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| you did not have something in you that responded. When you pray that God keep Satan away | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| way almost identical to the way you once responded to your parents. First it is important to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| existed. In the old way, you might have responded submissively to assuage your guilt, or with hostile | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| for your uncertainty. Whatever you did, however you responded with your negativity and self-doubt, you were attached | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| experience of the life stream is recognized and responded to. Therefore, any path leading to genuine self-realization | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| feelings and thoughts -- as well as being responded to -- are essential aspects of the personality's | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
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| acts, possibly based on this common misconception, of responding compulsively rather than out of free choice. If | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| focus your inner, often unconscious attention solely on responding to what you believe exists, not to what | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| healthy; it is a result of feeling and responding to aspects of reality. But self-pity and depression | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| adopted to deal with them, and you keep responding to them and to life as a consequence | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| and envelop you. They are the universal love, responding to your valiant efforts of self-expansion. Be in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the freedom and lack of control necessary for responding from within. Why is the fear of self | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| region of yourself where all is one. 145. RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE Greetings, my dearest | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| do you respond half-heartedly? Or do you resist responding at all and make yourself deaf to it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you live ninety-five percent of your conscious life responding not spontaneously and directly and independently to what | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| new feelings, a new way of perceiving and responding, a new way of knowing life, people, values | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| consciousness and the feminine principle of a molded, responding life substance. Find this truth within you, and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| it feel to bring forth better ways of responding to life's experiences? In answer to these questions | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| flares up reactively, as a result of their responding to the negativity of others. You may say | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| result appears effortlessly, a manifestation of involuntary faculties responding to voluntary ones. The voluntary faculties require effort | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| most popular ways for punishing others for not responding with love to your ungivingness is to render | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| own or looking for a new way of responding to life. It is therefore equally true that | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you must adapt yourself to new ways of responding to the world, my friends, responding differently to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| ways of responding to the world, my friends, responding differently to other people's reactions toward you, to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
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| is composed differently in each individual and thus responds to different outer challenges. With one person, the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| nature of the inner battle, the outer happening responds to your unconscious negative side and not to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you do not have within yourself something that responds to it, as one note resonates to another | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in your life. Find out what in yourself responds, or corresponds either to a similar characteristic -- | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| And because you do so, the other again responds in kind. But as you examine your real | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the soul-forces flow, or to which another person responds. This center governs the laws of communication, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| -- from which he or she in turn responds, often quite unconsciously -- will be too strong | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| connected with the little ego? The healthy part responds to real life, while the unhealthy part in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| real life, while the unhealthy part in you responds to illusion with illusion. But beware of believing | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| an animal is already more dynamic. It actively responds to other animals, to nature, and to human | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the infants they once were. And the infant responds and reacts as it once did. It is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of you have experienced that your real self responds -- sometimes instantly, sometimes later, but it always | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| step, for it depends on how the person responds. Any number of aspects might lead to the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| come to that vital part of themselves which responds not out of a should, but out of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| It cannot be activated by itself, for it responds only to consciousness. Your outer, as well as | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of the tremendous power of the latter, it responds only to a direct, deliberate effort of the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| healthier way than others, and their pleasure principle responds more strongly to a positive situation. There evolution | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| on the physical level. As the body always responds favorably when it is treated constructively, so does | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| idea according to which one functions, moves, lives, responds and reacts. Look at the illusion of separateness | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to a sort of shock reaction. A child responds to a protracted painful situation or a subtle | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| established. The mind carries the misconception; the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive emotions; and the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the all-pervading creative substance -- the stuff which responds to creative mind. This substance then is molded | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| I say immediately, I mean that the substance responds at once to every movement of consciousness. But | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| so does thus and thus, or if life responds exactly as I determine. This often appears as | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Response....................69 | |
| hardship was unavoidable, your surrender was the right response, but now it is different. Now you can | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the will of God will certainly get a response. To him who knocks, the door will be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| completely answer at the time. Do you understand? RESPONSE: Yes. In Indian philosophy, it is clearly expressed | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| all you have felt during the day in response to often seemingly unimportant incidents. If you try | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| first place. If you see a somewhat favorable response, then slowly, little by little, you can give | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a human being help or grace simply in response to prayer? Why should someone else who works | 36 PRAYER |
| pattern, whether it is a behavior pattern in response to certain occasions, or events that seem to | 38 IMAGES |
| that image are bound to occur, perhaps in response to similar images in the parents or others | 38 IMAGES |
| where all perfect attributes slumber -- partly in response to outside events, to prove to himself and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| has the maturity. He must respond. Whether this response comes occasionally through a conversation or not, is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| subject, enough to give you some clarification in response to your question. A great error in human | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spontaneous and genuine, you will find such immediate response in the other person. All you have to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in yourselves for that which attracts a negative response. On this path you have had such experiences | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Adversity in any form is in reality a response to your destructive impulses, no matter how hidden | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| temporarily and obey your command. But such a response can only leave you empty and disappointed, since | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| particular person and situation calls for such a response. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to give | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| has these trends? Or is it projection and response? ANSWER: It can be both and it can | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| constantly provoke the other person and enhance a response coming from that part which is weak and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| start by finding your own provocation, perhaps in response to an open or hidden provocation of the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and negative. In the relatively healthy person, the response will be similar, but it will come from | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| current, and you will fully understand the inevitable response. Visualize the soul forces, and then remember incidents | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| ways of coping you use in your emotional response. Learn to become aware of everything from which | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| thing. This would produce only a forced, insincere response on your part. Instead, you should first learn | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the situation in an appropriate way. Such inadequate response cannot fail to set negative chain reactions in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| or her incapacity. Even if the other person's response is immature, it does not matter. Do not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| since the unconscious currents are a reality, their response would prove this to be so. Only when | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| cut off. Thus healthy intercommunication cannot exist. Your response to the demands of others may frighten you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| try to visualize each emotion, each attitude and response as a stream. If you barricade a stream | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is higher. This is noticeable by its obvious response to light, water, darkness or dryness. Therefore its | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| upon you by one parent and your emotional response to it. An entirely different influence by and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| it. An entirely different influence by and emotional response to the other parent produces the other side | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| rather certain aspects of their personalities and your response to them, personify the unmended split within your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| twofold split. What I mean is the automatic response, the stereotyped reaction that you repeat throughout life | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| If the psyche is geared to the first response to the parents, you are unable to perceive | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| comparatively liberated from his own blind prison, his response will not add fuel to the fire because | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| way. The negative involvement ceases to provoke a response. This must finally bring the one who misdirected | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| as a consequence of their impact on you. Response to one parent may be reaction to, and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to some degree, will find that your erotic response occurs only when there is at least a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| these negative emotions are completely absent, the erotic response may also be absent. It is often quite | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| way. Even if there is no personal inner response to something said in a lecture, that should | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| The next step might be wherever an inner response occurs. So one has to try until one | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of a natural, unquestioned I want to, the response is free, with an utter rightness that is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| respond to it adequately. For such a flexible response the core of your being must be activated | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| are never aware of the difference of their response to life. They do not see that their | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| very helpful for you to remember that your response is necessary to make the blessing effective. Openness | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| pretense or playacting. When this is your total response to life, the life stream will become discernible | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| view of life's call, which requires your total response and commitment. Now, why are you so afraid | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a rebuff or a lack of concern. My response seems denying because the concept they still have | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| avoid being straightforward with life itself, when your response to life is negative in any form and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| possibly be considered unimportant. But the other distorted response to frustration, insistence and rigidity with a do | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| deeply ingrained on both counts: First your automatic response is to take things for granted without questioning | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| -- the wish to hurt. It is a response, an automatic reflex reaction and, as that, it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the real self, but it comes as a response to the ego's wish to comprehend and to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| upon the divine powers within the self. In response to your call they will help you become | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| such words and listen very carefully to the response of your innermost self, you are absolutely bound | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| That is merely wishful thinking. When such a response comes through, reply to it: No, it is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| overcome all resistance and have a totally positive response to your efforts and investment in the elimination | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| suppress it. Can you suggest what my positive response should be? ANSWER: First of all, I recommend | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| conscious self also speaks, but this time in response to the previously stated and admitted negation. You | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| way. It may well be that your first response to meditation points out more hindrances. Since you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| which you must then experience as the created response. If your belief, as conceived and visualized, is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| come about, first, by knowing that your old response is a conditioned reflex created to fit a | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| me, creates exactly the opposite of the desired response. As an individual you may feel it is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| anything beyond the mind exists, because no inspirational response comes forth when using magic to coddle your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you make yourself sufficiently empty, the first initial response is an inner aliveness, and you tend to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the Jews was to a large degree a response to the stamp of inferiority that was placed | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| your ego-self. You will create a harmonious automatic response that will be adequate and right for each | 254 SURRENDER |
| all learned on this path what a constructive response to a painful event is. What can I | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| What can I learn here? What could my response be to this seeming delay that would most | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |