| hesitation and the uncertainty. Self-punishment for hidden wrong motives is only one reason that prohibits your wish- | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will also find wrong, impure, selfish, and unhealthy motives in your desires that are not directed toward | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| for inferiority feelings is self- deception about your motives: why you want or do certain things. When | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| around in circles, begin to see clearly your motives, your desires, and what you want them to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will have to say to yourself, Yes, these motives or attitudes are wrong, in further honesty you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the honesty to see that there are wrong motives and attitudes in you, but also the additional | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| how much hidden or covered up with worthy motives and plausible rationalizations. The subtler the form of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you have made your recognition. But your inner motives will change. In some cases, your outer actions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| concerned with is understanding yourself: your emotions, your motives, your desires and fears. All these can be | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| effect, unless and until he uncovers his unconscious motives, desires and conflicts. Then, as you all experience | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as a screen to hide and foster erroneous motives. In woman it often serves to encourage her | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in man, his weakness and dependence. When healthy motives are muddled with unhealthy ones and one does | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| convinced did not contain any but the purest motives. What I said before about marriage in this | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| This truth, then, will be ineffective because the motives are wrong, the underlying feelings are unhealthy. One | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a belief has come about, on what inner motives it is based -- that is what matters | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bound to bring to the fore all distorted motives, no matter how deeply hidden and unconscious. Thereby | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which is constructive in you, based on healthy motives, rather than on unhealthy ones. Other people are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such misconceptions, you act from erroneous and unhealthy motives from which no one can truly benefit. With | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dissatisfaction. This is a telling sign that erroneous motives underlie such acts, possibly based on this common | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always: How is it done? What are the motives? In what way will it be used, if | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The answer always lies in the direction, the motives, the aim, the whys and the hows. QUESTION | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| selfish as to overshadow the good and healthy motives, but also because the unconscious deviations and misconceptions | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is relatively small or not disturbed by unhealthy motives. Your inner will is still kept from functioning | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| anew. Outer will can be composed of healthy motives too. Unhealthy motives, such as self- importance, pride | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| can be composed of healthy motives too. Unhealthy motives, such as self- importance, pride, vanity, or the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| as to find out why, and investigate what motives and uncertainties block your inner will. This will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be well advised to look into the unhealthy motives which can exist side by side with the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you free yourself of the unhealthy and erroneous motives may give you a renewed incentive for doing | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| completely aware of all your wishes, impulses, and motives. Only in that way can you discriminate and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in the right and mature way without ulterior motives and out of free choice, you will reap | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| continue the work of self-search, of examining your motives and concepts in comparison with objective truth, until | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that it is to your advantage, provided your motives are right, your decision free, your reactions mature | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| desire may be justified, but many unconscious, unhealthy motives may exist together with the healthy ones. At | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| performed the right actions out of the wrong motives. You can, if you wish, continue to do | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| are doing this act and what your real motives are. In most cases, you will find that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| may choose to continue it, even while your motives are still confused. In either case, the important | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the important thing is to recognize your feelings, motives, and reactions; your inner, and often unconscious concepts | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the free choice myself, knowing all these wrong motives, but at the same time desiring to change | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in spite of the recognition of your negative motives, you are not fully aware of all your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Hence his wish-capacity can function even though the motives are impure. The mere fact that the impure | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impure. The mere fact that the impure, selfish motives become conscious causes the wish-capacity to function better | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can come from healthy, as well as unhealthy motives. This outer will can succeed if it is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same. If you deceive yourself and your motives and thereby create a confused and disharmonious situation | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always constructive, provided one has no hidden selfish motives, no self-deceptions, and provided it is combined with | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motive can I have? Sometimes there are hidden motives and emotions, other than the obvious, loving ones | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often sought with the best of intentions, the motives are not entirely healthy. If however, one seeks | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realization and a discriminating attitude toward your inner motives will give you strength by enabling you to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a path of self-knowledge, of understanding one's innermost motives and feelings -- especially the responsible people. It | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| or inclination in us that has exclusively healthy motives? ANSWER: This question is not easy to answer | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is harmful. For instance, if unrecognized, selfish, vain motives play a role, the effect can be bad | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| effect can be bad. In fact, outer selfish motives, fully recognized by the hypnotist, may be less | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the person who is conscious of the best motives, but unaware of certain insecurities, causing a particular | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| yourself of your deviations with all their negative motives, you will be able to bring the suppressed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your wanting the right goal and having pure motives, your negative tendencies played a role in your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| approval? Or was the wish based on unhealthy motives in the first place? Was there underneath the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the first place? Was there underneath the unhealthy motives a very healthy one you could not see | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your guilt about the existence of the unhealthy motives? Would you have had the courage to follow | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| follow through with your desire if the unhealthy motives had been absent? Would you then have stood | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| or weakens with the absence of the unhealthy motives? You can try to formulate and answer these | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| necessarily. As I said before, often the inner motives overlap and interplay. You will have to establish | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| whether you desired this goal because of unhealthy motives, or whether the unhealthy motives merely covered the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| because of unhealthy motives, or whether the unhealthy motives merely covered the form of self-expression best fitted | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you must love me. Weaker persons with unhealthy motives of their own may appear to give in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| ignorant. Out of this self-centeredness and ignorance selfish motives arise, unconsciously or sometimes even half-consciously. You are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| fog of confusion and unawareness. Even genuinely unselfish motives are not expressed clearly in your thinking. Whenever | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of your life. Whenever such condition exists, your motives must be mixed with unconscious selfish motives that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your motives must be mixed with unconscious selfish motives that produce the negative result. Survey your life | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| anxiety or disharmony. Then check out what your motives really are. Look behind the apparent positive outer | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| crystallize out of them any negative or confused motives and apply them to the trouble area. Or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| indetermination is often more damaging than clear-cut negative motives and may apply to any area of life | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| You will start to think about clarifying your motives and establishing those that you really want, and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not yet be able to shed the selfish motives, the very admission that they exist, the very | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| some extent. But you can recognize the real motives of such behavior truly -- not just theoretically | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the intuitive perceptions. One of the most important motives for a teacher, if he or she truly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| path is to ask yourself about your own motives, why you desire a certain thing. You learn | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| as selfishness. Thus you will pray that your motives become purified. Furthermore, there certainly is nothing selfish | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will be similar, but it will come from motives that are positive and conscious. Try to visualize | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is accepted out of weakness, which pollutes people's motives. Deeply sensing the untruth of their motivations, they | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| insecurity, frustration, or whatever. Even if these inner motives are covered up by more valid reasons, that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| reviving it could also happen out of negative motives, such as cowardice, fear, indifference, opportunism, resignation. This | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| truthful insight into the real nature of these motives will reveal the fundamental selfishness and egocentricity prevailing | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the wrong method and out of the wrong motives. The same is true of the idealized self-image | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conflicts proportionately influences your activities, thoughts, feelings, and motives. This may occur through the subtle coloring of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on how you feel and what the underlying motives are. QUESTION: I try to find words to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| about the God that is. I know that motives are important. I may want to worship God | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| some need for a father. Those are my motives. I have a few ideas as to where | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this feeling for God? ANSWER: As for the motives you cited, they are true, but by no | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to hear that you not only have negative motives of which you seem so proud, but there | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want to recognize. But for the moment, the motives are of secondary importance. It is fine that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you would, it would happen out of unhealthy motives, just as much as the opposite. Learn first | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discipline, without independent decision and full conviction, the motives are unhealthy and will not yield constructive results | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| unhealthy and will not yield constructive results. The motives may be wanting to obey and appease others | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| You chose the goal out of partly unhealthy motives, and you prohibited yourself from reaching the goal | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| from reaching the goal entirely out of unhealthy motives. This may appear like a paradox, but do | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| may play a role. Even distorted and unhealthy motives, when finally brought out into the open, may | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is strained, if it is governed by immature motives, if you are unaware of it, if it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| he uses his mind to question his own motives; to look at and into himself. Thus he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| desire for variety may indicate healthy or unhealthy motives. Often it is a combination of both, though | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| though you may already have discovered that the motives are selfish and not loving. Your motives may | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the motives are selfish and not loving. Your motives may be desire for approval and admiration or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not for loving. These, of course, are selfish motives. While you may admit to these motives, you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| selfish motives. While you may admit to these motives, you are convinced that your behavior leaves nothing | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| be true, but the many times when selfish motives induce you to act selfishly, you do not | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the latter, just as you ignored the selfish motives behind your unselfish acts. Hidden selfish motives induce | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| selfish motives behind your unselfish acts. Hidden selfish motives induce you to act them out, adversely affecting | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| strong wish that is absolutely unhampered by selfish motives, by ambiguous, confused, contradictory emotions, by uncertainty or | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| on the how, why, and what of the motives. This alone determines its value or lack of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| lives. How is it that people with bad motives so often derive all the happiness and success | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are cause and effect closer together. Moreover, when motives are split, the effect is influenced accordingly. For | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| no conscience, nothing will interfere with the bad motives, which will, therefore, be unified. Because there is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| unified. Because there is no split, the bad motives will have an apparently favorable effect. Only later | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it were punishment from the outside. When someone's motives are already split -- which in this sense | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| compared to the person who can have destructive motives without inner conflict -- success does not come | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the desired result. On the other hand, constructive motives, no matter how conscious, will not bring the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| either if they are undermined by unconscious, destructive motives. Hence, a ruthless person may not attain his | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| desired positive result. It is always the split motives -- especially that part of them which one | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| humans and are confused about their actions and motives, disharmony is created. Even if you refrain from | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and how to be quiet. Merely understanding others' motives -- their truth -- will not give you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| lectures we have discussed many of the possible motives and reasons for escape. Let us now pay | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| be done half- heartedly, with half-attention or divided motives. Therefore, the outcome will be more and more | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to escape from the self out of weak motives. Letting go is then an escape which may | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| purpose. People always need a clarification of their motives and concepts: where they are going and why | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| feeling, and experiencing. This means wholeness, integrity, undivided motives and attention. This state can be achieved only | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| integrity, dishonesty on some level, and division of motives and attention, as well as a refusal to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to feel a certain way. Thus, your real motives and the actual situation often escape you. Since | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the whole picture of your personality or the motives for the hurting act. There is thus no | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| as she makes herself helpless for whatever distorted motives. If she is not in possession of her | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| but pretend to love, for your own ulterior motives. The key to the universe is real love | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in itself ungenerous to suspect someone of negative motives when this person is really disposed very favorably | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is a stubborn, destructive wish, with very definite motives that must be unearthed, explored, challenged, and held | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| few do. Most relationships are formed with other motives, or else the original motivation of mutuality was | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| when it could not be maintained and other motives replaced it. These are basically the three stages | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| personality that are not immediately accessible. Your unconscious motives often create what you do not wish to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| those who comply out of their own neurotic motives. You cannot receive the existing or growing love | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and why you doubt. What are the real motives for doubting? For example, you doubt the existence | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| by the most sincere or the most dishonest motives. Only when you sort out the dishonest motives | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| motives. Only when you sort out the dishonest motives on both sides can you open the channel | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| law. Again, very close inspection of the real motives and attitudes is the only true answer. There | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| so that you cannot be corrupted by lower-self motives. You also need to take each individual issue | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your total integrity and knowledge of your real motives on the most hidden levels, the truth of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| its own sake without hidden thoughts and ulterior motives, your security in your own value will be | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| only appear to give, doing it for ulterior motives, for something you want to gain in a | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| sure that you do not have other hidden motives but give for the sake of giving -- | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| word of your negative intentionality and your lower-self motives. Such an admission implies attitudes of truthfulness, humility | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| of the higher self. Let us consider the motives for perfection on both levels -- that of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| level of the ego personality? What are the motives? What are the attitudes? Obviously there is pride | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| find justification. You give only begrudgingly, with ulterior motives, second thoughts, calculating inner bargains, leaving little back | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| world for the result. You conceal the true motives for your submission by pretending you are innocent | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| this freedom unless you confront your real, hidden motives constantly and conscientiously. How much maturity is needed | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| time in a new spirit, out of different motives, with a clearer vision and knowledge. Your stance | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| depend on and need, and his or her motives. You will not have to grapple with your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| See both the truth of your hidden lower-self motives and the truth of your higher-self good will | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| will direction. It also shows the most hidden motives, the most secret intention, the exact balance of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| overt actions. Your soul substance registers the hidden motives for non-action. It registers feelings and attitudes that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| participants are seriously filled with the purest of motives and directly ask God's eternal presence to help | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| contract to satisfy other personality functions and lower motives. Financial and social advantages were of primary importance | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| more significant was the absolute conviction that these motives were morally right and virtuous. Men married women | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| was fostered; money, power, and social advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| They may merely mean that hostile and aggressive motives supersede secrecy. The new man and the new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| try to pry because of their own negative motives; they may wish to uncover something they can | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| enhance their deteriorated self-esteem. If you sense such motives, you should indeed close your doors to them | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| in keeping yourself hidden, your assessment of others' motives will be very shaky. Transparency is a new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |