| Silently....................4 | |
| to search within yourselves, my friends: Do you silently, or even thoughtlessly, demand too much perfection from | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| say a word with a loud voice or silently, and the silent word is not necessarily less | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the energy current in each word you speak silently or aloud. You must clearly enunciate and then | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| say and why you are saying it, sometimes silently, without being at all aware that you say | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Silly.......................7 | |
| and love. If you deny truth for any silly, stubborn, and childish notion, you are thus denying | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| much more ashamed of something that is merely silly. When you formed this image, the reasoning that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to reason and think. Only relatively is it silly. And you, intelligent human being that you are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| reconcile yourself to the fact that such a silly reaction actually lives in you. You are now | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| judgments and evaluations such as, But this is silly, this is impossible, this is unworthy of me | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| on the path? To fall back into the silly and petty little crossnesses. This seems to me | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I say might sound rather far-fetched, or even silly. But for some of my friends these words | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Silver......................4 | |
| instead of having it served us on a silver platter. But I don't understand the other, the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| belief -- were given to humans on a silver platter, as you put it, they would not | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you wants something handed to it on a silver platter, without the necessary responsibility, work, decision, and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| What you call death occurs when the silver cord is severed. But there are many stages | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| Similarity..................6 | |
| to peace than through other approaches. Find the similarity, then you will gain the insight and understanding | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at first you only have to feel the similarity of the pain. However, this requires considerable effort | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| At first, they may appear to have no similarity with either pride, self-will, or fear. Yet when | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| a mate. Some of you may sense the similarity, at least occasionally. The triad of pride, self-will | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| aspects, and many more, cover up the fundamental similarity which is that one fears the self to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in many areas of development, there is a similarity between the lowest and the highest point of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Simmer......................3 | |
| honestly as you know how. If such emotions simmer on the surface, try to translate them into | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the starvation, have to be allowed to simmer on the surface, and have to be translated | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| other undesirable feelings. As you allow them to simmer on the surface, you institute the process I | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Simpler.....................4 | |
| had no inkling of. The task is much simpler than that. You will find the answers by | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| fear so much: your own psyche. This sounds simpler than it really is. To explore the unknown | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| negativity and destructiveness. To put it in even simpler terms, the struggle is between good and evil | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| ever-narrowing spiral movements, the issues become so much simpler. And in the final nuclear point of your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Simplicity..................4 | |
| is! Why did I not see this wonderful simplicity before? Why did I plague myself with all | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| think at this moment. It is this great simplicity that seems so hard to comprehend. You go | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| one point, the way becomes increasingly simple. The simplicity at the final turn of the spiral is | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| final turn of the spiral is love. This simplicity means little when the circles in the spiral | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Simplified..................7 | |
| it also more in a picture language, in simplified terms. When the child grows up, it becomes | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Of course, the example can only be a simplified one, as we cannot include the many side | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| I will say to you must be highly simplified and therefore cannot even remotely do justice to | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| guidance. Understanding this material, even in its most simplified form, should help raise your consciousness so you | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| development. I will now give a brief, somewhat simplified picture of this. At the dawn of human | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| because on your plane you only perceive very simplified and cruder manifestations of these ideas, concepts and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| an overview of spiritual reality in the most simplified way. I have then gone on to convey | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Simplify....................6 | |
| your own problem in the simplest of terms. Simplify it; do not make it so complicated. Whatever | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| same terminology used in both cases only to simplify matters? ANSWER: You must realize that we have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good. Such an answer might have appeared to simplify certain disturbing questions. Although not entirely new, this | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| that we have discussed. In other words, to simplify a bit for the sake of discussion, there | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| approaches. At this time, I would like to simplify matters. I would like to discuss these obstructions | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| distinct, clear, simple, and important factor that will simplify matters for you in order to distinguish between | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Simultaneity................3 | |
| constellation of the Eagle? ANSWER: There is a simultaneity. Hints have been given continuously in the entire | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it brings the split into full focus. This simultaneity of two levels is a very distinct experience | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and transformation, you are totally unaware of this simultaneity of two levels, where on one level expansion | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Sin.........................82 | |
| laws and commandments and taught that you can sin also in thought. At his time humanity was | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| but feels herself more masculine, is it a sin against the incarnation or is it perhaps an | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| have explained earlier? ANSWER: I would not say sin. When a woman rebels against her femininity it | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this development overcomes the fault that caused the sin, the sin is extinguished. Every karma can be | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| overcomes the fault that caused the sin, the sin is extinguished. Every karma can be erased. And | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| them, Is this good? or Is this a sin? they would always say, You know the answer | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that way because he knows that crime is sin. And yet, he too may use his willpower | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| this does not apply only to crime or sin as usually understood. Anything that deviates from spiritual | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| understood. Anything that deviates from spiritual law is sin -- or ignorance, if you wish. They are | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| life. It could be right for another person. Sin, or the breaking of spiritual law, is not | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| cannot say to become a writer is a sin, and yet for a particular person it may | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| others have committed. If you have committed a sin, you yourself have to straighten it out and | 22 SALVATION |
| accurate only in the sense that your great sin of falling, of not remaining faithful to God | 22 SALVATION |
| has no apparent connection with a fault or sin causes you acute shame, however, as long as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| believe more and more that sex is a sin and that the truly spiritual person must abstain | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| out of compulsion to atone for a supposed sin, or even for a real failing. Neither imaginary | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| QUESTION: The next question concerns the concept of sin in sex as pointed out in the Catholic | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It says, The loss of the sense of sin is one of the most striking characteristics of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| where these same deductions and conclusions are wrong. Sin, as you all know, is nothing but ignorance | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| there is no such thing as evil, badness, sin, malice. All this prevails only as long as | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Once you understand the motive of evil and sin, you no longer fear it, you no longer | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| love without fear, and therefore you live without sin, if you want to use this expression. Evil | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you want to use this expression. Evil and sin are products of an illusory world that exists | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| realize its very temporary effect. Actually, error, or sin, has no effect on reality at all; it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| still live in the illusion of evil and sin, in error and misconception. But no matter how | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| even good things, either out of fear to sin, or of fear that these good things bring | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| blessings. Be in peace. Be in God! 94. SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT Greetings | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you why we avoided the crass term of sin. Your self-destructive guilt feelings on the one hand | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| self-image on the other, make of the terms sin and evil too much of an obstacle to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| short, your neuroses -- exist, there is also sin and evil, for neurosis always means a character | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| positive idea: self- forgiveness and fully facing one's sin. Both derive from courage, humility, and the will | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| all spiritual teachings in past ages speak of sin instead of sickness or neurosis? ANSWER: Well, my | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| place has it become important not to stress sin and evil as much in order to discourage | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| than understanding, loving, and helping. Although sickness and sin are the same, the person with limited perception | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| will understand and help and not feel superior. Sin and sickness are the same, but what counts | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of the seven cardinal sins. What is called sin is the outer manifestation, either in deed or | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| result of inner distortion produces what is called sin. The common denominator of any sin is immaturity | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is called sin. The common denominator of any sin is immaturity of the soul, which makes it | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| relating, communicating, and loving. In the broadest terms, sin is lack of love. An immature person is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| one does not love and is therefore in sin. Sin, in psychological terms, is neurosis. The only | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does not love and is therefore in sin. Sin, in psychological terms, is neurosis. The only difference | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| currents and components leading to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal sin is PRIDE. I have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal sin is PRIDE. I have discussed this in the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| lead to separateness is self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS -- greed. Again, you know its | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| outer selfishness and to separateness. The third cardinal sin is LUST. Lust is so often misunderstood. It | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| right, or for anything else. The fourth cardinal sin is ANGER. What is anger, my friends? Anger | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that I usually shy away from the word sin because it encourages self-destructive and unproductive guilt. Instead | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| from bridging gaps between human beings, is a sin. Of course, there is such a thing as | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the Bhagavad Gita anger is considered the worst sin of all, producing complete confusion? ANSWER: Because in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you to distinguish between them. The fifth cardinal sin is GLUTTONY. The deeper meaning of gluttony has | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not be sufficient reason to call it a sin. There are many activities in a person's life | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| responsibility of a personal relationship. The sixth cardinal sin is ENVY. Again, I do not have to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| itself positive, healthy, or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is SLOTH. Sloth is the indifference and apathy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is life-producing. Therefore sloth is rightly called a sin. QUESTION: What happens with a life, from a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| You must not fear because it is a sin, this will not prevent them from being frightened | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| remnants of that earlier time. QUESTION: How about sin from the spiritual point of view? If you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of view? If you don't actually commit the sin, though you are thinking about it, but out | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the sinful act, does this still count as sin? ANSWER: Jesus said all there is to say | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| but unconsciously they would still know. Hence your sin affects others, even if it is not acted | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| yourselves as you are without a feeling of sin, and in this acceptance resolve the conditions that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this acceptance resolve the conditions that are called sin. Be in peace. Be in God! See 30 | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| miserly with your feelings! You are wrong; you sin against the vital law of life. Make up | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| when we, through lack of sympathy, commit a sin. I would also like to know about healthy | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| sorrow, while in reality the psyche did commit sin. This discrepancy has to be evaluated. Once the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and ideas. If guilt and a sense of sin do not drive these instincts underground, if the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is avoided not by the inhibiting fear of sin, but by the entire human organism growing up | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| up and out of itself. Fear of the sin of perversion tends only to drive undeveloped instincts | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| feared, dying must be gone through. Another great sin of the human being is the wish to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| an adult understands. So it is not a sin when a person is unable to perceive. It | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| without quite knowing what governs you. The greatest sin, if we want to use this word, is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| want to take this direction? Religion calls it sin or evil. Psychology calls it neurosis or psychosis | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| work toward an undifferentiated unity. It is a sin against life to not grow. You are an | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the artificially maintained status quo. This is the sin against life, defeating life's natural movement toward evolution | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| others and may therefore truly be called a sin, because you punish others for your own failings | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| justify your own holding back, then you truly sin, my friends. This process is most widespread, most | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| into the opposite extreme, so all concepts of sin, evil, and personal responsibility for human unhappiness were | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| a tooth for a tooth makes admitting a sin impossible. The punishment is too terrible. Therefore the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Images, in their untruth, are evil and create sin. They create war within the soul, war within | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| standards condemned. These moralists directed the accusation of sin toward illicit sex; toward promiscuous or pornographic sex | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| without any shades of untruthfulness, error, distortion -- sin -- and therefore in total wellbeing. There is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| incarnated. Similarly, you have associations with the words sin, hell, evil, devil. All these words have been | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| saved from their painful state of untruth -- sin -- and consequent destructiveness of self and others | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |