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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 |