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must be if the person is on the right path, advantage can be a cure, too. Through 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
know your good will to work in the right direction. This realization is the first essential step 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
comparison with the perfection you know to be right. Accept this imperfection with humility. If you do 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
with what you have long recognized as being right teaches you humility. To accept yourself as an 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
an imperfect being is accepting yourself in the right way, without guilt feelings and self-abuse. The latter 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
be the wrong opposite extreme. To find the right middle path in everything is part of the 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
your lower self that fights constantly against the right decisions, delivering all sorts of excuses and pretexts 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
angle and you will see that I am right. This is, of course, a symptom that the 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
I just try to be good and behave right, that should be sufficient. Why do I have 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
each one of you. This can be all right as long as you keep the basic structure 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
listening to them. You can ask in the right way, explaining to them that four eyes often 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
soul. He or she may not choose the right words. But the one grain of truth in 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
you who have not found as yet the right co-worker, as we might call it, can pray 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
most difficult for human beings to form the right thoughts at the right moment. The practice of 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
beings to form the right thoughts at the right moment. The practice of this is a training 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
humble enough not to have to prove themselves right all the time. Many people may lack the 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
to take advantage of your meekness. Finding the right course between these apparently contradictory courses of action 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
is involved, your pride perhaps or your self-will; right then and there you should learn to accept 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
will be able to stand up for a right principle and know how to fight in the 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
principle and know how to fight in the right way. Of course, this cannot happen as long 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
longer any attitude of only this way is right and all others are wrong. You will then 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
your subconscious. Oh no. It very often is right in front of your nose. It is so 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
be much harder to find, but what is right in front of you, you continue to disregard 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
or positive side in you that wants the right and wise thing was overpowered. You rationalized this 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
that brought them to the surface. In the right kind of spiritual progress, everything that pertains to 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
which you are unaware of but which is right in front of your nose. Take your immediate 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
pressures will become weaker. They will not cease right away, but they will become weaker and occur 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
the logical side of you might say: All right, if there really is no God, I am 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
disadvantages of any sort: everything will feel so right in every respect. This feeling is what distinguishes 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
your faults. This is the way to get right into the middle of this path. Without God's 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
these lectures for use in your actual life, right here and now. Since every force or principle 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
of ethics and morals, do know what is right and what is wrong if they simply face 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
behind it. Desire means activity. You may have right desires: going on a path of purification, for 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
accept for now that they actually do exist. Right now you possess many imperfections you have not 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
disorganization, and mismanagement to set in. The exactly right and necessary amount of strength is available for 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
only way you can positively know whether a right and good instinct or a wrong and false 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
properly as by itself and flow into the right channels; and so will the passive forces. Yes 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
may very often be that you have a right desire coming from a good motive. At the 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
and pull them backward and forward, left and right. QUESTION: Does that mean that whatever we want 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
by asking whether the action you contemplate is right or wrong. Since none of you would ever 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
the decisions you are faced with could be right either way in principle. Yet, for each individual 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
for each individual there is always only one right way and many, many wrong ways possible. So 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
your apparent good motives; that will determine the right or wrong action for you, not the ethical 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
you will not be able to know the right action for you. The right procedure is not 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
to know the right action for you. The right procedure is not to ask God simply to 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
be isolated instances where this can be the right thing to do, but not generally, not when 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
a repetitive pattern and a conflict involved. The right procedure is to decide wholeheartedly that you wish 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
may receive answers from there; you may feel right or wrong from this part of yourself, provided 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
provided you have once wholeheartedly decided for the right course and that the resistance and fight are 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
do so because he knows that it is right. This desire is in the person's outer will 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
discover it first? If the inner will is right, it exists very quietly from deep within and 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
the process. The inner will must want the right thing and the ultimate goal. The outer will 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
course, I am speaking generally. I have no right to give you the answer. It would weaken 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
unconscious ones, you will find out what the right direction is for you. Then your desires may 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
to go to war could not be the right curative means against war. For as long as 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
may be, unless they are supported by the right spiritual attitudes. The cure has to start from 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
cannot be possible, and that they are absolutely right. Do not believe that it is this human 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
you have to learn and to distinguish between right and wrong, between truth and untruth by truth's 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
meditation which, of course, if done in the right way, is also a very important part of 31 SHAME
nourishment it craves -- most probably in the right way of self-development and self-recognition. Anyone hearing or 31 SHAME
tonight a new subject: shame. There is a right kind and a wrong kind of shame. The 31 SHAME
kind and a wrong kind of shame. The right kind of shame is true repentance. Without this 31 SHAME
moment you exchange the wrong shame for the right, I can promise you that in the measure 31 SHAME
make you feel guilty, provided you adopted the right kind of shame in which you accepted yourself 31 SHAME
path; you have to exchange it for the right kind of shame. The wrong kind of shame 31 SHAME
your secrets to everyone you meet. Choose the right person to open up to; choose the person 31 SHAME
from the wrong kind of shame to the right kind, all you have to do is delve 31 SHAME
weakness you are treating. You will learn the right kind of shame and self-acceptance, which brings humility 31 SHAME
your inner struggles may see things in the right light. As I have often said in private 31 SHAME
once again how every inner feeling can be right when it comes from the godself. However, the 31 SHAME
an objective light, so as to develop the right kind of shame about it. Check all your 31 SHAME
person to choose to open up to the right people, because he will never know who the 31 SHAME
people, because he will never know who the right people are. The intuition is lacking, as well 31 SHAME
be several wrong choices and one that is right. Only mature and responsible searching will eventually show 32 DECISION-MAKING
responsible searching will eventually show you what the right way is. However, in many instances, it will 32 DECISION-MAKING
you choose the wrong way but with the right attitude. Now what is the right and mature 32 DECISION-MAKING
with the right attitude. Now what is the right and mature attitude with which to decide? The 32 DECISION-MAKING
other hand, let us assume you chose the right alternative by accident. When I say by accident 32 DECISION-MAKING
needlessly more difficult alternative. By deciding with the right attitude, you responsibly accept the price to be 32 DECISION-MAKING
emotional current gradually by growth -- the only right way. These conditions cannot change suddenly. The more 32 DECISION-MAKING
guidance and inspiration and keep yourself open, the right moment will come when there is receptivity. But 32 DECISION-MAKING
eager to help. 33. OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH Greetings in the Name of 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
of course also think of others in the right way and practice it at all times. One 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
thinking of yourself -- if done in the right way -- is no proof of your selfishness 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
these words, my friends, are ready for the right kind of self- analysis. You may already do 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
of self- analysis. You may already do the right actions and even have the right thoughts in 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
do the right actions and even have the right thoughts in many respects, but as development proceeds 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
are, you can never truly love others. The right kind of self-respect and self-love can only come 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
close here, too. The more you practice the right kind of self-occupation, the more unselfish you must 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
learn to accept your own. Here, too, the right way to do so is all-important. I have 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
extremes as well as the one most difficult right middle path concerning every individual human trend. Therefore 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
nothing in itself is ever good or bad, right or wrong. How it is done, whether the 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
is found determines whether you are on the right track or not. Only when you accept yourself 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
fight inwardly against other people as they are right now, the more you refuse to accept yourself 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
if you do that and react in the right way toward your findings, you will gain a 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
not believe for one instant that this is right and good. It is part of the growing 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
of development on, each spirit entity has the right, and often even the duty, to make personal 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
the decisions not deviate too strongly from the right middle course. When an entity is not yet 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
offer another alternative. The entity then has the right to accept or to reject the advice according 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
that you can see for yourself the truth right in front of your eyes, no matter how 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
before. It may be very good to adopt right now the idea that each human being has 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
that should explain why one clairvoyant can be right in many instances and wrong in others. In 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
all its pains courageously. Then you do the right thing. But if you withdraw from other people 35 TURNING TO GOD
emotions are mixed. The conscious part that is right and pure does not eliminate the possibility of 35 TURNING TO GOD
observe you as you pray. You say the right kind of prayers; you are praying ardently, untiringly 35 TURNING TO GOD
What should I do? What would be the right thing? Those of my friends who work with 35 TURNING TO GOD
medium for that. Every human being on the right road can receive answers from God. It is 35 TURNING TO GOD
and outer conflicts on the path in the right way. It will strengthen all of you. Such 35 TURNING TO GOD
for the courage to take pain in the right manner. Then, in the ultimate sense, pain must 36 PRAYER
routine against which you warned us. Which is right? ANSWER: You cannot generalize. For some people it 36 PRAYER
You cannot generalize. For some people it is right to do it one way, for others, another 36 PRAYER
Be in peace, be in God. 37. ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY Greetings 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
for God and overcoming your self-will is the right kind of activity. You use the wrong kind 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
a healthy and positive attitude. To find the right way is not easy. Self-testing and meditation will 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
learn where and how you deviate from the right course. But let me show you in principle 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
a dark view of everything. The true and right course is: I expect life to bring me 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
to come to you, then you have the right attitude. If you do not allow yourself to 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
pose for what is true and good and right. In your world the tendency to adhere to 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
that are not true. Distortion is never the right way. The way must always be, first, to 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
person, who is developed and detached in the right sense, if you remain governed by your unconscious 38 IMAGES
of Father, Thy will be done is the right thing. But this is not enough if you 38 IMAGES
beg of you to use it in the right way. For if you open your heart and 38 IMAGES
distance. You also have definitely designated directions -- right, left, up, and down. In the spirit world 39 IMAGE-FINDING
can have the theoretical knowledge and still go right on reacting the same old way. It is 39 IMAGE-FINDING
of your efforts, your old patterns may go right on and escape your attention. You are so 39 IMAGE-FINDING
from the divine flow. You are only half right, and that is always dangerous. The unpleasantness you 39 IMAGE-FINDING
search and the ensuing change, you need the right kind of humility to accept the unhappiness you 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
not yet capable of living according to the right reactions. But if you face your wrong conclusions 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
emotions consciously, you can then see what the right conclusion would be. If you will meditate on 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
even though the connection cannot always be discovered right away. In a roundabout way scientific improvement must 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
emotions and compare them, in theory, with the right principles. And that is as it should be 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
chose it so. QUESTION: Did I understand that right: Any event about which we really can't do 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
in this life, if you work in the right way. And that will be sufficient. If, in 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
still accessible. The problem could then be treated right away in consciousness and when the child grows 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
is that way. The equation will come out right, in whatever way you look at it. It 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
much in a sickly way. There is a right and proper kind of self-love. Cowardice is nothing 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
see where you also deviate from what is right and good in a similar way. Furthermore, the 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
must be something in you that is not right either. You know this, friends, but you forget 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
tell me, what do you think? Am I right? I would appreciate your opinion about this person's 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
reaction to one's faults. ANSWER: You are quite right. The connection is this: isn't it natural that 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
to the opinion of the majority, be it right or wrong. Public opinion may be right in 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
it right or wrong. Public opinion may be right in many instances, but if a person adheres 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
mean is serious. For only here and now, right where you stand, can you find God. And 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
more despicable to the will-type. The judgment is right in both cases, as the other two types 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
both cases, as the other two types are right in their judgments about the other extremes. But 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
succeed, cannot benefit from the accomplishment in the right way and thus will lose it again. The 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
a distinct being, a personality in his own right with different talents and characteristics. But there was 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION

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