| Credit......................3 | |
| going on in you. It is to your credit. But you will fight the battle much more | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| If these prove good, it is to your credit. However, you do not wish to be responsible | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to be overly modest and never to take credit or advantages for themselves, are bound to become | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Creed.......................8 | |
| happens, for instance, if someone of a different creed goes on the path, more specifically the path | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a way, friction and hatred of the former creed are then generated. What is the explanation? ANSWER | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| very much involved with their own race or creed images because their personal psychological factors, that is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| up. Others, born into the same race or creed, are already at the point of dissolving their | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| at the point of dissolving their race or creed image. They have already dissolved their personal images | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| group of human beings, or onto a philosophy, creed, or teacher. It does not matter who or | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| often hindered by the general rules of a creed. In modern times, this spiritual nature is hindered | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not bound to nationality, political party, race or creed. He or she combines all their truths and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Crevice.....................4 | |
| feel worthless and as nothing in some hidden crevice of your personality, the more you will tend | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| that corner in your heart, that small hidden crevice where you hate the opposite sex. You also | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the benign meaning of everything in every crevice of consciousness. This process is the very reason | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| This means overcoming the resistance to making every crevice of the self known and to taking responsibility | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Crevices....................3 | |
| You have so many subterfuges, so many hidden crevices in your soul, that becoming aware of them | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| my way, or else! Only when the secret crevices of your psychic substance yield up and expose | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| one that goes into these depths and hidden crevices, brings a new and true security. It eliminates | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Cries.......................7 | |
| has a deep need for which the spirit cries. The real need is not recognized and therefore | 31 SHAME |
| crying child. The issue over which the baby cries seems in no way related to its anger | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be governed by the child in you who cries inwardly when its wish is slighted. Is it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| hopeless Yes -- not the yes-current -- clamors, cries and trembles, the underlying No defeats all efforts | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| aspect of you which questions the voice that cries for vengeance, that has a dialogue with it | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| claim of the little ego, translated into words, cries out: Admire me, I am so much better | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| does not alter the fact that your soul cries for salvation in the sense of this lecture | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Crime.......................27 | |
| Then one day he is arrested for a crime he did not commit. You will find that | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| with all its ramifications if the connection between crime and punishment were always so evident. The imperfection | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| count just as heavily for you as a crime would for a person of little or no | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not act that way because he knows that crime is sin. And yet, he too may use | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| person. All this does not apply only to crime or sin as usually understood. Anything that deviates | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| altogether. You do not have to commit a crime in order to live in the world of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| alter the fact that he has committed the crime. Whether or not he knows and remembers it | 18 FREE WILL |
| by voluntary action to refrain from committing a crime such as stealing or killing, but you cannot | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for all the hurts of this world, for crime and injustice and the wickedness of wars! Such | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| an image. But you cannot say that every crime that is committed and every punishment for it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| affiliation with minority parties, anarchist groups, or committing crime. The strongest form of this attitude will be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| commit crimes not for the sake of the crime nor for the advantages the crime may bring | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the crime nor for the advantages the crime may bring. The deep, underlying root is rather | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to a few, doesn't it? It seems that crime and terrible things go on more than ever | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the contrary. The fact that you have more crime is understandable if you consider that there are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of human beings in former times, the cruelty, crime and wickedness on this earth sphere would have | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motion. Let us assume a person commits a crime through which he gets into difficulties. It is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for certain crass modes of conduct relating to crime and the upholding of social laws for the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| also take upon yourself the responsibility that any crime can happen through wrong values, wrong systems, wrong | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of a stern God-authority in order to prevent crime. There are other means to effect that through | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| further discovered that I feel it is a crime. As I went deeper, I discovered that, in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| I found that for me pleasure is a crime. And so, all along, I have sabotaged pleasure | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| that everyone who does not write commits a crime or is inferior, then, in addition to the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| inherent in the soul. It certainly never prevents crime or destructive actions. In fact, it causes the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| world you live in would have wars, upheavals, crime, starvation, and all sorts of other difficulties if | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| impulses for an overtly destructive cause, such as crime in any form. They need genuine good causes | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| still happens, the majority considers it a horrible crime, rather than condoning it. The human race's most | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Crimes......................9 | |
| suppose that a criminal who has committed several crimes has gotten away with it every time. He | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be eradicated so that you will not commit crimes or do harmful things to others. Besides, one | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your faults are only minor ones, not outright crimes or recognized sins, you are responsible. The higher | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| you should not kill, steal, or commit recognized crimes or sins. These are the broader and more | 18 FREE WILL |
| cases. The average human being does not commit crimes or antisocial acts, partly because he or she | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in this group with wrong actions, or even crimes. All of you, without exception, know what the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| be stopped, of course. How many criminals commit crimes not for the sake of the crime nor | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| try to live right and to not commit crimes, who live an average, decent life. For them | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to healing. But the possibility of perpetrating further crimes by such people should be strictly avoided by | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Criminal....................20 | |
| you an example. Let us suppose that a criminal who has committed several crimes has gotten away | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| falsehood does not have to be of the criminal kind; all depends on the person's development. A | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| individual's negative traits weigh as heavily as the criminal tendencies of a less highly evolved being. Blind | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| certain people of very low development -- a criminal, for example -- they do not matter so | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of darkness. If this person is not a criminal or a really sinful soul, very evil spirits | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| impure force. Let us take, for example, a criminal. He uses his willpower very obviously and noticeably | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| lowest type of human being, such as a criminal, I can't imagine. ANSWER: No, you cannot say | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it does not necessarily have to be a criminal. No, it is not so. It is rather | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| still very blind, and if he becomes a criminal it is only because his free will directs | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Take a spiritually underdeveloped person, for example, a criminal. Such a person will use self-will in a | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| jungle. It is not at all bad or criminal. It is merely confusion, error, lack of self-knowledge | 36 PRAYER |
| principle, but they are not identical. If a criminal kills someone, this is not an unconscious act | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| they become able to surpass themselves. Even a criminal will temporarily feel, at least toward one person | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| who is not developed spiritually, may lead to criminal acts -- and these have to be stopped | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| humans take it upon themselves to punish a criminal? ANSWER: It is not up to human beings | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| This would feel like punishment anyway for the criminal, for the infringement of personal freedom, as well | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| well be your idealized self-image. QUESTION: Is a criminal, especially a habitual one, necessarily in a state | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to be put into solitary confinement, or the criminal -- who is not so different from the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| havoc if left to its own devices. Every criminal or insane person bears witness to this fact | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| exists instead. Cruelty, brutality, selfishness -- the truly criminal nature -- can find a certain distorted peace | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |