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| what is just, and what is the right action. Everybody has enough self-knowledge -- or should strive | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| is possible to always know what the right action is. It is one of the things that | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| of a situation and know what the right action must be for you, but only if you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| not have enough reason to recognize that each action or non- action brings with it the corresponding | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| reason to recognize that each action or non- action brings with it the corresponding consequences, which the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you must try to translate the readiness into action. And so the spiritual law can begin to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| inner will in meditation. And even if the action for which you have to pay now was | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| do not do it merely as an outer action, but out of a deep inner commitment to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| God, not only in word, but also in action. Each change will come slowly and naturally, as | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Be ready to be guided to the right action, ask for the help, be open. That is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| thus there was an inner split behind his action. It is easier to control actions than feelings | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and love from your surroundings. Yet when the action is not supported by a corresponding feeling, it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the good intent alone but translates it into action in spite of unavoidable relapses and occasional failures | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| have violated one or more spiritual laws, in action or in emotional reaction. Only then is it | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| methodically than to overcome a superficial mistake in action only. For then the root may very well | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| always reappear under certain conditions. The right outward action in such a case actually becomes a lie | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and chain reactions from the past. The past action that has led him into the present state | 18 FREE WILL |
| can be traced to some outer or inner action of yours earlier in this same incarnation. Only | 18 FREE WILL |
| brought about a certain result. There is no action, thought, or even feeling that does not produce | 18 FREE WILL |
| nothing else than a great guidance put in action. Thus you may also grasp the fact that | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| this, when you can prove it by an action. It does not have to be something big | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different stories. You may be able by voluntary action to refrain from committing a crime such as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| by organic growth, not by pressure and voluntary action, except in an indirect way. Let us assume | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| right course between these apparently contradictory courses of action is not as difficult as it may appear | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| touches you personally to influence your course of action. When your small ego stands in the center | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that which you cannot change immediately by direct action. So far, this may still sound confusing to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that the wrong is not necessarily a sinful action or thought, but an unrecognized emotion that surges | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| seldom find an answer by asking whether the action you contemplate is right or wrong. Since none | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| motives; that will determine the right or wrong action for you, not the ethical value of the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for you, not the ethical value of the action itself. As long as you have not found | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will not be able to know the right action for you. The right procedure is not to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| pride in you, and then the healing, curative action of being able to observe your own weaknesses | 31 SHAME |
| person's psychological and emotional world. As for outer action, there the procedure varies. Caution is, of course | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to believe that the reason for such inner action is that you can find God better by | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of you, without exception, know what the proper action is, and most of the time you try | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| former life caused you to commit a graver action, one that you would not longer be capable | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| image when he reaps the fruits of his action. But he may in the next incarnation wish | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Isn't there some sort of wrong thinking or action there? ANSWER: There is no coincidence. You see | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| considerable degree and therefore also purifies your right action. You are often puzzled because you find out | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| two opposite mass images following one another as action and reaction. Now it is the fashion to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the sick and weak motives with the right action. By recognizing these facts you will, of course | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other way. QUESTION: On the subject of right action, how can a person who is so bound | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| he or she is compulsive know a right action from a wrong one? ANSWER: In many instances | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a chain reaction of wrong thinking, feeling, and action. An inner confusion will arise, since life as | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| function properly. As a result, errors in judgment, action and reaction on your part bring effects into | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| all searching for does not lie in the action itself, it lies in the self-awareness and honesty | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| between the interplay on the human plane of action and reaction and God's will, the higher self | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| but is rigid, impatient, self-concerned. The interaction -- action and reaction between people -- is a much | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| which is in you, imperfect as the desire, action, or attitude may be, the inferiority complex must | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| at once. This is the most constructive inner action you can possibly adopt. After you have made | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| not think about that at all. The outer action may not change at first, even after you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| You cannot be affected by any wrongdoing or action of other people if you do not have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| question, results in a constant compulsive and senseless action of acquiring objects. This action is almost like | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsive and senseless action of acquiring objects. This action is almost like an automatism which the person | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| really cured -- not superficially by restraining the action, while the feelings continue in that direction. That | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you see only the first effects of an action, you do not possess a view of the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| rewarded in the hereafter. The effect of right action can be seen here and now, while you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you for having been a good child. Your action must be self-chosen for its own sake, regardless | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| bypass this stage. If you try, your unselfish action will remain compulsive and unfree. In other words | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| damaging to themselves. But in other instances the action as such may have been valid and reasonable | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| no self-deceptions, and provided it is combined with action. The best deed is very often a recognition | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As long as an attitude, an emotion, an action or a thought causes guilt, one has not | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner personality, can there be any single important action or constant pattern, habit or inclination in us | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you, I do not refer to any conscious action on your part. I am speaking of your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| just waiting will be indicated; at another time, action will be right. But patience will prevail also | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and intention. The energy to cultivate it in action can never be left to itself. It, too | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you, no doubt about your right reaction or action, and no wavering. Your instant and spontaneous reaction | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Has anyone of you an idea? Giving. Friendship. Action. Taking. ANSWER: Taking and giving. Yes. All that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Taking. ANSWER: Taking and giving. Yes. All that. Action includes all that -- and more. The hand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the hand represents a certain type of action, and therefore also re-action. As you act and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place. This symbolizes a certain kind of inner action. Such actions may be significant and important, but | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said before, a repeated pattern. It is the action that does not necessarily affect the inner being | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| special resistance. Such overcoming necessitates more movement or action than just the minor ones of your hands | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of love. The burning of being alive, of action, of doing in the right, organic way. It | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this phenomenon and detect the inner error of action and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not knowing instantly by what particular attitude or action you have created it. Not having this knowledge | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to human beings to punish. Your course of action should be, and one day will be, to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| instinct of self- preservation operates, inner or outer action that in itself could be constructive is thought | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| with a different attitude. Spiritual knowledge, even spiritual action, is one thing. But spiritual living, feeling, being | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion is a willing process: a free, self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people act from | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feel and to give vent to it in action are one and the same. You cannot discriminate | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| -- that of doing. I was not discussing action. When it comes to feelings, your own emotional | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| by side, simultaneously. In this case, the right action should not be stopped because in your self-accounting | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. Do not automatically refrain from a constructive action merely because you have discovered a negative motivation | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contain elements of giving up inner or outer action? Does it mean you now feel that you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| kind of discipline -- not by attempting perfect action, but by giving up the resistance to face | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: The psychological approach is actually prayer in action. If you really analyze what happens here, you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to feel your defensive wall. Observe it in action. Feel its existence. It is there, if only | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| You cannot, as yet, distinguish between the natural action and action coming from the superficial layers. You | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| as yet, distinguish between the natural action and action coming from the superficial layers. You assume that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that acts, regardless of how perfect the outer action may seem. On the other hand, your action | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| action may seem. On the other hand, your action may be condemned by the world. It may | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| You are concerned with the effect of your action on others and on yourself and with its | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| reach a proper combination of activity and passivity, action and inaction. You are often confused about this | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| ill brought on by your own course of action, or do you insist on having the solution | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| type requires a new and different way of action and reaction after you have gained a sufficient | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| lead to repression, suppression, to a forceful, superimposed action that cannot be helpful to genuine growth. Your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| know when to use activity and passivity, also action and inaction. Could you clarify that? ANSWER: I | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I understand that part, but the part about action and inaction? COMMENT: What is unclear about that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| active state and yet not commit an outer action. And you can commit an outer action, yet | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| outer action. And you can commit an outer action, yet your soul may be in a passive | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and passivity are not necessarily manifested outwardly. But action is. QUESTION: But what does inaction mean? ANSWER | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| what does inaction mean? ANSWER: Inaction means no action. COMMENT: Oh, now I see. QUESTION: When you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| no inner process develops in just one smooth action -- are puzzled by the acute pain you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| peace simply to observe the childish emotions in action, while knowing, and getting to understand more and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to say on that topic. The difference between action, feeling, or thought is not half as great | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| when it is repelled. See the force in action, experience it without judging yourself. This is the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| that you necessarily have to put it into action. Be fully aware that it exists. Thus the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| this fact -- not necessarily putting it into action -- it will be so much healthier than | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| be used, but only to remove the surplus action of thought and outer will through which error | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| into your real self. Cutting out, forcing, disciplinary action, slaying, are all forms of resisting. When you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| I make again and again is that disciplinary action is force, and therefore leads away from self-knowledge | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| But discipline connotes compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all illusions, all measures to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be disappointed because you thought your channeling disciplinary action has made them into what you want them | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Creation is, in the true sense, not an action, and certainly not a time-bound action. When God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not an action, and certainly not a time-bound action. When God created spirit, it is out of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and more meaningless, contradictory. His prayer is the action of self-awareness and of looking at himself in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| state of being, prayer is no longer an action of uttered words or thoughts. It is a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to suffering people will be possible, whether through action, or just by communicating your true feelings. QUESTION | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| led to these feelings, that led to this action, as well as their overall development, their personality | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| it is constantly forgotten by my friends: An action, a thought, an attitude is seldom good or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| label them as such. The value of an action, thought, or attitude can be determined only by | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| all concerned; in another instance, however, the identical action can be a petty and degrading one. The | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| primary importance. Or it might be that the action that outwardly appears more noble is inwardly less | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| is very confusing for you. Evaluating someone else's action calls for intuitive faculties. These faculties can be | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| finger at them, you will, by that very action, remove them. By following the incentive, I mean | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that you are not forced to take any action, or to make any change that you are | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| authority or a law is not a free action that can possibly produce any constructive effects. But | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| agent; that you should act only if such action is freely chosen; and that it is better | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| than not to see and refrain from good action. It is very important for you to know | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| eventually make you wish to go through the action that makes restitution for past guilt. What I | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it out, or talking it out with subsequent action -- it will relieve a hurting heart, heal | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| heal a festering sore. Beware of undertaking any action before you are fully convinced of your desire | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the shadow of a doubt, if a special action might be indicated, or if restitution should merely | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| has already begun, even before you undertake any action of restitution, such as expressing your regret, such | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| stand on one's own two feet. The outer action in question may or may not be the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| with yourself. Any personal choice and decision, any action or emotional direction or attitude, is dependent on | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| that conduct alone does not indicate whether the action taken is right and constructive. The inner conditions | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your life until you observe the no-current in action, daily, again and again; until you interpret its | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| as you see it again and again in action -- the closer you come to eliminating the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will be easier. You can then observe in action how you react when you try to work | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| what this gesture, that emphasis, this expression, that action, this utterance, that tense muscle mean, unbeknown to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| of the sincerity of my desire. Such inner action means taking the reins of life into your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| However, this course is the last line of action that anyone wishes to pursue. People use or | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| in perfect order without any deliberate or determined action of your will. They cease to function well | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| process, how many people, regardless of their outer action, can experience the pleasure principle only in fantasies | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fact that you determine your thought, feeling, and action, even how you want to feel and react | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| effect. When it comes to your choice of action or your attitude toward what you find in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of the human soul -- not only in action and conscious thoughts, but in the unconscious emotions | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of you, because your free decisions to take action will be made in absolute consciousness of what | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| perfect functioning. Each concept, each idea, thought and action are both cause and energy, setting in motion | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| chain reactions caused by any thought, belief or action is self-perpetuating, once the original thought is issued | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in all its forms -- not necessarily in action, but predominantly in hidden emotions that can lead | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| example, how you will move it, and what action you are going to perform. Over your heartbeat | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| harmoniously, never creating problems or conflict. The right action happens at the right time, from outside and | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| functions. It has functions of will, discrimination, and action, but it does not possess the faculty of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| qualities. In healthy relaxation the outgoing movement of action is unstrained and has the rhythm of peace | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| or in the state of being -- the action of movement exists in the rhythm of the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| If you are totally identified with your ego, action must be frightening because the ego is not | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the ego is not equipped to undertake purposeful action without being motivated, carried, and guided by the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| not be capable of fulfilling the requirements for action, while on another level you fear the passive | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| time you have little invigorating life movement and action left. Anyone who has tasted such a state | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| that your reactions become meaningful and relaxed, and action becomes something desirable in itself. By the same | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| will gradually reveal its reality to you. This action must be the commitment on your part. Are | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| point where these words can be put into action. This will be a turning point in your | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| probe deeper and come into real awareness, then action is not what matters most. What is of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| most. What is of primary importance is knowing. Action may still be difficult to take because not | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| lonelier and more separated, or shall I take action and perhaps perish? This is the state in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| apparently disconnected from yourself. The only course of action is to go into the experience. In terms | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to look at it, to see it in action, to see its power within your consciousness, and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the greater life. The former involves direct action, the latter means waiting for growth and indirect | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| This pleasant tension is a springboard from which action flows forth naturally and organically. The same applies | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| inner movement, poised in the confidence that natural action comes in its own time. The proper interaction | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| back into destructive patterns of mind, emotion, and action. At the same time, they become more and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| types the result is inertia. Misapplied will and action produce excessive tension. Where the mind should be | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| peace. You approach all your personal alternatives of action in this fashion. Thus the very premise you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| claimed, outwardly, that such an arrangement connotes righteous action, is this truly so? What takes place in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| feelings to the surface without being compelled into action by them. The self-discipline and reasoning needed to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| away by theorizing about what caused the hurtful action. All the explanations and theorizing make it impossible | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| one, because the latter seems to promise dramatic action from without. The drama is a direct expression | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| dependency and prevents finding the resources for meaningful action. The defensive attitude cripples vitality and joy and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| truly pray for the inner understanding and inner action, something will very drastically change in you. Now | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| limit. But denying the result of your own action is an unreasonable inner act. It implies a | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| hard cramp relaxes. You will feel it. This action always implies a generous attitude of trust toward | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| purposefully uses these forces by calling them into action and removing all possible obstructions. Effort and endeavor | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| The masculine principle is outgoing and leads to action, which has consequences. The action following the driving | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and leads to action, which has consequences. The action following the driving force or impetus actively builds | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| such an attitude is completely seen, observed in action, and accepted for what it is, you may | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| integrity. The violation is not necessarily in overt action; it may lie in emotional attitudes, such as | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the sexuality produces real guilt, as any loveless action must do, as well as false guilt for | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to find the constantly fluctuating balance between inner action and the conscious ego-mind. You must learn to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| feeling, your willing, your energies, your possibilities of action and reaction. Each situation you are in contains | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| time and space they may appear, thought, will, action, and manifestation are all one unit. In the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to the negativity of others is still an action based on illusion. There is a better way | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| neither person really knows the intricate levels of action, reaction and interaction until the threads become so | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Such giving in does not necessarily result in action, but manifests in emotional attitudes. This type of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| faraway theory that you cannot put into personal action. Instead, your trust in life, as well as | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the attitudes of adult self- responsibility that takes action by facing the self; by wanting truth and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| a path of consciousness or a path of action? If it is the former, the only problem | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| then it could be very disturbing. ANSWER: Outer action or change is meaningless unless it arises out | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| What is indicated never lies in the outer action. What is right and good in one case | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| back from loving and giving is also an action. Every so often, the denied hatred manifests in | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| is also a vast difference between an overt action of destruction and the mental and emotional existence | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| on that level, convincing yourself that the others' action justifies and explains your disturbance. When you resist | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| those feelings, your inner knowledge, and your current action patterns. The paralysis that is often deemed laziness | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the same time. It is joyous movement and action. It is only the passivity of the fearful | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fought hard against the stagnation by superimposing compulsive action, and then became more alienated from the truth | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| be dealt with on the level of outer action. Feelings can be dealt with only as they | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| guided from within to find new ways of action that will be effective in your life and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| there is a voluntary and an involuntary will action. These two levels of will also have to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to an attitude expressed toward life because will action also applies to attitudes. Also discern in what | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| principle oblige you to follow any course of action. It merely means giving a new scope to | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| universe, the richness of its innermost being. New action and new outer experience stream forth from that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| grasp what is happening. The physical level of action is only the result; the inner reality is | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| inner reality is the cause. An apparently good action often has disastrous results because it is undermined | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of yourself. You set up continuous chains of action and reaction of which you often lose track | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| longer know by what specific belief and consequent action you have created it. This applies, of course | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your soul system that positive will, feeling, and action ensue? In other words, how do you demagnetize | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| wish to admit. It must be put in action depending on where you are inwardly. Admitting your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| it do you set the creative movement into action. You must be careful to accept and/or renounce | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| for your actions and to choose the right action. Humanity as a whole is so deeply conditioned | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| let God within you fill you with the action and knowledge, even before the feeling can follow | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| in which sexuality manifests -- not necessarily in action, but in inclination -- reveals one's whole character | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| even when they are not carried through into action. I spoke about this at greater length in | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| many alternative ways from which consciousness and creative action can spread. It is very important for you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| ideas which, in turn, engender specific and distorted action, reaction, and volition. When this connecting bridge is | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a meaningful sequential chain: thought, created intent and action or the lack of it. I advise all | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| All these worlds are worlds of consciousness and action. Since you have many different aspects, you will | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| That attitude and that feeling bring forth an action. That action brings forth a reaction. That reaction | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| and that feeling bring forth an action. That action brings forth a reaction. That reaction brings forth | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to believe, but rather that it leads to action and creation and is therefore of great consequence | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| statement. Nevertheless, once the hardening process is in action, matter itself can be used by consciousness for | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| them and put them little by little into action. And if others do not seem to love | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| been very much linked with the masculine principle: action, drive, control. Now the mind has to express | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the God consciousness, they must be put into action. But this putting into action is harmonious, effortless | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| be put into action. But this putting into action is harmonious, effortless, not like a cramp. When | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| preserve decency, kindness, and constructive behavior because such action is still so deeply experienced as being against | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| my guidance that your customary belief that one action is right and the other wrong is most | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| deal with it completely anew. That is the action of the adult, mature entity, and humanity is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| a flat, unsatisfying gesture rather than a meaningful action stemming from the divine center. A truly satisfying | 228 BALANCE |
| of illustration: The active principle is movement and action. The receptive principle is the state of being | 228 BALANCE |
| the two in proper balance, then you have action and effort that are relaxed, effortless and calm | 228 BALANCE |
| gives form to the intent. From the word, action can then follow, creative action, the follow-through process | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| From the word, action can then follow, creative action, the follow-through process. The word is the first | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of truth, strength, giving, commitment, faith, goodwill and action -- in short, of the initial word that | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in the lives of others. Only by that action of love, trust, decency, honesty and humility can | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| desires, that you can indulge in every destructive action or attitude without facing the consequences. This great | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the self-righteous, apparently good person. Inertia refrains from action for the good. Laziness, nonmovement, passivity -- in | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and you can then follow suit with your action without inner conflict. You will admit that you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| abuse, however. It is not merely a responsive action, but must also be an initial action. This | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| responsive action, but must also be an initial action. This kind of positive aggression is necessary to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The defense against wrong conclusions creates a negative action and reaction pattern which affects others adversely. The | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| every feeling, every intent, every will direction, every action -- with all its ramifications -- is imprinted | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| God; to let go of every cherished attitude, action, or goal that proves damaging and contrary to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the basic willingness to change a lower- self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self attitude. It | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| consciousness that can always choose to channel human action into the direction of good or evil. Yet | 254 SURRENDER |
| active movement of the personality -- whether in action, thought, or attitude -- and genuine surrender. Genuine | 254 SURRENDER |