| such. Your childhood reactions still color your present reactions without your being aware of it, no matter | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to learn to observe and recognize your daily reactions, as well as going back to your childhood | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| them by constant observation, by comparing the wrong reactions with the right concept that has to be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at first. If you then compare your wrong reactions with the right concept without deceiving yourself that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| meditation, you will sense it by observing your reactions, and you will then know where the wall | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sorts of wrongs, have all sorts of wrong reactions, while he propounds the religious truth of his | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| what I say again and again: Observe your reactions in your everyday life from this viewpoint: What | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of your being that are responsible for the reactions you have recently discovered. But they are not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Make constant and detached observations of your daily reactions. Find your attitude toward them, and learn from | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| applying the findings at all times to one's reactions, and that is certainly not so easy. QUESTION | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| -- after you have found hitherto hidden emotions, reactions, and tendencies -- you will be able to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| less harmful if hidden and covered by surface reactions that appear as quite the opposite. So long | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| both obstacles to progress, my dear friends. Your reactions to your own recognitions are of utmost importance | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| are of utmost importance. For only from your reactions can you determine your progress and success. Another | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| hopeless about yourself. There are three possible wrong reactions as you recognize the hurts you have inflicted | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| times you may experience any one of these reactions. Beware of each! Find the right way: Feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to reach into the depths of your unconscious reactions -- which may be so contrary to your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| using the many layers of consciousness to hide reactions that do not accord with these truths. So | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not quite genuine. Inwardly they are hiding many reactions that are contrary to the universal spiritual truths | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will avoid these dangers; your outer and inner reactions will become one. So let us be clear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| undeveloped, where you are primitive in your selfish reactions. Your selfishness may come as a shock at | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is so different from your sincerely felt outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really sincere, that | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your sincerely felt outer reactions. Whether these outer reactions are really sincere, that is, the best you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you are behind your mask. All your negative reactions are essentially one reaction to your puzzlement at | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| need to understand your inner self, your unconscious reactions, your inner conflicts and problems. Only through such | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| any happening as a reflex of your unconscious reactions. If you observe your emotions, you will finally | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| harmoniously and provided that none of the childish reactions remain hidden in the unconscious. If they do | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| followed through, will finally lead to the chain reactions I will describe next. With the fear of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| leads a person to all sorts of unhealthy reactions, symptoms, endeavors, manipulations of emotions, and even to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| which has come into existence by the chain reactions I mentioned earlier. The compulsive second conscience makes | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| was. All the various points of these chain reactions make the need much stronger. Besides, there always | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| entirely wrong conclusions. Only by lifting these emotional reactions into consciousness can you realize this. Then you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| -- are violated in your inner and outer reactions, your divine conscience leads you inexorably in such | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to detect the slight emotional flavor in your reactions to some of your opinions. By listening to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your opinions. By listening to or feeling your reactions you will be able to get to their | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| God, is a personality and therefore has feelings, reactions, and opinions. But they differ greatly from the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| pathwork you are asked to find the emotional reactions that do not correspond at all to your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Rather try to examine and analyze your emotional reactions to authority, to your parents, to your fears | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to your fears and expectations. Out of these reactions you will gradually discover what you feel about | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| as you shy away from facing your erroneous reactions, because of a faulty attitude toward your shortcomings | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and more dead in a quiet one. Your reactions will have a connection with your God-image. Are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| broken. This may happen in all sorts of reactions that are not always obvious. Each human fault | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| so. Yet, if she were to analyze her reactions, she would find that she was in love | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and self-honesty, listening into yourself, checking out your reactions, analyzing them, and trying to feel out your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the final outcome of a conglomeration of deviated reactions and chain reactions from the past. The past | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of a conglomeration of deviated reactions and chain reactions from the past. The past you cannot change | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| at my funeral. You all know these childish reactions, often occurring even in quite adult people. But | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| out just the same in other subtle little reactions? Instead of indulging in the death fantasy, you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you feel rejected or slighted, check your innermost reactions where the element of punishment may come in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it, it is again a victory. View these reactions without guilt, from the wise distance you should | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the realization, the ability to recognize such hidden reactions in the proper spirit, will contribute to your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| have brought about by their previous actions and reactions. There is some leeway to that, but it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the cause in your own erroneous actions and reactions, you take the cross upon yourself. You neither | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or any other number of sick or deviated reactions must exist. In a case like this, one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and value in them. So check your emotional reactions to specific desires. I cannot stress emphatically enough | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| being used by your unconscious, immature, and unhealthy reactions. For if you use it so it will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| use them in your daily observation of your reactions. Be aware that they cannot change at once | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| can follow this through, becoming aware of imperfect reactions or selfish emotions will not depress you. I | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| faulty. In this search you may find chain reactions which, at first, can seem to lead you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will find the answers by observing your everyday reactions and emotions in the most mundane matters. You | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in your work. Learn instead to investigate these reactions, and ask yourself what they mean and what | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you really want to. If you observe your reactions in your everyday life and analyze them honestly | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be done only by analyzing, by understanding your reactions. Always go behind the emotion you have just | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of your conflicts that often involve actions and reactions on the part of the world that seem | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of questioning the significance of their various emotional reactions. Yet these words may leave valuable impressions in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| will be increasingly able to observe your emotional reactions and you will understand them better. Then a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| for unhappiness. I shall now discuss the chain reactions set in motion by a wrong concept of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of the adult and continues to produce similar reactions. Only the reasons change, and the outer display | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of your first few years. That these primitive reactions continue to exist without exception in all human | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can find them by observing past and present reactions, by analyzing them from the point of view | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| exists in you with its desires, feelings, and reactions, and focus your attention on this particular aspect | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is no longer aware of it. Two basic reactions follow. One is: Perhaps if I become perfect | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| possesses his subjects. If you honestly observe your reactions right now, you will find similar feelings in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| object. Find out by what emotions, desires, and reactions you can discover this to be true. All | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you need is the proper interpretation of your reactions and feelings in certain incidents, on certain occasions | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| arguments. You can only trace the emotions and reactions by applying certain methods in your work, by | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| while ignoring and neglecting the inner motivations and reactions, thereby being a prey to his or her | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| working in this direction and examining your emotional reactions to certain incidents, you will become aware of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| am sure that by investigating some of your reactions and asking yourself what they truly mean, when | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| existence in you in the various manifestations and reactions of your daily life, and then to jump | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| unhappiness. Observation of the manifold connections and chain reactions would automatically eliminate your fear of others, of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| generalized. So many personal aspects, individual influences and reactions play a part. Even if this answer may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an altogether different category. Entirely different currents and reactions may bring them to do that. Compulsive acquisitiveness | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ideal time to find the wrong conclusions, and reactions, to analyze them, to make them conscious, and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel low, how can you put together your reactions? ANSWER: Speak out your most irrational and seemingly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your conscious desire, or other currents and conflicting reactions in you that will help you understand the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any other divine manifestation. There are constant chain reactions, not only as far as the negative currents | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| man. But the same thing happens if these reactions are hidden under a superimposed parody of manhood | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to believe in God. It only creates harmful reactions, such as compulsion, guilt, resistance or rebellion. All | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and deviations with all their ramifications and chain reactions, will real faith, real love, real truth, real | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| my words if you examine your feelings and reactions in the proper light. Each one of you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will is often motivated by immature feelings, desires, reactions, and reasonings. The inner will comes entirely from | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| soul of all unhealthy and erroneous attitudes and reactions. It is important for your happiness. Though it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| advantageous. But if you follow through the chain reactions, you are bound to gain a different perspective | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| with the inner and outer actions, attitudes, and reactions of the human being. By considering only the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your motives are right, your decision free, your reactions mature. This will free you of the misconception | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| thing is to recognize your feelings, motives, and reactions; your inner, and often unconscious concepts; and, most | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the other people involved, create very unfavorable chain reactions and vicious circles. Not only does the very | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ways that are similar to the actions and reactions of nations. By such discoveries, you will contribute | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the basic wrong conclusion with all its chain reactions and ramifications. There is, on the one hand | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| rather how your emotions react and behave. These reactions are often quite subtle. Such subtleties are at | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| are not truly desirous of examining your innermost reactions and emotions in this respect, no one can | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| weak to you. Once you find your emotions, reactions, and attitudes that correspond to this misconception, you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of how it manifests in your daily emotional reactions will bring you nearer to the removal of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| resolved, they create new ones in ever-increasing chain reactions. Thus they will be unable to dissolve the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it is always due to unhealthy tendencies and reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| life could not possibly change, because your emotional reactions still function more or less as they did | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| takes considerable time and constant recognition of these reactions before a new habit pattern is created. Yes | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is best indicated by the changes in your reactions to troubles and difficulties. This begins to happen | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| some degree, in changing some of your emotional reactions. And where they have not yet changed, you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you can measure your progress is by your reactions to the problems life inevitably brings, and also | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| path. They are the result of your wrong reactions, maybe from the past, but only manifesting at | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and give up obsolete, damaging tendencies and inner reactions. When you become aware of this unfair demand | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| The fight wears you out, and it causes reactions that defeat the very end you wish to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| begin to deal with it. But the everyday reactions, the many subtle little ways in which your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| this conflict is. Each time you observe these reactions within yourself, you will understand a little better | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of your emotions. If you translate your emotional reactions to people, you will see that it amounts | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to come when you not only recognize these reactions, but also see how they block you from | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel differently as yet, but the remaining wrong reactions will already have a different effect on you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| 2) your subjective outlook, hidden in your emotional reactions, that makes you unable to give love; 3 | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| help him, a personal analysis of his unconscious reactions would be necessary. No generality, no matter how | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not in your consciousness, remnants of the old reactions continue to smolder and come to the fore | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bit, while you continue to observe your wrong reactions. This constant process, if performed without impatience and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| change cannot happen so quickly because your wrong reactions have too long been accustomed to function in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your illusions causes many vicious circles and chain reactions. As you learn to understand your emotions, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Thus, there is a manifest unreality in your reactions during the entire process. The favorable signs -- | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| awareness in this direction, regardless of whether your reactions are right or wrong. You know better than | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| whether in outer things or in other people's reactions toward you, you have felt disappointment. And you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| idea of the importance that incidents or the reactions of others have for you. Again, intellectually you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| done by outer actions. More often, your inner reactions work in that way, and you feel all | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| work, you have recognized all these emotions and reactions, you will understand much better what I am | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| become much more alive to each moment. Your reactions will be much more spontaneous and healthy, your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be taken literally; it refers to certain emotional reactions. This happens if love, acceptance, and agreement from | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| In this way you do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| cope? Will my judgment be adequate? Will my reactions be right? Will I make a mistake? Dare | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| other human relationships. In your subconscious, the following reactions take place: since the child in you cannot | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it of all the superimposed layers of your reactions. The first and most handy layer is that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| be anger, resentment, anxiety, frustration. Behind all these reactions you will find the hurt of not being | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it. You will survey all your actions and reactions with this new understanding and insight, whereupon you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| maturity. And the way you manage your emotional reactions, feelings, and instincts determines your emotional maturity or | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your inner actions are. Your inner actions or reactions are accurately perceived by your fellow human beings | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| other person. You will find exactly the same reactions in yourself and in the other. As long | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |