true and works tirelessly, in minutest detail, to bring it forth into body and circumstance. It is the seat of habit, memory, emotion, and the silent machinery that runs a life. To the seeker it is not a cellar of the forgotten but a fertile garden in which every thought is a seed.
Carried by 60 teachers · across 4 traditions · 7 quotes
The great teachers of mind-power return to this principle again and again: change what is written here and the outer world reorganizes itself to match. The subconscious does not weigh, judge, or resist; it accepts and executes. This is why feeling, repetition, and vivid imagery matter more than mere intellectual assent, and why the moments before sleep are sacred. Master the impressing of this inner mind and you hold the lever of your whole experience.
In their words
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees.Joseph Murphy
Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery, that makes your world without.Joseph Murphy
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.Florence Scovel Shinn
The subconscious mind is the seat of habit.Charles F. Haanel
The appearances are that our bodies and our circumstances control our thoughts, but the opposite is true. Our thoughts control our bodies and our circumstances.H. Emilie Cady