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| up. Only when they start weighing their innermost motives and emotions do they come to realize what | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| those who do not know themselves and their motives, either by not wanting to or through self-deception | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| supported by my feelings or do I have motives behind these actions that do not correspond to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will have complete understanding about all your inner motives, past and present. When you know all your | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| do. They are prone to displace their real motives and wear a mask so that their pure | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| Hate or resentment may have different causes or motives in different people. The same things in different | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| from the higher self are tainted with lower-self motives, a disorder is created in the soul that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it as it really is, with all its motives and drives, since you can conquer only that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| way fool themselves about their real feelings and motives by not showing them, and not wanting to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and not think about one's emotions and true motives at all, but merely let the emotions react | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| overcoming and inner strength to sufficiently purify the motives first, but that is the necessary foundation. While | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you learn to apply absolute self-honesty. Once your motives are pure, the sickness will not matter half | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| lower self, you learn real self-honesty, and your motives for development become purer and purer. Your vision | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self-delusions about yourself and your inner or outer motives. God expects this from you. Whoever is not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| way, thereby mingling in wrong currents or wrong motives. Let us assume, for instance, that in your | 18 FREE WILL |
| if you meditate daily and test your inner motives in complete honesty. Do you wish to do | 18 FREE WILL |
| the inner willpower can flow freely. Once your motives are clean, you will not have any unconscious | 18 FREE WILL |
| you are cleansed of all masks and wrong motives. You can train your willpower to flow out | 18 FREE WILL |
| taken into consideration eventually. His real and innermost motives will be bare, no pretexts and false justifications | 18 FREE WILL |
| might have convinced himself that he had different motives from those which actually guided him. Such falseness | 18 FREE WILL |
| lower self, even if clothed with apparently high-sounding motives. Be blessed. 20. GOD: THE CREATION Greetings in | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| habit of seeing yourself clearly, without any false motives and excuses and blindness, for a while. 2 | 21 THE FALL |
| killed. The question is the motive. And the motives have certainly purified in the latest wars, not | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your own soul, your own innermost feelings and motives. This is the only way you can dissolve | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to be ever wakeful for these hidden motives. Test yourself, check yourself each day in your | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| every particle of your being to purify your motives, then you will eventually succeed, little by little | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you certainly do not know all your real motives. You do not understand why you have certain | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| lower self want the same thing, but their motives are entirely different. It is of utmost importance | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a healthy and harmonious soul to separate these motives and to recognize their voices. Do not feel | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| go on and change the impurity of your motives. You must also recognize the reasons why your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the process of uncovering your masks and wrong motives, which will stand you in good stead later | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that wants this out of pure reasons or motives. However, try to discover the other part that | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| use when you view your own self, your motives, and your life, God's will must evolve clearly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| ANSWER: By examining the desires and their real motives. Very clearly and very concisely ask yourself the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is spiritually very active with clean and pure motives to help other people. These good motives exist | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| pure motives to help other people. These good motives exist indubitably. At the same time, the desire-current | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of the lower self mingles with the good motives, perhaps as the ego's vain desire to be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be an authority. The moment the mixture of motives is calmly and freely recognized, even if you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| explained, it is necessary to recognize your innermost motives and hidden currents. Only a free person can | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| become. People who do not recognize their hidden motives cannot conduct their lives freely. They are enslaved | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| possible. So you have to consider your honest motives behind your apparent good motives; that will determine | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| consider your honest motives behind your apparent good motives; that will determine the right or wrong action | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| long as you have not found all the motives behind a desire, you will not be able | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| wholeheartedly that you wish to find all the motives behind the conscious motive, and for that you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| QUESTION: Yes. ANSWER: So find out your underlying motives -- which does not mean that the motive | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| she lives. In the spirit world, the real motives count more than the act, and judgment is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| counts is a person's inner attitudes, feelings, reactions, motives, and sense of responsibility. QUESTION: How does spiritual | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your desires may change. Find out the real motives behind your present desires, and find out what | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| You can find the answer by testing your motives without any self-pampering or sensitivity for your ego | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in all individuals. A conscientious objector, provided his motives are pure, will be judged accordingly. Then this | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and do not delude yourself and color your motives. You all make mistakes in judgment. People have | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and inflexible, people should test their real inner motives and then they may find out that these | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your person. You can never reach the hidden motives, currents, and emotions without that. If you fulfill | 31 SHAME |
| warrant it. And this is the purification of motives, the deep self-knowledge that is an indispensable requirement | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| one of those cases where good and pure motives -- the desire to come near to God | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| trends and begin to react differently. Clarify your motives first and purify them. Separate the wrong motives | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| motives first and purify them. Separate the wrong motives from the good ones in one and the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| only motive in your desire to find God. Motives can be mixed; they often are in your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| this path is to ask yourself about your motives for desiring a certain thing; to ask yourself | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| such an instance, you would pray that your motives should become purified. This cannot be construed as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| feel this way when I thought that my motives were different? You must not be dismayed. On | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| cross the threshold from dependency on their unconscious motives to their independence as free children of God | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your conscious layers, are convinced of your good motives because of the rationalizations you have concocted for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| against can safely be suspected of having sickly motives. Why one person chooses to manifest his insecurity | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| yearning and aside from the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for partnership, there must | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| yearning and aside from the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for partnership, there must | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of the fearful or greedy soul with good motives. There is a common belief that anything pertaining | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| good as such, although the high and noble motives truly exist in you, they lose their splendor | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| their splendor if you cannot see the lower motives coexisting with the higher ones in the very | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| extent that these selfish, proud, vain, and fearful motives cease to exist in you, the fact that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| The reason is that you ignore the different motives existing within in relation to the noble desire | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| desires. It means that you separate the good motives from the wrong ones, at first by simply | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you are. You believe yourself free of lower motives, while they ferment in your unconscious. Humanity makes | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to do this. Becoming aware of your mixed motives requires humility. It means living in a healthy | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of your personality and both good and bad motives. Then you will understand why you felt it | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| necessary to hide the existence of the bad motives from your consciousness. I would also like to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| afford to become aware of all the different motives, because, knowing that you are an intelligent and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| desire the advantages of the opposite desire. The motives in the latter, conflicting desire may not be | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| only that you need to separate the good motives from the bad ones in a particular aim | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you do the same act, have the same motives and attitudes, but recognize your own inner tendencies | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the authority as you perceived it. True, good motives are surely also contained in these inner decisions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the measure you recognize the weak and fearful motives of your own law-upholding tendency. Thus you will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you become aware of your emotions, desires, and motives. Then you can separate the pure motive from | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| desire for goodness, particularly after discovering the selfish motives. You should certainly continue to aim for the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| become confused and uncertain about your own good motives. Only the very blind, those human beings who | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to recognize the meaning of your various desires, motives, and feelings. From there on, the path becomes | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or another. The more you keep the selfish motives suppressed, the more confusion and disorder are created | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the negative in hiding, and one of the motives of this desire is actually misapplied goodwill. But | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| always a result of untruthful, mixed, and confused motives. Duty is something entirely voluntary. If you fulfill | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be truly solved unless you understand your unconscious motives and trends. Outer measures may sometimes seem effective | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it cannot be independent of weak and selfish motives -- and therefore must depend on other human | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your compulsive conscience are saying -- only the motives may be different. At other times, your real | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it has to be perfect now. Furthermore, the motives of these two voices vary. The divine conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and tense with weak, unhealthy, and completely immature motives. Since this need can never be fulfilled -- | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and mature way which does not cover sick motives, and only when you are willing to love | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| When you invest freely, without weak and compulsive motives, you may not get the love back immediately | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| with a motive of proving something. If the motives for the limited love you give are unconsciously | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your emotional involvement. Find out which of these motives apply to you and bind you. Perhaps a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| opinions -- may hide the weak and dependent motives. Do not forget that the validity of the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| did you get it? What are your inner motives for holding the opinion? This is the difficulty | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| emotional and subjective reasons behind it. Finding your motives requires the utmost self-honesty, and a little more | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the danger that you are hiding your true motives. I suggest that you take certain general subjects | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the right thing out of weak and sick motives -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a guilt | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| have done the right thing out of mixed motives -- partly out of the good ones, but | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| partly to cover up the sick and weak motives with the right action. By recognizing these facts | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| now you will be aware of your inner motives and not deceive yourself into believing that your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and not deceive yourself into believing that your motives are all good and pure. Then the compulsion | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of love. When you discover that your former motives were compulsive and not entirely genuine, there is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Having performed a right act out of wrong motives, you will think the proper change is to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| It is sufficient that you recognize that your motives are not yet pure, that you are as | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| honest with yourself about your past and present motives. Second, continue the right act for itself even | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| whether your dilemma is based entirely on selfless motives -- another person's hurt, a higher cause or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cause or whatever -- or whether these valid motives may also hide a selfish one. You will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| other instances, you will consider the outer selfless motives in spite of the fact that you have | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of the fact that you have discovered selfish motives; you will see that although there is an | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| discussed is the importance of realizing possible hidden motives which may be selfish, while the outer conscious | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fear of dependence on other people's actions and motives is a very important problem of humanity, which | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| dishonesty. There is no black or white. God's motives always mingle with wrong or sick ones. Certainly | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to stagnate, which is hidden underneath the good motives. Again, this misinterpretation shows ignorance and a misunderstanding | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| 56. CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE Greetings, God bless all of you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| determine the difference between the healthy and unhealthy motives in desires. We will not concern ourselves with | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desires. We will not concern ourselves with the motives of desires which are obviously unhealthy because they | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| stronger your conscience becomes, and it registers wrong motives very accurately. Thus the conscience puts prohibitive currents | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| The mere fact that the impure and selfish motives are conscious causes the wish capacity to function | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as I said, the more unconscious the wrong motives, the more powerful the prohibition is. Or the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and self-destructive forces, put in motion by wrong motives, affect not so much the financial, but another | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| negative force, emanating from confusion, ignorance, and wrong motives. Your personality registers extremely accurately all desires, tendencies | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| personality registers extremely accurately all desires, tendencies, and motives. You may not be consciously aware of it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the unconscious. If you have wrong and confused motives that are self-serving and cause detriment to others | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in a subtle way, suffices to twist your motives and make them unhealthy. Hence your fulfillment is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desire, even though this desire may contain unhealthy motives in addition to healthy and conscious ones. Self-destructive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |