| Bare........................9 | |
| eventually. His real and innermost motives will be bare, no pretexts and false justifications will exist. He | 18 FREE WILL |
| moralizing attitude -- at this point, once the bare structure of the image has become conscious, you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| equipped to handle life. The existence of this bare, vulnerable live center can be determined not only | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Establish in what moments the live center is bare -- as in the vulnerable state of a | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| eliminated. In fact, you have only scratched the bare surface. It is often necessary that one work | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is inherent in nature is also in you. Bare will and intellect is sterile, as you well | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| reveal what it hides, but also to lay bare its actual aspects and what they really mean | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| a relationship where both people's difficulties are laid bare and accepted, is by no means easy. But | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you have the courage and honesty to first bare the negative intentionality very specifically. Then, lo and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Barely......................4 | |
| faith, yet at this early stage you can barely see how you are responsible for your misfortunes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| atomic energy, is so great that you have barely begun to gain an inkling of its possibilities | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| a task for yourself. Many, many human beings barely fulfill this task; many leave physical existence with | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| not considered a full-fledged equal, morally she was barely responsible. In those centuries emotional and mental responsibility | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Barest......................3 | |
| is not sufficient. You have merely found the barest structure, the overall plan that will make it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| topic, but now I will discuss only the barest fundamentals. As time goes on, I shall be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| say what I have expressed here is the barest of all summaries. Much more will come later | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Bargain.....................8 | |
| that they are loved first. Such a safe bargain not only locks the door, but causes a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you are ignorant of this; you did not bargain for it and when the pain arises, you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| self-centered way. You simply try to make a bargain and say, If I submit to you, you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the dreaded defeat, never realizing what a poor bargain they have made with life. They may protect | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| would have without such evasion and cowardice. The bargain you wanted to make by assuming a defensive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are living up to your end of the bargain. With such a commitment you automatically set the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| all because you do not know what you bargain for and what side-effects are attached to your | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you hold back and try to strike a bargain, substituting a little self-seeking for doing the will | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Bargaining..................12 | |
| The imaginary atonement amounts to a kind of bargaining. One does so by setting such a high | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| I deserve to be punished and despised. The bargaining you wanted to do did not work out | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| thing out of weak and sick motives -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| while realizing how you feel and that your bargaining for certain results should stop. This will bridge | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| mean? It means that there is still a bargaining going on in the person. It means that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| communication. Such an unhealthy relationship is based on bargaining and the interplay of submissive and domineering attitudes | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| yourself with reservations, watching that you remain safe, bargaining and holding back, life will pay you back | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| long as the personality plays such magical, childish, bargaining and -- in the final analysis -- dishonest | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| vice versa. Sacrificial unselfishness always implies an inner bargaining, a secret desire to get away with something | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| However, quite apart from such ignorance, this tentative bargaining and petty, distrustful withholding of all the generous | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| mask, a ploy that only hides the cheating, bargaining, dishonesty, selling out, and negativity that are present | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| return. You see it as a form of bargaining. You resist the concept because it offends human | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Bargains....................4 | |
| conscience is motivated by weakness and fear. It bargains; it wants to avoid something that may or | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| than what you lose by giving up such bargains. There exists also another wrong kind of self-love | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it prevents development, but another part of you bargains to have the fear removed before it is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| begrudgingly, with ulterior motives, second thoughts, calculating inner bargains, leaving little back doors open. That is no | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Barren......................4 | |
| instead of being put to use, they lie barren. But perhaps what you really mean is not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| essential part of the soul remains thirsty and barren. It misses not only happiness and beauty, but | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is already free, while what requires work lies barren. It is not only the discrepancy as such | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| which makes it appear safer to be unproductive, barren of aspects naturally oriented to include others and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Barricade...................29 | |
| if the negative emotions are repressed and you barricade behind a solid wall many of your productive | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| In the last analysis it is simply a barricade against happiness and freedom. So, my friends, realize | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| attitude and response as a stream. If you barricade a stream, what happens? It is possible to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and healthy vegetation and structures alongside. Destroying the barricade in such a violent way is not necessary | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| until nature takes its course means that the barricade will be swept away by the force of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| accumulated destructive attitudes whose origins lie behind the barricade finally break loose, you experience crises and breakdowns | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| subsequent destructive tendencies, you accumulate them behind the barricade, and they are bound to swamp you one | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| becomes stronger as it builds up behind the barricade. One day certain outer events will swamp you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Is it not much wiser to remove the barricade? Waiting until nature breaks it down will render | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| For this purpose we have to remove the barricade before it removes itself, allow the flow to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| your life. There are other streams where the barricade is not too strong and the resistance is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the signs of your resistance to removing the barricade. The signs may be manifold, but once you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| correspond to the reality you find beyond the barricade; nor is it sufficient to say that the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| nor is it sufficient to say that the barricade serves as a supposed defense against the hurts | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| too general. One hidden reason for maintaining the barricade is that deep in one's soul one hopes | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it; otherwise it will build up behind the barricade as the water mounts. Recognize the signs of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it. This is exactly what your resistance, your barricade, does. It is a pretense of not doubting | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| yet come to terms with maturely make you barricade the stream, to resist, to be untruthful toward | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| fear still operate. You have partly removed the barricade because you realized that it prevents development, but | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| a concise way and tackling them as they barricade the way; of asking for help; of cultivating | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you wish -- hence a subtle no-current will barricade the way. By the same token, it is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| shame; they are unnecessary obstacles you use to barricade the doors to liberation. Those of you who | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| way. So, when reason and will erect a barricade around the realm of feelings to stay safe | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| self- perpetuating negative creativity, they also erect a barricade around the divine kernel, the self- perpetuating positive | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| We shall also talk about the obstructions that barricade you from the deep experience of pleasure supreme | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| However, the knowing, by itself, can be a barricade when you replace the feeling with knowing. In | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| is very important not to allow it to barricade your way. You have worked sufficiently on the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| them. But if they are, you must not barricade yourselves against them. For it is necessary to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| not share all of themselves, represent a dark barricade that hinders the growth of the whole. You | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Barricades..................8 | |
| in order to be inspired to remove the barricades. So, my friends, try to visualize each emotion | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| if it did not require your removing whatever barricades the stream. There is not just one stream | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| may have progressed for some time and minor barricades may have been eliminated, freeing some streams, before | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| mainly because you fear the negative, your fear barricades the way to the positive. The planet Earth | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| can be experienced in full consciousness, and fear barricades such a full experience. With each repetition, a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| that nonfulfillment is dangerous. And this fundamental error barricades the door to transition into the wide open | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| block, for the unconsciously held material covers and barricades the cosmic force. The mind believes it is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| anger about it are obstructions that are like barricades, prohibiting the train from taking its course. If | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |