| longer, but this does not mean that the law of cause and effect is broken. Grace is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the result of our breaking some spiritual law and in that sense is punishment. Shouldn't we | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are punished because you have broken a law. It is to be approached in a completely | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| control over them than happened anyway. Any outer law is a must and therefore not real spirituality | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| must and therefore not real spirituality. But outer law is a necessity for those whose instincts are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is healthy for body and soul. Today, this law cannot have the same meaning. I must keep | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right, but it would be entirely against spiritual law to tell you about it. One reason is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| force the people around you to break this law, or what seems to you a law. But | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this law, or what seems to you a law. But your conviction that you are in an | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| God's laws and try by compulsion and man-made law to secure the arrangements that serve their interests | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| present. I only want to state that this law does not work by static general rules, but | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| are equally necessary. They are part of the law of cause and effect that applies to all | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| science and philosophy could find unity in spiritual law -- and to that end, a positive perception | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| can freely express itself in accordance with spiritual law. If we are the highest reality, one in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will not need to cling to a rigid law. You will see the flexible law working, and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a rigid law. You will see the flexible law working, and it will not be a danger | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to you. The inflexible or fixed rule or law is for the child who cannot or dare | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| another question? QUESTION: Yes. What is the psychic law operating between the conscious and the unconscious mind | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a strict dividing line and what is the law regulating what stays down and what comes up | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| presence of destructive ones, you will see the law of cause and effect operating in your own | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| but you also become acutely aware of the law of contagion, and this very awareness will immunize | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is dearest to you, for such is the law of nature. If you approach this question with | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of the cosmos. Like attracts like, and this law cannot be changed. One of the first things | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that His birth happened in accord with universal law which God created in perfection. In this statement | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| meaning simply affirms the utter justice of cosmic law, or of your inner psychological law. The more | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of cosmic law, or of your inner psychological law. The more you work on the path of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not due to a stiff, rigid, merciless law, but it is your own inner law. And | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| merciless law, but it is your own inner law. And in that you realize the glory of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| after that. QUESTION: You mentioned an inner psychological law. Would you explain that, please? ANSWER: Whether you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Whether you call it psychological or cosmic law makes no difference. It is one and the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same. However, when I refer to cosmic law, you automatically think of something that is way | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is way outside yourself. When I say psychological law, you automatically associate it with yourself, as you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you know it is you, your own law. But cosmic law seems to you as if | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is you, your own law. But cosmic law seems to you as if it were something | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cause and effect due to a wonderfully just law that is mercy, grace, wisdom and love. COMMENT | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Since union simply is, it exists outside the law of cause and effect. Therefore there is no | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unconscious soul forces must respond according to the law that reestablishes balance. To better understand this process | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| still have unsolved problems of this sort. This law always works. As you give out, so must | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of these measures is bound to distort the law of communication and therefore sabotage your heart's desire | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| healthy, and you will begin to see the law taking its natural course, and find that you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| all the better. But there is no general law that can proclaim one particular happening as more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your inner conditions from the viewpoint of spiritual law, we had good reason to do so. As | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are other means to effect that through civil law. Religion need not be distorted and truth obscured | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| up rules and dogmas, and has distorted the law into such a rigid concept that humans fell | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not yet far enough in their development, human law will suffice to protect society from their untamed | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that truth cannot be stated as a rigid law. It always depends on how you feel and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| spirit of truth, and the letter of the law has been substituted. Because people are too lazy | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work on such a path. This follows the law of affinity -- the attraction of similar and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| psyche, a wrong approach to God, to universal law, and to the self. It should not be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the soul may be very opposite to divine law. That place is heaven, the kingdom within of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your sense of adequacy and self-confidence. The psychic law that says that running away from the original | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| finally pulls out of it. You see, a law applies here which you so often observe around | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this onetime experience into a general rule and law, then your present and future ability to experience | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| all identical. But if you mean that this law of cause and effect is to the finest | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| difficult for them to realize that the same law must exist also in a wider context. They | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| context. They would not assume that a different law operates merely because in one case cause and | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| true light. You then know that the same law of causality must hold true also where you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| You are wrong; you sin against the vital law of life. Make up for it, change, become | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of the benign qualities of spiritual and universal law. On the one hand, you feel a great | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| because I say so, or because some spiritual law prohibits forcing. Obeying an authority or a law | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| law prohibits forcing. Obeying an authority or a law is not a free action that can possibly | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to be good, you wish to obey the law, to be blameless. Restitution becomes as false as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is based on the balancing quality of inner law. But let us now consider another aspect of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| humanity as a whole understands spiritual and cosmic law on a deeper level than before such a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a vital one or not. Exactly the same law holds true for the inner organization of life | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| harmony by truthful self- examination respond according to law, while self-deception and lack of awareness cannot bring | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| they cannot function according to their own harmonious law, they deaden. Hence, to be fully alive as | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a long time humanity was governed by the law of strength and power. You can see this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| force of other people. There was no civil law for protection. There was no code of ethics | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| This path is the best demonstration of the law of growth. In fact, my introductory words to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| forfeiting her destiny. For such is the spiritual law. In a healthy state, the two primary aspects | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| not live in a chaotic world, where the law of the jungle seems the most appropriate. Such | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| human language, appear as contradictions. For every divine law contains two complementing principles -- the masculine and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| through a deeper understanding of yourself and spiritual law you begin to realize that suffering is unnecessary | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| self-imprisonment and its results. The knowingness that the law of cause and effect must fulfill itself will | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| -- and they do so according to immutable law -- their overall consciousness can be referred to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a process of attraction and repulsion, according to law, that is like the laws of chemical bonding | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and reach your real self. This is a law. It is a logical law, for then you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| This is a law. It is a logical law, for then you act out of strength and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| energies are used to further aggrandize it. The law that you have to reach a certain state | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| often, totally ignore it. The importance of this law has not been made clear enough to humanity | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a variant form, the essence of this very law can be seen in the topic under discussion | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| can be attained. This is the very same law that determines how working from abundance produces abundance | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| real self. QUESTION: I cannot visualize how the law of karma and heredity works and how the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| will avoid a great deal of confusion. Karmic law, heredity, and specific conditions of birth are then | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| effect, it is impossible to feel how this law operates over a wider time span. QUESTION: I | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and beyond what they believe to be natural law. Once they are understood, the true significance of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| rationalized by claiming it to be an inevitable law, happening through habit, or other circumstances. But it | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| this miracle is. ANSWER: The miracle is a law of life that you just discovered. The law | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| law of life that you just discovered. The law is that whatever concept you hold must manifest | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| happiness? This is as logical as any physical law. For instance, if you move your body from | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in the universe. It is as logical a law as any law you no longer find miraculous | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| It is as logical a law as any law you no longer find miraculous. The reality of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it, it must respond, for this is the law. This is no magic, it is not an | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| respond to the truth and to the spiritual law -- hence it cannot open itself to receive | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| It is a simple mathematical equation, or a law of physics. These laws cannot be broken; they | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| within yourself. The next violation of the mental law is that of false ideas. We have talked | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| on erroneous concepts must inevitably be destroyed. This law points up the falsity of dualism, whose earmark | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| that these limits or rules are not unalterable law and can be questioned, the limits recede and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to see where I possibly violate some spiritual law, where I am wrong in the usual sense | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| as a matter of course, according to the law of cause and effect. This climate is essential | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| natural state of being. It is the natural law. An individual who is not in a state | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| a fresh new approach. When you take any law for granted that is not a universal law | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| law for granted that is not a universal law of life you close the door to the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and attitude, is totally different. When the natural law is different from the human law, the difference | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the natural law is different from the human law, the difference becomes even more obvious. Those who | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of all bliss and fulfillment. Knowing the natural law of evolution, even when you are not yet | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| reassurance. Where do you, perhaps, forsake a natural law and not even wish to know it, so | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| apply to what you said about the natural law as opposed to complying with the expectations of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| people around me? ANSWER: You forsake the natural law by not trusting in the benign nature of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| This energy works according to its own built-in law. As you know, it is totally impersonal. When | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| energy they generate within. For that is the law of the universal life principle. The separated state | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| laws expressing this state of consciousness is the law of gravity. It is a special law that | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |