| Shying......................10 | |
| start thinking about God and Christ, instead of shying away from such contemplation. And you will have | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| this process is. You will then know that shying away was an ostrich policy that never got | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| yourself in stark reality without any dilution; without shying away from the full impact of what is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and sometimes not so subtle -- reaction of shying away from facing yourself in this touchy area | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| this purpose and desire it strongly enough without shying away from the effort to reach the goal | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| who does the research patiently and laboriously, without shying away from effort, time, trial and error, who | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| spot, you will bring it out. Instead of shying away from the feelings in this vulnerable spot | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| In reality, the heavy toll is exacted by shying away from meeting the total situation in total | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| This is your very stumbling block because your shying away from what appears so painful and frightening | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| weighs, differentiates, gropes for the truth -- not shying away from the mental labor of dealing with | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Shyness.....................11 | |
| one of you should feel shy. If your shyness stands in the way, a good part of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| outside and the inside. QUESTION: Couldn't it be shyness too? ANSWER: You can rationalize and cover up | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| up your feelings with many explanations. What is shyness anyway? What is an inferiority complex for that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you prefer, vain. It is the same thing. Shyness is one manifestation of an inferiority complex. Brashness | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will soon stop being deceived by appearances. Your shyness may be open; the other person's shyness may | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Your shyness may be open; the other person's shyness may be covered under a mask of brashness | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a self-confidence that they did not have before, shyness they have overcome; and, most of all, the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| But those of you who still feel this shyness, question yourselves seriously and as honestly as you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but read these lectures. So give up your shyness and inhibitions. The more you participate with questions | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Whenever you feel disharmony of any sort, or shyness and timidity, you are bound to find some | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be an indirect one. You can certainly sense shyness, uncertainty, insecurity, apprehension about being rejected or criticized | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Sibling.....................4 | |
| Or it may be another relative or a sibling. It is never just one kind of authority | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to the whole picture. It may be a sibling, another relative, or a friend. But in addition | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the parents. Even if a relationship to a sibling is outwardly more problematic and negatively involved, it | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| profoundly explored, it must be found that the sibling relationship is always directly related to the parental | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Siblings....................4 | |
| see the truth about others, your parents and siblings, for instance. This is another way to gain | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is of primary significance. Others, such as teachers, siblings, or anyone closely related, also play a significant | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with one of their parents or with their siblings and peers. Adults suffer from them with much | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and unpleasant. Finding the most fitting environment, parents, siblings, friends, contacts in later life, and many other | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Sick........................89 | |
| in the right way. Often their own inner sick currents, of which they are unaware, contribute not | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of spiritual value, or they give over to sick, unpurified emotional currents. These use up much energy | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| in ignorance, genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower self into a false direction. It is | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| all the diverse energy currents if only the sick tendencies of the ego would not stand in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and even to sacrifice. Yet where the blind, sick, or immature parts of the soul resist this | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| thus freely give up the impossible, whereas emotionally sick and immature souls would insist on having the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| rebellion against the unalterable is in itself a sick emotional current. The inner conflicts can increase to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| right and healthy and in another case be sick. Perhaps you will be able to understand this | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| kind of self-love that everyone has is a sick and shortsighted love, while God's love for you | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| not enough to remove the outer symptoms, the sick root must be found in the soul. That | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| steadily in the sense necessary to heal the sick soul currents present more or less in all | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| same process, my friends. When people are emotionally sick, it is always a sign that in one | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you feel, my dear ones, your soul is sick in some way and it must be cured | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a powerful weapon to cure yourself of the sick currents within your soul, and you will unfold | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| purify and cure your soul of all the sick and wrong currents that deviate from divine law | 18 FREE WILL |
| that? ANSWER: A person who nurses a wrong, sick, or ignorant current and who does not fulfill | 18 FREE WILL |
| of uncovering a person's unconscious, not only do sick, wrong, and twisted currents become apparent along with | 18 FREE WILL |
| price at all. That is part of your sick soul. The price you pay by going on | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of course, a symptom that the soul is sick and has deviated from one or more spiritual | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| lower self simply contains the faults, weaknesses, and sick currents that any of you possess, is immaterial | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| mature decisions. That is why their souls become sick and suffering. Great disorder is created in the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| insecurity, and any number of symptoms of a sick soul that has not yet learned to apply | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| properly understood on the deeper emotional level, something sick and negative is felt and a very negative | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is a universal law. So, the moment a sick current is recognized by another person and fully | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| ignore so many of their own faults, their sick trends, even those quite noticeable to anyone else | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| medicine, without thinking that you will always remain sick or at all times be in need of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| reaches a certain age, one becomes weak and sick. All humanity is affected by it. Mass images | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| begin the human conflicts that render a soul sick and weak. We are concerned, for there is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| There is the kind of pain of becoming sick, feeling the symptoms of an onsetting illness. One | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you feel the kind of pain of becoming sick, often long before you know what is wrong | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| path all right and still deliberately overlook certain sick points in your soul, seeking the remedy from | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| negative happenings if they are unnecessary. In its sick sense, acceptance fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| healthy and mature way which does not cover sick motives, and only when you are willing to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| life, will love be forthcoming. Remember that the sick personality in which this vicious circle is strong | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not mean you should accept wrong in a sick and masochistic way, wanting to be tortured or | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a lack of courage and all the other sick and weak reasons that make you cling to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| done the right thing out of weak and sick motives -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| good ones, but partly to cover up the sick and weak motives with the right action. By | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| nor in an attitude of fear and a sick kind of self-love. So the right middle way | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is so easy to misunderstand and nurture the sick state in a personality. As far as you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| This belief is just as wrong as the sick kind of self-love. In none of the Holy | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| love yourself is wrong. Therefore, distinguish between the sick and the healthy, that is, between self- respect | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| self-love on the one hand and an overgrown, sick self- love on the other causes fluctuation between | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| lack of self-love, your self-contempt, and choose the sick overcompensation. Actually, your rebellion is never directed toward | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| self cannot entirely be eradicated, no matter how sick the psyche may be in other ways. Thus | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| desire a change and a cure of his sick psyche. Homosexuality, by the way, is also one | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| white. God's motives always mingle with wrong or sick ones. Certainly, a true desire to fulfill God's | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a compulsive element, or any other number of sick or deviated reactions must exist. In a case | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| individual characteristics; according to other trends, healthy or sick, which determine the strength and manner of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of course, sympathy stands for approval, too. Other sick currents also affect the image and twist it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| man, provided this development takes place without encouraging sick weakness and dependency. If woman develops those qualities | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| This emotion is that you desired to be sick. True, you did not desire the negative consequences | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| course of meeting the self, of healing the sick currents, of helping the infant in them to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| unhappiness. We focused on the healing of the sick part of the human soul. Such healing occurs | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Our aim is not only to heal the sick part of the soul, but also to encourage | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the pathwork is not only to make the sick part of human nature strong, free, and healthy | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| geniuses, like Ramakrishna and others, were actually very sick physically. ANSWER: In some cases the reason is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Is there any possibility of reaching a very sick friend who does not recognize me anymore? ANSWER | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| will be taken away. The poor meaning the sick, the ignorant, the ones in error and darkness | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion has encouraged and capitalized on this very sick tendency. It has set up rules and dogmas | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| forward. You will be close to resolving a sick, distorted aspect of your soul that has brought | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of why you battle against giving up the sick, the erroneous solution -- whether it is illness | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and you will see how people despised the sick person as much as the sinner. Sick people | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the sick person as much as the sinner. Sick people were ostracized. It is only rather recently | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| looking down on others because they are troubled, sick, neurotic, spiritually less developed. So this is a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sit back and do nothing. This would be sick; it would be playing the martyr, making a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| respect the other's incapacity, even if it were sick. This attitude would then establish a human relationship | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a result of this fear, he constantly gets sick. Now this fear is that those he loves | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the difference between the healthy soul and the sick soul, as seen from a spiritual viewpoint. My | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| particularly indulgent toward a child when it is sick, the child will want the sickness in order | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| love. Later in life, when the person is sick, he will be disappointed and hurt when the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| also consists of many aspects. It, too, becomes sick if it is split. The many aspects in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| emotional blocks, distortions and misconceptions. When you are sick in your outlook, in your attitudes, and therefore | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the door, and learn how you make yourself sick needlessly, sometimes out of a misunderstanding and, very | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| person. It is very regular and rhythmic. A sick or disturbed and fearful heart automatically loses this | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with the universal forces, they would not be sick, neurotic, unhappy. But it is equally true that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| relating to what is healthy and what is sick, so that the individual combats the very language | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| good and desirable, while the negating principle is sick, bad, undesirable. Religion itself has made this division | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| one rarely notices that unselfishness can be a sick manifestation of self-destructiveness and weakness -- exploiting others | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| true growth and unfoldment of those whose egotistical, sick interests play into your own fearful, dependent self | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| accept truth and abandon misconceptions and error. Every sick part of your body is a misconception. The | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| joyful; you begin to see that behind every sick particle of yours exists its healthy original state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the kind of self-observation that recognizes both the sick state and the healthy and joyful one that | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to the awareness that he deliberately chooses his sick state, for his own reasons. We asked this | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| with the naturally healthy divine consciousness. The weak, sick, distorted ego very often wants to give itself | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of the ego to shed light on the sick part; to use the honest part of the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of you already see that releasing the stagnant, sick energy of hidden, distorted feelings transforms it into | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| thus further creation, or they can be distorted, sick, life-defeating, and thus cause further destruction. Desire in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Both yes and no can be healthy or sick, desirable or undesirable, good or bad. Desire is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |