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| men and women, the spiritual life force first acted to create other forms of life. The original | 21 THE FALL |
| their own sphere. If God's world had not acted on this earth too, there would not have | 21 THE FALL |
| to imagine how it would be if you acted toward person A as you act toward B | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| from what layer of your personality you have acted. Only then can you take the other person's | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that is quite justified and that should be acted upon. Injustices or provocations will be healthily declared | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| You will see that they could not have acted any other way, considering who they were at | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| time -- just as you could not have acted otherwise in the past, although you may now | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| sin affects others, even if it is not acted out. On the other hand, if you repress | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| found an outlet in such rules and they acted out their pent-up hostility by following the existing | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| is negatively involved, then that individual's duality is acted out, and his or her parental relationship reexperienced | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| I have spoken about. The spirit Jesus Christ acted out visibly one of those crucial periods of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| may not be as actively evil as cruelty acted out, but it is just as harmful in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| exist merely as an emotion, without ever being acted upon. However, when you feel guilt, you do | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the other person is acting -- or has acted, or might act -- in the way that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| little more self- aware than animals, they freely acted out these destructive feelings. Primitive humans knew no | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| eliminate only increases when it is repressed and acted out indirectly. In this dualistic approach you become | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of cruelty, if honestly and squarely admitted, neither acted out irresponsibly nor repressed and denied, but fully | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as all the tricks of the ego are acted out, rationalized, denied, perpetuated and nurtured -- as | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| on your path; they don't need to be acted out in order for you to be able | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to a much lesser degree then. Everything was acted out with impunity and in self-righteousness. The stronger | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and antagonistic to spirituality. This is why people acted out for millennia the most bestial drives in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| no matter how subtly this force may be acted out. Not letting go implies a forcing current | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| others also harms the self. Those who have acted primarily on the selfish and destructive level must | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and the most destructive impulses would have been acted out to a much greater degree. Such severity | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| distrust and man's physical domination was very overtly acted out in these early periods of humanity. Since | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| realistic and mature awareness; they may not be acted out in the same way, but a dark | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| by acting out a denial of self-responsibility; she acted out taking the line of least resistance so | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| level was the lower self that was crassly acted out -- by leaders as well as by | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is so powerfully accumulated that nonsexual violence is acted out. If these expressions occur in fantasy or | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Acting......................91 | |
| in their own way, He would actually be acting from the same principle as Lucifer. Here more | 21 THE FALL |
| the seeker who kicks and struggles against unhappiness acting out of pride? Doesn't the personality often react | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| can I be responsible for other people repeatedly acting in certain ways toward me? As I said | 38 IMAGES |
| tyranny of your unconscious, you often cannot help acting in ways that are unpleasant to others. You | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| because you have no other choice, you are acting under a compulsion, against your will, and then | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| flatness may set in. This may then cause acting out of so-called perversions of all sorts. Or | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| they are afraid of this very problem. By acting in the apparent opposite manner, they believe they | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to come out of it by sometimes actually acting out your most childish and selfish impulses rather | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| than the two alternatives of either suppressing or acting out your selfishness. You can recognize it without | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| it quite well and believe that you are acting on your understanding, you must find where this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| receive what you crave, while protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct of self-preservation and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| instincts. You think that the alternatives are either acting out these untamed, destructive impulses, or living according | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it does not mean approving of it or acting it out. Accepting merely means that you know | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| awareness of your immoral instincts will lead to acting them out. You are also confused because you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| no longer be difficult to prevent yourself from acting out your defense, because you will have no | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| because the child conforms and obeys, rather than acting out of conviction. Whenever you are in crisis | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of a new and very decisive way of acting, whether outwardly or inwardly. It requires your determination | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| intelligence they could not discriminate and refrain from acting in ways harmful to others and to themselves | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| God-experience is being. God is not perceived as acting -- punishment or reward, or guidance along certain | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| mind. When this omnipotent creator is perceived as acting like man, in time, from the mind. You | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not be punished for knowing and yet not acting on the knowledge. Sufficient awareness will eventually make | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| through a mutual battle for control, each one acting as though it were a fight for survival | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is not necessary to prevent a person from acting out primitive destructive instincts. For those whose inner | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| belief that it alone can prevent you from acting upon your lower-self instincts. Therefore you can never | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| same. But there is a tremendous difference between acting out of bondage and fear -- in other | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| development and you evaluate all its dictates without acting them out. Then you will have a chance | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| makes one reject what one wants most, subtly acting in such a way that the image inevitably | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| agreeable and safe. Yet people believe the opposite, acting as though the pathwork expected them to undertake | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| will succeed in growing, shedding an unwelcome trait, acting constructively -- as though all this had nothing | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| for granted. So the individual plays a game, acting as though the possibility of a favorable outcome | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this inner intelligence, this true, higher self, in acting with the force purely as it comes from | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that acknowledgement of negative emotions must lead to acting them out. This is not so. On the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| feeling as you do, or even thinking and acting as you do. Acting includes attitudes, such as | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| or even thinking and acting as you do. Acting includes attitudes, such as the determination to remain | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| many years of deeply entrenched patterns of thinking, acting and feeling and cannot change instantly after some | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Why do you believe the other person is acting -- or has acted, or might act -- | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| which you can observe yourself thinking, feeling, and acting destructively, while before you were at best only | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| one can conduct a meaningful life are not acting from mere laziness or fear. It is always | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| all possible misunderstanding, that this does not mean acting out one's pent-up anger, which only comes back | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| against your will to act them out. Such acting out is always explained away; also people often | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| others whether one admits it or not. The acting out that happens daily in everyone's life may | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you go through these feelings -- not by acting them out but by facing them, feeling them | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so that no one is harmed, not by acting out -- then you will know, as a | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| freedom is no different from expressing destructiveness and acting out of rebellion and spite. Only those who | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| body and soul -- and honestly expressed without acting out against any scapegoat -- the torturous feelings | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| One is the force that is striving, moving, acting, initiating, activating, doing. This aspect includes self-responsibility, independence | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the rhythmic interplay of doing and waiting, of acting and listening, you believe the separated little self | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| destructive impulses. At later stages, humans learned that acting out their destructiveness brought them into conflict with | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| it is to let your feelings be without acting upon them, choosing your actions deliberately instead. Perhaps | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| misconceptions and actively experience your negative emotions without acting out the negativity, the recreating can begin. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| developed and governs your thinking, feeling, willing, and acting. There are other parts, still in a lower | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| govern and influence your thinking, feeling, willing and acting. Thus you find yourself divided, and this always | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and condoning truly undesirable things, such as self-righteous acting out. In such a case it is the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of consciousness. It must lead, either directly through acting out and giving it direct expression, or indirectly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| must incorporate the essence of this wish without acting out the destructiveness of it. You will then | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you which managed this integration by determining, deciding, acting, thinking, and willing, so that you could absorb | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This inevitably leads to an indirect and destructive acting out of negative feelings. Most of the time | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| see no other alternatives to their ways of acting, reacting, and being and they overlook such acting | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| acting, reacting, and being and they overlook such acting out even though it is often crystal clear | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| identify with the ego -- that conscious, willing, acting part of you -- it is automatically impossible | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| which becomes confused, blind and caught in destructively acting out, something must give. Suppose you build a | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| awful, that expressing it honestly -- rather than acting it out against others -- will not yield | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| this act of love by being self-righteous and acting the all-innocent one who has always known this | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| but also by comprehending the negative intentions, the acting out, the dishonest projections of the other person | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| mercy. This may manifest in an uncontrolled, destructive acting out, or in the stagnation of all creative | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| from the viewpoint of pride: How are you acting from pride? Then visualize the same situation, focusing | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that there is still a good deal of acting out. This must be vigorously discouraged. There is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| in it as if the admission invalidated the acting out. Don't you see that acting out refutes | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| invalidated the acting out. Don't you see that acting out refutes self- responsibility as much as total | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| whole is so deeply conditioned by denial and acting out, with projecting and blaming others, that it | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| to do that. Admitting the impulse but not acting on it requires inner prayer, commitment to the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| cannot practice, as is evident in your everyday acting out, when you get involved with others negatively | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| outwardly, the changing of your personality -- the acting out, the desire to blame, still exists quite | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| instincts and to purify them without danger of acting them out. Yet, even today hardly anyone knows | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| expression and admission of negative material, and destructive acting out. You on this path are indeed pioneers | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| principle expresses the outgoing movement of reaching, giving, acting, initiating, asserting. The feminine principle expresses the receptive | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Human evolution travels a curve of development from acting out negativity to the next step, which is | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| after repressing is making it conscious but not acting it out. Only after reaching this level of | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| But the outer self willfully destroys this life, acting out its worst impulses despite all its favorable | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| become more honest with yourself, as you stop acting out. States of consciousness can roughly be differentiated | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| bearing is not accepting and forgiving and therefore acting out. In every negative quality a positive one | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| I belong in the new while you continue acting in the old ways. You can say anything | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| man and woman, the woman victimized herself by acting out a denial of self-responsibility; she acted out | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| ardently attempting to produce imaginary desires and goals, acting as if you believed in them. But sooner | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| attitude or approach or thinking or feeling or acting or being. You daydream that this or that | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Then the monarch principle within your soul is acting harmoniously, meaningfully and appropriately toward the responsible citizen | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and potent evil as the more obvious aggressive acting out of cruel, self-serving, dishonest malice. It is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| exacting laws and rules exist, preventing Satan from acting outside these laws. Definite limits are being set | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| alternative the individual or the collective entity is acting upon. In that way, no darkness or confusion | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| and rules the will direction of the manifest, acting personality, the inner self is in the greatest | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| and they influence more of your thinking and acting, your perceptions and your reactions, than you wish | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |