| Resign......................7 | |
| burden; that would be impossible. Yet one can resign oneself to it without rebellion and bitterness. The | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| development. This does not mean that you should resign yourself and become hopeless, wallowing in your little | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fight in an unproductive way against losing, or resign yourself to it. Do you feel you have | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| be the poor, stupid one? Or do you resign yourself to the latter role, priding yourself on | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| illusion, to lack of realism, and who then resign themselves to a half-dead life on the assumption | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that this state could exist. Do not ever resign yourself to thinking that it is impossible to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your fate if you let go, or you resign yourself to this dismal state in order not | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Resignation.................33 | |
| slowly and unnoticeably first into a state of resignation and then into a state of not caring | 18 FREE WILL |
| you have forced yourself into a state of resignation, you have chosen with the unconscious motive of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of indulging in resignation that is not only unnecessary but sickly. It | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| one's environment. This is not due to sublimation, resignation or repression. It happens because the instincts grow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| negative motives, such as cowardice, fear, indifference, opportunism, resignation. This would then be a negative lesson. Not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| inhibited. Not having conscious daydreams may also indicate resignation or stagnation. This may sound paradoxical, because I | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| first place. Accepting your limitations does not mean resignation to a limited state. Rather, it means true | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and, consequently, of the results, does not mean resignation to tragedy and suffering. It merely means going | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| essentially realizable wishes. Beware of the feeling of resignation that you can never have any of that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| let go of the immature wishes, but without resignation, in a positive spirit that awaits the good | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| wrong. Needless to say, this does not mean resignation, nor does it mean fearful giving in or | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| himself enlightened without really being so, falsely postulates resignation, martyrdom, and abstinence in order to avoid revealing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| frustration, distorted responses, such as martyrdom, abstinence, and resignation are adopted in a so-called spiritual guise, and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Or, perhaps, you have embraced the opposite extreme: resignation. It is simply the reverse of the same | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| result of a hidden layer of fear and resignation. The latter is dead, the former is vibrantly | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| be confused with masochism, deliberate self-destruction, or hopeless resignation. It requires an unexaggerated honesty to face up | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| power to overcome the temptation to indulge in resignation and self-pity. Therefore I say to you: Realize | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| misunderstood. Desirelessness must not be confused with indifference, resignation, escape from the conflicts that one's undeveloped desires | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the law of personal responsibility wipes out self-pity, resignation, passive endurance, smoldering resentments against the injustices of | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| more self-respect, integrity, and hope than the helpless resignation to circumstances life is supposed to bring about | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| giving up is so easily confused with negativity, resignation, and even masochistic self-denial. Religion's postulate that the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| makes you fluctuate between two damaging extremes: either resignation or compulsive, blind, and consequently inappropriate overactivity. This | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is the dichotomy of anxious striving versus hopeless resignation, arising from an unconscious rejection of the desired | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of self-responsibility leads to false acceptance -- hopelessness, resignation, doom. When the small, momentary frustration or difficulty | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| try where it should. False hope and false resignation are only two sides of the same coin | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| go of their forcing current seems to imply resignation to emptiness, suffering, pain, and unfulfilled longing. To | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of it, or it will fall into a resignation to being helpless and unhappy. That is why | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| use some of your resources to cover up resignation, despair, and distrust of life, though you do | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| let God, when letting go seems to connote resignation into an unfulfilled state. Feel the inner movement | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| as not to fall into the pit of resignation and giving up, instead of just letting go | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the absence of all desire, which manifests as resignation and hopelessness. The refusal to endure any kind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| false acceptance is always either an angry, bitter resignation or despair about life and its pains. At | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of living? How can you avoid capitulation and resignation under the guise of surrender? How can you | 254 SURRENDER |
| Resigned....................10 | |
| more or do not care, that you become resigned and indifferent. But this is not in the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you free and detached, yet never passive and resigned. One will-stream comes out of your higher self | 18 FREE WILL |
| will not be impatient, nor will you be resigned. You will be at one with yourself. In | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not followed through due to fear. I have resigned myself to this. But if I now approach | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| fulfillment, happiness. In fact, you may be completely resigned to a life of serene detachment, while underneath | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you show too little will, if you are resigned and withdrawn, become apathetic and are too fearful | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Where the personality gives up in a hopeless, resigned way, without formulating thoughts that can activate the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| one hand, and daydreaming on the other. Wistful, resigned daydreaming that grabs fantasy as a substitute for | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| put away such thoughts and adopt a cynical, resigned philosophy of life. But you, my friends, who | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you let go in a sense of fearful, resigned, obedient, sacrificial deprivation, you remain in duality. The | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Resilience..................4 | |
| calm, certainty in yourself, and a strength and resilience you never knew existed. In the old way | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| soil of life, growth, peace, pleasure is the resilience that springs from the pulsation and rhythmic movement | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fully felt. Feeling pain directly and fully strengthens resilience and the ability to live fruitfully and productively | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| confusions and function on a level of inner resilience, contentment, and security. It is a state of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Resiliency..................17 | |
| forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- that your real | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the original pain and frustration have afflicted the resiliency of your psyche and made you incapable of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yourself as you are, will you have the resiliency to accept the lower self as it actually | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| closed up, or else it might crush you. Resiliency in accepting all the aspects of your lower | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| very attitude is the prerequisite to creating the resiliency needed to face yourself in utter truthfulness. It | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| also provide you with the stamina, flexibility, and resiliency to meet life in all its aspects -- | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| yourself. This lack of a healthy robustness and resiliency is always an artificial and unconsciously deliberate process | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| problems, the soul- stuff is so lacking in resiliency that the impressions form deep dents and remain | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| way of reacting, due to the lack of resiliency in the soul-substance, that you cannot function differently | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| aliveness. You will strengthen it with a new resiliency, which comes from understanding reality and correctly interpreting | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| substance through intensity causes paralysis on all levels. Resiliency must exist on all levels for you to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and wealth of healthy strong feelings, and enough resiliency to cope with anything. Instead there is a | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as pleasurable. Finding out one's strength, resources, abilities, resiliency, and any asset you can name, is pleasure | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| These are illusory fears. I do want the resiliency that is essentially mine. I do call upon | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| that is the only way your strength and resiliency can grow, so that nothing can ever faze | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| entirely satisfying and right for each occasion. A resiliency and creativity of reacting already exists now behind | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| exposes the core of the self, with its resiliency, creativity, and depth of feeling and knowing. When | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Resilient...................17 | |
| that when they try to be flexible and resilient in meeting outer circumstances that do not entirely | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is positive, the corresponding soul-stuff will be so resilient that even a seemingly detrimental occurrence will bounce | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| flexibility versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance. When it comes to rigidity | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| too-malleable soul-stuff that did not grow healthily into resilient elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious and unconscious | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| The substance is elastic -- a mixture of resilient and healthily resistant softness. This combination produces the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| all imprints, unable to regain the original printless, resilient surface. In the course of your work many | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| well as a helpless loss of self where resilient firmness should prevail. The imbalance is always caused | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| so that its substance will become strong and resilient without losing its soft aliveness. You find yourself | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| give you that good feeling about yourself, that resilient strength and well-being, in which even difficult steps | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you let go, you will experience a new, resilient strength coming out of you that suddenly conciliates | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| new will evolve. In this re-creating process healthy, resilient, adequate, and truthful reactions will come easily from | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| change when the feelings lead to new, more resilient reactions. Thus good feelings will replace those which | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| this defenseless state the soul substance becomes loose, resilient, and receptive. It will be easily impressed and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| weakness and submission, but quite the contrary. True resilient strength and fearless self-assertion rest upon the ability | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| faith and trust; pride humility; selfwill a supple, resilient, flexible giving-in, going-with attitude; and a finely attuned | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| soul and the personality have to become strong, resilient, mature, and capable. Bliss, ecstasy, pleasure supreme can | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| activity and self-affirmation renders you sufficiently strong and resilient so you can dare to let go of | 254 SURRENDER |