If the heart is dead, the mercy is gone.
If the mind is dead, the wisdom is gone.
If conscience is dead, everything is gone
Conscience is the human ability to distinguish whether an action is right or wrong or to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong,
When the man dive in an injustice and arrogance, vanity and desires,the conscience is losing.
I fully agree with this great statement. A person without heart , mind , and conscience is no more human & ought to be categorized as some kind of rock or stone.
Dear Qasim,
Indeed to be merciful, have wisdom and equipped with measures of what is right and wrong are vital ingredients for a life of a person of reason who is good to him/her self and to society at large.
Conscience is the human ability to distinguish whether an action is right or wrong or to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong,
When the man dive in an injustice and arrogance, vanity and desires,the conscience is losing.
These statements are consistent with many of the presidents who are languishing for long periods or who like to take control on the fates of others.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
If the heart, mind and conscience are not present/active you better bury yourself under the soil and forget you are human being ( i may be very harsh here).
It is through the heart that humans conceive and show mercy. The mind is the seat of wisdom. A person with dead conscience can do all kinds of evil. Your assertions are right.
Here is a lovely quotation:
"A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do."
---- Mattie Stepanek
If I may add a spiritual aspect to the topic: The soul is the subject of human consciousness and freedom; soul and body together form one unique human nature. Each human soul is individual and immortal, immediately created by God. The soul does not die with the body, from which it is separated by death, and with which it will be reunited in the final resurrection (Catholic Answers.com). Therefore, even if the heart, mind, and conscience are warped and can potentially lead one to death, the soul does not die. As such, there's always hope that someone's prayers can touch the person's soul either in life or death to be reconciled with the Creator.
many thanks,
Debra
Agreed conscience is paramount important because without conscience, a human beings will become self-centric, forsaking all the good deeds, taking a wrong as good & willing to betray others surrounding us.
Dear Qasim,
I agree with the wise statements because without one's ability to feel, one can't empathize and show mercy to others; without one's ability to think, one can't seek and find knowledge and wisdom; without one's conscience to guide one's actions (by discerning what is right from what is wrong), all hells can break loose.
I agree with these statements in modified form.
A person without heart is completely dead, without mind may work as beast , and without conscience is no more good human being.
If the heart is dead, one is dead. Dead meat.
If the mind is dead, one is a 'vegetable'. Alive meat.
If conscience is dead, one may join the high ranking psychopaths of the corporate world.
I agree with Subhash C. Kundu.
Heart and mind in accordance with his conscience.
It's the best system.
The statements are great and true.
I want to add a little from the national poet of Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal. He said in a verse:
" At the dawn of the universe (where God was distributing capabilities among his men)
Gabriel warned me that I should not accept a heart that is ruled by logic"
This is one of the marks of great intuitive minds that they dream big and without fear
As researchers in this world, we need a heart that beats, and a mind that that is sharp and wise. And we need a conscience that is alive to do good with our gifts, and no harm. When our conscience is clear, mud may be thrown at us but nothing will stick. I see many good posts, thanks to all. Let me share some pics.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."
------ Laurence Sterne
But what do we see in contemporary world? The powerful and the rich are merciless, who have no wisdom but arrogance and showmanship with no conscience at all. The good statements we are discussing about remain good only on paper.
Thanks for your wise quotes, Subhash.
Chun, I agree with you that our greed for money can dull or even shut down our conscience.
How can we keep our conscience alive and help our children cultivate it in their life?
Dear all
When an old person falls on the street, any one of us with conscience has to bend down to help him up. But helped old people often accuse the rescuers of leading the trouble. Not long ago tree pupils about 10 years old met the problem in my country. In Singapore there are laws protecting the rescuers.
Yes, this is possible. I think the old person had bad experiences before (stealing money or trinkets). I wold confirm the young people as viewer and try to explain.,
Conscience is "a voice of God".If a human being doesn't hear this voice,he/she is a living corpse(spiritually dead).Leo Tolstoy wrote a drama "Living Corpse",then a film was staged(Vengerov,Lenfilm,1968).It's about Fedor Protasov,degraded to the social bottom.Ivan Petrovich provoked Fedya to the rash action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNpQ-UDMqGM
http://ruskino.ru/mov/1304
In the lines you stated above, the poet conceives ‘‘consciousness’’, ’‘heart’’ and ‘‘mind’’ as attributes of a being. He then projects, ’‘heart’’ and ‘‘mind’’ as a sub-set of ‘‘consciousness’’.
He sees ‘‘mercy’’ as a feature that is intrinsically linked to the heart as ‘‘wisdom’’ is linked to the’’ mind’’. By so doing, the poet may wish to state that a conscious being has both the heart and the mind. His message then stands clear: A conscious being is the one who is merciful and wise. The absence of any one of the two attributes deprives the being of ‘‘consciousness’’ (‘‘If consciousness is dead, everything is gone”). From his point of view, a being that lacks wisdom and mercy is insensitive (i.e. dead). The one who is merciful but is unwise is insensitive and again, the being that is wise but unmerciful is also insensitive.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
--- Richard Bach
Dear all
I think that conscience is indispensable for human progressing. The grafters without conscience can destroy the harmony of a society. Or maybe they can bring a war to a country and ravaging the country. Is there anyway can decrease corruption? Is it a good way using huge salary to reduce corruptions?
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
~Mignon McLaughlin
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud
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