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 Guilt-free..................3
games. This real self- assertion stems from the guilt-free state that follows the truly giving attitude. If 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
that sweeps your universe. This requires strong and guilt-free souls who act for real, not for false 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
way to attain self-love and self-esteem. The true, guilt-free awareness of other people's wrongdoing, clearly seen as 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
 
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guilt feeling, the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier one feels. Many personal as well as mass 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
coming out of your own vicious circle. The guiltier you feel about possible wrongs you may have 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
if you understand the cause of it. The guiltier you feel, the less you dare to look 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
Thus the following vicious circle is created: the guiltier you feel, the more you need approval in 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
the more you clamor for such approval, the guiltier you feel. This conflict arises out of two 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
The more such outer proof you received, the guiltier you would feel about the continuance of your 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
circle by itself that maintains the destructiveness. The guiltier you feel, the more you hide what makes 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
 
 Guiltlessly.................5
patterns you could not see, once you can guiltlessly acknowledge this need. It is of utmost importance 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
positive creation, where you can expand joyfully and guiltlessly without paying the heavy price you now pay 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
not speak of clear-cut anger that expresses itself guiltlessly and does not leave a trace of inner 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
no longer in a position where they can guiltlessly express their destructive impulses for an overtly destructive 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
well earned, honestly deserved, and can thus be guiltlessly enjoyed. The abundance will benefit many and, among 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
 
 Guilt-producing.............5
approach your inner findings in a spirit of guilt-producing moralizing before you have reached a sufficiently deep 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
self-punishment is a substitute for giving up the guilt-producing attitudes. By doing so, you unconsciously believe that 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
ego faculties will help you to shed the guilt-producing patterns. Even if something in you doubts, you 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
Many of you have verified that hidden, feared, guilt-producing and denied thoughts and feelings are more powerful 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
shallow, unfulfilling, empty, and it will always be guilt-producing, no matter what the mores of your outer 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
 
 Guilts......................57
person masks the true faults and invents artificial guilts to divulge? ANSWER: That happens. You see, it 31 SHAME
a wall to hide behind. What are absurd guilts? They are most of all the guilts you 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
absurd guilts? They are most of all the guilts you feel because you are not perfect. It 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
from this viewpoint, you will find where your guilts are unjustified. Another unjustified guilt -- fueled by 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
here we have a few very common unjustified guilts. What, on the other hand, is justified guilt 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
own clarification separate the unjustified from the justified guilts. Find where you might have hurt others by 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
the vicious circle, I told you about your guilts, about your revolt against authority, and about your 53 SELF-LOVE
might discuss a neutral topic, but when personal guilts and inadequacies enter into the picture, which is 62 MAN AND WOMAN
be ill. Or you punish yourself for various guilts by using sickness as a way out, thinking 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
said before. As I also said, these unjustified guilts are a camouflage for the real reason about 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you. With that knowledge, all your doubts and guilts must disappear, because you can be at peace 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
with guilt. It is the deepest of your guilts. Only the other day we discussed guilt feelings 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
I spoke about how often people create imaginary guilts, or blame themselves for very unimportant shortcomings in 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
discussed. It shows in the anxiety and the guilts when these compulsions are not lived up to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
of guilt than the more specific, often unjustified guilts that smolder closer to the surface of the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
surface of the psyche. These little and unjustified guilts substitute for the real guilt of withdrawal, unlovingness 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
unlovingness, and isolation. In other words, these little guilts are supposed to atone for violating the great 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
As you notice your perfectionism and your little guilts, try to find behind all of them another 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
you to face your lower self, your real guilts, to make restitution for them and to purify 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
Certain people tend to compensate for their real guilts by letting themselves be exploited. It is true 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
is necessary to penetrate through all the false guilts going through the paralysis and the weakness as 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
freed yourself from real as well as false guilts. If faith in God hinges on all these 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
feelings. How can we atone for these real guilts? Could you tell us something about the guilt 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
always is a lot of resistance to facing guilts. Whether they be guilts of commission or omission 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
of resistance to facing guilts. Whether they be guilts of commission or omission makes no difference; the 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
hidden opposites. In order to fully understand your guilts, you have to learn to pay attention to 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
blame in others to cover up your own guilts. What one sees in the other may be 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
done before you can eventually come to the guilts themselves. We have discussed before that people often 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
you needed the very attitudes that called the guilts into existence. All this is necessary if you 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
and restitution is change, because repetition of the guilts is then impossible. I do not have to 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
psychological obstructions. Once you have thoroughly understood your guilts because of your inner renewal and change, your 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
step closer to unearthing your present hopelessness, doubts, guilts, confusions, illusions. May you thus free yourself of 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
human being. The infant is not burdened with guilts, shames and misconceptions. Therefore, the instinctual drives manifest 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
one extreme are superimposed rules, taboos, and false guilts, which cause anger and rebellion. Such anger and 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
consequences. The freer you become of blind fears, guilts, and misconceptions, the more you can choose freely 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
this in a different context. Due to false guilts, a person's sexuality may remain selfishly childish and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
shirking truth. Thus you prevent accumulating avoidable real guilts and putting yourself unnecessarily under the power of 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
your pathwork you have discovered unconscious misconceptions, false guilts, and destructive attitudes that prohibit it. You may 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
summer you helped with some advice concerning her guilts. She has found it to be so, but 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
kind because of the personality's unresolved problems, insecurity, guilts and doubts, uncertainties and contradictions. The issue itself 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
profound reason for your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity and destructiveness. Deep within, you know that 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
that often manifests on the surface as unjustified guilts you cannot give up. The conflict also manifests 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
recognized and come to terms with, create false guilts and exaggerated standards of perfection. It is therefore 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
-- whether or not it also causes false guilts. This inner mechanism is exact. No self-deception or 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
outer freedom, you can safely assume that some guilts have not been faced. Childhood Trauma Not Directly 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
guilt you seek to explain away by false guilts unless you go through these steps. No matter 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
man with a distorted, debilitating guilt feeling: false guilts, fear of a punishing God, a guilt that 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
by pointing out your real and your false guilts, but who has also confused you by the 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
this painful inner struggle in which the mutual guilts and accusations are all confused. Release and clarification 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
the degree man does not face his fears, guilts, and weaknesses, he will play a power game 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
possible wrong perpetuates the wrong and creates secondary guilts that are much more severe and harder to 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
build on deficit. When your real and false guilts prevent you from turning yourself fully over to 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
your helpers and peers and bring all your guilts, all your lower-self machinations to the fore, you 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
great as ever. These repressions and denials, these guilts and false shames are not merely a result 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
share. The denial of the fear caused secondary guilts. Some of these secondary guilts gave energy to 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
fear caused secondary guilts. Some of these secondary guilts gave energy to lower- self energy. Material greed 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
-- it is extremely difficult to accept your guilts and to find your real value. So what 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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