| Exclusiveness...............9 | |
| is entirely creative, if stripped of the childish exclusiveness and one-sidedness. Only the way you go about | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| healthy way will never cause interference and mutual exclusiveness. The desire for love and healthy aggression are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the great truth that does away with mutual exclusiveness. From an either/or consciousness you change into one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| disappointing, because they are the result of misunderstanding, exclusiveness and limitation and result further in the inability | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| assume. Everything you see has a finality and exclusiveness for you that permits no other possibility but | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| each other. In the illusory perception of mutual exclusiveness, they create a short-circuit. In the darkness of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| these opposing teachings express great truths, but the exclusiveness with which they are conceived and perpetuated ultimately | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| imperfect, limited view of life in which such exclusiveness seems a reality to you. Another distortion in | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| be a contradiction to another truth. With such exclusiveness the dualistic mind destroys the inner unity that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Excuse......................28 | |
| what the lower self will use as an excuse to reinforce a negative trait like sluggishness, say | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| afraid, and this unjustified fear serves as an excuse for the lower self that always wants to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| purification, too. Many people are ready with the excuse that they cannot do the work of purification | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not have the goodwill can always find an excuse, no matter what. In one case an easy | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| use the difficulty in another teacher as an excuse not to work spiritually. By the same token | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of one teacher may be used as an excuse not to be able to do it oneself | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| use the imperfection of another teacher as an excuse. Excuses are always handy. You all know that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| find an unrealistic current hiding behind a rational excuse. You must look under it just as carefully | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| often rationalized by acceptable explanations. The teacher may excuse this untruthfulness by the seemingly commendable attitude that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will you defend yourself against it with the excuse that it is the fault of others, of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not let it get away with using the excuse of outer problems to account for acute depression | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| being gullible. This, then, will serve as an excuse for not liking anyone. The idealized image in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| either physical or psychological. We give ourselves the excuse, If I do change in such and such | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| were, religious precepts behind which you hide and excuse your childish tendencies to refuse to grow up | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| process. To stop the growing process with the excuse that there is a danger in overexertion and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| cannot trust itself. This in turn furnishes an excuse for depending upon others for one's needs. One | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and unspiritual. You may have your own private excuse to beautify your weakness and apparently make an | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| now. May you not indulge in anything, nor excuse it, but see it for what it is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of your pride. This doubt then becomes the excuse for the artificially maintained status quo. This is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| manifests as tiredness, exhaustion, weakness, which furnish the excuse to remain still longer in the status quo | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| if you use their real shortcomings as your excuse, when you punish them for the result of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| either using the other's bad intentions as an excuse to stay in their own or looking for | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| using something that was partly true as your excuse. Understanding this, my friends, requires a lot of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| use for you; you are bad, as an excuse and explanation for not loving. The physical-sexual level | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is genuinely possible only when you no longer excuse, hide, deny, rationalize, project, and hate others in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| parasitic and use the power structure as an excuse. The strong and diligent ones, who risk and | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| more receptivity and quiescence. Is it not an excuse for staying inert, avoiding effort and risk? Only | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to be kept secret. Not ever. Sometimes an excuse is used to rationalize keeping secrets: If I | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Excuses.....................32 | |
| self-search. Use your critical faculties to detect the excuses you make only too easily, or the intention | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| self-honesty. And people are very resourceful in finding excuses to justify why they do not need to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that it can no longer pretend and make excuses the way humans like to do. They are | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| holds you back and furnishes you with many excuses not to follow your higher self. The excuses | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| excuses not to follow your higher self. The excuses are manifold. Some are quite transparent, like I | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| loser if your outer self allows all the excuses your lower nature furnishes. Of course, I speak | 21 THE FALL |
| seeing yourself clearly, without any false motives and excuses and blindness, for a while. 2) This will | 21 THE FALL |
| speaking within you when you receive these hidden excuses and pretenses. If you expect this struggle beforehand | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| little better. Do not just put the superficial excuses aside. Test them, deal with them, examine them | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| against the right decisions, delivering all sorts of excuses and pretexts, while you remain unaware of why | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in what devious ways it hides behind handy excuses, you will not be able to master it | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| issue. You search in another way; you make excuses for yourself; and you try to tell yourself | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| working persists, no matter what the pretexts and excuses are, the sluggishness and the immaturity of your | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to put it aside. There will be easy excuses: the faults and imperfections of other people are | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| your resistance to face yourself manifested in finding excuses and rationalizations for not going on such a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| before you had all sorts of doubts, misgivings, excuses, and pretexts about entering this path, you now | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the imperfection of another teacher as an excuse. Excuses are always handy. You all know that. Many | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is just one of the many other possible excuses or rationalizations. As to the value of this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| in a direct way without finding reasons and excuses, you will gain an understanding about yourself such | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| warding off the brunt of the self-condemnation. Finding excuses and explanations would be a cover-up for the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| know why. One may try to find legitimate excuses and reasons, but in one's heart of hearts | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| them. You will learn to take seemingly legitimate excuses with a grain of salt. Resistance exists not | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| not really satisfy you. Observe how you make excuses for not looking at these disturbances, and how | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you need to look at your demands without excuses. Then you will be able to withstand the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| appears to give. You always find reasons and excuses outside yourself to hedge what most needs to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| strong and assertive in overcoming resistance, in disclosing excuses and rationalizations, and when to step aside in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| them, giving honest expression to them, without finding excuses or blaming others, but not feeling hopeless and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| face the deeper issues in truth, subterfuges and excuses are very necessary for the preservation of the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| you may even use others' real failings as excuses to punish them for not living up to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| stronger ones had the rights and needed no excuses. The ability for restraint and discipline was practically | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to do so, regardless of the rationales and excuses you may manufacture for yourself. When you live | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| those who are lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving seeming justification to their argument | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Execute.....................9 | |
| For without your good will we could not execute our task. I also wish to make a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is the instrument with which you do, manufacture, execute an idea; with which you give, take, receive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of fear or any other reason do not execute the sinful act, does this still count as | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it with tasks it is not equipped to execute? Only by activating the inner being is harmonious | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| can now recognize the feeling. You can now execute your relaxed willpower. This is where you are | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| destructiveness. The limitation is that the ego-consciousness cannot execute this alone and must turn for help and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| knowledge of truth, its already existing power to execute good will, its already existing capacity to be | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| designs the house. The architect, in turn, must execute his or her own plan and hire a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and control and the innumerable components necessary to execute such a creative act with all that forms | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |