| Righteous...................8 | |
| other hand, suppression is bad, and moral self- righteous judgement of another person's sickness is wrong. Yet | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| destructive often appears on a superficial level as righteous and holy, and vice versa. The distortion of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| apathy. The other inquired about the validity of righteous indignation or justified resentment. I think you have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| QUESTION: Does that have anything to do with righteous indignation? ANSWER: Yes, that is also healthy anger | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| injustice and cruelty could often parade as a righteous cause, while the truly meaningful and mature solutions | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| who is afraid or too insecure to show righteous anger? What is happening to love in this | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| world pronounces the mores of society good and righteous, while the natural laws inherent in one's being | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| be claimed, outwardly, that such an arrangement connotes righteous action, is this truly so? What takes place | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Righteousness...............13 | |
| in all philosophies, the importance of goodness, decency, righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules? Don't we | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| based on good or bad, your goodness or righteousness is not genuine. It does not come from | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| QUESTION: What is the difference between moralizing and righteousness? ANSWER: It depends how the words are used | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| are used. It is a matter of interpretation. Righteousness is often used, for instance in Scripture, as | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| discussed. In fact, this usage is appropriate because righteousness is often actually self-righteousness because it stems from | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| from what you previously called moralizing, or self- righteousness. How can I know when something is right | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| human laws receive homage for their goodness and righteousness. Such praise is tempting. It appears to work | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the sacrifice -- always under the guise of righteousness. Can this be furthering truth and beauty, bliss | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| without becoming an extreme position of punitive self- righteousness. Expanding, giving, joyful and vigorous expressions of divine | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| greed and pride were glamorized and endowed with righteousness. Men considered themselves the superiors of women. Marrying | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| you consider the moral indignation, the moral self- righteousness of men and women toward those who deviated | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| be unnecessary to keep it secret. To plead righteousness about keeping a secret is therefore absurd. But | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| too big a stake in your egotistic self- righteousness. However, if you feel personally humiliated by being | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Rightfully..................16 | |
| the laws governing this lower sphere that is rightfully yours for the moment: you have to accept | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and if I still desire that which is rightfully mine if I were not to feel that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to be unhappy! Only a perfect being could rightfully make the demands you so often make more | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| resistance causes you to lose what could be rightfully yours. So have enough wisdom to see through | 38 IMAGES |
| as impossible to receive the mature love you rightfully long for now as it was then. Blindly | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| soul transmits to you that you can only rightfully keep what you earn with a mature attitude | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| developed to the extent that they can be rightfully called yours. Since your idealized self does not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| afraid of it and you resist it. You rightfully doubt your power to own and control another | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| than indirectly governable by the ego processes, cannot rightfully be called a feeling. Why do humans fear | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| choice. So we must differentiate between those who rightfully dim their creative activity because they are justifiably | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you reject that vital part of you which rightfully wishes to experience the pleasure of creation at | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it or not, it must make you feel rightfully guilty. For whenever you are negative and withholding | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| that can give you what you need and rightfully wish for without taking the path into and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| those who, at least in some respects, have rightfully attained leadership, whether you want to admit and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the movement of your innermost being, you can rightfully claim the universe's abundance. In this spirit of | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| is unwilling to assume such responsibilities has not rightfully earned these privileges; he either feels too guilty | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Rightfulness................8 | |
| what you wish, but you also doubt the rightfulness, the justification of it. You have a vague | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| where and why you have doubts about the rightfulness of your desire. At times this suspicion may | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| only if no confusion exists as to the rightfulness and fundamental genuineness of these different forms of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be able to make the distinction between the rightfulness of this need and the equal rightfulness of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the rightfulness of this need and the equal rightfulness of the need for interdependency, relinquishing, and flexibility | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| many possible reasons for denying or ignoring the rightfulness of the original need. Whatever the specific circumstances | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| in you, no No-current, no doubt about the rightfulness of your bliss, no ifs and buts because | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| totally free of guilt when you combine its rightfulness with self-discipline. If you can reconcile desire for | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Rightness...................21 | |
| is. There will be no doubt about the rightness and truth of this thought no matter whatever | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| happiness, relief, freedom, and the sense of utter rightness and peace with the world that you will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| lose your inner peace and your sense of rightness. How can you be happy either in doing | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| so unsure of yourself and of your own rightness that you suppress, and ultimately repress, your wish | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| this stream carries you, you will experience its rightness. It is functional at this stage of your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| furnishes you with all the wisdom, truth, and rightness you need for your everyday life. Some of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| safety, security, conviction of truth, the harmony and rightness of it are worth all the effort of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| all around, for everyone concerned. That is the rightness of divine truth, that is the wonder and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| but cannot see how to arrive at this rightness, you may then request this truth, putting your | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to, the response is free, with an utter rightness that is hard to conceive until the inner | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that this self-giving may occur in harmony, in rightness, without strain and effort. Anyone meditating in such | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| without finality, and yet with awareness of the rightness of these consequences -- the mental or emotional | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the deepest sense, or insisting on your total rightness. Any way you turn you find death, loss | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| begin to see its utter wisdom and total rightness -- the indivisible, unitive principle that has no | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| much as the overcontrolled person, will claim the rightness of that course by saying the rigidly controlled | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a fixed world. Peace and knowledge of the rightness of life come from realizing that your world | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| beauty, the truth, the reality, the love, the rightness in each system, and to see where and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| those who experience the inevitable beauty, goodness and rightness of it, logically attempt to continue its expression | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| tight? Can the justifying of your ancestors' infallible rightness on this central question be more important than | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| peace agreement. Each is steeped in its own rightness, claiming the other is wrong. Neither can see | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is painful, even though there is an intrinsic rightness about it. These animals are incarnated aspects of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Rights......................47 | |
| life to the other. Lucifer kept all the rights to tempt humans to succumb to him by | 22 SALVATION |
| person. Although I would give the other equal rights, I would consider myself first. ANSWER: My dear | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself consideration, you have to respect your own rights, and they will not conflict with the interests | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| they will not conflict with the interests and rights of others. If sometimes it appears that way | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is more important than the little, inner, subtle rights or wrongs in your private lives. But you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| loving? It is much easier to assert your rights and wishes, whether they are right or wrong | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| assert one's self by standing up for one's rights may appear to be the very opposite of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| You will communicate and relate, and assert your rights without the gnawing feeling that you have not | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| giving up or giving in, not asserting your rights. You feel you must become passive and apathetic | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| gain power only by offering their subjects some rights also. Hence, responsibility and concern for others developed | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| humanity will also enable it to assert its rights, to be aware of its values without guilt | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| This last fear includes conflicting, and apparently conflicting, rights and wrongs as well as apparently right and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| sacrifice human decency in order to gain your rights and fulfillments, or whether you sacrifice the latter | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| limiting: it is indeed possible to assert your rights and to reach out for what you want | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| loved one, without forever giving up all your rights and advantages. It is indeed possible to say | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that it demands giving up your intelligence, your rights, your self-preservation, your ability to choose, your self-determination | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| selfwill. You will know when to assert your rights without hostility against unjustified demands, where compliance would | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| uncertain, uneasy, and weak about any of your rights -- only because of that! Were you free | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to have integrity, to defend and assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness must weaken you and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| may pay lip service to the feelings and rights of others or to the liberation of the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| sake of giving in, giving up one's own rights and desires for the rights and desires of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| up one's own rights and desires for the rights and desires of the loved one. So the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| best in yourself without infringing upon other people's rights or needs. Quite the contrary, your best will | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| be rather that you underestimate your values, your rights, your entire person. You may be weak, submissive | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and where does your inner child ignore the rights and powers of your adult state? The particular | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that extent you will truly find your own rights. It is a steady growing process to find | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is a steady growing process to find these rights. The process will first manifest by your no | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| pay the price for selfhood, will assert your rights as you fulfill your obligations freely and willingly | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the direction of living according to these basic rights, the more they want to cheat and get | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in asserting oneself, difficulty in taking one's inherent rights as a part of creation, difficulty in being | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| little to do with genuine concern for the rights of others. In fact, only the person who | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| way is capable of genuine concern for the rights of others. Selfishness has a healthy origin. It | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| myself feel so unselfish because I abdicate my rights. You cannot assimilate this realization deeply enough. Meditate | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you would gladly elbow out of all their rights. The other cannot have reality for you if | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fearful sentimentality must blur your view to your rights. No childish greed must rationalize your self-centeredness. You | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| interaction will become. How can you assert your rights and reach into the universe for fulfillment and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and that you should not assert your human rights and your human dignity. This interpretation has preached | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| or in situations where you should protect your rights for the sake of the truth. Often both | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| phenomena. Hence you often try to assert your rights when you really do not allow others to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| person expresses his or her life, feelings, or rights which may not coincide with your desires, you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and in self-righteousness. The stronger ones had the rights and needed no excuses. The ability for restraint | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that sells out your genuine self-interest, your real rights, in order to please some imaginary authority. You | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| had to return to the individual, to individual rights, the right to be oneself, to be perhaps | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the group. The more you can assert your rights and your individual needs, the less you need | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or in other ways robbing others of their rights, there can be no question that the outer | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| will be a follower who has much fewer rights and privileges. It is as you wish. If | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is rich, the other poor. The one has rights, the other does not. How do you apportion | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |