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1 " Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense "
― Jeremy Griffith , Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
2 " The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it "
3 " A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour "
4 " Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation. "
5 " The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition. "
6 " Love is unconditional selflessness "
7 " What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves "
8 " When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression. "
9 " Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race "
10 " Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself "
11 " We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals. "
12 " The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’. "
13 " We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION. "
14 " We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world "
15 " While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it "
16 " Finding understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition has actually been what the efforts of every human who has ever lived has been dedicated to achieving and has contributed to finding. "
17 " In a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. In short, this is the understanding that ends human suffering and unites the human race. "
