| Acceptability...............3 | |
| in which you believe that your value and acceptability are at stake because you have imperfections. If | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| sadistic impulses will lessen and the feeling of acceptability and self-liking will grow. It will grow not | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an inferior mate to convince himself of his acceptability, which, of course, is then anyway illusory. Once | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Acceptable..................23 | |
| not have faults which you do not consider acceptable. Oh, you may admit to some faults in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in mind, which is often unconscious. Emotions are acceptable to the will-type only so long as she | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the clamor of the infant in a rationally acceptable way, but this does not bring you peace | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be hidden away, you seek and find more acceptable reasons for it, or you may even say | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a truth which is conveyed in a form acceptable and understandable to human beings. A myth, similar | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in a concise, pictorial way to make it acceptable and understandable, to make you perceive it. The | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| disciples. This basic fear is often rationalized by acceptable explanations. The teacher may excuse this untruthfulness by | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this general outer climate is usually regarded as acceptable. You take it for granted and it never | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| pseudo-solutions. It is clothed in a seemingly more acceptable cloak, but it contains as hardened a defense | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| itself, whether or not the wish is morally acceptable or not. It is the broken awareness with | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| disapproval and rejection. But they are often more acceptable than pleasurable feelings in connection with one's own | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| being evil, because they arbitrarily divide it into acceptable and unacceptable categories, and see its primitive manifestation | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fate, or life, to make you into an acceptable person, meanwhile hiding in fear from yourself, you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| some convincing explanations for -- whatever seems most acceptable, most logical or most compatible with your superficial | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| or misery. This basic metaphysical concept may seem acceptable in theory, but it is at first extremely | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| idealized self-image which you think is the only acceptable part of you -- again you will have | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| stage, you create these apparently two selves: the acceptable and the unacceptable. But in reality there are | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| later read these words. Some found the theory acceptable, to others it may have appeared nonsensical. Even | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| example, a certain vocational pursuit may appear completely acceptable and right, but it may not be right | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| this truth, staying in your negativities under another acceptable pretext -- that the timing has to be | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| versus total wrong. Being right means being good, acceptable, having the power to create a safe life | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| times the concept of grace was much more acceptable, for it was understood as a special dispensation | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that the self in its entirety is not acceptable must be challenged again and again. You need | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Acceptance..................184 | |
| a negative decision in the full knowledge and acceptance of all its consequences and related renunciations of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the self; it is, first and foremost, the acceptance of one's imperfections. Then follows the inward integration | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| show your best side. You all crave admiration, acceptance, and love. You think that showing your best | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| pressure to change a condition or circumstance where acceptance should reign. Find out what this pressing desire | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| difference between that and a simple recognition and acceptance of what you are, without building up a | 31 SHAME |
| so often put on. Real tolerance and real acceptance means to clearly see another's faults and not | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| ones. Be in peace, be in God. 37. ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| your world and particularly among you, my friends. Acceptance of life is the divine way; to accept | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| But let me show you in principle how acceptance can be practiced within one's soul. To accept | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| be in need of this medicine. This is acceptance of life. Your unwillingness to accept life, or | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to accept life, or your inner struggle with acceptance, may manifest in many ways. Because you have | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and the course I have shown you here: acceptance. To accept the tests without understanding their underlying | 38 IMAGES |
| desires and accepting their price. Because of the acceptance, your desires will differ from the desires of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to avoid misunderstanding, I emphasize once more that acceptance of pain does not deny your power to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and constructive self-search, in an attitude of humble acceptance. How much more courageous it is to choose | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the form of positive thinking as opposed to acceptance? ANSWER: Each of these basic religious attitudes has | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| them. The most constructive attitude is a positive acceptance of yourself and life's risks. It includes the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| dissolve -- by resorting to a mere formula. Acceptance also can be abused and misinterpreted. In its | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be abused and misinterpreted. In its healthy form, acceptance helps to shoulder one's imperfections and their consequences | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| if they are unnecessary. In its sick sense, acceptance fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is self-willed and impatient. The wrong kind of acceptance fosters martyrdom, seeing oneself as the victim. One | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| seems to be gaining wider exposure, understanding, and acceptance. Would you consider it good that it is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of course, utterly impossible. It forfeits the healthy acceptance of one's own inadequacies, which enables the personality | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| an inner experience, and not by any outward acceptance of a doctrine or a belief. And it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In the child's vaguely felt emotions, love and acceptance from this particular parent becomes the most desirable | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| aim, all the more so because love and acceptance to the degree that the child would wish | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unattainable. The desired aim -- exclusive love and acceptance -- is confused with the parent withholding it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which was originally desired: exclusive love, approval, and acceptance. A further result of this confusion is that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not be love, it may be respect, admiration, acceptance. Then this person takes on the role of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| bound to bring physical death. Part of the acceptance of life is the acceptance of inevitable pain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Part of the acceptance of life is the acceptance of inevitable pain and death. The healthy person | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| accepted this. These things lose their terror once acceptance has taken place due to understanding. Now, if | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to certain emotional reactions. This happens if love, acceptance, and agreement from a particular person become a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to accept that which may be inconvenient means acceptance of reality, loss of your fear of loving | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| tied together with one string. Immaturity is non- acceptance of reality because reality is not always perfect | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| love and creativity, our self-responsibility lies in the acceptance of the re-expression of that love and creativity | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the willingness to go through it. It means acceptance of life as a whole, including the necessary | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of trying to please the very people whose acceptance you crave. In doing so, you often despise | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish to gain. So it is not in acceptance itself that you find strength and healing, but | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| but in how you choose to accept death. Acceptance mixed with fear and negativity -- both of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| -- is altogether different from a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not cringing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| way. You sense that the solution lies in acceptance. But you also believe that in acceptance lies | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in acceptance. But you also believe that in acceptance lies annihilation. As long as this confusion is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| really help, just as the wrong kind of acceptance does not help. This kind of religiousness will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of the wish itself is really an unhealthy acceptance of death. As you become stronger in the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you explain a little more clearly how healthy acceptance differs from unhealthy acceptance, for instance in a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| more clearly how healthy acceptance differs from unhealthy acceptance, for instance in a martyr? ANSWER: The unhealthy | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Some people believe they have risen to genuine acceptance, when in reality they simply reject pain and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of spiritual laws and truth. This rarely indicates acceptance of a denominational religion, but, rather, the presence | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| from accepting yourself as you are, and that acceptance is the only basis for growth and change | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way to Him is through accepting aloneness. Such acceptance will strengthen the independence and self-responsibility essential to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Accepting death and the unknown is connected with acceptance of independence and self-responsibility. Both indicate spiritual and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of competence may be involved. Or the other's acceptance of the truth may have an urgency for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| per se but due to the lack of acceptance on your part of the fact that you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| intolerant; how it prohibits the humility of self- acceptance and therefore keeps you from liking yourself. Without | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of mind. The absence of longing means an acceptance of life and a healthy ability to cope | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need for it. The consequence will be mature acceptance of the results of this destructive defense until | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| means that are supposed to get love and acceptance actually do not bring it. Therefore the unconscious | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| perfectionism and against conformity, that is compatible with acceptance of the inevitable with humility, and with healthy | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| somebody who appears powerful, strong and invulnerable, whose acceptance you may particularly desire, takes on an aura | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| So what you have to learn first is acceptance of reality. If you were more accepting of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| love that Creation is. But your lack of acceptance makes you blind, self-centered, and fearful. Only in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you blind, self-centered, and fearful. Only in learning acceptance can you attain the state of inner relaxation | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| go, is this very rebellion and lack of acceptance of life -- and therefore also of death | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| QUESTIONER: Yes. QUESTION: Isn't this kind of joyful acceptance of lack of perfection conducive to a loss | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| being far away from perfection, you cannot stagnate. Acceptance of imperfection does not mean the wish to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| have been the source of the only love, acceptance, and security you have ever known. Therefore, to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| parent is tantamount to losing all the love, acceptance, and security you have ever known. By devaluating | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| yet the children had reverence for them, through acceptance and understanding. And I have seen children from | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the worst fault or distortion will bring forth acceptance, while a defense against exposure brings forth contempt | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have no personal involvement. It is just an acceptance. In a personal relationship, this becomes a process | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| without a feeling of sin, and in this acceptance resolve the conditions that are called sin. Be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| when you remove your hurry, your lack of acceptance of yourself, your dependency on pleasing the moral | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| have discussed this entire condition: repression, self-deception, non- acceptance of who you really are, as opposed to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| now, even though it is still disharmonious. Such acceptance allows you to go about trying to understand | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the answer. The answer is not a lazy acceptance of evil. But neither is the answer a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| one. The various means you employ to gain acceptance from others -- many of which have been | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| -- be it financial help, approval, love, or acceptance -- whenever anxiety indicates that you are dealing | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| unpleasant result one fears is not eliminated, then acceptance of the unpleasantness must finally come, if it | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it is coped with maturely and realistically. But acceptance is impossible as long as one struggles. The | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| does not always go one's own way. That acceptance will finally enable you to master yourself and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| than you make allowance for. QUESTION: Would the acceptance of reality be a prerequisite for love? ANSWER | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all three categories of inner negative trends need acceptance and awareness, each for its own reason. Then | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not feel secure in the affection of and acceptance by one or both of your parents, you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| helplessness and insecurity makes him strive desperately for acceptance by his parents. In doing so, he believes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| values. These values are not accessible through blind acceptance. Eternal values may seem pleasurable while going against | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| more masculine or more feminine, unifies you through acceptance, understanding, strength, love, and truth. To recapitulate: the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| suffering is unnecessary. On the other hand, the acceptance of what is, and the relinquishing of your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| puzzlement and confusion. Now, when I speak of acceptance, do I mean acceptance of suffering? Of course | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| when I speak of acceptance, do I mean acceptance of suffering? Of course not. In an indirect | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| what I explained about the apparent contradiction between acceptance and the knowledge that suffering is not necessary | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| sphere of influence. It says that lack of acceptance breeds disharmony, anxiety, and tension, increases the difficulties | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to die, that you will do so by acceptance, and by that acceptance you will learn that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will do so by acceptance, and by that acceptance you will learn that there is nothing to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| comes from fear, must make the situation worse. Acceptance of one's temporary limitations and, consequently, of the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| difficult. Therefore, the calm admission and the momentary acceptance of it will do more toward its elimination | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the admonition that it is necessary to learn acceptance, you always interpret it as having to accept | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| liberation, your life eternal, your bliss. In truth, acceptance must bring you to the realization that you | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| comes to a point of realization in which acceptance is no longer a risk, for it embraces | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| for accepting because they are so afraid their acceptance may prove disappointing. This is a very general | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is your ultimate destiny. Accepting less is an acceptance of this earthly reality. For dealing with this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the psyche and the ego untended, unexplored. After acceptance of the struggle, people discover relatively quickly that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| forces, you will, by that admission, by that acceptance, by that observation or awareness, slowly but surely | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| that in spite of the conscious desire for acceptance, the pleasure current will only be activated in | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| for example, situations where a child experiences partial acceptance and partial rejection. Then the pleasure principle is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| perpetuates a negative wish. It is a full acceptance of what is -- with that, pain ceases | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a mere momentary disturbance. In this understanding and acceptance one ceases the struggle. One accepts the negative | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| confusion; that others will give you love and acceptance only when you do not wish to be | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| succeed in gaining affection, love, approval, respect, and acceptance, without which it is not possible to live | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| in one form or another. The struggle between acceptance of and fear of life is going on | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| this powerful force by no means proves an acceptance of and trust in it. It is rather | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| with your conscious mind, your concepts, and your acceptance of life, of self, and of others. QUESTION | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| unduly tensed up. For that purpose, a full acceptance of the condition is inevitable. Even purely chemical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| spontaneous inner nature life becomes impoverished. But the acceptance of this cooperation hinges on meeting what is | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| on which it thrives -- love, affection, warmth, acceptance of its own individuality. Both soul and body | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| what you consider to be the apparently vital acceptance of others, or your ways of hiding your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the preposterous position of craving the love and acceptance of a person whom you hate and resent | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| I want to add here that an intellectual acceptance of the real self as a philosophical precept | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| not having experienced this may misunderstand and confuse acceptance with condoning and finality. Acceptance merely means stopping | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| misunderstand and confuse acceptance with condoning and finality. Acceptance merely means stopping the struggle against what is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| This happens through the encompassing love for and acceptance of another sphere which is another being. The | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| an inner resistance. The outer laziness and distorted acceptance of things connotes a fierce inner struggle against | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as you are; and because of this basic acceptance, you will gather momentum and strength for further | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fighting it, you avoid the experience whose full acceptance is necessary to outgrow it and become stronger | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| itself. It requires and results from a full acceptance of whatever is. Those of you who have | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for millennia, because it misunderstood the meaning of acceptance. It is true that you must accept, for | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you are deserving of your own esteem and acceptance. You will be able to see the traits | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to accept necessary frustrations. The equation of the acceptance of full autonomy with the capacity for pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| rejecting frustration in life. The right kind of acceptance automatically brings along the right kind of rejection | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the right kind of rejection of frustration. Right acceptance is the awareness and willingness to see that | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| ignorance and destructiveness. This attitude unites the right acceptance with the right rejection of frustration. Wrong acceptance | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| acceptance with the right rejection of frustration. Wrong acceptance of frustration leads to wrong rejection of it | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| persecuted. The denial of self-responsibility leads to false acceptance -- hopelessness, resignation, doom. When the small, momentary | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| a negative outlook on life, then a destructive acceptance is operating. If a disagreeable occurrence is made | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| real opposites. This principle is clearly illustrated here. Acceptance and rejection of frustration are not opposites but | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| The latter helps the former. In fact, without acceptance, the fight cannot be effective. To make this | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is one of detached observation, of unjudging, unharried acceptance. The more it unfolds, the more you must | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| on this path is precisely the knowing and acceptance of the evil. The word acceptance has been | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| knowing and acceptance of the evil. The word acceptance has been used a great deal for lack | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| we must pay more attention to how this acceptance comes about. For only when acceptance occurs in | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| how this acceptance comes about. For only when acceptance occurs in the right way can evil be | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Cultivate this altered attitude. The new attitude of acceptance does not mean condoning, excusing, or rationalizing your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| humility. It also requires courage. Fear assumes that acceptance and acknowledgement of the ugliness will make this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| diminishes the rift. Consciousness must eventually lead to acceptance of what has previously been denied. If there | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| improve and become much more deeply meaningful. The acceptance of whatever in you has been rejected because | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| conscious of it, will immediately produce a greater acceptance and understanding of other people you have to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| when this hidden agenda is glimpsed and conceptual acceptance develops, it still seems impossible to accept that | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| built itself from your progress in awareness and acceptance of the negation of your conscious affirmation. The | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Only then -- in this observance, in this acceptance of the tight contraction that is still automatic | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| inner unity and fulfilling self-expression of life. The acceptance of your hate will make you more loving | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| your hate will make you more loving, the acceptance of your weakness will make you stronger, the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of your weakness will make you stronger, the acceptance of your pain will allow you to be | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as a principle you hear expounded: that the acceptance of pain makes the pain pleasure. The less | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| what is. Soft pain is a result of acceptance. Once the covering crust of outer numbness has | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you could not live without total approval, unconditional acceptance and love, uncritical admiration, or whatever else it | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Do we not hear over and over that acceptance is necessary in order to be at peace | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| knowledge is not sufficiently deep and wide. Full acceptance is still absent. You are still submerged in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| come together again through the great act of acceptance, or non-resistance in the right way. Such an | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| pointed. It would be a mistake to interpret acceptance of all feelings and experiences to mean that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| my friends, not only is it untrue that acceptance of pain implies a masochistic, sacrificial weakness and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| it is still there, hidden behind the surface acceptance. Everything seems to hinge on how you react | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| reality, based on its laws and truths. The acceptance of the state you are in leads to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| that the infant can grow. Only in the acceptance of the infantile egocentricity can you find the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you, more and more you experience understanding, warmth, acceptance, love, and true friendship. You have learned to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| once the apparent hardships are accepted, because such acceptance amounts to an honest approach to life. Where | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| as in the state of soft receptivity and acceptance. Perfection is a breathing, living force that heals | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and assertion would be appropriate and intolerant where acceptance would be appropriate. For many personalities one or | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| overly permissive and sentimental, developing a false, mask-self acceptance that is only an appearance. You can see | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| really called for is learning from them through acceptance and thus transcending them. This distortion also reveals | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and freedom. The first two alternatives of fearful acceptance and blind rebellion are obviously unloving and unfree | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| will be as creative an act as the acceptance of the infringement in other circumstances. You are | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the spiritual courage to be willing to sacrifice acceptance from others -- if indeed you believe that | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| faith rather than denial, you come to self- acceptance, self-forgiveness. Therefore you experience that God has already | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| growth and potential for more understanding and for acceptance of truer, divine values is hindered by parts | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| toward fear of the full power current is acceptance; gentle training is needed so that the personality | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| change. A new sexual expression and a joyful acceptance of the sexual drive has to emerge. At | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| reality seems indeed the most realistic and sane acceptance of life. The problem is that to a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| longer exist once they die, in this very acceptance lies the ultimate rage. Atheism itself is a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| different realities. There can never be a genuine acceptance of ending one's being. Such false acceptance is | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| genuine acceptance of ending one's being. Such false acceptance is always either an angry, bitter resignation or | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| later to feel -- His love and total acceptance of who you are now, no matter how | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| means, among other things, Christ's endless forgiveness and acceptance. It means that you can always find your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| of supreme love, forgiveness and mercy -- of acceptance due to the deep penetration of His vision | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| for the experience of Christ's personal love, forgiveness, acceptance and total vision of you? How could you | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |