| Ruthlessly..................5 | |
| imagined to be, stronger people, but who is ruthlessly domineering toward weaker ones. This is a typical | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| It is one thing to be heedlessly and ruthlessly destructive, and another to want to be a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| justifications, self-deceptions, serving to deny automatism, must be ruthlessly exposed, investigated and given up, until you are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| must be given up. The searchlight must be ruthlessly turned on the little self. Only when you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| from the pain of your guilt, the more ruthlessly you punish yourself. Conversely, it is true that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Ruthlessness................7 | |
| to be safe, with all the accompanying hostility, ruthlessness, pride, superiority, pretense at invulnerability, the underlying core | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a different order. The rule then may be ruthlessness, dominion over others, selfishness. This then is regarded | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always contains selfishness, greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and ruthlessness in one form or another. If you view | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| unknown. The more you are afraid -- of ruthlessness and separateness, of rejection and humiliation, of physical | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Then individuality cannot unfold because ego, vanity, and ruthlessness take its place and automatically hinder the positive | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| weakness is confused with goodness, and strength with ruthlessness or selfishness. When caught in these confusions, you | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| split off the self from others. Selfishness, greed, ruthlessness, unconcern, and cruelty are manifestations of this turn | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Sabbath.....................18 | |
| manna only for one day and on the Sabbath for two days. If they collected for two | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| days on any other day but for the Sabbath, it rotted but for the Sabbath it did | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the Sabbath, it rotted but for the Sabbath it did not. What is the meaning of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strength to have inner or outer activity. The Sabbath, as you know, signifies among other things the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or the passive -- the weekday or the Sabbath. The analogy applies also to the duration of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Will you explain the meaning of keeping the Sabbath holy in the face of our present-day obligations | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have the same meaning. I must keep the Sabbath would be a compulsion. It would be an | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wisely. One can overwork and yet keep the Sabbath. One may not keep the Sabbath in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| keep the Sabbath. One may not keep the Sabbath in the inner sense and fall short on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: This night is the eve of the Sabbath. It also happens to be the eve of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| congregation. Yom Kippur is also designated as the Sabbath of Sabbaths. The word Sabbath is loaded with | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| designated as the Sabbath of Sabbaths. The word Sabbath is loaded with meaning and it appears frequently | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Jesus referred to it when He said: The Sabbath was made for man. What did He mean | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Let us take the first question first: Sabbath is made for man. This, like almost all | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| People follow through blindly and simply take the Sabbath -- or Sunday -- as the one day | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that are otherwise out of your reach. The Sabbath of Sabbaths means that there is this special | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But that is the real meaning of the Sabbath of Sabbaths. It is, in a way, a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes, it is quite clear. Incidentally, the word Sabbath actually means rest, and it also means seven | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Sabbaths....................3 | |
| Kippur is also designated as the Sabbath of Sabbaths. The word Sabbath is loaded with meaning and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| otherwise out of your reach. The Sabbath of Sabbaths means that there is this special day that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the real meaning of the Sabbath of Sabbaths. It is, in a way, a new beginning | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Sabotage....................14 | |
| to have a happy experience and so you sabotage it by all these negative attitudes. If you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you are both aware of it. Thus, you sabotage, you spoil every favorable situation that could come | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are so defeatist and negative that, again, you sabotage what you ordinarily could have. Both the underlying | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| resort to the other extreme, which is to sabotage the very thing you want most, and which | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| should indeed have in a healthy way. You sabotage communication either by frightening the tentative feelers of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| yourself try to see how you prohibit or sabotage the attainment of the very thing you desire | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to distort the law of communication and therefore sabotage your heart's desire. But when you simultaneously pursue | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| may be predominant. In the latter attempt, you sabotage the happiness that you could have because you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| either consciously or unconsciously, to find out, you sabotage all your attempts to get to the cause | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| It may be more subtle; you may unconsciously sabotage yourself and then project your failure on others | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| even the slightest immediate gratification, and thereby you sabotage the possibility of fulfilling your real needs. Offhand | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| what you have done in the past to sabotage them; how you have done so; what defense | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that it is directed against my mother. I sabotage the positive aspects of life because I want | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| receive love, pleasure, fulfillment, and the compulsion to sabotage fulfillment come from not giving to God. When | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Sacrifice...................120 | |
| core, to give, to fulfill and even to sacrifice. Yet where the blind, sick, or immature parts | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| fulfill itself, wants to surrender the ego, to sacrifice, and will endeavor with all its strength, with | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| long as it does not cost you personal sacrifice or any great effort -- and this is | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| form, even if I have to make a sacrifice -- perhaps to renounce my ego-gratification. Please show | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| are more easily inclined to make some material sacrifice with which to buy their way out. They | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| They are much less likely to undertake spiritual sacrifice. That is much more difficult. What I mean | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| self-healing requires at the beginning a seemingly great sacrifice: the overcoming of resistance to see oneself in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a state in which these contacts feel like sacrifice; they want contact only with kindred spirits and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| At first, it may seem as if a sacrifice were being asked of you -- a sacrifice | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| sacrifice were being asked of you -- a sacrifice of time, of course, but in addition a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| commitment which feels burdensome. It feels like a sacrifice to let go of something, to overcome something | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| willingness to help and serve is not a sacrifice, but becomes the greatest joy imaginable. I can | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| your shortsightedness, even if it means a little sacrifice at first. When you put your life really | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| often through a door that appears like a sacrifice at present, when your gaze is still clouded | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God's will. How much are you willing to sacrifice? What you have to sacrifice may be comfort | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you willing to sacrifice? What you have to sacrifice may be comfort, self-delusion, selfishness, holding on to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| willing to give up all this? First this sacrifice will appear to be tremendous, but only while | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| doubt that God's will for you means no sacrifice, for it brings you happiness on every plane | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| consequences will appear to you to demand a sacrifice -- and this, too, is what God wants | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| It hurts least and it means the smallest sacrifice. Everyone knows, on the other hand, that to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Himself should prove His love by His great sacrifice and work, not only to all the other | 22 SALVATION |
| Easter. It marks the time of the greatest sacrifice that has been made, my dear ones. Think | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| been made, my dear ones. Think of this sacrifice these days with particular gratefulness. It was done | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you that truly desires to advance and to sacrifice the comfort of self-deception. But there is also | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in other ways, are you really willing to sacrifice when sacrifice is necessary? Ask yourself why you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ways, are you really willing to sacrifice when sacrifice is necessary? Ask yourself why you want to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| without any recognition; you must really learn to sacrifice. Not only must you give up your comfort | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in the sun. It is the way of sacrifice, my friends. If you are capable of sacrificing | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will gain from the experience of making a sacrifice will be infinitely more valuable than what you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| sacrificing or even what it is you should sacrifice. I will show you the way. Nothing melodramatic | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that the less other people know about your sacrifice when you do it, or when you intend | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| give up what I like. Why should I sacrifice? If you can articulate this inner doubt, my | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you are God, I will be ready to sacrifice and let my will go. But are you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| my will go. But are you willing to sacrifice and let your will go? Should you be | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| receive this knowledge if you are prepared to sacrifice for God. You always wait for Him to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Therefore, I say to you: be ready to sacrifice your self-will for the sake of God, even | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| But if you can use the shortcut of sacrifice, it will be a wonderful deliverance for you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| when a person has proven the willingness to sacrifice something important for God. Many people have mistakenly | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| interest, so you are not really making a sacrifice to God, since God and the true you | 38 IMAGES |
| to their own happiness. Others are willing to sacrifice anything for God -- although without understanding their | 38 IMAGES |
| cheaply. It is worth every effort, every conceivable sacrifice, for then you truly master yourself. If you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| self-centered person may be able to make a sacrifice during the experience of eros. So you see | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| but the fearful renunciation is rationalized as a sacrifice. To anyone who would come to me with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the other hand, you become a martyr and sacrifice your innermost and rightful desires -- not the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are being unselfish and are offering a sacrifice. It seems to you that the other person | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this is covered with the rationalization of unselfishness, sacrifice, and your ability to love. In truth, you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you have any idea what it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire for development. ANSWER: The fire | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It contains all of what you said. Love, sacrifice, purification, everything -- that spark, that burning spark | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| over the opposites by integration through love and sacrifice. This is meant in the healthy and genuine | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You may believe that your submissiveness is true sacrifice and unselfishness. Only very close analysis and insight | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| these lectures, does not, cannot, and will not sacrifice the bodily pleasures for the sake of a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| signs of their goodness, holiness, unselfishness. When they sacrifice in order to finally possess a strong and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| protector, they are proud of their capacity to sacrifice unselfishly, of never claiming any knowledge, accomplishment, of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| subdivisions of compassion, understanding, forgiveness, union, communication, brotherhood, sacrifice, as a rigid, one-sided solution. This is a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| effacement. They feel: Even though I offer the sacrifice and am so modest about it, people should | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| really want to, if you are ready to sacrifice something. Let us say, you want happiness in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Do not take a particular surface desire and sacrifice it in the mistaken idea that here you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| levels of human life. Beware of the false sacrifice which can often be used as a substitute | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the real relinquishing. The latter is never a sacrifice. It is intelligent expediency, arrived at through fully | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not yours to begin with, you do not sacrifice. Hence you will not be led into the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| relinquishing, you will find that you do not sacrifice anything by giving up whatever it was you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is seen in its distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving, and dependency. Let us | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| selfish need exists, the more the person may sacrifice, submit, and be a martyr. All this is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| tend to. You fear that you have to sacrifice when you have no desire to do so | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| others. Is there such a thing as healthy sacrifice? ANSWER: Of course there is. I have to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| now to the part of your question about sacrifice. It is so easy to confuse real, healthy | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is so easy to confuse real, healthy, free sacrifice with its unhealthy, compulsive, ungenuine counterpart. If sacrifice | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| sacrifice with its unhealthy, compulsive, ungenuine counterpart. If sacrifice occurs out of a free spirit of giving | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| or criticize. They demand a minimum of personal sacrifice or consideration. Objects will make no demands. Next | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or animals. They require a certain amount of sacrifice, consideration, putting one's immediate selfish comfort aside -- | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it does require effort, thought, the willingness to sacrifice, activity, and many other attitudes that are highly | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| responsibilities in life appears as a disadvantage and sacrifice and therefore as loss of self. He also | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| want peace and serenity, they feel they must sacrifice their dynamic, stimulating life, they must stagnate and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| too, unless he or she is willing to sacrifice the need for human warmth, appreciation and love | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| let go, the winner cannot experience that the sacrifice of human warmth is motivated by a false | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| appear to confirm their wrong conclusions. Whether you sacrifice human decency in order to gain your rights | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| gain your rights and fulfillments, or whether you sacrifice the latter in order to gain the former | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to avoid the correction, which only seems a sacrifice. Now, my friends, when you look at your | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| cannot wholly risk this when it spells the sacrifice of all you want. But the most painful | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| best is impossible when one associates it with sacrifice and disadvantage. The very existence of a belief | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is a pious command that is fulfilled through sacrifice. Then the image forms that to love means | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| abandon for the sake of their spiritual development. Sacrifice and renunciation are the keys to spiritual development | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| I hope it is quite clear that no sacrifice or renunciation is required. What is meant is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| connection. The more human beings believe they must sacrifice their fundamental happiness because to do this is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| anchored in the other person for whom you sacrifice. Whenever such attitudes are truly faced, it shows | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| faced, it shows that never can such a sacrifice be made in genuine love, in a free | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| When genuine love is present, the idea of sacrifice is no longer applicable. The act is so | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| exploiter out of the person who accepts the sacrifice -- always under the guise of righteousness. Can | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in such an interaction? Those who accept the sacrifice must have a growing guilt. Yet, they cannot | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of the false, childish greed and false, self-limiting sacrifice give way, fullness of experience arises. The proper | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| resist. But what should you accept? Deprivation, unfulfillment, sacrifice? Religion has taught this for centuries, for millennia | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| self-denial. Religion's postulate that the good person must sacrifice is an error. The original meaning has two | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| experience is a direct result of it. You sacrifice joy, peace, self-esteem, inner security, expansion and growth | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| authoritarian religions want to have it, denial and sacrifice of pleasure. This concept of martyrdom is a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| have and that living a decent life implies sacrifice, you cannot even believe in pleasure. This difficulty | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| reveals itself when the self is willing to sacrifice its selfwill, pride, and fear -- its defenses | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| manage well. You only pay that when you sacrifice peace of mind for a short-lived pleasure. The | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| effort, commitment, work, and also the willingness to sacrifice destructive patterns with their short-lived, expensive satisfactions. Only | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you are, and are prepared to make the sacrifice of giving up old destructive patterns of thinking | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the incomparable treasure within you. Then the word sacrifice becomes indeed ludicrous, for you give up nothing | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| promise of accruing joy and fulfillment from this sacrifice. At best, whatever joy there is appears to | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| than even to consider what a tragic, wasteful sacrifice you make to achieve an entirely imaginary gain | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| In the latter case, the self begins to sacrifice its integrity in tragic ways that cost much | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of escape. For many it is easier to sacrifice something and chastise themselves than to face and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| personality deals directly with the darkness within. Then sacrifice and deprivation become not only unnecessary but even | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| often be sacrificed. But is this really a sacrifice? It only seems so. What ultimately emerges is | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all human beings cannot always make that apparent sacrifice in order to preserve decency, kindness, and constructive | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you often do so to your detriment. Such sacrifice is illusory, and not an expression of divine | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| But if these attributes seem to extract severe sacrifice, sacrifice must be experienced, for you shall experience | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| if these attributes seem to extract severe sacrifice, sacrifice must be experienced, for you shall experience as | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of unrestricted indulgence. For this impossible aim you sacrifice your freedom and integrity and then blame the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| gained the spiritual courage to be willing to sacrifice acceptance from others -- if indeed you believe | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| include the courage to risk something or to sacrifice a selfish aim. It also includes the faith | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| greater cause. When this happens, the willingness to sacrifice soon turns out to be the most fulfilling | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to be the most fulfilling act of life. Sacrifice appears less and less a sacrifice, until it | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of life. Sacrifice appears less and less a sacrifice, until it becomes evident that God's will coincides | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| this, my friends. First, however, you need to sacrifice your pride, your stubbornness, your pleasure in having | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| -- and often what seems to be your sacrifice. At least it seems a sacrifice at first | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| be your sacrifice. At least it seems a sacrifice at first to give up time and energy | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| self-work. It often seems even more of a sacrifice to shed a habit that stems from your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |