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| to see the reverse, that is the original goodness at the root of your faults. By visualizing | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| compulsion, instead of free choice. With such superimposed goodness does not count in the real sense. While | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the light of Christ and the light of goodness, love and truth is an Antichrist. In that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to discriminate between the fake and the genuine goodness in the human personality, namely the higher self | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| temporarily feel, at least toward one person, a goodness he has never known. The utterly selfish person | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| rebel, because they felt not only his true goodness, but also his understanding of the reasons why | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| for the ability to love, and for true goodness, for light and truth. The desire lives in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be loved and admired. Therefore, the desire for goodness is also selfish. Understand this and recognize within | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and recognize within yourself that the desire for goodness does not necessarily and exclusively come from your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| become uncertain whether to follow the desire for goodness, particularly after discovering the selfish motives. You should | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that asks quite clearly, Is it really pure goodness, pure unselfishness if I do such and such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| path becomes easier. Recognize where your desire for goodness comes from your divine spark and where it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| angry. When you unconsciously assumed the mask of goodness you may have bent over backwards trying to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of, without realizing that it was not true goodness that was so unrewarding but rather false and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| was so unrewarding but rather false and compulsive goodness. Drawing the wrong conclusion, you may now be | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| wonder badness associated itself with punishment and unhappiness, goodness with reward and happiness. Hence to be good | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and aloofness, would be deeply ashamed of the goodness another person's idealized self insists on and would | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that all these trends are signs of their goodness, holiness, unselfishness. When they sacrifice in order to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| doing so, however, such a person stresses the goodness which prevents him or her from having what | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-realization and abuses and takes advantage of one's goodness. This is projection. Second, they exist because one | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| actual weakness or an imagined one. Love and goodness are also considered as weakness and hypocrisy, not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the pretense, contrary to your belief in your goodness; when you are aware of the real aims | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hate whatever contradicts the image of obedience and goodness. It also creates the false guilt of not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the good person. The need for such goodness mostly stems from the hidden striving to remain | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| deserves such benign care if it maintains its goodness. By the same token, if you encounter in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and false toughness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| religion, but in all philosophies, the importance of goodness, decency, righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| stringent self-moralizing, based on good or bad, your goodness or righteousness is not genuine. It does not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fear: the fear about your imperfection. Therefore, such goodness is ineffectual, unconvincing to yourself as well as | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| moment you do you moralize. Any kind of goodness that comes from this tendency is always a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a poor and shallow imitation of the real goodness. Only because you are too insecure to trust | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a different way of saying that a false goodness, a forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a moralizing that many people rebel against. Genuine goodness, coming out of real growth, will never have | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| new angle. You are under the misconception that goodness is dull and insipid, that it has no | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| all that to badness. How wrong you are! Goodness is as diversified as badness. Only it has | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| maturity -- which amounts to the same as goodness -- you are better able to express yourself | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a deeper, wider scope for living. You confuse goodness with goody-goodyness which, if analyzed, is the extreme | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to find the answer. As long as the goodness of the right course fills you with anxiety | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the impression, in this respect at least, that goodness is to your disadvantage. Of course, in reality | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the point of applying the outer knowledge that goodness means productive living to your specific inner problem | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| true state of being is removed from such goodness. A group of only five people, who face | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| becomes an integral part of the idealized self. Goodness means also self-sacrifice and unselfishness. Yet this contradicts | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and the selfish impulses because the striving for goodness according to false, limited concepts and rigid outer | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and the rules which seem to decree that goodness means deprivation? In both attitudes, guilt and uncertainty | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| it as a reward for the self-sacrifice and goodness. This demand cannot be fulfilled. This win or | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| a decent person. Such faulty awareness of your goodness does not give you a sense of reality | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| dare not acknowledge the opposite of this seeming goodness, so you struggle against admitting that which is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| will, by force of mind, and by superimposing goodness. The natural letting go is not a self-indulgent | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of one's inner forces, and from superimposing false goodness. It is a false belief born of fear | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to happen is weakness, not love; fear, not goodness; appeasing and encouraging abuse, not constructive living. It | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| impossible to make, because even the so- called goodness is problematic. Since the ideal has always been | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| must unfold itself to you. This unfolding of goodness appears miraculous to the person who has hitherto | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| contains all life, all truth, all the unified goodness of creation. Every step in this direction abandons | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of the infinite possibilities of beauty, life, and goodness. But remember, beauty is not the opposite of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| People may fight it because in their minds goodness is equated with deprivation. The call of life | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| with these problems. Often weakness is confused with goodness, and strength with ruthlessness or selfishness. When caught | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| follow the human laws receive homage for their goodness and righteousness. Such praise is tempting. It appears | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your own cosmic powers. Another obstruction is false goodness, which we might also term sentimentality. Easily overlooked | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and the fear to do so creates false goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real feelings | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| do so creates false goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real feelings are blocked. The personality | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| it also knows no obligatory feelings -- false goodness, sentimentality. It is free and spontaneous, since love | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| but, unfortunately, I cannot genuinely do so. False goodness stands more in the way of the realization | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Where am I still involved in an obligatory goodness because I do not want to face my | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| This does not apply only to their actual goodness and loving generosity, but also to all other | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| discover your own infinite powers to create infinite goodness in your life. The stronger the you must | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| such particle, no matter how diluted by genuine goodness, stands in the way -- particularly when it | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| human beings. It is the following: pleasure versus goodness. The word pleasure includes all personal happiness, fulfillment | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| self-interest, self-assertion. In this duality, all these contradict goodness and unselfishness and must therefore be sacrificed. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| honesty, morality: You must be good, or else! Goodness and unselfishness then mean renunciation of bliss. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| or choice to be made between pleasure and goodness. But as long as you believe that in | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| complete fulfillment for the sake of decency and goodness, or having to bear the burden of badness | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| divine and can manifest the unified power and goodness of it when they reach into their depths | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| discovery of the unity of pleasure and personal goodness. Are there any questions about this topic? QUESTION | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| convince oneself of its reality, wisdom, and utter goodness. One cannot help discovering its all- encompassing love | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fear of denying anything. This is not real goodness -- based on free giving of love, on | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| mentioned the rebellion, anger, and false sense of goodness, the spirit of being victimized, that takes hold | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| vibrant stimulation and pleasure. For such is the goodness of God's world. It is the distortion of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| creative living and the capacity to experience the goodness of life are truly infinite. The path ceases | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the life of the spirit in its undifferentiated goodness and fulfillment will become more and more a | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| feel obliged to make the tragic decision between goodness and joy, morality and pleasure, self-interest and love | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| connects you with the ongoing, ever-present truth and goodness of ultimate reality. Occasionally you can sense this | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| creatures has every possibility for change and for goodness, for greatness and for growth. At any moment | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| opens the door to knowing your potential for goodness, regardless of how malicious you now may be | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in order to experience life's utter abundance and goodness. Otherwise, your desire for happiness is counteracted constantly | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| generosity of life, a life that bestows its goodness upon you again and again, beyond your wildest | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| overcoming them I will become receptive to the goodness of life. I am willing to grow from | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the struggle between the ultimate reality -- its goodness, its richness, its beauty, its joyousness, its unending | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of their divine heritage. Their actual, already manifest goodness seems unreal, even fake, because they refuse to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| toward yourself. Or you emotionally react to their goodness and inner beauty, while unrealistically overlooking their ugly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| there is a rift between conscious striving for goodness, love and decency, and the unconscious, bent on | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| attitudes that reject others and life and the goodness of being. Now, how is this guilt to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| as upon the inner truth, beauty, love, and goodness. This requires one to develop a fine sensitivity | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| truth, life, God -- any aspect of the goodness of the universe. Because it resists trusting the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| have opened up and experienced pleasure, love, the goodness of life. You know that this principle exists | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| does not bear the golden point of your goodness. If you can hold to this truth -- | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| interact and how you both have beauty and goodness, as well as those negative, destructive traits. This | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| his or her capacity for growth, change, and goodness. Add to these patience, and giving the other | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| so under the guise of a so-called loving goodness and taking it in silence is sentimental and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| repeated proof that divine reality brings truth, wisdom, goodness, and joy. At first, the divine will is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| do when you do not trust life's abundance, goodness, safety, justice, richness, and beauty. No matter how | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| divine energy. From all the beauty, creativity and goodness, this inversion creates ugliness, destruction and evil. There | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| spheres and states of consciousness, the degree of goodness, brilliance of spirit or mind, of beauty, wisdom | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| exist and the more you stop the false goodness, the more you assert your right to have | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is the equation of self-devaluation with humility and goodness, and the equation of self-value with pride and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| manifest this in various ways. Health, beauty, intelligence, goodness, talent -- all these divine aspects are pumped | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| fulfilling yourself, the more you become aware of goodness often being a matter of different approaches and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| weak, cowardly person is associated with mildness, gentleness, goodness. Nothing could be further from the truth. I | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| risk themselves and their personal advantages by aggressive goodness and positive assertion. What happens when you are | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| maligns another, for example, your silence is not goodness, gentleness, peacefulness. Far from it. In a sense | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you and in your world, greater degrees of goodness must exist. Therefore, a plane of all-pervading goodness | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| goodness must exist. Therefore, a plane of all-pervading goodness must also exist. The same applies to the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| create, you will not perceive that love and goodness are the supreme power, and you will not | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| human life, those who experience the inevitable beauty, goodness and rightness of it, logically attempt to continue | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| is depicted as embodying love, truth, wisdom, salvation, goodness and service to the Creator and His plan | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| should there not exist entities who manifest total goodness and total badness? In the latter instance you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| deserving salvation, that is, not deserving eternal life, goodness, joy, total justice. When you ponder your progression | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| restore your faith in Christ, in love, in goodness, in mercy, in the world as it is | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| love, you breathe into a universe of sheer goodness. Make yourself conscious of this most beautiful of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| out into a beautiful world of light, of goodness, of singing joy, of eternal life, of fearless | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |