Conscience

Howard David Johnson 

As students, we are trying to allow conscience to speak to us. This means being willing to suffer its "gnawings" which are not easy to bear. Through being willing not to buffer it. When it does get touched it brings this "heart rending" emotion... a sorrow that is positive and loving and that demands action of some kind. It brings an energy that can be third force for work.

The energy of the feeling is quite different from self judgement and the feminine dominance that goes with it.
Self judgement is basically negative and leads one away from right work. It drains one. But remorse fills one with a tender bitter sweet energy, a longing directed to putting something right to the best of one's ability. The gnawings go on until something is done, which is why people in general can't bear the feeling and buffer it till it dies down. Even if one can't immediately put something right through external actions, still the deep feeling has great value in itself if experienced without negativity.

~JC

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