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| to cultivate one's thoughts. Quite often a person acts rightly, but the thoughts run another course; people | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| must work out according to law, and God's acts in human history never endanger the spiritual life | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| clearly to you in so many words, but acts simply by guiding you to heed what you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| one hour. In other words, the higher self acts and guides to a certain extent, but it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| others, then you will not experience their erroneous acts as painful to you. You can liberate yourself | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| this separation, let go of the ego-will that acts against divine law. It can only bring you | 18 FREE WILL |
| human being does not commit crimes or antisocial acts, partly because he or she realizes that that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| I say, it is not necessary that your acts be that way, but it is sufficient that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| another instance against it. But the one who acts preponderantly either with or against can safely be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| be found in the person who commits antisocial acts. The mildest form may not even be noticeable | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is not developed spiritually, may lead to criminal acts -- and these have to be stopped, of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that he was, of course, opposed to their acts and wrong attitudes. He could even laugh with | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| even though the rebellion may be quite unconscious, acts against his will, like a child who is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yourself. I was speaking of the little everyday acts where a person is confronted with the choice | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| unconsciously think about God as a person who acts, chooses, decides, disposes arbitrarily and at will. On | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| If someone else does not accept you, or acts contrary to your expectation, this in itself is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| nature. The real you will not desire harmful acts. This work will bring out the real person | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| would be valuable to explore good and unselfish acts in this light. On the surface these acts | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| acts in this light. On the surface these acts certainly appear to be unselfish, yet they bring | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a telling sign that erroneous motives underlie such acts, possibly based on this common misconception, of responding | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by making independent decisions for carrying out unselfish acts, thus being at one with yourself, you gain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of your rebellion in complying with the unselfish acts in the past, as well as with the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| errors exist in you, causing you to commit acts of betrayal which have many further negative consequences | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in your emotions where you ascribe weakness to acts of love and humility that are tendered in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| submit but a few verses which support this. Acts 4:32-34-35: And the multitude of them that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| do with the outer manifestation. The person who acts can be inwardly patient. The person who is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| or that it is not, except for crass acts. In all your desires and attitudes it is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| be destructive, and in that sense they are acts of killing. The terms life and death do | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| us some insight into the reasons for compulsive acts? In particular, what is the general emotional basis | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and eating? And how can these two particular acts be combated? ANSWER: The only way to combat | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| they may displace their guilt by even stronger acts of immorality. It would lead us too far | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| oneself and one's actions, rather than on perfect acts as such. In other words, it is never | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Then it is not your real self that acts, regardless of how perfect the outer action may | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Sometimes such outlets take the form of antisocial acts. Then the criminality is an outlet to relieve | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of aggression. I should know better because he acts out of his own unresolved problems. All this | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| belief, it stems from self-will. Such a person acts out of compulsion. I would not say that | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| strive to have your real self manifest by acts of thought and of will, by indoctrinating yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of fear, weakness, and wishful-thinking. He no longer acts because he feels God demands or expects it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that it shows the concept of God who acts, does. Creation is, in the true sense, not | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| postulates that God is an omnipotent Father who acts at will; who rewards you if you obey | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in this state, it is not because God acts, but because, in some way, man is sincere | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you ignored the selfish motives behind your unselfish acts. Hidden selfish motives induce you to act them | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| will you know whether or not your sacrificial acts are truly free. QUESTION: Will you tell us | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| way or another. In one instance, definite restitutive acts, that perhaps cause you some hardship, will appear | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| climate of egocentricity. Regardless of good intentions, unselfish acts, considerate attitudes, this inner world of egocentricity continues | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| sufficiently developed to restrain them from committing destructive acts, the mere existence of social laws would serve | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and pressure. You are then often driven into acts you cannot help committing if only because you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the inevitable -- such as death, or other acts of destiny -- is a gauge of maturity | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| it. The ego is the part that thinks, acts, discriminates, and decides. The person whose ego has | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| need not in the least lead to destructive acts, either physical or otherwise. This is one of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| fear of others who seem to expect such acts, or from an inability to cope with pent-up | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| what remains is a compelling force toward cruel acts. In these instances, all harm, all destructiveness, all | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is already integrated with the inner self. All acts of creation in art and science, all great | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| outer rules requires neither conformity nor rebellion. It acts on inner values that may or may not | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| conscience in the free spirit of self-choice or acts in blind obedience. The words may sound the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| I am lost. Your new freedom no longer acts and feels according to such dictates. And that | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the pulsation is following all such inner acts with periods of waiting -- waiting for the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Those who feel love will often experience such acts as not at all depriving, but such love | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| see life as bleak and hopeless because someone acts destructively toward you. Therefore this responsive negativity must | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| individual who understands the nature of life and acts accordingly. I recapitulate: your compatibility with life lies | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Even if it does not manifest in overt acts, your so-called unconscious guilt leads you into manifest | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to life. So, in the final analysis, all acts flow from the underlying substance and energy of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| is one of the most dynamic and creative acts imaginable. You constantly create, whether you know it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| charged thought you know and pronounce are creative acts. The creative substance in which you live and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| must begin with your conscious mind. Like all acts, it follows from a decision of will and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be emphasized enough that meditation, like all creative acts, consists of both impressing by active principle, and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| You no longer need to go into specific acts of meditation, in the sense of thinking and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| years ago. Guilt must also lead to self-destructive acts; it must cause weakness, anxiety, lack of assertiveness | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Your denial always implies inner or outer harmful acts toward others and may therefore truly be called | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| illusion that giving and receiving are two separate acts. The fusion you long for can only come | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| may or may not also manifest as physical acts. These movements exist in absolutely everything that could | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| social and antisocial behavior, between constructive and destructive acts. This was a totally dualistic state, inevitable because | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| therefore disconnected structures. When it comes to destructive acts of killing, stealing, or in other ways robbing | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| is corrupt and requires the individual to commit acts against humanity -- that is, against God -- | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| destructively toward their environment or themselves. Children's self-destructive acts must be discouraged by their elders. This is | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Unselfish giving must exist truly in your smallest acts. It is not enough to be unselfish in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| can experience. If you cannot see that your acts have specific consequences, it is impossible to see | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and therefore in untruthful attitudes and unloving, destructive acts, must work themselves out of this morass. This | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| conditions and in specific circumstances. Continuing these same acts or attitudes or customs under completely different circumstances | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| not make sense, that fails to elucidate through acts or attitudes the divine truth contained in the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| by the further effects of his or her acts. It is known that everything about Satan is | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| not making decisions in your thoughts, opinions or acts, you have no impact. Even when you actively | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| be outwardly identified. It is true that these acts indicate denial of the God-given unification of love | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| another -- not only about past and present acts and experiences, but also about thoughts and feelings | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| maligning and unwarranted suspicion, the inner and/or outer acts of factual, psychological, emotional, and spiritual cheating, impose | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |