G.I.Gurdjieff

It is by means of buffers that we can always be in the right. They thus help us not to feel our “conscience.”

the concept “conscience” in the sphere of the feeling is what the concept “consciousness” is in the sphere of the mind.

These moments can become longer if one does not resist or turn away out of fear, but instead accepts and tries to prolong them. Then a certain subtle joy, a foretaste of “clear consciousness,” gradually will enter into the experience. When there are no contradictions, conscience does not involve suffering but brings a wholly new kind of joy that we are unable to understand.