| already a great deal for some people. This attitude also conditions you for the patience and humility | 38 IMAGES |
| do not approach your unconscious with a moralizing attitude. Your unconscious does not like it and will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of consciousness and being exist about every conceivable attitude, about your faults and weaknesses, as well as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| So, if you approach the search with the attitude of self-moralizing, you will have difficulties. That is | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| able to see the connection with an inner attitude that may so far have escaped your consciousness | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that your inner reactions come from a faulty attitude, there are two possibilities. Each represents an obstacle | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| original feelings that led you to form the attitude in the first place, and without reexperiencing them | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| faults in your inner images, beware of the attitude that you already know about them. You may | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is exactly the opposite. Subjectivity validates the spiritual attitude; every measurement or any other value is subjective | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| It means the elimination of every current and attitude in the soul that is contrary to divine | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| This knowledge of what to expect, this healthy attitude, this analysis of your feelings will lead you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| for the unconscious does not like a moralizing attitude -- at this point, once the bare structure | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| defenses. People think that by adopting a certain attitude they will avoid what they fear in life | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| it. And then you will have the proper attitude toward pain. Only by accepting pain -- and | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| degree, even before you have changed your inner attitude, by the mere fact that you had the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| hardships, then you have the proper and healthy attitude that must be pleasing to God. That is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| spirit of positive and constructive self-search, in an attitude of humble acceptance. How much more courageous it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to ignore many trends, half-consciously thinking that this attitude proves your love and tolerance, but it is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| absolute either/or, though you may have moderated this attitude somewhat as your intellect has matured. You may | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to pay the price. That is the healthy attitude. Is that clear? QUESTIONER: Yes, it is clear | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in the being that this whole and basic attitude is determined. It is the woman who is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of your conscious reasoning and explanations for your attitude in this respect. Try to find out whether | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| same desire-current. You are used to an exclusive attitude; you think the truth of one motive excludes | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is it then to change an opinion or attitude in which personal, psychological factors, and your emotions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| wisdom is needed to change an outlook or attitude in which deep-rooted emotions are involved. Not even | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| represents the first hurdle of life. The child's attitude toward authority is carried over into adult life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or committing crime. The strongest form of this attitude will be found in the person who commits | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| weakness and fear. And an act or an attitude that comes from weakness and fear can never | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| never produce positive results. The fact that this attitude was adopted unconsciously and in ignorance does not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| person infinitely more strongly than a consciously recognized attitude, act or motive. In other words, if you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The more hidden forces and reactions in the attitude of the law-upholder -- even though he or | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| different from the weak and often doubly intolerant attitude of the law- upholder who has chosen that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| tendencies, which will then determine a person's final attitude in this respect. I hope none of you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and teachings. Whenever humanity finds out that an attitude or an opinion is wrong, it swings over | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| about the remedy. Also, consider the effect your attitude has had on your life, your conflicts, as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| such a person, you will sense that the attitude of that person was different from the attitude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| attitude of that person was different from the attitude of the law- upholder who is motivated by | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the inner law -- but with a different attitude, with a different flavor, with a different motive | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| This the other also sensed vaguely. Understand his attitude by understanding your own, laugh with him, build | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| authority. The question is to find out your attitude toward authority as such. Your childhood reactions still | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| God's will. It may even have colored your attitude toward God without your being aware of this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| merely a detail of the basic question and attitude. The first step is to consider the attitude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| attitude. The first step is to consider the attitude of a person to the concept of human | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hypocrites whom you do not admire for their attitude. You ignore the third alternative which is the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| whether one likes them or not, the healthy attitude is to say yes to life as it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| child who is forced to obey. The mature attitude is the free one. This real kind of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| against one's will. The difference lies in your attitude. QUESTION: What is the connection and the difference | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| detached observations of your daily reactions. Find your attitude toward them, and learn from them to find | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Therefore general attitudes need to be investigated. An attitude to a general concept or idea becomes very | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| most pressing problem. Find out what is the attitude of each individual toward that subject. Let people | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Let that person tell you what his parents' attitude, or apparent attitude, was on the subject. You | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| tell you what his parents' attitude, or apparent attitude, was on the subject. You may then find | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is completely different from the emotional behavior and attitude. This should furnish an important clue for the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the recognition of their common denominator: The constructive attitude is: In my ignorance I believe -- perhaps | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| able to understand the chain reaction this wrong attitude has caused within you, eventually also harming your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this. It is so important. What should your attitude be toward justified guilt? What would be healthy | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that I have hurt other people by this attitude and I am now willing to learn exactly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| clearly see the direct or indirect hurts my attitude has inflicted upon others. Then, think about the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to give up your fear of loving. This attitude is healthy and constructive. The hurt you feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| realize. It will foster a healthy and constructive attitude. It will set the life force in motion | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| accept and go through them. The most constructive attitude is a positive acceptance of yourself and life's | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not one goes into an undertaking with an attitude of hopelessness? ANSWER: One's attitude always has a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| undertaking with an attitude of hopelessness? ANSWER: One's attitude always has a bearing, but you cannot say | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| bearing, but you cannot say that an optimistic attitude brings a good result and a pessimistic outlook | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| yourself, you can have a positive and optimistic attitude consciously, but unconsciously you can also have the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| other extreme, some people constantly assume a negative attitude because they are so afraid of disappointment; they | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the disappointment by shielding themselves with the negative attitude. So underneath both the positive and negative attitudes | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| such understanding will you finally find the right attitude toward a forthcoming venture, a hope, or anything | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Until you gain the right understanding, the recommended attitude is neutrality: let go of your self-will without | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| an external, forceful rule to find the right attitude for different situations in life. Such rule is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| person is so concerned to have the proper attitude to guard against failure or disappointment, it is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt feelings. Accept another's wrong in a healthy attitude of realizing that the wrong can never do | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| so long as you prevail in the wrong attitude. Every crisis, every breakdown, is caused by a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| every breakdown, is caused by a basic wrong attitude. You need never suffer a breakdown if you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| never suffer a breakdown if you change the attitude in time. If you truly want to realize | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| circumstances that lead to them, but your wrong attitude in such circumstances. In reality a breakdown is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- the degree is stronger, but the basic attitude is the same. I discussed temper tantrums last | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| it amounts to. But this is the wrong attitude. Self-will prevails to a strong degree when this | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| degree when this emotional climate exists. The right attitude would be to turn about inwardly and seek | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| going from one incarnation into another with an attitude in which self-will and self- pity prevail, tries | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that finally, in the incarnation in which this attitude culminates, the person will be predisposed to insanity | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| as that of the mild tantrum. The basic attitude is the same both from a spiritual and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the pain -- and exchange it for the attitude described above, a much greater, fuller, and more | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| be loved with our faults? Perhaps the best attitude would be that you expect to be loved | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| adult's, relationship to authority is, his or her attitude toward God will, most probably, be colored and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the reaction to that will become the unconscious attitude toward God. In many instances, however, children experience | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| one's own life-plan cannot be cheated, this wrong attitude will produce conflicts, and therefore fear will be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| How, in what way, and why, what the attitude to the individual parent or parent-substitute was and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| throughout your life. You should all examine this attitude that may be deeply hidden within yourself. Do | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of trying to avoid a change of inner attitude. But as far as your intellectual understanding is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is your guilt feeling, or rather your wrong attitude toward guilt. To understand that, it might be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of justified and unjustified guilt-feelings and the proper attitude toward shortcomings. If your faults depress you so | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| are afraid to face them, then this wrong attitude has to be worked on first, because it | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| harm on your soul. The proper and constructive attitude toward your own shortcomings is the key to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| facing your erroneous reactions, because of a faulty attitude toward your shortcomings, you cannot find the breaking-point | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| way. At the other extreme is separateness, the attitude that makes one believe one can go through | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| right spirit -- neither in a masochistic, self-destroying attitude, nor in an attitude of fear and a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in a masochistic, self-destroying attitude, nor in an attitude of fear and a sick kind of self-love | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the cause of your weakening, but your attitude to the experience. This does not exclude a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| very important problem of humanity, which colors one's attitude to life. I realize it is very difficult | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| where you deviate from the healthy and positive attitude. But beware of the opposite extreme, of feeling | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it in a subtle way with your inner attitude. This is the remedy. It will not cause | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it is more a matter of your inner attitude. It is well known that every human being | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is, it occurred at random, according to the attitude and emotions governing the entity when it fell | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be a great test for everyone concerned. Your attitude toward a disagreement or any sort of upheaval | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Do not ever forget it is your own attitude toward your burden that determines its heaviness or | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the human soul is separate. Every quality, reaction, attitude, or tendency must invariably influence everything else in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| concern themselves with their own problems. This wrong attitude, as well as the quoted objection are both | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| outer world and lead an inner life, this attitude shows the same distortion. It is true that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| despair triggered by inferiority feelings -- provided your attitude about it is healthy and without hidden elements | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in you, imperfect as the desire, action, or attitude may be, the inferiority complex must cease to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be your medicine if you have the proper attitude toward life and want self-responsibility. Otherwise, hardship will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| made a recognition of importance, beware of the attitude of believing that you can immediately change your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you, there must be something wrong in your attitude. Then bring the problem to me or to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the significance of the recognition itself to your attitude to negative findings in yourself. I repeat, if | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| yourself. I repeat, if you have the proper attitude, the more disadvantageous the recognition, the more relief | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| not and find out where and how your attitude is faulty. In this search you may find | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| not a conscious thought, but an unconscious emotional attitude. None of you will fail to verify this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| as outer actions do. Nevertheless, every thought and attitude, whether conscious or unconscious, is a definite act | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| opposite extreme with a defiant I don't care attitude, then you prove something to yourself. Both extremes | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| stronger you are compelled to wish a wrong attitude away, so to speak, by looking away from | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| approach such a meeting with defiance, a negative attitude, doubt, and any number of other destructive feelings | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| had to disappear, for then a change of attitude would have inevitably occurred. As long as a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| finding leaves you still unable to change your attitude, so that the healthy emotions could begin to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in no way an indication of the inner attitude. Perhaps you may have guessed that the universal | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you may have guessed that the universal human attitude or inner process just described is not an | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| self is always an expression of this basic attitude, regardless of what shape or manner it takes | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| personality. You ferociously hold on to this basic attitude, not realizing how high a price you pay | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| since it approaches so very much the unhealthy attitude of looking for pain that is in you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is a positive chain reaction. If your entire attitude and life direction is geared to self-development, knowledge | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you are unaware of a conclusion or attitude, it is not exposed and cannot be reconsidered | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| In the final analysis this unconscious thought or attitude amounts to just that: you wish freedom without | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in the last and deepest and most important attitude toward life as a whole you still refuse | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| within the human soul, and in the human attitude toward life as such. The infant in you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| without a trace of guilt. With the proper attitude, you accept your inadequacies and face up to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| will go through life with a completely new attitude: as a free being without fear. You will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| bring them out into the light. The proper attitude would be when the low tide comes to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner freedom. QUESTION: I was wondering about one's attitude toward sickness. We learn that in sickness we | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to pain in particular, it depends on the attitude. Pain in itself is not necessarily beneficial if | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in itself is not necessarily beneficial if the attitude is unconstructive, at least not while the unconstructive | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is unconstructive, at least not while the unconstructive attitude prevails. When one changes one's attitude, the past | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the unconstructive attitude prevails. When one changes one's attitude, the past experience will then become valuable retrospectively | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is partly responsible for it. Each emotion, each attitude, each current of the soul leaves an imprint | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself? That is the healthy approach and constructive attitude to the entire question of contact with the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| circumstances, especially if it is approached with the attitude of helping the spirits. The main point is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| main point is to cultivate the basic healthy attitude I discussed. When you seek contact in the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one make amends? ANSWER: As long as an attitude, an emotion, an action or a thought causes | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and outer life. This realization and a discriminating attitude toward your inner motives will give you strength | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| with equanimity. Let us consider now what the attitude of a relatively healthy person would be. He | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have gained inner maturity in this respect, your attitude would be somewhat like this: Death and pain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |