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| as immediately and directly as one's thoughts or actions. It requires laborious work on the spiritual level | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| humankind first the Ten Commandments. They deal with actions. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| keeping the laws to the extent of outer actions. But you, my dear friends, must learn to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| were incarnated for that purpose, to align their actions with God's laws, and to refrain from giving | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| your feelings -- not only your thoughts and actions -- into harmony with spiritual law. As a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| These forms have far-reaching effects: in ever-spreading circles, actions create reactions, which again have consequences, so that | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| than they actually are, assume that only their actions count; yet their feelings are also actions and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| their actions count; yet their feelings are also actions and have just as tangible consequences. Also, the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| still have to learn to adapt their external actions to God's laws. They will not be led | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yourselves have set in motion by your past actions or attitudes. Your difficulties will substantially diminish when | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| although no longer capable of base and evil actions and therefore not available to serve the Luciferic | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| behind his action. It is easier to control actions than feelings, and the danger is that you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the false emotional currents underlying your correct outward actions. You will know that more spiritual work is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| transform themselves and be in line with outward actions and what you recognize as being right. This | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| does God not yet penetrate your being, your actions, your thoughts, and your feelings? Try for instance | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| deeds and thoughts -- really mean? Are my actions supported by my feelings or do I have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| feelings or do I have motives behind these actions that do not correspond to what I like | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| known in the course of life, through certain actions and reactions, but it cannot converse with you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| your conscious direction of will, just as your actions can; however, you cannot directly control your feelings | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| true picture about the discrepancy between feelings and actions. In this way, no mask self can form | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and not always in accordance with your outer actions. Although you are taking the path of purification | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| direction, though unconsciously and, of course, not in actions that obviously harm other people, but in feelings | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| stop pretenses. You can find out where your actions go against a spiritual law. The daily review | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| lack of freedom, depends entirely on your past actions, thoughts, and inner reactions. The fact that this | 18 FREE WILL |
| to emotions is not dependent upon your direct actions or even on your thoughts. Changing your feelings | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to accept what you cannot change, namely the actions and attitudes of other people and circumstances outside | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| However, we are not discussing the obvious outer actions of those who are driven by self-will, for | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| not enough for you. You know that your actions and even your thoughts are not sufficient to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you are on this path, even your wrong actions and faulty judgments become beneficial to you -- | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| self- analysis. You may already do the right actions and even have the right thoughts in many | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| your emotions, if not in your thoughts and actions; that you are escaping yourself in some way | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| may or may not be the result of actions in your last incarnation. Furthermore, a demerit may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| create soul forms with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In the average human soul there is such | 36 PRAYER |
| your unconscious is so convinced that avoiding certain actions and reactions will protect you against the hurts | 38 IMAGES |
| that apparently have nothing to do with your actions and reactions. Afterward, when you recognize a pattern | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that will be yours regardless of other people's actions. That is the spirit you should have when | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are not concerned in this group with wrong actions, or even crimes. All of you, without exception | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you try your best to perform only proper actions. But none of you are as yet able | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| change superficially, by trying to alter only your actions. You can change your life only if you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| see that you are not what your outward actions pretend. You fear that your pride and self-will | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your conscious desires and aims that guide your actions are in accord with the goals of your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| this fact out, my dear friends. Although your actions are worthy and good as such, although the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| if you wish, you turn these thoughts into actions. Thus you live in a higher degree of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be in favor of the rebellion and of actions resulting from the rebellion. Why do you think | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| right and good within yourself and in your actions, but you should also be clear as to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You have displayed your generosity in all your actions. Yet deep down there is this one corner | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| symptoms, endeavors, manipulations of emotions, and even to actions which indirectly create patterns that appear as if | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| change, not necessarily in your outer and conscious actions, but in your unconscious childish requirements and aims | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| cause and effect of your inner and outer actions. Humans like to concentrate unduly on the apparent | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| current of your life force consists of all actions, thoughts, attitudes and emotions that deviate from divine | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| deeply hidden fear of dependence on other people's actions and motives is a very important problem of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| subtle ways. It does not necessarily show in actions; it is more a matter of your inner | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to -- is just as wrong as self-willed actions in which one just goes ahead without consideration | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they themselves have brought about by their previous actions and reactions. There is some leeway to that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By finding the cause in your own erroneous actions and reactions, you take the cross upon yourself | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| piety by suffering the consequences of your wrong actions, thoughts, or emotions, without trying to find what | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand many of your conflicts that often involve actions and reactions on the part of the world | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| nothing that you could be blamed for. Your actions were correct, your intentions were the best. Now | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| In order to reach that special place, your actions would have to be anything but decent, loyal | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the positive has won out in your outer actions. This is according to an unalterable law. I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| act? Isn't the most important thing that my actions are right? No, my friends. Feelings are actions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| actions are right? No, my friends. Feelings are actions too, although they do not manifest in the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and with the same quick results as outer actions do. Nevertheless, every thought and attitude, whether conscious | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| motives will change. In some cases, your outer actions will change automatically, but this will be fruitful | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Only then will success come upon certain outer actions any individual may undertake in order to contribute | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life is always the individual's overemphasis on outer actions, while ignoring and neglecting the inner motivations and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| connection between such a happening and your own actions and attitudes. You are so successful in covering | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of your life, often in superficial and outer actions. But in the last and deepest and most | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| come to harm by any shortcomings or wrong actions of another person, no matter how much it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be as selfish as I want. My wrong actions cannot harm anyone else. And of course that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| stronger, they will begin to understand their compulsive actions, and by that process, they will cease repeating | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how can you be freely unselfish in your actions day in and day out? Not doing the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| There are no fixed rules to determine whether actions are right or wrong when they appear to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is the same with the inner and outer actions, attitudes, and reactions of the human being. By | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| well as with the guilt of your selfish actions. This part of the work is essential although | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| position to discriminate, judge, and choose your own actions and attitudes. You will then be able to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| because in the past you performed the right actions out of the wrong motives. You can, if | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if you wish, continue to do the right actions even while you are in the process of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| work you may discover that some of your actions were unjustified and unnecessary, that other people have | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| act in ways that are similar to the actions and reactions of nations. By such discoveries, you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finger on it by looking at your outer actions only. No overt deeds can be found to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| repeat, this is not necessarily done by outer actions. More often, your inner reactions work in that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| uselessness of it. You will survey all your actions and reactions with this new understanding and insight | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| because they do not respond to your outer actions. You yourself are unaware of what your inner | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| You yourself are unaware of what your inner actions are. Your inner actions or reactions are accurately | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of what your inner actions are. Your inner actions or reactions are accurately perceived by your fellow | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| people feel unjustly treated when they know their actions were quite all right. They concentrate on all | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| right. They concentrate on all their outer right actions but leave out the inner unconscious motivations which | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you may command a truce in your outer actions, in your words, and even in your thoughts | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| joy that must be yours regardless of others' actions. That is the spirit you should have when | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the concept of retribution. Thoughts and emotions are actions and reactions too. They inevitably have an effect | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbolizes a certain kind of inner action. Such actions may be significant and important, but only cumulatively | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cumulatively so. If a whole series of such actions is added up, they point to an inherent | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and concept of life. In different words, the actions of the hand symbolize your everyday activities and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life is differentiated between these two kinds of actions: the actions that are of minor importance if | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| differentiated between these two kinds of actions: the actions that are of minor importance if they are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not to be taken to mean that such actions do not produce effects that come back to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| effects that come back to you. The major actions -- feet -- symbolize decisive change, great decisions | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| movement -- or the lack of it. These actions determine your spiritual stand, your basic attitude toward | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself and others around you than the minor actions and reactions. The major activity establishes your place | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fate, and with it you determine the minor actions and reactions. Burning: Do you have any idea | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Cross, its principles and its course of actions? How is it comparable to the Eastern concept | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of untruth, the truth that strengthens. Motivations of actions, as well as desires and ambitions, have to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motivations of your soul forces, all these inner actions and reactions were unconscious. At best, you were | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| automatically and is unattainable by deliberately initiated outer actions. As you experience this layer of resentment and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| more with your unconscious emotions than with your actions and thoughts. The general knowledge you can acquire | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up to now you have applied more to actions and thoughts than to feelings, to your inner | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| simply influence and control them as you do actions and thoughts. Only if and when you completely | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would know this if they questioned how their actions affect others. Taking account of oneself in relationship | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| now believe that you should abstain from right actions. This is not so. What you should do | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| The truth is that the experience influences one's actions and attitude to obtain improvement through one's efforts | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of self- observation and taking account of one's actions and reactions. Discipline is also needed to be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| determination can induce you to undertake the necessary actions that will finally bring a sufficient measure of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the inner process, while observing the subsequent outer actions and reactions. When it comes to the subtleties | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| depends on one's attitude toward oneself and one's actions, rather than on perfect acts as such. In | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| This does not apply, of course, to destructive actions of a crass nature. On this path you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| confusion is all about. When I speak of actions, I do not mean only outer deeds. All | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| emotions, attitudes, inner decisions, and behavior patterns are actions. Actions coming from the outer self always put | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| attitudes, inner decisions, and behavior patterns are actions. Actions coming from the outer self always put you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| one form or another. If you view your actions, reactions, and attitudes as emanating not from your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not force yourself, or discipline yourself in your actions toward others, but rather use discipline in finding | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| so simple, even though certainly not easy. Good actions are fine, but there comes a point in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| more is at stake than good, kind, helpful actions and fine execution of one's work. QUESTIONER: Thank | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| view or opinion, but it nevertheless influences your actions and governs your reactions to life, to others | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| outer life, the material life, physical life, physical actions and outer facts; in short, everything visible. For | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with the outer senses. It means your inner actions and reactions, your thoughts and feelings, your motivations | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| be expected to take full responsibility for my actions or the lack of them, for my thoughts | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| depends on whether we deal with facts and actions, or with the more subtle trends, attitudes, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| hoped for was to prevent people from destructive actions, even if the underlying causes were not eliminated | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| contagiousness and the direct outer effects of destructive actions were decreased, if not entirely eliminated. You know | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings. The contagious actions, at least in their crassest forms, were kept | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| beings to merely obey a commandment in their actions. Since this is not good enough, your innermost | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| innermost self will be fearful, even if your actions are entirely proper and conform to the commandments | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| others and to themselves. In other words, their actions are governed by thought, intellect, and will. But | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| temporary tools to give directive to your outer actions and intent. They can and should be used | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be used for your physical life, for outer actions, for deciding to know the truth about yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of the experience gets lost when thoughts and actions are repeated mechanically. What I am saying here | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| will, and discipline are necessary for your outer actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive impulses | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| as yet of directing their behavior into constructive actions. Because education is so far behind what it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| growth. It is easy to focus on superficial actions and forget that one needs complete inner will | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to face everything within. To stress the outer actions may so easily lead to self-deception. Evasion can | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| as a substitute for the love withheld, your actions do not remove your guilt. This proves, once | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| what you wish to be -- in your actions, while still loving and feeling? Is it not | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| keep it concealed, often by superperfectionism and right actions, then and only then can you come to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| can be said only of the most extreme actions, and even then it is often misleading to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| standpoint. Very often you are convinced that your actions are ethical and moral even though you may | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| at all. Your awareness is geared to right actions, but not to selfish ones. You still ignore | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| feelings will be right also, and consequently his actions will benefit him and others? That all depends | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in addition to talking it out, certain productive actions on your part may be indicated. What those | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| question of attitude and feeling, rather than of actions, because you may be too inhibited to allow | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| us we can do, can we dedicate certain actions to them, or how can we help them | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| contribute. Some of you also help through outer actions, each in your own way. Such help and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| all who have contributed toward it by their actions and by their work of self-confrontation. May this | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| and vague way, that your attitude about your actions, thoughts, and feelings is governed by the idea | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| soul. It certainly never prevents crime or destructive actions. In fact, it causes the opposite to happen | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you have equal possibility for growth if your actions and decisions are derived from yourself and your | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| occasion, must be lost and confused, and their actions will prove unsuccessful. But those who know themselves | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| this is indeed the life-flow without which all actions, all contributions to living remain somewhat stale. Be | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| In awareness, however, self-government and accountability for one's actions, thoughts, and feelings are seen as prerequisites for | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the wish to avoid the consequences of one's actions; such desire denies self-responsibility, liberation, and true mastery | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| concepts. Further confusion, conflict, destructive emotions, thoughts, and actions follow. All this is familiar territory -- at | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| realistic, benign, constructive feelings, concepts, opinions, and corresponding actions. Change has taken place, because it is no | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| your fellow humans and are confused about their actions and motives, disharmony is created. Even if you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| knowing the truth behind the other person's confusing actions will enable you intuitively and spontaneously to judge | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions, reactions, and actions that you must learn to bring under control | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| within the self, deriving values, goals, ideas, and actions from within, assuming responsibility for them, thereby increasing | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| be. Meanwhile, what escapes you is that your actions could easily bring about what you truly want | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| it, it would act up, forcing you into actions you have no way of stopping. You completely | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| assert that you, and you alone, determine your actions, your behavior, your decisions. The moment you do | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| how you constantly contribute to it with your actions, thoughts and feelings. After you become aware of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the baby's birth. The personality's thinking, attitudes, emotions, actions, all have their effects. The body with its | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you do not evaluate the importance of your actions and reactions. The two interrelated tendencies of underestimation | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| free. I will have the choice of my actions only to the degree of my awareness. If | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| indisputable control over a vast area of your actions, over the words you speak, over your choice | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| happenings. Your outer, direct will can determine certain actions which you know are bound to produce certain | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of one's feelings, attitudes, and even thoughts or actions. When you fear that your negative emotions are | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you fear its effect on you and your actions. Simply state, I shall fully face these destructive | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| destructive feelings, which will not force me into actions, for I am master over all feelings. I | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| I am master over all feelings. I determine actions. I determine what I want to do, think | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| that you can choose your attitudes, thoughts, and actions, you lose the greatest power at your disposal | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a time in a certain place. Through their actions, some individuals were displaced from one spot to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| realizations I need to have right now, into actions and feelings that are good and productive in | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| if you so choose. All real and constructive actions and experiences in life come forth from this | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fears their taking over and manifesting in destructive actions. Hence control seems necessary, a control that prevents | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in this vulnerable spot will govern all your actions and attitudes. It will cause thoughts and emotions | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| assumptions. These assumptions will lead you to certain actions, or to the lack of them. They, in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| emotions that can lead only to indirect corresponding actions as well as vague thoughts and half-conscious wishes | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to all these awarenesses, to all these inner actions and transformations. It comes to the giving up | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| with the thoughts, feelings, impressions, concepts, and the actions, reactions and interactions which stem from these, together | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| hands out the just deserts of the individual's actions and attitudes. Reward or punishment are often supposed | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| premises. Since the premises are false, the ensuing actions and emotions are bound to be destructive and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or her innermost beliefs, concepts, attitudes, feelings, and actions. How each experience is met also determines the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| does not mean that you invite damaging, destructive actions from others or yourself. To the contrary, healthy | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contained the threat of forcing upon individuals certain actions that went against their interests. To this day | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of and refusing the consequences of your own actions and decisions, the more you want to have | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the world so as to produce your best actions and feelings -- this would be the ultimate | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| not quite conscious -- that drives you into actions and feelings which are truly destructive and are | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| reasons. You may even be driven to destructive actions, to seeking troublesome life situations that seem to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the connection between the manifestations and their own actions and attitudes. You can see how the extremes | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reason, seeing the causes and effects of one's actions and will, using self-discipline to keep from giving | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feelings be without acting upon them, choosing your actions deliberately instead. Perhaps it is still not quite | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| do this. The danger of being forced into actions against your reason and will is truly an | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| time our path was concerned with meeting your actions, thoughts and attitudes with honesty. Now you must | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to assume the responsibility and consequences for your actions and choices. If you go east and wish | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it brings forth the most violent and negative actions. Only when development proceeds further and the individual | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| allow the destructiveness to rule and precipitate negative actions. The individual does not know yet, however, that | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| lazy to assume the consequences for her own actions makes a travesty and caricature out of femininity | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| experience the products of our past attitudes and actions, we cannot avoid hardship now when our past | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| avoid hardship now when our past attitudes and actions were based on illusion and thus were destructive | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| life, and to the feelings, thinking processes and actions that your attitudes and inner concepts generate. Thus | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the errors that create negative feelings and destructive actions. You know already from so much that you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| change; then the feelings follow suit; then your actions and reactions begin to respond to new spontaneous | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you have built according to your belief. Your actions then are determined by your beliefs and must | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| -- wanting to make others pay for your actions or inactions, wanting to secretly, neurotically cheat life | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| create a corresponding attitude in life, they influence actions, behavior, responses, reactions, emanation and deeds. Such an | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| so-called unconscious guilt leads you into manifest hating actions and attitudes that reject others and life and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| unmanifest attitudes. You are responsible only for your actions. So, if you hate and wish to kill | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| hidden tendency to be destructive can leave your actions totally unaffected. I just said that it is | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| manifests on all levels. On the level of actions and words, you have a particular strength, a | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| stagnant. People will find themselves inexplicably paralyzed. Their actions will become ineffectual; life will seem to obstruct | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| think, and act without knowing what motivates your actions, subsequently contriving explanations for them. The total experience | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| direct act of will, nor by practices and actions that leave out the necessity to experience all | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| vaguely conscious. This is the case when your actions and reactions testify to the fact that you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| inherent capacity to will. This may apply to actions, or to an attitude expressed toward life because | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| convictions are, by your conceptions, which determine your actions and reactions, by your goals and attitudes. Every | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will, you must, experience just that. All your actions and reactions are geared to bring this about | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| that are also present, the former affect your actions and expressions toward others much more than you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of certain causes. They neither see that past actions bring effects, nor that inner, covert, hazy attitudes | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| may not take place on the level of actions, but, as I said before, it is every | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| invisible plane, both the positive and the negative actions and attitudes also have commensurately stronger impacts and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| just as much as your feelings, create your actions and your experiences. They create your state of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of this field is so strong that ensuing actions and events are inexorably set in motion, and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| events are inexorably set in motion, and these actions and events continue to perpetuate the power of | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| life, attract or repulse events, people, happenings, and actions of others and also of yourself. You set | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| be a misconception about life has governed your actions and reactions and has consequently brought corresponding events | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| take responsibility for the negative intentionality, are all actions that indicate significant progress and deeply meaningful work | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| nor abstract philosophies and principles. These are concrete actions to be put into everyday living. You will | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| remain in the psyche, all your opinions, perceptions, actions and decisions will be based on half-truths or | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| indirect discomfort. Suddenly you will recognize many little actions and reactions in your daily life in a | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| that you should not refute certain experiences or actions that people commit against you. I wish to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| are all ready to assume responsibility for your actions and to choose the right action. Humanity as | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| others so pervades your energies and affects your actions and words that it paralyzes your courage to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| all your thoughts and perceptions, your decisions and actions, your feelings and reactions. We shall come back | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| specific result of commensurate desires, defense mechanisms, destructive actions, negative behavior patterns, and so on. Needless to | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the third stage of this progression, your attitudes, actions, intentions, and feelings have become sufficiently purified, realistic | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| ignores your self-responsibility for anything but outer, conscious actions. You also know that, as a rule, spiritual | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| always in some way are expressed also in actions. Only when this guilt is faced, when the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| logical sequences. The series of thoughts leads to actions and reactions, to newly born facts which, in | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| instant of living results from many thoughts, intentions, actions, feelings, attitudes and expressed traits that have a | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| time projection. What you often believe are free actions, determined by the current situations, are not at | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| accountability and the seriousness of choosing thoughts, attitudes, actions and responses. This state of consciousness, by virtue | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| covering, the lower-self attitudes, intents, feelings, thoughts and actions. It is not easy to see the negative | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of God. Dedicate all your life, all your actions, all your directions, all your goals to the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| old ways. You can say anything, but your actions and your approach to decisions prove in which | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a perpetual flickering of self- defeating, short circuiting actions which interfere with each other and cancel each | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| truth and love fill your day, fill your actions, fill your attitudes toward yourself. Let the involuntary | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| input; honest investment and commitment; thoughts, intentions and actions of the highest nature. In turn these eliminate | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| express through you. I am in all your actions, if that be your commitment. And as I | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| feelings, in their thoughts, their decisions and their actions. You would say that an adult and a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| -- and who do not care if their actions and attitudes affect others adversely. The abuse of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| physical killing. At first the effects of such actions may not be easy to perceive. But as | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your life-affirming, positive and truthful thoughts, attitudes and actions have corresponding desirable effects. If you are unaware | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not part of your destructive attitudes or actions. But those layers of your personality that are | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of consciousness. Perception is the cause of certain actions, which create certain effects. The effects can be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and where all is right with you, your actions, your perceptions, your knowledge, your reactions and your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself with those directly responsible, by justifying their actions, and by not ever asking the crucial question | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| spirits, all entities who have chosen thoughts and actions that plunged them into darkness. It is to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| negative thoughts do not inevitably reflect in your actions and affect others in an insidious way. Thoughts | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| experiencing God's existence. However, not knowing that all actions, including outer and inner attitudes and states, have | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you see plainly how every one of your actions, thoughts, hidden intentionalities, feelings and attitudes -- positive | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| law. Even if negative karma results from the actions of a lifetime, it is joyfully undertaken once | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you doubt when it comes to your non- actions, your lukewarm withholding or not taking a stand | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| times! The reality is that your non-actions are actions in themselves that have every bit as much | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| every bit as much impact as your overt actions. Your soul substance registers the hidden motives for | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| secret, you maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns. The person who has | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |