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| must be a grain of truth in such opinions, perhaps differing from how they were expressed to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| human understanding. You have altogether too many false opinions -- not only you who are here but | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| again that when it comes to two different opinions there is always a core of truth that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to individual reactions to general political issues and opinions. Even when people are free of false reactions | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| a person is unaware of certain faults, attitudes, opinions, emotional reactions. People carry many of these trends | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| whole personality, your thinking, your feeling, and your opinions if they are very deeply rooted, your idiosyncrasies | 18 FREE WILL |
| this will be your world because your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and attitudes create the world around you | 18 FREE WILL |
| knowledge that these are truths and not mere opinions, such as you on earth can have on | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the other hand, these spirits also take my opinions, my experiences, and my advice into consideration. I | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that your attitudes, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions, and your goals create your world, you will | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| spirit or human -- that your attitudes, your opinions, your feelings, and your thoughts create the spiritual | 21 THE FALL |
| You do not understand why you have certain opinions, tastes, or idiosyncrasies; even your good qualities may | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| all, and you have known some of his opinions, his attitudes, that may indicate his spiritual foundation | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| make mistakes in judgment. People have very firm opinions about any subject from religion to politics. The | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| subject from religion to politics. The moment these opinions are fanatical and inflexible, people should test their | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and then they may find out that these opinions are not as objective as they may have | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| it from myself. Your concern about other people's opinions makes you violate your personality. You are not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a bondage. A free person, unconcerned with the opinions of others, resting securely in the self, accounting | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| than any thought you can harbor. Convictions and opinions unfortified by emotion are weak, and the forms | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| can dissolve much faster than those in which opinions and views are charged with emotion. This principle | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| alter emotions! For instance, you have harbored certain opinions all your life. Even though you may not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| new outlook makes good sense. Changing even superficial opinions requires effort and humility. Changing thoughts that have | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the core is reached. Wherever the conscious emotions, opinions, thoughts, conclusions, and desires are separated from those | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the Lord. 51. IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| try. We shall now discuss the subject of opinions. It becomes increasingly important on this path to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| path to find out just what your true opinions are. Many of you are completely unaware you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Many of you are completely unaware you have opinions that you have accepted ready-made, without asking yourself | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| emotional problems that they remain unaware of holding opinions not their own, and why they do so | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not honestly arrived at. Why do you voice opinions that are not your own? One possibility is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| sake of truth. Hence you quickly adopt the opinions of others. It is one thing not to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you, but another if you hold other people's opinions. Inferiority feelings are another reason for not having | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| are another reason for not having your own opinions. You are so certain that other people know | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| better than you that you rely on their opinions rather than on your own. By going on | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| create a vicious circle: the more you hold opinions not your own, the more you unconsciously despise | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| greater the apparent need to adopt other people's opinions. Thus you see can how every wrong inner | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the same positive effect. Another motive for holding opinions not your own is a desire to conform | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| will be inclined to hold on to others' opinions. Another motive for conforming and therefore not daring | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and therefore not daring to seek one's own opinions is in the area where you still rebel | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other ways. Still another motive for holding others' opinions is to cover up the exact wish that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| opposite opinion out of fear and weakness. Such opinions are often particularly rigid -- and even violent | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| surely see how harmful it is to hold opinions that you did not arrive at independently, that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the way you may succeed in justifying your opinions -- may hide the weak and dependent motives | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| flavor in your reactions to some of your opinions. By listening to or feeling your reactions you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| general subjects on which you have strongly formed opinions and examine them in the work you are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not say that it is necessary to have opinions on all subjects. I merely said that where | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| subjects. I merely said that where you have opinions, they should be your own. Furthermore, the moment | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you said to mean that one should have opinions when one is not qualified to have any | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not matter. The fact that many people have opinions -- often not their own -- is no | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- is no reason that you must have opinions on subjects that you did not study. There | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| be that a person constantly refrains from having opinions in order to avoid friction, to be liked | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| clues about the hidden reasons why you hold opinions not your own or why you are incapable | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a personality and therefore has feelings, reactions, and opinions. But they differ greatly from the unpurified ones | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| defiance and rebellion against your dependence on other's opinions of you. Unconsciously, you rebel just as frequently | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| feel consciously and very definitely that other people's opinions are very important. ANSWER: I wonder whether you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of the spirit. If you harbor truthful attitudes, opinions, convictions and emotions, these forms will exist in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| conflict. The entire topic of forming one's own opinions -- which we have examined before -- is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will not be the superficial adoption of new opinions, but a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| inner change rather than an outer. Your outer opinions do not even have to undergo a drastic | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to fear. Much of your life and your opinions may remain the same while you change. This | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| shortcomings that you disapprove of, or if their opinions vary from yours, or if you are prohibited | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you forsake your own self and your own opinions, and do not stand up for yourself. You | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in any other, you may always encounter contrary opinions from various groups, people, or spirits. In itself | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a symptom of something. But beware of readymade opinions and generalizations. They are very misleading. The assumption | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to refuse to grow up. Your conscious right opinions are worth very little when they are undermined | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| much you unconsciously deviate from your correct conscious opinions. While you may know perfectly well that God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| mistakes. In your younger years you often hold opinions which you later grow out of. While later | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| out of. While later you perceive that these opinions are not as right as they seemed to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to make mistakes in your thinking or your opinions, your mental faculties could not grow. Strangely enough | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| though you may not consciously admit to such opinions. This subject needs intensive work. Some of you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| outer means, determined by educational influences, by others' opinions that you may have adopted for one reason | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your preconceived ideas, and your dependency on the opinions of others. These obstacles can be removed only | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| reality determines the character, the thoughts and the opinions a person has adopted and explains his or | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| some personal contact, confrontation with others of different opinions, while love for objects may not necessitate this | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be divided, with different levels expressing different goals, opinions, concepts, and emotions. The yes-current cannot manifest by | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| why they act, react, think, feel, and hold opinions the way they do. Such lack of consciousness | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| unity. This creates realistic, benign, constructive feelings, concepts, opinions, and corresponding actions. Change has taken place, because | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| form of other- centeredness. People hinge all their opinions, goals, ideas, ideals, and even feelings on what | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| eagerness to question all doctrines, rules, regulations, and opinions handed down to you. Such questioning must be | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to the dualistic plane, with its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and fear. When | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| mind differs drastically from one that automatically adopts opinions or standards without question. The automatism that allows | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| rebellious human beings are most impregnated with mass opinions and false limitations, considering them inevitable laws of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of questioning them, of conflict with other people's opinions. After the honest examination of motivations one cannot | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to truth prevail in the psyche. Wherever ready-made opinions are echoed -- whether or not the person | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is wrong. The observations apply equally to rebellious opinions of a minority group. A blind, unquestioning, emotionally | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| values are sufficient. You fear that your own opinions are not valid, so you need confirmation or | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| for you falsely believe you must have definite opinions. You fluctuate at all times between a definite | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to look and consider -- the adherence to opinions, often based not on actual and personal experience | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to self-realization is that you have unconscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings which completely contradict your conscious | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and feelings which completely contradict your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings. This discrepancy presents a major | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| flowing movements are made taut through intensely held opinions, emotions, and physical muscles, both outer and inner | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| fear their submission to and dependency on the opinions of others and therefore feel ashamed of any | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| obscure the true drama of your beliefs and opinions, impressions and reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| it is hardly ever just one thing. Contradictory opinions and ideas exist simultaneously. One set of contradictory | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| do not clear up the entanglements of false opinions -- of what you believe exists as opposed | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| open up. I do not refer merely to opinions and views you unknowingly echo because you are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the responsibility of being true to your own opinions and views -- because you believe you need | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of standing up for one's own feelings and opinions. In short, perfectionism means being untrue to the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| I do not mean merely conscious ideas and opinions. Even more important are the unconscious ones, because | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| it means being true to your own feelings, opinions, and innermost expressions rather than those of others | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| may express this state of consciousness by echoing opinions and values you have never truly examined and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| total of your feelings, your conscious and unconscious opinions and convictions are, by your conceptions, which determine | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the totality of your life. All concepts and opinions, all views and desires, create a will direction | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| current situations. What happens is you adopt certain opinions and judgments and then invest so much energy | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| believe to be emotions are often merely fixed opinions. And where your feelings should unfold, you are | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| very subject you so doggedly protect with certain opinions. You wish to believe that your judgments, thoughts | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| wish to believe that your judgments, thoughts, and opinions result from a specific disturbing situation. I say | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| tendency to harbor just such thoughts, judgments, and opinions because of an underlying motivation and intention. Perhaps | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| If the tendency to build a cluster of opinions and judgments under certain circumstances does exist, it | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| must create according to their nature. Thoughts and opinions create feelings, and both of them together create | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| overcome this pride and this dependency on the opinions of others. How often do individuals betray their | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| The atmosphere reeks of the hidden waste. False opinions and obsolete behavior patterns are literally waste material | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| If they remain in the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for, and discard if necessary, the ideas and opinions you both may hold. You also need the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you will sit lightly in the saddle of opinions, ideas, and thoughts. This will make it possible | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| spiritual truth, then the little disagreements or different opinions slowly disappear. First they cease to matter; then | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| be contagious. It is known that some people's opinions can influence others enough to make them adopt | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| others enough to make them adopt the same opinions. This entire process of influence through exemplary figures | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| stake in your negative reaction, in the stubborn opinions of your little mind, in the laziness that | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| let go of the little ego, the little opinions, the negative reactions you have such an investment | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| are seen as the creative agents. Thus thoughts, opinions, beliefs, feelings, attitudes are no longer handled irresponsibly | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| -- rather than your own motivations, distortions and opinions, your subjective judgments and negativities -- you deny | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the best way for you, regardless of the opinions of others and their possibly covert reasons to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in every decision you undertake, even in the opinions you choose to adopt. With the new consciousness | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| circuit there is a certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made room for in | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| other hand, your mind must rest, not hold opinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| do the best you can, regardless of others' opinions, so that the activity fulfills its innate purpose | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to another person -- again regardless of others' opinions or even their noticing the effort and the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you -- in direction, in self-expression, talent, taste, opinions, philosophy, in true feelings, your way of life | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| are free from personal stakes in proclaiming your opinions makes you very vulnerable. You must then guard | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to change. In this open state, some old opinions, beliefs and ideas will be reinstated because their | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| that by not making decisions in your thoughts, opinions or acts, you have no impact. Even when | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| If you have negative thoughts about others, suspicious opinions or accusations, instead of nurturing them secretly for | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you have a stake in maintaining your negative opinions, accusations, and suspicions, and that you desire to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| -- changes of attitude, of intentionality, of feelings, opinions, of your world view and, finally, changes in | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the ego, of cherished ideas, goals, desires, and opinions -- all for the sake of truth. For | 254 SURRENDER |