CONSCIOUS VS UNCONSCIOUS

We are aware that there is the conscious and the unconscious mind but most of us function only on the conscious level, in the layer of the mind, and our whole life is practically limited to that . We live in the so - called conscious mind we never pay attention to the deeper unconscious mind from which there is occasionally an intimation, a hint, that hint is disregarded, perverted or translated according to our particular conscious demand at the movement.
First let us see what we mean by the conscious mind. Is the conscious mind different from the unconscious mind ? We have divided the conscious from the unconscious ; is this justified ? Is this true ? Is there such a division between the conscious and unconscious ? Is there a definite barrier , a line where the conscious ends that and the unconscious begins ?
We are aware that the upper layer, the conscious mind is active but is that the only instrument that is active throughout the day ? If I were addressing merely the upper layer of mind, then surely what I am saying would be valueless, it would have no meaning. Yet most of us cling to what the conscious mind finds it convenient to adjust to certain obvious facts; but the unconscious may rebel, and often does, and so there is conflict between the so – called conscious and the unconscious.
Therefore our problem is this, is it not ? There is in fact only one state, not two states such as the conscious and the unconscious ; there is only a state of being , which is consciousness, though you may divide it as the conscious and the unconscious. But that consciousness is always of the past, never of the present ; you are conscious only of things that are over. You are conscious of what I am trying to convey the second afterwards, are you not ?
You understand it a movement later. You are never conscious or aware of now. Watch your own hearts and minds and you will see that consciousness is functioning between the past and the future and that the present is merely a passage of the past to the future. Consciousness is therefore a movement of the past to the future…

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