| Failures....................19 | |
| action in spite of unavoidable relapses and occasional failures, it will then give increased spiritual protection. This | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| and what you have already accomplished. Your own failures, which are unavoidable, will give you strength instead | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| that way daily and when you consider your failures with the attitude, What can I learn about | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of blaming God for one's disappointments and the failures of others; the most primitive reaction is to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| sense. You will understand your life and your failures. You will understand yourself and therefore also other | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| QUESTION: My question is about Job. For what failures or shortcomings in his life was he made | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the psyche produces, or by various mishaps, difficulties, failures, or conflicts in any area of life. In | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be removed. Therefore, it is 'their' fault. My failures are due only to the denying of my | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| life. They may protect themselves from disappointments and failures, which in reality would not hurt half as | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of making mistakes. But your attitude to your failures and mistakes will be very different. More and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in life. But the small daily rejections and failures threaten your security and belief in yourself. They | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| about it. Some days later I accepted the failures, the mistakes and everything. I felt a wonderful | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| However, I will tell you. You see, the failures are exaggerated because you tend very much toward | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| never see the connection between your discontent and failures on the one hand, and your one-sided, negative | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you, and of your refusal to see their failures as anything but a deliberate act of hate | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| lack of energy, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness. All these are | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| groping for new ways; learning from mistakes and failures; refusing to give up when immediate success fails | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| remains to be done? What contributed to the failures and what to the proper execution? Where may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| one, least of all themselves. They feel like failures and frauds but do not know why. In | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Fair........................19 | |
| completely personal answer here; it would not be fair to the others, and it would not be | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to the others, and it would not be fair to you. However, a general explanation will help | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| into account, and therefore judgment is always completely fair. For human beings this is hard to imagine | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| work. For, divine law is always just and fair. You never receive more than you invest. When | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you want to evade paying the natural and fair price -- in this case self- responsibility for | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it seems to me that it is only fair and right that if I love a person | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| whether what you expect for your investment is fair. You must learn to delve into yourself to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is in testing it again and again. Such fair testing cannot be terminated the day after tomorrow | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| it could be more constructive, more sincere, more fair. If this approach is cultivated, then the outer | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Conversely, your inability to give up, to be fair, to let others free, your insistence to win | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| fear when you abandon the ego attitudes. Playing fair and square with life, without cheating, not setting | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you have love. The commitment to make a fair exchange with life must be made over and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the universe to give me what is my fair due. If you do not wish this freely | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to do something for you that was not fair to expect and what you really have to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Discipline cannot be used toward others in a fair and balanced way if it is not first | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Rather than helping them to awaken through really fair and appropriate dispositions, they play right into the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not fighting but giving in, that it is fair, right, necessary, justified and good for all concerned | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| own microcosm that life is totally just and fair. This is infinitely more important than having to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| connected with the lack of trust in a fair universe. If you can deceive and win with | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Fairness....................18 | |
| means self-centeredness. Full selfhood means concern for others, fairness in evaluating advantages and disadvantages of others and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| self-centeredness. But it does imply a sense of fairness in which one is capable of foregoing an | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| force because you can rely on reason and fairness, rather than on power. But to make this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the situation in relation to reason, justice, and fairness. A large step will be taken forward if | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| more laborious. Free and voluntary effort, accepted in fairness, never makes one tired. If you look at | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| conscious, reason can be applied. Your sense of fairness will then be directed at everyone, also at | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in giving and taking. Your adult sense of fairness makes you sufficiently pliable to give in. And | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| And when you do so, your sense of fairness and objectivity will help you to give up | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| express in what way this intent opposes reality, fairness, and truth, then whatever the negativity, you will | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| willingness exists to honor decency, truth, love and fairness more than the apparent advantages of the fearful | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| will you treat yourself. If in generosity and fairness you let others have, you will suddenly find | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| from you love, giving, a sense of responsibility, fairness, integrity, and so on. When you examine the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| for this highly advanced state of honesty and fairness. You can, by now, quite easily admit how | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| unfoldment of justice, of law, of beauty, of fairness and of divine intercession. The true leader, the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| that the idea here is equality, justice, and fairness for all. It may seem a contradiction if | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| divergence and varieties of human expression and development. Fairness, uniformity, conformism supersede free unfoldment and expression of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| after having overcome resistance, you realized the intrinsic fairness of life. Remember how, after seeing the connections | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| because all is based on truth, justice, and fairness. No country will then deny the other its | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Fairy.......................11 | |
| in your endeavors. This path is not a fairy tale; it is reality of the crassest sort | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is one of utter reality; there are no fairy tales. The reality I show you can be | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| For the majority, myth means invention, fantasy, imagination, fairy tale, or a lie. Of course, the real | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| all know that this path is not a fairy tale in which you find your deviations and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you explain the function of drama, myth, and fairy tales in the personal development of the human | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in mind the effect that myth, drama, or fairy tales have upon a human being, the question | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the impressionability of the soul. As to whether fairy tales or myths have a good influence on | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| will have its effect. If an apparently cruel fairy tale or myth is taken literally, a soul-particle | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| slave in order to avoid self-responsibility. The old fairy tale that a woman's career will make her | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| therefore neither defenses nor blame. Contrary to the fairy tale that femininity blossoms when the woman is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| in a daydream it all comes in a fairy tale manner that does not really convince you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Faith.......................374 | |
| Another frequent factor in fear is lack of faith. The conditions for the grace of living faith | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| faith. The conditions for the grace of living faith were not fulfilled; therefore such people will have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| for help, does he show a lack of faith? Should he fight the illness without using medical | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| questions relating to their own development, then their faith will be immeasurably strengthened. The faith that used | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| then their faith will be immeasurably strengthened. The faith that used to be shaky will now be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| touch. Such an answer will steady your weak faith. Consider it as the first answer from God | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| understand what these words mean: the grace of faith. That can be given to you when you | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| motivations can exist simultaneously in the same person. Faith is higher understanding, faith is knowing, and this | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| in the same person. Faith is higher understanding, faith is knowing, and this knowing is grace. Grace | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| which you hope. Doubt is the opposite of faith; and faith, my friends, is in reality nothing | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| hope. Doubt is the opposite of faith; and faith, my friends, is in reality nothing other than | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| short, everything that stands in your way to faith in its true meaning. Let us suppose you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that you cannot come to the kind of faith we are talking about here by a single | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| no matter how astounding. Rather, you will obtain faith by working spiritually, by walking on this path | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of the extent to which you and your faith, your experience of the absolute, and your sense | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| way you are right. Anyone who has sufficient faith will also automatically follow the divine laws. And | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and keep the divine laws will gain the faith that may still be lacking at the beginning | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of this path. Here, too, nobody can have faith by forcing it; it can only grow organically | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| asked was that the Bible says, By your faith you can move the unmovable. ANSWER: Oh yes | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is living within the soul at this moment. Faith can never come from the brain. If it | 18 FREE WILL |
| a question of intellectual conviction, it is weak faith. But faith coming from the spiritual field and | 18 FREE WILL |
| of intellectual conviction, it is weak faith. But faith coming from the spiritual field and the divine | 18 FREE WILL |
| experience of truth. Therefore, people who have no faith are wrong when they think that having faith | 18 FREE WILL |
| faith are wrong when they think that having faith in something is a matter of personal preference | 18 FREE WILL |
| in something is a matter of personal preference. Faith in its true meaning is always a certainty | 18 FREE WILL |
| that many people have the wrong kind of faith does not mean that faith in the true | 18 FREE WILL |
| wrong kind of faith does not mean that faith in the true sense does not exist. By | 18 FREE WILL |
| that in this jealousy lies a lack of faith in God and in His capacity to love | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to him, if you have the trust and faith the Creator deserves, you will not think that | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the kingdom of heaven. Periods of testing, trials, faith in God in times of adversity, crucifixion of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| leave your church or your temple or your faith. For if you have found what you seek | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| way of happiness and spiritual food in the faith you are accustomed to, remain there: enough of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| practice. When I speak of satisfaction with your faith, I do not mean the satisfaction of your | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| your minds. Be broadminded! Do not leave the faith you are accustomed to, for that is not | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a spirit of superficial curiosity, but in good faith. And ignorance and wrong conceptions of some of | 21 THE FALL |
| your development about, enable you to have real faith and real love, for God above everything and | 21 THE FALL |
| being and are the strongest hindrances to perfection, faith, harmony and love. Whatever the various individual faults | 21 THE FALL |
| commit so-called sins, to give love, to have faith, and to be kind to others. However, this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| love in your heart or to have real faith in God. Whatever pertains to emotions is not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| may realize that you do not have enough faith, but realizing this and trying to force yourself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| have it by telling yourself, I must have faith, will not bring you one step closer: quite | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| into it, but this does not mean your faith or your ability to love is real. It | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| find out that deep down you are lacking faith or love. You cannot force yourself to have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or love. You cannot force yourself to have faith or love, no matter how hard you try | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| work directly on your lack of love or faith, for instance, but you will simply get to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| without forcing yourself directly to have love or faith, eventually the life force will fill you and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will be taken away? Does this refer to faith, or what does it refer to? ANSWER: It | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to all other divine aspects, not only to faith or love. So you must break the vicious | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| 33. OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH Greetings in the Name of the Lord. I | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| I should like to discuss two aspects of faith. Many people are sincere in their endeavors to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| their endeavors to pursue spiritual development, yet their faith is not whole. Somewhere there is always the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| currents simultaneously. Whether this concerns the issue of faith versus doubt, or any other inner problem makes | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| I do not even give the name of faith and the experience of God's existence is given | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| your own humility about your lack of complete faith. Say to yourself: I have not yet deserved | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| one day, I can promise you, this complete faith must be yours. Then you will have experienced | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the attainment of this divine grace -- complete faith. Each individual has to gain this major experience | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| his or her own efforts. Another aspect of faith is this: There are people who have complete | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| is this: There are people who have complete faith, as complete as can be possible for the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the soul somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would mean no disharmony in your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| somehow influences also the completeness of faith. Perfect faith would mean no disharmony in your life whatever | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that far. However, there are some in whom faith is stronger than it is in others. In | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| this feeling may even exist in people whose faith is not real as yet. But it will | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| yet. But it will come out stronger once faith becomes whole and the transitory process unfolds. And | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| now. Do not stop your striving when your faith is lacking. For you are a good person | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| basic part of you. Often a person whose faith is still weak has a greater love for | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| for other human beings than someone else whose faith is strong and who feels, as mentioned before | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| ones. QUESTION: Isn't prayer also a confirmation of faith in God? ANSWER: Of course it is. That | 36 PRAYER |
| Nevertheless, an untrue thought, innocent and in good faith as it may be, cannot meet with the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| If you break a divine law in good faith or if you break it knowingly, are the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| course not. When you break it in good faith, the evaluation is very different from when you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| for everyone who goes at it in good faith and with perseverance. My dear friends, we have | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| he or she may consciously be in good faith -- the more adverse will be the effect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you have started on this path with good faith and goodwill and you have progressed well. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| are we to reconcile this Church-proclaimed doctrine of faith in salvation through another with our work on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work on the path? And further, is this faith in a heavenly being who had become man | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mysterious rites, in His divine life? Is this faith plus the sacraments sufficient to redeem us from | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| against which one resists. Both alternatives are wrong. Faith in God, faith in Christ, faith as such | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resists. Both alternatives are wrong. Faith in God, faith in Christ, faith as such is, of course | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are wrong. Faith in God, faith in Christ, faith as such is, of course, a major key | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a major key. But it cannot be commanded. Faith comes naturally when obstructions are removed. All human | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| All human beings possess an inner storehouse of faith, love, truth, wisdom, but these are locked away | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| teachers drum into you that you must have faith, they do not accomplish anything. At best, it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| anything. At best, it will be a superimposed faith. And the stronger the superimposition, the stronger the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner, unconscious rebellion against one's own superimposed faith -- adopted merely because it was expected and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| eventually learn and understand why you have no faith or no love and what the inner wrong | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| close the door to your inner wells of faith and love -- unconsciously in most cases. However | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware of the fact that you have no faith and no love under superimposed levels of pseudo-faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all their ramifications and chain reactions, will real faith, real love, real truth, real wisdom, and whatever | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are, become part of your being. Of course, faith is a key, just as love is a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You said that when the obstructions are removed, faith follows. But I know people who have faith | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| faith follows. But I know people who have faith and still have a lot of obstructions. ANSWER | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human being that he or she has complete faith or complete love. The lack is often hidden | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fore. One person may have a quite healthy faith, but other divine attributes are afflicted and affect | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is complicated because of the possibility that someone's faith is compulsive or escapist, and then it is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or escapist, and then it is not real faith, but pseudo-faith. It may be a mixture of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It may be a mixture of partly healthy faith, partly unconscious lack of faith, and pseudo-faith. All | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of partly healthy faith, partly unconscious lack of faith, and pseudo-faith. All that has to be found | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This does not mean to accept something on faith; nor does it mean that by being good | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| an untrue thought, as innocent and in good faith as it may be, cannot meet with the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| at all. Consciously they may have a superimposed faith. All their lives they heard what their respective | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of you have begun this self-search in good faith, yet at this early stage you can barely | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unknown, and therefore frightening, in spite of religious faith. It seems to be an end; as such | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the problem. Many religious people who cling to faith out of fear are examples of those who | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith are two prototypes. Neither realizes that each is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| they despise themselves for it. Moreover, the superimposed faith has no real power to help them. They | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| force that lies within unutilized. So examine your faith, too, my friends. Do not be afraid to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you the very strength to build a genuine faith that is also a conviction and a knowledge | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| on and that death is an illusion, your faith is built on sand. But if you take | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fear that you are being disloyal to your faith when you face that part of it which | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death and misuses them. The result is superimposed faith that is embraced out of fear and weakness | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You will accept this, not as a consoling faith to which you cling out of weakness and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| preferred that Jesus died in a glory of faith without the human doubts and fears he expressed | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| was in doubt too. He too had lost faith for a moment. But he acknowledged it, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pretense, without self-deception, without deceiving those who had faith in him. He was truthful to himself and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the contrary. Only those who cling to religious faith out of fear and weakness will come to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| because he or she does not need such faith. But this form of expression, through the work | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the way of the religionist who clings to faith out of fear. As I explained in the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| conscious beliefs. So where there is outer religious faith, obedience, and appeasement, try to find not only | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of your being. In this phase all your faith may begin to crumble. You may be full | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be given without emotional maturity? QUESTION: Is a faith in God and love without emotional maturity possible | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with love. For real love and real, genuine faith to exist, emotional maturity is a necessary basis | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotional maturity is a necessary basis. Love and faith and emotional immaturity are mutually exclusive, my child | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| direct outcome of emotional maturity and growth. True faith in God, in the sense of true religion | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| out of the need to be protected. False faith and false love always have the strong emotional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotional connotation of need. True love and true faith come out of strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility. All | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self-reliance, and self-responsibility are true love, involvement, and faith possible. Anyone who ever attained spiritual growth, known | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| first learn to accept your imperfection without losing faith in yourself. Many of you now feel so | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will reveal Himself. God is in you. Trust, faith, love, truth -- all these exist in you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| trust themselves. This is the wrong kind of faith, the wrong approach. This kind of faith is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of faith, the wrong approach. This kind of faith is truly built on sand. It is false | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long as you are sincere and in good faith, regardless of what some of our human friends | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of fear in Matthew is by way of faith in God. How would you relate that to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| teachings? ANSWER: As you all know by now, faith in God, in a genuine, secure, profound, and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| way, can only exist if you first have faith in yourself. To the degree that you lack | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in yourself. To the degree that you lack faith in yourself, you cannot have faith in God | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you lack faith in yourself, you cannot have faith in God. Yes, you can superimpose it and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a loving authority, but it cannot be true faith unless you have gained the maturity of faith | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| faith unless you have gained the maturity of faith in yourself. Now, how can you have faith | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| faith in yourself. Now, how can you have faith in yourself, unless you understand yourself as much | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |