self-satisfaction

If before my acquaintance with this “all-universal principle of living” I had actualized all manifestations differently from other biped animals similar to me, arising and vegetating with me on one and the same planet, then I did so automatically, and sometimes only half consciously, but after this event I began to do so consciously and moreover with an instinctive sensation of the two blended impulses of self-satisfaction and self-cognizance in correctly and honorably fulfilling my duty to Great Nature. BTG I

“‘But now’, added His Conformity with a shade of self-satisfaction, ‘the existence of this planet will be quite normal in respect of the common-cosmic harmony. BTG XIX

“If these separate aspects of the entire ‘spectrum’ of Naloo-osnian-impulses are described according to the notions of your favorites and expressed in their language, they might then be defined as follows: (1) Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious (2) The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray (3) The irresistible inclination to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures (4) The urge to become free from the necessity of actualizing the being-efforts demanded by Nature (5) The attempt by every kind of artificiality to conceal from others what in their opinion are one’s physical defects (6) The calm self-contentment in the use of what is not personally deserved (7) The striving to be not what one is. BTG XXVIII

“When I began to explain to you, my boy, the causes of the disharmony in the presences of these American beings of the function of the transformation of the first being-food and when I mentioned the ‘comfortable seats’ invented by them, I said among other things, that these strange three-brained beings who have taken your fancy and who breed on the planet Earth, were ‘again’ striving to perform even this indispensable being-function of theirs with the greatest possible sensation of self-satisfaction for themselves. I said ‘again’ because previously in various periods of the flow of time, these strange three-brained beings there who have taken your fancy had already several times introduced something similar into the usages of their ordinary existence. BTG XLII

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