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| should answer your question. However, the same question opens up further interesting points, which I would like | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| asks God, Show me the truth and then opens himself or herself to the truth will always | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| more to see the truth and as he opens himself to it, he will recognize certain events | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| universe, this is what is meant. All this opens the door somewhat; it raises the veil a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| extreme as you think. Often a human being opens up about many little things, and even exposes | 31 SHAME |
| grace; every effort to overcome the slightest fault opens a door to grace. It is pride that | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| I speak of something that reaches further. It opens the spiritual vistas of union. It includes all | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| whenever you gain truth about yourself, a channel opens within you, tuning you into this life-giving force | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and abstract; just reading or hearing them merely opens you up to a philosophical concept. But when | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the great spiritual principles and laws. Knowing them opens up the world. Knowing divine principles can come | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| relaxation. The key of mobility, combined with relaxation, opens the world. It is the state of being | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| safer than the limitless expansion of good that opens up when you let go of destructiveness, negation | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the annihilation that the ego fears, that truth opens up the storehouse of vibrant life force and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to the issue. This generous act of integrity opens the way to the real self. It will | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| this eventuality. This approach to a problem immediately opens the way to rise to the unified plane | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to be better. That is the freedom that opens the gate to the real self. And it | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the gate to the real self. And it opens the gate to the universe. With courage and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is false. When you fear the hope that opens to you, it is because you still believe | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you, and thus become the blessing that further opens your path to self-realization. In order to become | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| right way, it begins to dissolve. And this opens up paradise on earth. There are many, many | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what could exist is more than liberation. It opens the gates to the world, to the great | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the open, relaxed attitude of letting be eventually opens these centers. In addition to the general pathwork | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| partnership love, personal love. The solar plexus center opens the way to the connection and unification with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to resolve whatever problem you may have. It opens up life with all its rich possibilities. It | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| everything: it changes your despair about yourself. It opens the door to knowing your potential for goodness | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| by suffering, guilt, fear, and self-blame, the world opens up before you with such beauty and light | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| pleasure. It simply feels good in itself. Love opens you up. You flow and pulsate in a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| admit. But once this is done, the door opens to freedom, even before one is actually ready | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| part and parcel of evil. Undefended, real pain opens doors, brings light, and exposes the core of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| peace, and freedom -- the cosmic reality that opens up when the present state is expanded. Negative | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| step of the way this newly gained reality opens to a life wider and fuller for you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self-realization. I have spoken about how the channel opens to receive increasing wisdom and intelligence of such | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| always create two unacceptable alternatives. When the path opens up from within you, you begin to experience | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your experience, your life is your creation. This opens many new doors. You no longer live in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| joys and pleasures you never knew existed. Life opens up for you as it never did. But | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| person must equally be figured out. Each contact opens many possibilities. Will these individuals interact from their | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Many have faltered here. Before such a channel opens up, this danger does not exist to the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| very practical matters in your life, cosmic reality opens up to you. Further, deeper layers of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| sheds a new light on the picture. It opens doors that were heretofore closed. It loosens up | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that direct contact with Jesus Christ is what opens the channel of communication between Him and you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Opinion.....................123 | |
| is more or less a matter of personal opinion or taste. Each belief contains something beautiful and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| bring you God's blessings. Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| cannot be penetrated by us spirits. Each rigid opinion is such a block. We cannot push the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| God's will -- it could just be an opinion -- would you be willing to let it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you feel a tightening rigidity, even if your opinion is right, you prevent the heavenly kingdom from | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and answer form. QUESTION: As an authority whose opinion I hold in high regard, would you say | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| do not trust it. QUESTION: When, in the opinion of the spirit world, is a person initiated | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you who really wants to form a judicious opinion has the duty to find out, otherwise you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| human philosophies have always debated this question. One opinion holds that God is person: the other holds | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| time they are holding on to the second-hand opinion that occupation with the self is harmful. They | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| so that there can be no difference of opinion or argument about it. For everything is out | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the spirit world. It cannot be that one opinion stands against another. Your deeds, your thoughts, your | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| group should deliberate on it, each giving an opinion from the point of view of what it | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| something. It may mean letting go of an opinion, a desire, perhaps a way of life. Yet | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| think? Am I right? I would appreciate your opinion about this person's qualities and faults, whether or | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| disapproval