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from. If this work is done in the right way, you will not feel guilty about it 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
will not feel guilty about it. In the right approach there is no room for guilt feelings 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
that you have made some attempts in the right direction. It is sufficient to see the connection 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
before it can use this knowledge in the right way. For, misunderstood, such knowledge could indeed be 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
which may help them to turn into the right direction, will be overlooked. If it were true 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
part. You will interpret the advice in the right way. Lack of intellectual understanding and inability to 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
she will assimilate what he receives in the right manner. On the other hand, people may follow 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the innermost self of other people. You penetrate right through their superimposed layers and masks. That is 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
as I explained before. Hence, every good and right act, most of all the act of self-unfoldment 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
trends exist in each person, and have a right to exist. They do not diminish your manhood 62 MAN AND WOMAN
that man and woman are moving in the right direction, the direction of harmonization, of unfolding the 62 MAN AND WOMAN
first finding all within that deviates from the right principle. One vaguely feels one's inner deviations and 62 MAN AND WOMAN
one's inner deviations and tries to superimpose the right way. This cannot work. If attempted, one will 62 MAN AND WOMAN
driven by rebellion and compulsion, no matter how right one's conscious motivations may be. This will cause 62 MAN AND WOMAN
times. It is almost impossible to find the right words to explain these things to you, but 62 MAN AND WOMAN
should be the purification of the emotions. The right intent is what matters, and not what one 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
confusion. It is not selfish to have the right to be what you are. This does not 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
by becoming a happier person and enjoy the right to be yourself without standing in the way 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
for yourself the consideration that you have a right to. COMMENT: May I add something? There is 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a different way, but of course you are right. Self-responsibility does not mean that you just go 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in sickness we should try to find the right doctors and the right treatments. One fights to 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
try to find the right doctors and the right treatments. One fights to get well, not only 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
punishment. Shouldn't we say to ourselves, it is right for me to suffer? ANSWER: No, oh no 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
we understand better? ANSWER: We can see all right, but it would be entirely against spiritual law 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
unconscious mind, while consciously you know all the right answers. In that case, questioning yourself in the 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
no fixed rules to determine whether actions are right or wrong when they appear to be against 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
yourself; as long as you act in the right way because you think you should; as long 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
be rewarded in the hereafter. The effect of right action can be seen here and now, while 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
reach a little further, and see what is right in front of your eyes. Let us suppose 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
it only because you are convinced it is right, and not compulsively, because you want to receive 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
a selfish one. However, if you do the right thing in the right and mature way without 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
if you do the right thing in the right and mature way without ulterior motives and out 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
is to your advantage, provided your motives are right, your decision free, your reactions mature. This will 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
ones. At times, a wish may be wholly right and good, but your misconceptions -- about selfishness 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
simply because in the past you performed the right actions out of the wrong motives. You can 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
can, if you wish, continue to do the right actions even while you are in the process 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
is a valid question. Nevertheless, prayer is good, right and beneficial. But the prayer is not necessarily 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only can you replace the misconception with the right concept. But find out where you feel that 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
depth. In creation there is only one question: right or wrong, truth or untruth, light or darkness 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
helping, then the motive and approach is all right. But if contact is sought merely because you 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
directly. That, in turn, will give you the right approach to any facet of life, be it 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
concepts and then, little by little, adopting the right concepts, you will cease to fear that love 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
experience a terrible fear and shock, even if right now I'm not afraid? ANSWER: Yes, of course 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
not being murdered, but that you have no right to govern yourself. Once you realize your right 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
right to govern yourself. Once you realize your right to self-government, others lose their power over you 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
form of a god. The individual has no right for freedom and liberty, not even outwardly. A 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
between two human beings. If A is more right than B, A's most hidden faults and weaknesses 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
the good qualities and points where A is right. Salvation can ultimately lie only in self-development. If 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
and try to feel the strength that is right here in this room. May it lighten your 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
important or more valid for you to use right now in your life. Go with this thought 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
have nothing to do with good or bad, right or wrong. What may be wrong for another 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
force. Although you may now give yourself the right to express your spiritual nature, you may certainly 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
ethical they may be. They can only show right outer conduct, and never right inner conduct. In 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
can only show right outer conduct, and never right inner conduct. In former times, the human being's 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
images, wrong conclusions, or because you believe the right thing to do is what is proclaimed by 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
brought you the fulfillment you did not consider right, but it is also true that despite your 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
is also true that despite your wanting the right goal and having pure motives, your negative tendencies 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
positive tendencies which you now know deserve full right of expression. You will find that what you 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
materials until after, or you may do so right away, if you feel the urge, and resume 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
need not be painful if the approach is right. Even if you should find that the fulfillment 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
the fulfillment of this goal would have been right for you, it is still the negative aspect 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
wrong assumptions are and what, in theory, the right reaction should be, or one day will be 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
is that the person who searches in the right direction will learn to have a different approach 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
it all in this life. Nor is it right to say, I have time later, so I 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
desire for love in itself is wrong. The right conclusion would be to feel, The type of 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
wrong; it cannot be. But I have a right to long for being loved. This can happen 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
on my part, learn to love in the right and mature way. So, the first misunderstanding in 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
to seek to be loved. I have no right to be loved, I am not worthy of 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
of these words you will search in the right direction, so that you not only know in 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
this point? QUESTION: Would you now describe the right way of going about it? ANSWER: Yes. The 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
my question after the last lecture, about the right way toward the love we all desire, you 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in order to clear the path for the right way. You ended with the sentence: Then you 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ask you to describe that road upward, the right way, the healthy approach that should follow the 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
her own sake. Oh, you know all the right answers and theories; you know all the truth 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Your love will function only if people do right by you, at best. This means that you 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
means nothing, and to some extent they are right. But they have come to the wrong conclusion 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this direction, regardless of whether your reactions are right or wrong. You know better than that by 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
so do not be deceived by a superficial right reaction. Think of where your problems are in 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
now. As in everything else, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
It can never be gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that continue to 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
based on misconceptions. We shall then compare the right concept to your deviations. To benefit truly from 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
possibly imagine. Living in the now, in the right way, means a complete and full awareness of 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
background thoughts or escape, but rather by being right there. Nonthinking while being right there, in you 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
rather by being right there. Nonthinking while being right there, in you, rather than away from you 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
possibly apply to your person or your life right now. Those of my friends who really work 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
truth about love in your practical everyday life, right here and now. This much is possible for 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
It will eliminate uncertainty so that when the right situation is at hand, you need have no 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
of love you could be capable of giving right now, and, when such love is given to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
certain of your emotions cannot function in the right way yet, you may express the desire that 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
restrictions. In this way you do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
before it can use this knowledge in the right way for, misunderstood, it could indeed be very 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
my judgment be adequate? Will my reactions be right? Will I make a mistake? Dare I make 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
only according to its own will, but also right now. The child cannot wait. As I explained 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
that if the desired goal is not accomplished right now, there must be reasons for the delay 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
be indicated; at another time, action will be right. But patience will prevail also during the time 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
you had a parent who conscientiously did everything right but was also lacking in real warmth, unconsciously 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
fact that it makes you tired to be right here, in the now and that your spirit 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
when they know their actions were quite all right. They concentrate on all their outer right actions 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
all right. They concentrate on all their outer right actions but leave out the inner unconscious motivations 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
are not clear about an idea, a supposedly right reaction, about a principle of general conduct. Ascertain 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
conduct. Ascertain if there is a contradiction of right principles. Put this confusion down concisely, in writing 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
see the way out. You may say, All right, and what now? You will find the answer 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
convinced that what he or she wants is right and for the good. But you all live 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
The more you become convinced that you are right and the other is wrong, the more the 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
that you may not be aware of it right away. If you explore your personality in the 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
real self with all its natural, beautiful, spontaneous right reactions was constantly hampered. Your real self is 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
and intention, but cannot handle it in the right way. As time goes on, the truth becomes 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
judging yourself, without moralizing, and without evaluating the right and the wrong, the good and the bad 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
happiness is not important. Another illusion misinterprets the right to individuality; it claims that you are a 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to be opposed to giving up your individual right to be happy and important. If the inner 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
makes you a happier person. You have the right to happiness, and you have more rather than 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
that unreasonable, irrational fear and resistance. It is right there in you. All you have to do 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
are doing anyway. If we do the work right over a period of time, then slowly the 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
begin to change by itself. ANSWER: That is right. Thinking about it may help create new perspectives 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
cut off from the divine flow. You are right, but it is a half-truth and that is 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
through and can even enrich life, provided the right spiritual and psychological attitude is assumed. In other 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
paying off a karma? ANSWER: Yes, that is right. QUESTION: If there is a danger that people 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
no uncertainty in you, no doubt about your right reaction or action, and no wavering. Your instant 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
nature that you know deep down, This is right, this is so. That has happened to all 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
away -- in fact it is close by, right under your nose, so to speak, only most 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
feelings come from your real self, which is right underneath the tense, compulsive, emotional behavior pattern. Once 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
on to. And, in a way, you are right: as long as you remain in illusion, you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
without ever doing anything. It automatically creates the right balance between activity and passivity. Those of you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
blind. The one is haphazard. It may be right or wrong, but you remain insecure. It is 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
your life. Therefore, whatever happens is organic and right. If it is right to feel for someone 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
happens is organic and right. If it is right to feel for someone, you do not need 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
of life, they will carry you in the right direction and you will have no doubt if 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
reaction, or your knowledge, or your decision is right, feeling neither guilt nor pride nor doubt. You 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
be: poised and unrepressed. You will say the right thing at the right time and know when 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
You will say the right thing at the right time and know when not to speak. You 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
personally threatened, and without generalizing this human aspect. Right now you are doing all of this constantly 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
no matter how much it is camouflaged. Your right, spontaneous, uninhibited expression depends solely on whether or 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. So 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
being alive, of action, of doing in the right, organic way. It contains all of what you 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in truth, you are bound to take the right steps that will enable you to find, out 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
false motivations beneath. After some exploration in the right direction, one finds the existence of such negative 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is a question of personal work. Isn't that right? There is nothing so locked that it cannot 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it cannot be dissolved. ANSWER: That is absolutely right. If the will is there, any inner problem 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
inner problem can be solved. It is also right that my words should not be interpreted to 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to be guided and taught to assume the right concepts. Such teachings will have to be conducted 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are in the process of forming. In the right way, the right teaching will be given in 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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