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an unhealthy desire current that runs in a wrong way and robs you of peace. Here desirelessness 32 DECISION-MAKING
help. 33. OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH Greetings in the Name of the Lord 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
way one thinks about other people. It is wrong to think about yourself in a destructive way 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
Occupation with others can also be practiced the wrong way, and unfortunately it very often is. Constantly 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
harmful. They misuse this truth to rationalize their wrong attitude. An unproductive and weakening kind of self- 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
as you are. You will find two entirely wrong extremes as well as the one most difficult 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
itself is ever good or bad, right or wrong. How it is done, whether the middle path 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
done, whether the middle path between the two wrong extremes is found determines whether you are on 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
to close your eyes. In addition to this wrong reaction, such a person will also be convinced 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
others do, but always and solely your own wrong attitudes and inner fights against conditions you cannot 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
you gradually begin to alter some of your wrong trends and begin to react differently. Clarify your 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
your motives first and purify them. Separate the wrong motives from the good ones in one and 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
Similarly, an overoptimistic character may make just as wrong a judgment as an overpessimistic one. As I 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
clairvoyant can be right in many instances and wrong in others. In the latter case he or 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
a finger. Many people seek God in the wrong way. I will try to explain what I 35 TURNING TO GOD
and hurt. Now this, my friends, is the wrong way to seek God. It is infinitely better 35 TURNING TO GOD
does not eliminate the possibility of a hidden wrong reaction, emotion, and motive. So test yourself. The 35 TURNING TO GOD
overcoming of the lower self; the rechanneling of wrong currents, and the attainment of love, brotherhood, humility 36 PRAYER
when you are not praying. When something goes wrong, most people are unable to feel what they 36 PRAYER
unless I feel particularly inspired. This is utterly wrong. The further you are developed, the more is 36 PRAYER
peace, be in God. 37. ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY Greetings in the 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
have to give up is not necessarily bad, wrong, or wicked. It is sufficient that you hold 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
the right kind of activity. You use the wrong kind whenever you struggle against your Higher Self 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
danger. There is, however, a hidden and distorted wrong extreme masked and covered over by many layers 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
saying humbly to a fellow creature, I was wrong; forgive me. In spite of what you often 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
what you often think and feel, admitting a wrong will never injure your dignity. How often do 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
are my feelings; I know they might be wrong, but they are that way. If you can 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
first step toward your own proper purification; the wrong thoughts and feelings that you cannot avoid having 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
a small measure. You recognize some of your wrong attitudes, and you wish to change them with 38 IMAGES
person. Most of the time these conclusions are wrong. You see and experience something unfortunate, one of 38 IMAGES
seldom true because in the absence of a wrong image, all thoughts and feelings are fluctuating, dynamic 38 IMAGES
But the forms of the thought/feelings emanating from wrong images are static and congested. They do not 38 IMAGES
just two examples. There are many more. The wrong conclusions that form an image are drawn from 38 IMAGES
what basis it was formed, and what your wrong conclusions were. Often you do not notice the 38 IMAGES
be blamed for the pain inflicted by the wrong conclusions and misconceptions of the image. This is 38 IMAGES
Only when you begin to face your own wrong conclusions and fears and are ready to accept 38 IMAGES
also to search for your images. Your unconscious wrong conclusions are directly responsible for the tests you 38 IMAGES
last lecture, I discussed the inner images, the wrong impressions and conclusions that a human being forms 39 IMAGE-FINDING
qualities and strengths. In the last analysis, the wrong inner impression exists as a rigid form that 39 IMAGE-FINDING
about your hurts, conflicts, and problems. Regard your wrong inner attitudes as ignorance and error. Actually, that 39 IMAGE-FINDING
such people to reject the new findings as wrong because they contradict another part of their being 39 IMAGE-FINDING
Humanity has learned by now that it is wrong to say a person is good or bad 39 IMAGE-FINDING
integrating and unifying your erring emotional reactions and wrong conclusions with your intellectual knowledge. Emotions are more 39 IMAGE-FINDING
world at large. This reaction is just as wrong as the old established pattern. You merely use 39 IMAGE-FINDING
ego claim gratification that your higher self deems wrong. Those who know that the purpose of life 39 IMAGE-FINDING
We are not concerned in this group with wrong actions, or even crimes. All of you, without 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
path we are concerned with seeking out the wrong images that the human soul harbors. There are 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
you search first for the inner causes, the wrong conclusions; in short, your images. Before you can 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
to you to find out first what these wrong images are and then, with the methods, the 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
these vicious circles: Put into words concisely the wrong conclusions they contain. Write them down, so that 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
Then you can start meditating on how these wrong conclusions have influenced your life. For you know 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
for you to understand, when you formulate the wrong conclusions, what was and is responsible for your 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
should be able to understand clearly how the wrong conclusions that have become conscious have affected and 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
breaking point of the image lies. Once the wrong conclusion is clear in your mind and you 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
the right reactions. But if you face your wrong conclusions by feeling them, by reexperiencing all the 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
important thing is that your emotions change. The wrong conclusions always contain several of your faults, some 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
understand where your ignorance lies and the resulting wrong conclusion, you will have again advanced a major 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
in life: pain, suffering, disappointment. The error, the wrong conclusion lies in failing to realize that by 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
are now, without revolt and anger, without the wrong kind of shame or guilt, as having the 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
formed in young years, and from those impressions wrong conclusions were drawn. These very images are responsible 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
reenacting the drama of your own errors and wrong conclusions. You are caught in them unawares, and 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
said, often through many lifetimes, what your own wrong conclusions are leading you to and actually drawing 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
retain an impression upon which you formed a wrong conclusion. Your mind has grown up, has changed 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
the child is capable of making must be wrong. Because children tend to generalize, they disregard all 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
else, to life in general. This is the wrong conclusion that creates the image. The image was 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
and concepts of the child were destroyed. The wrong conclusions derive, first, from the generalization. The reality 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
with a limited understanding of the world is wrong as such; it is even more so when 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
that this has been your faulty deduction, your wrong conclusion for years and years. Now you are 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
will review your reactions. You will reexperience the wrong emotions and compare them, in theory, with the 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
this present life you find your images and wrong conclusions, you will understand, see and experience in 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
effect of image-conclusions. Both draw events built on wrong conclusions which are always violations of divine law 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
to an image. The image comes from unconscious wrong reasonings and factors. It contains desires and conclusions 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
in a fire? Isn't there some sort of wrong thinking or action there? ANSWER: There is no 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
other person may be so obviously in the wrong, so much more wrong than you are. Try 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
so obviously in the wrong, so much more wrong than you are. Try to find the little 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
you of peace and never the mountain of wrong in the other person! There is another form 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
is really a guilt complex, which is the wrong reaction to one's faults. ANSWER: You are quite 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
opinion of the majority, be it right or wrong. Public opinion may be right in many instances 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
hurt, turn inside, turn around, no matter how wrong you think others may be. Ask yourself, ask 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
friends, we will continue to explore the inner wrong conclusions that have created so much trouble in 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
however, the three trends are often directed into wrong channels, aside from imbalance or predominance. For instance 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
work, you penetrate your soul, your images, your wrong conclusions, the layers of your errors and whatever 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
their own extreme. They thus act from a wrong conclusion. Led by the wrong conclusion, they feel 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
act from a wrong conclusion. Led by the wrong conclusion, they feel or unconsciously think that their 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
will eliminate something valuable in life. Both are wrong -- for only the harmonious middle path leads 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
the other extremes. But all the types are wrong in believing that their own extreme is better 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
three faculties function, but each functions in a wrong channel, at least in some respects, while the 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
healthy human soul. It would be just as wrong to be an entirely active person as to 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
Instead, many spirits used their power in the wrong way -- causing the Fall. Had the Fall 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
state, although then the courage is used for wrong purposes. Courage cannot exist without activity; courage appears 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
have done to your own soul by harboring wrong concepts in your unconscious. You may discover your 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
This extreme of hunting for romance is as wrong as the other, where not even the potent 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
word. Nothing that is coupled with love is wrong -- or sinful. There is no such thing 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
respond to your sex urges. This is all wrong; you cannot kill off something that is alive 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
and present mistakes. To generalize that divorce is wrong in any case is just as incorrect as 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
I repeat: recognize again and again whatever is wrong in your inner reactions. Thus will you cultivate 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
noble motive convinces you that there is nothing wrong with your aim, and yet there is in 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
aim, and yet there is in fact something wrong, namely, that you do not know the other 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
that you separate the good motives from the wrong ones, at first by simply observing them. Do 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
not, but not all desires are bad or wrong. Therefore every mood contains a desire, for a 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
has not found the way to peace, the wrong alternative must also lead toward the goal of 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
They know, or think, that there is nothing wrong with what they want. Yet, authority hinders them 47 THE WALL WITHIN
and currents. Thus, the law-upholder, motivated by the wrong protective measures he or she has chosen, has 47 THE WALL WITHIN
is the desirable one, simply because the other wrong extreme is also imperfect. Such misunderstandings occur so 47 THE WALL WITHIN
in your world and become responsible for many wrong views, philosophies and teachings. Whenever humanity finds out 47 THE WALL WITHIN
out that an attitude or an opinion is wrong, it swings over to the opposite extreme, which 47 THE WALL WITHIN
over to the opposite extreme, which is equally wrong. These two opposite extremes set a vicious circle 47 THE WALL WITHIN
under the impression that authority means only the wrong kind. Once you can differentiate and recognize the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
and this will enable you to sense the wrong kind without minding it, because you will now 47 THE WALL WITHIN
so adversely to certain subtle manifestations of the wrong kind of authority in the past. Furthermore, you 47 THE WALL WITHIN
was, of course, opposed to their acts and wrong attitudes. He could even laugh with them, and 47 THE WALL WITHIN
laugh with them, and also laugh at the wrong and pompous kind of authority that is so 47 THE WALL WITHIN
you also, subtly and unknowingly reacted in the wrong way. This the other also sensed vaguely. Understand 47 THE WALL WITHIN
if that happens, it is partly because the wrong kind of authority has prevailed too long, and 47 THE WALL WITHIN
change them by constant observation, by comparing the wrong reactions with the right concept that has to 47 THE WALL WITHIN
intellectually at first. If you then compare your wrong reactions with the right concept without deceiving yourself 47 THE WALL WITHIN
In this way you will slowly rectify the wrong emotions. You lead them from the wrong channel 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the wrong emotions. You lead them from the wrong channel into the right one by this process 47 THE WALL WITHIN
you suppress your true emotions, because of the wrong conclusion that there is no alternative. You make 47 THE WALL WITHIN
You make yourself unaware of the existence of wrong desires because you think that otherwise you would 47 THE WALL WITHIN
perfection you strive for: facing and admitting the wrong desires without giving in to them, and yet 47 THE WALL WITHIN
confuse and frighten you. Due to an unconscious wrong conclusion, you continue to fear all that is 47 THE WALL WITHIN
partly your goodwill that is ineffective because of wrong conclusions and ignorance. Do not forget that the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
all sorts of wrongs, have all sorts of wrong reactions, while he propounds the religious truth of 47 THE WALL WITHIN
about yourself, let us say an image, a wrong conclusion, or certain faults you have found. You 47 THE WALL WITHIN
with steady perseverance, you will see all the wrong conclusions that are connected with such attitudes. The 47 THE WALL WITHIN
through, to see why and how they are wrong, and what the right conclusion would be. Cultivate 47 THE WALL WITHIN
tendency to let go too much in the wrong direction. Wherever such lack of balance exists, other 47 THE WALL WITHIN
squarely until you recognize either of these two wrong extremes. The more frequent tendency is to not 47 THE WALL WITHIN
way; we do not punish. All that is wrong. There is no such thing. You punish yourself 47 THE WALL WITHIN
that the word law has very often a wrong connotation for you. Most human beings, when they 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
life force means degeneration. In your images, your wrong conclusions, your conscious and unconscious ignorance and errors 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
experience divine harmony! You have to understand the wrong causes you have set in motion before you 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
sick, often long before you know what is wrong. And then your physician finds out and he 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
letting out the pus -- your errors, your wrong conclusions -- you need to endure for a 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
would be the unpleasantness of facing what is wrong with you. It is the high point, or 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
furnish an important clue for the images and wrong conclusions. Incorporate this approach into the overall method 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
of this sort from the viewpoint of the wrong interpretation in the unconscious, and what the right 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
Can one be completely conscious of all one's wrong trends? ANSWER: The time must come. I do 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
Lord! 49. OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? Greetings, my friends. God 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
fight it there, you fight it in the wrong place. And if you seek the Divine outside 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
personal risk. Identifying and analyzing your images and wrong conclusions will lead you finally to the recognition 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
selfish? In what way has my conclusion been wrong from this viewpoint? What is the right conclusion 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
realize that others consider such feelings bad and wrong and that it is a disadvantage to show 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
recognizing that the open and direct way is wrong but not yet recognizing that the other way 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
yet recognizing that the other way is equally wrong and brings results equally disadvantageous. The only solution 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?

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