| Shocked.....................12 | |
| front of your eyes that you will be shocked at yourself for not having seen all this | 21 THE FALL |
| to find aspects of yourself you may be shocked about. Expect this and meet it halfway instead | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| So do not be afraid; do not be shocked when you first encounter your lower self where | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of fact, reaching the stage where you are shocked about some of its facets that you had | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| quite new comes to the surface. Everyone is shocked and disappointed. From now on you will understand | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| some degree. You will be all the more shocked to find the same trends all over again | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to look for their images, they may be shocked to find that in certain ways they are | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| When you realize this, you may be quite shocked. If after ascertaining realizing your wishes and seeing | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and whenever they come to the fore is shocked by them because they violate the dictates of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| effort on your part, and you were probably shocked to find out how incompatible they were with | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| at your attitude toward its existence. Are you shocked about certain of its manifestations? Are you impatient | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this, my friends. For those who are most shocked, afraid of, and unable to cope with the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Shocking....................9 | |
| home conditions, and only you alone experienced this shocking uniqueness that had to be hidden from everyone | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| rest of your person. You may find it shocking, at least for a while, to recognize the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the first moment of discovery this may be shocking, but not necessarily. The first glimmer of recognition | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| leaves more of a mark than one traumatic shocking experience. That is why the latter is so | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| according to conditioned reflexes. This will be quite shocking at first, and it will be liberating at | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| production and creation. This realization is at first shocking and painful, but only as long as you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| necessary before you can accept this, at first shocking, realization about your life. As a matter of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of this incredibly powerful presence is at first shocking. The good feeling is shocking. It is as | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| is at first shocking. The good feeling is shocking. It is as if an electric shock went | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Shore.......................3 | |
| you will let go of the old accustomed shore and float momentarily in what seems uncertainty. But | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| when you were holding on to the old shore, to the false structure that must be torn | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| longer exist. From your vantage point on the shore, where there was water before there is none | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Shortchange.................6 | |
| this part of life experience entirely and so shortchange their own development. This fear might exist because | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| yourself because in some way you wish to shortchange life. You want to get something the easy | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that you no longer wish and expect to shortchange life -- you will gain a well-founded self-respect | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| long as this condition prevails within you, you shortchange yourself in the most tragic and unnecessary way | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| not be open to them now. They truly shortchange themselves by not taking advantage of this. QUESTION | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| processes and will force. With that attitude you shortchange yourself greatly. Such forgetfulness inevitably has various consequences | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Shortchanged................9 | |
| as if one person would have to be shortchanged in favor of another as love is being | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| growth will try to discover how they have shortchanged themselves of the satisfaction of a legitimate need | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| or yourself. Find in what respect you feel shortchanged. You resent that something in your life is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to make good with the person you have shortchanged, the cultivation of the ability of giving your | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| more you adhere to this assumption, the more shortchanged you must become in the problematic areas. The | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you can fully receive; you can never be shortchanged. When you fear giving, you cannot be open | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| It is impossible. Therefore you are constantly being shortchanged. The wrong conclusion is thus strengthened, so that | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| around in life moaning that they have been shortchanged, that they have not received enough in their | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| closeness or the need for privacy must be shortchanged. Privacy is a legitimate need of the soul | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Shortchanging...............3 | |
| but without crippling their other faculties and thereby shortchanging their lives. And now, my dear ones, we | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| counteract the rejection by unconsciously withdrawing from life, shortchanging it, cheating it in a subtle way with | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| loving and for the love of another by shortchanging oneself in some fashion, it is not considered | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Short-circuit...............7 | |
| compulsions work against one another and cause a short-circuit. In cases that are less crass, where one | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| fatigue to struggle against the self. When a short-circuit hinders the real experience of the pleasure principle | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| illusory perception of mutual exclusiveness, they create a short-circuit. In the darkness of the confusion, the individual | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| well. Often a number of contradictory will currents short-circuit on the surface, manifesting as a lack of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and a counter-movement is instituted which causes a short-circuit in the system. This short-circuit is then experienced | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| which causes a short-circuit in the system. This short-circuit is then experienced as an involuntary block, inhibition | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| speak these words, you create at best a short-circuit, at worst a split and a division in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Short-circuits..............5 | |
| weakness, and even sickness can come from emotional short-circuits. The more frequently the opposing currents clash within | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| kinds of cross-currents, not only those I mentioned. Short-circuits can, along with other symptoms, cause indefinite longing | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| -- whether spiritual or material. Emotional cross-currents or short-circuits are not equally strongly present in all people | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| predicament of putting useless pressure on yourself that short-circuits your energies and also creates the emotional hazard | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| personality. The split among the levels creates further short-circuits. The dissonance among the various levels may manifest | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Shortcoming.................3 | |
| it well understood that if you have the shortcoming of lack of ambition, this very fault can | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| person to whom you are close has that shortcoming. This realization will give you an understanding and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| single fault, the full recognition of a single shortcoming, contributes more to the building of your temple | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| Shortcomings................63 | |
| upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and shortcomings, are nothing but a form of pride and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and present. When you know all your emotions, shortcomings, and wrong attitudes, you will be able to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to love. Each one of your faults and shortcomings is a direct hindrance to the unfolding of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| others. You hide your faults, you hide your shortcomings, and you want to show your best side | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have to do anything further about overcoming your shortcomings. This attitude exists too and it is just | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you feel when someone tells you of your shortcomings. If you observe clinically what you feel when | 21 THE FALL |
| become really detached, my friends. When your own shortcomings in the eyes of others do not matter | 21 THE FALL |
| the inner truth. You may even know your shortcomings, but you certainly do not know all your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| my friends, results directly or indirectly from your shortcomings and from your fears. If you did not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your fears. If you did not have any shortcomings, there could not be any fear in you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| all interact. If you can connect these various shortcomings with your problem, half the battle is won | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| stem directly or indirectly all your various individual shortcomings, are self-will, pride, and fear. This is very | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| Mind you, this is not because of your shortcomings. In the deepest regions of your being you | 31 SHAME |
| self-respect is not due to your faults, weaknesses, shortcomings, and sins -- no matter what they may | 31 SHAME |
| this way: Your lower self with all its shortcomings is a factor to reckon with if you | 31 SHAME |
| whether you desire to be cherished for your shortcomings as a compensation for your imagined inability to | 31 SHAME |
| think, in spite of some of your stubborn shortcomings that linger on. In that way you must | 31 SHAME |
| about many little things, and even exposes actual shortcomings, so as to keep the real issue hidden | 31 SHAME |
| to be accepted. This includes the risk, the shortcomings of life, which offers you no risk- proof | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| try to learn humility where there are no shortcomings within you. This would give you a false | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| thoughts. My friends, learn to accept other people's shortcomings, as you must learn to accept your own | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| about yourself; attaining a healthy attitude toward your shortcomings, and learning to live according to life's rules | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the environment, for if everything were perfect, the shortcomings would not have an opportunity to come to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be a very decent person, conscious of his shortcomings, working at them, and obviously making great spiritual | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| nothing else than the manifestation of your inner shortcomings. It is not easy to reach this understanding | 36 PRAYER |
| of you still separate your problems from your shortcomings, even if you do know in theory and | 36 PRAYER |
| all started to think about your mistakes, your shortcomings, and your weaknesses. The same holds true on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is that not all people have the same shortcomings as the parents; not all conditions of life | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Then you will not be blind to your shortcomings, but will face them, and they will no | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or unkind desires, while seeking self-justification in the shortcomings of others. This you would call hypocrisy. Many | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| question is about Job. For what failures or shortcomings in his life was he made to suffer | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and temperament. Each person has different qualities and shortcomings. Therefore, every human being needs something different for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have to suffer the consequences of other people's shortcomings, but your ignorance, your fear, your pride, your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and unjustified guilt-feelings and the proper attitude toward shortcomings. If your faults depress you so deeply that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The proper and constructive attitude toward your own shortcomings is the key to the dissolution of this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| reactions, because of a faulty attitude toward your shortcomings, you cannot find the breaking-point, which alone will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you cannot possibly come to harm by any shortcomings or wrong actions of another person, no matter | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| imaginary guilts, or blame themselves for very unimportant shortcomings in order not to face their main guilt | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you believe. It is much easier to face shortcomings than to discover the unconscious conviction that you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the good in disproportionately stronger light than their shortcomings. You may be aware of their faults but | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that people love you in spite of your shortcomings and various weaknesses. You do not realize that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be understood and loved in spite of your shortcomings, but you are not willing to do the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a degree, the child will suffer from the shortcomings of even a loving parent. More often, however | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to recognize your faults, your weaknesses and your shortcomings on the most superficial and obvious level. This | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you at one point, when we discussed human shortcomings, that all faults stem from three basic ones | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| may feel unhappy if your dear ones have shortcomings that you disapprove of, or if their opinions | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| than that, for taking the responsibility of your shortcomings upon yourself is tantamount to saying, I am | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or more than others. You may observe their shortcomings, but this has nothing to do with feeling | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| private session to ask how to improve my shortcomings with a view to becoming worthy for a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| have hardly made any progress beyond recognizing my shortcomings and would be grateful for indications of additional | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and would be grateful for indications of additional shortcomings not yet recognized by me. ANSWER: My dear | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| idealized self-image and your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create compulsive drives. The needs, on the other | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is a counterattack, pointing out the other person's shortcomings. There is a great difference between doing this | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the superimposed conscience and do not accept your shortcomings or your lower-self aspects -- whether real or | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the higher self, or shame of certain shortcomings. I now will focus on this topic from | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| will have to probe itself for its own shortcomings, rather than blame the other, regardless of how | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be relatively easy to accept the other person's shortcomings or failings. Otherwise you would not be involved | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| face yourself in truth, admit your problems and shortcomings, and shed your illusions. This does require a | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| to concentrate and focus on the other person's shortcomings or evil separates you from where you should | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of love, even if you use their real shortcomings as your excuse, when you punish them for | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| face squarely and honestly. The defense against your shortcomings is always correlated with a self- devastating guilt | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| either guilt or shame. It simply recognizes your shortcomings, limitations, faults, impurities, and negativities. It admits that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| as well as inner -- such as faults, shortcomings, impurities, conflicts, difficulties whose inner dynamics you as | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |