Developing an Inner Taste

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“As we progress in the work, we began

to develop inner taste, an inner sense or 

faculty that makes us realize when 

we are negative or identified.

By inner taste you can recognize that 

you are lying or in a negative state 

without difficulty, although you are justifying 

yourself and protesting you are not. 

Here the whole thing turns upon whether 

you possess inner sincerity or not. 

If not, then best to give up the work. 

Inner taste can be said to be the faint beginning 

of Real Conscience, because it is something 

that recognizes the quality of one's inner state. 

Self-observation and inner taste are not the 

same but my coincide. The more you understand 

the work, the more it is arranged rightly in your 

mind and its meaning seen, the more does it 

pass into Real Conscience. It is sometimes said that 

if we had Real Conscience the war would be 

unnecessary for we would know it already. “

Maurice Nicoll, Commentaries, 

“Concept of Conscience in the Work,” 

July 16, 1941, volume 1, page 41

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