| Stereotyped.................4 | |
| make foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts that go on in your mind | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| What I mean is the automatic response, the stereotyped reaction that you repeat throughout life, reacting to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| conscious you become of your blind automatism, your stereotyped responses, the more they will diminish by the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| What is the vivid, living experience behind the stereotyped label? The experience of love is primarily the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Sterile.....................7 | |
| imagine the bliss of heaven as something dull, sterile, uninteresting. There are many people who believe that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| hate. Hate has to be covered with a sterile, false, pretended love. Hence, hate is due not | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self, seems to be divided between a rigid, sterile good and a flatly bad alternative. The self | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| also in you. Bare will and intellect is sterile, as you well know. Only the feeling of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| glow on life. Such incompleteness is dry and sterile. You may arrive at the most brilliant formulations | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| a thought -- even the most mechanical, dead, sterile, cut-off thought -- that does not also contain | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this effort and commitment, your life will be sterile and anxiety-ridden. When you experience events as isolated | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Stick.......................6 | |
| able to arrange this balance individually and not stick to rules and regulations -- no rigidity in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motivations. Hence, it would lead to oversimplification to stick to the terms higher self, lower self and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as you think you should, in order to stick to your private solution, and if you have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| image? Isn't it habit that causes you to stick to misconceptions, wrong conclusions, generalizations that are always | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| pleasure, when harmony has been attained. QUESTION: I stick to a guilt feeling because I get a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| point the self must make this choice: to stick with the old, excluding, restricting way, or to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Stiff.......................8 | |
| know that this is not due to a stiff, rigid, merciless law, but it is your own | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rigid constriction of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of real feelings, bound to outer | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| life experience. People make themselves more brittle and stiff, thus pushing away life itself and instituting a | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| one another and are at the same time stiff, rigid, unvaried in their conformity and dullness. Individualistic | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| cannot truly learn and grow. They are very stiff, defended and closed. Yet the ability to surrender | 254 SURRENDER |
| of surrender? How can you avoid a false, stiff holding on when surrender would be appropriate? Let | 254 SURRENDER |
| only when you hold yourself separate, suspicious, and stiff. The truth is that by total surrender to | 254 SURRENDER |
| not question your quick conclusions, and so your stiff insistence on them will bar the way to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Stiffening..................3 | |
| that can best be described as an inner stiffening. It may not always be on the surface | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| You have to observe this inner climate, the stiffening and hardening, otherwise you cannot get further in | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| spite, defiance, rigidity. All these attitudes connote a stiffening against change, against expanding into new spiritual territory | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Stifle......................4 | |
| guard against your lower self that tries to stifle the aspirations of your spirit. You may be | 21 THE FALL |
| You could not succeed and you would only stifle the rightful joy in living. Find rather where | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| all nonsense. Whenever such reactions do appear, you stifle full evaluation of them. You ascribe your strong | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| inner expansion pushes forward and the outer blocks stifle it. This leads to crisis. It may occur | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Stifles.....................3 | |
| The very nature of a guilt feeling, which stifles your determined effort to find out more about | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| I wish to show you how such moralizing stifles the living spirit of the good and the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| creates self-alienation, cripples creativity, and prohibits love. It stifles the ability to give and receive pleasure and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Stifling....................5 | |
| in this particular fashion. Separate the two without stifling the right emotion in the fear and guilt | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| depression, as opposed to sadness, is a very stifling, frustrating, unhealthy feeling. Let us clearly see exactly | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| be governed by. This, of course, has a stifling effect. Even though such an approach cannot kill | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| as cold as required to balance out the stifling heat of the climate. The mild arctic sunshine | 228 BALANCE |
| of them -- as you unfortunately succeed in stifling awareness of how appearance values undermine your integrity | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Stilled.....................5 | |
| God's laws can the longing for God be stilled. When you come close to God in this | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| hunger for love will remain, never to be stilled. It is like a bottomless well. Thus the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it. But the voice that can never be stilled goes on fighting in its own erroneous way | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| course, because the longing can never be entirely stilled. But there is a large part in all | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it may be -- your mind will be stilled. The struggle that attempts to find a way | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Still-existing..............3 | |
| you, you will become aware of the unconscious, still-existing perfectionism that makes it impossible for you to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the pace of my work allows, and my still-existing problems may impede the relationship and ultimately cut | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| problem here. It is very possible that my still-existing problems might contribute to an imperfect relationship which | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Stillness...................13 | |
| learn the discipline to go into your inner stillness at any time -- especially when the wild | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| happens. As he once more goes into his stillness, he will recognize the progress he has made | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to be irritated with somebody. Go into your stillness and ponder that these people are the children | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| takes place by going deeply into your innermost stillness. I have talked about this at intervals since | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| become very still and turn into your inner stillness and wait for its manifestations. Here you have | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a manifestation. If you listen into your deepest stillness, calling upon the Creator within you, the stillness | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| stillness, calling upon the Creator within you, the stillness in you will answer. This is inevitable if | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| of being crushed and listen to your inner stillness for the possibility of a new reaction. Yes | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you use this key? Go into your inner stillness right now. Declare that you wish to feel | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| will be able to mate with the inner stillness and what appears at first as emptiness. As | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| soul, a new fullness can manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| discipline. This, in conjunction with solitude and outer stillness may eventually produce inner stillness. Our approach on | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| solitude and outer stillness may eventually produce inner stillness. Our approach on this path is different. These | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Stilted.....................5 | |
| to avoid this, the feelings must be clipped, stilted, hindered. With some individuals this is true in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| feared because they demand giving up the watchful, stilted, premeditated attitudes that make all spontaneity impossible. Frustration | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| they come from the outer level they are stilted. When you try to establish the longed-for balance | 228 BALANCE |
| the balance of the inner reality is not stilted or mechanical. There is a meaning behind it | 228 BALANCE |
| to the outer mind. This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating. It breaks the real balance. The | 228 BALANCE |
| Stimulating.................10 | |
| The vibrant feeling of being wholly alive, in stimulating peacefulness, fills you even while you still experience | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Human beings often conceive of life as being stimulating, but they feel they must pay for this | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| serenity, they feel they must sacrifice their dynamic, stimulating life, they must stagnate and be secluded. These | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and emotional organism will be filled with this stimulating and peaceful experience. You will taste real security | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| ease of reality: its generosity, its abundance, its stimulating peace, and you wonder why you had feared | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| balance is perfect activity in a relaxed, unstrained, stimulating, harmonious way. Perfect self-responsibility comes from the recognition | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| specifically contacted. It will fill you with new, stimulating, challenging thoughts, outlooks and ideas. It will lead | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| more at ease when the reality is less stimulating, less conducive to loving feelings than the fantasy | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is, at one and the same time, dynamic, stimulating, exciting, vibrantly alive, and yet peaceful. There is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| infinite modes of self-expression, bliss, pleasure supreme, and stimulating new ventures exist in the most peaceful and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Stimulation.................15 | |
| how different, it will cease to be a stimulation. The remedy is in finding the inner fear | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| necessary stimulant for the moment, but if the stimulation is permanent, damage to your system is unavoidable | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and, at the same time, vibrancy; there is stimulation and serenity. As I have mentioned in the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| but they feel they must pay for this stimulation by giving up their peace of mind. If | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| reality. On this level, fearlessness, peace, unlimited unfoldment, stimulation -- all that one could possibly desire -- | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| anything. It just is. Therefore it contains both stimulation and peace. The false feeling cannot combine apparent | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you can find exhilaration and bliss, peace and stimulation, a deep sense of purpose that will lend | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the infinite vistas of experience, of expansion, of stimulation, of all sorts of wondrous and happy possibilities | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the soul, must also produce vital happiness, vibrant stimulation and pleasure. For such is the goodness of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| place in the mind, which gives the necessary stimulation and perhaps a new feeling of comprehension, so | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| on this path find new strength and new stimulation from these words, and a new opening of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| vibration, with certainty, with security, with peace, with stimulation, with excitement in the most relaxed, pleasurable way | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in a state of peace, security, vibrancy, excitement, stimulation and utter confidence. Your innermost being and your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| On the positive level, enthusiasm, joy, vitality, interestedness, stimulation are also potent energy agents. A path such | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| such a vision attained without outer help and stimulation. Humanity has now reached a point in its | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |