| Acquisition.................4 | |
| or so one hopes. Whereas in kleptomania, the acquisition of things has nothing to do with actual | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the two sides, as well as to the acquisition of any new skill. You need to create | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| incorporate the new skill into your personality. The acquisition of a new mastery always means overcoming an | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| contribute to the ultimate task of self-transcendence. The acquisition of new knowledge and skills also demands the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Acquisitiveness.............4 | |
| me the answer to a question of compulsive acquisitiveness on the part of one who already has | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reactions may bring them to do that. Compulsive acquisitiveness in those who have what they need may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbolic meaning, will show that it represents an acquisitiveness. This may come from a distortion of the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| come into being, again according to character structure: acquisitiveness; reaching out to grab and receive in a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Act.........................530 | |
| in truth. They no longer know how to act in the right way. Often their own inner | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| rightly, but the thoughts run another course; people act rightly because they comprehend that otherwise they would | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to God's Plan of Salvation, in which each act of cooperation counts so much. And then further | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and fulfillment, in divine intervention and guidance, and act and feel accordingly, will also be able to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| correctly and will allow this driving force to act through them and even lead them into mistakes | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Others, who have recognized these basic truths, will act differently and direct their aim toward spiritual progress | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and thus be ready to receive it and act accordingly. The needed recognition will come to you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| You have to stand your ground alone, and act right out of your own will. And then | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| you build your future life on earth. Every act, thought, feeling has its form, which then builds | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the necessity of this change will make you act. As long as you deceive yourself into believing | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| you can manage without it, you will not act but amble along as before. The pursuit of | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| price than they are initially aware of. They act contrary to spiritual law and so their higher | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| conscious mind wants the good and wants to act right; one part of the unconscious, the higher | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to contribute to the Plan of Salvation, will act according to the law and become a link | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yield to their temptations, and will certainly not act them out. There are, however, many people who | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| but none of you should force themselves to act in one way or another. Be ready to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| rise to the unhealthy soul currents. You may act right because your conscience says that you must | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| I let myself be guided? When must I act by myself? These questions can also be asked | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| mothering principle which does not create with one act but is continuously affecting everything, and that simply | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| case the masculine elements in the woman will act in contradiction, leading to great inner conflicts that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in itself. When put into relationship it can act favorably or unfavorably. It can be formed in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| broken that order, again voluntarily, and by that act they have created unhappiness and disharmony for themselves | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is recognized and treated by meditation, than to act unsustained by your inner nature. If you can | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| by the slow process of development, people often act as though they were already unselfish. But they | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| hate the pressure of their higher selves to act contrary to the desires of their lower selves | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| selves, but feel compelled to put on an act, which disturbs their inner peace, since it does | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| just a sham. In other words, the right act is entirely unsupported by the unpurified feelings, and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the person is at war within. The proper act becomes an act of necessity, of compulsion, instead | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| at war within. The proper act becomes an act of necessity, of compulsion, instead of free choice | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it. Do not fool yourself if you still act according to the necessity to protect yourself and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| world, is it not preferable to do and act right, even if it is a mask, than | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| nature. At the same time you can still act in accordance with the standards of your society | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of your lower self and know that you act according to necessity and your own convenience while | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| goal. A more highly developed person will not act that way because he knows that crime is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| that you have so far put on an act, that you have not given yourself as you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| conscious of this, you will be able to act as you really are, my friends, and without | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a murderer, a man who has committed an act not only against divine law but also against | 18 FREE WILL |
| and has had amnesia since having committed this act. So he finds himself in prison without knowing | 18 FREE WILL |
| them. At one time you freely chose to act and think in a way that brought about | 18 FREE WILL |
| unhappy, and discontented with your life. Begin to act now so that in every inner stream you | 18 FREE WILL |
| either to live within divine law or to act against it. At one time, one spirit fell | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| time, one spirit fell under the temptation to act against it. You can find the symbolic explanation | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| you to recognize the will of God and act accordingly. Be in peace, be in God! 22 | 21 THE FALL |
| every thought, every feeling, every ambition, and every act is formed in spirit and thus creates a | 22 SALVATION |
| something big and important. Often, the smaller the act, the better it is for you. The less | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ever be accomplished suddenly or with one single act. It can only grow in constant endeavor, in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to know about it. You have to act according to the laws of God with everyone | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| knowing all this and actually being able to act on it are two different stories. You may | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not want to harm anybody, ever. You may act kindly toward another, but you cannot force yourself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will and are thus directly controlled through an act of will. You will also discover trends in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of purification of emotions not influenced by an act of direct willpower. This cannot be emphasized enough | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| You may be able to perform a good act and consider this a good deed. Yet it | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| yourself. At the same time you offer an act of love to the other person whom you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| own stubborn convictions, unless it is through an act of God's grace that may only come in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| made an inner change and therefore you will act differently in an outer situation as a result | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| because feelings cannot be changed by a mere act of will, but they will change if you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| revolt against this state of affairs. In the act of revolting you set an active force in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| purification is already taking place. With such an act, you have already raised your consciousness to a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| would ever consider committing an antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you are faced with could be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| has to become more active, so you can act. At other times it has to become more | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| QUESTION: In the case of war, is the act of killing by a soldier contrary to divine | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| world, the real motives count more than the act, and judgment is not passed generally or collectively | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| your reactions are surely not just. You may act in justice, that is true, but that may | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| has the courage to live without pretense and act according to the real self. It is not | 31 SHAME |
| open up to another person, you risk an act of humility. At that moment with that person | 31 SHAME |
| piece of advice. Your spirit suffers when you act against its laws. And you feel better all | 31 SHAME |
| emotional health, my friends. In that way you act as a mature being and your soul must | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| instead of yourself is no guarantee that you act spiritually; just as the mere fact that thinking | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you are capable of giving real love, your act of unselfish giving will bring you a feeling | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| does not pray will never be able to act or experience fulfillment like the person who has | 36 PRAYER |
| on praying for the same things and the act itself gives you a certain satisfaction, as of | 36 PRAYER |
| you do not give up anything, but the act of giving up, which is how this surrender | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| passivity is called for on your part. The act of sacrificing for God and overcoming your self-will | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| happen because you are angry at yourself and act in a spirit of defiance, against yourself as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| how you pray. You cannot say of any act that it is selfish or not without examining | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it - - that in itself is an act of purification. And if you pray for strength | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| may do a good deed, a single unselfish act, but cannot possibly make another person happy. Therefore | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| criminal kills someone, this is not an unconscious act and you cannot speak about an image when | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| contains desires and conclusions that more primitive people act out in consciousness. QUESTION: What happens in a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| it was a necessity. His was the greatest act of love. You all know about the Plan | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the deed of Jesus Christ as the greatest act of courage ever? It is already an act | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| act of courage ever? It is already an act of courage for a human being to go | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of your pride so much that you either act more secure than you feel, thus being untrue | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the opposite behavior. Such a person may always act against public opinion from the same motive as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of Jesus Christ, who has accomplished the greatest act of love and courage for you personally, trust | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| they remain in their own extreme. They thus act from a wrong conclusion. Led by the wrong | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| change your feelings and emotional reactions by an act of will. You can use your will to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| how different you are and how differently you act with certain people, with your family, or friends | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| if you acted toward person A as you act toward B. You can go through the whole | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| role. I will continue to perform the good act, but I will not deceive myself that I | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a higher degree of consciousness than when you act without understanding why, merely rationalizing it, while remaining | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| QUESTION: Is it preferable to perform a good act with a bad motive, or should one refrain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| refrain. One should merely recognize that the good act contains a bad motive, without self-deception. The mere | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are rooted in weakness and fear. And an act or an attitude that comes from weakness and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| infinitely more strongly than a consciously recognized attitude, act or motive. In other words, if you are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| other people than when you do the same act, have the same motives and attitudes, but recognize | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| own law-upholding tendency. Thus you will make an act of strength out of an act of weakness | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| make an act of strength out of an act of weakness. You will remain on the side | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| half-hearted attempt. Try to forget yourself. Try to act on your adversary's behalf as though you actually | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| existence is no reason for feeling guilty. You act on a misunderstanding when you attempt to eliminate | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| truths. So you will often find people who act outwardly according to the universal truths, yet you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| tempted to go to the other extreme and act out the part you discover behind the first | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| as if you were the person who would act and live out all these unruly feelings. Discover | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| cannot change all at once by a mere act of will. It shows the humility and patience | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| gradually reveal more and more wrong conclusions. Each act of recognition will help you further to break | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| pure. Then the compulsion will be gone. The act will remain the same, but the motive will | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to the crude feelings. Having performed a right act out of wrong motives, you will think the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not have to commit a harmful and selfish act to be honest. It is sufficient that you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| whole personality that wishes to commit the selfish act. It can only be a part of you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| In the interim stage, after you cease to act in self-deception and compulsion and before you are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| self, you may continue to do the right act while realizing how you feel and that your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| past and present motives. Second, continue the right act for itself even though you cannot love yet | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you cannot love yet. To do the wrong act is being no more true to yourself than | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more true to yourself than was the right act so far. Because as long as you are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| does not mean to give up the right act. In this way, gradually, something will grow and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and bloom in you. By doing the right act without self-deception, in the hope that one day | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| entirely at one with yourself in doing the act, you will develop the force of light and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the choice of an obviously selfish or unselfish act. The other problem you bring up is a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| last analysis only contributes to your self-contempt. The act of giving up the intention to cheat life | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the inability to give up the desire, you act out of fear and out of a pressure | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| occasionally my decisions will turn out wrong, I act according to my best ability, trying to consider | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and so to your fate. By the mere act of saying yes you are ready to dissolve | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resurrection that Jesus Christ showed in the symbolic act he demonstrated, apart from the spiritual meaning I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accused of having perpetrated a disloyal or dishonest act of some sort. The pain of the accusation | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in you. Your conscience neither allows you to act in accordance with the temptation, nor does it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| as though I had actually committed the wrong act? Isn't the most important thing that my actions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| attitude, whether conscious or unconscious, is a definite act. But the more unconscious it is, the greater | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| explained away either by coincidence or by the act of a monstrous god-of-your-image who arbitrarily favors a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| If you are not genuine or if you act out of a level of pride, the other | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| need. ANSWER: Exactly. It is a symbolic outer act. The other cases may have a similar origin | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into a less irrational, although perhaps more unethical act. QUESTION: Where is it combined with elements of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to help accelerate development for all, by an act of supreme love as has never been witnessed | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spreader of light and truth by the very act of your search into your own soul. Your | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I explained before. Hence, every good and right act, most of all the act of self-unfoldment, makes | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good and right act, most of all the act of self-unfoldment, makes you an instrument of grace | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| highest of all created spirits performed the greatest act of love. Let us think of Him with | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| showed the way, will have done this greatest act of love truly for all of you. For | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of many human beings to think that any act, even the greatest act of love, could be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to think that any act, even the greatest act of love, could be sufficient for them to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I explained at length in what way the act of Jesus Christ constituted salvation for all the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and subordinate them because of such misconceptions, you act from erroneous and unhealthy motives from which no | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a compulsion. It would be an unfree act and nothing would be accomplished. You should all | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not occur to you to choose to act upon your healthy impulses; instead, you pick the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in and day out? Not doing the unselfish act makes you feel guilty, doing it seems to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will and conviction. It cannot be a free act, independently chosen. Whenever you do something out of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| force it upon yourself; as long as you act in the right way because you think you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| it still seems to you that the selfish act would be more desirable, contemplate the following: An | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the free will to decide for the unselfish act rather than be driven to it as before | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a choice between a selfish and an unselfish act. The unselfish act does not seem to bring | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a selfish and an unselfish act. The unselfish act does not seem to bring you benefit, at | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a full and wholehearted decision for the unselfish act. Decide for it only because you are convinced | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish. I said before that performing an unselfish act for a reward turns the act into a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| an unselfish act for a reward turns the act into a selfish one. However, if you do | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that it is all-important whether or not you act unselfishly because you truly want to or because | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| with this subject? QUESTION: When doing an unselfish act and knowing that it doesn't come from your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a sign that you still do the unselfish act against an inner conviction, and really out of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you still feel deep inside that the selfish act would be to your advantage. Thus you force | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| made only after you realize that the unselfish act is to your advantage, while the selfish one | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you do not want to do the unselfish act, and why. You have to become aware of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| brings out the selfish desires, which they now act out, going from one wrong extreme to another | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| does not advance. It is not necessary to act out selfish impulses. You have more options than | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| become aware of why you are doing an act and what you feel when you are doing | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you are convinced that you do an unselfish act and you hate it without being aware of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you find your hate and rebellion for this act. You will further find that you probably blame | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that you reconsider why you are doing this act and what your real motives are. In most | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you would really much rather do the selfish act. When asking yourself why, the answer will be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you will have to recognize also that the act in question was selfish, compulsive, and unfree, especially | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| because you wished approval. Therefore your apparently unselfish act was really selfish. The selfishness has merely shifted | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| then decide whether or not you wish to act as before. In the course of this work | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish and unselfish compulsively and in neither way act out of your true, honest, self. Thus the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to find where, in your own surroundings, you act in ways that are similar to the actions | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You now unconsciously consider his or her very act of giving as a weakness that deserves contempt | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| as well as against your innermost self. The act of betrayal is so very subtle, my dear | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| overt deeds can be found to prove the act of betrayal. If you are not truly desirous | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of self-responsibility which is spiritually the most harmful act imaginable. We are concerned less with the discomfort | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| You think you have to do, think, feel, act and express in a way generally prescribed by | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| implied here that puts overimportance on the outer act and often diminishes the importance of the inner | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that a person does not ever commit an act of unfaithfulness, but the motivations for faithfulness may | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| be real faithfulness. So, you see, the outer act, out of context and by itself, cannot be | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is reached -- is in itself a selfish act. If you believe that, then it would seem | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| do a certain good deed, a single unselfish act, but cannot make another person happy. So if | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of action, and therefore also re-action. As you act and react, so will be given onto you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here. It does not merely refer to the act of physical killing. As you rightly said, thoughts | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This, for instance, is a typical and frequent act of emotional killing. There is only one way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to take the consequences upon yourself. When you act out your idealized self, you dread nothing more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| awareness of what you really feel, why you act in certain ways as a result. Even if | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| full impact. That does not mean one should act upon it, but one has to become aware | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| these childish emotions does not force you to act upon them. This is constantly being misunderstood. People | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| incorrectly, that to recognize a feeling and to act accordingly are the same. Actually, this wrong conclusion | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| exerts its rules, dictating to the personality to act accordingly. A should is sometimes not even outwardly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| assert yourself and when not to. You will act freely because you so choose, and you do | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| real self. Consciously you have one desire. You act upon it, but without realizing how an undercurrent | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| occurs where you receive this gratification. People do act according to this desire of yours. Consciously you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people act from their own conviction and never from fear | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| out of it unless God intervenes with an act of grace. You do not muster the inner | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| stupid, so that you need another being to act and decide instead of you. This other being | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a human authority or church authority claiming to act on behalf of God. Thy will be done | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are not that far developed, you need not act out those impulses but should simply take note | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the true aim of growth. By the mere act of repeatedly observing your reactions, their strength will | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| second place, I never proposed that people should act out their destructive impulses. It is one thing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| if I have no way of comparing this act with another act of not stealing? ANSWER: My | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| no way of comparing this act with another act of not stealing? ANSWER: My dear child, if | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| seem to believe that I implied every moral act is moralizing and rigid. All I invited you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| can be aware of emotions without having to act on them. You also know that if lack | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Simultaneously, there will be a simple desire to act on a more mature level -- not because | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear and anxiety at the thought that you act according to the child in you. This conflict | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you then decide to carry out the right act, it will make you feel resentful, rather than | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same, though you would not see the act, since the procedure is drawn out. Here you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish to do it, or feel it, or act by it. You will quite naturally grow out | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answer is that repressed needs cause you to act contrary to your own best interests as you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| see what the issues are. Therefore you cannot act in your own best interest. Where it may | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| This, then, is the image, which will later act as a preconceived idea. But the image also | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| undefended self manifest. This real self may often act completely against your known outer rules, your principles | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of struggle before you let your real self act, unhampered by your outer levels which are so | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| am aware of it. I try not to act upon it. So I am going through a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are in a painful state because you still act out of obedience, rather than recognition. You somehow | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| But the change can never happen by an act of will. If you find yourself beginning to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are areas in your life where you do act out of your real self, but you do | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that counts, but how you do it. An act can be deemed right by the whole world | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| responsibility, ready to pay the consequences, this imperfect act is more perfect, more according to your truth | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| true self and the superficial self. Whenever you act out of your real self, you are in | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are not concerned with the appearance of your act in the eyes of others, or about principles | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| aspects of this truth. They have begun to act and react according to it. For those of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| meditate upon. The superficial self may perform an act which is right by all known standards. Yet | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you concentrate on the outcome and the physical act, believing one choice must be right and the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| understand ourselves, the more we are able to act according to a rule, that is, to live | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| self -- and this most certainly does not act according to any rule, either a general, outer | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| being. Slowly but surely you will begin to act and react from your core, rather than from | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the erroneous and distorted superimpositions. Only when you act and react from the core of your very | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| fulfillment. You strive for all this through an act of receiving. In your emotional awareness it seems | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| want to change, yet in doing the right act you don't feel good either. Now, I heard | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you have an intuitive knowledge from within. You act in truth without fear. When you reach this | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your consciousness. This does not necessarily mean to act on them, but when the feelings show themselves | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| hostility and destructive impulses. Another benefit is daydreams act as symptoms. How can you ever find a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| -- those which cannot be seen. You may act outwardly in the right way, but inwardly the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is ready to cross the threshold. But the act of crossing it is painful in the beginning | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is something you cannot learn by a voluntary act. Attempting that would amount to a manipulation of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not mentioned? ANSWER: Because fear is not an act. It is an involuntary emotion. It is a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| any other reason do not execute the sinful act, does this still count as sin? ANSWER: Jesus | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| believe. This happens especially when not committing the act is due to fear and not to love | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you can somehow become yourself by a direct act of will, and by directly using your thought | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| bring out the real self by a direct act of will and thought. The highest stage of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that genuine creation is not determined by an act of will or by a thought directed into | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your self-moralizing and self-justification, they diminish by the act of observing them. The problem will be resolved | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| them. The problem will be resolved by the act of understanding it and observing yourself. But the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| understanding. Confusion is not eliminated by a forceful act of tearing it out. This only makes you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| love come into being by discipline, by an act of will? Can any creative process come into | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| up a process of self-alienation by the simple act of discouraging your natural, warm feelings and artificially | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| in reality, not be identical at all. The act may be the same, but the individuals are | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| traits may be different. Their reactions after the act may not be identical. Consequently the effect -- | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| You still evaluate yourself and others by an act, by an outer manifestation, and you disregard what | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| times, can in one instance be a loving act -- and a liberating experience for all concerned | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| many times when selfish motives induce you to act selfishly, you do not see it at all | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |