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base your life on false foundations. If you accept this knowledge, you not only accept truth, you 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
If you accept this knowledge, you not only accept truth, you base your life on something that 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
be a saint; to be superhuman and not accept your undeveloped side. Accepting it does not mean 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
as you want to be. If you cannot accept yourself as you are, in spite of the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
due to your efforts, enable you to know, accept, and like yourself. Be in peace. Be in 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to approach this. You have to learn to accept yourself on the basis of your real values 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
mean great improvement if you can begin to accept yourself as you are, for this is the 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of your fate. But you still do not accept that life has to be taken as an 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it even though it is not perfect, to accept yourself as average, is the greatest sign of 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
give up being special or grandiose and to accept yourself as being average, living an average life 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
truly come a long way. If you do accept yourself and life in that way, you will 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and, for that matter, you would not even accept it. If you would, it would happen out 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is an underlying reason missing. You have to accept that this distortion spoils things for you, rather 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
overlook this angle because you are conditioned to accept ready-made rules. The rules standing in front of 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
perspective and see that it is possible to accept and forgive yourself, while still knowing the intrinsic 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
again you hear that you should learn to accept, to forgive, and to like yourself, in spite 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and courage, you must, as a first step, accept the blindness, ignorance, and imperfection that still exist 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
weep for yourself, due to your unwillingness to accept life and death and assume the responsibility which 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and therefore you can't deal with it and accept it. Thus, it manifests in pity. QUESTION: It 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
kind of selfishness. Therefore you rebel and cannot accept giving up even the kind of selfishness that 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
to make you conform, appease, bow down, and accept something against your will and conviction by changing 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and you know this must be and you accept it, you still suffer deep pain, even more 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
not see that because of this inability to accept you are so frantic and compulsive. Without the 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
always secure and certain. The mature person will accept life's uncertainty and cope with it. The immature 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
example, sometimes impatient with people who do not accept the truth as I have found it. And 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
is no evil, there is no pain, you accept what we experience due to our own inadequacy 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to terms with it in reality. You can accept it. You can accept frustration. Your life is 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
in reality. You can accept it. You can accept frustration. Your life is not at stake because 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
Strange as this may seem, the more you accept imperfection, the more joy you will give and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
capacity for happiness depends on your capacity to accept imperfection -- not in words or theories, but 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
to uncover the discrepancy in you and to accept it even for the moment. Only in accepting 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you to grow enough to be able to accept imperfection. You repress your lack: your unfulfillments, your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
such frustrations. Second, when you repress you cannot accept what is impossible to change -- namely, imperfection 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
to obtain more fulfillment and simply wishing to accept the status quo because this is the easier 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
in your life is imperfect, yet to fully accept imperfection, you must first become fully aware of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the resentment against imperfection can you begin to accept it. And only when you accept imperfection can 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
begin to accept it. And only when you accept imperfection can you lead a joyful life and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
does not exist on your earth, you cannot accept what is, and therefore your life and your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
To be capable of joy only if you accept imperfection, and to be capable of growth only 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
to be capable of growth only if you accept your own imperfection seems paradoxical. But if you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
must give up striving for progress entirely. To accept imperfection would then mean to stagnate and not 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
not one human being is entirely free. So accept the imperfection, for only then can you grow 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
reaction. In this respect, too, only if you accept your imperfection -- that you cannot, all at 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
perfectionism that makes it impossible for you to accept people, yourself, relationships, and life for what they 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you. But first of all, you have to accept your human limitations; you have to dispense with 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
what it is that you are unclear about. Accept that the lack of clarity may remain, or 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
simply because your resistance against it has disappeared. Accept also your still existing aggressiveness, asking yourself whether 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
now, in your intellect, but emotionally you cannot accept it. You will not be able to accept 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
accept it. You will not be able to accept it until and unless you completely understand what 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
a whole. At least, you cannot learn to accept the areas that are affected by your problems 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
-- erroneously of course -- that if you accept the parent's humanity and therefore let go of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
understanding cause what is called a neurosis. You accept this climate as a matter of course. You 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
idealized self-image makes it impossible for you to accept yourself and others, to accept life in its 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
for you to accept yourself and others, to accept life in its reality, and you are therefore 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
without guilt, without any forcing current, and fully accept yourself as you are, recognizing your immaturity. If 101 THE DEFENSE
makes you feel that way. You will not accept yourself as you now are and will deceive 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of disturbance. As you learn to understand and accept yourself the way you are, and therefore resolve 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
your human relationships. May you all learn to accept yourselves as you are without a feeling of 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
truth. It is your present reality. If you accept this without guilt and judgment, you will eventually 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
level of your being. But do you also accept it when it reaches into the deeper layers 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
to you and whether you are willing to accept the insight that comes. As you grow in 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
offer love or salvation, it takes wisdom to accept that one's own will and ideas are not 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
because you do not fully understand the roots. Accept this slow process of your growth. Remove the 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
attain something more or better, you no longer accept who you are and what you feel. Both 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
will functioning, but this cannot work. Do not accept my word for it, my dear ones. I 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
as you happen to be now. As you accept the reality of your actual state now, the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
see and understand what is in you, and accept yourself without moralizing. Do not ignore these tools 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
hinders your full unfoldment, you have to first accept and understand it. But you can do so 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
and ideals; you do it because you cannot accept yourself as you happen to be now, and 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
from outgrowing your problem. That happens if you accept it as a part of yourself. When you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
as a part of yourself. When you fully accept it, you no longer justify or condemn, because 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
thoughts on your own so that you can accept them as truth. Separate yourself from ideas you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to terms with your reality, you can also accept the imperfection of life as such. Without rebellion 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
us first define the difference. In sadness you accept without self-pity a painful fact of life as 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
trouble to look inside yourself. When you cannot accept something with the simple feeling of sadness it 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
of the sorrow you know that you will accept it eventually. Even while you are still in 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you think. Perhaps they would respect, like, and accept you much more if you were a kind 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
selfish, and shortsighted attitudes -- and learn to accept them without condemning, condoning, or justifying yourself -- 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
should be so hard for human beings to accept that they live in a world of causality 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
bring it out into the open, and then accept its meaning. You will find that this voice 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
certain other parts you are absolutely unwilling to accept. You are so frightened by the possible implications 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
would rather produce much worse false guilt, than accept the tiniest real guilt belonging to the area 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
in its entirety, you must first learn to accept and to forgive yourself. For that very reason 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
and self-condemnation exist, to that degree you cannot accept your lower self. For in that perfectionism, as 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
humility to be what you are, to calmly accept yourself as you are, will you have the 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
you are, will you have the resiliency to accept the lower self as it actually is. Only 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
as it actually is. Only then can you accept the real guilt and make up for it 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
Accepting the real guilt makes it possible to accept your real values, even to become profoundly aware 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
approach certain trends you are not ready to accept in yourself, you produce, almost artificially, an overreaction 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
of not accepting yourself. It is impossible to accept yourself until you have come to the very 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
very worst in yourself. Only then can you accept your whole being; only then will you truly 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
The receiver, too, may only be able to accept the blessing in parts of his or her 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
they have learned and discarding what they cannot accept, or perhaps returning to the same ideas after 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
characterized by relaxed activity and the ability to accept defeat, by well-defined aims with healthy underlying motivations 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
not achieve the result you wish. Learn to accept that you are only human and are not 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
is divided. Part of it says, I should accept what cannot be altered, and another part says 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
another part says, I do not want to accept it. Situations result in nagging fears whenever this 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
is the ability to tolerate frustration, and to accept that everything does not always go one's own 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
alone will give you self-confidence. If you can accept not having whatever you want, that will give 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
helpless and dependent and insecure. If you can accept frustration, you will have the confidence of knowing 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
say, it works both ways: If you can accept reality, you are surely more capable of loving 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
love-capacity, you simultaneously become much better equipped to accept reality. Your resistance to accept what seems to 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
better equipped to accept reality. Your resistance to accept what seems to you unpleasant reality is the 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
more difficult it is to find, acknowledge and accept the existence of the persisting negativity. The more 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
adhere to the superimposed conscience and do not accept your shortcomings or your lower-self aspects -- whether 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
cannot cope with and push out of sight. Accept fully the primitive, selfish, destructive child in order 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
full knowledge of all its manifestations. How you accept it without losing a sense of proportion about 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
which you are able to perceive, experience, and accept the highest faculties within yourself. You can only 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
important on this path to question everything you accept or reject and find your own reasons for 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
even the most enlightened and independent spirits blindly accept certain postulates about why certain things are supposed 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
constant companions that result from instincts you cannot accept in yourselves, and therefore fear and run away 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
fears to face something that is hard to accept. The ignorant child, believing it has to hide 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the best way to increase your ability to accept yourself in a spirit of realism. Displacement and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in you. Such awareness will make you joyfully accept those fulfillments that can be substituted for, without 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
can look the truth in the face and accept what is, no matter how imperfect or how 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
and your fear will vanish. If you can accept a no without becoming an angry or hurt 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
that I do not ask you blindly to accept spiritual teachings you cannot verify within yourself right 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Again, I emphasize, no one needs to blindly accept my word for it. You may also need 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
come when you are willing and ready to accept something other than your preference. As you must 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
childish desire for magic and be able to accept the self-produced misery instead of cringing from it 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
be happy, while you must be able to accept an unhappy now, relinquishing self will and greed 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
may be hurt and may not wish to accept what they observed. Due to your self-inflicted, fearful 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
of living and growing. You must refuse to accept a view unless you, yourself, have arrived at 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
is entirely different. You have to learn to accept your limitations and their results. If you rebel 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
that it is that way. When you cannot accept your limitations, you do not accept self- responsibility 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
you cannot accept your limitations, you do not accept self- responsibility, therefore you cannot step across the 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
at this conclusion by finding it unnecessary to accept suffering, and you may succeed in shedding the 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
realistic, because it often appears more realistic to accept suffering and pain than to allow for constructive 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
an outcome that your innermost self cannot quite accept, or where powerful countercurrents have existed for a 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
and emotionally mature person has to learn to accept the difficulties in life. In order to cope 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
order to cope with life, people have to accept what they cannot immediately change, what is beyond 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
and destroys peace of mind. The ability to accept the inevitable -- such as death, or other 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
self and life. They still have to temporarily accept certain limitations within the self which create an 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
acceptance, you always interpret it as having to accept an ultimate fate of suffering and deprivation. The 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
completely eliminated, while in others you may consciously accept the fact that some element must remain unknown 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
unknown for the time being and yet simultaneously accept the fear. Where there is uncertainty about what 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
for negative motivations, you will be able to accept the rich abundance of life with a raised 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
there is something in you not wanting to accept this possibility, and as long as you are 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
to come to terms with and has to accept your limitations as a human being before you 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
power at your disposal. You all have to accept your own imperfections, as well as this life's 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
seem disconnected from the self. Only when you accept that they, too, are part of the self 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
no longer ruled by the destructive because you accept it as part of you and thus establish 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
provided you have deliberately stated that you indeed accept their reality. The second approach to reaching this 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
friends, and therefore many of you can now accept what I have to say. The aspect that 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
can be good friends with yourself when you accept, acknowledge, understand and work openly and candidly on 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
and mental levels, it is possible temporarily to accept the negative as a passing stage, in the 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN

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