| Shouldering.................3 | |
| I mean you want to amass advantages without shouldering the responsibility of paying the price for them | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| apparent contradictions unify into one whole truth: By shouldering self-responsibility, by realizing that you alone are the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be earned. It needs to be earned by shouldering the weight of reality, with all it entails | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Shoulders...................8 | |
| that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders. This happens when the will to change and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| life, and taking the responsibility upon one's own shoulders. It is only a question of unfolding the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| learning for those people with strong arms and shoulders, spiritually speaking, in order that they may be | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| cross that you have made upon your own shoulders. What does that mean? That you have produced | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instance, that your mouth pulls down, or your shoulders sag; or that you forcefully straighten them in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it will make. Burdens will fall off your shoulders. You will relish a peace and comfort that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| though a weight had been lifted off your shoulders. Suddenly everything falls into place and fits. Why | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| harassment and restlessness will fall off your burdened shoulders. You need to raise your consciousness specifically to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Shoulds.....................4 | |
| one's own inability to live up to the shoulds and the coulds of achievement that a substitute | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| It must show in the rigid commands, the shoulds and musts I have discussed. It shows in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or underplaying your emotions. Is one of your shoulds, regarding the other person or yourself, responsible for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| its tyrannical demands upon you, with all the shoulds and musts, you can now see that where | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Showed......................15 | |
| my friends. QUESTION: The dissection of Einstein's brain showed no marked anatomical differences between his brain and | 21 THE FALL |
| the rebirth and the resurrection that Jesus Christ showed in the symbolic act he demonstrated, apart from | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our side. In this way, Jesus Christ, who showed the way, will have done this greatest act | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was and how it opened the door and showed the way. I do not have to repeat | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems difficult to understand why the greater truth showed less vitality. ANSWER: Outer power may often bring | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| transition in human development. In that lecture I showed you the illusion of self versus the other | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| they too experience fully. And Jesus Christ himself showed this amply in his life as well as | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| point of view. They think simply that Jesus showed only that life goes on, and that is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is unnecessary. It is as though nature constantly showed that the happiness of self-fulfillment is a part | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| your soul regarding life, love, and death. I showed that the conscious conviction and feeling about these | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is applying awareness to unify opposing forces. I showed the various symptoms by which the hidden, opposing | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| have discussed many facets of this relinquishing and showed you again and again how inner peace and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| can be activated in the specific way I showed here. Be blessed, every one of you; receive | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| expanded people's consciousness and the first reasoning processes showed the individual that letting out blindly what he | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| them increasingly more effective. The new energy also showed in the very wonderful experience you had when | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Shower......................3 | |
| direction of physical hygiene. Today people bathe and shower daily and keep their bodies clean. At the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you were about to step under a cold shower. One person finds it easier to do this | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in trust and faith that life wants to shower you with its gifts. The more you establish | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Shrewd......................3 | |
| lower self of the human personality is very shrewd. Be wise to it. As I have said | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| can be deceptive, for people are often quite shrewd in deceiving even themselves. They suppress the real | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| from guilt about the dishonesty of such a shrewd device, it also creates a false reality. You | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Shrink......................25 | |
| spirits who are in darkness actually wince and shrink away and feel physical pain when they come | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chance to actually realize such happiness, you then shrink away from it. Oh yes, my friends, this | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| without this process of self-analysis but you often shrink from such observations because they might lead you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself fulfilled in all directions. Observe how you shrink from such a visualization; how it seems that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| he or she fears death. The more people shrink in fear from death, the more they cling | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| pleasure is not an abyss of darkness to shrink from, fear will no longer prohibit your fulfillment | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and so does tense reluctance and stubbornness. You shrink more rigidly from your liberation, your life eternal | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the more exhausted you are, the more you shrink from activity, which seems an added strain to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| are so afraid of. You hold back, you shrink within yourself -- and you think you are | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| rewarding. When anything happens to you that you shrink from -- whether it causes mild annoyance or | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pain of avoidance and flight. The effort to shrink back from yourself and from what you have | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| forcing-current is bound to make others resist and shrink back, even if what they are forced to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| be open to your own inner reactions which shrink from happiness and pleasure. To understand this in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| this is profound, for as long as you shrink back from direct, naked experience, you must be | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| touch me. Whenever experience does touch you, you shrink back from it in fright. The fright is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| that the personality does not cramp up and shrink into itself, you cannot detect the free-flowing beat | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| self-analysis develops gradually. The predominant emotions that you shrink from and numb yourself against are pain and | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| take the simple experience of fear. If you shrink from fear and deaden yourself in order not | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| negative experience ceases only when you do not shrink from it, but instead open up to whatever | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| dwell on a negative emotion, but do not shrink in fear from it either. You should say | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it will be. By fearing the pain, you shrink from and reject it. You then fear the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the fear of being abandoned, to no longer shrink from the feeling of, I am being abandoned | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| not to overlook those areas within where you shrink away from pleasure as though it were a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| themselves to this change. When you do not shrink from it, when you trust it and go | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| being -- both outwardly and inwardly -- you shrink back. This is not simply an old habit | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Shrinking...................21 | |
| accept it as part of life, instead of shrinking away from it. So you see, my dear | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| enmeshed in it follow a harsh, disharmonious, rocky, shrinking or rejecting soul movement that leads to greater | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| entire process is profoundly understood; when the subtle shrinking away from a desirable goal is observed and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| such conviction exists, outer facts must follow suit. Shrinking away from a feared alternative and wanting the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| wish for impartiality, you will first notice a shrinking back from such a desire and a more | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| experience to you. Therefore, whenever you detect the shrinking back movement of your soul currents, you know | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| damaged heart. Would the ailment be cured by shrinking back from this fact in tension, fright, and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| story. In these instances, when you notice the shrinking back of the restricting movement, try to remain | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| obvious that all is as I say. By shrinking from the undesirable condition or experience, the entity | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Each thought, each desire, each hidden fear, each shrinking away from experience is using it. A path | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| threat of new painful experience or disappointment. This shrinking from the life process numbs you again, so | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| at work. Some fear, some defense, some inner shrinking has taken place unconsciously. Your work requires that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| by being always in a state of battle. Shrinking from it, you fight against it in an | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| own inner processes. By instituting death processes and shrinking from experience you divide yourself. Any outer strife | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| or a subtle emotional climate with an intense shrinking and numbing defense. This is a shock reaction | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| new, different reactions and soul movements. Instead of shrinking from the feared pain and thereby creating harmful | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| new attitude; feel into yourself and observe your shrinking. As you observe your automatic shrinking and tensing | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| observe your shrinking. As you observe your automatic shrinking and tensing up, the shrinking will lessen. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| observe your automatic shrinking and tensing up, the shrinking will lessen. The frozenness will diminish. Your very | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to you -- no longer a cramping and shrinking, bit a relaxed activity that leads to fulfillment | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you will find an inner closing up, a shrinking away from it. This may be so subtle | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |