| Sinful......................44 | |
| You may know very well that it is sinful to hate, but when hatred is still in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| person is not a criminal or a really sinful soul, very evil spirits will keep away, for | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| very badly that in itself is not considered sinful; it may not even violate the recognized standards | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| forget that the wrong is not necessarily a sinful action or thought, but an unrecognized emotion that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you would ever consider committing an antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you are faced with could | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| These currents can not merely be regarded as sinful but also as causes of suffering and personal | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| common belief that anything pertaining to sex is sinful. The sex instinct arises in the infant. The | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| more selfish it is. Anything without love is sinful, if you want to use this word. Nothing | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is coupled with love is wrong -- or sinful. There is no such thing as a force | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| principle, or an idea that is in itself sinful -- whether sex or anything else. In the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| has long believed that sex as such is sinful. It was kept hidden, and therefore this part | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| existence. Because of the belief that sex was sinful, the instinct could not grow and meld with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| other universal force and in itself not more sinful than any other existing force, they would then | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| when you attempt to eliminate that which seems sinful to you, and then feel guilty because you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| taught early that it is bad, wrong, and sinful to hate, particularly one's parents whom one is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that to love oneself in any way is sinful. This belief is just as wrong as the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| any consideration of the self is selfish and sinful. This mass image hinders their ability to make | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| result of the immaturity that said sex is sinful, the sexual drive was kept hidden. Nothing hidden | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an entirely selfish and separated way it is sinful, if you want to choose this word. And | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| principle as such can ever be evil or sinful in itself. It always depends on whether it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no longer hold that sex as such is sinful. Of course, lacking deeper knowledge, religions had to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| therefore the concept developed within that sex was sinful. Your unconscious wrong conclusions, plus your guilt and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unrecognized motivations are not bad or wicked or sinful, they are merely shortsighted and erroneous and of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he says, The life of the flesh is sinful. It opposes the spirit. It represents the devil | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| repressed. They are not, in themselves, harmful and sinful. But humanity has not as yet realized that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| what in religious or spiritual terms is called sinful or evil. I explained to you why we | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| assume that the sexual urge per se is sinful lust is utter distortion. As I have often | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Why would ancient wisdom refer to this as sinful? Not merely because it is destructive of your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to one's health, yet they are not considered sinful. Something much more important and vital is at | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or any other reason do not execute the sinful act, does this still count as sin? ANSWER | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| self-centered way, while the person feels guilty and sinful -- often very much unaware of such emotions | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| -- which does not make it wrong or sinful -- because consciousness and movement are as yet | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| remain fixed in the childish state are less sinful than indicative of a lag in overall development | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| these limited periods. But such feelings are labeled sinful and perverse. The child soon absorbs these ideas | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| within each individual. In itself it is not sinful, shameful, or wrong. As the psyche grows out | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| preached through the centuries that the body is sinful, while the spirit is supposed to be the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the body are denied and accused as being sinful. One must then fear love doubly: either one | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to begin with -- they are selfish and sinful. Yet only because they are really selfish and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Yet only because they are really selfish and sinful in other respects -- and not because of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| price was guilt and a feeling of being sinful and unclean, or he was clean and decent | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| also been right about my sexual feelings being sinful, my surge for individuality, autonomy and self- expression | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| surge for individuality, autonomy and self- expression being sinful. I would never have the right to be | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| sexuality, my body, pleasure, for all these are sinful. Therefore rebelling Christians create a defense that shuts | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| existed for so long was truly a more sinful estate than all the sins the moralists who | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Sinfulness..................7 | |
| sexuality is suppressed by the concept of its sinfulness, the less can it mature and integrate with | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lacking deeper knowledge, religions had to assert the sinfulness of sex because the raw and often dangerous | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and forgive yourself, while still knowing the intrinsic sinfulness within you. You will no longer be torn | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- to shy away from any implications of sinfulness, indeed from anything that might even remotely appear | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| manifestation is it self-centered. Society's emphasis on its sinfulness so often causes this creative instinct to remain | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| periods of history different words were used, like sinfulness, for example. Whatever word you choose, the fragmented | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| process of development over many incarnations. The real sinfulness of the attitude toward marriage that prevailed until | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Sing........................3 | |
| great progress; you have every reason to rejoice. Sing Glory Hallelujah, for the first battle is won | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| What he really wants to do is to sing, and certainly he gets impatient, and he can't | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From the energetic point of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Singled.....................4 | |
| possesses both virtues and faults, either can be singled out depending on how the other person relates | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and day out, each feeling they are being singled out to be persecuted. This is often a | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a psychic climate in which the individual feels singled out as a victim. It is inevitable to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the need for admiration, the need to be singled out in some way. Now, my friends, are | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Sink........................9 | |
| at them. After a while the evil will sink into the subconscious where it will ferment and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the years go by, these conclusions and attitudes sink more and more into the unconscious. From there | 38 IMAGES |
| as an overcompensation, they are being lured to sink into a state of restfulness, cherishing the delusion | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| make better use of them. Now they will sink in deeper and enable you to work more | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Blessings for all of you. May these words sink in, and even if the effect is but | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| physical state of constriction and contraction. He must sink -- and so it is with humans in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| You will actually feel the concept you issue sink into you, like a seed that falls into | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| have stopped denying it. My friends, let this sink in: Your resistance to giving up what you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| while they happen to you, but when you sink back and lose this state of grace, as | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Sinner......................5 | |
| times. These people lament, saying, I am a sinner. I am so bad. I cannot overcome my | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| I am so bad, I am such a sinner, I am this and I am that. This | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in these words: I am a weak, helpless sinner. I can do nothing without God, without an | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| despised the sick person as much as the sinner. Sick people were ostracized. It is only rather | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the unhealthy attitude of making yourself a small sinner, of flagellating yourself, or diminishing your own value | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Sinners.....................3 | |
| chalked up against them. They were ostracized as sinners and outcasts and judged by others. This was | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| threatening. Such submitting Christians feel themselves to be sinners whenever they register unallowed feelings. They also rebel | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| guilt, more of a feeling of secretly being sinners. Such people will use any kind of doctrine | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Sins........................34 | |
| I am so bad. I cannot overcome my sins. How terrible that I have this fault! And | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| only minor ones, not outright crimes or recognized sins, you are responsible. The higher your development, the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not kill, steal, or commit recognized crimes or sins. These are the broader and more extreme cases | 18 FREE WILL |
| The significance of previous lives, merits, and so-called sins are contained in this field, as well as | 18 FREE WILL |
| that Christ died on the cross for the sins of everyone else and as a result no | 22 SALVATION |
| no one is responsible or accountable for their sins, faults and weaknesses, for Christ has atoned for | 22 SALVATION |
| sense in Christ dying on the cross for sins others have committed. If you have committed a | 22 SALVATION |
| self-purification which alone will protect you from committing sins again. As long as the evil root is | 22 SALVATION |
| is said that Christ saved you from your sins. This is accurate only in the sense that | 22 SALVATION |
| correct to say that Christ died for your sins. However, the interpretation that Christ died for all | 22 SALVATION |
| the interpretation that Christ died for all your sins and all your faults is very wrong. This | 22 SALVATION |
| not mean that you are free to commit sins, to be careless about the lives of others | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a decent person, not to commit so-called sins, to give love, to have faith, and to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not due to your faults, weaknesses, shortcomings, and sins -- no matter what they may be -- | 31 SHAME |
| and that, perhaps, is one of the greatest sins, out of which many other sins come. And | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the greatest sins, out of which many other sins come. And that makes you feel guilty. QUESTION | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or even for a real failing. Neither imaginary sins nor real failings can be atoned for by | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| talk about the background of the seven deadly sins. ANSWER: I would suggest that you prepare a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| peace. Be in God. 102. THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS Greetings. God bless you, my dearest friends. Blessed | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| explanation of the meaning of the seven cardinal sins. What is called sin is the outer manifestation | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| other person. In many of the other so-called sins, you may be utterly aware of the original | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| I was wondering why some of these deadly sins are effects instead of causes. Also, hatred and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| It seems to me that the seven cardinal sins are a subtler explanation of the Ten Commandments | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you to lead. QUESTION: I noticed that these sins are liquid. They sort of flow into each | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| It is perfectly true that all of these sins intermingle and overlap. They may contradict one another | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| knowledge to individual cases in their surroundings. The sins, as well as any commandments, represent universal tendencies | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| influences the other. So it is with these sins. QUESTION: From what you said then, there is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| no difference in weight between the seven deadly sins? Sometimes it is said that sloth is worse | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and thus lasts longer. But all the seven sins are symptoms of the same underlying causes. QUESTION | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may be all that, I have committed these sins, but it hurts me too much to face | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| truly a more sinful estate than all the sins the moralists who perpetuated these standards condemned. These | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| this way, of accepting your distortions -- your sins, if you will -- without losing the ground | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| no longer futile to try. Forgiveness for all sins, for every transgression exists already, because God recognizes | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| you are, why you must go through your sins in order to recognize them for what they | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |