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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
 
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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

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