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| changing. It will not be according to a rigid formula which is repeated daily. And so your | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| stretch on the path. It may be a rigid prejudice that would make it impossible to be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| law, cannot be penetrated by us spirits. Each rigid opinion is such a block. We cannot push | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are. One should never assign meditation on a rigid pattern rather than considering what the person's problem | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| analysis, the wrong inner impression exists as a rigid form that controls all the events in your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| personality creates reactions and conclusions that assume a rigid form. We call this rigid form an image | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that assume a rigid form. We call this rigid form an image. The image consists of certain | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| adjusted to reality. Thus they are inflexible and rigid. Therefore, your images and their conclusions must repeatedly | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| are hardened, constricted and twisted, and they remain rigid. Therefore all these healthy and beautiful strengths and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| be more careful. If this decision is too rigid and stringent, the opposite extreme will follow. In | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| because your intuition is dulled by blind and rigid reaction and revolt. But when you think about | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| take root within yourself. As long as your rigid wall remains, however weak, however pushed back it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| they therefore lose their validity. They become dead, rigid, and meaningless. No truth is exempt from this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| same words again and again until they become rigid and no longer carry the living life-force. Any | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a definite program. Yet there should be no rigid system; you know you have to work with | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| they may not. Sometimes the outer morals are rigid and senseless. By adhering to them, you may | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| may appear to be so according to human rigid standards, which always have the tendency to go | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| letter and not according to the deep meaning. Rigid standards of humanity must often by their very | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| against the routine of prayer which makes it rigid and devoid of aliveness. Different activities and attitudes | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| harmful in many respects to remain in a rigid routine. If your prayer does not vibrate any | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| requires a certain humility and flexibility. It dissolves rigid self-love that cannot take life as it is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| fear and weakness. Such opinions are often particularly rigid -- and even violent. In all these instances | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the outer level, rules are made that become rigid and dead. And you cannot make one rule | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| want to attain the same results but is rigid, impatient, self-concerned. The interaction -- action and reaction | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and cannot be reconsidered and changed: it is rigid; and the more rigid a form, the stronger | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and changed: it is rigid; and the more rigid a form, the stronger is its substance. If | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the more these opposite trends manifest. The more rigid it is, the less they manifest. This, however | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| distracted by other things. Religions have made a rigid rule out of this wise provision and admonition | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dream up fixed situations. You will not be rigid in your expectations, or disappointed when things turn | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be fixed. Nothing that is true can be rigid, static, or fixed. It is always flexible. This | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| You will not need to cling to a rigid law. You will see the flexible law working | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| goes on, the truth becomes more and more rigid and therefore untrue. New channels have to be | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| persevere in this work. Find the harsh, tense, rigid, and at the same time wavering current of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that this is not due to a stiff, rigid, merciless law, but it is your own inner | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from making them a stumbling block or a rigid factor that stands in your way. When we | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul forces will automatically become harsh, pointed, and rigid. Their movement will be sudden, and their impact | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you harbor wrong impressions and conclusions formed into rigid generalizations about different aspects of life. We call | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| about different aspects of life. We call these rigid forms in the soul images. Some of these | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| idealized self is a falsity. It is a rigid, artificially constructed imitation of a live human being | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| solution, and how the dominant attitude creates dogmatic, rigid standards that are then incorporated in the idealized | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| understanding, forgiveness, union, communication, brotherhood, sacrifice, as a rigid, one-sided solution. This is a distortion of the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to the power solution. Both solutions are equally rigid, unrealistic and unrealizable. Each is a constant source | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of new ideas and attitudes. It also creates rigid rules of behavior and attitude; it freezes ideas | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| your insecurity increases. You tend to strengthen the rigid rules and commands, despairing more and more when | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Because they are erroneous solutions, they are necessarily rigid. The more you sense that such solutions do | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to be uncovered by the individual. Beware of rigid evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains only one distorted | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| than just fantasy. It must show in the rigid commands, the shoulds and musts I have discussed | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of perfection per se. In other words, the rigid standards and demands of the idealized self-image not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and has distorted the law into such a rigid concept that humans fell easily into this submissive | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to let go, if you cease to be rigid. The false meaning of Thy will be done | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| see that truth cannot be stated as a rigid law. It always depends on how you feel | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of and causes you to have a stringent, rigid, moralizing attitude about yourself whenever a crisis brings | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| only deep within yourself, instead of in the rigid laws and rules you borrow because you are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not trust yourself, you have to borrow a rigid structure of morality in order to protect yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| untamed, destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality these are not feasible | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the standards of your idealized self-image, the more rigid your superstructure will be. But this is not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Wherever immaturity and emotional disturbance exist, so does rigid adherence to rules in some form or other | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| secure self-confidence and self- respect, not their counterfeits. Rigid, perfectionistic standards prohibit making mistakes, receiving criticism, experiencing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will then dispense with the practice of false, rigid moralizing. Whoever thought that my discussion contained the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Mount, or the golden rule? Is that too rigid a rule? ANSWER: In the first place, I | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to become themselves, to let go of the rigid structure of what could and should be alive | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| I implied every moral act is moralizing and rigid. All I invited you to do is to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and if you would all abide by the rigid rule that nothing must be killed, you would | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessarily becomes an untruth. Truth is never a rigid rule that can be pursued to the end | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only be attained by responsible thinking and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on such rules. The life | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| questions. Probe yourself. Where do you tend toward rigid fanaticism? Where do you tend to be irresponsible | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be valid. The generalization freezes into a rigid, inflexible mass in the soul substance that should | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| real, divine self appears in the form of rigid perfection with a standardized pattern. This belief stands | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is always between your childish self-will and a rigid rule or principle. Incidentally, the principle may even | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| evolve: one will be to adhere to a rigid principle, be it general or personal; the other | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the will to change. If you rebel against rigid principles, against perfectionism and against conformity, that is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| either a general, outer one, or even a rigid self-made one. The nature of the core is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a harmonious combination of the whole, you become rigid in such over-emphasis. You thereby neglect other faculties | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| take place causes you to remain frozen and rigid in another part of your personality. This lopsidedness | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| valid, but you may use it as a rigid cover for something else. And thus it becomes | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| brought about by intellectual evaluation and leaning on rigid rules. Intuition alone follows the constant flux of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your shame for not being perfect, create a rigid wall that makes growth and change impossible. The | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| with your new understanding you destroy the limited, rigid, robot-like image in which you emotionally experience them | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| if misapplied and misunderstood, will create fear. A rigid commandment, if pronounced without the possibility of finding | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be will-less, but you must be without the rigid conditions of the self- will that dictate all | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| shackles of limitation, of preconceptions, of a narrow, rigid outlook, all of which are the result of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| experience so that this experience turned into a rigid image? Isn't it habit that causes you to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and with others; the harm of perfectionism, the rigid standards that you comply with, often to the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| already be obsolete. The soul- substance thus becomes rigid. Exaggerations of truth bring untruth in both directions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| intolerant treatment of yourself in this respect, your rigid, uncompromising, self-destructive severity which is way out of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| will enable you to reexperience what keeps you rigid, what prevents your complete organic growth. Do not | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the ability to take advice with weakness, and rigid stubbornness with strength. He constantly wavers between giving | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| bad or wrong, but, upon closer examination, is rigid, one-sided, unreal? In this fantasy, do you expect | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| light, truthful one which finally erases the old, rigid, heavy, untruthful one. When misconceptions of not deserving | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create tense, harsh, rigid soul movements. Truthful concepts create relaxed, warm, positive | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| for goodness according to false, limited concepts and rigid outer rules -- especially when combined with private | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| if you ignore its existence or pursue blind, rigid practices. People have too ingrained a tendency to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that awaits the good possibilities, even though the rigid, childish version is abandoned. Part of this maturing | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| control does not, and cannot, happen through a rigid tightening of the ego forces -- of will | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the self, seems to be divided between a rigid, sterile good and a flatly bad alternative. The | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| soul is even partially shut off, it is rigid, and the vital energies cannot reach the secret | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| true that the only alternatives are intense insistence, rigid demands, or renunciation of happiness and fulfillment. Both | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and this always happens, again and again. The rigid refusal to look and consider -- the adherence | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| become a shallow, lifeless shell, held together by rigid guards you dare not ever relinquish. You get | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is, as mentioned, to let go of the rigid vigilance which rules out all inner creative life | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cherished illusions about the self, discipline becomes a rigid constriction of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to withdraw, to be fearfully separate, over-controlled, and rigid. When the heaviness of the false discipline imposes | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| guise and pretense of real letting go. When rigid over-discipline no longer works, or when it is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| way. The person who is fearfully overcontrolled and rigid will use the example of the crass opposite | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Realize the extremes of the heavily guarded, overcontrolled, rigid, unspontaneous, unfeeling, overwatchful person as opposed to the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- the old constricting way, with all its rigid formulations and pat ways, as well as the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and for all, the constricted, resentful, destructive, enraged, rigid place in you from which you do not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| what extent are they a result of a rigid selfwill -- unwilling to bend, change, flow with | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| power to let go of stubborn insistence and rigid upholding of unconscious attitudes whose nature is as | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you can be that underneath is just as rigid a no as the surface, urgent, yes. The | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| ideals are, as you know, extremely demanding and rigid. Adhering to them stems not from an overdose | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| through. If the ego is over-tight, anxious, too rigid and self-willed, again the energy does not flow | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in, ingest and digest, assimilate and accept. A rigid individual, whose inner unconscious problems create havoc, rejects | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of independent self-responsibility, have a counterpart in a rigid front that refuses to take in or swallow | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and rigid. Selfwill says, Me, me, me! meaning the little | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| be disciplined and relaxed rather than tense and rigid. When you feel that relaxed effort is impossible | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| forward. Relaxed movement is pleasurable in itself, while rigid, reluctant movement is painful. Rather than denying the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| which may not be expressed openly -- then rigid insistence on one's own way, arrogance in demanding | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| may hold on even tighter to the immobile, rigid state, perhaps for many incarnations, thus making healthy | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| not run smoothly. If the owners were too rigid to change and persisted in holding on to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| This idea is distorted and leads to a rigid, unrealistic image. The more you are capable of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| feelings. The negative energy is being created by rigid and therefore unavoidably false thoughts. The limited truth | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| People in this phase continue to cultivate a rigid, inflexible attitude in which they think they can | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and that which is opposed to it. The rigid law that had to exist for the primitive | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the matter. Many issues meet this fate of rigid division. I have shown how the dualistic either/or | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| I have shown how the dualistic either/or is rigid, shortsighted and no longer applicable. However, this polarization | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Then you no longer need the confinement of rigid rules. Find that part within that can create | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of punishment that would hold them back. No rigid rule will apply to everyone alike. Each person | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| another and are at the same time stiff, rigid, unvaried in their conformity and dullness. Individualistic as | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| wide open and knows no formula and no rigid rule. Inner freedom and security make it possible | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| untruth, the false search must lead to a rigid distortion, truly a caricature of the real state | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| The more you battle against them, the more rigid you will become, the worse the frustration will | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| react to the identification of Jesus Christ with rigid morality that denies feelings, sexuality, autonomy and the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| doctrinaire sense. They feel safe only in a rigid, life-denying structure. The other alternative the child has | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| truth, misconceptions and misperceptions. They inevitably create a rigid soul substance that walls you off from the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |