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be applied on a personal level, digested and evaluated within, so that harmony is established. To achieve 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
turns out that earthly life is quite differently evaluated here than on earth, where you are still 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
that the sincere, though false motive is not evaluated in the same way as the purely selfish 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
makes sense or not, the experience will be evaluated and assimilated afterward and whatever the entity experiences 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
they are not made into foreground thoughts and evaluated. Such wishful thinking, as well as fragments of 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
is not conscious and therefore cannot be properly evaluated and come to terms with. Thus, children grow 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
of context and by itself, cannot be properly evaluated. Now how do we determine the outer and 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
nothing to fear from it. After you have evaluated the childish emotions, you will hold in your 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
when you are compulsive, for reality cannot be evaluated in the extreme terms of good or bad 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
subtleties of human relationships where matters cannot be evaluated simply in terms of good or bad. Moralizing 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
occur to you that you had never before evaluated in a true light. Perhaps you will remember 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
did commit sin. This discrepancy has to be evaluated. Once the full impact of the contradictory attitudes 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
is something much more substantial. This cannot be evaluated by the apparent worth of the feeling or 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
others. This, in turn, must be assimilated, digested, evaluated, so as to enrich the soul and learn 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
they can be lifted to the surface and evaluated. By this process you will understand how much 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
vibrant life force, containing all that cannot be evaluated in terms of right or wrong, of good 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is so horrendous that it cannot be fully evaluated at once. He incurs the worst suffering, guilt 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
desirable or undesirable they may be, can be evaluated only much later -- perhaps centuries later, when 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
real than the part that is being observed, evaluated, or changed. The moment you identify something, good 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
issues and effects on hand have to be evaluated and understood. You must be clearly aware of 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
as well. The refusal to move may be evaluated on a more superficial level in terms of 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
The moment you have exposed, owned, and realistically evaluated those negative aspects you had exclusively identified with 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
or the other applies. Each has to be evaluated in terms of the person's own path. The 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
Then the lower self can be identified and evaluated, which makes the mask-self superfluous. This is the 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
 
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in fulfillment and purification. I mean that God evaluates each individual differently. Furthermore, do not imagine that 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
excludes important aspects of reality. One sees and evaluates only that part of reality which appears to 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the destructive nature of a false image and evaluates its effects on self and others. This alone 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
it. Rather, the conscious mind listens and absorbs, evaluates and discriminates. As your conscious mind lets itself 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
 
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will not lose your sense of proportion in evaluating yourself, either exaggerating in one direction or in 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
but by looking into your psychological reactions and evaluating them in the light of your present truth 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
open a door toward knowing yourself better, toward evaluating your life with a more realistic and more 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
search without judging yourself, without moralizing, and without evaluating the right and the wrong, the good and 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
will see whatever is important for judging and evaluating its progress, or lack of it. Since all 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
weight has to be shifted from thinking, intellectually evaluating, and deducing to feeling and experiencing all your 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
of our work. If we purposely refrained from evaluating your inner conditions from the viewpoint of spiritual 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
can only be attained by responsible thinking and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on such rules. The 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
incapable of properly dealing with the situation, of evaluating people. You are only capable of experiencing secondary 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
experience a certain fulfillment in daydreams. Observing and evaluating your daydreams can help you categorize them. It 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
said that sloth is worse than pride. ANSWER: Evaluating this is difficult and may be misleading. It 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
opposite appearance. This is very confusing for you. Evaluating someone else's action calls for intuitive faculties. These 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
level. When the movement of searching, thinking, discriminating, evaluating is not directed to hidden emotional areas, the 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
Full selfhood means concern for others, fairness in evaluating advantages and disadvantages of others and self. It 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
partial degree, you will become instantly capable of evaluating the interaction between yourself and the others in 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
self-expression. Therefore constant knowing effects constant growth. When evaluating where you stand, do not be governed by 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
two totally different ways of measuring or of evaluating what amounts to two totally different goals. When 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
as the center of existence -- not by evaluating yourself as more important than the other, but 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
unit of life expression. And no trait merits evaluating and rejecting your whole self because of it 174 SELF-ESTEEM
 
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is free to such a degree. Precisely this evaluation should serve as proof of the reliability of 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
certain vacuum that bars a complete understanding and evaluation of the self, an understanding that automatically flows 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
considerations, my friends, for the judgment or the evaluation of a particular case is entirely relative. Beings 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
in their next incarnations. In the spirit world evaluation is never general. It is always strictly personal 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
nothing but a small link in it, the evaluation of the duties and tasks in each life 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
And, if by chance the outcome of the evaluation turns out to be that your faults are 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
object to may be valid, but not your evaluation of the whole person who has so many 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
When you break it in good faith, the evaluation is very different from when you know what 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
current results in your becoming objective in your evaluation of others and learning to give up your 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
road toward dissolving this basic conflict. Mere intellectual evaluation will not yield any benefit. When you feel 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
then the time has come for a new evaluation from an ethical and spiritual viewpoint. Look inward 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
for the next incarnation. Only when proper self- evaluation is still lacking do the higher spirits step 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
great deal of difference in your comprehension and evaluation of things. The more a person matures spiritually 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
only an indication. So you must beware of evaluation based on a person's professed belief and attitude 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
appreciate, approve, and protect him or her. All evaluation of others hinges on that. Since everyone possesses 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
be uncovered by the individual. Beware of rigid evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains only one distorted instinct 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
and only then, can we return to spiritual evaluation and consider your inner problems without damage and 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it, is one that eludes your comprehension and evaluation at the present time. Since this was your 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
Whenever such reactions do appear, you stifle full evaluation of them. You ascribe your strong reactions to 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
them in a very distorted way. Your intellectual evaluation may be pretty accurate, yet your emotional experience 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
simply a fault. This is a very superficial evaluation, however. Laziness is not a fault to be 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
and passivity is not brought about by intellectual evaluation and leaning on rigid rules. Intuition alone follows 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
system. No one can be compared with another. Evaluation on that basis is never valid. Thus two 101 THE DEFENSE
their worthlessness. Their distorted view prohibits a true evaluation of the situation in question, yet their defeat 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
full light are absent. Such a limited, subjective evaluation is inevitable if the soul suffers too much 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
most need growth. Beware of a quick, superficial evaluation. Only when you question your fears and insecurities 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
in its demands and is blind in its evaluation. Yet one never rebels against the real, inner 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
note that I said apparently favorable conditions. Your evaluation of what is good or bad, constructive or 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
pain and suffering. This is due to correct evaluation and realistic perception, and free-flowing movement unhampered by 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
real conscience, by using profound understanding and truthful evaluation, you reach the inner reality of any particular 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
or bad, this is a shallow and insufficient evaluation, leaving out many aspects of importance, many considerations 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
off the mark or based on a superficial evaluation. True enlightenment can only come when the unconscious 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the help of reason, through realistic and rational evaluation of the circumstances. I have given you a 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
mental activity, which goes on unobserved, without critical evaluation, so you are unaware of how your thoughts 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
is thus perpetually in illusion. For no true evaluation of a person's worth can ever come from 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
is which. It is therefore necessary to keep evaluation shelved until the personality is aware of itself 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
the original pain seem justified in your secret evaluation of yourself; but you do not wish to 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
not fall into the error of blind, flat evaluation. Look very carefully to sense the climate of 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
orderliness as a false gauge and a false evaluation of your inner state. And those who newly 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
of their mental processes so that a proper evaluation of the feelings can take place. It requires 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS

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