| unselfish acts. Hidden selfish motives induce you to act them out, adversely affecting your surroundings. The guilt | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| against unjustified demands, and when to give and act unselfishly. Truthfulness with yourself finally helps you see | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| learn from them. You must expose yourself, and act in the face of risk. When you do | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you are a free agent; that you should act only if such action is freely chosen; and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| my dearest friends, not just in one single act, but in a constant process of increased awareness | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| may be too inhibited to allow yourself to act out what you feel. It may contradict your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in such terms. They will be it, not act it, whatever it is. Since life is so | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| say, healthy soul-substance cannot be created by an act of will. Only finding and changing your misconceptions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| idea of, If only others could see me act, think, and feel this way. In such a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| for other people. True, you do not often act by it, but in your half-conscious wishes and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| although this undesirable side exists, you need not act accordingly. At least you do not deceive yourself | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| point of view, promiscuity may be one single act, with all the sanctions of human society, if | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| all the sanctions of human society, if this act does not stem from a complete commitment. If | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to the temporary value system. However, if you act according to true values only because they conform | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| be a negative effect. It is not the act or its consequences alone that create the damage | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| confusion and conflict of the parents. The identical act may derive from overindulgence, or from a clear | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| resolved. One is then in a position to act and to be in accord with eternal values | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the more they will diminish by the very act of consciousness. You will see how you never | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to this day, there are always those who act according to these infantile drives and whose sense | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| most advisable not to disregard the no-current and act as though it did not exist. It must | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| specific area of its operation, the no-current will act against the very endeavor of discovery and change | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| in such a way that you will indeed act inadequately. What is more, you will fear success | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| be requested by the independent person as an act of will. The immature refuse to stand on | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| whom they want and fear and who should act as a substitute for a parent. They want | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| unfree and respond unconsciously, never knowing why they act, react, think, feel, and hold opinions the way | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| no fences in realty, if you believe and act as though you cannot move from the spot | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| but if you looked at it, it would act up, forcing you into actions you have no | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| then strengthening you so that you begin to act in a new and more productive way, and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the exact cause of your unfulfillment: how you act as a consequence of your misconceptions and images | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| yourself to Creation with its manifold possibilities. This act is first feared, later tentatively tried, and then | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| element, and the fear of it half-anesthetizes the act of perception. Hence the truth cannot impress itself | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| are in the now -- in the very act of being in yourself. We have, in our | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| this topic? QUESTION: Would you say that the act of emptying is the surrender of the outer | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| self which are to think, discriminate, decide, and act appropriately in any situation you encounter in the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| It is a logical law, for then you act out of strength and abundance, not out of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you perhaps explain to me how these two act together, making it difficult for me to let | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| reason of its coming into existence, people still act as though this foreign body did not exist | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are free to choose whether or not to act, how and when, or to express any emotion | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| but also wards off fear and guilt. The act of inflicting pain on others simultaneously kills off | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to experience this nonparticipation and numbness but not act upon it. You may do all you can | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| it makes no difference whether you feel or act in destructive, harmful ways. Hence, the entire trouble | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| one sweep. Remnants are left that continue to act up, until all distortions disappear. What was once | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| emanation. If you have experienced cruelty, whether this act of cruelty was an actual fact or a | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| about it. You ignore the fact that no act or thought can exist without your allowing it | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| determine whether to give in to resistance and act destructively, or choose constructive ways which call for | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| because I am driven to think, feel and act in a way that produces hopelessness, fear, frustration | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| forget it, overlook it, neglect it, fail to act upon it. You give in to the negative | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| because the falseness of the conviction makes you act, think, and feel in a way that is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the life force exists. This appears like an act which relinquishes direct control. But through this act | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| act which relinquishes direct control. But through this act more constructive powers deep in the core of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| experience the great safety and joy of this act. In exact proportion, such a person can consequently | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is acting -- or has acted, or might act -- in the way that induces cruel impulses | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| have never known. Finally, it amounts to an act of entrusting yourself to the universal flow. To | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a great spiritual experience. They fear the great act of total love and the letting go of | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you actually damage yourself and the other and act against your own best interest. You are then | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| example in order to see how. The hardest act to perform, which, in reality, is the easiest | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| to perform, which, in reality, is the easiest act possible, is to ask, What is the truth | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| all there is to the issue. This generous act of integrity opens the way to the real | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| an energy that is distinctly felt when this act is done with a deep and sincere commitment | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of what the wrong actually is. This simple act of wanting the truth requires several conditions, the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| life as an integral part of it, you act according to the unified principle. Whenever you believe | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| your desire for flight. Catch yourself in this act and courageously forge on, questioning yourself further and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| construction. You begin to sense that in the act of destroying error, truth reconciles construction with destruction | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| under a misunderstanding, it becomes an artificial manipulative act that can lead only to self-deception. It is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| bring about this safe state. Only one inner act can do this: testing it, going into it | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| these deep levels which make relinquishing a natural act, and to perceive unitive truth through repeated insights | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| sequence, a direct result. If you do not act purposefully, in the best interest of the universal | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| contact the real self and allow it to act, regardless of how doubtful, resistant or frightened you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| without, so that they will suddenly want to act constructively -- in this case activate the universal | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| where you can see yourself think, feel, and act destructively; where you are furthermore aware that this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| nor are constructive feelings produced by a similar act of will. It is an evolutionary process within | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| lodged in the soul substance, compel people to act upon these premises. Since the premises are false | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| from what people really want. In short, they act against their interests. The soul substance is a | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| aware of. When an individual is driven to act according to the images, the power is used | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| could be a greater folly and a greater act of warfare against your own self than to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will you be driven against your will to act them out. Such acting out is always explained | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is represented as a pleasureless, sacrificial, and depriving act that impoverishes the self for the sake of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| total freedom you do not mean license to act out destructive impulses. Some people may misunderstand. You | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to feel what one does not feel, to act contrary to one's own inner, momentary truth. The | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| great deal. In this way I can easily act maturely on the outside and just speak to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative emotions in principle, you still prefer to act them out in unconsciousness rather than expressing them | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| do not merely mean artistically creative. Every simple act of living can be creative, provided you are | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you are activated by the real self. Every act is uncreative when you are cut off from | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the conscious ego is often blindly driven to act the way the unconscious, fearful, life-refusing part dictates | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| masterpiece, an accomplishment of any other admitted creative act. The only difference is that the one you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| it comes to practical reality. Notice how you act contrary to what you imagine you want so | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| his or her responsibility and participation in the act of swimming, or even of floating. This is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| negate, the participation of the ego in the act of living. Nevertheless, you fully trust and allow | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| power. You become more detached by the very act of seeing yourself in the grip of it | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- is compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness is a gesture of courting death | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| realize now that I have no feelings but act according to reflexes. I also recognize how I | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ready to make themselves known. Even the simple act of meditation must combine these two approaches. On | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reservations, in joyful security and self-liking. When you act and move in life in a way that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| idea of sacrifice is no longer applicable. The act is so pleasurable that it is as selfish | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| something underneath an outer sentimentality that pretends the act is good. It is always loveless and defeats | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to feel what you feel, without having to act on the feeling. You can now recognize the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| your personality or the motives for the hurting act. There is thus no longer any reality behind | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| me? My hurt now will force you to act differently. This kind of artificially exaggerated hurt results | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Feel what you feel, without having either to act on it or to reason it out. Then | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| because you look away from it, because you act as though it did not exist and thus | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| again that this does not imply that you act out destructiveness any which way. Choose in what | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| come to your life center. By the very act of self-acceptance, the unwelcome emotions and attitudes gradually | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in you in which you can will, overcome, act. There is still something that enables you to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Yes. Letting go of these desires is an act of will? ANSWER: Yes, of the inner will | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of your own action is an unreasonable inner act. It implies a refusal to assume the responsibility | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| feminine principles exist in every endeavor and creative act. The self-determining, voluntary act expresses self-confidence and knowledge | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| every endeavor and creative act. The self-determining, voluntary act expresses self-confidence and knowledge of one's divine nature | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| they will control you and force you to act upon them without even knowing what you are | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| efficiently, though it can also be a creative act when it is done in the spirit mentioned | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| The pathwork itself is such a purposeful creative act of using the two principles in equal measure | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the cruelty and hate only in secret and act it out indirectly under a facade that seems | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from assuming the false responsibility. Such a forced act would be unnatural and incompatible with organic development | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| nothing to do with a free and loving act of wanting to help. Another example might be | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you from the outside, because others happen to act according to your will, could ever be as | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mind? The powers to think, will, feel, express, act, and decide are the earmarks of consciousness. They | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| see their failures as anything but a deliberate act of hate against you. When you then perceive | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| quite regardless of whether the other people involved act like your parents or not. The four steps | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| pleasure a spiritual and practical goal. You will act unceasingly on behalf of this goal. You will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| desire and deserve all the more since I act as an adult who does not claim any | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| manifests. In other words, you are forced to act out the destructiveness indirectly -- with very damaging | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| no longer forgotten. When you blindly and self-righteously act out destructiveness, you do express evil. By denying | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you. By squarely recognizing the evil, you neither act it out, nor deny it. This releases your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is a free-flowing, spontaneous manifestation. Execution is an act that comes through the determination of the ego | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| The childish idea prevails that once the initial act has taken place, the self is powerless to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| are alienated from your own unconscious, you must act out what deep in yourself you know exists | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| in yourself you know exists within you. You act it out with another person and affect the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| conversely, how are you affected by others who act from their destructive levels? This very complicated and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| on the ills of others is a destructive act in itself and makes it impossible to really | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| believed. In using this key, you do not act out the evil, directly or indirectly -- you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| different impact. How you say it, how you act, how you feel to others will be determined | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| goes beyond that, my friends. Through the very act of acknowledgement, a subtle but distinct shift in | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| situation contains various options. But it requires an act of inner will on your part to awaken | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beings may feel one thing, believe another, and act without knowing how both these functions govern them | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| thoughts you do not know you think, and act without knowing what motivates your actions, subsequently contriving | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| may help you to do so. Without this act of faith you will not have the courage | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| pain. It cannot be activated by a direct act of will, nor by practices and actions that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as a byproduct, the result of the direct act of will to go through your denied feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| such a reaction does not require you to act destructively against others, you will accept the anger | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to distinguish in what areas you need to act and initiate -- in short, use your inherent | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| as if they were to commit a conscious act. Between them and those people who attempt to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| attitudes deriving from them, ignores this abundance. Every act in the universe comes about because the active | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| everything, from the smallest and apparently most insignificant act to the most sublime. Whether it is you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| always merge harmoniously. The same applies to the act of meditation, of course. Each level of your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| feel this interaction, the more effective your creative act must be. This is why the people with | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| experimental attitude. You cannot enforce faith as an act of will. That would be dishonest. It would | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| impressed, visualizing and having faith, you express and act upon a specific belief, which you must then | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| thought and feeling will be a creative meditative act when the real you is free. There are | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and makes a deliberate choice, intending to do, act, and to be in a certain way. Now | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| if it does not appear as an overt act, has the dire consequences of hurting and depriving | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| be more in truth and less inclined to act out the evil, which you sometimes even do | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| a different compartment of your mind how you act, think, and feel so that you wind up | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| thing, feel another, will something else, and even act in yet another way. This terrible fragmentation is | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| indulge your resistances in the pathwork and to act as if not overcoming them would not really | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| up, from going through the one and only act that can truly remedy the situation, and from | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and then reversing it in a deliberate, creative act of expressing positive intentionality. How can you gauge | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| is that the former are more motivated to act on behalf of change and therefore succeed. If | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your negative intentionality, or whether you blindly grope, act out, and consequently suffer a special kind of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your negative intentionality you perform the most fundamental act of love. The moment you admit what you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| what you are doing, you are performing an act of love, my friends, whether you know it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| permission, as it were, to others to secretly act out their own negative intentions. Or, conversely, if | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| also wrong in not seeing that by your act of truth, which is an act of love | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| by your act of truth, which is an act of love, you help set others free of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| very likely that you would respond to this act of love by being self-righteous and acting the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| are inwardly. Admitting your negativity is always an act of love, whether it is done directly to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| involved with your negativity. It is still an act of love toward the universe. Wherever you find | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| hate is more loving than an apparently loving act that denies the hate. Think of this, my | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| bind because you will either deny them or act them out destructively against others. Neither one of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| people in the Middle Ages were apt to act out their cruel impulses. They were not capable | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| understanding, not merely to perform an outer obedient act. The latter would not be very meaningful, because | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the creative seed. Desire is the blueprint we act upon. To distinguish between the creative and the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| can all come together again through the great act of acceptance, or non-resistance in the right way | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| or non-resistance in the right way. Such an act requires a methodical path, with help at every | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to take on a different aspect. The very act of saying no with a weakness, a tightness | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| before the feeling can follow suit. When you act out, you must still believe that you need | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and learning the many difficult lessons. The very act of revealing all parts of the self deserves | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the unmanifest in another person is a great act of love. It has nothing to do with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| possible. You will find that the more you act out of your sincere intention to love and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| also yourself be right or wrong. The very act of looking for a deeper way of truth | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| one's sexual drive into cruel, destructive fantasies, to act them out is just as unnecessary as to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| them out is just as unnecessary as to act out other destructive feelings. The same is true | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| time. Early humanity's less developed state made people act out their brutality and bestiality through their sexuality | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| take every conceivable evil, face it, and not act upon it. Today there is a conscience in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| in the universe express themselves in every creative act. How do they express themselves between and within | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| letting go. These principles manifest in every living act. Both principles, in harmony and distortion, exist in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| partners, and thus complement each other in the act of fusion. If there is no harmonious interplay | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| universal phenomenon to be found in every creative act, whether this be the creation of a planetary | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| possible for the striving entities in whatever creative act. This creative experience can take place only to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| easily overlook small but significant distortions that nevertheless act as hindrances to further developments surpassing the scope | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and destructive people do too, and they often act them out. Evil does not exist as a | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| reward for good behavior. It is a simple act, instituted by the self that is now in | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| recreating or creating must never be a willful act. It must never be used while bypassing anything | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| your own ego terms which defeats the very act of self-surrender, you will want to balk. Unless | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a new habit pattern is instituted, where the act of self-surrender to the all is actualized, where | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| -- without false guilt. You will know and act from within because you are in constant contact | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and to all their puny details. Only this act will free you. The act is by no | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| details. Only this act will free you. The act is by no means a morbid or self-negating | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to express your full energy flow and thus act out often with extreme destructiveness, or to deaden | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| you another insight, namely that even an insignificant act like walking from here to the street corner | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| innumerable components necessary to execute such a creative act with all that forms part of it. And | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| can directly determine in your mind by an act of will. The act of will comes into | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| your mind by an act of will. The act of will comes into play, but it must | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| thinking process or indirectly by the way you act and react in your situation, that no solution | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is needed, perhaps not always in an overt act, but certainly always in feelings. A great, wonderful | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| as yet limited, their power to think and act independently is equally limited. To them words such | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fulfill these needs. They know that they can act. Maybe their scope is more limited than the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to allow it to control you, not to act it out -- even as you acknowledge the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| has a developed conscience and therefore does not act out evil deeds, turns relatively quickly into a | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that you soon push it aside again and act as if it were not there. Then you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| what it really is and the more you act in accordance with higher self principles, the shorter | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| universe. This requires strong and guilt-free souls who act for real, not for false reasons. So your | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| get along with others. Then the tribe would act out enmity, suspicion, and negative aggression, not so | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| what is divine reality, and the personality will act from that innermost center. This can already be | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| else can tell it to you. No one act is right or wrong per se, on that | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the trend is in this direction. Where you act out your lower self, you need those laws | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| can be found organically only through the inner act of love, the inner act of releasing the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| through the inner act of love, the inner act of releasing the opposite sex from the bondage | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| become very clear. When relationships are formed to act out dependency, parasitism, exploitation of the other, and/or | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| where self-discipline is lacking, where adults or children act destructively toward their environment or themselves. Children's self-destructive | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| I am saying here and they will willfully act out in a destructive way -- children as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the spirit of being, not appearance. When you act for the sheer sake of what the act | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| act for the sheer sake of what the act itself represents, rather than using your work and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of self-value, this always finally amounts to an act of love, to spiritual sincerity, to giving and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and philosophically, but specifically -- in every daily act that you undertake as well as in the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Even in only taking love there is the act of giving it out. Not being willing to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and unreality -- the belief that a sheer act of will can make obstacles disappear, when what | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| up, of dropping your defenses, conceive of this act not only as directed toward the outside, but | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in a position in which you have to act out again and again attitudes that belonged to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| envy and resent leadership so much because you act as though others, who are in a position | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| imposed something on you that is unfair. You act as though you were being prevented from executing | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| they have been created in perfection. Yet you act as if this were an unfair price, and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| resistance to giving. Giving is a very simple act which includes also the thought and the intentionality | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| also the thought and the intentionality behind the act. In true giving, you state: I want to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| regard to true giving. True giving is an act of love, of course. And if you do | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| lesson from this particular frustration and will not act as if it were a catastrophe. Perhaps it | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| them as illusions and you justify them; you act as if others who have more authority took | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| obvious that this feeling must result from an act of will motivated by intelligence. So love is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and firmness with the lower self's desire to act out will create self-honor, tenderness, and deep appreciation | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| first to restrict personal desires. This is the act of love and freedom. The first two alternatives | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| mind, your choice will be a totally different act from submission. It will make you stronger, freer | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of freedom, but will be as creative an act as the acceptance of the infringement in other | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| that they really did not participate in the act. Can you see that silent collusion with evil | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and self-serving gives silent permission to the evil act. This is why Jesus Christ, in his life | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to overcome inertia, to move and do and act, to risk and sometimes to fight against your | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| In the sphere of your present reality every act has its consequences. It is much more difficult | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gradually more acute. If you commit an overt act -- you kill someone -- the consequences will | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| even when the cause is not an overt act but a hidden thought previously ignored. In your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your vision that changes as you grow. An act is irreversible. Its momentary consequences are irreversible. You | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consequences are irreversible. You may later modify the act, you may try to correct it if you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the inner current that led you to the act, you may use the act as material to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you to the act, you may use the act as material to raise your consciousness and widen | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in time, neutralize the effects of a negative act. But at the moment the act is irreversible | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a negative act. But at the moment the act is irreversible, the consequences cannot be annulled. If | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at the moment as a result of the act, but can be eliminated in time, after the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by inner forces to commit an impulsive destructive act. The pain and remorse that this act will | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| destructive act. The pain and remorse that this act will cause may be instantaneous. You long for | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of being in which you can undo this act, as if it never happened. Yet you know | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cause is the effect. The thought is the act. The most subtle and secret attitude creates immediate | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of consciousness even the most obvious and overt act appears isolated without connections or consequences, without either | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who commits murder may truly believe that his act has no further consequences, either for himself or | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| himself that create his desire to commit the act. Therefore the act is never given the chance | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| his desire to commit the act. Therefore the act is never given the chance to become the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| almost instantaneous knowing, out of which the appropriate act will flow. The positive, energetic, aggressive movement will | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is in distortion and is merely repeating an act out of habit, makes a great deal of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| soon turns out to be the most fulfilling act of life. Sacrifice appears less and less a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Christ into a Jewish incarnation was God's great act of love for His Jewish children. If Christians | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| conscious, thereby enabling you to choose not to act upon it and to pray for help to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| personification of evil could unleash. Through this tremendous act of steadfastness, the man who was God manifest | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| which way to go, which way to think, act and will. You are the director of your | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that are contained behind the decision not to act. Since you are consciousness, since you are a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| inferior, yet blot out her reality during the act of sexual union. This act can be performed | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| reality during the act of sexual union. This act can be performed only when the woman becomes | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| forces. Each sexual fusion will be a creative act, bringing forth new spiritual forms, new heights of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| help in recognizing what makes you desire this act or attitude. You then need help to change | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| will no longer need to desire a destructive act or attitude. Your lower self must be revealed | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| that they can avoid -- by an outer act of sheer will -- the developmental stages that | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| grow even stronger and healthier through the very act of giving itself away. So, my friends, when | 254 SURRENDER |
| self-will. This surrender of self-will is always an act toward God. His will alone must replace your | 254 SURRENDER |