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in untruth, even though you are not deliberately dishonest. Nevertheless, an untrue thought, innocent and in good 39 IMAGE-FINDING
feel inferior because in some way you are dishonest with yourself and life. To the measure that 53 SELF-LOVE
refuse to make decisions; it may even be dishonest to say, It is my desire to have 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
addition, accused of having perpetrated a disloyal or dishonest act of some sort. The pain of the 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
his or her part, such a person is dishonest. In that sense, everything that causes emotional problems 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that sense, everything that causes emotional problems is dishonest. Only humans draw a sharp borderline between the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
submissive person, the power type is just as dishonest and hypocritical, because such a person, too, needs 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
not admitting the suffering, this type is as dishonest as the other two types. This particular idealized 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
accordance with all spiritual laws, and yet be dishonest. You may feel divided about it, may have 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
of mind is concerned. Each alternative would be dishonest in its own way: one because the greedy 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and, in the last analysis, this would be dishonest. If it is real, it happens naturally and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
positive feeling may weaken you if it is dishonest, if displacement and subterfuge are at work. If 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
bargaining and -- in the final analysis -- dishonest games. My friends, when you want to find 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
the subtle yet enormous difference between genuine and dishonest manufactured emotions. May you all remind yourself, again 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
life, in which you hug resentments and use dishonest games of suffering as weapons against others in 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
truth, your goodwill to change and give up dishonest patterns. All these efforts and attitudes bring a 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
also includes the willingness to change faulty and dishonest inner attitudes, for otherwise you will block what 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
am so bad, I am nothing is always dishonest. This dishonesty has to be exposed, so that 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
as an act of will. That would be dishonest. It would mean superimposing a wishful kind of 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
their disbelief is often every bit as unnatural, dishonest, and superimposed, as opportunistic and conformist, as false 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
your lower self, mask self, your defenses, your dishonest devices, and your negative intentionality, then your identification 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
and lower self, or the negative intentionality and dishonest games are being identified, there is room for 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
of the ego to shed light on the dishonest part. Then ego transcendence takes place in the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
clue: you wish to hold on to something dishonest that you are loath to give up. Look 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
this outer grace, this helping hand. For the dishonest placing of guilt on others makes their true 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
comprehending the negative intentions, the acting out, the dishonest projections of the other person. This is why 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
will not allow others to be deceitful, destructive, dishonest and abusive in their subterfuges and games. You 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
taking it in silence is sentimental and usually dishonest. For in reality you merely fear the unpleasant 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
on the individual's self-honesty and goodwill to abandon dishonest, hurtful, and destructive patterns. If you are hampered 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
others either by sheer force, clever persuasion, or dishonest manipulation. In that case, you use some of 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
means become prohibitive and, in the deepest sense, dishonest. Because you feel poor, you think you must 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
No matter how negative, destructive, mean, malicious, spiteful, dishonest, and manipulative you discover a part of you 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
that when you fully face the most undesirable, dishonest and petty infringements of truth in you, you 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
hopeless, without any real cause. Part of the dishonest game may be to aggrandize the suffering in 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
for you cannot know this. It is also dishonest because you take your very limited present perceptions 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
for whatever reason -- then your doubt is dishonest. This wrong kind of doubt has a lot 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
crisis. The lower self is not merely devious, dishonest, and selfish; it is also ignorant. This ignorance 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
self is not only negative, selfish, greedy, and dishonest; it is also ignorant with a vengeance. It 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
self, where you are corruptible, where you are dishonest or tend to be. As you all know 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
governed by the most sincere or the most dishonest motives. Only when you sort out the dishonest 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
dishonest motives. Only when you sort out the dishonest motives on both sides can you open the 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
more obvious aggressive acting out of cruel, self-serving, dishonest malice. It is important to be fully aware 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
the secret, you maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns. The person who 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
but have no intention of changing. They are dishonest because they know that others may react to 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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immeasurable importance; for without recognizing the daily little dishonesties, self-deceptions, and erroneous assumptions, you cannot question them 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
The other is your fear with its subsequent dishonesties, causing you to withhold yourself in a tight 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
do. This activity of catching one's little hidden dishonesties is the kind of constructiveness that is compatible 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to do so. To be free from these dishonesties is the natural, universal law, and really the 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
your pain, to avoid owning up to your dishonesties, your cheating, your spitefulness, your games, and your 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
look at your illusions, your pretenses, and your dishonesties. As you know, thoughts and energies constantly create 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
 
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says this, the motivation must be a basic dishonesty. There is no black or white. God's motives 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
going in the wrong direction; it stands for dishonesty, hypocrisy, cowardice, avarice, selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
QUESTION: Where is it combined with elements of dishonesty? ANSWER: When you examine the soul the way 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are in one form or another always a dishonesty. Because it is untruth, unreality, wanting to get 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a sharp borderline between the outer and obvious dishonesty and the subtle inner one. QUESTION: I was 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
will see that it is nothing more than dishonesty, self-deception, an ostrich attitude, and a lack of 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
really is -- an illusion, a pretense, a dishonesty. It amounts to saying: I know I am 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
believe I am not. Not to recognize this dishonesty is comparatively easy when rationalized by conscientiousness, honorable 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
in this image is very obvious, but the dishonesty will be less easy to detect, because such 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
on others as the other two types, the dishonesty is just the same. And since the detachment 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
person than you actually are, is not only dishonesty, hypocrisy and self-deception, but it also leads you 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
That very fact will make the selfishness and dishonesty existing in the childish nature, where the tendency 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
need to put the brakes on. Envy, guilt, dishonesty, and the belittling of others create the need 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the personality has impaired its integrity, and impurity, dishonesty, cheating, and malice still exist in the psyche 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
instinctual life. The layer of destructiveness, blind selfishness, dishonesty, as well as the shameful attachments of the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
discuss is always connected with impairment of integrity, dishonesty on some level, and division of motives and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
desires must unify; where impairment of integrity and dishonesty existed, perhaps on the deepest hidden levels, honesty 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
One must see where selfishness, cruelty, self-centeredness, greed, dishonesty exist, if only in minute form, in the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
me hide behind pretenses, and the subtle inner dishonesty in which I am too self-indulgent to face 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
bad, I am nothing is always dishonest. This dishonesty has to be exposed, so that the crisis 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
of the truth of the momentary state, pretense, dishonesty, self- deception, false ideas, negation of the beauty 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
the lower self with its hidden evil, its dishonesty, cheating, and camouflaged hate and malice; when to 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
you have decided not to know it. This dishonesty must be ascertained, admitted, and finally given up 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
following the dictates of vanity, greed, laziness, and dishonesty, so can you create by letting God express 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
with this illusion! And once you overcome your dishonesty, you will fully see and understand the negative 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
intent, by being willing to give up your dishonesty and negative intentionality, and by wanting to give 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
rage, and their byproducts of envy, jealousy, greed, dishonesty, and so on -- their clean and honest 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
pain or into your rage, it is only dishonesty that makes you reluctant -- the wish to 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
that deep level where you keep discovering the dishonesty and negative intentions toward life, which are the 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
heart. It is necessary to give up the dishonesty, the hiding, the projecting, and the game playing 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
your real being and wanting to give up dishonesty is your guilt for pain you have inflicted 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
his or her own negative intentionality, destructive attitude, dishonesty, and meanness. Just imagine how you would feel 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
to avoid seeing your negativity, your destructiveness, your dishonesty, the little thoughts about how you wish to 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
very same devil, with all its cruelty, malice, dishonesty, pettiness, hate and fear is essentially an angel 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
not allow it. An attitude of unfairness and dishonesty is always present when you grab and do 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
a ploy that only hides the cheating, bargaining, dishonesty, selling out, and negativity that are present in 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
pain you yourself have created out of ignorance, dishonesty, and negativity, you cannot help but stay poor 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
it is true, I have this or that dishonesty, pettiness, false pride, hatred, malice, or whatever, but 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
call displacement. Quite apart from guilt about the dishonesty of such a shrewd device, it also creates 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
by a violation of spiritual law, a basic dishonesty, and somewhere an ill will. Once you fully 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
Moreover, such a statement always contains a further dishonesty -- and that is the hidden stake in 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
even while you also see the still existing dishonesty, the cowardice, and all the other ugly little 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
to the total personality -- implies a deep dishonesty on the part of the lower self. It 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
self-indulgent, he commits as grave an injustice and dishonesty as the ruler who abuses his power. Wherever 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
It is never meant to be hidden. Only dishonesty, lies, negative intentionality, destructiveness of one sort or 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY

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