| Moods.......................40 | |
| the attunements should no longer be governed by moods. You need to control them yourself, and this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| become master of yourself, not be mastered by moods and depend on them for the kind of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of being a slave and being directed by moods and outer happenings. It is in your power | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| slowly but surely further into darkness, depression, self-despising moods, and thus into separation from God. It is | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| how to fight against giving in to these moods. Choose these days to reread what I am | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| physical body. It reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods, diseases of body and soul, the basic character | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| become. It begins with very disharmonious and rebellious moods, encasing you more and more in a wall | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a hopelessness that finds an outlet in occasional moods for which you sometimes find outer reasons and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| unreal because what you emphasize in your varying moods is necessarily wrong. When you see the good | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this tendency is, again, to analyze what your moods and emotions are saying, and why. You may | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| way that you should look at your depressing moods and other negative aspects. Just observe the child | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| general development, character tendencies, as well as passing moods or outer happenings, you tune into one of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| analysis of one's negative reactions, emotions, impressions and moods. There is no other way. Instead of passing | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| focusing your attention. By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the blessings of working yourself out of unpleasant moods, irritations or depressions, rather than waiting for life | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the confusion of your present feelings, thoughts, and moods. You do not even have to clear up | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more aware of the reasons for your negative moods. You forget less and less that the answer | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| how negative, how hopeless, how unhappy your momentary moods are, the truth is the opposite. Truth is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| recognize and eliminate. Each time difficulties and negative moods appear, you must halt the negativity that seems | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| when you honestly look at your most subtle moods and reactions and translate them into concise words | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| that these reactions and reflexes, these emotions and moods, are based on certain assumptions you have never | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| will lead me to my salvation. However, two moods have set in at different times. One is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When you look at your life and your moods, see your bad moods as the downward curve | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| your life and your moods, see your bad moods as the downward curve that presages the next | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| can still delude yourself that unhappiness and bad moods just befall you out of nowhere, or that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a human body, this pull manifests in different moods, perceptions and experiences. How often do you discover | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you will occasionally suffer from your own fluctuating moods which sometimes seem to come and go without | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a victim of the fluctuations of your own moods. This third stage is the least removed from | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to deal with as you go on. Those moods are then signposts for you, enabling you to | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the third stage in which you confront your moods. You all have been in situations when suddenly | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| can be used as scapegoats for your bleak moods, you are much farther away from the truth | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| through the days in terms of the various moods that overtook you during this specific day. Now | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to produce the answer, to bring these various moods into your pathwork and follow through these patterns | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of understanding the meaning behind the events or moods you are in. To the degree you make | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| meaning of your life and your experiences, your moods and states of mind, will never take on | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| hourly life so that you see what your moods, your experiences and perceptions reveal about your process | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| -- connections between the outer life, your inner moods, reactions and the process -- can be made | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| repeat, you need to look at your feelings, moods and various mental states in a new light | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| light. You will, for instance, find that many moods or states you have interpreted to mean one | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in a compass. Just begin to observe your moods. When do doubts come up? What brings on | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Moral.......................30 | |
| That, my dear, depends entirely on the spiritual, moral, ethical attitude of all concerned. The thing itself | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| at first appear contrary to the ethical and moral law of your environment. Though this may sound | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| On the other hand, suppression is bad, and moral self- righteous judgement of another person's sickness is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you by ever so slight an implication of moral judgement. There is also another reason why I | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yes, much of the idealized self-image dictates highly moral standards, making it all the more difficult to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not and cannot be considered good, ethical, or moral. Aggressive, hostile, proud, overambitious trends are glorified, or | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| most cases these two tendencies are combined: overexacting moral standards impossible to live up to and pride | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| consider wrong and unacceptable, another may not. This moral structure actually takes the place of the self | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and those of others. As you develop this moral sense in yourself, you will perceive intuitively where | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that my discussion contained the message of discarding moral codes has not as yet understood its meaning | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| now seem to believe that I implied every moral act is moralizing and rigid. All I invited | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| does not mean letting go of all the moral standards you have lived by. Eventually, you will | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| by. Eventually, you will live according to these moral standards out of new motivations, desires, and reasons | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| believe that such a failure comes about for moral reasons, but it does not. Both directions may | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| acceptance of yourself, your dependency on pleasing the moral standards of others so as to be approved | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it really could already be at this time, moral laws become a whip and a prison, so | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are convinced that your actions are ethical and moral even though you may already have discovered that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| your unwillingness when you refuse to shoulder your moral obligations toward yourself. You may acknowledge accountability for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and in the last analysis a spiritual or moral one. It is a question of integrity. Without | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| society coerce the individual to follow and obey moral standards. Because of this pressure from the outside | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the experience of pleasure. Behind the superstructure of moral standards, laws, and rules lies the craving for | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| because the individual is really concerned with a moral issue as such. You may pay lip service | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| induces an individual to rote repetition of handed-down moral codes. People may accept handed-down laws because they | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| nourished; pride and vanity were elevated into false moral values. If you consider the moral indignation, the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| into false moral values. If you consider the moral indignation, the moral self- righteousness of men and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| values. If you consider the moral indignation, the moral self- righteousness of men and women toward those | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| using of each other as the highest of moral standards. Such claims go way beyond ordinary hypocrisy | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| attitudes and create new conditions, new standards, new moral values. This can clearly be seen in your | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| The latter may contradict your idealized self-image, your moral standards, your overall personality, but the former anger | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| detriment of others, they go far beyond violating moral and spiritual laws and values. They are beginning | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Moralistic..................4 | |
| have not discussed such perfectionistic expectations from a moralistic viewpoint. For if you expect impossible standards of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| right, constructive thing. I do not speak in moralistic terms. I refer to any simple human fulfillment | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| attuned to your real self than you realize. Moralistic self-defeating attitudes often induce you to reject whatever | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| being reasonable and constructive. This is not a moralistic issue at all. Laziness is a manifestation of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Morality....................27 | |
| you have to borrow a rigid structure of morality in order to protect yourself from your untamed | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| In the first place, let us distinguish between morality and moralizing. These are not the same. In | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| -- perhaps because they cannot distinguish between true morality and self-righteous moralizing -- are often those most | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will finally come to the point where real morality is alive and flexible in you, and you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| came in, the word moralizing. Now, you used morality. It also seems to be that what you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| distinguished, in answer to the question, between living morality and lifeless moralizing. Moreover, I explicitly stated that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| great truths indicates neither false moralizing nor true morality based on inner growth, which is based on | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| on whatever level it exists, if no false morality blurs the issues and thus hampers the real | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| blurs the issues and thus hampers the real morality, then there is no wrong. There is perhaps | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| peace. The call of life disregards the superficial morality most people ardently adhere to, or equally ardently | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| adhere to, or equally ardently fight against. This morality is based on the fear of disapproval. People | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| see the fault and observe high standards of morality because one is so unhappy about the defect | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| values and will do away with all false morality. The more you are willing to truly transform | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| real self transcends the flat laws of outer morality, therefore you must have the courage to be | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fear and greed, cowardice and opportunism. Thus outer morality is not necessarily a sign of real, inner | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| is not necessarily a sign of real, inner morality. However, the real self has extremely exacting standards | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| real self has extremely exacting standards of real morality, of a far deeper nature than the former | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| is self-deprivation for the sake of decency, honesty, morality: You must be good, or else! Goodness and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to them stems not from an overdose of morality but from a violation of real universal laws | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in different contexts -- is the question of morality versus pleasure, selfishness versus altruism, self-deprivation versus depriving | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| make the tragic decision between goodness and joy, morality and pleasure, self-interest and love, you cannot ever | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| by emotions and desires, regardless of ethics and morality. So for that stage the development of the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| with the often more complex issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| make way for a new inner sense of morality and conscience. The Christ consciousness that evolves within | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| New Age. The Christ consciousness brings a new morality that little by little wipes away the outer | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you, outer laws will disappear. The laws of morality will be completely flexible. Each case is different | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to the identification of Jesus Christ with rigid morality that denies feelings, sexuality, autonomy and the strong | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |