The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.