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| world recognizes that a person does this with sincere good will, then guidance will be given also | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| from a full heart, without self-deception, rooted in sincere willpower. This is the first step on this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| and to carry the good intention through is sincere and persevering. But often you will not face | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this wish has to be very strong and sincere, not half-hearted at all! This must be truly | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| guided slowly, provided the wish for truth is sincere and not superficial. This is quite an important | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| a very small group, comes together in the sincere and honest desire to serve God and His | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| bread. You earn your spiritual bread by your sincere desire to receive it. You prepare your spiritual | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| conceivable that a human being may make a sincere mistake as to the will of God? ANSWER | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Test yourself again and again as to how sincere, how deep is your desire to do God's | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in former times. It is true that a sincere but mistaken motive to go to war will | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But what is absolutely true is that the sincere, though false motive is not evaluated in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is seeking God through his own good and sincere will, has all the reason in the world | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in this respect, in humility, yet with the sincere desire to be able to change it, realizing | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God's children who strive upward with a truly sincere desire. Therefore, rejoice in this knowledge, rejoice upward | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in this knowledge, rejoice upward with a truly sincere desire. Rejoice that God is so much nearer | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not be able to master it, regardless how sincere your love for God may be. Love for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can promise you that if your wish is sincere, you will be guided. As far as my | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| they believe, they will respect you for your sincere endeavor to improve, to learn about your faults | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| told to you. Even if you have the sincere conviction that the criticism is an injustice, try | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| daily meditation, and if your wish is truly sincere, you have made the best beginning imaginable. And | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| inspiration coming from the spirit world. Nevertheless, enough sincere good will may be present to enable the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| basically wrong attitude. Yet, due to your otherwise sincere desire to go on the path of self- | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| for quite some time and who have been sincere in their endeavors. You see, my friends, you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is a part of you that is very sincere, that wants this out of pure reasons or | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| what problem you take to God in a sincere way, He will understand and help you, provided | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| step. The first step, in addition to your sincere goodwill to purify yourself and do God's will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| if his heart is pure and his conviction sincere. But that does not alter the fact that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| good one, just as the goal of a sincere soldier may be a good one, but he | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| held against you as long as you are sincere and do not delude yourself and color your | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| discuss two aspects of faith. Many people are sincere in their endeavors to pursue spiritual development, yet | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| doubt aside. You do this so often in sincere good will, for part of you does not | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| hidden emotions, and only the most severe and sincere self-testing can teach you the truth about your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| would be for all to join together in sincere prayer asking for divine guidance, inspiration, and enlightenment | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| begin. Many of you are filled with the sincere desire to unite with God, but before you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the unconscious. This is partly due to the sincere strivings of the higher self and partly to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you through many channels. But no matter how sincere the search is, almost everyone wants to resist | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really sincere, that is, the best you can do, or | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you, my dear friends, who are all so sincere, will try this approach, you will reach the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| do feel that way, regardless of your simultaneously sincere love for God. Find out whether you fear | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| help you had not seen before. Thus, your sincere prayer may directly reach such a person. Prayer | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| senses, your intuitive nature, as well as your sincere desire to really understand the deeper meaning of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| perhaps after a long time of hard and sincere endeavor, do you begin to see clearly what | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world or not. If you proceed in your sincere self-facing, you will learn and you will be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ask these questions, as long as you are sincere and in good faith, regardless of what some | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| how many, of these reasons hold true. Only sincere self-probing will furnish the answer and will thus | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| happiness as well. If such a thought is sincere, what better prayer could there be? What prayer | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| take the necessary steps. This approach is the sincere will to know, manifested in prayer, to which | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the links together requires the active work of sincere self-search. The perfectionism that is so deeply ingrained | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| in God, in a genuine, secure, profound, and sincere way, can only exist if you first have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| I may say that if the motivation is sincere and if feelings of affection, respect, liking for | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| as your own efforts in this direction. The sincere desire to face the truth in yourself, the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| acts, but because, in some way, man is sincere in spite of all his self-deceptions and evasions | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| at himself in truth. His prayer is his sincere intent to face what may be most unpleasant | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| pray. The validity of such prayer is the sincere good will that you wish the best to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| expose yourself. This will undoubtedly improve, as your sincere will does not falter; as you face these | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will derive for each of you who is sincere in this endeavor. More interaction will be established | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to this point, provided you proceed in your sincere endeavors. Once you have groped your way through | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| simple to restitute. But if your heart is sincere, and if, after working through all the stages | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to choose the word wish -- a strong, sincere wish. This is much more than you can | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| person, also in spirit, will suffice, provided the sincere will to change has been established and begun | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| valid rationalizations pose the real dangers: they require sincere effort and the cultivation of truthfulness. Each one | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| approval, ward off disapproval, and not from a sincere concern for the issue itself. Here we find | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and how it could be more constructive, more sincere, more fair. If this approach is cultivated, then | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| intellect, but also your inner being and become sincere in your good will to find the truth | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this act is done with a deep and sincere commitment. It brings release from tension. What you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| given are strength and power coming from the sincere wishes and the love of all involved in | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to be outgoing, to love, to be truly sincere to the depths of your being, and to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| your honesty, integrity and constructiveness, all your most sincere and total attention. The more this becomes ingrained | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| steps on your path. Provided these efforts are sincere and whole, they must lead you home -- | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| substance. The moment you approach yourself with a sincere attitude that says: I want to give my | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| forth. They are partly the result of your sincere good efforts and of the love feelings that | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you. The answers always come if you are sincere in wanting to know and thus properly receptive | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| when negative creating is given up. Even the sincere and serious desire to do so will bring | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to acquire this attitude if you make a sincere effort and truly pray that guidance be given | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that the more you act out of your sincere intention to love and feel more deeply, the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| many of my friends. There is so much sincere devotion to your path and so many real | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| either alternative could be governed by the most sincere or the most dishonest motives. Only when you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in your giving mode in a deeply committed sincere spirit, then whatever you do is a wholehearted | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| result of true self-esteem that is built on sincere giving and commitment, on the being values we | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| flounder in uncertainty. When you have a deep, sincere commitment to invest your best in all you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to, but you reject what is given in sincere love from others and God, from life itself | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| less able to give, or giving through your sincere receiving. That is all right. Receive in truth | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| truthfulness, of commitment to growing. If this deep sincere commitment to self- discipline is lacking, the sexual | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| you refuse to pose this question in a sincere and open way and then allow for a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| within you: Are you really moved by the sincere desire to be in truth and to do | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| need to explain yourself in the deepest, most sincere way possible. If you proceed in that way | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |