| Running.....................38 | |
| one spirit who succumbed first generated a power running in the opposite direction to divine law, but | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| in the form of rays or fine threads running through the atmosphere. They are noticeable not only | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| do need activity, although of a different kind, running on different tracks, so to speak. But you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| fault or reveal ignorance of an emotional current running contrary to Divine Law. If you do know | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| After a while everything will no longer be running like sand through your fingers. You will have | 36 PRAYER |
| suffering, the causes of all the repetitive patterns running through your life -- you have to anticipate | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the goal itself. By so doing, you are running around in one of those famous vicious circles | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| might be the remedy. To break this hopeless running around in circles, begin to see clearly your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| sense of taking a firm stand, of not running away. Or it can be negative in the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is your attitude toward the ascetic? Is he running away from it all? Does he face up | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you accept death in its undisguised nakedness without running from it that you can truly live; only | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it is with the question of inevitability. By running away from that which is inevitable, you bring | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| deny your fear would be one form of running away from or negating death and, therefore, life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| little difference. It is the wishful-thinking process of running away and looking away from something that is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yet realize how high that price is. This running away from self-responsibility and from the apparent risk | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and self-confidence. The psychic law that says that running away from the original pain of unfulfillment increases | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you truly face and live it, instead of running from it, even that reality is peaceful -- | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a false reason you call legitimate to justify running away from yourself and to strengthen your self-pity | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| become more negatively involved and confused than ever, running around in circles. But when you make the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of your illusion -- will make you stop running and struggling against what is. Gradually, a new | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| This means acknowledging your present state instead of running away from it. Through this approach to yourself | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| turmoil in your soul, but it is your running away from yourself. Your not being in the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the self. This then is symbolized outwardly by running away. QUESTION: In other words, she has to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| very key you need. If only you stopped running and really looked at yourself, you would see | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Now. It is also the greatest factor in running away from yourself, and is ultimately a result | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| what you fear, if need be; by not running away from yourself. Since the unitive state is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| personally understood and worked through. You must stop running away from this distortion in yourself. You must | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| it. Envy gives rise to self-hatred and to running away from that point within the envy-current which | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| explore it; do not fear your innermost self. Running away from your innermost self is tragic because | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| else can ever create as much pain as running away from the self. You have nothing to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| person as opposed to the one who is running away from the self by abandoning all discipline | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| really conscious of your fear and of your running away. For, to begin with, you are hardly | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| last analysis they are always a product of running away from feeling and thus of repressing your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| devote time, effort and care to the smooth running of one's life. The greater the accumulation, the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| group consciousness expresses itself in large groups selfishly running the masses; big concerns in which all personal | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that for me this is a way of running away. Could you comment on this? ANSWER: This | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| based on the principles you are learning. In running your business, in matters of administration, you learn | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| based on a healthy policy. You are constantly running on deficit, giving out in a distorted way | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Rush........................17 | |
| a certain caution. It does not mean to rush into things without thinking through; without using one's | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your breath movements. Uninvited thought fragments will constantly rush in. Most of the time, they will be | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of impatience. The inner child causes you to rush ahead, to think you must have now whatever | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are terrified of not attaining it. Therefore they rush right into the negation of what they long | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| before, the very fear of something makes you rush into it. Your repressed desire for the exact | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| sensitive to it and will not just blindly rush ahead. You will learn to hear what is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and without expecting an immediate result. Do not rush for a particular result, bound by a deadline | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| therefore as useless and unconvincing. So do not rush into atonement. It can be meaningful only if | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the same. You will then not need to rush ahead, nor will you need to hold back | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| result of still lingering limitations. One does not rush into the latter voluntarily. It requires deep insight | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| your life, when you no longer struggle against, rush into, forge ahead blindly, thereby disturbing the natural | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| seeing the thinking process as it wants to rush in on you. You will feel as if | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| composed of intense opposite movements that swirl and rush, explode and implode and destroy themselves. Soul substance | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| individual's development. For example, you may feel a rush of intense energy when you become destructive or | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| and dealt with, it cannot work. Such a rush would merely indicate that you don't want to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| So my suggestion is: when you wish to rush, hold still and allow yourself to feel your | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| their absence. People in this state do not rush into death and pain, but feel an inner | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Rushing.....................7 | |
| to cope with death -- evading it, or rushing into it. Both are present in every human | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| eventually become aware of the significance of your rushing forward. You will no longer consider this an | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you which may vaguely feel like a stream rushing toward you. The more you realize what your | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| hold back time in a fear-cramped motion, and rushing ahead because you cannot stand the moment. Very | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| will replace those which were negative or dead. Rushing and pressuring the resisting part is as useless | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to become inwardly relaxed. See your own inner rushing, driving, grasping. Observe it, until you can stop | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| I would not like to see this community rushing en masse into this explanation every time you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Rut.........................4 | |
| hitting them and getting them out of their rut, many human beings would never be ready for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| may shake the entire person out of his rut and cause him or her to seek the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| worn off, he goes right back into his rut. He does not use the blessings in the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| would-be existence, you remain stuck in the old rut of reacting from habit and easily justifying it | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Ruthless....................25 | |
| self dictates to the person to be quite ruthless about a selfish desire. It is not difficult | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| ideology behind it, even if there are some ruthless people who are completely selfish. The majority of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be that way now too, even the most ruthless ones have deep convictions about their own ideas | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may be in themselves. If they were completely ruthless, today they could not get away with this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such a strong desire current that they become ruthless in attaining their goal at the expense of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| loyal, or idealistic: they would have to be ruthless, selfish -- and would often have to betray | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it seems necessary to betray others, to be ruthless, disloyal, or selfish. But as long as your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| their using all their power, all their selfish, ruthless drives, to defeat the enemy who always stands | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| For the second pretends an honesty in being ruthless, cynical, and out for his or her own | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| goal one needs to be aggressive and often ruthless. An idealized self-image may therefore simultaneously demand of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| masochistic sacrificing, the underlying core may be a ruthless selfishness, self-centered pride and superiority, excessive demands and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the hurt one has unconsciously inflicted upon others. Ruthless indifference to inflicted hurts is not as different | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| are undermined by unconscious, destructive motives. Hence, a ruthless person may not attain his ruthless aims because | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Hence, a ruthless person may not attain his ruthless aims because an inner voice, that he may | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| unsplit will. Therefore, a conscious determination to be ruthless will have no effect because the soul has | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| satisfyingly as possible. I do not mean the ruthless attitude of certain spiritually undeveloped people who simply | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to see, evaluate, comprehend, and unify yourself by ruthless truthfulness will you ultimately succeed. One of the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| change -- and that requires the courage of ruthless self-honesty -- the past negative cause dissolves and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| this concept, being a winner means to be ruthless, selfish, to trample and triumph over others and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| passive, paralyzed and held back, or you are ruthless, with the inevitable guilt and outer consequences. The | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| The inevitable further result is secret destructiveness and ruthless selfishness somewhere underground as far as emotional inclinations | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self-destruction, the hate, the spite, the malice, the ruthless selfwill? When the misconceptions are being recognized, guilt | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| consequently become frightened, defensive, distrustful, grabbing, anxious, and ruthless. Instead of changing the counterforce that eliminates full | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| this distortion is destructive. It implies selfishness, lovelessness, ruthless disregard for others to the point of cruelty | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to see how this can be distorted by ruthless, selfish or irresponsible human beings who abuse the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |