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 Mistake.....................54
not aware of them. It is a great mistake to believe that if you do not look 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
spheres first. Now, human beings often make the mistake, by confusing the basic concepts, of believing that 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
is harmful. Here one can sometimes make a mistake by not fulfilling a task with a weaker 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
is factually experienced in touch. You could then mistake the mirror image for the real person. Imagine 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
treat it methodically than to overcome a superficial mistake in action only. For then the root may 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
that a human being may make a sincere mistake as to the will of God? ANSWER: Yes 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
it. And then you will not make a mistake, ever. Because you can ask two, three, four 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
wait for the answer, there will be no mistake. And now, my dear ones, I am ready 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
their immediate spiritual problems. This is a great mistake, for there are also spiritual laws governing this 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
like to mention that it is a great mistake to assume that this divine substance which exists 20 GOD: THE CREATION
is where some human beings make a great mistake when they reason that any communication with the 21 THE FALL
degree of density. Human beings often make the mistake in thinking that, for instance, the world of 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
as wrong. Avoidance or denial is the greatest mistake a human being can make, for it causes 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
an individual, it is possible to make a mistake in judgment and this in itself is not 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
to try. And that is where your gravest mistake lies. My dear friends, it is important to 38 IMAGES
for all human beings. But it is a mistake to transfer their own task on all others 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
may be abused temporarily. Therefore it is a mistake to advocate one's own inclination for all. So 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
will help the woman in other ways. The mistake you make is in thinking that revelation and 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
course, happens. It is better to terminate a mistake than to remain indefinitely in it without finding 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
a marriage lightly. Even though it was a mistake and does not work, one should try to 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
Otherwise they have no right to prevent a mistake in judgment or decision. They cannot prevent mishaps 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
into your own blindness. You always make the mistake of battling against the other's blindness and lack 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
beings and therefore fallible in judgment. An honest mistake, as I always say, is much better than 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
to Utopia, believes you must never make a mistake. Making a mistake means falling into the abyss 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
you must never make a mistake. Making a mistake means falling into the abyss. Here again you 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
it is no tragedy to have made a mistake. The infant thinks you must perish if you 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
important than you now realize. It is a mistake to separate this approach from the conflicts of 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
my reactions be right? Will I make a mistake? Dare I make a mistake? In other words 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
I make a mistake? Dare I make a mistake? In other words the deepest fear of the 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
negative instincts, you at one time made the mistake of concluding that all instincts and emotions are 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
one more thing. It would be a grave mistake to set out thinking, How can I recognize 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
a wonderful opportunity to remedy this very unfortunate mistake that infects the entire human race. With this 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
public approval. It takes courage to make a mistake, if necessary. It takes wisdom, because you know 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
It takes wisdom, because you know that the mistake itself is not so important, what counts rather 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
come across this vital insight -- that the mistake of the moment can be worth much more 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
that it is sometimes better to make a mistake if it comes out of your real self 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
great importance, my friends. It would be a mistake to assume that these two activities follow each 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
open attitude for your deepest nature. Do not mistake the negative emotions you first encounter for the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
his or her life. It would be a mistake to view either the positive or the negative 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
grasp the meaning behind the manifestation? You invariably mistake the manifestation for the root cause. You must 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
through the dark spots within you. Make no mistake: this is not an easy path. But the 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
or disharmonious and pointed. It would be a mistake to interpret acceptance of all feelings and experiences 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
a precise way that there can be no mistake concerning it. As I have often said, the 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
from receiving life's riches. There can be no mistake. A finely calibrated mechanism in the deepest regions 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
so as not to heed it. Often you mistake the vague discontent for the neurosis itself, as 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
process unfolding as an alive, organismic event. The mistake you make is in believing that this organismic 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
consciousness will be. It is therefore a great mistake to think of this development in either/or terms 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
words are spoken within. There can be no mistake about that. So look at the life situations 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
be in another area. It is a great mistake to assume that an open channel guarantees that 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
importance of the static principle. This is a mistake. So your mind becomes fixed and closed to 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
it if you see that it was a mistake. You may see the inner current that led 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
being wrong, having lower-self attitudes, having made a mistake, is unforgivable and unacceptable. Your terror is very 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
depth as possible. However, it is a grave mistake to assume that because of this fact good 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
wrong, by being imperfect, by having made a mistake, it will be much more difficult for you 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
 Mistaken....................53
that you are not religious. You make the mistaken assumption that being religious means to adhere to 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
because the species is dying out, you are mistaken. No, my dear ones, what is beautiful and 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
understand how foolish such an attitude is, how mistaken both in thought and feeling. It is much 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
for the voice of the subconscious is often mistaken for one of the two alternatives you have 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
times, when people make war, they may be mistaken in their ideologies, but at least there is 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
still the case today, but they are entirely mistaken. From the spiritual point of view, the question 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
matters is the motive. Even if you are mistaken, if your motive has some vestiges of decency 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
times. It is true that a sincere but mistaken motive to go to war will not save 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not your ultimate being. However, in psychoanalysis the mistaken idea that they are really their lower self 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
in this respect. Another great misunderstanding is the mistaken idea that to follow the path I am 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
hesitate to turn to Him because of some mistaken image you may have that often comes from 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
trouble connected to doing so arises from your mistaken notion that either one or the other trend 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
close to you. The shame arose from the mistaken idea that your case was unique, and the 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
lies in the middle. Some, out of the mistaken idea that everything sexual is impure, say that 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
different answer. The love you crave in the mistaken idea that it will set you right is 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
not. In the first case you may be mistaken. Why not? You are human beings and therefore 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
an invisible wall around their soul in the mistaken idea that it gives them safety. For instance 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
the sake of pride, but out of the mistaken idea that being special means survival for you 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
concepts are always held on to in the mistaken assumption that they are useful or protective. Once 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
tries to convey to you that you are mistaken, that this is the wrong way. But its 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
wish to convey is that there is a mistaken idea in many metaphysically inclined circles. Their measure 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
attract to you new negative currents? You are mistaken in believing that the transition state produces new 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
and an unrealistic desire. You are under the mistaken impression that you will get what you want 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that you have assumed your pretense in the mistaken idea that you will then belong and be 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
pretense. The pretense is a result of a mistaken view of cause and effect; a mistaken judgement 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a mistaken view of cause and effect; a mistaken judgement: If I am, or feel, or do 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
factor that contributes to prohibiting strength is the mistaken time concept. By this I mean the attitude 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The greater the impatience, the greater also the mistaken belief that it will produce results. In reality 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ANSWER: My dear friend, you are very much mistaken if you believe that I advocate one- sided 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
accept the reality of yourself instead of your mistaken self-image, the strength of negative emotions will abate 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
particular surface desire and sacrifice it in the mistaken idea that here you have found it. This 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
rebellion alleviates the difficulty, you are very much mistaken. Quite the contrary is true. The mature person 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
you do so, because are burdened with a mistaken concept that only heavy thoughts and feelings indicate 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Moreover, he fights against it out of the mistaken fear that all his male and healthy aggression 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
it is not sufficient, for you are all mistaken when you believe that having found the misconceptions 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
more, rather than less -- contrary to the mistaken idea that there is less to see because 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
resistant layers of your psyche. It is entirely mistaken to assume that awareness of anger and even 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
out what I feel, or might I be mistaken? If the reality is different from the way 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
precision, formulate the possibility that you might be mistaken and contemplate other alternatives -- a new world 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
because it brings joy, since you have the mistaken idea that self- realization must automatically mean deprivation 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
begin to wonder. Tell yourself, Maybe I am mistaken, maybe it is not that way. You have 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
allowances for the possibility that you may be mistaken. So often people remain in a bottleneck on 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
several lifetimes -- overemphasized the ego, in the mistaken idea that it is not only safety but 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
call this level reality at all, but your mistaken interpretation is a temporary reality -- it is 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
one versus the other. You would be totally mistaken to adopt the affirmative principle as an overall 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the more you become aware of how each mistaken idea creates destructive feelings and limited concepts of 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
and evil stems from this arbitrary, unnecessary, and mistaken concept of life. All human civilization, almost all 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
provide proof of their veracity, no matter how mistaken those beliefs are and how many other alternatives 174 SELF-ESTEEM
not automatically eliminate it. Even when you unearth mistaken conclusions, false and unjustified fears which determine the 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
is necessary to admit the existence of the mistaken, destructive, mean and unrealistic attitudes, but it is 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
doors closed. Always assume that you may be mistaken, your view may be wrong, the truth may 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
to a belief that is so often totally mistaken and distorted. Nothing makes you as unhappy as 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
the thought that their parents may have been mistaken. Rebelling Christians, on the other hand, find security 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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