| Decency.....................33 | |
| mistaken, if your motive has some vestiges of decency, it is far better than what happened in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in God, but have merely some sense of decency, their souls will have earned great merit. This | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| at the same time using your own brain, decency and responsibility, you are also using your free | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| With others again, it may be good character, decency, loyalty, intelligence. With most the means to get | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| felt betrayed. They have displayed utmost loyalty and decency. In spite of this, the betrayal took place | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a pretense used to maintain a guise of decency, while underneath the pretense there is a need | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| but in all philosophies, the importance of goodness, decency, righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules? Don't | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| too. You will develop the respect and the decency, if I may use the word, to allow | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| I refer to those who have standards of decency, who do not wish to harm others, but | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to the latter role, priding yourself on your decency, while you are merely not daring to defy | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| confirm their wrong conclusions. Whether you sacrifice human decency in order to gain your rights and fulfillments | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| possible; later, that it is inextricably connected with decency. This will be so because you are free | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| onto something that violates your integrity and your decency holds back the best you have to offer | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you find where you violate your sense of decency and honesty, you can unlock the door which | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the refusal to seek answers independently, an innate decency and desire to be truthful often provide the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| through shortcuts, illusions, wishful thinking, panaceas, but through decency and honesty with yourself and your life. Be | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and truthfulness with which you approach them. The decency to face up to what seems unfaceable must | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same duality is self-deprivation for the sake of decency, honesty, morality: You must be good, or else | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| hope for complete fulfillment for the sake of decency and goodness, or having to bear the burden | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to handle problems. It offers solutions that unify decency, honesty, and self-interest; love and pleasure; reality and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| mental integrity. Therefore pleasure and spirituality, pleasure and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and physical health | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| rift between conscious striving for goodness, love and decency, and the unconscious, bent on destructiveness, hate and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and integrity. When the willingness exists to honor decency, truth, love and fairness more than the apparent | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| help others to begin to trust in the decency of the world and of people. You can | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| love, unleashes more spiritual energy. Every step of decency activates more of your divine nature. Be this | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this devastates me. This is the true honesty, decency, and integrity that creates richness. You are entitled | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| make that apparent sacrifice in order to preserve decency, kindness, and constructive behavior because such action is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and not an expression of divine love, kindness, decency, nor honesty. But if these attributes seem to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| others. Only by that action of love, trust, decency, honesty and humility can you then come back | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you are true to your inborn integrity and decency, when you follow the divine laws of the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| illusion that by asserting truth, standing up for decency, and exposing evil, you will be isolated, ridiculed | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| accepted one needs to sell out integrity and decency. All this happens constantly in human interaction. Such | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| their own skin was more important than truth, decency, honesty, charity, love, empathy -- in short, all | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Decent......................28 | |
| prayer, or because they take pains to become decent human beings. Yet this was not my meaning | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you that they pray and strive to be decent people. However, they do not develop themselves steadily | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| there already is. The temptation, even for a decent person, full of good will, would be too | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the expertise that enables him to earn a decent living as a physician. Then, when he has | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| It is not enough that you lead a decent life and are a so-called ethical person who | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| knows that it is important to be a decent person, not to commit so-called sins, to give | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| tonight: Isn't it enough if I am a decent person? God loves us all and if I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| than just being what is commonly considered a decent person who does not harm other people. That | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that it is sufficient to be merely a decent person. This term varies greatly according to a | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| has always been known to be a very decent person, conscious of his shortcomings, working at them | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| are trying your best to be good and decent. You may think of others whose ethical standards | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to not commit crimes, who live an average, decent life. For them this is the most that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your actions would have to be anything but decent, loyal, or idealistic: they would have to be | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| thing you in fact abstain from. Being a decent and honest individual, you do not give in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of self-importance, you overcompensate by scrupulously proving the decent side in you, the side you intend to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| isn't it right to want to be always decent, loving, understanding, never angry, and to have no | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| impossible of themselves and therefore accept themselves as decent and likable without being perfect. They therefore know | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is very possible for one to be a decent and good person and simultaneously the opposite in | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you want to be, that you are a decent person. Such faulty awareness of your goodness does | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| yourself and uncover where you are not as decent and loving as you thought. Then use your | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| sinful and unclean, or he was clean and decent according to these unconscious standards, but had to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to being a man or to being a decent human being. This unnecessary division resulted from a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you have to deprive yourself to be a decent, loving human being. Is it not natural that | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pleasure you can have and that living a decent life implies sacrifice, you cannot even believe in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the other. If being a deeply self-responsible and decent person in the truest sense seems to imply | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| with overspending and irresponsibility in order to become decent, mature, realistic, self-responsible and safe, or you take | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| I may even want to develop and become decent and honest, but not at the price of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| to their work. Thus, they cannot make a decent livelihood; they depend on others and accumulate debts | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Deception...................17 | |
| truly forgive. Here, too, there is often self- deception. While no hate may be left, resentment is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| try the other way, the way of subtle deception, the deeper your dilemma will be. You have | 31 SHAME |
| desirelessness can be obtained without error and self- deception. And only you, the individual, can be the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| element foreign to the divine life force. Self- deception amounts to untruth, and untruth is hostile to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to the life force. Suppression is always self- deception; therefore, when self-deception or suppression exists, the life | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the only reason for inferiority feelings is self- deception about your motives: why you want or do | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| concepts; and, most important of all, your self- deception. Only by allowing your true emotions to come | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the truth from yourself. Usually you half-see the deception and pretense, and remain half unaware of the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| from yourself and from life. Pretense and self- deception, self-alienation and isolation must be the result. Defensiveness | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| can only produce repression, and repression is self- deception. You think you do not have it because | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| degree they still live in inhibition and self- deception. If you discover that you are not as | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| destructive helplessness. Repression is merely another word for deception. But when you see that you believe yourself | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| yourself on the deepest possible level where no deception can exist, there can be no safety in | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| where you play those hidden little games of deception, dramatization, and pretense with yourself and others, not | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| laws and apply them to itself. As self- deception ceases, a deep relaxation sets in, a flow | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| truth of the momentary state, pretense, dishonesty, self- deception, false ideas, negation of the beauty of the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| this painful and unnecessary state of isolation and deception -- for that is what it truly amounts | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |