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out your feelings. Learn to observe your own reactions. Observe your tendency of always explaining your reactions 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
reactions. Observe your tendency of always explaining your reactions away. Observe your subjectivity. And gradually you will 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
you how you approach yourself, your daily experiences, reactions, feelings. Keep up this self-observation, no matter what 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
that tie in with a person manipulating his reactions to other people? ANSWER: Actually, this question is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
relationship with others. When you calmly observe your reactions to others, you are bound to become acutely 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
look into yourself and closely watch your emotional reactions. When you translate them into meaning, you are 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
approval. They may not be aware of these reactions, but since the unconscious currents are a reality 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
if you look closely at some of your reactions, you may well discover that what I say 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
do so, to carry the significance of these reactions further, is bound to give you a more 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
If you can discover and experience your genuine reactions, recognizing that you are a human being with 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
personality and character traits may be different. Their reactions after the act may not be identical. Consequently 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
start from your own consciousness of feelings and reactions. At first, they may appear to have no 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
can do this when you look at your reactions. You can make the effort to use will 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
to make restitution for subtle attitudes and emotional reactions. In the former case atonement can take place 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
one's own motivations, about the significance of one's reactions. In other words, self-knowledge is still lacking to 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
to pay attention to and register your various reactions, which are symptoms of resistance. There are a 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
is to be on the lookout for these reactions and face them. This always has to be 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
to repeat that guilt exists also in emotional reactions, not just in behavior, which one may well 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
this respect. Once you begin to acknowledge these reactions, you will have a stronghold on the unconscious 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
conscious, but when you attend to your inner reactions, you are bound to discover such a preoccupation 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
really quite dissimilar to the first. Such automatic reactions, which you have begun to observe and begin 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
we are dealing with very subtle and unconscious reactions that can be verified only if and when 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
very important to receive the healthy and unhealthy reactions of the soul-substance in this light. The recognition 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
significance for you, remains imbedded and dictates your reactions towards future events? You thus distort the relationship 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
many of you have glimpsed that all unhealthy reactions are artificial. They are much more difficult to 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
more difficult to keep going than the natural reactions. When an insight comes -- even if it 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
demands on you and, subsequently, of your real reactions to them. It is my advice to my 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
demands on you, as well as your real reactions to them. To understand your reactions, it is 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
your real reactions to them. To understand your reactions, it is important to view them also from 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
emotion comes from superficial conditions in the soul. Reactions and responses that are based on superimposed modes 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
fear of the unknown, on the other, are reactions to what seems so uncertain to a part 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
to a part of your personality. With these reactions you restrain the natural movement and create tension 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
measure. The realization of your bondage to early reactions will free you of it -- nothing else 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
when you question your fears and insecurities, your reactions to those aspects of love that you wish 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
more reliable than your often superimposed good obsolete reactions and responses. Let the gathered inner maturity come 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
long before you have truly shed the faulty reactions that are so ingrained, you will be in 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
be questioned, stated and restated. Your automatic, unconscious reactions must be investigated as to the meaning and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
of the lower self in certain of your reactions and impulses. Observe how you tend to immediately 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
at the wishes and attitudes in such fleeting reactions. Pull them out into the open and calmly 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
forget the issue; continue to observe your daily reactions from this angle. You may be sure that 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
was formerly inadmissible. After each session, note your reactions, how far have you come, compared to previous 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
subtle interaction between identification, rebellion, and various other reactions to them, you must come to experience the 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
far. You will perceive the repetitiveness of your reactions, how you respond in later situations, to other 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
duality. Your brother or sister may have different reactions to them because they have a different kind 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
is based on a false premise. Therefore your reactions are not responsive to the real person, to 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
inward, as is true of any other human reactions. When a person is ashamed of hate and 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
are sense impressions -- pleasure and pain. Its reactions to both are strong. It obviously rejoices when 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
within which completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or are split within 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
force yourself by blind compulsion, while certain emotional reactions rebel. This does not mean individuation and wholeness 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
overinvolvement with your work, causing too many intense reactions. Or perhaps it produces an overinvolvement with a 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
feelings and ascertaining the parallels, the similarities of reactions. But a relationship need not be shied away 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
so. If it were so many of your reactions, feelings, and expressions, as well as the effect 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
your desires, fears, and needs, your apprehensions and reactions -- right or wrong -- at this and 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
opposite sex -- again professed and actual; one's reactions to current life circumstances -- all this has 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
conclusions, will automatically change your innermost, subtle emotional reactions. It does not work that way, because this 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
this direction. Observation and questioning of your emotional reactions must extend in width and depth on the 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
of you. But none of the half-conscious feelings, reactions, and concepts are clearly formulated into concise thoughts 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
into concise thoughts. If you watch the half-conscious reactions in the problem areas of your life, you 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
language. The half-conscious material comprises your immediate emotional reactions as well as your fantasy life. Comparison of 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
discovered here a relatively superficial cluster of emotions, reactions, and attitudes. The wish, with all that is 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
it manifests in your daily living, in your reactions, contacts, attitudes, in the work on the path 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
the training of becoming aware of hidden emotional reactions, of subtle, elusive, vaguely felt emotional movements. But 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
once your mind is accustomed to observing these reactions, such awareness is not far away. The No 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
be cultivated in the details of daily living, reactions, thoughts, and feelings. This detail work is the 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
between talking about the problem, your feelings and reactions, and talking all of them out. The former 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
be aware of the many levels of emotional reactions. As long as so many unconscious or half-conscious 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
As long as so many unconscious or half-conscious reactions remain hidden, you are oblivious to the depths 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
people respond according to automatic reflexes -- emotional reactions based on deeply imprinted wrong conclusions and generalizations 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
you try to rationalize and explain such blind reactions, to make yourself believe that they are based 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
but when you reconstruct the experience and your reactions to such situations, you will find this to 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions, reactions, and actions that you must learn to bring 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
well as apparently right and wrong emotions, feelings, reactions, drives, needs, expressions. Fear of being comprises all 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
your life by focusing only on certain inner reactions. The different facets of your personality have arrived 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
notice it. If only you would check such reactions and immediately correct the faulty thinking that has 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
exerts its influence on you. Translate your emotional reactions into concise words. Analyze their significance and then 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
necessary: the first is exploring your most subtle reactions, where and why you say no to what 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
with courageous confrontation of the most ingrained emotional reactions. Then awareness of life and others grow. Through 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
This can be constantly corroborated when observing human reactions. The more a person lives with gusto and 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
the importance of examining your unconscious thoughts and reactions. You all know that taking a truthful concept 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
what specific ways this manifests in your emotional reactions. Something deep inside you clamors to have all 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
and lived with, self-trust grows, and positive chain reactions between ego, real self, and universal forces are 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
not evaluate the importance of your actions and reactions. The two interrelated tendencies of underestimation of the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
else. When doing a daily review, examine your reactions of disharmony and meditate in the following sense 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
Directly reaching the core of one's feelings or reactions, and thereby understanding their true significance, is the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
protection against their own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions. Under such circumstances, it might even be a 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
numbness and insensitivity toward others. When examining one's reactions closely, one might often observe that the first 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
denying the spontaneous real self, and substituting secondary reactions that in one way or another are always 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
to have no control over your spontaneous feeling reactions. This, too, can be quite frightening. You may 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
have jurisdiction over my body or my own reactions and feelings; and if a frightening power which 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
seems to control your inner body, your spontaneous reactions, and a number of outer circumstances. But is 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
useful, my friends, to distinguish between two prevalent reactions to this conflict. Both of them are mostly 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
issues even within yourself. When you overlook tell-tale reactions and opportunities for clarification and liberation, you fail 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
and more involved in confusion and negative chain reactions whose nature and significance you cannot understand. Nothing 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
questioning their interpretation of events and other people's reactions. Then there are those who believe that they 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
slight me. Yet, I also sense that my reactions may be exaggerated. What should I do about 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
bring it out, compare it with their actual reactions to you. Then also learn what is behind 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
you. Then also learn what is behind their reactions and why they feel what they feel. Your 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
energy, setting in motion a series of chain reactions. It is the nature of cause to create 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
effect. The energy that creates the ensuing chain reactions produces the effects of the original cause, the 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
discussed the self-perpetuating principle. The sequence of chain reactions caused by any thought, belief or action is 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
is in accord with truth, the ensuing chain reactions are bound to be constructive, positive, conflictless, agreeable 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
based on error - - the ensuing chain reactions must be negative, confining, destructive and disagreeable. Let 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
They, in turn, will lead to responses and reactions by others, by the world around you. Their 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
around you. Their responses will again cause further reactions within you, so that you formulate further concepts 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
perfect functioning are violated, the more negative chain reactions come into being. The mental and psychic laws 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
the greatest violation that leads to further chain reactions of violation, error, confusion, and destructiveness? Fundamentally, it 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
for you to retrace the various negative chain reactions, find the appropriate laws, and change your attitude 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
misconception in your psyche that creates negative chain reactions results from your not wanting to be in 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
results in one of those negative, self-perpetuating chain reactions. The ignorance that all possibilities -- all perfection 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
the thoughts, feelings, impressions, concepts, and the actions, reactions and interactions which stem from these, together form 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
completely different in reality. Of course, all your reactions and beliefs can be ascertained only when you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
be established only when you dare question your reactions honestly and precisely. Even though some of you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
conscious level is not commensurate with your real reactions. If, at times, you win over the circumstances 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
honestly look at your most subtle moods and reactions and translate them into concise words. You then 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
concise words. You then find out that these reactions and reflexes, these emotions and moods, are based 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
Only by a very personalized look at your reactions to daily occurrences can you make these words 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
can meld as one unit, so that your reactions become meaningful and relaxed, and action becomes something 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
this insight will increase as you observe your reactions when you utter the wish to feel love 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
sufferings, your state of happiness or unhappiness, the reactions of other people to you. Then you believe 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
other people to you. Then you believe these reactions to be either better or worse than they 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
path who go deeply enough to probe your reactions discover this startling fact: you are more afraid 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
both present. The latter engenders two fundamental defensive reactions: either the desire to hurt or the sense 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
where thoughts, feelings, and body are strained; where reactions exist that may not really be as strong 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
something threatens you. I am talking about psychological reactions to outer experiences that cause negative, destructive emotions 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
outer experiences that cause negative, destructive emotions and reactions in you. I do not refer to occasional 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The more you hold in check the negative reactions and confusions by covering them up, denying their 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
degree vary from individual to individual. The chain reactions, the levels of projection vary. In your case 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you consciously believe. You may discover these subtle reactions by observing your reluctance to take steps to 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
that you be open to your own inner reactions which shrink from happiness and pleasure. To understand 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
a direct approach to yourself and your subjective reactions. One of the great difficulties in life is 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
I am becoming aware of some negative chain reactions in myself and of the harm they do 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to the seemingly most insignificant, subjective experiences and reactions in your daily struggles, the better it is 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
struggles, the better it is. Examine your problematic reactions and attitudes, those that do not leave you 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
drama of your beliefs and opinions, impressions and reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and fears. Collective, oversimplified 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
contradictory ideas results in other sets of contradictory reactions, counter-reactions, defense measures, further false beliefs and their 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
inevitable consequences, which create more and more chain reactions. When all this remains in the fuzzy climate 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
in the light of your assumption; what your reactions and the reactions of others really mean. If 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
of your assumption; what your reactions and the reactions of others really mean. If you clearly formulate 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
are not your own true, free, and spontaneous reactions, but preconceived reflexes. They result not only from 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
than the pain itself. Once you watch your reactions from this point of view, strange experiences will 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
I am referring to very subtle levels of reactions, lodged in the unconscious or semi- conscious mind 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
thinking processes, later to the most subtle emotional reactions and perceptions. More and more you will come 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
a cycle of further errors, creating many chain reactions of destructive emotions and attitudes. To name only 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
innermost kernel has led to erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual blindness, unhappiness, and suffering followed 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
selfishness, and often the most violent and evil reactions toward the world and others. At the dawn 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
to become angry or destructive. These are merely reactions to a feeling you do not want to 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
little, you will recondition your perceptions, your emotional reactions, your deep inner knowing of the way life 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
can be blamed for these unpleasant feelings and reactions is a very frequent way out. Scapegoats can 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
reconstruct the emotional experience by comprehending the problematic reactions that you have in your present life. Once 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
on the path, discover that your current problematic reactions reveal the original trauma. You then are bound 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE

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