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| not really guilty here. Naturally, these are unconscious processes, and they have to be brought out into | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| said, this is the law for all divine processes. Anything substantial and permanent grows slowly with a | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| which it was formed, and to understanding the processes of your reactions when you formed it, you | 38 IMAGES |
| hidden away because of the shame. When these processes remain hidden, part of your personality cannot grow | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and effect and embraces all universal and psychological processes. Take, for instance, the images. When an image | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| have to become consciously aware of such reasoning processes. What is important is that you experience the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends. I bring you divine | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| feel the difference between volitional and unvolitional thought processes, you can very well prepare for our work | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| so forth -- on our physical bodies, its processes, developments, its degeneration through disease and aging, and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but, believe me, it is not. The inner processes are at the root of it. If you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and investigate its origin and the inner reasoning processes. I cannot be more personal than this. What | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the strength after he has found all these processes, but that is the hardest thing to find | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impatience that is a result of the inner processes described before is a problem in itself. The | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you invest your energies, your personality, your thought processes, concepts, ideas, and ideals into it, the more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the process I just described. These are subtle processes and when explained in crude language they appear | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Any conflict, distortion, or illusion interferes with creative processes, the search for truth, or any constructive endeavor | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| leaving your personality structure crippled. When your mental processes mature, you have to go through transition periods | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| long as you cannot rely on your intuitive processes, you must be insecure and lacking in self-confidence | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the first necessary step to destroy your destructive processes and to build a real solid self that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love are one -- by neglecting your emotional processes? Think about this, my friends. Begin to see | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is no separation between spiritual living and psychological processes, if you consider it from the point of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you many ways to unclog this channel. These processes are thought by some of you to mean | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| -- and healthy passivity -- water -- are processes of purification. Both fire and water can be | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| purification. Both fire and water can be cleansing processes, and both are needed for an integrated, healthy | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the stream, as well as fighting, are healthy processes, but both can be distorted. Many other elements | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| desire not to cope with them. All the processes of the images we have discussed and found | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| images we have discussed and found are really processes of masochism, because the images, whose patterns embody | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a great deal to you to understand the processes of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual nature | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you can return to normal, and your thought processes can again concentrate on the many aspects of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to defend yourself from it. Thus the same processes are operative when the danger is imaginary as | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and feeling and you short circuit your creative processes. You do not see the manifold possibilities of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| how to use your defenses. They are automatic processes in every human being. Even a child will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| more frightened. But if they slowly unroll the processes of their emotional deviations, understanding them and correcting | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| When you are unaware of your own inner processes, you are not sensitive to this. You merely | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and again. Happiness and love cannot be volitional processes, my friends. They come as you observe yourself | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| with concepts -- in other words, by intellectual processes. This cannot succeed, my friends. The question may | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not be at all aware of these inner processes, but if you look closely at some of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| could anyway never be really understood through mental processes. The only way to come closer to an | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to the illusion. How false these unrecognized reasoning processes are! What a pity that you persist in | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| or evaluate. Therefore you cannot compare the growth processes of these organisms with your own. But you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| make a comparison between the individual laws and processes of growth and those of humanity as a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| primitive people were forced to develop some mental processes which immediately reduced their selfish primitive drives and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| better, but will deepen your self- understanding. Identical processes are at work in all organisms. One apparently | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| than a complete lack of awareness of these processes. If you find yourself in an involved situation | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the unavoidable life circumstances and partly through deliberate processes in the pathwork. To observe productively what the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the truth. This is a misunderstanding of the processes of growth and development. It is impossible to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have no control over, separated from your volitional processes. Moreover, you foolishly seem to assume that by | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to truth, and you expand. Your psychic life processes reach out, your individuality stretches and expresses the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| my friends who are deeply involved in the processes of self-finding. Evil is, or results from, numbness | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| upon apparently outer circumstances. If people understand these processes not only intellectually but within themselves, they are | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| at its mercy. The same applies to psychic processes. You have indisputable control over a vast area | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the faculties of your inner body and psychic processes than you have over your life; nor do | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you have found the key to your inner processes, you have found the key to the apparently | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| your outer will -- for example, inner body processes -- you overexert yourself, weakening your energies and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| frustration. If you understand, however, that all inner processes -- inner body, inner feelings, and inner life | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| being, in turn, has jurisdiction over the inner processes. People have no inkling about the limitless possibilities | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you and free you to allow your inner processes to transform. For it is a misapplied and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and receives in full measure. As the inner processes become inverted, you lose contact not only with | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of it as you are of the destructive processes. As the mind questions its previous perception and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the parallel between the negative and positive inner processes. The more aware you are of both possibilities | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| happen all at once. As you know, these processes are gradual. In some areas you may already | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| see where and how you activate the negative processes, and therefore you cannot deliberately activate the positive | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| line of least resistance prevails in those thought processes that indulge in negativity, while the outer will | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| readily to the outer mechanics where the negative processes sweep you into a vortex. You have to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| process and use your energy to halt destructive processes, when you deliberately contact the powers within, your | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| be relaxed and confident in its own inner processes. This state can be attained by investigating the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| and repetitive ones -- are based on self-perpetuating processes. Each of these is like a magnetic field | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| intellectualized, conceptualized, or understood in terms of intellectual processes, as many people attempt to do. It is | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| a lack of freedom, enslavement to the false processes set in motion. One no longer chooses either | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| dichotomy unless you go deep into your psychic processes to feel the pleasure in the unpleasure. Total | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| trustworthy. This realization can convert them. Consequently, life's processes will become trustworthy and need no longer be | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| that a fine inner mechanism regulates the psychic processes, so that justified reasons for self-dislike, when not | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the same, but the flavor of the psychic processes, their inner climate and attitude, is totally different | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the ego holds on and obstructs the involuntary processes. Whoever takes his or her person and life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| attitudes to life, the self, and the life processes. The universal power is utterly trustworthy. To distrust | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| self and entrust oneself to the cosmic, inner processes must always exist. It means truly to love | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| yourself, you cannot be connected with the life processes, with reality, with universal power. For your resistance | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| between your conscious volitional self with the unvolitional processes of this vast power becomes more firmly rooted | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| frees the self. This is how the spontaneous processes begin. They are never consciously volitional. Hence, the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of the unknown, of letting go, of involuntary processes in one's own body, the less possibility is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| degree that you no longer fear the involuntary processes. Humanity finds itself in the paradoxical position of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| deeply yearning for the fruits of these involuntary processes, yet fearing and battling them. The conflict is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| life. People who are frightened of these alienating processes remove them by creating a vague theory. They | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of the outer ego to let the universal processes unfold and carry you? It is the misunderstanding | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| individual existence is not surrendered when the involuntary processes of the creative life principle are allowed to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in when the ego yields to the involuntary processes. The shame is felt most acutely when it | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in God! 153. THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends. May you once again | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to integrate the ego with as yet involuntary processes. The ego consists of the outer reasoning faculty | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| reasoning faculty and the will faculty. The involuntary processes comprise feelings, intuition and, what is more, certain | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| because of a desperate fear of the involuntary processes. You fear everything about them -- either consciously | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| directly rather than indirectly governable by the ego processes, cannot rightfully be called a feeling. Why do | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a feeling. Why do humans fear the involuntary processes? Why, indeed, do you often fear them more | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| manipulating creative life -- that is, the involuntary processes -- and substituting them with the ego faculties | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| overexertion of ego control and denial of involuntary processes create a tremendous imbalance in the personality. To | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| control they ought to exert over their involuntary processes. This misconception makes them go off in a | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| bent on overcontrolling and dominating the inner involuntary processes and the more you fear the latter, the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the question why humans fear the involuntary processes, we have to consider it on two fundamental | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| erroneous assumptions influencing the creative life energy, involuntary processes that are destructive. Since the energy caught up | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| person becomes conscious of the inner, heretofore unconscious processes, the more exactly will he or she understand | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| thus also driven by the negatively operative involuntary processes -- he or she cannot help but fear | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| by the fact that much of your involuntary processes lead you into negative experience, due to the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your solution is to never trust any involuntary processes and to guard yourself against them by strict | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| this point, find yourself afraid of the involuntary processes. At this juncture you may have arrived at | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| arrived at the theoretical understanding that the involuntary processes need not be destructive, that they are only | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| How can you begin to trust the involuntary processes? How can you be sure that -- even | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sharp ego control? Unless you trust the involuntary processes, the exaggerated ego control cannot be relinquished and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the creative forces within you. Productive, creative involuntary processes cannot become operative as long as you do | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| never prove the reliability of the involuntary creative processes contained in every human soul. To get to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| consider in a new way why the involuntary processes can be trusted. The words I will speak | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| most threatening thing of all -- life's involuntary processes within yourself. You all have to fight against | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| where reason and will crowd out the involuntary processes. My friends, the only way the involuntary processes | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| processes. My friends, the only way the involuntary processes can be trusted is by realizing that they | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| perfectly and completely as many of your biological processes which you take for granted and the self-regulating | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| control and govern them by your outer reasoning processes and will. If you attempted such a thing | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| friends, exists between the ego and the involuntary processes of the emotional life, of the creative functions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is to take as a whole. These involuntary processes are just as perfectly, meaningfully regulated -- according | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| These are healthful habits, necessary for the involuntary processes to be affected indirectly and to work in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| When the ego no longer dominates the involuntary processes, intuition will give a new security and help | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| solar plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes people use when overemphasizing the intellect. You are | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have experienced the self-regulating nature of the involuntary processes and the involuntary processes are integrated with the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| nature of the involuntary processes and the involuntary processes are integrated with the ego functions can life | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-realization. Then one can see that the involuntary processes are, in their healthy functioning, as trustworthy and | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ego control and trusting the flow of involuntary processes, of spontaneous feelings. The difficult experience should never | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law of growth as does any | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| But people fear total surrender to the involuntary processes, so they cannot discover the perfection of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| hold back and distrust the flowing, creative life processes within, you may come up with the feeling | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| may come up with the feeling that these processes are chaotic, that only your ego is orderly | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ignoring the self-regulating nature of the creative life processes. Recognition of this must help you to come | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self, discipline becomes a rigid constriction of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of real | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the degree fear still exists of the unvolitional processes of inner life and to the degree they | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you have nothing to fear of the involuntary processes. For then you will convince yourself of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| once you reestablish the balance between the involuntary processes and the ego functions. Be blessed, my friends | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in the observation of your mental and emotional processes. In time, using various new approaches on this | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |