| Omission....................9 | |
| not create it. ANSWER: Exactly. You see, the omission of one word very often makes a great | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| hurt them actively or passively, by commission or omission -- then your guilt is justified. Differentiate clearly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| done inadvertently, directly or indirectly, by commission or omission. It is necessary to penetrate through all the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you tell us something about the guilt of omission, when we, through lack of sympathy, commit a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| first part of your question. The guilt of omission is not intrinsically different from the guilt of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| guilts. Whether they be guilts of commission or omission makes no difference; the same tendencies operate in | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| can be inflicted every bit as much by omission as by commission. The climate of omission in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| by omission as by commission. The climate of omission in a child's life is indeed often more | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| them, either directly or indirectly. The hurts of omission are no less hurtful than those of commission | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Omissions...................3 | |
| correct with minor deviations, with minor errors and omissions. I mean, there is a little more to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There are, of course, many errors and many omissions, historically, which have to be expected. Then there | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| measured individually according to one's previous incarnations, merits, omissions, and so forth. People may have been atheists | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Omnipotence.................48 | |
| only extremes: good or bad, perfection or imperfection, omnipotence that promises security, or utter weakness it must | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| demands of any idealized self-image, one finds that omnipotence is always contained in it. These emotional reactions | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| If I assert myself and my power, my omnipotence, my invulnerability, nothing can happen to me. As | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| happens through fantasies of glory about your own omnipotence. All this creates guilt, from whatever angle you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| magic, due to the childish belief in one's omnipotence? ANSWER: Yes, of course. The child who wants | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| disappointment by summoning their inherently childish claim for omnipotence as a counter-measure. If they remain at that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| independent, which is not to be confused with omnipotence. They do not rule, nor are they ruled | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| does not yet possess an ego. It seeks omnipotence, pleasure supreme, the ultimate bliss that knows neither | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego considers itself annihilated when its wishes for omnipotence remain unfulfilled; therefore, its wish is negative. It | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of letting go of this childish desire for omnipotence, the dream of pleasure supreme -- this seems | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| areas you do not wish to give up omnipotence, pleasure supreme, and the ease the spirit longs | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| limitless expansion as the child strives for magical omnipotence because the personality fears and dislikes dealing with | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and energy is truly all-powerful. It is the omnipotence correctly ascribed to God and misinterpreted by the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| an inner knowledge of his or her inherent omnipotence and abuses it. The abuse occurs when the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and abuses it. The abuse occurs when the omnipotence is put into the service of the self-willed | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the human being's own divine nucleus, where real omnipotence reigns supreme. Human beings are vastly ignorant of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| removes, among other things, your childish illusion of omnipotence, which is just as unrealistic as the illusion | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of the present reality. The childish desire for omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize the human being's | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| actualize the human being's divine powers where true omnipotence ultimately lies. True omnipotence comes not from need | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| divine powers where true omnipotence ultimately lies. True omnipotence comes not from need, desperation, greed, pride and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| with all its ignorance, destructiveness, and claims to omnipotence; and (3) the supraconscious universal self, with its | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| in the face of the other's wrongdoing, and omnipotence, in the illusion that others are victimized by | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| very obvious expression of the infant's claim to omnipotence as immaturity and destructive egocentricity. It is that | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it is also much more. The feeling of omnipotence is a memory of another state, a state | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| actual infants make egocentric and antagonistic claims to omnipotence. Undeveloped, immature and destructive people do too, and | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| are blessed. Be in God! 234. PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE Greetings and divine blessings for all of you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to discuss this evening are perfection, immortality, and omnipotence. Let us see how these three states of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| us look at the third of this triad: omnipotence. Again, the state of ultimate reality of the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| ultimate reality of the soul knows its own omnipotence, its own Godness -- knows of its power | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the conscious personality vaguely perceives this state of omnipotence in a distorted form, like the other two | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| its manifestation then is the childish claim for omnipotence that you all know exists in infants and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| that distorted, immature state the self-will dictates total omnipotence: I want it my way. There must be | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| immediately, regardless of the consequences. That sense of omnipotence of the outer personality is an insistence on | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| growing, maturing individual to abandon the claim for omnipotence and magic, with all the negative traits that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| level for experiencing the true divine state of omnipotence has nothing to do with pride, self-will or | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| that never infringes on others. The kind of omnipotence attempted by the immature state always infringes on | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the tool for itself. The divine state of omnipotence enjoys the equal omnipotence of others. There is | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| The divine state of omnipotence enjoys the equal omnipotence of others. There is never a power struggle | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| an experienced fact. The same with perfection, with omnipotence -- or with many other states of reality | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| proves you need not fear them. As to omnipotence, you already work extensively on that. You discover | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| You discover the infant in you who demands omnipotence and magical solutions. You express these claims and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and humility can you then come back to omnipotence in an entirely new and different way. You | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| giving up the false version of perfection, immortality, omnipotence and other states into which you need to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| becomes true again. The triad of perfection, mortality, omnipotence truly exist, so a total denial of these | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| from being omnipotent. But absolute perfection, immortality and omnipotence exist already within you. Only as you abandon | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| any longer on the distorted perfection, immortality and omnipotence that grow out of fear, lack of faith | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| respect to the triad of perfection, immortality and omnipotence, but in many areas of life, too numerous | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| aberration. It expresses the childish desire to gain omnipotence in a cheap and easy way. Those who | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Omnipotent..................17 | |
| the idea that its parents are perfect and omnipotent. When the realization dawns upon the child that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| an adored parent has faults and is not omnipotent, it either turns away from the parent and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of happiness actually amounts to a desire for omnipotent rulership, for unquestioned obedience from the surrounding world | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this world, the more it realizes that the omnipotent rulership it wishes is not only denied but | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| goal of perfection right away, since happiness through omnipotent rulership is desired at once. To reach immediate | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| becomes a double one; the first desire -- omnipotent rulership in order to be happy -- is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I can attain happiness only by being an omnipotent ruler, I have to be a god myself | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and pleasure in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong, invulnerable will bring love and devotion. This | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| one hand, man postulates that God is an omnipotent Father who acts at will; who rewards you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is a typical example of such confusion. An omnipotent Creator and man's self-responsibility are only mutually exclusive | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in time, and from the mind. When this omnipotent creator is perceived as acting like man, in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| become your real self, your godself, you become omnipotent, for you become the master of all existing | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| outer will. The idea that outer will is omnipotent must be relinquished, and the outer faculties must | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| out of fear? Do you still expect an omnipotent, benign authority to remove it from the outside | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| example. A small child believes that it is omnipotent. Psychology designates this very obvious expression of the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you give up immortality forever. You are neither omnipotent, nor do you forever remain limited and separated | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| indeed mortal, you are indeed far from being omnipotent. But absolute perfection, immortality and omnipotence exist already | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |