According to science, self-deception is called anosognosia. This is a severe mental illness that completely deprives a person of hearing and vision in all that concerns his sins and vices.
In someone else's eye we see a speck, but in our own log we do not notice this is a proverb about self-deception. Especially well their sins are visible in other people, but in themselves are not visible.
The most important symptom of pride is self-deception, which deprives a person of sight and hearing. Pride is generated by ignorance and paralyzes all the tools of knowledge in a person. You can only treat a proud person with pain and depression.
The drug gives a person a false sense of wholeness. An addict is a person who lacks integrity, this person constantly feels the lack of love. After taking the drug, it seems to be assembled entirely from some ridiculous pieces... Alas, this feeling is false.
Pride (neurosis and depression) this is a clever drug lie (self-deception), when the mind, dependent on pleasure, specifically fills the world with suffering and pain, in order to turn pleasure into a pea, to enjoy it as much as possible. Pleasure concentrates are a very powerful drug.
The purpose of the devil's temptations is to deprive you of your faith... that is, to restrict your movements. The devil undermines your faith with doubts. The devil tempts you with pleasure and rest... " Why should you go anywhere? - says the devil... - lie down, rest, and let it make itself. I'll give you everything, just wait."
Before you fall in love with the illusion of feelings or are afraid of them, try to compare this situation with the movie. You're smart enough not to fall in love with movies and go crazy with horror movies, aren't you? You should treat all your other emotions in the same way.
A cunning subconscious mind can rigidly substitute a dependent, cowardly or lazy person who for some reason does not want to work and realize their dreams. The body can get sick to give the mind an excuse that it is not able to implement its ideas. This vile lie must be stopped at the root and ignored.
Date is like tourism. The first date is like a first trip to an exotic country, everything surprises and delights. 3-4 meetings are like visiting your favorite place again and again.... And marriage and cohabitation are similar to immigration with all the following aspects. Date is like tourism, and relationship is like emigration. On the other hand, finding a comfortable place to live – isn’t that a dream? And the third conclusion is interesting. Having your favourite home doesn't cancel tourism. The key is to avoid self-deception and not to confuse holiday with life.
The world doesn't need human hubris and vanity, the world needs beauty, and pleasure and joy from praise, vanity are just strings by which God makes puppets work. But there is an important nuance: free person works more efficiently than a slave.
On the other hand: does freedom exist, isn't it illusion, self-deception.
Happy slaves work better.
Slaves considering themselves free work even better.
Slaves full of desires and needs are easily managed and work well.
A person who does not understand the true meaning of the Bible cannot be called a Christian. 99% of people who call themselves Christians are liars under the illusion of self-deception.
The present seems heavier than the past, but it is a lie, it is self-deception. The present is no lighter and heavier than the future. The future is neither heavier nor lighter than the past. These three are equal.
A fool is a man who does everything but what is necessary. This man always thinks, but thinking it is a clever deception designed to carefully avoid thinking about desirable and feasible. This man is afraid of the real world and its real people. He who lives in the darkness of fantasy is a blind squirrel running in a wheel. He is blind, and in fear that he may get lost, never strays from his path, preferring to tread on the same rake and be glad that he is going the right and familiar way. These eternally recurring rake his weapon against my fear. By killing fear, they give peace.
The problem with Cyrano de Bergerac is that he invented a problem for himself, and now he links and justifies all the events of his life with it... "Oh," says Cyrano, " what a question, he's as stupid as my nose. When a man has at the root of all the problems of his life something as insuperable and as long as his nose, it is all self-deception, self-justification and hypocrisy. However, all of us such, meeting Cyrano, that notice we in it, except his nose?
A successful person will be very useful to your personal psychologist. The man, who was himself a psychologist, is usually prone to self-deception and even the log in your own eye ignores. But if you have your own personal good psychologist, it can be used to deal with their shortcomings, weaknesses and vices, put thoughts on the shelves, motivate yourself, make quick decisions, be inspired and fill yourself with energy.
Denial of the problems and fears gives rise to headache. Self-deception gives rise to suffering, and addiction. Drug addiction increases suffering tenfold.
I noticed that the" I " of a person denies and instantly forgets all the facts of real life that undermine his self-esteem and the picture of the world. The glass house protects the force field, annihilating all the stones flying into it.
The dependent person strives for dependence in order to gain security and get rid of fear. But fear is pride and lust for power and possession. Having got rid of fear, such a person turns into his opposite - megalomania, which contradicts his dependent position. In the future, he will either console himself with illusions and self-deception, or enter into conflict and destroy the relationship where he is dependent. However, to create a relationship, no matter where the dependence, he can not, because he is always looking for security.