| Reacted.....................8 | |
| to see that the other person has perhaps reacted to you only from blindness, ignorance, and a | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to the extent you understand why you have reacted so adversely to certain subtle manifestations of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sense -- while you also, subtly and unknowingly reacted in the wrong way. This the other also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| themselves. They would then find that the other reacted, perhaps at times with undue vigor, to this | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| disappointments, you will come to see how you reacted as a child -- and still react inwardly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| do, you will now also understand that they reacted out of the same childish blind needs as | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| feelings to surface. When you review how you reacted to certain incidents, you will be able to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| consciousness. You will see how you never fully reacted to your husband or wife, your child or | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Reacting....................45 | |
| many. Perhaps you are not consciously aware of reacting negatively to life. Test your emotions and your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to follow an old line of thinking and reacting, shirking the real issues. Another important element of | 36 PRAYER |
| the theoretical knowledge and still go right on reacting the same old way. It is not sufficient | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in your brain, while underneath you go on reacting as before. In that case you have not | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| how to recognize your own particular way of reacting toward authority. Broadly speaking, you react to authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that an illogical way of thinking, feeling, and reacting exists in every personality, even though consciously you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your idealized self. This behavior is the infant reacting in you; your brain tries to assimilate the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| psyche indicates your inner world of feeling and reacting, generally speaking. Is that clear? Yes, thank you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for a while, you cannot help feeling and reacting in a certain way. Further insight resulting from | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each time you observe part of your being reacting the old way, you gain additional insight and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will get what you want by feeling, reacting and being in a way that is not | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the whole idea as such? Many ways of reacting are possible. Now, my friends, are there any | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| using empty words, always veering away from feeling, reacting, and experiencing. Now, how can you love if | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and then, as a result, we would stop reacting emotionally to circumstances and situations around us, sublimating | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is imprinted upon your soul, and you continue reacting to others from this fragmentary and falsified imprint | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Merely compare and understand why one way of reacting is unproductive and unrealistic, while the other is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you are not yet capable of feeling and reacting in the desired way and without guilt, without | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| had another brain, another seat of feeling and reacting, within yourself. At the beginning, it does not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you are so conditioned to this way of reacting, due to the lack of resiliency in the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your negative involvement fluctuates between two ways of reacting. Such deep recognition can be found only by | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| while that they induced your particular way of reacting. And this is true, but only because you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the stereotyped reaction that you repeat throughout life, reacting to others as you once did to your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| so much needless suffering. If you would start reacting to the real person and the real situation | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| some way, be connected with this way of reacting. Nevertheless, the displacement may not be permanent. It | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| possible to discover the image, yet go on reacting blindly, without knowing it. The fleeting insight of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| observe the emanation of your thinking, feeling, and reacting, and consequently observe this particular imbalance, you will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in pain -- another reality. This level of reacting -- where you fluctuate between twisted anxiety, torture | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to come -- be in God! 166. PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING Greetings, my friends. The universal love and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| relationship and determines its nature. It is: perceiving, reacting, and expressing. When this threefold principle operates in | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| for each occasion. A resiliency and creativity of reacting already exists now behind the false roles of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| going on to other ways of operating and reacting, however. This obstruction is so unnecessary. It is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you remain stuck in the old rut of reacting from habit and easily justifying it. You indulge | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| difficulties, for more realistic and constructive ways of reacting. You do not have to react the way | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| often says that a child is incapable of reacting differently to pain than by building its numbing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| no other alternatives to their ways of acting, reacting, and being and they overlook such acting out | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| giving up old destructive patterns of thinking and reacting, will discover the incomparable treasure within you. Then | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| know the ideas are false, you cannot help reacting as if they were true. For example, you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| thought, every opinion, every interpretation, every mode of reacting is given a chance to be permeated by | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| premises. As you deeply explore your mode of reacting and of functioning in life you find, to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to shed old bad habits of thinking, feeling, reacting, willing and being. In that moment, you have | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| or a familiar behavior pattern, a way of reacting, a personality trait -- whatever it is, it | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| creates an entirely new mode of being, of reacting, of feeling. For example, loving no longer appears | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wrong in everything. Behind this personal/psychological level of reacting lies a whole world of history, of tradition | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| awareness, new knowledge, new faith, new ways of reacting that will surprise you and fill you with | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| attitude, every way of thinking, feeling, being and reacting reflects directly on your participation in the greater | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Reaction....................391 | |
| in self-pity, you are unconsciously remembering an earlier reaction, when your pain was commensurate with the gravity | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| again have consequences, so that a long chain reaction ensues. You may control some of the outermost | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| intention to dismiss the whole problem. Observe your reaction when you hear these words. How do you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| God. I bring you God's blessings. Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| every possibility or modality of outer or inner reaction, also create such luminous threads. Wherever your personal | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to help and influence them. However, people's first reaction is to do that which is easiest: those | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| guilt feelings have further consequences and a chain reaction is set in motion. This kind of preoccupation | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| is that you may cover up the emotional reaction, pretending it is not there, until the feeling | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| not even attempt to make a commitment. This reaction imprints itself upon the soul and thus has | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| immediately sense what is happening within. The first reaction is a great relief and an inward joy | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| more spiritual laws, in action or in emotional reaction. Only then is it possible to ask God | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Its origin may be in a whole chain reaction, one fault leading to another, until finally the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| all outer happenings with them, following this chain reaction backward. The immediate cause of the disharmony may | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| does not like to break a wrong inner reaction or attitude. One does not wish to pay | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Consider how often you have had a similar reaction yourself and may have wounded a fellow human | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you have, be it only by an emotional reaction, broken spiritual laws. Step by step, as you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is put over the personality and the inner reaction; or a revolt by the higher self may | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| alternative is that there may be a shock reaction in the life of a person. This person | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| The main point is that the wrong inner reaction that has created this evil should be cleared | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| quite sure that some sort of inner wrong reaction has taken place. Generally speaking, any of these | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of each human being, causes a tremendous chain reaction in the universe among beings of whom you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you, in some way, a disharmonious feeling or reaction. And no matter how wrong the other person | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| darkness encounter the light, they have a different reaction to it. Those who are ready to advance | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| easier and finally it will be your natural reaction. In the course of this path, you will | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| between your powers of self- observation and the reaction of your lower self, your ego, your hurt | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| distance and with a little detachment your own reaction when you do this. That should be a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you try to formulate concisely an unpleasant inner reaction of yours, you will always come to the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| way, my friends? Who has truly the same reaction to other people's humiliation as to his own | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| same way, you may feel sorry, but the reaction is certainly entirely different, no matter how much | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is felt and a very negative and unfavorable reaction comes forth, contrary to the desire of the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| close your eyes. In addition to this wrong reaction, such a person will also be convinced that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| God. It is infinitely better than the primitive reaction of blaming God for one's disappointments and the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and the failures of others; the most primitive reaction is to doubt or deny the existence of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not eliminate the possibility of a hidden wrong reaction, emotion, and motive. So test yourself. The best | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| interact with one another and cause a chain reaction. To break this vicious circle, you have to | 36 PRAYER |
| defect is caused by another in a chain reaction. When you get to the point of clarity | 36 PRAYER |
| quietly look for the objective reason for your reaction. Just a little goodwill can often establish a | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| others will set in motion a new chain reaction. Or the person represses knowledge about the childhood | 38 IMAGES |
| is also important to understand that the chain reaction of consequences resulting from the original impression creates | 38 IMAGES |
| which is just as harmful as the old reaction and just as bound by your images. This | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| as well as the world at large. This reaction is just as wrong as the old established | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you acute embarrassment. This is a typical image reaction, my friends. And if you expect this to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| been drawn. These not only cause a chain reaction within your soul, but eventually they also control | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you are not even aware that your emotional reaction is guilt. And if you are, you do | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Formulate the feelings. Be aware that the unpleasant reaction often occurs before you are aware of what | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| information will connect. You will find a chain reaction, a vicious circle in yourself. One reaction leads | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| chain reaction, a vicious circle in yourself. One reaction leads to another until the circle closes. When | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the same basic reason, have a completely different reaction than another, although they are both motivated by | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| yourself to the fact that such a silly reaction actually lives in you. You are now at | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| consciousness, but still part of your mind, your reaction. It will make it easier for you to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| without anger, you need to realize that this reaction stems from the same origin as the other | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| really a guilt complex, which is the wrong reaction to one's faults. ANSWER: You are quite right | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that any small -- and apparently insignificant -- reaction on your part contains a desire of one | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself, what might be the desire behind your reaction. Ask yourself, What do I really want in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| by a present mass image that is a reaction to a contrary, mass image that humanity held | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| mass images following one another as action and reaction. Now it is the fashion to smile at | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of the soul. If, on the other hand, reaction toward authority remains childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the same human being. At one time one reaction may be predominant, at another, the opposite extreme | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is then important to find out when one reaction is stronger and when the other, and why | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your intuition is dulled by blind and rigid reaction and revolt. But when you think about it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you seek further, you will also understand the reaction others have toward you. The self-righteous severity that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| belongs to the other kind, will lessen. Your reaction will change in the measure you recognize the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be given so easily. For a whole chain reaction has to be followed through, and often in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| final and last link of the whole chain reaction -- the one that manifests outwardly, while the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| this final and drastic result of the chain reaction can be avoided. In all these vicious circles | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| many others can help prevent the entire chain reaction. What I said to you here is of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| self-observation, realize that you cannot change an emotional reaction merely by having recently recognized its faulty premise | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| I react this way? What lies behind this reaction? What are the emotions that drive me to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that all physical sickness is only a chain reaction, a final outer manifestation of obstructed life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| interpretation in the unconscious, and what the right reaction would and should be. And now, my dear | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| and are continuing to make, to an emotional reaction of yours that at first glance seems to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you lift from your unconscious mind an emotional reaction that is creating conflicts in your soul and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will you be able to understand the chain reaction this wrong attitude has caused within you, eventually | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| both inside and outside. So beware of the reaction, Oh, but I know this already. If diligent | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| I should like to discuss tonight is your reaction to your guilt feelings. As I said before | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| -- fueled by a mass-image -- is your reaction to your sexual drive. Each one of you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the hurt by deed, word, thought, or emotional reaction; by what I have done or left undone | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| mask. All your negative reactions are essentially one reaction to your puzzlement at life, the outcome of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be up to you to make the chain reaction conscious in your work on this path of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The guilt has a further, and again inevitable, reaction. Feeling guilty, the unconscious says, I desire to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| next. With the fear of punishment a further reaction sets in. Whenever you are happy and enjoy | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the way, all helping to fortify this chain reaction. Now, the fear of being punished and the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| deserving happiness create a further and more complicated reaction. The unconscious mind thinks, I am afraid to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for self-punishment is also present. A further chain reaction in this vicious circle is the personality's split | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it. Only then will you dissolve this chain reaction point by point and create new concepts within | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in your emotions, the existence of the chain reaction will just be another piece of theoretical knowledge | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your feeling is different from a child's. Your reaction would be quite different from the reaction of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Your reaction would be quite different from the reaction of a child in certain circumstances. If the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of one kind of authority in childhood, the reaction to that will become the unconscious attitude toward | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| therefore fear will be generated by a chain reaction of wrong thinking, feeling, and action. An inner | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| added to the monster-image, but is often a reaction to and compensation for the false concept. The | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| As a result, errors in judgment, action and reaction on your part bring effects into your life | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| To a smaller degree most people have this reaction, at least occasionally. Examine whether you feel more | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| interplay on the human plane of action and reaction and God's will, the higher self will, free | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| rigid, impatient, self-concerned. The interaction -- action and reaction between people -- is a much more complicated | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and rejoicing in the life-force may bring the reaction of a sickly being in love with one's | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| You can never forcefully tear out the wrong reaction, once you have detected it. You could not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| feeling that lies right next to the distorted reaction. Thus you will be able to retain your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| in the human soul is separate. Every quality, reaction, attitude, or tendency must invariably influence everything else | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| image has many repercussions and creates a chain reaction of harmful results for yourself as well as | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to confuse the opposite manifestation with a healthy reaction. I do not care what people say, is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| this in no way proves that the inner reaction has truly been eliminated or that the person | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| conflicts as being the effect of the chain reaction this fundamental distorted concept sets off. The more | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| has grown up and consciously knows better, this reaction, not having been aired, continues to live locked | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of inferiority and inadequacy. There is also another reaction. The personality cannot and does not want to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| all-black. This inner process propels the entire chain reaction into renewed momentum. Because the desire for unhappiness | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| past good efforts. It is a positive chain reaction. If your entire attitude and life direction is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| events that have led up to it by reaction and counterreaction, through cause and effect, one extreme | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain shame, a kind of anxiety or a reaction, may give you an acute feeling of shame | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| out against you. Then a positive and healthy reaction would come out of the people in question | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| flattery, it would be an enforced and ungenuine reaction. Nothing ungenuine and manipulative could ever be truly | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| anxiety and tension. In addition to this chain reaction, we have other currents to consider. If doubt | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is, of course, an emotional, subconscious and illogical reaction that has probably nothing to do with his | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| That is the natural result, a further chain reaction. If you do not trust people, you are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| assumptions are and what, in theory, the right reaction should be, or one day will be. Even | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| disproportionately. Your only yardstick for progress is your reaction and not whether times of upheaval still continue | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in deceiving even themselves. They suppress the real reaction, while on the surface pseudo-calm prevails. Only what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| know by now. Often there is a delayed reaction. Generally speaking, however, cause and effect work faster | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| may sometimes happen that one encounters a delayed reaction from the past full force, at the very | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| good or the bad, according to the person's reaction to you. That is a distortion. At first | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and many others may manifest this universal human reaction in different ways. But those of you who | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in yourself. In fact, at the slightest unpleasant reaction you have when pondering these words, you will | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| person dislikes you, but because his or her reaction is just different from your perception. You are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| therefore feel guilty about having such a childish reaction. But it is essential that you train your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| do not be deceived by a superficial right reaction. Think of where your problems are in life | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| emanations contribute greatly to the other person's negative reaction. These insights will free you and further your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| time in which you can best observe the reaction of your subconscious when you utter such an | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| aspect. You will feel an entirely new emotional reaction in you as you learn to give up | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you are in some kind of danger, your reaction to fear is healthy. It is like a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your environment -- so that a benign chain reaction can start. Such a realistic self- correction is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| something in the other person by provoking the reaction that is similar to the parent's. The provocation | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will find adequate reasons to hide this emotional reaction and subjectivity. That is what is called rationalization | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| who started it, for this is a chain reaction, a vicious circle. It is useful to start | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| hurt as disastrous. You will have a different reaction to the hurt, and, as a consequence, the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you will gain the same detachment from the reaction of the other person. You will find exactly | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| fester underneath and create unconscious hostility. This entire reaction inhibits your intuitive faculties, at least in this | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| be it merely a mood, an unpleasant inner reaction, or an actual outer happening apparently caused by | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not clear about an idea, a supposedly right reaction, about a principle of general conduct. Ascertain if | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to your partner usually elicits a very strong reaction in people. Your emotions become full of self-pity | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| become one with the positive currents. Your very reaction is proof of the basic human struggle and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| different way of thinking and have a different reaction and fulfill the purpose for which you have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| uncertainty in you, no doubt about your right reaction or action, and no wavering. Your instant and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| action, and no wavering. Your instant and spontaneous reaction is of such a nature that you know | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| nature, will become more and more a constant reaction. You will have the deep inner knowledge -- | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| but in your solar plexus -- that your reaction, or your knowledge, or your decision is right | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a result, you may have an opposite outer reaction of extreme and ungenuine independence. Be on the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and detect the inner error of action and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the while, without forcing it on your emotional reaction. Allow both to exist freely, side by side | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to incidents, to yourself and others. This changed reaction will be astounding enough, but little by little | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and patterns of inner and outer behavior and reaction which tend to make them weaker and more | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| idealized them. They may discover in themselves a reaction of aloof criticism and contempt for all people | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| pseudo-solution is the quest for power, then your reaction to defeat will be extreme humiliation that has | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| stake. However, you may have an overly strong reaction to little incidents, such as a person being | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| think of it in these terms, your emotional reaction may amount to just that. So when I | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| defeat's negative impact. Beware of superimposing the ideal reaction that you are not yet ready for over | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
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