| Questioning.................31 | |
| right conclusion would be. Cultivate this process of questioning and observe how the emotions -- which work | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| benefit only those who develop the habit of questioning the significance of their various emotional reactions. Yet | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| know all the right answers. In that case, questioning yourself in the proper way will bring you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| let alone why. So you must start by questioning, every day, what you really feel. Then you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| actual feelings to come to the surface; by questioning them as to their reason for being. In | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| influenced by standards you have assumed without ever questioning their validity? Begin to observe the subtle manifestations | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to be applied in this direction. Observation and questioning of your emotional reactions must extend in width | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| difficulties life brings. It also occurs through constantly questioning the self and trying to get through the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| used to quickly assuming a ready-made rule, without questioning it. You echo something blindly, without quite knowing | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| may apply to an issue. When you miss questioning the real issues, you overlook the greater scope | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| exist in reality. Adopting views and standards without questioning and probing, without getting to the real issues | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| regulations, and opinions handed down to you. Such questioning must be done thoroughly and independently, deeply probing | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| this possibility, even in an attitude of honest questioning, to that extent this truth -- in whatever | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| more acutely until they reach the point of questioning their interpretation of events and other people's reactions | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| being. When I say relinquish, I merely mean questioning it and being willing to see that there | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| yourself in this act and courageously forge on, questioning yourself further and deeper. You will then come | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| consciousness. Expansion is a very simple process of questioning the verity of your limited ideas, the correctness | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the whole meaning of this important question, clearly questioning themselves without delusions, will respond to life with | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| because they are afraid of the consequences of questioning them, of conflict with other people's opinions. After | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| response is to take things for granted without questioning them; second, you run away from the mood | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| admitting such an idea brings you closer to questioning its validity, which you fear all the more | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Once you take on the habit of first questioning your hidden wrong assumptions and destructive reactions when | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| then adopt the attitude of openness, of honest questioning. Openness always means considering a possibility that you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| smaller way of functioning in life; second, by questioning that reflex and the beliefs behind it. Last | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| means when you follow the lower self without questioning it, when you are still tempted to rationalize | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| you visualize the boundaries of your mind by questioning yourself about all the things that you think | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the tools to deal with such fears by questioning your lower self. But the time comes when | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| may contain false assumptions on your part? This questioning in itself is a healing you can administer | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| as your souls become freer, more open, more questioning in a spirit of truth-searching, more filled with | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and needs, your impressions and assumptions in a questioning and open spirit without insisting that they be | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| and therefore negative and constricting aims. Visualize yourself questioning your position in each situation that creates a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Quick.......................27 | |
| the subconscious first. The subconscious voice is very quick to answer and quite distinct and often loud | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| powers of darkness. They are very effective, very quick, but never lasting. Slow growth and development, however | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| problems will no longer touch you to the quick. You will remain quite calm and serene inside | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| doubt overtakes them! Then you are all very quick to make your own decision, albeit a temporary | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| feeling comes up in you, you are very quick to put it aside. There will be easy | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| So you just cover it up and are quick with explanations: you are just in a bad | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| in the same way and with the same quick results as outer actions do. Nevertheless, every thought | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| forbidden qualities of intelligence and creativity, she was quick to suppress them out of guilt. She was | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it and slowing down the abrupt and too quick motion of the overactive current. From an overall | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is no longer capable of being settled by quick judgment about what is good or bad. Then | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it is the only way. There is no quick and easy answer. QUESTION: I have a question | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and you only discover it much later. A quick change in one's personality is rarely to be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are locked and blocked. Beware of finding a quick answer as to what the point of relinquishing | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| least wish to be like. So beware of quick judgments. You unconsciously substitute others for your parents | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| which you most need growth. Beware of a quick, superficial evaluation. Only when you question your fears | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This realization must not be confused with a quick, glib formulation of a part of the problem | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| moments of discontent and disharmony? Or are you quick to glibly furnish rationalizations for your disharmony? Or | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| not refer to occasional physical threats, where a quick defensive tightening is automatic and healthy. That lasts | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you feel this way and give yourself a quick and easy answer, which may sound exceedingly plausible | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the process is slow and there are no quick, magic results. For a long time, the focus | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| have this fear of self. You are very quick to rationalize these fears away. Thus you lose | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| as possible. This is not an easy or quick thing to achieve. It requires patience, time, effort | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| circumstance. By knowing this, you will beware of quick evaluations, and you will assume the responsibility to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| need to be aware of too simple and quick assumptions in this respect. Often a new phase | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| explore. Such a course requires patience, rather than quick, ready-made answers, regarding any specific issue in your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| this means labor. The childish dependent person wants quick, easy answers and therefore tends to jump to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| of making mistakes, you do not question your quick conclusions, and so your stiff insistence on them | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Quiet.......................37 | |
| the initial difficulties do not always use their quiet hour in the best way. They meditate too | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| right away, but resume your practice in a quiet and relaxed manner. After some time you will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| these words would think about them in their quiet hour. Perhaps you will then receive further thoughts | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| pressing. It does not shout; it is a quiet, almost impersonal voice without any force behind it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you threw a stone into a pond of quiet water. A ring appears around it, then come | 21 THE FALL |
| over and done with. If you become very quiet and relaxed and listen within, you may find | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is in the person's outer will. After becoming quiet and consulting the inner will, the person will | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| advisable for the mother in particular to become quiet within, to turn to God, and to spiritualize | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Whoever is open and in a state of quiet harmony can receive this force that is a | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a negative situation and more dead in a quiet one. Your reactions will have a connection with | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| desire for understanding should be formed with a quiet, calm mind, and not with tense urgency. You | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| but such awareness can be reached only by quiet observation when you are alone. Of course, the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unhappiness in his life. He seems to be quiet. Brother Lawrence in the kitchen. The surgeon may | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| certain type of meditation can help. Become very quiet and relaxed and begin by observing your thinking | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| bring deeper and wider understanding. To be very quiet and relaxed during the periods of self-confrontation is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| no-current. That is what prohibits you from becoming quiet and listening to yourself. If you can acknowledge | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| judge when to speak and when to be quiet, how to speak and how to be quiet | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| quiet, how to speak and how to be quiet. Merely understanding others' motives -- their truth -- | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| move too much where you could be serenely quiet. I am speaking of inner soul movements. In | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| considerable time, then the period of incubation, of quiet growth beneath the surface, is longer than when | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| like a river that is disturbed in its quiet flow by obstructions and strong counter- currents. The | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| affects everything around you. When you become very quiet and listen into yourself, you will feel it | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| latter. This means a waiting in a receptive, quiet attitude, and once the divine self unfolds through | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| mental and emotional levels. When you become very quiet and listen into yourself, you will find an | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it in a constructive way -- not before. Quiet self-observation helps you to accomplish this. Such quiet | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Quiet self-observation helps you to accomplish this. Such quiet focusing will make you aware of your abnormal | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to listen to it. You must become very quiet within yourself and allow it to happen. This | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| channels that can free it, and become very quiet and calm. Listen and tune in on it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| meditational. Listen into yourself, become calm and receptive, quiet the busy, loud mind. Start with the premise | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| of the state of trance, as you are quiet and listen to the music, I ask that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| wait in tension? Or do you wait in quiet trust? Or is your trust perhaps a gullibility | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| will be no pushing, no proving, just a quiet inner knowing. It is then entirely unimportant and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| that when that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| overactive with your mind, you now need to quiet down and let things happen; where you insisted | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| be active and when to be receptive and quiet. You all grope in these and many other | 228 BALANCE |
| relax. Let go, center into yourselves, become very quiet. Feel the powerful blessing that is here. Visualize | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| just that: emptiness, nothingness. If your mind can quiet down, you encounter the void: this is what | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |