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| of the spiritual laws from which you have deviated within your soul. The recognition of your faults | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| whatever aspect of your personality you have not deviated from divine law -- for this did not | 18 FREE WILL |
| whatever individuals do -- even those who have deviated from His laws -- they must ultimately find | 18 FREE WILL |
| symptom that the soul is sick and has deviated from one or more spiritual laws. For only | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| it lies in every instance where you have deviated from or broken a spiritual law, be it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a while in what respect you have obviously deviated from divine law in your emotional currents. Sometimes | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| face the final outcome of a conglomeration of deviated reactions and chain reactions from the past. The | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be possible whenever you find that you have deviated from truth. Thus will flow through you the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| element, or any other number of sick or deviated reactions must exist. In a case like this | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| forever greater realms of light and bliss, who deviated from this course, separating himself from his innermost | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| within an intimate and established relationship. Often the deviated sexual expression is quite conscious and is indulged | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| righteousness of men and women toward those who deviated from the accepted standards, you can see the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Deviates....................9 | |
| organism, and if the use of the intellect deviates from this direction, the resulting disharmony will lead | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| What people do not recognize in themselves, what deviates from spiritual law, cannot be penetrated by us | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| crime or sin as usually understood. Anything that deviates from spiritual law is sin -- or ignorance | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| be surprised how this newly- discovered inner wanting deviates from your conscious desires. But do not believe | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| principle remains the same. But when a person deviates from divine law consciously, because his spiritual development | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| aware of the hidden part in you that deviates from divine law. Because the deviation is negative | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| one another. To the degree that the entity deviates from divine harmony, the three principles will clash | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| necessary procedure of first finding all within that deviates from the right principle. One vaguely feels one's | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| The no- current is destructiveness because it inadvertently deviates from truthfulness, thereby breeding hate and disunity. This | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Deviating...................8 | |
| in spiritual endeavor where they are still unconsciously deviating from the laws. And then there are those | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| honesty -- and how far you are still deviating from the right course. Realize at the same | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| according to the soul's plan, or partly so, deviating a little bit but not enough to lose | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to get you all through the temptation of deviating from this course. But I am here to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| An example would be demonstrating healthy assertion without deviating into unhealthy aggressiveness or hostility. Nor will you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| must be done is to bring out the deviating, conflicting side and face it -- face the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| that dislikes and wants to change destructive, untruthful, deviating aspects remains basically intact, even while noticing that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Deviation...................46 | |
| the more unconsciously this happens the greater the deviation is -- then a vague feeling of sadness | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| woman rebels against her femininity it is a deviation, if only on the emotional level. In this | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| you these unpleasant occurrences willfully. Due to your deviation from divine law at one time or another | 18 FREE WILL |
| certain personality trends which lend themselves to the deviation from divine law. Nevertheless, the entire being fell | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only to a lesser degree, involved in the deviation from divine law. You all know that certain | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it did not become evil at the first deviation. I have explained all this very thoroughly. If | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the extent you are still lacking purification. The deviation from divine love may take place in various | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| hurt unnecessarily, for people who are in any deviation of spiritual law and are therefore suffering often | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| It is merely confusion, error, lack of self-knowledge, deviation from divine law: it is ignorance that creates | 36 PRAYER |
| view of your faults in relation to their deviation from the divine laws? Until you reach such | 36 PRAYER |
| degree. It does not make any difference if deviation from law and truth occurs out of ignorance | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you that deviates from divine law. Because the deviation is negative, it must materialize as something you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| forms. It is all ignorance, all error, all deviation from truth in every possible form. For truth | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the greatness of the Creator? Every smallest inner deviation and obstruction is a hindrance to understanding. We | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| more you approach them through the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you to turn | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in the law, as is the fact that deviation from it is the very medicine to cure | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| medicine to cure the pain caused by the deviation and, therefore, brings you closer to the aim | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| allow the right concept to cover up your deviation out of a sense of guilt. Look rather | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the two emotions is very thin. The slightest deviation from the feeling of gratitude and rejoicing in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| in their pure form as well as in deviation and distortion. I will discuss these principles from | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| these three principles are interdependent. If there is deviation from the proper working of one principle, the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you. The overemphasis causes a negative effect, a deviation in the expansive principle. The effect must also | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| respect a neglect and underdevelopment -- and therefore deviation in another sense -- occurs. Everything is connected | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it is impossible that a great degree of deviation exists in one respect and a minimum degree | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| But it is true that the degree of deviation may be stronger in one respect than in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| one way, you may find exactly the opposite deviation in the other way. In a mirror, your | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| help one another. None is ousted. Only the deviation or overemphasis is smoothed out. Certainly there is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| successful. No human being is in untruth and deviation or imperfection in all areas of his personality | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in the formative years. But this basic human deviation exists, at least to some degree, in everybody | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| with them, they may then blame the actual deviation from truth on that particular philosophy and hold | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extent. The sooner you realize the inevitability of deviation from truth anywhere on earth, and that this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be that an unsolved problem, an unconscious deviation of the hypnotist, may particularly affect one person | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of the inner tension that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner tension, whether it is self- | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a vast amount of insight, since no inner deviation is separated from other inner conflicts. They are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You now know quite well that wherever a deviation, misconception or conflict exists in you, vicious circles | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love is its own proof of distortion and deviation. In order to avoid that, you do not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| The more you are engulfed in this emotional deviation, the more you repress your real needs, the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| part of one's being. There is another subtle deviation in the wrong attitude of perfectionism; it is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| being freed of your shackles of error and deviation is bound to bring you happiness. But until | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In other words, the result of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| awareness essentially means becoming conscious of error, of deviation from truth. The moment you know you are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| process; reason and intelligence will adjust imbalances and deviation from reality. But when reason is used to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| outer manifestation; it may be a hidden little deviation that does not seem to harm anyone, but | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| are at the root of all destructiveness and deviation: pride, selfwill and fear. I said many years | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| distorted by a so-called neurotic need, but the deviation is seldom a total illusion. Such need always | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| but later becomes sufficiently open to sense the deviation and thus changes course. Also, the same talents | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
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| this direction, the effect of all the neglected deviations will descend upon you, as it were, in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a religious sect. Then the minor errors or deviations do not matter; in this case they are | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the angle is not so wide, where the deviations from the middle line are relatively small, and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| called a neurotic, and there are only minor deviations from the law within you, it will be | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| enlightenment. Therefore, do not compare your faults and deviations from spiritual law with another's. Your comparison may | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| present life. If you go about finding your deviations from divine law, you will be able to | 18 FREE WILL |
| way: Roughly speaking, it is correct with minor deviations, with minor errors and omissions. I mean, there | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love, its meaning, its perfect ideal, and its deviations. However, that is not my subject tonight. Tonight | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| based on willpower, cannot function because of other deviations in the personality does not negate the principle | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| additional factor, but rather an explanation of the deviations. The misinterpretation of these soul-forces causes emotions to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| this life, by conscious as well as unconscious deviations from truth and divine law. This is a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| regions of the mind and soul where the deviations are very subtle and unobtrusive. You may have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| reasons for your inferiority feelings are the little deviations that result from your trying to deceive yourself | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| result from your trying to deceive yourself. These deviations are registered, but as long as the registering | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| one's inferiority feelings as one finds one's unconscious deviations and comes to term with them. Let me | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in your way to complete fulfillment, but the deviations and self-deceptions do. If you could but clear | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of intellectual ignorance could not unfold. But where deviations, complications, and confusion reign in the soul, there | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| on this path, you inevitably find that all deviations, so-called neuroses and sicknesses are in one form | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the right principle. One vaguely feels one's inner deviations and tries to superimpose the right way. This | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| these are locked away by the obstructions and deviations. All these divine attributes are automatically released in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| automatically released in the measure that the inner deviations straighten themselves out through the work on the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| after fully understanding the inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all their ramifications and chain reactions, will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the rebellion. It causes all sorts of inner deviations and errors. It leads people into confusion. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| objectivity, self-honesty and the removal of one's personal deviations will enable the human being to find the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is caused by the various layers of error, deviations from truth, and illusions that are prevalent in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and healthy motives, but also because the unconscious deviations and misconceptions, apart from the desire itself, suffice | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| realize that, in truth and reality, your inner deviations and errors affect and involve just as many | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and deviations. Tonight I should like to discuss another aspect | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| come with the solution of inner conflicts and deviations. I would like to suggest to whoever has | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| due to conscious or unconscious misconceptions, wrong conclusions, deviations -- in short, the images which cause conflict | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Therefore, we shall certainly go on treating the deviations in you as we have done so far | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| or to do. By freeing yourself of your deviations with all their negative motives, you will be | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| inner call, be it for the reason of deviations, images, wrong conclusions, or because you believe the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| finding and dissolving your images, wrong conclusions, and deviations. (2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of your illusions, so | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| equipped to deal with the culmination of your deviations that have finally manifested openly. You have chosen | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| wrong conclusion or erroneous tendency. But sometimes the deviations and tensions are so deep-rooted that they cannot | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| mind -- that is, our images, wrong conclusions, deviations, and so forth -- on our physical bodies | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shall then compare the right concept to your deviations. To benefit truly from my words, you must | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| creative faculties is due to negative aspects and deviations, images and misconceptions. We still have to deal | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| If you thwart your instincts, due to the deviations under discussion, you do not trust them. So | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| at resolving childhood conflicts and straightening out psychological deviations, you are bound to fail in fulfilling yourself | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| a deeper understanding of your innermost problems and deviations, as you begin to solve them, your concepts | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| more one advances, the less knowledge of previous deviations will be burdensome. Even if some information is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| bring freedom. What causes all your conflicts and deviations is your desire to be happy, or to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| develop freely. This cannot happen with all the deviations and basic false premises. In an artificial manipulation | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| higher self, can be distorted by your inner deviations and conflicts and therefore be abused by negative | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more you realize how your unresolved problems, conflicts, deviations and images negatively affect your surroundings, yourself -- | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personal work -- your personal search for these deviations, distortions, and errors -- will show you the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| healing the soul of its misconceptions, distortions, and deviations. The true experience of pleasure on all levels | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| mixtures and combinations -- represent, of course, psychological deviations that can always be traced to parental influences | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you must see that such immaturity and soul deviations play hand in hand with false authoritarian religion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| more spiritual approach to see where the psychological deviations -- the images, the distortions, the wrong conclusions | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a fairy tale in which you find your deviations and misconceptions and evasions, and, after having done | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| they slowly unroll the processes of their emotional deviations, understanding them and correcting false concepts, then they | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| we have tried to understand what misconceptions and deviations prevent you from being in harmony with the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| using an issue to cover up hidden psychological deviations. In healthy struggle you never fight against yourself | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| toward a physical predicament does not preclude psychological deviations. A realistic fear will be coped with in | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life can be met only if the psychological deviations are recognized. If a real outer fear overwhelms | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you have fully comprehended your inner disturbances and deviations. Nevertheless, by now you have sufficiently penetrated into | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this particular struggle are connected. Personality problems and deviations come, as you know, from childhood hurts and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the vast power at your disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances and misconceptions, the insistence on a childish | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| qualms, anxiety, doubt or pain about their outer deviations from the lawfulness of universal life. They do | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| for the next occasion. In other words, psychological deviations are associated with a fixed, inflexible mind that | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| force, neither is it to be found in deviations that occur as a result of incomplete development | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |