The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can take place not only in mental but in moral power. The earth tragically today is full of people who remain fixated on a childish level of conscience. What an illusion has blinded the human race: that our conscience is given to us once and for all at birth and we ourselves have to do little or nothing about itThe truth is that our moral capacity is purely potential and needs strenuous training, education and development. It is certainly not an organic power that comes to us at birth, like breathing, which demands little attention from us as long as we liveA revolution has to take place in our thinking about morality. We have to become as sensitive about being moral morons as we are now anxious about being intellectual idiots.
Joshua Loth Liebman
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety
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We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves
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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
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Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
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A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.
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And they lived happily ever after is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a falsehood about life and has led countless generations of people to expect something from human existence which is not possible on this fragile, imperfect earth. The happy ending obsession of Western culture is both a romantic illusions and a psychological handicap. It can never be literally true that love and marriage are unblemished perfections, for any worthwhile life has its trials, its disappointments, and its burning heartaches. Yet who can compare the numbers of people who have unconsciously absorbed this and they lived happily ever after illusion in their childhood and have thereafter been disappointed when life has not come up to their expectations and who secretly suffer from the jealous conviction that other married people know a kind of bliss that is denied them. Life is not paradise. It is pain, hardship, and temptation shot through with radiant gleams of light, friendship and love.
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There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.
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