The Thinking Mind is also a Moral Mind

The thinking mind is also a moral mind. It is a moral knowing mind. It knows right from wrong. It has the power to know whether an act is good or bad. It has the awareness of goodness and badness. It is the guide within, the compass that points to true north. The true north never changes just as the principles of moral behaviour never change. The intellectual ability of the thinking mind to intuitively know good and evil is the conscience. A fully informed conscience works the principles of moral behaviour in our living. Only if we listen to the conscience. When we don’t listen, it is like trying to feel around in the dark. When we listen it is like walking under the noon day sun.  The conscience is a power, an intellectual muscle. It is the power of knowing. The conscience is not a feeling. It can generate feelings from other aspects of our being, but within itself it is not a feeling. Feelings and emotions can not be trusted. The conscience can. Feelings and emotions are fickle, unreliable and poor guides in living reality. The conscience is definitive, reliable and a guide. It knows the truth. It knows reality. It is the thinking minds knowing of right and wrong. It is God’s prophet within your soul. But the conscience must be informed. We are not born with fully formed conscience.  It can make errors because it does not have knowledge of reality. It can make errors like everything inside us it is not infallible. It must be educated. Educated in what? Educated in the Truth that is full knowledge of reality.