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has to be very strong and sincere, not half-hearted at all! This must be truly the only 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
which makes it important to first recognize the half-hearted nature of the wish, so as not to 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
not have the desired effect because it is half-hearted and full of reservations. I am giving you 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
done so merely because they have made some half-hearted compromises. What is a wholehearted decision for God 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
this task in seriousness; do not make a half-hearted attempt. Try to forget yourself. Try to act 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
those who are adherents are so in a half-hearted way, or in a very superficial way, not 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
become conscious in this work. Whenever an unsuccessful, half-hearted attempt is made to obtain fulfillment, fearful souls 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
awareness it can, at best, be only a half-hearted attempt. Some of my friends have lately begun 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
 
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in this manner, provided you do not work half-heartedly. In other words, and speaking symbolically, your money 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
superficially. Do not deceive yourself by doing it half-heartedly and then claim that you did not receive 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
be paid. So beware of making your decisions half-heartedly like a child, going into them with closed 32 DECISION-MAKING
than one who goes on the path only half-heartedly and stops midway. The latter may not be 47 THE WALL WITHIN
touched man. He was swept into it, but half-heartedly and again without understanding what it was all 62 MAN AND WOMAN
with your total being? Or do you respond half-heartedly? Or do you resist responding at all and 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
it does not lead to the salvation they half-heartedly seek in both camps. You are all in 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
are still struggling with it and have only half-heartedly admitted its existence. Perhaps some of you may 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
your commitment to God and your task only half-heartedly. You live with one foot in heaven and 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
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must be wrong, or is at best a half-truth. Whatever you do or think today and however 18 FREE WILL
be. Objectivity means truth. Subjectivity means colored truth, half-truth at best, complete untruth in many cases. Contrary 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
may even be correct. Yet, you are in half-truth when you judge others and fail to see 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
be true on a certain level as a half-truth or a quarter-truth -- may no longer hold 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
of the setup, it may still be a half-truth applied to any individual case, for many personal 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is truth. With a teaching or method of half-truth, this often happens in a more roundabout way 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
flow. You are right, but it is a half-truth and that is always dangerous. The unpleasant things 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
than less truth. For misunderstood truth leads to half-truth which is the most dangerous of all. Much 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is it possible to maintain an untruth or half-truth; or even a temporary state that had its 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
a most truthful observation will be but a half-truth, whereas any observation will have the ring of 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
This is true. And yet it is a half-truth when this kind of identification overlooks the part 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
is a counter-balance of the previous distortion and half-truth. The present tendency is that the suffering person 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
but it is, like all dualistic approaches, a half-truth. The truth is that woman indeed possesses the 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
was ridiculed as superstition was in reality a half-truth. It is indeed a kind of superstition to 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
realm. It is the principle of confusion, distortion, half-truth, and all the variations that may possibly exist 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
perceptions. Here again we are dealing with a half-truth. In fact, both good and evil are often 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
the second principle of materialism. The confusion and half-truth inherent in the denial of absolute good and 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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increasing general development, despite the pitfalls, misunderstandings, and half-truths that go with such exploration. This is part 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
to misconceptions, wrong conclusions, generalizations that are always half-truths, at best? This applies to many things, my 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
movement that leads to greater blindness, error, and half-truths, and puts the emphasis on aspects of the 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
interactions of all the knots, ensnarlments, false beliefs, half-truths and contradictions comprise what actually exists in you 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
never anywhere near as threatening as the foggy half-truths and evasions, no matter what it is. What 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
distort and exaggerate to falsify. You deal with half-truths -- for what you use as your case 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
easy to deny, rationalize, distort, conceal, or use half-truths to justify this attitude. Lately, several of my 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
dark, struggling to make a patchwork of the half-truths at your disposal, using anything to fill the 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths or complete distortions and errors. The result must 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
splits rather than unification. Both these extremes are half-truths, though they can have relative validity. For example 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
treatises are written in which a lot of half-truths are used to present one side of the 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
you crazy with confusion, dualistic splits, false either/ors, half-truths, and subtle distortions that you cannot sort out 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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you find yourself to be in many areas half-way. Your world is neither all good nor all 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and therefore other states of consciousness. Your being half-way should be a clear indication that your sphere 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
finally, where all is bad. You are also half-way as to cause and effect, or rather your 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 
 Hallow......................3
eternal, living God. HALLOWED BE THY NAME. You hallow the name of the Father by trying to 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
a personal connection through which you will truly hallow His name. For when you look at your 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
you the answer. THY KINGDOM COME. When you hallow God's name by following all spiritual laws you 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
 
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and damaging. I do not mean a reasonable halt to something that is obviously harmful; I mean 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
no longer hazy, you can evaluate their effect, halt them, and choose a constructive pattern of thinking 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
time difficulties and negative moods appear, you must halt the negativity that seems so easy to give 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
reverse this process and use your energy to halt destructive processes, when you deliberately contact the powers 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
more of the same, unless you wish to halt the process. Each psychic nuclear point, in its 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
the fearful, separated, fragmented and stubborn mind can halt the process and clog up the channel to 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
development of consciousness are regressive and try to halt the movement, fearing it, and believing it is 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
believing it is bad. But they cannot really halt the movement, which then hits a closed channel 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
group as a crutch to substitute for individuation halt the movement as much as those who use 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
to not bring this new force to a halt so that it would manifest negatively, but you 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
substance. When you do, you will no longer halt the natural movement to follow your fuller self-expression 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
say to you, my beloved friends, do not halt the movement that is the expression of life 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
encounter this self-deception in you, my dearest friends, halt and question yourself about its effects upon your 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
movement with the irrational idea that you thereby halt time and prevent your death. Yet you would 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
a movement, a journey, that comes to a halt when the movement is obstructed. Stagnation was the 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
lopsided and would therefore finally come to a halt. The aim of this path is a development 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
and use every means at their disposal to halt the process. If they succeed, or to the 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
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stream. The cosmic forces are constantly blocked and halted by your ignorance, confusion, lack of awareness, or 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
the continued process of inner growth need be halted. It depends on you how you approach yourself 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
universal flow must stop, and thereby evolution is halted. One of the tragic human conflicts is that 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
living energy. When the natural energy flow is halted within your soul substance, you find yourself in 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
as a strong movement. When this movement is halted by the ever-existing tendency to stagnate, it creates 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
exactly this principle. When the new movement is halted, what would express itself in a blessed, rich 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
manifest. In the meantime, the great new movement halted by the resisters manifests in a distorted way 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
must not be confused with group consciousness. The halted movement of group consciousness expresses itself in large 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
cogs in a big machine, depersonalized because they halted both movements: their own individuation and the group 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
the group consciousness. As the movement is blindly halted, feared, denied, population increases; greater communities develop a 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
a certain point of their evolution. They have halted their process and interrupted the line of their 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
power of awakening and growing consciousness cannot be halted. The current is in flux. The great waters 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
influx is set in motion, it cannot be halted. The more opposition it encounters, the more painful 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE

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