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is the case, a personal fault is always responsible, however great the self-deception. Faults need to be 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
this. They know that they themselves are solely responsible for their happiness or unhappiness. They know that 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
there must be something within you that is responsible. This and similar questions will be answered if 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
publicly shape world history are to be made responsible for wars, but every single person who, with 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
the first place and that you yourself are responsible for them. But emotionally you have not learned 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
self-knowledge. Find the fault in you that is responsible for your outer hardship and eliminate the fault 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
of these alternatives or their variations may be responsible for allergies. There may also be other possibilities 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
our particular sphere. Some people make evil spirits responsible when their lower self takes over, meaning that 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
not outright crimes or recognized sins, you are responsible. The higher your development, the more it is 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
yourself of burdens and chains that were directly responsible for your unhappiness. Afterward you will recognize without 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
uncover your hidden anxieties and complexes which are responsible for your disease. Most of it is anxiety 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
to you to claim that you are not responsible merely because you have forgotten them. At one 18 FREE WILL
in your life for which you are not responsible. You all know that. Therefore, the idea that 18 FREE WILL
That is when you find the inner causes responsible for your trials and hardships. Unfortunately, you will 18 FREE WILL
else and as a result no one is responsible or accountable for their sins, faults and weaknesses 22 SALVATION
human beings are concerned, you should be very responsible, not only about the life of your fellow-creatures 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
entire personality of the unified beings that was responsible for the Fall, but certain personality trends which 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
attitude, some imperfection in your soul that is responsible for the event. Even if the connection is 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you will dissolve inner images that are directly responsible for your conflicts. Once you have attained some 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
making that part of you conscious that is responsible for your lack of success so far. Relax 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
self, and these traits, among other things, were responsible for their one-sidedness. As long as this stubbornness 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
it is not just one fault that is responsible, because one fault is always connected with another 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
on them. What could be directly or indirectly responsible? Then go a step further. You all know 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
law by this fault of yours that is responsible for your immediate problem. I can promise you 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
how much these resisting parts of yours are responsible for your trials and tribulations in life. That 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
the corner of disbelief, and this attitude is responsible for your resistance to delving into your own 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
of yourself concerning underlying desires that may be responsible for your present state, the answer must evolve 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
imperfections of other people are supposed to be responsible for your own disharmony and your own inner 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
self-will, and fear underlie all faults and are responsible for all unhappiness and all untruth that exists 31 SHAME
degree, the condition I have described must be responsible for it and not other people's lack of 31 SHAME
and one that is right. Only mature and responsible searching will eventually show you what the right 32 DECISION-MAKING
have never been in it. They have more responsible tasks. Others learn under them. The hospital sphere 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
Never forget that it is God who is responsible, that without His strength and grace none of 35 TURNING TO GOD
you first how to understand the inner causes responsible for the outer effect. I show you how 35 TURNING TO GOD
peace, and love, will make you feel more responsible, and your prayer for all these highest values 36 PRAYER
into a big ugly pool and finally are responsible for all the hurts of this world, for 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
is testing you, or that other people are responsible for your repeated mishaps. You therefore pay much 38 IMAGES
image is the one factor in your life responsible for every unhappiness. No one but you is 38 IMAGES
for every unhappiness. No one but you is responsible for your images. True, you did not know 38 IMAGES
please do not say, How can I be responsible for other people repeatedly acting in certain ways 38 IMAGES
your images. Your unconscious wrong conclusions are directly responsible for the tests you are experiencing at any 38 IMAGES
and business contacts know that they are thoroughly responsible. Yet when they try to understand their lives 39 IMAGE-FINDING
formulate the wrong conclusions, what was and is responsible for your problems in life. It goes without 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
dear friends, finding out that you yourself are responsible is a major point of this work. Many 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
wrong conclusions were drawn. These very images are responsible for your suffering, for the phantoms you carry 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
us again take an example: A person is responsible for many cruel deaths, like in a concentration 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
you says, The more I know, the more responsible I am for changing myself. If I guard 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
you never know that your conflicting desires are responsible for your outer miseries and unfulfillments. The latter 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
that formed during your childhood and that are responsible for the mishaps in your life. Those of 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
say that improved medicine and living conditions are responsible for the longer life span now. I certainly 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
occur so often in your world and become responsible for many wrong views, philosophies and teachings. Whenever 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the side of the law, you are doubly responsible in your obligation not to reject the side 47 THE WALL WITHIN
understand deeper layers of your being that are responsible for the reactions you have recently discovered. But 47 THE WALL WITHIN
if they happened involuntarily, without the personality being responsible for them at all. Thus a further conflict 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
every negative situation. Various psychological factors may be responsible for it -- self-punishment or a form of 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
leading to homosexuality, or at least being partly responsible for it, would work this way: identification with 53 SELF-LOVE
God's will that you become mature, independent, and responsible for your decisions. By no means do I 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
imply becoming a grown person who can make responsible decisions personally? Does the idea that God's will 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
make decisions hide a fear that you are responsible and may have to blame yourself? Isn't it 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and why does this happen. What misconceptions are responsible for it? This outlook should help you a 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
You might say to yourself, Since I am responsible for myself, I am even more guilty. This 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
know the subtle and fine difference. Declaring yourself responsible for your life and seeking the remedy for 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
strengthening activity. But feeling that because you are responsible for your life you are all the more 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
self-importance, strengthened by various personal images, may be responsible for such an occurrence, which is especially painful 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
in Eve, taking the active part, hereby being responsible for the Fall, brings several factors to our 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
When Eve was found to be more immediately responsible for the Fall, it was again shown that 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
credit. However, you do not wish to be responsible for anything bad that happens. Then you refuse 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
so because you wish to make this authority responsible for the negative things only. Many of my 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
pet has no freedom but it is not responsible for obtaining its own food and shelter. A 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
animal is free, or freer, but it is responsible to look out for itself. This must apply 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
you deny your self-responsibility. Therefore, others must be responsible. If you did not cling tenaciously to the 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
thinks that independent decisions for which one is responsible must not be made. It should be noted 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
truth on that particular philosophy and hold it responsible for their failure and unhappiness. At first such 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you solve the problems. QUESTION: We are all responsible for what happens to us. I can understand 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it is very hard to find who is responsible. ANSWER: It does not make the slightest bit 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lead to irresponsibility toward others? If I am responsible for just myself, how then am I my 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
brother's keeper? Wouldn't it lead to selfishness, being responsible only for my own life and well-being? I 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
there are only two alternatives: Either I am responsible for myself, or for the other person. This 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If and when you are or should be responsible for another person, you can truly fulfill this 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
often the case that people feel themselves overly responsible for others, thus deceiving themselves about their own 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
COMMENT: And self-responsibility means only that we are responsible for our own choice and also for the 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
what manifests in world politics, but is partly responsible for it. Each emotion, each attitude, each current 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
contribute to and are in a small measure responsible for the world's unrest. Not in the sense 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is not only that such a person is responsible, but many other people, too, as well as 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
tragedy, this senseless struggle. One main factor is responsible, which varies in extent, detail and manifestation with 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
self- assurance, your self-confidence, your self-respect. It is responsible for the deepest roots of your inferiority feelings 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
one's innermost motives and feelings -- especially the responsible people. It is coming, it is spreading, my 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
the world leaders, the people who are in responsible positions, will be required to go through some 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
hand, you ought to be cautious and feel responsible, while on the other you should know that 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
what makes concentration so hard and thus are responsible for your difficulty in focusing your attention on 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
express itself in a devious way, which is responsible for your not getting the love that you 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
abyss that you shy away from. It is responsible for so many of your conflicts and resistances 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
Incidentally, another misconception or illusion, which is largely responsible for your fear of loving, is the idea 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
be of help. One of the psychological factors responsible for the tendency to let the spirit wander 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
it is always the distorted God-image which is responsible for that fear. You may unconsciously fear that 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
recognizing your hazy or mixed goals that are responsible for whatever it is you lack. This particular 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
particular confusion and lack of motivation is directly responsible for unfulfillment or lack of success, if you 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
a condition exists, both must be regarded as responsible, as having contributed to it in one way 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
the responsibility to oneself, the acknowledgment of being responsible for one's own trouble and the responsibility to 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
in a similar way. All these elements are responsible for the difficulty to interpret dream language. QUESTION 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
stage you can barely see how you are responsible for your misfortunes and, therefore, how just this 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you can learn to liberate yourself from the responsible inner factors. Resisting evil, translated into terms of 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
from the consequences you are directly or indirectly responsible for, therefore not learning from life. It is 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this state prevails among the majority of people responsible for achieving unification, their inner obstacles will always 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
detect the inner error of action and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the struggle 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
first place, you have to understand what is responsible, at least in part, for the human being's 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
how reactions or attitudes of your own were responsible for such occurrences. This came to you as 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
you; how you belittle others who are supposedly responsible for your defeat to save face. All these 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
is to belittle others by making them seem responsible, so that your defeat becomes theirs. This creates 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
of this work, that your inner problems are responsible for your outer ones. So, my friends, do 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
decisions for me. I will not be held responsible and I will be rewarded with happiness for 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
free, to make you strong, to make you responsible so that you do not wait for justice 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
will soon come to see that it is responsible for your weakness, your helplessness, your enduring fear 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
bad luck, instead of seeing how you are responsible for it. You resist such insight because you 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
to other factors that are not half as responsible, or you simply ignore whatever made you react 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
middle road which can only be attained by responsible thinking and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and can be eliminated by changing the patterns responsible for such frustrations. Second, when you repress you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the compulsiveness, which, at least in part, is responsible for your tampering with your genuine emotions. The 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you think you have to adhere to are responsible for overplaying or underplaying your emotions. Is one 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
your shoulds, regarding the other person or yourself, responsible for your tampering with your natural genuine feelings 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
perfect -- how can you discover what is responsible for them and come to know the greater 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
now have. But there is also something else responsible for your present uncertainty. Investigate the motivations, both 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
help me. I am so helpless. You are responsible for me. The mistakes I commit do not 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
it caused you to institute the unproductive ways responsible for your present pain. If you do not 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
your lack of loving, because this is often responsible for the failure of relationships that you would 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
broken awareness with all its connotations that is responsible. Thus you do not want what you want 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
to eliminate these destructive feelings that are evidently responsible for the child's fear. The more compulsively you 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
used does have that effect. Your mind is responsible for all the images, wrong conclusions, petrifications, generalizations 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
Who made all this? Is any superior mind responsible for this creation? With such questions, the first 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
him, who decides for him and is thus responsible for him. He clings to this authority in 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
it; that it can come without his being responsible for it. In other words, it is either 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
he molds his own fate; that he is responsible for his life. While religion teaches the latter 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
you, and millions of others like you, are responsible for the ills of the world. No guilt 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
does not eliminate another; that all involved are responsible for all the problems of a relationship. Such 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
other person's fears and problems may be as responsible for it as their own blindness when the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
with life without them. The same attitude is responsible for an inner unwillingness to change. All this 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
understanding the nature of the emotions and attitudes responsible for the contradictory soul movements. If you strain 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
to go through all the effort of becoming responsible for your life, and that up to now 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
on remaining a child because then others are responsible for your needs, your happiness, and your safety 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
capacity. Try to see how the faulty perception, responsible for the images, squeezes you into a very 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
lack of it is, perhaps, the greatest factor responsible for all the misery human beings have managed 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of love. And the same self-centeredness is therefore responsible for creating false, unreal good feelings. This is 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
that not only ignorance and poor guidance are responsible for the struggle within yourself, for you are 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
events and conditions. We found that they were responsible for creating psychic conditions damaging to your self-unfoldment 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
and positive factors in childhood can be equally responsible for inner distortions. Offhand, this may appear quite 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
within your psyche. Hence, your parents are not responsible for your problems, and yet their faulty behavior 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
refer to the underlying basic conflict that is responsible for your being a human entity and living 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
their selfish primitive drives and made them more responsible for others and less self-centered. Humanity thus began 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
a number of aspects which are quite mature, responsible, concerned, free, independent, while harboring problem areas in 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
You will become more independent, more free, more responsible, less isolated. Our love, our blessings go to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
about the inner misunderstandings and misconceptions which are responsible for your fear of love. You are afraid 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
To the degree a man learns to be responsible for himself in the true, deeper sense of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
fantasy. You then believe that outer reasons are responsible for your incapacity to actually realize this fantasy 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
feet. They desire a higher authority to be responsible for them, but lack the humility to recognize 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
dispensing with the necessity of having another authority responsible for you. Every effect in your life can 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
now. And then you may find further aspects responsible for the wrong conclusion that cut you off 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
all truth teachings postulate that free will is responsible for one's fate. Divers religions and philosophies may 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
absolving yourself from self- responsibility, rather, you are responsible for opening the door, not to an outer 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
years, we have amply discussed that misconceptions are responsible for all suffering. This includes the illusory fences 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
contradiction between your being taught that you are responsible for your fate and also that powers beyond 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
is these misinterpreted hurts and pains which are responsible for the foreign nucleus I was talking about 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
You begin to own up to and feel responsible for this indwelling entity. You connect with it 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
or a resistance, then you know what is responsible for the pain you feel in your isolation 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
less. Therefore the other person must be equally responsible if the relationship does not work. It is 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
are, no words can ever, by themselves, be responsible for helping you make the transition. But they 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
embrace injustice and destructiveness around you without a responsible attempt to eliminate them. I am not talking 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
between the inner and the outer negative conditions responsible for the blockage are thoroughly understood. The child's 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
outer negative condition can therefore never be totally responsible for the condensation of energy and for the 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
all experiences of pleasure. This in turn is responsible for numbing all feelings. For how can pleasure 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
This distorted perception of life conditions is also responsible for the endemic competitive attitude that afflicts humanity 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
that I have someone else whom I hold responsible for my being the way I am. Is 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
themselves the experience of spontaneously discovering independent, self- responsible concepts by which one can conduct a meaningful 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
one thinks fear is the obstacle to self- responsible inner conduct, the fear will not vanish. But 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
is governed by this misconception, and it is responsible for many of your difficulties. Finding the source 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
the more intense you are, the more serious, responsible, and focused you are; conversely, the less intense 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
something in yourself. This, in turn, is directly responsible for your self-distrust, hence distrust of the creative 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
many people is that no one is ever responsible for anyone else. This may seem incomprehensible in 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
last and deepest analysis, each individual entity is responsible for himself. Whatever happens in the course of 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
you see this and know that you are responsible, you are on the road toward the realization 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
that blocks out the life-giving force. They are responsible for your alienation from the universal life principle 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the ego and the universal power. They are responsible for your illusory fear and shame. This shame 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
is just as basic as all the fears responsible for the misconceptions and the splitting of the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
general ignorance has also influenced those who were responsible for your upbringing: they discouraged the best in 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to a parent substitute, making him or her responsible, wanting to be taken care of and refusing 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
vicious circle. The less you see yourself as responsible for the negative feelings you still possess as 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
desire to punish those who one thinks are responsible for one's unhappiness, and even some form of 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
wrong others may be, they can never be responsible for your suffering, no matter what the appearances 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
self-victimization, resentments, blame of others whom you make responsible for your condition -- to that extent exactly 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
at once the highest and the lowest is responsible for that layer of reality where you think 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
its necessary function, but it is only indirectly responsible for the undercurrents and the will of the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
also a totally free individual, autonomous and completely responsible for the life I shape for myself. No 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the other, but by knowing your ego is responsible for your life. It is the carrier in 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
you more angry and pained. This is vastly responsible for the apparently bottomless despair and rage we 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
to the very state of consciousness that is responsible for their complaints against life. This is their 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
the areas where an inner corresponding attitude is responsible for either. This approach is diametrically opposed to 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and affection from others. He thus makes them responsible for what he must give to himself. Blaming 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
blame launched against the world makes the world responsible for the unhappy state. The real self sends 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
have not been faced. Childhood Trauma Not Directly Responsible for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
-- only indirectly. It is not in itself responsible for all that. The healthy soul also experiences 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
It is these negative patterns that are directly responsible for the unhappy experience in the present. You 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
back from life. Your parents are not finally responsible for your misconceptions. Resentment against them violates the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the law of self-responsibility. Similarly, you are not responsible for the neurotic patterns of your own child 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
is based on a misconception, although you are responsible for your own distortions that might affect the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
for living and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity and lack of feelings. How 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
the very unhappiness you deplore and render others responsible for is caused by negative attitudes you actually 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
deny your pleasure will you stop making others responsible for your deprivation, which makes you keenly suffer 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
his last session, which summarize the innermost attitude responsible for his illness: He hates his parents so 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
wants them to pay for him and be responsible for him in all ways -- financially, emotionally 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
effort to comprehend further the deeply embedded misconceptions responsible for wanting to retain this game. But now 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
these factors exist, but if they were indeed responsible for the condition of the mental patient, there 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
always the more highly developed person who is responsible for the relationship. Specifically, that person is responsible 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
responsible for the relationship. Specifically, that person is responsible for searching the depths of the interaction which 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
emphasize here that when I speak of being responsible for the less developed person, I do not 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
more primitive. He or she will render others responsible for his or her unhappiness and disharmony in 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
own problems in relating and still render others responsible for anything that goes against your liking. This 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
your life and you no longer render others responsible for what you experience or fail to experience 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
instances is that one feels helpless and not responsible for one's own experiences and destiny. In fact 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
experiences -- hence factors outside yourself must be responsible. Those of you who have explored yourself a 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
consider the possibility that this condition is largely responsible for all you want to change in your 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
origins, results, further ramifications. What underlying misconceptions are responsible for the overt self-destruction, the hate, the spite 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
you lacked as long as you held others responsible for what you had to suffer. If such 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
to claim that these three traits are more responsible for evil than the evil traits themselves, including 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the ages. One says that you are not responsible for your feelings and unmanifest attitudes. You are 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
for your feelings and unmanifest attitudes. You are responsible only for your actions. So, if you hate 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
need to blame and accuse to make others responsible for what you feel too guilty about to 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
actual evil in them, but they are not responsible for your misery. Your insistence that they are 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
then also express into life, My evil is responsible for the suffering of others. Thus you fluctuate 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
be misunderstood. Those who try to make you responsible for their suffering and pin their evil on 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
to see that part in you that is responsible for being affected by another's evil, then you 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
not these aspects. It is possible to be responsible for them without believing that they are your 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
or a certain environment will seem to be responsible for painful experience in childhood. But, actually, the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
on blaming your parents, making them and life responsible, you deprive yourself of the vital center of 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
failing human beings -- they cannot be held responsible for your suffering now. Even less can others 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
harmless, as yet unknown inner factors -- are responsible for your unfulfillment. And so the vicious circle 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
never be free when you do not feel responsible. The unhappiness you breed with your negative intentionality 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
It holds back what should move. The consciousness responsible for the energy thickening must exist accordingly. This 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
must compromise and speak as though consciousness were responsible for the energy flow. Anyhow, from your vantage 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
that works for you without making you deeply responsible for the process of creation. On the contrary 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
-- people, circumstances, life as a whole -- responsible for your misery. This brings further chain reactions 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
you pursue your negative intentionality, you are also responsible for the other. One of the apparently paradoxical 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
truths of spiritual reality is that you are responsible for yourself and you are also responsible for 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
are responsible for yourself and you are also responsible for the other, each in a different way 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
intentionality hurts and hinders you and they are responsible for doing this to you. Yet they could 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
is therefore equally true that you are exclusively responsible for yourself and others are exclusively responsible for 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
exclusively responsible for yourself and others are exclusively responsible for themselves and that, everyone is responsible for 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
exclusively responsible for themselves and that, everyone is responsible for the other person. Since ultimately there is 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
duality. It is not that either you are responsible for yourself or for others, nor that others 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
yourself or for others, nor that others are responsible either for themselves or for you. There are 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
can admit these feelings without being held solely responsible. What a difference this would be in your 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
top of it, you rendered the other person responsible. You did this either by distorting reality or 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
This fixed view is to a considerable extent responsible for the very disturbance you suffer. See this 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
your old, destructive patterns that are in fact responsible for the state that creates your unfulfilled longing 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
avoid, but which is the real culprit, solely responsible for your less than fulfilled and joyful state 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
take responsibility for them. If you make others responsible for your feelings, you will be in a 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
The fact remains that your self-created disorder is responsible for so much of it. It matters little 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
of you. And since you can only be responsible for yourself, ask especially where the fear originates 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
yourself to see how you make the world responsible for your misery instead of connecting your misery 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
there is still fear, ego-pride is always partially responsible. This ego-pride is connected to your ignorance of 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
and it will make you stronger and more responsible. You will become more conscious instruments, each in 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
and momentum become stronger, as do the attitudes responsible for the creation. Even a weak, negative, contradictory 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
This can provide an opportunity for the consciousness responsible for the crisis to struggle to attain awareness 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
what has come to pass, and thus be responsible for re- forming the creative energies. Sometimes -- 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
this way already. This valuable work is largely responsible for the exhilarating movement, expansion and growth, individually 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
truly conscious of this potency, you become more responsible and more capable of creating. You then approach 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
mind. The limitation of that mind is also responsible for not perceiving what is there. As the 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
you grow up, be the center of, the responsible people of, this Center. QUESTION: I'd like to 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
and you are not yet able to be responsible for yourself. You do not yet have the 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
move into the next phase of being self- responsible and establishing their own channel, but are unwilling 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
to govern her own life, not to be responsible, but to lean on someone else. To the 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
profound in its effect that it is indeed responsible for the creation of death. For you experience 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
it is necessary to crystallize the word most responsible for the negative creation in your life. Do 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
you must look for and challenge the word responsible for this state. You must begin to say 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
-- such as helpership, teaching, or any other responsible role in the community. Within your own soul 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
is acting harmoniously, meaningfully and appropriately toward the responsible citizen principle within you. This attitude can then 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
growing very fast. It needs more and more responsible pillars who know of this principle and who 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
feel. And those of you who are more responsible for the government of your community will then 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
not present, by allying yourself with those directly responsible, by justifying their actions, and by not ever 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
a kind of superstition to make outside forces responsible for one's fate. Yet invisible forces do exist 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
again with a duality: either the self is responsible for the individual's fate or the angels and 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
powerful factions were, in their own way, as responsible as those who were directly instrumental in halting 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
considered a full-fledged equal, morally she was barely responsible. In those centuries emotional and mental responsibility did 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
govern one's own life, not to be made responsible for one's decisions and their outcome. When you 254 SURRENDER
could it be that although I am solely responsible to do it myself, yet I need others 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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