Keith Craft: One of the great freedoms of every person is to discover the unconscious…
One of the great freedoms of every person is to discover the unconscious reasons behind conscious behaviors.
The thought behind the quote
We all have behaviors that seem to happen automatically—responses, habits, or attitudes that emerge without much conscious thought. Often, these behaviors are driven by unconscious beliefs or past experiences that we haven’t taken the time to explore. Psalm 139 shows us that God wants to help us examine the parts of us that don’t work. Paul talks about this in Romans 7:15, “I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.” We have conscious behaviors, but we often don’t even really understand what the motivation is behind them. I call these “unconscious reasons.”
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