| Property....................3 | |
| in very preliminary negotiations about buying the Phoenicia property that was to become our Center. It was | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| of years to be able to purchase the property and then to hire the architect who plans | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| in relation to acquiring the rest of the property in our Center. Would you like to comment | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Prophecy....................3 | |
| totally destroyed, not even Lucifer. QUESTION: Did Dante's prophecy of the Veltro refer to the coming of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is what was foreseen and expressed in this prophecy. Does that answer your question? QUESTIONER: Yes, except | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| part, whether the Veltro actually refers to the prophecy by Joachim de Fiore. ANSWER: That I am | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Prophets....................4 | |
| were not fallen spirits. Some of the great prophets and so-called saints belonged in this category. Not | 22 SALVATION |
| I would like to ask, how about the prophets or other holy people? Were they grown emotionally | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| The weaker ones will surrender to the false prophets, as the Bible says. The slightly stronger ones | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| distrust is their own desire for the false prophets who promise what they should never promise. These | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Proportion..................59 | |
| half man and half woman. Maybe even that proportion was not exactly perfect. ANSWER: You have brought | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Then you will not lose your sense of proportion in evaluating yourself, either exaggerating in one direction | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| then will you have the proper sense of proportion in comparing yourself to others and therefore have | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| things hidden within you, everything gets out of proportion. You may exaggerate one thing and underestimate another | 31 SHAME |
| to love in return, to some degree, the proportion between their willingness to give and their compulsive | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the way the various universal forces work in proportion, general development, the particular development of certain trends | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need, the loss will seem out of all proportion. Intellectually you may know perfectly well that your | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this unhappy pattern will cease and the proper proportion will prevail in judging other people, principles or | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the suffering, physical and mental, will decrease in proportion to one's inward progress. That is what I | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| be correct. Nevertheless, you put things out of proportion when you overemphasize the good or the bad | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| heights of unreasonable joy or gratification, beyond all proportion to its real value, and the way a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the intensity of your feelings is out of proportion with your intellectual view of its importance. Emotionally | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| cannot be avoided, and therefore the dosage or proportion, as to how much chance can be taken | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which they then can focus out of all proportion, ignoring other factors that change the overall view | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of security, its self- confidence is diminished in proportion to its unhappiness, though this unhappiness cannot be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| feasible. Your self- confidence will therefore grow in proportion to your self-acceptance. You will base your often | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| for approval is inordinately strong, it is in proportion to your disapproval of yourself. Because you cannot | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| facets of them which you may overemphasize in proportion to how these facets seem to lessen or | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of awe for you that is out of proportion to reality. You are tense and anxious with | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to build up your emotions out of all proportion. The unconscious reasoning is: If my emotions are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| much toward building up emotions out of all proportion. It would be important for you to investigate | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not receive enough, your demand grows out of proportion, especially when you are unconscious of it. Due | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| It requires you to maintain a sense of proportion, or even better, the honest acknowledgement that you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you do tend to lose your sense of proportion. When you approach certain trends you are not | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| face real guilt productively, with a sense of proportion. Therefore, one has to proceed with caution, use | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| uncompromising, self-destructive severity which is way out of proportion. All this is healthy preliminary work for the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you accept it without losing a sense of proportion about its badness determines the degree to which | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| or, that it is feared only in exact proportion to the still existing fear of living and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| showing the no-current at work. It exists in proportion to the difficulty of the problem and the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| things, so that outer manifestations are seen in proportion. The no-current does not open a further vista | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| before was entirely groundless, all that was in proportion to the fear and resistance that you had | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| courage and cultivation of the inner will. In proportion to how much awareness you gain, blind reflexes | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| then, sooner or later, fall away in exact proportion as this attitude is truly felt and lived | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| safety and joy of this act. In exact proportion, such a person can consequently receive comfortably, painlessly | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| can appear on the horizon only in exact proportion to your facing in yourself what you fear | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| integrity will be preserved and increased in exact proportion to your active desire to be constructive and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| must give you freedom and a sense of proportion to realize that both of you are involved | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| quite a few of you is in exact proportion to your willingness and openness. There is no | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of nonfulfillment. Fear of nonfulfillment exists in precise proportion to your resistance to fulfillment. These connections are | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| removed, the courage to be oneself grows in proportion. Many times the real reason for self-dislike is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this question, answers will come forth in exact proportion to the sincerity and strength of the wish | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| with the emotion yet keep a sense of proportion about it, not rejecting the total personality because | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to what seems unfaceable means a sense of proportion, not exaggerating and not denying, not whitewashing the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your technological and scientific development is out of proportion to your feeling qualities and your capacity to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| these two principles; only their arrangement, emphasis, degree, proportion and relation to each other are different. However | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| relatedness with others can exist only in exact proportion to your relatedness with yourself, which includes the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| determination to be destructive weakens -- again in proportion to the understanding of the particular cause and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your ability to have mutuality will grow in proportion to your self-acceptance. Hence your relationships will improve | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of them, if you understand them in proper proportion to the reality of the vaster scheme of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it without ever losing a realistic sense of proportion about it. No hopeless depression can ever get | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| expansion of positive experience. This exists in exact proportion to your inability of enduring unwelcome feelings. You | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| goal of self-acceptance without losing a sense of proportion; groping for new ways; learning from mistakes and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| humility of this pathwork have brought you, in proportion to your investment, fulfillment and peace. Many of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| and fulfillment. Universal, ever-available abundance becomes realizable in proportion to your awareness. Lack of peace and fulfillment | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| openness. Also, every human being needs in healthy proportion recognition of what he or she does. But | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that needs recognition and has no sense of proportion. It is the little ego that gropes in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| on your path, this power increases in exact proportion to your ability to be in truth with | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self-confrontation and self-respect, self-love and self-forgiveness in true proportion. You can now allow the God in you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is not a third force, it is the proportion that keeps the balance. QUESTION: I have a | 228 BALANCE |
| Proposition.................5 | |
| circle and think that marriage is a hopeless proposition. No, my friends, it is not, even if | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your questions, I would like to make a proposition which should prove exceedingly interesting to all of | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of living these beliefs is an altogether different proposition. It takes a great deal more time, effort | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| The fact that every relationship is a mutual proposition, whether or not that relationship is good, must | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| mathematics you know. It is not a fifty-fifty proposition. Take for example the balance between rest and | 228 BALANCE |
| Prospect....................3 | |
| even before you are capable of changing. The prospect then exists in a realistic way. The more | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| about the two topics: children's upbringing, and the prospect of making a sanctuary for animals and plant | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| cannot be corrected and is an utterly dismal prospect. A related manifestation is its converse: Whenever you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |