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THE FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDENT ON THE NATURE OF MOTIVES THAT MOVE US
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THE FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDENT ON THE NATURE OF MOTIVES THAT MOVE US R  egardless of whether our mental notions about reality and our emotions are pleasant or not, they can tempt us to respond to them by an immature reaction of will, if we let our will be defeated by our inner discontent.
It is normal to react to pleasant sensual experiences and mental notions about reality with pleasant emotions. However, if we let ourselves be overcome by the discontent of spirit, we will respond to them with selfishness, instead of love and gratitude, which means we will abuse the pleasant experiences by seeking inner satisfaction in them. It is normal to feel fear in danger, but if we are full of inner discontent, we are tempted to react with cowardice instead of bravery. Cowardice will take away our strength to fight the source of danger in a purposeful manner. It is normal for us to feel anger at the sight of an unjust act, but if we are discontent in the essence, we are tempted to respond to the injustice with rage and hatred, instead of keeping the spirit of humility and reason. The immature reaction of hatred to injustice will provoke an unnecessary confrontation where a reasonable dialogue is needed to overcome the conflict. It is normal that loss and distress cause the feelings of sorrow and discomfort in us, but the inner discontent results with the temptation to react to the source of sorrow with depression and worry, instead of tranquility and care. 
As much as unpleasant sensual experiences, mental notions and adequate unpleasant emotions can be a manifestation of the external reality of the world around us, they can also be a manifestation of the inner reality of our being. Unpleasant emotions turn the attention of our mind and will to our inner spiritual problem, and then we have the possibility to either solve the inner problem or to eliminate the awareness of it by seeking the external sources of satisfaction. To smother the awareness of the inner discontent of our spirit, we show a proneness to misuse our sensual, mental and emotional sensations. And, in order to drown the voice of conscience which is inciting us to regret our abuse of sensual, mental and emotional experiences, we tend to misuse and perverse our own voice of conscience instead.
Instead of making these sensual, mental and emotional sensations a cause for expressing the harmony and satisfaction of our spirit, we seek the satisfaction of our spirit in them instead, thus forming irrational behavioral motives. Instead of obeying our voice of conscience and repenting for our bad motives, we tend to resort to defense mechanisms which also lead us into irrational behavioral motives (suppression, hypocrisy and self-righteousness). Directory: eng eng -> Chaos equipment included eng -> Protecting the rights of the child in the context of migration eng -> United Nations E/C. 12/Esp/5 eng -> The petition and case system eng -> Form a-122 File No. Retirement homes act, 2010 application under section 116 of the act eng -> The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine eng -> Title: Associate Professor eng -> Chief Patron Shri Avinash Dikshit Commissioner Patron eng -> 1. 2 Extraction of exposure and others parameters eng -> 【Education&Working Experience】 Download 5.04 Mb. Share with your friends:
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