| Backgrounds.................3 | |
| murder, even for the same motive. Yet, their backgrounds that led to these feelings, that led to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| or guilt that is explained away with people's backgrounds and with early influences. Nothing is as dangerous | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is no coincidence that a mixture of religious backgrounds is prevalent among you. In your political committees | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Backward....................15 | |
| outer happenings with them, following this chain reaction backward. The immediate cause of the disharmony may be | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is evolution; the former could be called a backward evolution or devolution, and neither can ever happen | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| their unrecognized desires, which push and pull them backward and forward, left and right. QUESTION: Does that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the principle of restriction stands for regression, going backward instead of forward, holding up progress, going in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| The restrictive principle is movement -- inward or backward -- while the static principle is rest, the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| For where stagnation exists, progress cannot occur. Thus, backward movement -- the principle of restriction in its | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| better than no movement. Because if you move backward long enough, you must come to a point | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| ANSWER: Exhalation is expansion; inhalation is restriction -- backward movement. And then there is -- which is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in Asia and China, and in all the backward countries where people are so undeveloped, than in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is unjust and unbalanced and therefore a step backward in development. But in the overall picture it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personality. QUESTION: In the previous question the word backward countries was used, implying that we are forward | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in all respects. In some respects, yes. But backward would certainly apply to earthly human advantages. Spiritually | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desiring to stop its movement, or even go backward into youth. People want two impossible things: the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| conflict with time. Fear of death causes a backward movement opposed to the natural movement of time | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| but only in fantasy. Likewise, if you pull backward, into the past, even if you try to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Backwards...................3 | |
| mask of goodness you may have bent over backwards trying to hide what was behind it. Now | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| hidden, well-camouflaged attitude. You may even bend over backwards so as to hide this attitude from others | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The result is imbalance: either you lean over backwards to allow others to take advantage of you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| Bad.........................376 | |
| do not have to be afraid that something bad will happen to them if they let themselves | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| saying, I am a sinner. I am so bad. I cannot overcome my sins. How terrible that | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| they will upset him and give him a bad conscience. These feelings in turn will create a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| feel a deep-seated unrest, would have an undefinable bad conscience. Why? Because happiness does not depend on | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| live in the past -- and this is bad. And it is also true that you very | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| future which, in its own way, is equally bad. This applies just as much to old people | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| coloring. You even have created a word for bad art and bad coloring: you call it kitsch | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| have created a word for bad art and bad coloring: you call it kitsch. It is the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that merely because your faults are not as bad as those of certain people of very low | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| attracts those specialists whose particular qualities, good or bad, you possess. For like attracts like inevitably, magnetically | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| people who mean well and are not particularly bad, but who do not yet belong to the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| protection for you is to tear out the bad growths at their roots. This happens on the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that happens in your life is good or bad in itself. Do not believe this fallacy. The | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| into the same fault in itself is not bad, provided it is recognized and one learns from | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| eyes of others. They say, I am so bad, I am such a sinner, I am this | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| attitude exists too and it is just as bad as its opposite. When you think about this | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to find such hidden causes, whether good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. As I said, there are | 18 FREE WILL |
| invents something great and uses it for a bad purpose that is another issue. It will be | 18 FREE WILL |
| was another fault grown out of the same bad root of the initial splitting from God. There | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| great deal worse than the physical suffering, as bad as that was. On the other side, He | 22 SALVATION |
| surroundings. You not only cause harm through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and impure feelings, but also | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not only cause harm through actual bad deeds, bad thoughts, and impure feelings, but also by lacking | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| them and thus you will, in turn, produce bad effects on others. Thus a vicious circle is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you can use free will for good or bad ends. That is up to you. To agree | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the price wholeheartedly -- which is not necessarily bad, and it may be good. For, spiritually speaking | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will can be used for good or for bad; this is important. You cannot say it serves | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| quick with explanations: you are just in a bad mood; you do not know why you feel | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| kind of shame? They say: I am hopelessly bad, and there is nothing that can be done | 31 SHAME |
| for a badly chosen mask. All masks are bad, even the apparently pleasant ones. However, some people | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that nothing in itself is ever good or bad, right or wrong. How it is done, whether | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| love for the Creator -- mingle with the bad and impure ones -- spiritual pride and separateness | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| individual why this or that alternative would be bad or even dangerous and why the decisions made | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| It is up to you to annul accumulated bad karma. You can do it quicker if you | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| each quality, each trend, each attitude, good or bad, as a power current, which it truly is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| such a jungle. It is not at all bad or criminal. It is merely confusion, error, lack | 36 PRAYER |
| inner problems. An infinite variety of good and bad currents influence one another. I promised you that | 36 PRAYER |
| outside of it they fall back into the bad habits of their erring souls. Love, well-meaning and | 36 PRAYER |
| you have to give up is not necessarily bad, wrong, or wicked. It is sufficient that you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to accept everything life brings, both good and bad -- and to retain a positive attitude. The | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the person who you think has hurt you. Bad feelings and bad thoughts add to the destructive | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you think has hurt you. Bad feelings and bad thoughts add to the destructive forces in the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| wrong to say a person is good or bad. That far you have come. But the need | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| true for every individual tendency -- good or bad. If you have this general understanding, my friends | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| primitive emotions. It knows what feels good or bad. It knows love and pleasure when its will | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| images. The child knows only extremes: good or bad, perfection or imperfection, omnipotence that promises security, or | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| be painful at first, but not half as bad as your unconscious resistance would have you believe | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| separate from love! They not only suffer from bad conscience when the sex urge manifests, but they | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| layers of your personality and both good and bad motives. Then you will understand why you felt | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| it necessary to hide the existence of the bad motives from your consciousness. I would also like | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| need to separate the good motives from the bad ones in a particular aim, but also that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| everything on influences from spirit entities, good or bad, and thus tried to get around self-responsibility. Here | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| change is for the good or for the bad, but will watch over the protege so that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| -- unorganized spirits, spirits who are not necessarily bad, as well as evil ones. But do not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| hidden or not, but not all desires are bad or wrong. Therefore every mood contains a desire | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| preferable to perform a good act with a bad motive, or should one refrain from performing the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| merely recognize that the good act contains a bad motive, without self-deception. The mere fact that the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| motive, without self-deception. The mere fact that the bad motive is recognized helps a great deal in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| an enemy because many desires that were neither bad nor in any way harmful -- in childhood | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| he or she has chosen, has a particularly bad effect on the law-breaker. The latter feels quite | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| good plants, can you get rid of the bad plant without getting hold of it and pulling | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| any deliberate intention on your part of being bad. Evil and destruction can work in you through | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| they finally realize that others consider such feelings bad and wrong and that it is a disadvantage | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| appears to be on the surface nor as bad -- as full of hate, aggression, rebellion, and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a good result and a pessimistic outlook a bad one. As long as you are not clear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the child is taught early that it is bad, wrong, and sinful to hate, particularly one's parents | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| catching yourself whenever you fall back into old, bad emotional habits, your subconscious will gradually reveal more | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| invariably the child is scolded and learns how bad this is. That fortifies the need to keep | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| forth all happenings in your life, good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. Once you experience this, you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| does not make the electric current good or bad. You make it good or bad. This power | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| good or bad. You make it good or bad. This power current is one important aspect of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| very true. On the other hand, suppression is bad, and moral self- righteous judgement of another person's | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| correct to say that sex is good or bad, right or wrong, than to say electricity is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong, than to say electricity is good or bad, right or wrong. It depends entirely on what | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hidden. You were often made to feel how bad you were in this respect, and therefore the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with God's laws cannot be in any way bad or harmful or disadvantageous. I beg of you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| representing one of the three principles -- is bad, so that you neglect to cultivate and purify | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| yet follow. Forcing it may have a very bad effect in various ways. The compulsion and the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| may not necessarily mean that you want something bad or harmful, or when you cannot accept the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| do not wish to be responsible for anything bad that happens. Then you refuse to see the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| really independent person need not be afraid of bad influences. The independent person cannot be influenced. Your | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the thing in itself that is good or bad, advisable or not advisable. The questions remain always | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| questions. We cannot say it is good or bad. The answer always lies in the direction, the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is distortion. No one is wicked or bad or malicious because he enjoys it for its | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| that we will no longer be frightened of bad people. But how can I not be frightened | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| judges of what is good and what is bad for the individual, not only infringing on the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| may find it impossible to solve the accumulated bad effects you have caused. Therefore, it may stay | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| case, the good quality not only fortifies a bad one, but becomes also a distortion in itself | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to anything else. Hypnotism is not good or bad per se. It depends on how it is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| motives play a role, the effect can be bad. In fact, outer selfish motives, fully recognized by | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| up the self with all its defenses. A bad subject at all times holds on to the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| unknown fear. If, however, a person is a bad subject only at certain times, the reasons may | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| person because of a correspondence. Thus, being a bad subject may, at times, be a healthy, unconscious | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| mechanism. With a person who is always a bad subject it indicates a tight holding on, a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to be hypnotized and cannot? ANSWER: The term bad subject applies to people who cannot, even if | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that have nothing to do with good or bad, right or wrong. What may be wrong for | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of life. The constant changes between good and bad will reveal meaning that will be missed by | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Also, other emotional problems may clear up. A bad marriage may turn into a good one, and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| proportion when you overemphasize the good or the bad, according to the person's reaction to you. That | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fully as you can, the good and the bad, without withdrawal, without fear. For life cannot ever | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| her or him, and when you see the bad, you will possibly see what is really bad | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| bad, you will possibly see what is really bad. Your picture is unreal because of your underlying | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| motive for seeing the other person's good or bad side rather strongly. And it is unreal because | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you build up your situation to appear so bad and thereby try to force others to sympathize | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| absolutely miserable everything is. Or conversely, Look how bad I am. By recognizing my wickedness, I show | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| aim? Do I really believe it is as bad as all that? The difficulty is that nine | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| kind of emotion, positive or negative, good or bad. Your conflicts, your images, and your misconceptions are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| right and the wrong, the good and the bad from an ethical standpoint. Rather, I told you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| all your experiences, both the good and the bad, and will evaluate them from a completely new | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| matter began, all these feelings -- good or bad, positive or negative, joyful or painful -- have | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| life and all it stands for, good and bad. Everything is included in that. It may be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You will not believe people are good or bad, neither depending on them too much nor distrusting | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| meaning. It becomes a label and that is bad. It is always necessary to approach this work | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conscious valid ones. These unrecognized motivations are not bad or wicked or sinful, they are merely shortsighted | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confusion. These alternatives are not crassly good or bad; they both stem from the same basic struggle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you accept yourself as part good and part bad, as consisting partly of the higher and partly | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not reconcile yourself to being both good and bad, as long as you battle against this badness | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| solution, is the artificially cultivated view of how bad the world and people really are. A person | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not really care whether others are good or bad as long as they love, appreciate, approve, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the childish distinctions between so called good and bad. This would only strengthen your guilt feelings. It | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God has the right to be good or bad to me. But if I obey and appease | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of feeling you experience the good and the bad, the happy and the unhappy, pleasure and pain | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| makes you blame others, circumstances, the fates, or bad luck, instead of seeing how you are responsible | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| motivated by stringent self-moralizing, based on good or bad, your goodness or righteousness is not genuine. It | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| evaluated in the extreme terms of good or bad. When these terms cease to apply to anything | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| by quick judgment about what is good or bad. Then the truth can be found only deep | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| into the error of picturing yourself as all bad. Exaggerated self-condemnation is connected with the second condition | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| imperfection. You moralize with yourself. You find yourself bad, wrong, even though you may not consciously admit | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| as either all good and happy, or completely bad and unhappy. You have not yet realized to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| final. Now, the world is all black and bad. You are unable to live up to what | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your whole vision and you are now all bad, hopeless, and consequently, crushed. Thus you are incapable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| know that criticism does not make them all bad and all wrong. The work on this path | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| be evaluated simply in terms of good or bad. Moralizing also manifests when, emotionally at least, everything | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| least, everything is experienced as either good or bad, right or wrong. Because you disapprove of the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| issues are experienced in terms of good or bad, moralizing occurs. There is so much leeway, so | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| should rejoice about this self-recognition, rather than feel bad that you cannot accomplish what you want instantly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Instead of pressuring yourself into a state of bad conscience, relax in the knowledge, I know where | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| naturally, I have taught her that it is bad to kill anything. However, what do you do | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs distorts reality. Everything is exaggeratedly good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. You are incapable of properly | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| or quality in itself is either good or bad. This holds true only in a very crass | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| can find the same in any good or bad aspect or trait in existence. This confusion leads | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| emotionally experience the parents as either good or bad, strong or weak, admirable or despicable. But even | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| these terms -- good in one way and bad in another? Can he or she be reliable | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| intellect that people can be both good and bad, but emotionally you cannot experience this truth, particularly | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| very protection against yourself. If the parent remains bad in your eyes, then the slight and hurt | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| resistance as long as circumstances are not too bad. This creates for the following life the psychological | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of self-preservation finally takes over when circumstances become bad enough. When that turning point is reached depends | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| observe yourself without judging what is good or bad, right or wrong. Now, my friends, are you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| regard something as right or wrong, good or bad. So many theories -- spiritual, religious, philosophical or | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| an attitude of right versus wrong, good versus bad. The mere fact that you wish to be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| themselves and pretend that things are not so bad, and thus can continue to hide from the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| others have hardship too, I am not so bad, I am not the only one who suffers | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a thought, an attitude is seldom good or bad, right or wrong in itself. This can be | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| between the extremes of either being good or bad, rather than seeing both the good and the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| rather than seeing both the good and the bad. It is this and instead of the or | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of it. Nothing in itself is good or bad, as I have said so often. Why should | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |