| Rigidities..................3 | |
| and very flexible. It knows none of the rigidities and generalizations of the human misinterpretations of divine | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| narrowly limited. Often, people have both kinds of rigidities, alternately and simultaneously, one caused by the other | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| be in reality when either of these two rigidities exists in you? How can you adapt yourself | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Rigidity....................55 | |
| to let go. Whenever you feel a tightening rigidity, even if your opinion is right, you prevent | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| important, my friends, to understand all this. The rigidity, the unyielding nature of the images generates the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to come. Several incarnations are necessary before a rigidity can loosen up. Others, born into the same | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are doing, you find in your images a rigidity, an obstruction. You rightly call this an immaturity | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may not be good because there is a rigidity and a habit in such prayer and that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not stick to rules and regulations -- no rigidity in any direction, but free choice used wisely | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but because it indicates something. Such an inner rigidity produces ill effects in other areas of life | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| never can be hypnotized, it may indicate a rigidity which ought to be removed for other reasons | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| same error. Thought control can be mastered without rigidity and suppression. On the contrary, properly done it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| It is sometimes easier to dissolve an outright rigidity because a rigidity can be grasped. A negative | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| easier to dissolve an outright rigidity because a rigidity can be grasped. A negative fluidity is slippery | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| out of this wise provision and admonition. With rigidity, the inner meaning gets lost. People follow through | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in real spiritual understanding there can be no rigidity. You cannot artificially force the stages, they grow | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which caused religion to be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the very irrational, unfounded fear in the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| favorably that they will grow up with less rigidity, paralysis, images, and problems. Perhaps some of you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| according to one's character structure; for instance, avarice, rigidity, prejudice. In short, any inner urge that holds | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| make them work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the result and the origin of this predicament. Rigidity, fear, insecurity, intolerance -- all these exist in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| condition produces the moralizing attitude and all the rigidity that is tied up with it. The rules | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| be merely to become aware of an inner rigidity and intolerance with yourself and others. From there | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| about moralizing, you said that everything is a rigidity. ANSWER: There is deep misunderstanding here. You now | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| no easy answer here. But again, fanaticism and rigidity will not be the answer. The answer is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Your misconception about divine perfection leads you to rigidity and compulsion on the one hand and to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| very existence of your perfectionism stunts growth, causes rigidity and inner extremism. You are so conditioned to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| such a strain, leads to such discouragement and rigidity and pretense, that growth becomes impossible. You already | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not govern you. Perfectionism makes for pretense and rigidity -- and this excludes growth and development, as | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| dogma. Under whatever guise dogma appears, it shows rigidity and lack of self-responsibility in thinking for oneself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| engaged in. Let us speak of flexibility versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance. When it comes to rigidity, however, there are two different kinds, and it | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to discern their difference. The first kind of rigidity is based on the following circumstances: When the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and experiencing and causes the first type of rigidity. The second type of rigidity is caused by | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| first type of rigidity. The second type of rigidity is caused by a condition of the soul | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to perceive differently constitutes the second type of rigidity. One can deal only with what one immediately | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| summarize the difference between the two kinds of rigidity: one dulls your capacity of feeling and experiencing | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| one is predominant. When this is so, the rigidity is relatively easy to recognize. When the second | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| light. The recognition of the two kinds of rigidity is also necessary. It will be very helpful | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| You may first find the brittle wall of rigidity. Do not expect to find a healthy flexibility | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Be prepared to find the other kind of rigidity that may, at first glance, appear to be | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| glance, appear to be the very opposite of rigidity, because it is overly soft in substance. But | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your emotional life that show how repression creates rigidity. Rigidity is the opposite of life, which is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| emotional life that show how repression creates rigidity. Rigidity is the opposite of life, which is always | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| rich life. The imbalance this failure creates induces rigidity where flexibility should exist, as well as a | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the other distorted response to frustration, insistence and rigidity with a do or die attitude, are equally | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| truth about the self. An inner tension and rigidity exist that separate the personality from the real | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| body expresses all this with contraction, tension, stiffness, rigidity -- which are also behind the flaccidity of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| acquire more meaning. Conversely, fear of intimacy implies rigidity and the denial of one's own share in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| one is too self-willed to admit. Selfwill creates rigidity and rigidity is contrary to the flow of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| too self-willed to admit. Selfwill creates rigidity and rigidity is contrary to the flow of life. Selfwill | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| limited state. Selfwill comprises stubbornness, resistance, spite, defiance, rigidity. All these attitudes connote a stiffening against change | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| where and as I am. This ego-trick makes rigidity appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ideas, and withheld emotional matter -- spite, stubbornness, rigidity, inertia -- stagnant energy exists that must create | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| defiance and a spite... ANSWER: Defiance, spite, stubbornness, rigidity are all derivatives of the same blockage. Their | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| degree. Such severity, however, also brought a certain rigidity and superficiality to human existence. Obeying rules blindly | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| world. Freedom and change are inseparable. Enslavement and rigidity are equally inseparable. If you want it to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to nationality, or religious affiliation. Thus a defiant rigidity will no longer prevent people from finding their | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Rigidly.....................17 | |
| a person undergoing psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a school of thought that does not | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Some are broken by countercurrents, whereas others flow rigidly in one direction, consisting of several layers of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| it in any fanatic, in anyone who adheres rigidly to dogma, in whatever religion. Such a person | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| some circumstances is misapplied in others, distorted and rigidly set up as an inflexible rule, that is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| loved, approved of, and so on, the more rigidly and tensely you construct illusory forms, in the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| might or should be. In other words, the rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| way, no general rules to which one can rigidly adhere. I recapitulate: Since isolation and loneliness come | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| distortion results from adopting a particular attitude and rigidly adhering to it. This happens when the personality | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| does tense reluctance and stubbornness. You shrink more rigidly from your liberation, your life eternal, your bliss | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| endure frustration, the less one experiences the pleasure. Rigidly insistent people lose the pleasure they strive for | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the rightness of that course by saying the rigidly controlled person has lost contact with life. The | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is incapable of achieving this balance. It is rigidly one-sided in its insistence to receive, for this | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that under the surface the ego is too rigidly upheld. The Lever Law This law is related | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| confused and disturbed that you react blindly and rigidly, without quite knowing what governs you. The greatest | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not appropriate and organic. For example, a person rigidly holds on to a defensive, obsolete attitude, does | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to the past, is of any value. They rigidly reject any change, which is of course a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| shines on the soul substance that has been rigidly and fixedly holding these images. Later we shall | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Ring........................6 | |
| stone into a pond of quiet water. A ring appears around it, then come more and more | 21 THE FALL |
| each one of you. May these words again ring an echo in your innermost being. May they | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| against them. Yet an inner alarm seems to ring whenever an actual or imaginary demand is being | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| certain essential notes. At first, some notes may ring false, but eventually, after sufficient practice, the notes | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a half-truth, whereas any observation will have the ring of truth if one does not avoid something | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| cannot find the truth of it. Does that ring a bell? Yes. It helps me. Perhaps you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |