| even though your intellect does not want to accept it. Test these feelings. People often think that | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| wrong conclusions and fears and are ready to accept life for what it is will you be | 38 IMAGES |
| cease to be necessary once you can fearlessly accept and shoulder them. It is a good beginning | 38 IMAGES |
| are God's will. As tests come, we should accept them in humility and thus prove our worthiness | 38 IMAGES |
| mind can be yours if you understand and accept the length of the search. Once you accept | 38 IMAGES |
| accept the length of the search. Once you accept your inability to become perfect quickly, you humbly | 38 IMAGES |
| your inability to become perfect quickly, you humbly accept temporary unhappiness. There is a vast difference between | 38 IMAGES |
| course I have shown you here: acceptance. To accept the tests without understanding their underlying roots, but | 38 IMAGES |
| of how you use the strength if you accept it now willingly. The love of God touches | 38 IMAGES |
| this, but do not mind it too much. Accept yourself as you are, as still imperfect. Even | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are devoutly religious -- think that they must accept any difficulty as a sign of humility. This | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the law that they violated. The willingness to accept a difficulty, recognizing one's own responsibility instead of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you need the right kind of humility to accept the unhappiness you have produced without getting angry | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| channel of self-knowledge. You have to learn to accept on all levels of your emotions that you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| find yourself at this time, an unwillingness to accept yourself as you are. When you feel uncomfortable | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| more highly evolved. Something in me does not accept my own ignorance or selfishness or my desire | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| is, to some degree, unavoidable. But if you accept life with its pain, always trying to understand | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| without feeling any pain. They have learned to accept the oncoming pain without any revolt, giving themselves | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| law that created the situation. You need to accept that you are imperfect and that you suffer | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| -- will pain finally cease. When you completely accept pain, you go through it; and only by | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| up to your own standards and you cannot accept this fact. So the first step must be | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| So the first step must be simply to accept yourself as you happen to be at this | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| It will make it easier for you to accept this if you consider that in this respect | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| utter weakness it must avoid. The child can accept only the first of these alternatives. When it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| as the other extreme, namely, that you cannot accept imperfection and are thus, emotionally, still a child | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| inborn Son of God, merely because they cannot accept certain erroneous assertions. They cannot find the truth | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| it is essential to have the humility to accept yourself as you are now, and therefore to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| added peace of mind. The moment you fully accept the idea that selfishness still has a larger | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a spirit of true understanding and humility to accept oneself as one is at the moment, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| one is at the moment, and also to accept one's inability to change as yet. One has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| brings situations and predicaments which one has to accept, whether one likes them or not, the healthy | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to life as it is. Then you voluntarily accept a duty. If you do not accept it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| voluntarily accept a duty. If you do not accept it emotionally and do the duty because you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or struggling against it and being forced to accept it against one's will. The difference lies in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be true. It is difficult for you to accept the revolutionary news within your soul because you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| known trend must be unreal. Therefore, you cannot accept the new finding. But you should understand deeply | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| can do that, you must first acknowledge and accept your present state of development -- your present | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fear your positive feelings, either, because you will accept an occasional hurt. You will risk expressing your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| able to make a full decision and to accept that you cannot have your cake and eat | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your personality the effects exist, you must accept and go through them. The most constructive attitude | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you always make yourself, will give you peace. Accept that you cannot change your emotions in a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| It is also too proud to let you accept yourself as you are now. You must therefore | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in every realm of your life. You could accept with equanimity that others are better or do | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the other person's point of view and to accept that which you cannot alter. The more you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| because of other people's wrongdoing, the less you accept that which you cannot change. That does not | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| cannot change. That does not mean you should accept wrong in a sick and masochistic way, wanting | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| or wronged just to satisfy your guilt feelings. Accept another's wrong in a healthy attitude of realizing | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| ever feel guilty because of such discoveries; rather accept them and go on to find out what | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to them how and why. Then they may accept the advice or they may not. Still, their | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and shown; again they may or may not accept. And again, in yet other instances their choice | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| better to do it now and sometimes they accept the advice. If they do not, they are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advised accordingly and they may or may not accept the advice. Only when their choice is too | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deny the existence of the difficulties, but to accept them knowing that you have produced them. They | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hard to pay a particular price or to accept the principle in general. When you investigate yourself | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will see that you are not asked to accept anything I say as a dogmatic statement. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| another. Do you understand? Yes. Receive our blessings. Accept from us the strength to look for that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| enables the personality to learn healthy humility and accept being no better than the rest of humankind | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in a true light. If you can really accept yourself -- in your most deeply-seated emotions, not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| something bad or harmful, or when you cannot accept the imperfection of this world, which means that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| threat at all. If someone else does not accept you, or acts contrary to your expectation, this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is it a disaster if you have to accept your own inadequacy. Yet you cannot find out | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in itself is a sign of refusal to accept self- responsibility. If you are truly willing and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| If you are truly willing and prepared to accept full self-responsibility, the vision of truth will prove | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| trace of guilt. With the proper attitude, you accept your inadequacies and face up to them. In | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| depend upon whether or not you learn to accept your inadequacy, and whether or not you learn | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| say here. It is not sufficient that you accept these words intellectually; you have to experience them | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| can help you, or you will choose to accept part of the advice of one physician and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because their inner self does not want to accept it. In such a case, they will constantly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a part; and you may not wish to accept all of it, because you accept a good | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish to accept all of it, because you accept a good part of it. Let me stress | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| liberation from untruth even though they do not accept Christ. This does not change the facts, however | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is equally possible that people believe and accept this truth -- or any other -- and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| untruth out of unhealthy emotions, as well as accept a truth out of unhealthy emotions. The requirement | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way round. But to say, You have to accept Jesus Christ, is just as wrong as saying | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a truer vision. This does not mean to accept something on faith; nor does it mean that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| words will do you no good if you accept them at face value. You must understand, at | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| have no fear of loving. The courage to accept that which may be inconvenient means acceptance of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as you grow and learn to face and accept that which is in your everyday life and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| tense urgency. You should keep in mind and accept beforehand that change and growth are a slow | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| terms with it, cannot forgive, cannot understand and accept, this very child in you always creates similar | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| cannot possibly attain at the moment. Once you accept the reality of your imperfect self, the resulting | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| longer be so serious and tragic. You will accept them as a consequence of your accepted imperfections | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| too. Relapses will surely occur, but you will accept them with a realistic outlook. You will gain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the maximum of self-search, in order to fully accept the responsibility of parenthood. Thus their healthy and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| courageously, growing with and from it. You will accept it as part of life, instead of shrinking | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| responsibility, work, decision, and cost. When mature, you accept all these conditions, but if the child in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| as they are, and lacking the courage to accept them that way. Another sign of emotional immaturity | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this, but do not mind it too much. Accept yourself as you are -- and you are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| but to prove and show the world to accept suffering and use it for purification, too. Many | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| for humanity always revolves around the unwillingness to accept the difficulties of life with all its obstacles | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| also have to drink pain, my friends. Again, accept it instead of escaping from it. Accept it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Again, accept it instead of escaping from it. Accept it in a healthy way, not fleeing it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it in a healthy way, not fleeing it. Accept it as a necessary byproduct of life and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| life and your own temporary state of imperfection. Accept it as the effect you have set in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| weakness. It is an altogether different choice to accept death in a healthy way, out of strength | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and healing, but in how you choose to accept death. Acceptance mixed with fear and negativity -- | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| has no real power to help them. They accept God, and everything that belief in God implies | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fullest sense. As long as your ability to accept death is based on the superimposed knowledge that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| my way, I will be strong enough to accept it. Others have gone through it, and so | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| still fear it, but I will learn to accept what cannot be avoided, and thus I will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| deep experiences. However, it is only when you accept death in its undisguised nakedness without running from | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is no death and no duality. You will accept this, not as a consoling faith to which | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your attitude toward death and suffering. As you accept the one, so will you also accept the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you accept the one, so will you also accept the other. And as you rise and grow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| God caused their suffering, which they have to accept without understanding the reason, often fare better. They | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not to be rejected or denied. If you accept death you will be resurrected in life -- | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| do not know and that they have to accept the unknown. Now, my friends, the many people | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| struggling in this duality, it is impossible to accept life as necessarily containing both. Intellectually you may | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| life as necessarily containing both. Intellectually you may accept and believe this, but emotionally you do not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| genuine desire to better oneself leads one to accept the personality as it is now. If this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not. The duality ceases to exist once you accept yourself as part good and part bad, as | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| live in peace with each other once you accept yourself as having both. And only then can | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| -- if they are at all willing to accept the necessary help. QUESTION: To what extent should | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it will be a shock to have to accept these limitations which are such a far cry | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| could you tell us how to recognize and accept the real self in the other person? ANSWER | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be very humiliating. Therefore the psyche pretends to accept these rules for the sake of perfection per | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these attitudes really represent. If you fully acknowledge, accept, understand, and follow through these feelings, you are | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no negative or problematic tendencies, you could easily accept another person's limitation. You know that. Now, this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| though the child in you never wants to accept that. Since you protect yourself in this foolish | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self, and do not have the courage to accept that a comparatively large area of your personality | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you have of yourself. If you learn to accept the reality of yourself instead of your mistaken | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| living up to perfection; how you do not accept and like yourself because unsuspected negative trends exist | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| trying to whisk away such emotions, learn to accept yourself in spite of them. Learn to see | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| knowing what is right. However, if you cannot accept yourself as a human being, fallible and often | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| on this path now is the ability to accept not only your fallibility but that you often | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fixed rules, it is only because you cannot accept your human fallibility. I purposely refrain now from | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your part. Instead, you should first learn to accept your imperfection without losing faith in yourself. Many | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not expect the impossible of themselves and therefore accept themselves as decent and likable without being perfect | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| recognize their existence in you and learn to accept yourself. This will do more for genuine self-respect | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| should be will subside because you begin to accept yourself. Needless to say, this suspicion is well | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| suspicion is well founded, only you do not accept the impossibility; you still battle against it. As | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your own or other people's failings, you can accept it in a relaxed way. You know that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your fallibility, which you do not want to accept. Something in you, deep down, knows perfectly well | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |