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| or how you understood them. Consider them with honesty and with absolute goodwill to get to the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you look at your problems in truth, with honesty in your heart, you will also receive the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be God's will that you face yourself in honesty instead of choosing the more comfortable way of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you have this attitude. Then face yourself in honesty. What is more important for you: the truth | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| help in order to face yourself in total honesty and to know yourself without your mask. And | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sometimes very deeply and with a maximum of honesty, within oneself. And yet the great truth is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you, including your lower self. QUESTION: Even the honesty is very difficult. ANSWER: Of course the honesty | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| honesty is very difficult. ANSWER: Of course the honesty is difficult. QUESTION: Sometimes you think you are | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| will be victorious. But the difficulty of the honesty can be overcome first by the proper meditation | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| for conquering the lower nature is self- knowledge, honesty toward oneself, and self-analysis. The lower self, in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you should face himself or herself in utter honesty. You can be sure that whatever your particular | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| daily and test your inner motives in complete honesty. Do you wish to do your best because | 18 FREE WILL |
| to do so -- your own constant self- honesty -- and how far you are still deviating | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without demanding from you all you have in honesty, willpower, and effort. I want to say something | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not so. Be honest with yourself and this honesty will surely do more for you than any | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and your emotional reactions to them in all honesty. As you go through your list, you will | 31 SHAME |
| resistance. The motive for resistance, lack of self- honesty, unconscious or half-conscious as it may be, will | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| or any other -- if you have learned honesty with yourself to the maximum degree you are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| action itself, it lies in the self-awareness and honesty. That is the key to all conflicts, be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that any right conduct, not based entirely on honesty and inner conviction, and not sustained by similar | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to yourself. If you weigh all this with honesty and integrity, you will find the right answer | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| this with clear vision and with all the honesty you can muster. You see, my friends, nothing | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| these motives or attitudes are wrong, in further honesty you will know that you are as yet | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and self- respect. It requires not only the honesty to see that there are wrong motives and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and attitudes in you, but also the additional honesty of knowing that you cannot change them at | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| see and evaluate them clearly. Have the further honesty and wisdom to realize that growth occurs slowly | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| can do so only if you have the honesty to search for, verify, and acknowledge the negative | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| learned to investigate themselves with some degree of honesty often fail to do so in the most | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| people decide to face themselves in truth and honesty, no teaching, method or influence can encourage wrong | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conduct. But you must recognize it in all honesty, otherwise you cannot proceed. Incidentally, it is because | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of effort to desired change, you need maximum honesty with yourself. It is easy to deceive the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| way of this path of self-search, of utter honesty with yourself, by working on your development. This | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the very admission that they exist, the very honesty and clear vision about yourself will, on the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| which is honest and growth- producing. Courage and honesty are perhaps the most important assets in one's | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| finding the pretense. For the second pretends an honesty in being ruthless, cynical, and out for his | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you see how much more constructive and advantageous honesty is. Whenever you are on the defensive, your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that foolish candor, or unwise exposure, or cruel honesty are proof of your openness and willingness to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the entire venture. The right spirit, humility, and honesty will make your discussions a living, dynamic experience | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in order to reach the maximum possible self- honesty? Which of my activities can help me most | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| experience, but it requires the labor of stringent honesty with yourself. A few of my friends have | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| little distance and detachment and a maximum of honesty. You are all so indoctrinated with a compulsion | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| aims. If you meet each situation with total honesty fully instead of in the usual superficial way | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is directly related to your innermost integrity, your honesty with yourself in all matters. It is therefore | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| have totally committed yourself to a course of honesty and integrity in this particular issue, regardless of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| where you violate your sense of decency and honesty, you can unlock the door which has closed | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| ends: Only when you have the courage and honesty to face what you do not like in | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is trustworthy, you will develop the courage and honesty to transcend the blocks that deform creative energy | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is very important to understand, my friends. Integrity, honesty, and lack of self-deception in the way you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| dishonesty existed, perhaps on the deepest hidden levels, honesty must be totally established; where an unwillingness to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| take life and the self seriously through the honesty you accord to both and through the sincerity | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| It is used as a substitute for real honesty with oneself and life, for undivided attention to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| illusions, wishful thinking, panaceas, but through decency and honesty with yourself and your life. Be blessed, all | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is real in yourself, in others, in life. Honesty must prevail to stop one's attempts to cheat | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| encourage destructive emotions. Or your mind can choose honesty with the self; it can choose to disclose | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| very best self to life -- all your honesty, integrity and constructiveness, all your most sincere and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| when you involve yourself constructively with attention and honesty by giving always the best of yourself: when | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| see to what degree you still refuse this honesty, this integrity and, also, the desire to give | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Only when you look at yourself with great honesty and a great deal of discernment will you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| what there is. I have the courage and honesty to do this. I request help to guide | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fulfilled its task of deciding for truthfulness, integrity, honesty, effort, and good will, it must step aside | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| duality is self-deprivation for the sake of decency, honesty, morality: You must be good, or else! Goodness | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| self-destruction, or hopeless resignation. It requires an unexaggerated honesty to face up to what is within. This | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| I truly want to look, with courage and honesty, at all the truth in me and around | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| are inadvertently and organically strengthened by the courage, honesty, self-discipline and willpower necessary to reach this juncture | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| with meeting your actions, thoughts and attitudes with honesty. Now you must learn to honestly register and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| commitment to the process of self- realization, your honesty in seeing and facing the truth, your goodwill | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| consequences. Only when you have the courage and honesty to fully see and accept these damaging emotions | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| if you go deep enough and probe with honesty and openness your most subtle reactions to fulfillment | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| conditions compatible with bliss. If you have the honesty to say, I cannot help feeling this way | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| negativity, the recreating can begin. The courage and honesty that was necessary to become conscious of the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| handle problems. It offers solutions that unify decency, honesty, and self-interest; love and pleasure; reality and bliss | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| now appreciate, it requires a great deal of honesty, discipline, and effort to overcome resistance to make | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you truly commit yourself to integrity, truth, deepest honesty and a positive approach to yourself and life | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of his illness, his exceptional intelligence, good will, honesty, perseverance, and courage to work his way out | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| life that you will face yourself in all honesty and challenge what life reveals to you, and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to do this, and thus establish self-respect, courage, honesty, strength, and positive energy patterns. If only a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| on the surface. But a tremendous amount of honesty is required to challenge one's tightly cherished convictions | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| indeed possible without intense painful dark nights, if honesty with the self becomes predominant in the personality | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| questions I have raised -- because of the honesty required and the confrontation involved -- indicates a | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is, that you have the strength and the honesty to do so, that you no longer wish | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| mere fact that you have the courage and honesty to do so is in itself a relieving | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feelings by going through them with courage and honesty, wisdom, and the knowledge that what exists inside | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| reaction. Rather, confront these thoughts and again use honesty and intelligence. For instance, you can say: Yes | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| wish to make the commitment to truth and honesty, to giving as much as I wish to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| fulfill the law of truth and love, of honesty and openness, when I remove the defenses and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| thought does it. Love, humility of spirit, and honesty may also help the power of thought to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| dynamics and in the feeling experiences, in the honesty of feelings and the more intimate relating among | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you, my dear ones. The hard work, courage, honesty, and humility of this pathwork have brought you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of my feelings, my efforts, my attention, my honesty, or whatever it may be. I will do | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| guilt increases the fear of meeting yourself in honesty, so that you convince yourself more and more | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| become a reality as a result of your honesty in exposing yourselves in truth to each other | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| know. It should be used to increase your honesty with yourself. For only then can love grow | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| from commitment to God's world of truth, love, honesty, and integrity. When the willingness exists to honor | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and perverted. If the feelings are open in honesty, the discriminating mind will be the servant it | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| sentimental gesture. It is vigorous, assertive, and free. Honesty is the most needed and most rare form | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| rare form of love among human beings. Without honesty, the illusion will always remain that you are | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| than attained by you through the courage and honesty of looking at yourself as you now are | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| person may be noted for his or her honesty, truthfulness, and integrity on one level, yet there | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| at first. If you summon your courage and honesty and persevere with a minimum of faith, you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| gain as a result of self-confrontation and deep honesty, then you will risk, and the temporary pain | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| specific path requires a lot more courage and honesty than most other orientations in practice today. But | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| intentionality. The more you have the courage and honesty, which I invited you to acquire ever since | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| created by a common purpose of purification, sincerity, honesty, and intent to bring out the divine center | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| work in a community that lives in this honesty, in this truthfulness, in this intimacy of self-revealing | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| not. You will learn the courage, humility, and honesty to expose this part -- the part that | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| self, so as to exert all energy, courage, honesty, and self discipline toward making the deeper knowledge | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| attitudes to outer events requires courage, humility, and honesty. It demands the utter integrity of self-responsibility. But | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| as a result of your progress, the greater honesty and courage that gradually become second nature -- | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| This must be done in a spirit of honesty, perseverance, patience, and humility. Humility means not blaming | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| until you establish richness within through giving and honesty. In actuality, richness always exists with everyone. But | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that this devastates me. This is the true honesty, decency, and integrity that creates richness. You are | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of a defense, each step of courage and honesty where you take responsibility for your negativity, is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| these are candles that spring aglow from your honesty, your courage, your truthfulness, and from the faith | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to face your truth, the more humility and honesty you bring to bear on your whole inner | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| undertake an even greater leap of courage and honesty. That is the third step in the venture | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| unless and until you have the courage and honesty to first bare the negative intentionality very specifically | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| compassion for your wonderful struggle, for your wonderful honesty even while you also see the still existing | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| an expression of divine love, kindness, decency, nor honesty. But if these attributes seem to extract severe | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| for that you need the labor, courage and honesty of self-knowledge so that you cannot be corrupted | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| their own inner authority, because they have that honesty, can be free. That means embracing change. Each | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to establish the one-pointed word. Only through the honesty and courage of self-exposure and purification will you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| The humility of giving up perfectionism and the honesty of paying the price for developing slowly into | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Only by that action of love, trust, decency, honesty and humility can you then come back to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| many past negativities no longer exist, while greater honesty and self-awareness do exist. As a consequence there | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| trains you for this highly advanced state of honesty and fairness. You can, by now, quite easily | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and security come as a result of the honesty to know and admit when you are not | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| sense of the constant process of self-purification, of honesty, of truthfulness, of commitment to growing. If this | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| A beautiful balance will emerge clearly: self-discipline, strict honesty with the self, and firmness with the lower | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| get free gratifications that are not earned by honesty and by everything a human being is capable | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| own skin was more important than truth, decency, honesty, charity, love, empathy -- in short, all that | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| poor, untrustworthy, empty universe makes this step toward honesty impossible. Taking this step is possible only through | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| with God can you have the courage and honesty to trust total openness. Rebuilding can then begin | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| You fail to see that the courage and honesty of transparency, no matter what shameful facets may | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| mind. Then you learn to apply the same honesty and openness you have acquired toward yourself toward | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| by direct awareness. You will need the usual honesty and stamina to explore some of the less | 254 SURRENDER |