| Responses...................42 | |
| reminder. There are two categories of wrong human responses to ritual. There are those who keep following | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are trapped, dependent, waiting for clues, and your responses and reactions will be secondary ones, based on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| You are only capable of experiencing secondary, conditioned responses, which are unreliable and will never give you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Only the capacity to experience primary, original, direct responses brings out the intuitive reliable picture based on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| linked with the recognition that they are your responses to demands being made on you. You are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| from superficial conditions in the soul. Reactions and responses that are based on superimposed modes of coping | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| have misinterpreted the event. Only then will your responses be more adequate to and compatible with reality | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| each parent, then see how in your present responses you still react according to the same feelings | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than your often superimposed good obsolete reactions and responses. Let the gathered inner maturity come out, instead | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| result of your inner misconceptions and subsequent faulty responses to other people and to life. When this | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being at all aware of it. These repetitive responses always apply to your basic split. Where your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| not respond according to reality but send your responses forth into thin air, as it were, and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| be capable of withstanding the onslaught of misdirected responses. The person then refuses to represent one side | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you become of your blind automatism, your stereotyped responses, the more they will diminish by the very | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is also a protection against their own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions. Under such circumstances, it might | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| can neither function properly where life requires creative responses, nor can you contact another person's innermost being | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of them. They, in turn, will lead to responses and reactions by others, by the world around | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| by others, by the world around you. Their responses will again cause further reactions within you, so | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you misunderstand the importance of tolerating frustration, distorted responses, such as martyrdom, abstinence, and resignation are adopted | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| may already have experienced its effectiveness, its unfailing responses, its unimaginable wisdom, its various solutions. Yet, when | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| accepting attitude toward one's unconscious, with all its responses and movements. As you all know, this kind | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| explained by the voluntary and the involuntary physical responses. Much of your physical functioning occurs on a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to yourself -- your thinking processes, your emotional responses, and your body state -- you will be | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| You may simply try to connect the physical responses to your inner erroneous state. This effort will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| traumatic experiences in early life. You maintain negative responses which at one time in your childhood you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| those circumstances, even life-preserving. But when the same responses are repeated in situations later, when there is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| no longer cause to use them, then such responses are not only neurotic; they are also initiating | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| more finely you are attuned to your inner responses, the more distinctly you will hear your inner | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are willing to listen to your subtle emotional responses and train yourself to no longer gloss over | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you, makes you feel guilty about your instinctive responses, but you are even less able to handle | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| corresponding attitude in life, they influence actions, behavior, responses, reactions, emanation and deeds. Such an attitude brings | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| dialogue between your conscious mind and the involuntary responses of your soul movements go on. This dialogue | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| constant tuning in to awareness of your inner responses. The fourth stage is faith. At the beginning | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Confusion, self-blame, deadness of feelings, are examples of responses which bring forth the as yet unexplored negativities | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| part of you senses that your demands and responses are unjustified; another part feels so deprived and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the seriousness of choosing thoughts, attitudes, actions and responses. This state of consciousness, by virtue of its | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| decide to adopt. Thought will create experiences and responses, and will also create within you. There it | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| longer has any application in the now. Human responses to tradition are deeply embedded in the personality | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| while you grow into this state, until your responses can readjust themselves to the way they were | 254 SURRENDER |
| that makes you suffer -- these are destructive responses to your rhythm pattern that delay its natural | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| I am God's unique expression. These are positive responses that will help the rhythm to take its | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| point in which you deal with involuntary emotions, responses, reactions and even beliefs that do not respond | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Responsibilities............18 | |
| them certain momentary advantages in freeing them of responsibilities for others, affording them to lead a life | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| only the highest privileges, but also the strongest responsibilities. By carrying the heaviest burden alongside His exalted | 22 SALVATION |
