| destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality these are not feasible alternatives | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in the past I referred mainly to crass outer manifestations, particularly as applied to certain personality structures | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a constructive way. Yes, you may make the outer gestures and appear to do so, but your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| growth. This work demands that you discard the outer mask of appearance and that you muster the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| continue to remain dependent on the observation of outer rules. No matter how true and beautiful these | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it contain elements of giving up inner or outer action? Does it mean you now feel that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth -- all these exist in you. No outer knowledge provides you with a genuine God-experience, and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your own healthy inner, and therefore also outer, activities. False needs, even if gratified occasionally, leave | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of further conflicts which finally manifest in an outer situation you cannot cope with. You cannot determine | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unrolling the inner process, while observing the subsequent outer actions and reactions. When it comes to the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the world, no matter how true and beautiful. Outer belief is one thing; the inner capacity of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| self may often act completely against your known outer rules, your principles, your established patterns that you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| let your real self act, unhampered by your outer levels which are so unreliable, as your life | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aggressiveness is a defense, not so much against outer hurts, but against your own submissiveness. You find | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| self that acts, regardless of how perfect the outer action may seem. On the other hand, your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| all alternatives at your disposal come from the outer layers. Any way you turn, the alternative is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| speak of actions, I do not mean only outer deeds. All thoughts, emotions, attitudes, inner decisions, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| behavior patterns are actions. Actions coming from the outer self always put you in a trap. They | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| mature and whole, you are not dependent on outer circumstance. You can cope with the situation, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| by intellectual deliberations, which apply only to the outer situation. In this way, no matter how much | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or perhaps very subtly. Relinquishing may not require outer or material giving up, but rather letting go | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| cause of self-contempt, guilt, weakness, unfulfillment, and many outer frictions and difficulties which are the final result | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| act according to any rule, either a general, outer one, or even a rigid self-made one. The | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| use your strength to find the inner and outer solution, for there is always a good solution | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| underneath you will connect your worth with the outer situation. Only after becoming aware of this process | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self. Only then will you also alter the outer situation. As you go through this process and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| am strong. My possibilities are manifold, and if outer difficulties come to me, I can overcome them | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| yet communication is often essential for eliminating an outer problem. In a crass way, you may experience | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to get to the point of applying the outer knowledge that goodness means productive living to your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Now, my friends, if you have to remove outer layers of awareness in order to find false | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| have occurred without your knowing it. Thus, these outer relapses and disappointments are a necessary period of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| further understanding of why this current exists. The outer answer may be quite obvious, and yet there | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| answer having very little to do with the outer one. This current may be some sort of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self-alienation hinders its regeneration. Thus you see the outer manifestations and judge them -- assuming that energy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| an active state and yet not commit an outer action. And you can commit an outer action | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| an outer action. And you can commit an outer action, yet your soul may be in a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| religion, by rules -- in other words, by outer authority. This effort, be it ever so subtle | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| course I do not refer to a crass outer way, but to the inner subtleties of your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| different inner situation and therefore eventually a different outer situation. This is not exactly the kind of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in others. This pretense is not a crass outer falsification, but a much more subtle inner strain | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| wall of separateness, even if there is some outer goodwill. Then nothing happens. Life continues to be | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| will be possible for you to deal with outer obstructions, and the more their power will grow | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| try to be flexible and resilient in meeting outer circumstances that do not entirely accord with their | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| their being. Understand their lives, their inner and outer struggles, their own childhood -- from whatever you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| interpreted in many ways: earth may be your outer life, the material life, physical life, physical actions | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the material life, physical life, physical actions and outer facts; in short, everything visible. For earth is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| which cannot be seen or perceived with the outer senses. It means your inner actions and reactions | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of God, perhaps sometimes at the expense of outer approval from society, you are being true to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| here what I have often said: First the outer negative events will continue to come your way | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| over a process of several incarnations, the unhappy outer events cease more and more. But when you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| get out of it, thus being dependent on outer intervention over which you have no control. Only | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| do so and have begun to change inwardly, outer change does not come at once. In this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| self-responsibility. This may not apply to all your outer material life, but may affect the emotional plane | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| from other people. But whether the defense is outer aggressiveness or withdrawal and flight, both are equally | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| only physically, but on all levels. Again, the outer is merely a symbol of the inner. A | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| cardinal sins. What is called sin is the outer manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| inner state which can never be achieved by outer means. You are also blind when you ignore | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| All this is inner blindness which leads to outer selfishness and to separateness. The third cardinal sin | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in your self- examination. When you have an outer issue in which you may be utterly justified | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| greater the difficulty becomes. This continues until your outer life becomes so unbearable that the very unhappiness | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| individual. At least, the contagiousness and the direct outer effects of destructive actions were decreased, if not | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and emotions are also contagious. In other words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| contagious. In other words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| choice because they cannot risk being different. The outer manifestation does not show whether or not a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| self-awareness and arise spontaneously, not determined by your outer will, which is the will that can be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| from many different points of view: self-will, the outer and the inner will, and the various manifestations | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| nullify the relationship. Whether this consideration applies to outer and obvious manifestations or concerns hidden emotional attitudes | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the details. This describes the difference between the outer and the inner will. The inner will comes | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| wish to fulfill yourself and your potential, the outer, strained will is often a hindrance. It is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| mature and healthy will that is superimposed by outer means, determined by educational influences, by others' opinions | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| sum total of his or her entire being, outer and inner. According to this personal vibration the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| cope with the world of matter. Thought and outer will are of matter and are to be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to remove the surplus action of thought and outer will through which error and confusion were created | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are temporary tools to give directive to your outer actions and intent. They can and should be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| should be used for your physical life, for outer actions, for deciding to know the truth about | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| an overemphasis on the mind, intellect, and the outer will. They believe that they can attain growth | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cut out by force the overemphasis on the outer intellect and will. Use them rather to see | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have given up the ideal, and therefore the outer standards. If someone wants something, and is not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| exists. If you did not know of these outer standards, you would not be unhappy. Unhappiness often | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| comes from the mind, from superimposed ideas, from outer knowledge -- and therefore it leads away from | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| intellect, will, and discipline are necessary for your outer actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| beginning to develop inwardly by facing the truth. Outer, superimposed standards would only be a structure for | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not fully lived through but repressed due to outer influences and pressures. So my description is only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and justifying, the pain instantly recedes, although the outer situation may remain the same. When you truly | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| long as you are at war with yourself, outer war is a result. As long as you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and selfish and do not even know it, outer greed and selfishness cannot be successfully eliminated. If | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| no self-flagellation, only the recognition of a fact. Outer reforms, regardless how efficient, will work lastingly only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| justification, self-pity, hopelessness, or a superficial rationalization, blaming outer circumstances? Test yourself very carefully and you will | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| will to face everything within. To stress the outer actions may so easily lead to self-deception. Evasion | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| hopelessness, but you are sad due to an outer circumstance, knowing it is going to pass. There | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| hiding, no shifting of emotions. In depression the outer circumstance may be the same, but your feelings | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| an extent, due to other reasons than the outer occurrence. Although you cannot change the outer circumstance | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the outer occurrence. Although you cannot change the outer circumstance, you can change something within yourself, if | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| enough, you do not feel helpless toward an outer event that you cannot change, if you have | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| simple feeling of sadness it is because the outer circumstance is not the real or entire reason | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| instances when one is depressed with less valid outer reason, and sometimes with no reason. One simply | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| believe you are sad due to a good outer reason, test your emotion in the sense in | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| former. They are both completely withdrawn, live in outer and inner isolation. They can hardly relate to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a variety of mutual distortions, such a temporary outer or inner storm may fulfill the same balancing | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| parties involved. By the same token, a smooth outer relationship, apparently devoid of friction, is not necessarily | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to relate is actually simple to measure: your outer life furnishes you with many clues if you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| are torn between these two alternatives, interpreting every outer happening in terms of either needing or fearing | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| identical. Consequently the effect -- not necessarily the outer effect, but the effect upon the two individuals | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| ensuing misery is due not only to the outer emptiness of your life in the areas where | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| yourself and others by an act, by an outer manifestation, and you disregard what is behind it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| mind and try to live it, all the outer details will easily fall into place. They are | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the soul. The sickness is not caused by outer events, but by a violation of the soul | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| automatic reaction that is not commensurate with the outer occurrence. A one- time experience is falsely applied | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| cause you to be frightened again by an outer event that is really quite dissimilar to the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| anything that impacts it from the outside that outer input is simply cut off. Thus healthy intercommunication | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you contribute. Some of you also help through outer actions, each in your own way. Such help | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of you who are helping with inner and outer assistance feel the reality of these blessings. Everyone | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a living organism cannot always be measured by outer signs. This holds true for groups as well | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| health, even if, at times, there are no outer changes or obvious manifestations. However, there are times | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| obvious manifestations. However, there are times when an outer change is noticeable. This is such a time | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| opportunities slip by. I do not speak of outer opportunities and fulfillments, although they may often be | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a TV program recently which explained that in outer space, as we know it today, this adjustment | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| inner freedom, faster growth and development, and therefore outer peace and justice in increased measure. If history | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you are still compelled to identify with an outer authority. I do not advocate a life in | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| not apply my words only to the extreme outer manifestation of using others; try to see it | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| one is trying to shift the control to outer circumstances in the hope that the damage can | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| prevents the free flow that brings awareness. The outer focus separates one more and more from the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| builds up behind the barricade. One day certain outer events will swamp you with all the despair | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| forms and apply to many different aspects of outer and inner attitudes. You have to find out | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| themselves known in connection with a now real outer reason. But the existence of the outer reason | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| real outer reason. But the existence of the outer reason does not eliminate their presence. The inevitable | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the psychological deviations are recognized. If a real outer fear overwhelms you, then you struggle against a | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| range for experience, more possibilities, more inner and outer resources that give you a greater scope for | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| find ways of stilling the clamoring voice by outer, and therefore inadequate, illusory means. The only realistic | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of inner growth cannot be gauged by apparent outer harmony. It may be comparatively easy for you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| To others it may mean withdrawal from the outer world. As to the latter case, I do | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the person to cope even better with the outer world and to become joyfully involved in life | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a transcending experience of comprehension of all your outer problems, hurts, unfulfillments, frustrations as a result of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to stand on one's own two feet. The outer action in question may or may not be | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not fully explored, the pretense continues toward the outer world, and even toward the self. I should | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| restrict and even punish. Those who depend on outer rules to tell them what alternative to choose | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| say way of life, I do not mean outer conduct, certain characteristics that are typical for you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| example, movement and consciousness are directed exclusively toward outer matters, or if self-understanding is neglected, the integration | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self to the immediate family environment, to the outer world, and to the opposite sex. As discussed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is fulfilled and essentially happy, regardless of occasional outer difficulties. In such a case, love, eros, and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| truly pursue your inner development, not just in outer gestures, it must have a lasting effect on | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| enables you to freely choose your inner and outer course in life and being. Change becomes possible | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| rather than waiting for life to remove the outer provocation. Certain unalterable laws of growth and development | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you thoroughly explore and understand all levels: the outer conscious, the semi-conscious and the unconscious. The moment | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| others. Conversely, the more you live on the outer fringes of your consciousness -- on the superficial | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |