Beelzebub to his grandson about humans:

Here it is necessary to say that these favorites of yours, particularly the contemporary ones, have become experts in preventing this inner impulse of theirs called 'remorse of conscience' from lingering long in their common presence.

No sooner do they begin to sense a twinge or even the slightest 'prick' of the arising of the functioning in them of this being-impulse than they immediately 'squash' it, whereupon this impulse, not yet quite formed in them, promptly subsides.

For 'squashing' the first stirring of any remorse of conscience in themselves, they have even invented some very effective special means which now exist there under the names of 'alcoholism,' 'cocainism,' 'morphinism,' 'nicotinism,' 'onanism,' 'monkism,' 'Athenianism,' and others with names also ending in 'ism.'
--G.I.Gurdjieff

I always knew to watch out for ____ists and their ____ism! he he..

Love n light, Teo

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May we have enough compassion so that people with solutions for us all can bring them to us without fear

Thank you Teo,
for the ...ists and the ...isms

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Thank you for sharing this Teo.
Have a nice day.

Vicky

Thank you Teo.
We are printing this and adding it to the collection.

Sue