and wanting approval, as against fearing public opinion? ANSWER: There isn't necessarily any difference here, but | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| person is so very much concerned with public opinion, it is certainly because he wants the approval | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| certainly because he wants the approval of public opinion. Then he feels safe, because he is not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to the standards of the masses, to the opinion of the majority, be it right or wrong | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the majority, be it right or wrong. Public opinion may be right in many instances, but if | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| it without first examining his or her own opinion, it becomes a bondage. A free person, unconcerned | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| conduct. He or she may adhere to public opinion in some instances, yet this adherence is entirely | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| In other instances the person will forsake public opinion because he would not be true to himself | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| by others will manifest in dependence on public opinion. With other types, approval is sought by the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| Such a person may always act against public opinion from the same motive as the one who | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| In one instance he will go with public opinion, in another instance against it. But the one | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you may not be emotionally involved -- the opinion may be superficial, without any personal importance for | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your surroundings have influenced you to maintain the opinion, so that it has never occurred to you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| more difficult is it then to change an opinion or attitude in which personal, psychological factors, and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| often see that people hold on to an opinion, merely because this has been their opinion for | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| an opinion, merely because this has been their opinion for quite a while, despite the fact that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| even your own self. You can change an opinion only if you deliberate and weigh it, discriminate | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| discriminate, and select. During this process, a new opinion may evolve. Or, after conscious and mature deliberation | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and mature deliberation, you may decide the old opinion seems right. With emotions, which are stronger and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| humanity finds out that an attitude or an opinion is wrong, it swings over to the opposite | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the question of asking the advice or the opinion of other people. That also is a subject | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so. It is beside the point that the opinion you hold may be objectively valid. If it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more harmful to the soul than a wrong opinion honestly reached. This may surprise you, but I | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| why it is better to have a wrong opinion if it is really your own than a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| weak reasons that make you cling to an opinion not honestly arrived at. Why do you voice | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| It is one thing not to have an opinion at all about a subject that is neither | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other hand, if you arrive at the same opinion again, but this time it has really become | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that you deny yourself by adopting the opposite opinion. Because your desire does not conform to public | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Because your desire does not conform to public opinion, you are convinced of its wickedness. Added to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| circle. Hence, you are compelled to have an opinion that is not in harmony with your emotions | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| desires by conforming outwardly, by adopting the opposite opinion out of fear and weakness. Such opinions are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| I might add that often you hold an opinion only because it represents the exact opposite of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| rebellion, and hate that make you hold the opinion. You are thus just as much in bondage | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Do not forget that the validity of the opinion is the not the point here. What you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- but why do you really have the opinion? How did you get it? What are your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| What are your inner motives for holding the opinion? This is the difficulty in the work. The | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| difficulty in the work. The validity of the opinion may be so strong that you cannot find | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Why? Think whether you would have the same opinion if you had grown up in a different | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a personal stake in holding on to your opinion -- that it is not based solely on | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| analyze it sufficiently to arrive at an adequate opinion on many subjects. And therefore one is compelled | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| therefore one is compelled, consciously, to adopt an opinion on an emotional basis. ANSWER: In the first | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| aware of instances when you have adopted an opinion on an emotional basis? I doubt this very | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| do not know. Therefore you will have no opinion. For instance, in the case of a scientific | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you may say that you hold no particular opinion on the subject, except when you are too | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| And this will lead you to adopt an opinion you know nothing or too little about. For | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| own. Furthermore, the moment one realizes that one's opinion is based on emotion and therefore subjective -- | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| I am emotionally involved. For the moment, my opinion is such and such, but I realize it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| danger is when you are convinced that your opinion is completely objective and you expound it with | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| fine. However, when you feel disharmonious whenever an opinion contrary to yours is being offered, when you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the great need to convince others that your opinion is right, then you should examine where and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| I were to advise you to have an opinion about every conceivable subject. QUESTION: What about the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the problem of being unable to form an opinion on a subject on which the majority seems | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| on which the majority seems to have an opinion? ANSWER: That does not matter. The fact that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| importance to you and you cannot form an opinion, then you should look into yourself. If you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| out why you are unable to form an opinion. What are the psychological reasons behind your inability | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| may be behind the inability to form an opinion. From a little and seemingly unimportant symptom you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| should rather say, unwilling -- to form an opinion for psychological and emotional reasons that are still | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your outer personality. It often differs in the opinion of what is good for you. It tries | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| down, your rebellion is against your own low opinion of yourself. Again, my words are addressed much | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| may not coincide at all with your conscious opinion of yourself. Not knowing why you feel so | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| actually rebel against your dependency on the world's opinion. Therefore, the remedy lies in your discovery why | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| other human beings. Find your bondage to public opinion, no matter how subtle. Then find, further, why | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| emotional survival does not depend on other people's opinion of you, but solely on your own opinion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| opinion of you, but solely on your own opinion of yourself. The more you cater to the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of yourself. The more you cater to the opinion of others, the less you think of yourself | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to take between being dependent on other people's opinion and leaning too much in the direction of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| tendency to depend too much on other people's opinion, it is because you have to prove something | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to face the fact that one holds an opinion that does not correspond to one's conscious and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is often quite strong. Your dependency on public opinion and approval applies, therefore, not only to your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| agree with them, that you conform with public opinion or the opinion of certain people, or what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that you conform with public opinion or the opinion of certain people, or what you think their | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of certain people, or what you think their opinion is -- and that is not always the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the best technique for distinguishing between truth and opinion? Or fact and opinion? ANSWER: There is a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distinguishing between truth and opinion? Or fact and opinion? ANSWER: There is a substantial difference between a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your self-acceptance. You will base your often unconscious opinion of yourself on what is realizable, possible, and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| own making and not necessarily conform to public opinion. Both alternatives leave you utterly dissatisfied. You turn | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| superimposed layers of your personality; relying on public opinion rather than on your own convictions, on pseudo- | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| be quite contrary to your intellectual view or opinion, but it nevertheless influences your actions and governs | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| rules and regulations of Church, society, and public opinion, and be faultless in conduct, but whatever goes | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with standards superimposed by your society, by public opinion -- or what you think they are. Thus | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your true wish from your dependency on public opinion. Then, in order to resolve the problem that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| aspects. Become aware of your dependency on public opinion. Find out why you want to resolve your | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| problem cannot come before your dependency on public opinion is out of the way. So much unhappiness | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of a weak ego is conformity to public opinion, parroting the views of others. This condition exists | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| psychologist when working with his patients. Any superimposed opinion, whether true or false, is a hindrance to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| because they might demand that you oppose public opinion. But the strictness may lie in a different | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| integrity in this particular issue, regardless of public opinion. Do you let go the fear, the pride | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| real self, partly because you fear the world's opinion. This is the tragedy of this senseless struggle | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| personal integrity occurs. This does not mean majority opinion is wrong. The observations apply equally to rebellious | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Each false concept, each wrong conclusion, each erroneous opinion, each destructive attitude, each negative emotion stands directly | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| by an outside authority -- a parent-substitute, public opinion, or certain groups of people who represent the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| own truth, rather than paying allegiance to public opinion, to an authority, to society at large. Such | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| or they feel different. The scope of an opinion, conviction, or sensation widens and deepens. Everything becomes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| fear of disapproval, by dependency on another's good opinion, by fear of frustration and inability to stand | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is nothing that is unimportant. Every thought, every opinion, every interpretation, every mode of reacting is given | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| in its wake the awareness that the worst opinion of yourself is never justified, no matter how | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| go of the tightness and fearfulness of your opinion, you will find out whether you happened to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| be good. Such an approach has no fixed opinion; it empties itself. That is one of the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is the guidance for every decision about what opinion or attitude to adopt in a given situation | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and transcend the rules, the adherence to public opinion, give up the facade and the self- interest | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| sense of self-value is not dependent on the opinion of others, on their knowing your assets and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| identity. You make your identity depend on the opinion of other people, on how you appear in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| both expression and creation. It is plan, knowledge, opinion, consciousness. The word is feeling, attitude, and intentionality | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| full of conflict, and cannot therefore form an opinion. By doing so you take a great step | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| truth, not on a personal and possibly false opinion about universal truth. The personal longing that brought | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| be in truth is greater than your negative opinion, your accusations, your suspicions. You will proceed to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| reason is that you secretly hold a low opinion of yourself. The lower this opinion is, the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| a low opinion of yourself. The lower this opinion is, the greater must be your stake in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |