And if we don't, they break us. Maybe we will want to hear them, and maybe we won't. Thought, word and deed are one and the same. The seer, the seen and the sight are one and the same. This is the great truth that, when grasped through participation, in practice, liberates us, sets us free from constraint by immoderate desire or activity.
Ethics means the strength which holds the consciousness bound to truth.
Ethos means the opportunity to use decisive freedom. Ethics is our nature, our inner necessity. It is what we are and should do. Ethos is our will, our decisive freedom to act. It is what we do and should be.