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incapable of feeling healthy anger. When the issue justifies anger, insecurity induces conflicting feelings. Healthy anger makes 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
that level, convincing yourself that the others' action justifies and explains your disturbance. When you resist this 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
unconscious interaction in this area thus fortifies and justifies the conviction that negativity is a necessary defense 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
rebellious that he wants to steal them and justifies this by claiming that those who have earned 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
 
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say, I never did anything wrong enough to justify all that is coming to me now, or 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
people are very resourceful in finding excuses to justify why they do not need to or cannot 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
does not mean that you should nurse them, justify their existence, or, worse, become lazy and not 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
of their existence, or when you try to justify them. Be blessed, my dear ones. 38. IMAGES 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
on the lookout to use such arguments to justify itself and its image. With the knowledge you 39 IMAGE-FINDING
to resist and rather distrust others, and to justify your distrust with rationally well-founded arguments. But once 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
understand what you said, but how do you justify these attitudes on the part of people who 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
gain admiration. The other alternative is to rationalize, justify, and self-righteously explain harboring such evil or unkind 47 THE WALL WITHIN
still with some reservations. And in order to justify this reservation, you now take the findings you 47 THE WALL WITHIN
turn will claim to have been betrayed to justify himself. The one betrayed is accused of having 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
which is most negative in the other person justify your wrath. You will notice the personal, colored 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
of humanity so far was in order to justify its existence and whether humanity's creativeness was used 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
at ease. Nor will it compel you to justify yourself. Healthy anger will never weaken you. Any 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
I have found that because I need to justify myself for what I do, I condemn myself 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
yourself why you are doing so. Would anyone justify what they do not feel needs justification? If 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
When you fully accept it, you no longer justify or condemn, because you have given up the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
more you become aware the less will you justify and condemn. And that is the beginning of 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
resisting. When you judge, you resist. When you justify, you resist. QUESTION: What then is the right 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
use a false reason you call legitimate to justify running away from yourself and to strengthen your 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
in motion. This must produce results, which then justify entrusting yourself to this creative process. You then 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
healthy or unhealthy anger. The cause may entirely justify real, genuine, healthy anger which is, needless to 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
manifests as a destructive, negative world view to justify a personal fear. The fear is therefore denied 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
this very division because through it you can justify your rejection of the life principle as it 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
your very nature is right and good. You justify this irrational attitude by pointing to the most 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
This leads to pleasureless experiences and seems to justify your sense of wrongness and danger. Here is 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
this struggle that creates layers which seem to justify your distrust of your instinctual self. Only the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
with the object of affection. Never do they justify the denial of the good feelings themselves. If 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
discipline, all responsibility -- as a warning to justify his or her overcontrol. They will say, You 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
feel the urge to deny, to embellish, to justify and to project onto others what you cannot 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
abandons self-responsibility, who leave everything to God to justify their own inactivity, also fail to fulfill themselves 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
turn requires the person to concoct theories to justify the fear. If people convince themselves that it 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
is unbearable and even dangerous, and thus you justify your refusal to feel sad. You may do 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
who make you sad. Your mind attempts to justify why you should not have to endure this 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
you deny this fact, you do so to justify your position: if all is dismal anyway, then 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
be real. But do not, by any means, justify your defensive hardness by judging and doubting. This 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
path of development, or to choose to fortify, justify, and increase the old defensive and negative pattern 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
the painful confusion, to build defensive cases, to justify one's own situation, or to protect oneself from 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
unloving attitude and build cases in order to justify your own holding back, then you truly sin 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
deny, rationalize, distort, conceal, or use half-truths to justify this attitude. Lately, several of my friends have 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
old pattern of blaming others in order to justify your unfairness and your unloving demands, you not 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
treadmill of perpetual frustration which then seems to justify his or her caution, withholding, and negativity. The 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
when you do not explain it away and justify it, but instead name it for what it 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
outer events begin to manifest that seem to justify one's fear of others. The nearer you come 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
distrust, and a concept of poverty seem to justify your holding on. I repeat what I mentioned 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
beware of using this knowledge in order to justify, whitewash and thus perpetuate the distorted version of 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
to do so -- when you no longer justify and rationalize and see without any embellishment those 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
the words I am saying in order to justify a lower-self trend to defy an outer law 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
man superior and woman inferior. In order to justify this assumption, woman was supposed to be intellectually 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
is there something else in me that would justify my appreciating and loving myself, that deserves esteem 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
believe in their actual manifestation. The more you justify the superstition of pessimism, the less desirable your 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
creating cases that are supposed to substantiate and justify your very unjustified feelings and thoughts. You reactivate 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
your irrational demands that you busily try to justify. You have your terms for this phenomenon. You 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
do not acknowledge them as illusions and you justify them; you act as if others who have 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
You create circumstances around you that seem to justify misery and darkness, but you must have been 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
to bear on the situation constructs reasons that justify the reality you want to perceive. In other 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
no matter how you try to explain and justify it, forget for the moment the issue and 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
does it exploit those people in order to justify the ruler's own power drive. In that sense 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
right is. No matter how you try to justify your antagonism toward Jesus Christ, you are not 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
be conscious of, that you may rationalize and justify -- you build on deficit. Building on deficit 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
faith and yet not use misapplied faith to justify the current tendency of your world to function 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
others for this state and use it to justify their secretiveness, instead of doing the only valid 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
of yielding, following, or surrender and want to justify it. You may wish to see the other 254 SURRENDER
 
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rationalizations -- the way you may succeed in justifying your opinions -- may hide the weak and 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
self- condemnation? ANSWER: As you become aware of justifying yourself, ask yourself why you are doing so 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
judge, or moralize. There can really be no justifying without moralizing. Then ask yourself clearly, what is 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you can do so only if you stop justifying and condemning yourself. I have said this so 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
begin to condemn himself -- and therefore start justifying, warding off the brunt of the self-condemnation. Finding 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
look at the problem, you are condemning and justifying. The more you become aware the less will 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
long as shame and pride induce moralizing and justifying, you cannot grow out of the problem, because 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you look at yourself calmly without moralizing, without justifying, without complaining or resenting, then you do not 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
by your ingrained habit of hiding, moralizing, and justifying. You may succeed once, but then you forget 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of events within, abstaining from perfectionism, moralizing, and justifying, the pain instantly recedes, although the outer situation 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
learn to accept them without condemning, condoning, or justifying yourself -- then you can understand what misconceptions 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
others. Therefore you fall into the error of justifying, denying, falsifying, and rationalizing -- and often even 174 SELF-ESTEEM
possibility of further destructiveness. It might lead to justifying and condoning truly undesirable things, such as self-righteous 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
attempts to make your own destructiveness conscious without justifying it by the destructiveness or limitation of others 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
old rut of reacting from habit and easily justifying it. You indulge in compulsive, negative, hopelessly circular 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
you will accept the anger without judging or justifying yourself or others. If you let yourself feel 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
-- without whitewashing, without explaining it away or justifying it, without shifting the blame for it onto 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
indulging yourself, by blaming others, by excusing and justifying your own lower-self traits and all the more 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
risk and invest, can abuse the system by justifying their greed and power drive with the actual 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
above defense, when truth is more important than justifying yourself, or your parents, or your forebears. The 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
by allying yourself with those directly responsible, by justifying their actions, and by not ever asking the 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
within you is closed up tight? Can the justifying of your ancestors' infallible rightness on this central 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
battle here. One part strongly aims for covering, justifying, projecting, and thereby increasing the lower-self energies and 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
at it from the point of view of justifying faith? Do you only see, perhaps wish to 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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