| Sicker......................3 | |
| to escape the facts of your life, the sicker your soul must become. By having the wrong | 31 SHAME |
| from inner health. At the same time, the sicker or more distorted a soul, the less it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| way you can judge is by comparison with sicker areas. You cannot imagine the feeling of joy | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Sickly......................11 | |
| which you have the power to correct. The sickly enjoyment of suffering -- you call it masochism | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the odor of the mask self: they are sickly and nauseating. We spirits prefer the emanation and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| no self-illusions than to create this unhealthy and sickly aura. QUESTION: How is it possible to undo | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| are, my friends, and without any pretense. No sickly exaggerations! No extremes! As in everything else, here | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| because you love yourself too much in a sickly way. There is a right and proper kind | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or against can safely be suspected of having sickly motives. Why one person chooses to manifest his | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in resignation that is not only unnecessary but sickly. It fosters wrong guilt feelings and seeks to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| certain type of self-admiration which is of a sickly nature that is obvious. This too can exist | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| widespread than is usually realized. It is the sickly kind of self-admiration, being in love with oneself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the life-force may bring the reaction of a sickly being in love with one's life. There is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you the more you give out of yourself. Sickly, distorted, false love impoverishes and breeds conflict between | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Sickness....................79 | |
| manifestations in the body: tiredness, weakness, and even sickness can come from emotional short-circuits. The more frequently | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in the soul, which I can call the sickness of your times, it came about that technical | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the symptom will disappear. Therefore the problem of sickness must be examined from this point of view | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| find God. People could be completely happy, without sickness, worries, or even death as you experience it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| would not happen by decay, old age, and sickness or accident. It would be a sort of | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| The aura of the physical body shows physical sickness or health, and all other conditions of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| absolute self-honesty. Once your motives are pure, the sickness will not matter half as much as the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| You said several times that the cause of sickness is in ourselves. I am meditating on this | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a bone.... ANSWER: You must differentiate between karmic sickness and non karmic sickness. This does not apply | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| must differentiate between karmic sickness and non karmic sickness. This does not apply only to physical sickness | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| sickness. This does not apply only to physical sickness but to every other hardship in life -- | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| common failing, it is a frequent cause of sickness. But there are also cases where the opposite | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Thus you will readily believe that all physical sickness is only a chain reaction, a final outer | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| a remedy that is no remedy for your sickness, so your hunger for love will remain, never | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is made conscious. Some people may develop a sickness which will be a form of childish temper | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| by power, other means are sought, such as sickness or a breakdown. Thus the entity violates his | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| self. This is a very crass form of sickness and comparatively rare. I want to look at | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| soul. To the degree you heal your inner sickness, to that degree you will love yourself properly | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| ways of punishing those you love, for instance, sickness. How many people develop an illness to punish | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and moral self- righteous judgement of another person's sickness is wrong. Yet the other extreme is always | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that should be looked into and considered a sickness. If a young person looks up to and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| comparatively small inclination will not be considered a sickness. It will be strengthened and justified only by | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| a spiritual truth to rationalize the weakness and sickness of the soul. QUESTION: Is making a decision | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: I was wondering about one's attitude toward sickness. We learn that in sickness we should try | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's attitude toward sickness. We learn that in sickness we should try to find the right doctors | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do we reconcile that with the thought that sickness is the result of our breaking some spiritual | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than you bargained for. You did, however, desire sickness as the solution of a problem. Needless to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thought or felt that it was. You chose sickness as a way out. Then this desire got | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish for health and the unconscious wish for sickness. In this part of your psyche you still | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you punish yourself for various guilts by using sickness as a way out, thinking thus to ward | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make conscious that part in you which chooses sickness as a solution to something that troubles you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to remember the moment when the desire for sickness was almost conscious, you will have accomplished a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| able to remove the inner reason for your sickness. But you must find this contrary desire to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find that part in you where you wished sickness as a solution, although you did not wish | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| did not wish for the problems that the sickness brought along and which the child in you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| been discovered. QUESTION: Is there any connection between sickness and the degree to which you let go | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| already progressed too far to relieve the entire sickness. In such a case, a sickness may remain | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the entire sickness. In such a case, a sickness may remain, but the suffering, physical and mental | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to the individual. QUESTION: We learn that every sickness, or every symptom of a sickness, is based | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that every sickness, or every symptom of a sickness, is based on psychological reasons. How is it | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that a person has a symptom or a sickness in one country and loses it in another | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to bear that the psyche puts up a sickness which disappears the moment these outer hardships are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way. When outer conditions seem most favorable, a sickness manifests and then disappears in a different environment | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death in various degrees. The unconscious desire for sickness is a degree of death. The weakness, resulting | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| physical body, and directly an unconscious desire for sickness and death. As the emotions heal, they integrate | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from it. ANSWER: There is physical death and sickness, and the world of matter, bound to decay | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in past ages speak of sin instead of sickness or neurosis? ANSWER: Well, my friends, because it | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| others, rather than understanding, loving, and helping. Although sickness and sin are the same, the person with | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and help and not feel superior. Sin and sickness are the same, but what counts is how | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| as symptoms. How can you ever find a sickness if there are no symptoms? If a physical | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| coping with your reality, that caused your soul's sickness. Hence it is this area that has to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| but it created other outlets, perhaps in physical sickness, or in other symptoms. As you become aware | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| step to the cure of the soul. The sickness is not caused by outer events, but by | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| it is sick, the child will want the sickness in order to get the love. Later in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| same time, he will be ashamed for using sickness to get love. GUIDE: This is a good | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| there is nothing to fear. Dissensions are reconciled, sickness healed, and growth overcomes stagnation; calm prevails where | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you desire health in a spirit of fearing sickness, you prevent health. If you fear the aging | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| as war, poverty, quarrels, difficulties of all sorts, sickness and dying, are the expression of humanity's confusions | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| anger, as well as the guilt, that create sickness? ANSWER: Of course. Let me put it this | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| unhealthy states such as those brought about by sickness or drugs. When the ego is lost because | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| no matter what name you give it: neurosis, sickness, distortion, unhappiness. You are free merely to remove | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the outer layers of your personality. In physical sickness, the body remains inactive for some time in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| ego controls the creative life within, it creates sickness or -- if one prefers the expression -- | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| unhappiness is almost always considered an indication of sickness. Unhappiness is usually interpreted in a wrong, distorted | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| being, as though the manifestation itself were the sickness. It is, of course, quite true that if | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| neurotic, unhappy. But it is equally true that sickness, discontent and disharmony are an indication of health | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is simultaneously a sign of health and of sickness; a message leading people toward feeling good again | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| duality. In the dualistic system it is either sickness or health. Neurosis is thus always seen exclusively | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| health. Neurosis is thus always seen exclusively as sickness. True as this is, it is equally true | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| even a pair of opposites like health and sickness does not, in reality, indicate good versus bad | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| person's life. This is not a treatment of sickness. Nor is the path simply a way of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of such a chain reaction. The real human sickness is the failure to use your full potential | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| more, life must replace death, health must replace sickness, joy must replace suffering, security must replace fear | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| particle of yours exists its healthy original state. Sickness is a product of the error of your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and that is the root of all emotional sickness and suffering. As you progress in the discipline | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to therapies that encourage the helpless state of sickness and overlook the potent factor of their own | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| between life and death impossible. This is the sickness of the ego state and the perversion of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| they go. The mind has created theories about sickness, or neurosis which, though quite correct in themselves | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| day, where there is health there is also sickness. Yet another reality awaits to be recognized underneath | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |