#consc

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#honesty #human-nature #lying #man #penalize

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#darkness #human-nature #optimism #perception #perspective

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature #passions #nature

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#obedience #nature

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society. One way of describing his work is to say that he makes us recognize that the unconscious is not some kind of seething, tumultuous, private region ‘inside’ us, but an effect of our relations with one another. The unconscious is, so to speak, ‘outside’ rather than ‘within’ us — or rather it exists ‘between’ us, as our relationships do. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#language #psychoanalysis #social #unconscious #relationship

Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will of God. ↗

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#religion #self-consciousness #the-will-of-god #religion

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself… Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant! When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet. ↗

— Osho

#meditation #osho #self-consciousness #respect

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#consciousness #conviction #determination #development #heart

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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