| be devoted to one's duties, one's livelihood and responsibilities, whatever they may be. Part of one's life | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what has caused it. And there are other responsibilities, such as the responsibility to protect weaker people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| immaturity to shy away from taking on certain responsibilities, even though doing so would entail joy, fulfillment | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| frantically to childhood and fears adulthood with its responsibilities and what seems like activity to you. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| there is also another. You resent the obligations, responsibilities, and duties that life imposes upon you. Your | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| self-responsibility, but you would rather take on false responsibilities because that seems an easier way to get | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| officers fulfill certain tasks, each taking on specific responsibilities. If one drops out, he or she has | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| order to survive. A man feels that his responsibilities are heavier, that his failure to be successful | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| only because the necessary discipline of fulfilling his responsibilities in life appears as a disadvantage and sacrifice | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| burden her partner with the brunt of her responsibilities, she is cheating life, but life cannot be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| so on. Still he cannot leave other people's responsibilities to themselves, where they belong. Either he cannot | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| part, you do not want to assume the responsibilities that go with leadership. You have here a | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| resentments, and rebellion toward those who assume the responsibilities of leadership with all that this implies, how | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| A person who is unwilling to assume such responsibilities has not rightfully earned these privileges; he either | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| one way or another; a talent to assume responsibilities and to serve a cause. No matter how | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not wish the higher task of assuming the responsibilities to lead, to stand in an exposed place | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Responsibility..............278 | |
| things you have to learn is to take responsibility for your decisions. You have to learn to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| its future life with those spirit beings whose responsibility this is: thus the incarnating entity can contribute | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| higher state of purification, is also sharing the responsibility for wars and other mass disasters. Not only | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of the spiritual world. For knowledge also means responsibility, and you in your lower nature prefer to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| higher your development, the more it is your responsibility and duty to perfect yourself. The more you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| mean by it that they are taking full responsibility for their own input, it is correct; but | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| because they want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and guilt, it is incorrect. Between these low | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the director of one's life, and taking the responsibility upon one's own shoulders. It is only a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| way, and therefore you have that much more responsibility. You cannot fail if you are really open | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| who belong to the inner circle have great responsibility and therefore must become strong. This can only | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| but also their well-being. It is your personal responsibility. So certainly, you should never adopt the point | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| must be taken as a heavy piece of responsibility. The person should think and feel somewhat like | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to learn. Perhaps they need to learn the responsibility that arises from being spared sufferings that other | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| lenient in many other ways, but here the responsibility is too great. If you fulfill a task | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| inner attitudes, feelings, reactions, motives, and sense of responsibility. QUESTION: How does spiritual law correspond with human | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you want to amass advantages without shouldering the responsibility of paying the price for them. That, needless | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| certain spirit who has high authority and great responsibility. The entity to be incarnated comes in contact | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| world. This is also a task and a responsibility for the parents. They have to be worthy | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not accepted life's rules, you are rejecting personal responsibility for your hardships, and you are unwilling to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the people who have a strong sense of responsibility in their lives. Their family and business contacts | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| willingness to accept a difficulty, recognizing one's own responsibility instead of vaguely blaming the injustice of the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| easier way of life. The reactions to taking responsibility for one's life vary with each individual. Everyone | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| angle I have just shown you: (1) Self responsibility: find out (a) where you have caused your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| independence. Only after you have recognized your own responsibility for the darkness while passing through the tunnel | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of the principle and the truth of self- responsibility as demonstrated in yourself. You will understand how | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| If both lack the will and sense of responsibility for that, they will not have the desire | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| both partners lack the desire to fulfill the responsibility of marriage in its true sense. If only | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| distorted to an opposite extreme. Humans put the responsibility for everything on influences from spirit entities, good | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and power depend on a person's development and responsibility task in the divine plan. The guardians adhere | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to understand. Have the courage to shoulder your responsibility without the pride of destructive wrong guilt feelings | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| differ from other people, or avoid a certain responsibility. From the moment you have a conviction, it | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you have a conviction, it entails a certain responsibility. That may be behind the inability to form | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| whim. They do not instill a sense of responsibility in the child so he or she can | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the justice of the universe and the self- responsibility in your own life, do not think of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of purpose. Try to become aware of the responsibility and the wonderful obligation that each one of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| consequences of your decisions, their consequences, and the responsibility involved in making them. Such shirking of responsibility | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| responsibility involved in making them. Such shirking of responsibility -- for this is what it amounts to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| plants. Free will implies the ability and the responsibility to make your own decisions. Certainly it is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same time using your own brain, decency and responsibility, you are also using your free will. To | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| A child cannot have an adult sense of responsibility which includes at all times the awareness that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that. This desire includes wanting complete freedom without responsibility. You may not be aware that you desire | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| full extent. You may wish to assume self- responsibility in some areas of your life, often in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| free and at the same time have no responsibility. To the extent you shift responsibility from yourself | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| have no responsibility. To the extent you shift responsibility from yourself onto others you curtail your own | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| cannot be otherwise: the more freedom, the more responsibility. If you do not desire responsibility according to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the more responsibility. If you do not desire responsibility according to the degree of your capacity, you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and fair price -- in this case self- responsibility for freedom -- the heavier the toll becomes | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| make yourself that way by trying to shift responsibility away from yourself. So you see that fear | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is a sign of refusal to accept self- responsibility. If you are truly willing and prepared to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be inadequate leads to your rejection of self- responsibility, and the continued wish to be free. The | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| make yourself that way by trying to shift responsibility from yourself. But a child cannot assume self-responsibility | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| again. QUESTION: Is it not a fact that responsibility can be undertaken only after you have solved | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to ask something about self-responsibility. Would not self- responsibility lead to irresponsibility toward others? If I am | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for another person, you can truly fulfill this responsibility only if you have at least grasped the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| grasped the real meaning of self-responsibility. Otherwise, your responsibility toward others will always fall short. It will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain effects in your life and taking the responsibility for them upon yourself. QUESTION: I would like | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| degree of self-understanding. Before assuming any position of responsibility, they will be required to go through an | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| leaning on the fixed rule, you shift the responsibility to the rule. When you realize that there | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are going to be. With flexible truth, the responsibility is automatically shifted onto yourself. When you no | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| instead. Proper guidance and security are the parents' responsibility and call for authority on their part. There | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| on the other, you will see your own responsibility for your fate. You will then cease being | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to it in one way or another. This responsibility should be accepted in the constructive spirit that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of self-search, in order to fully accept the responsibility of parenthood. Thus their healthy and mature love-capacity | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it on a silver platter, without the necessary responsibility, work, decision, and cost. When mature, you accept | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| 1) feelings of inadequacy; (2) lack of self- responsibility, even if only on a subtle inner level | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| here. If one is unwilling to assume mature responsibility, then one naturally feels guilty for desiring the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| goal. If a person accepts full adult self- responsibility, is willing to pay the price for anything | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| sign of emotional immaturity is the rejection of responsibility. I do not mean that merely in the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| This would be immaturity throughout. I mean the responsibility to the innermost person, the responsibility to God | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| mean the responsibility to the innermost person, the responsibility to God, the responsibility to oneself, the acknowledgment | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the innermost person, the responsibility to God, the responsibility to oneself, the acknowledgment of being responsible for | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| being responsible for one's own trouble and the responsibility to get out of trouble by using one's | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| And there are other responsibilities, such as the responsibility to protect weaker people physically and emotionally. You | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you can realize the true meaning of self- responsibility and of divine justice, without any thought of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your life, as long as you disclaim responsibility for such happenings, you cannot even begin to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot even begin to set out finding this responsibility. Thus you are not in reality, in its | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Truth has to be handled with care and responsibility. If people are inwardly ignorant, it is better | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And does the reality principle stand for duty, responsibility, work, achievement, and is therefore constructive? On the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| lived in a state of being, without worry, responsibility, or hardship. The more the entity grows, the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| view will liberate you. You will fully assume responsibility for the faulty attitude, being willing to take | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| dread nothing more than that, for taking the responsibility of your shortcomings upon yourself is tantamount to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| will be, to also take upon yourself the responsibility that any crime can happen through wrong values | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| help it. But now you will take full responsibility upon yourself, without any destructive guilt, for maintaining | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| substitute for these two, to take on the responsibility for your life that you yourself should carry | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the god-authority you desire to take over your responsibility is just not there. This, in turn, causes | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| than yourself in order to avoid effort and responsibility, you cannot help feeling self-hate and self-contempt, and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this understanding will not come until you assume responsibility for yourself. As long as you expect God's | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| deciding, weighing. It requires a sense of self- responsibility and courage. This applies to everything, including the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when not given to you, and disclaiming any responsibility for your wants. You have realized at this | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at one with yourself about it, fully assuming responsibility, ready to pay the consequences, this imperfect act | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to accept life and death and assume the responsibility which makes you capable of coping with life's | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |