| Stopping....................9 | |
| it is unconscious, you have no way of stopping this destructive process, which is entirely opposed to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you into actions you have no way of stopping. You completely forget that your unconscious mind is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your entire organism. It amounts to a deliberate stopping of breathing and pulsebeat through some artificial, inorganic | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| acceptance with condoning and finality. Acceptance merely means stopping the struggle against what is, a struggle always | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| will go all the way, there is no stopping me because the creative force in me will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| center is an infinite process. There is no stopping, no end result. It is forever new -- | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| soul movement of fear is tension, cramp, and stopping of the flow from the inner energy center | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| as to get into its swing again. Each stopping is much more of a delay than you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of dying. Staying immobile upholds the illusion of stopping time and sustaining the status quo. This is | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Store.......................7 | |
| you face and know. Behind the wall you store all that which is unpleasant to face. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| all that which is unpleasant to face. You store not only your faults and weaknesses, but also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in a mature fashion, you will have a store of love in reserve. From those who are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true that a young person has a certain store of energy that spends itself no matter how | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| level. The fulfillment which the universe has in store for you is not separate and far away | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| obtains the limitless abundance the universe has in store for all creatures. The first step must be | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a small token of what still lies in store for you. The difficulties you experience are a | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Storehouse..................5 | |
| unconscious mind then would be an instrument or storehouse? ANSWER: Well, a storehouse is not the same | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be an instrument or storehouse? ANSWER: Well, a storehouse is not the same as an instrument. It | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| are removed. All human beings possess an inner storehouse of faith, love, truth, wisdom, but these are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the ego fears, that truth opens up the storehouse of vibrant life force and energy that you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| peace, and well-being. Nor can you use the storehouse of potential within yourself, or experience your freedom | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Stories.....................3 | |
| able to act on it are two different stories. You may be able by voluntary action to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| most mythologists, including Frazer, regard all myths as stories of events that never happened. There are a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The divine voice will not tell you beautiful stories about your already purified state or speak in | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Storm.......................14 | |
| and the waters be calm until the next storm comes along. And so it alternates until the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and good periods gathers strength for the next storm. Another gets nervous and loses inner control when | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| gets nervous and loses inner control when a storm is brewing. Yet another is so scared that | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| at all, but lets it drift through the storm of life -- and thus does not gain | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| steer their little boat well, even through a storm, so that they come through it strengthened and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| and controlled, but inside is caught in a storm of emotions, unable to find peace until starting | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to the small attendance on account of the storm, we decided to have, instead of a lecture | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mutual distortions, such a temporary outer or inner storm may fulfill the same balancing function that an | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| fulfill the same balancing function that an electric storm or earthquake fulfills in nature. Whether or not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| harbor within, you are torn apart in the storm raging inside of you. As long as this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| most destructive in your life. Instead, you often storm ahead in your flights of fantasy to a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| somewhere or I have to ride through the storm, which I feel I am doing now. ANSWER | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| However, this is but temporary peace before the storm. Crisis must come to you eventually to give | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| intent you overlook the negative side where the storm of destructiveness and meanness still rages, you split | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Storms......................6 | |
| at any time -- especially when the wild storms are raging -- and make contact with God | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| could suffice to exempt you from life's occasional storms. For even a basic recognition arrived at in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of having attained true serenity. But let life's storms touch him or her, let the effects of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| feel dissatisfied with your life, regardless of temporary storms. You have the power to change this, step | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| resting on firm ground, that will withstand the storms of life. As I implied before, finding illusory | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| aspect that seems cruel. Nature's destructive forces, the storms, the floods and the earthquakes do exist, but | 254 SURRENDER |
| Stormy......................3 | |
| various aspects of life: the sea can be stormy, the sky grey, and then again the sun | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| boat tossed by the winds on a great stormy ocean. You will realize that there is no | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| be true that people whose immaturity shows in stormy relationships are indeed more immature and may indeed | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Story.......................31 | |
| heart. And it is again the same old story: the how is important, the exact shade of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of a person; all the rest of the story is hidden from you. QUESTION: Will a person | 18 FREE WILL |
| find the symbolic explanation of this in the story of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Actually this | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| utterly senseless. After the explanation of the real story of salvation you will not only see that | 22 SALVATION |
| Jesus Christ within the setting of the true story of salvation. Then bring yourself to imagine His | 22 SALVATION |
| very wrong. This then very briefly is the story of the Creation of the Universe, the Fall | 22 SALVATION |
| to mention something, then it is a different story. But as long as you choose to keep | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the disharmonious, unpurified being. If you reread the story of Creation I told you some time ago | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| what I say is not just a beautiful story or a remote and abstract theory without any | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| which I need not again enumerate, the life story of the individual, and the practice of the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| a child, if you want to tell a story to a child, you do it through a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the disciples' arrival at the tomb as a story of promise are entirely false, and not a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your present inner state. The people in the story attempted this venture out of pride. They wanted | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conscious aim. Again, this is symbolized in the story of the Tower of Babel. Here you have | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who do not obstruct. QUESTION: I read a story in a current magazine about miracles. This story | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| story in a current magazine about miracles. This story said that a child broke a wooden madonna | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| atmosphere that emanates from the telling of the story. The adult's feelings have a much stronger influence | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not even have a negative reaction if the story is misinterpreted. False myths will not have a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| gross misunderstanding, for what is meant by the story, and what seems so hard for people to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| integrate with the larger self. This is the story of the imbalance of the human psyche and | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| understood. But it is still not the whole story. You cannot come to the full understanding of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is explained by the deep symbolism of the story of Adam and Eve. The nakedness of reality | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in your life, that is an altogether different story. In these instances, when you notice the shrinking | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and telling attitude to life. It tells the story that one does not give oneself honestly to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is only one tiny part of the whole story, my friends. Underneath all these personality traits you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the crisis. What I say here is the story of human life. This is where human nature | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| truth. Combined, they tell more of the whole story: the story of Creation, the story of humanity | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| they tell more of the whole story: the story of Creation, the story of humanity, the story | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the whole story: the story of Creation, the story of humanity, the story of man's relationship to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| story of Creation, the story of humanity, the story of man's relationship to God, the story of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the story of man's relationship to God, the story of God's presence in your life. Wipe out | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Straight....................7 | |
| second step is to set your intellectual ideas straight. It is most important to understand that the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| within yourself, without stiffness. The spine should be straight, not needing to lean against the backrest of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| experience is indeed unbearable -- but not because straight sadness cannot be borne. Any straight, clean feeling | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| not because straight sadness cannot be borne. Any straight, clean feeling can easily be borne, no matter | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| until you are willing to set it all straight again. Many of you are sufficiently advanced on | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| though not immediately and not always in a straight line. But the meaning will evolve, surely and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| yourself, without whitewashing your lower self, seeing it straight, and loving your beautiful structure, your incarnation, all | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |