| to convince yourself that you are tolerant and good when you close your eyes to the faults | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| world, and then make a list of their good qualities and of their faults, just as you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in your images. The child knows only extremes: good or bad, perfection or imperfection, omnipotence that promises | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to them and then to build on the good that is already there. Immature love means viewing | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| light of your present truth. It is always good to approach the goal from two sides, the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| I am proud, I know it is not good to be proud, I do not want to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| true that the emotion-type tends to have a good intuition and is sometimes less afraid of feeling | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| QUESTION: If you break a divine law in good faith or if you break it knowingly, are | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| of course not. When you break it in good faith, the evaluation is very different from when | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| fear-ridden soul that resists the experience, this is good medicine regardless of the fact that sorrow and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| bring the soul closer to God than lukewarm good deeds. QUESTION: I was going to ask a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| counter-currents of the fearful or greedy soul with good motives. There is a common belief that anything | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| go on this journey together and have a good marriage? ANSWER: If both are willing to learn | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| world are deeply grateful to God for your good efforts, for your growth. It is our greatest | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| dear friends. Although your actions are worthy and good as such, although the high and noble motives | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| find out that you want something pure and good, and yet it brings you disharmony. The reason | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| change desires. It means that you separate the good motives from the wrong ones, at first by | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is this or that. The conscious desire is good. But I recognize that this or that selfish | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a role. I will continue to perform the good act, but I will not deceive myself that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| know or feel that a new outlook makes good sense. Changing even superficial opinions requires effort and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of several layers of your personality and both good and bad motives. Then you will understand why | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not only that you need to separate the good motives from the bad ones in a particular | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| feasible for everyone who goes at it in good faith and with perseverance. My dear friends, we | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| responsibility for everything on influences from spirit entities, good or bad, and thus tried to get around | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| decision. They cannot prevent mishaps, which may be good medicine, and thus they stand by and observe | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| prevent that, whether the change is for the good or for the bad, but will watch over | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| meet her or him with all that is good for that purpose. If that first step is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| certain basic similarities, even though the degree of good or evil may vary widely and be quite | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| also around you who may even want something good for you. They may not be evil at | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Not at all! In such a case, a good and constructive desire was fulfilled, or partly so | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| emotion. QUESTION: Is it preferable to perform a good act with a bad motive, or should one | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not refrain. One should merely recognize that the good act contains a bad motive, without self-deception. The | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and the dreadful sorrows of war have their good points. For without these upheavals, people would not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of their own exposure makes such people doubly good. Now, do not interpret the word good in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| doubly good. Now, do not interpret the word good in its real sense. Put quotation marks around | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| such a law-upholder cannot be also a really good person -- just as truly good as one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a really good person -- just as truly good as one with a tendency to hidden rebellion | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| though he or she may consciously be in good faith -- the more adverse will be the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| such any longer, or against authority in its good and true sense, but actually against the false | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not confuse you any longer. The ideal, wise, good and understanding authority will remain a goal to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| life you have met someone who is very good and very wise and very kind, without being | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| force, the authority as you perceived it. True, good motives are surely also contained in these inner | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| certainly continue to aim for the right and good within yourself and in your actions, but you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You are aware that you do want the good, the true, and the beautiful, but there is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You become confused and uncertain about your own good motives. Only the very blind, those human beings | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| health, emotional or otherwise, must have a very good effect on you. Truth is always healthy and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| levels. On the most superficial level of development, good is done outwardly but one harbors selfish and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| still far away, in spite of the outer good deeds one performs mainly in order to conform | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| same hypocrisy becomes subtler and more deeply buried. Good desires are superimposed on selfish ones, which are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the fewer trends remain locked in. This is good work, and it needs to go on and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is the hazard of getting off to a good start in extricating some hidden trends from behind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you use are true and as such are good. But the moment they are used in that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will not voluntarily expose. I have found a good way to be able to go on hiding | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| assume you have started on this path with good faith and goodwill and you have progressed well | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| imagine that then all resistance is overcome for good. For as long as you maintain the wall | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from working in this direction, no matter how good your intentions may be. This should be a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| corner you and this is for your own good. You can observe this with some people. Life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| poisonous plant in your garden, spoiling all the good plants, can you get rid of the bad | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is my advice. It will be a very good exercise, the surest and fastest way to eliminate | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| follow it through. It may also be a good idea for group work. First state briefly your | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| The life force is everything that exists. Everything good. And everything negative or detrimental is petrified life | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| them but rather uncover them and take a good look. I know all this has been said | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| proper balance. Your true self is neither as good as it appears to be on the surface | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| with spiritual pride. He used his desire for good to suppress basic instincts rather than facing them | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| thinking means knowing that everything must turn to good, finally, because the divine power is the absolute | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| cannot say that an optimistic attitude brings a good result and a pessimistic outlook a bad one | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the child that it is undeserving of anything good, joyful, or pleasurable. The child feels that if | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in everything I undertake, then I can make good for my past hatred and resentment. And since | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will have taken a great step forward. The good and pure divine conscience is, of course, concerned | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| I am not even capable of being as good and as perfect as I should be with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| hating, but also of being unable to be good and pure. You may say, It is right | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| pure. You may say, It is right and good to become perfect. You may say, Does not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| avoid something that may or may not be good, healthy, and deserved -- it depends how you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to be better than or at least as good as others in every realm of your life | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Another spirit told me once that it is good to have a very long prayer and meditation | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it, you said that this may not be good because there is a rigidity and a habit | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| or concentration at all, such meditation is a good discipline. It is favorable to learn concentration through | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| with other human beings despite being full of good will and aware of the basic spiritual truths | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to get to their roots. Beware of your good reasoning capacity! The more successful you are, the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| completely objective and you expound it with very good arguments, while being utterly unaware that notwithstanding all | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| while being utterly unaware that notwithstanding all the good arguments you are deeply and subjectively involved. QUESTION | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| often differs in the opinion of what is good for you. It tries to lead you on | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that a certain behavior on your part, being good and right in itself, was done without your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of mixed motives -- partly out of the good ones, but partly to cover up the sick | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| yourself into believing that your motives are all good and pure. Then the compulsion will be gone | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to cajoling for favors. Here you have a good example of the two opposite extremes, both of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to a true concept of God -- forgiving, good, loving, indulgent. This causes the personality to unconsciously | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you call forth all happenings in your life, good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. Once you experience | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and that the laws of God are infinitely good, wise, loving and safe! God's laws do not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| kill. That does not make the electric current good or bad. You make it good or bad | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| electric current good or bad. You make it good or bad. This power current is one important | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in considering others, this is still to the good all around. Only you will not deceive yourself | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| will not deceive yourself any longer. Even the good course would be harmful to you if you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| for this we are grateful. For without your good will we could not execute our task. I | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| will not cause you to cut off the good and healthy feeling that lies right next to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your gladness, your gratefulness, your joy in whatever good you have, without the element of being in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you cannot choose between obvious right and wrong, good and evil, white and black. Decisions can hurt | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| exposure, understanding, and acceptance. Would you consider it good that it is brought into the open? Wouldn't | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to a different subject. QUESTION: Would you be good enough to give us some ideas on the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is for you to be in the good graces of someone important for you, or be | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but did not do it sooner than was good for them. It is also possible that a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person, destructively inclined, has incarnated sooner than was good for him. Is that clear? Yes, thank you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not more correct to say that sex is good or bad, right or wrong, than to say | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right or wrong, than to say electricity is good or bad, right or wrong. It depends entirely | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Will you tell us the spiritual significance of Good Friday, please? ANSWER: The spiritual significance of Good | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Good Friday, please? ANSWER: The spiritual significance of Good Friday is to take the cross that you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tendency to stagnate, which is hidden underneath the good motives. Again, this misinterpretation shows ignorance and a | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| restriction, an apparent going back, although for the good purpose of going forward. While the Holy Ghost | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| life force does not wish you anything but good -- if I may put it this way | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that these impersonal laws are kind and completely good. It is no unkindness that it is left | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of these new movements do not bring some good. I will now explain when such shortcut methods | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| indeed. The movements you describe may have their good points and their truths. They may also be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| search and the pains of growth. It is good that way, it could not be any other | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| or talent. With others again, it may be good character, decency, loyalty, intelligence. With most the means | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| disloyal, or selfish. But as long as your good intentions prevent you from even recognizing this temptation | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to a considerable degree. Also, there is a good chance that no further betrayal and accusation will | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| souls by themselves, or with some friends. Their good intent is appreciated. But I should like to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of self-finding. It takes time, effort, and extremely good intent to bring what is in the unconscious | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the Spirit World is due to your past good efforts. It is a positive chain reaction. If | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of evil. It cannot be created out of good. One wrong condition breeds another, unless it is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may undertake in order to contribute to the good of humanity as a whole. Otherwise they will | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and answers exclusively, such questions may be very good material. Let us discuss it together. QUESTION: In | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make independent decisions and choices. If these prove good, it is to your credit. However, you do | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to you that fear of it becomes a good part of the abyss. You seem to think | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| imagined god who rewards you for being a good child and spares you a difficult fate, while | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of Utopia you do not. This is a good part of the reason why you reject self-responsibility | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| obscured throughout the ages. But there is a good reason for that, my friends. Humanity in its | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this gives you incentive to change, it is good. If shame does not weaken you, but if | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| them conscious, and not to wait until the good times come. Because in the so-called good times | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the good times come. Because in the so-called good times or favorable times, when the negative aspects | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| brought to the fore from within. With a good method, a teaching of truth, they are brought | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harm them. They will be open to the good and the true from wherever it may come | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accept all of it, because you accept a good part of it. Let me stress that this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the case, as I explained before. Hence, every good and right act, most of all the act | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you an instrument of grace. The power of good and love is infinitely stronger than the power | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mingles with personal distortions. People often use the good aim as a screen to hide and foster | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| make vibrant her passivity in the true and good sense. Her activity will prevent her passivity from | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| constructive contribution to your fellow-creatures. If you are good or unselfish because of the compulsion based on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human being, it would be valuable to explore good and unselfish acts in this light. On the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is rarely the thing in itself that is good or bad, advisable or not advisable. The questions | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to these questions. We cannot say it is good or bad. The answer always lies in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| developing yourself. This is the only healthy and good way to gain access to understanding other people | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But if it ever happens, there is a good and valid reason for it. That then would | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| immature and truly selfish as to overshadow the good and healthy motives, but also because the unconscious | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| -- due in part to the healthy and good motive and partly to the unhealthy one. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| faith; nor does it mean that by being good, you will be rewarded in the hereafter. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| God will reward you for having been a good child. Your action must be self-chosen for its | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| reap a reward of another sort, namely the good feeling of being at one with yourself, the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| times, a wish may be wholly right and good, but your misconceptions -- about selfishness as well | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |