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Naivität und Zynismus sind der Widerpart bei der Abwehr von Schwierigkeiten. Sie sind Schachzüge, welche die Seele verleugnen.
∗ Naivität verleugnet, dass sich die Seele zu Widrigkeiten hingezogen fühlt und den Tod erkundet.
∗ Zynismus täuscht Tiefgründigkeit vor, wobei er allerdings die entscheidende Bedeutung der Seele missachtet.
Michael Meade, US-amerikanischer Geschichtenerzähler, Mythologe, Ritualist, Männerbeweger, Autor,
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1/5 Wahrheit ∞ 4/5 Unwahrheit
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Nur ca. ein Fünftel der Weltbevölkerung erfüllt den Standard von Wahrheit und Integrität. Das Wahrheitsverständnis von Zynikern, Skeptikern, Atheisten, Attackenreitern, New-Agern, Politisch Korrekten und Pazifisten ist irrelevant, da es im Rahmen des Zwangs, der Negativität, der Unwahrheit und Lieblosigkeit zum Ausdruck gebracht wird.
Sarkasmus and Zynismus mangelt es an Respekt vor sich selbst und dem anderen.
Neutralisiert und geheilt wird Zynismus durch nichtlineare Qualitäten wie:
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Wo Angriffe verpuffen
Ein angrifflslustiger Skeptiker
fordert den Meister heraus: | Nenne mir einen praktischen,
brauchbaren Nutzen der Spiritualität. |
| Antwort des Meisters: | Damit kann ich dienen.
Wenn dich jemand angreift, kannst du
deinen Geist in eine Zone erheben,
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Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) indischer katholischer Jesuitenpriester, Psychotherapeut, geistiger Führer,
One Minute Nonsense, S. 80, 1992
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Zitate zum Thema Zynismus … Leichtgläubigkeit / Cynicism … Gullibility
Zitate allgemein – Naivität
- Hüte dich vor Naivität und Leichtgläubigkeit. Sie ist eine der größten Fallen auf dem geistigen Weg. Dr. David Hawkins, Quelle unbekannt
- Naivität ist die Schattenseite der spirituellen Strebenden. Viele Menschen schwelgen ausschließlich in ihren Fantasien über die spirituelle Entwicklung. Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Emotions and Sensations, 3 DVD-Set, 17. April 2004
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Zitate allgemein – Zynismus (Naivität)
- [Man] kann sagen, dass es in der Welt zwei Klassen von Menschen gibt: die Gläubigen und die Ungläubigen. Für die Ungläubigen ist alles unwahr, solange es nicht bewiesen ist; für die Gläubigen ist alles, was in gutem Glauben gesagt wird, wahrscheinlich wahr, es sei denn, es erwiese sich als falsch. Der pessimistische Standpunkt des zynischen Skeptizismus entstammt der Angst. Die optimistischere Haltung des Annehmens von Informationen entsteht aus Selbstvertrauen. Beide Stile funktionieren, und jeder hat seine Vor- und Nachteile. Dr. David Hawkins, Vorwort (Exzerpt), Die Ebenen des Bewusstseins. Von der Kraft, die wir ausstrahlen, S. ?, VAK Verlags GmbH, Kirchzarten bei Freiburg, 1997
- Ein Zyniker ist ein Mensch, der nach dem Sarg Ausschau hält, wenn er Blumen sieht. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Journalist, Literaturkritiker, Kolumnist, Satiriker
- Zyniker sind enttäuschte Romantiker. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Dramatiker, Romanschriftsteller, Dichter
- Was ist ein Zyniker? Ein Mann, der den Preis von allem und den Wert von nichts kennt. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Dramatiker, Romanschriftsteller, Dichter, Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt, Lord Darlington
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Zitate (engl.) – Naivety
Jesus: I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Matthew 10, 16 (NT)
- One becomes addicted to the ego and preoccupied with its contents. It attracts all of one's attention so that one becomes obsessed with the mind and its feelings. If the person believes that the mind and its contents are the real 'me', then the focus is certainly understandable. Basically, this error is due to naivete. The mind is an amusement park, full of thrills and spills and curiosities. It is also the theatre of the absurd for the drama of feelings and social identifications. It is an 'act' in that it is a personal characterization, dramatization, and display Dr. David Hawkins, I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 309, 2003
- To safely do spiritual work and avoid crises, it is necessary to reaffirm, look within, and discover one's own innocence. It really is not safe to do spiritual work unless one has a glimpse of that innate naive innocence and keeps one eye on it at all times, because that innocence is the gateway back to the Truth so one does not get lost in the swamp. Dr. David Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 166, 2009
- Be forewarned that that which is theatrical and ritualistic and mystical is after your naivete. That which comes from absolute Truth has no need for trappings. There is no gain or no loss. Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Realization of the Self: Final Moments, 3 DVD set, 14. December 2002
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Zitate (engl.) – Cynicism (naivety)
Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Matthew 10, 16 (NT)
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Personal avowals
In the course of his prolonged discussions with H.H. the Dalai Lama Paul Ekman, Ph.D., a highly esteemed US American anthropologist and psychologist, has changed his formerly held position on the function of hatred and ridicule. He concluded:
- In my book Emotions revealed, I argue that hatred could in some circumstances motivate positive acts that were of benefit to the person and to society. And I've come to believe that, although that's true in the short run, in the long run hatred is corrosive and maybe it actually has a long-term harmful impact on the person.
- And the other thing I think I've become most sensitive to is the dangers of humor that involve any form of ridicule – which can be very funny, but I think has a very negative impact on the person who's enjoying that type of humor.
Audio interview with Paul Ekman, Ph.D. paulekman.com (*1934) US American anthropologist, psychologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, on Emotional Expression, presented by Wise Counsel Podcasts, Mentalhelp.net, host David Van Nuys, Ph.D., minute 35:48-36:51, 46:42 minutes duration, Downloadable on Itunes – # 10, aired 19. October
- I don't consider myself cynical. When I was in my twenties I was a very cynical person. [...] I realized in retrospect when I was being cynical | was being exactly what the system of power wanted me to be which was to be cynical and therefore politically inactive and stuck in this place where I thought nothing could change. This is the complexity of dealing with a complex world. Video presentation Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, on All My Bones Shake, part 6 of 6, sponsored by and at bookstore Book People, YouTube film, minute 1:42-4:12, 8:35 minutes duration, posted 31. July 2009
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- The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer [LoC 505] (1902-1983) US American social writer, philosopher
- Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer [LoC 505] (1902-1983) US American social writer, philosopher
- Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky [LoC 465] (1821-1881) Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays
- Naiveté and cynicism are opposite ends of a defense against difficulty. They are moves that deny the soul.
- Naiveté denies the soul's intrigue with trouble, its wonder about death.
- And cynicism pretends to be deep but it misses the soul's centrality.
Opiummohnblüte
- The two enemies of finding help are gullibility and cynicism. They are the two sides of one coin.
- The cynic doesn't believe anything is possible, anything is good.
- The gullible one believes everything it hears.
- If we lose all contact with this inner God element [the vibration of the soul] in ourselves, the wordless yearning to serve the good and know the truth, our thoughts and our actions will lead us nowhere. Our thoughts will lead us either to cynicism or to an absurd overestimation of our own mental powers. [...]
When that special yearning and vibration for a moment surfaced in my heart and body, even faintly, I experienced a despair about all my clever ideas. [...] My conscience brought me the pain of remorse which for years I reacted to with fits of depression in order to cover it over with self pity [...]. I saw in many of my valued friends and teachers the same heartless brilliance and cleverness. It served to increase my despair and cynicism about truth and the good. [...] This heartless way of thinking about God and Ultimate Reality dominates the mind of the contemporary world. Video interview with Jacob Needleman, US American professor for philosophy at UCSF, What Is God?, Tarcher, 24. December 2009
narrated in video interview What Is God?, sponsored by Book Passage, presented by ForaTV, minute 29:40-37:30, chapter 10 Balancing Spirituality and Practicality, chapter 11 The Emptiness of Logic, 1:13:27 duration, aired 11. January 2010
- When we attempt to motivate, we are not usually intending to serve others in their best interests. At its best, motivation is an attempt to serve others in our best interests. It is this transparently selfish intent that causes cynicism instead of inspiration. Lance Secretan (*1939) British economic visionary, business consultant, theorist on inspiring teams, leadership author
- Faith is not supposed to bring us easy certainty but deeper reflection, not to bring us triumphalism but rather humility, not to bring us cynicism about the world but hope that in fact even the big things can in fact and have been changed. Video interview with Rev. Jim Wallis (*1948) US American evangelical Christian writer, political activist, editor-in-chief Sojourners, How do we address the rise of religious fundamentalism?, presented by Big Think, 1:40 minutes duration, posted 4. February 2008
- Cynicism is a protection against being hurt. [...] The antidote of cynicism is self-loving. When you feel cynical you're afraid of getting hurt. Find out which is the wound that is making you afraid. If you are cynical you are protecting yourself against shame, against abandonment, or against betrayal. Video presentation with Mario Martinez, PsyD, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, specialized in contemplative psychology and psycho-neuroimmunology, Embodying The Four Immeasurables, YouTube film, minute 1:45:21, 1:48:40 duration, posted 22. July 2011
- Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental 'reset button,' wiping out feelings of cynicism and replacing them with feelings of hope, love, and optimism, and a sense of moral inspiration. Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. jonathan_haidt, US American social, cultural and moral psychologist, University of Virginia
- Of the myriad social degradations of contemporary American life, cynicism is the most insidious. Not too long ago, cynicism was seen as a character flaw: among politicians, it was a grievous slur. But as popular culture has forsaken any muse but commerce, the media has lost credibility as a zone of ideas; and fewer and fewer systems of public accounting remain to represent and support us as ordinary citizens. People begin to feel powerless, and then they get cynical. Cynicism is no longer merely an affectation of critics and teenagers. It has become normative. Jessica Murray, US American astrologer, cultural commentor, writer, Pluto and the Media, February 2005
- I think cynicism is a self-indulgent sophomoric reaction to the reality of the fact that human beings are nasty creatures. We are nasty creatures, but we are more than just nasty creatures. Most people who are cynical are relatively privileged. Being cynical is only available for people with a certain amount of comfort in the world. People who are under the boot of power don't really have the luxury of being cynical. Video presentation Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, on All My Bones Shake, part 6 of 6, sponsored by and at bookstore Book People, YouTube film, minute 1:42-4:12, 8:35 minutes duration, posted 31. July 2009
- The average child gets 432 negative messages to 32 positive messages every single day.
We are buffeted with that kind of violence – the negative messages.
Once you become vulnerable truly you become very potent, very powerful because you don't have anything to hide.
We are programmed not to feel good about ourselves. We generally don't [...] love ourselves because we are programmed not to.
Cynicism is a way to protect ourselves. [...] It is almost like we have become warriors and have an armor.
Audio interview with Dr. Stan Dale opost.com/standale/ (1929-2007) US American radio broadcaster, writer, teacher, sex, love and intimacy expert, founder of Human Awareness Institute on [i.e. "into me you see"], 2003
- We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) British author, historian, museum director, broadcaster (BBC Television series Civilisation)
- The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Congregationalist US American clergyman, abolitionist, social reformer, speaker
- Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear – it's active disengagement. Ken Burns (*1953) US American film director, producer of documentary films
- Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. Jeff Bridges (*1949) US American actor, musician, Academy Award winner for best actor for his role in the film Crazy Heart, 2009
- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture
- The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics and cynics. [...] We need people who can dream things that never were. John F. Kennedy [LoC 430] (1917-1963) assassinated 35th US American president (1917-1963)
- What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them – that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. Barack Obama, 44th US American president, inaugural, 20. January 2009
- Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. Michelle Obama (*1964) US American wife of the 44th US president, first African-American US First Lady, election campaign, UCLA, Barack Will Require You to Work., YouTube clip, 1:44 minutes duration, posted 25. March 2009, 18. February 2008
- We look at it as them and they as opposed to us. We don't engage because we are still too cynical.
We are still a nation that is too guided by fear. It cuts us off.
Things have become progressively worse.
We have to fix our souls.
Change is hard. Change will always be hard.
We can change the world. – Yes, we can...
Michelle Obama (*1964) US American wife of the 44th US president, first African-American US First Lady, election campaign, UCLA, Michelle Obama speaks of Barack's values, YouTube clip, minute 2:22+ 7:47 minutes duration, February 2008
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- No matter the official line, true transparency is rare. Many organizations pay lip service to values of openness and candor, even writing their commitment into mission statements. Too often these are hollow, if not Orwellian, documents that fail to describe the organization's real mission and inspire frustration, even cynicism, in followers all too aware of a very different organizational reality. Warren Bennis (*1925) US American scholar, professor of business administration, organizational consultant, pioneer of contemporary leadership studies, author, Daniel Goleman, (*1946) US American psychologist, science journalist, author, Patricia Ward Biederman, authors of Transparency: Creating a Culture of Candor, Creating a Transparent Culture, presented by Leader To Leader, No. 50, Fall 2008
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Zitate (engl.) – Idealism, standing up for what's good and true
- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) US American politician, Democratic senator from New York, civil rights activist
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Englische Texte – English section on Cynicism
Etymology of sarcasm
Sarcasm is "a taunting or caustic remark, generally ironical."
The word sarcasm is a derivative of the Greek word "sarkazein", which meant "to tear flesh."
A sarcast is sneering (cutting or biting remarks to poke fun at someone else's vice or folly).
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A cynical old man – changed by a series of visitations
Ghost of Christmas Present, John Leech, 1843
In Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol" the mean character Ebenezer Scrooge said a famous line. He was speaking to a couple of businessmen who were engaged to collect money for the poor at Christmas. Scrooge declined, and pointed out that the poor were undeserving of any more than the prisons and workhouses provided at the time.
That same night Scrooge was was visited by four ghosts. One was a former colleague and the other three were archetypes of the past, present and future.
- Ghost – the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's late business partner, warning him of continuing in miserly ways.
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
- Ghost – the Ghost of Christmas Past showed him how he used to be warm and generous and how he has changed into a cynical old man.
- Ghost – the Ghost of Christmas Present showed him that most people in the homes of Bob Cratchit and Scrooge's nephew Fred toasted him affectionately. He explained to Scrooge how need and ignorance will destroy society if people do not learn to care for each other.
- Ghost – the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, takes Scrooge to a vision of how he will die.
Scrooge was a changed man after this visitation.
His meanness was dissolved.
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- Video presentation by Martin Seligman, US American founder of positive psychologist, happiness researcher, What do you say to cynics and critics?, YouTube film, 0:55 minutes duration, posted 19. November 2009
- Video presentation Robert Jensen, US American professor of journalism, university of Austin, Texas, All My Bones Shake, part 6 of 6, sponsored by and at bookstore Book People, YouTube film, minute 1:42-4:12, 8:35 minutes duration, posted 31. July 2009
- Video presentation with Mario Martinez, PsyD, biocognitive.com, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, contemplative psychologist, psycho-neuroimmunologist, Embodying The Four Immeasurables, YouTube film, 1:48:40 duration, posted 22. July 2011
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