Author of quotes: Dario Salas Sommer. Page 2

Stubborn reality constantly demonstrates to us that an ordinary modern person is distinguished from a primitive person only by the external gloss of civilization, and even that is often washed away by the flow of passions that push us to actions that contradict the highest ethical values.

Until we find the right path of evolution, we will wander like travelers in a desert full of mirages, we will suffer from dissatisfaction and inner emptiness, languish with an unquenchable eternal thirst, while the source we are looking for is our spirit.

The highest success is spiritual success, not social success. This is a person’s victory on the path of evolution of essence, which is the highest good that a person can strive for.

Well-known morality is based on religious and ideological principles, and a person perceives it passively and automatically. This inevitably leads him to the suppression of instincts and impulses or to destructive emotions - such as a feeling of guilt if a person’s actions contradict morality. Suppression is harmful and undesirable, because over time a real “devil’s cauldron” is formed in a person’s subconscious, so sublimation of instincts will be the best solution.

Unfortunately, our society is affected by hypocrisy and hypocrisy, which are deeply embedded in the minds of people and do not allow them to notice obvious truths, since they contradict the general social masquerade.

A person needs to feel valued, respected, approved and loved. He thinks that he will be accepted by others only if he shows himself to be “good.” He believes that if he shows his weaknesses, he will lose the respect and approval of people, and therefore is not able to admit them even to himself. At a deeper level of the psyche, a person's need for respect and approval is related to the need to feel that others recognize him as an individual.

A person does not have strong moral foundations; his behavior is subordinated to selfish interests, passionate desires and momentary illusory good. In search of happiness and goodness, he takes the apparent for reality and too often goes astray, falling into sin and corruption. Neither religious nor moral censures are able to restrain him. This happens because no one really understands what is good and what is bad, what is fair and what is not.

The highest good, the source of true happiness, is revealed to a person only if he follows the appropriate rules, applies them in life and sees positive results, which motivate him to follow these rules.

Abortion should not be considered an individual fault. This is a social problem, and society has no moral right to punish for it. The fact is that the inability to control one's own sexuality is largely due to the artificial arousal of the impulse of voluptuousness, when sex is covertly sold with the help of erotic advertising. Society encourages and supports such campaigns, because by maximizing the "pressure in the pot" of a person's erotic feeling, they increase the consumption of goods. When the mind is clouded with sexual desires, a person gives complete freedom to his instincts, and it is during such a momentary madness that children are often conceived. And then society requires a person to rationally accept what is the result of insanity.

Some people can hardly be called human: it happens that they descend to the level of animals. If we take away the hypocritical cultural veneer, we are still "naked apes" who exercise their right of the strong, sacrificing weaker species.

It is strange that people are engaged in improving certain types of domestic animals and plants and do not care at all about improving human qualities. They often do much worse than animals.

Resentment is a mental trick of shifting responsibility for failure onto others in order to justify your failure and create your own scale of values, where a lucky winner turns into a villain, and a loser full of bitterness turns out to be a positive hero.

Any power - economic, political or military - gives the society, but many people mistakenly believe that they trusted the government - a part of their own "I". Deep down, they think: "I have the power". A political leader is easy to attribute existing in his hands power to his "I", forgetting that it was given to him by the party he represents.

In the world there are people who are not capable of self-development. It's only a matter of perseverance and a personal decision. Often happens that a gentleman And thanks to merit, personal effort and constructive approach to life and achieves success. Many will be willing to help Mr. B, giving him part of his property, although Used by finger does not hit in order to help yourself.