| Straighten..................15 | |
| be. After this insight comes the will to straighten out whatever is wrong within you and the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| have committed a sin, you yourself have to straighten it out and no one else can or | 22 SALVATION |
| an entity during his last incarnation was to straighten out a relationship with another human being--perhaps to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| does not fulfill anything. Perhaps a person will straighten out a karmic debt, but will not overcome | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| no benefit. You will not be able to straighten it out. The procedure must always be: First | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the conscious aim of which is supposed to straighten out disagreements. It is very possible that the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| released in the measure that the inner deviations straighten themselves out through the work on the path | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or your shoulders sag; or that you forcefully straighten them in an unrelaxed, artificial way. Observe all | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to reevaluate your thinking, your concepts, and thereby straighten out the existing confusion. Often the greatest difficulty | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| self, mask self, psyche and all. Could you straighten me out? ANSWER: Well, my dearest friends, you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are, the more adequate you will be to straighten out an outright lie or misunderstanding. I do | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| balance. The overdevelopment may be nature's attempt to straighten out the disturbance resulting from too weak an | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| particular conflict and shows the right way to straighten it out, but it also reveals important aspects | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| I would like to see these elements and straighten them out. I want to see all sides | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of who they ultimately are. In order to straighten out such distortions, the pendulum must always temporarily | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Straightened................7 | |
| unavoidable in a group of this size, were straightened out and treated with a spiritual attitude. Of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| power over you. Once this psychological conflict is straightened out and you have gained inner maturity in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| follow suit automatically as the psychological imbalance is straightened out. This does not mean, however, that you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| manifest as long as personal problems are not straightened out. But the process of doing this and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you. Therefore this responsive negativity must also be straightened out, but this can be done only after | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| angles where confusions might exist which must be straightened out. As you know, human language itself presents | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| want to say that this confusion must be straightened out on all levels and in exact detail | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Straightening...............4 | |
| to stop short at resolving childhood conflicts and straightening out psychological deviations, you are bound to fail | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you understand what prayer really means. It means straightening out your own consciousness, as well as your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| or awareness, slowly but surely come nearer to straightening out this imbalance of motion. As you proceed | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and put more awareness and clear intention into straightening out the imbalance. Visualize yourself taking a firm | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Straightjacket..............3 | |
| possible anticipation. It will release you from a straightjacket, from a hopeless choice between two dismal alternatives | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| as though you are shedding a tightly constricting straightjacket in which you once lived. You will step | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| for good, as shrugging off an unnecessary confining straightjacket. Yet you deny yourself this pleasure -- the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Strain......................69 | |
| remain in the same old hole -- to strain rather than change. Once this is recognized, the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| make peace with itself. There is a great strain and friction. As long as these currents are | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| or of not getting it -- put a strain on the emotions and create this conflict. More | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you really assume self-responsibility. Therefore, you constantly strain away from it, stemming against it, and this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Relax completely, without trying to exert any force, strain, or pressure. Begin to follow the abdominal movements | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| on your part. Illusion always causes tension and strain, for it cannot stand by itself. The effort | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| struggle against disillusionment as long as possible and strain even harder to maintain an illusion where none | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| relax and let your mind wander after a strain, that is fine. There is nothing wrong in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a little proficient, you will automatically and without strain be more alert and concentrated without fatigue. You | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| pretending to be something you are not. You strain harder and harder to become this false self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and unconsciously still are, convinced that if you strain hard enough, one day you will be that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| its resulting shame, fear of exposure, secretiveness, tension, strain, guilt, anxiety. It will take some progress in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you fear and sometimes feel, of the tension, strain, and compulsion. If you have an occasional glimpse | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not appear real. You are so conditioned to strain for the impossible that it does not occur | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| occur to you that there is nothing to strain for, because what is actually valuable is already | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| as to the world. This must put intolerable strain on human relationships, as well as bring out | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you are ashamed and therefore hide it produces strain, anxiety, pretense, and fear of exposure. What makes | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| express themselves adequately. They do not realize that strain, tiredness, and vague anxiety result from repressed emotions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| can grow. However, being perfectionistic is such a strain, leads to such discouragement and rigidity and pretense | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| outer falsification, but a much more subtle inner strain. Rejection or failure may subjectively constitute imperfection of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| approach. Observe, evaluate, weigh and determine -- without strain, compulsion or pressure -- calmly and quietly. Make | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the strained atmosphere which produces his fear. The strain is caused more by your compulsive striving to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a disturbed area you again repress, judge, and strain away from what is. This is the difficulty | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| because they smolder underground and cause a mutual strain as they clash with the demands of the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| expanding. All the cosmic forces, the life force, strain toward expansion, growth, union, and integration. Each individual | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not want to cope with decisions, with the strain of living. Or, more accurately, what would ordinarily | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| would ordinarily be an exhilarating challenge becomes a strain. How can you resolve this, my friends? I | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| unfulfillment and the difficulties which cause you to strain away from them, you would be capable of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| found and resolved the causes that make you strain into the future. Such investigation will give you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| future also means death and decay. While they strain into the future, hoping for fulfillment, they simultaneously | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| so that it will not seem desirable to strain away from it. This is being, even if | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| responsible for the contradictory soul movements. If you strain forward you do so because in one way | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| contradictory movements happen simultaneously. In both alternatives, you strain away from the now. Only when you live | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| reality. You cannot live in reality when you strain into the future, because such a future may | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in a relaxed way, with no pressure and strain on the thought process. Rather, he should release | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of this shift will lessen the intensity and strain, even if the displaced need has to find | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| movements. In proper balance there is calmness; without strain, you let the result of your efforts come | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| life experience. You will no longer need to strain toward being something you are not. The now | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| a loosening up as the clutching becomes a strain. Your psyche seeks to loosen up again in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you grow into real perfection. The more you strain away from what you now feel and think | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| at ease in either alternative. Both are a strain and both feel distinctly unreal. The next link | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| point within you where you can change, without strain or unnatural exertion of control. It is up | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| pushed in opposite directions. This causes a tremendous strain. The pain of isolation will always push people | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| life-stream and brings dynamic peace. Everything else is strain, effort, and difficult discipline, which is not conducive | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| self-giving may occur in harmony, in rightness, without strain and effort. Anyone meditating in such a way | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and more desirable and fulfilling. There is no strain in this attention. You will be carried by | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain; passivity promises relief from strain. In other words | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| appears to exert strain; passivity promises relief from strain. In other words, we return to the basic | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you shrink from activity, which seems an added strain to the exhausted ego. You then flee into | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| this error will be free from a specific strain of destructiveness. Once you comprehend the uniting principle | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| imposes too much stricture, some personalities break. The strain becomes too much. Other personality types choose, as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fulfillment, and pleasure, no matter how much they strain and yearn for it on the conscious level | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| pains and frustrations are, the more you will strain and grasp for a solution. As you are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| job. His suspicions and fears put an unbearable strain on him, so that the fluctuations in his | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| actually this opposition that creates the tension and strain of crisis, not the giving up of the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| easy and the orderliness creates more ease than strain in a person's life, then it is indeed | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| on the level of duality brings pain and strain, it is the soul's greatest longing to find | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of duality, you always fear the undesirable and strain away from it toward the desirable. This very | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| now. If you try to eliminate a specific strain before the purification work is fully part of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| a natural movement of the human manifestation to strain toward pleasure and away from pain. Even the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| you may well ask. As long as the strain between two opposites of a duality exists, you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and of pain, and in your movement to strain away from them, there is usually a great | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| that they themselves turn into the pain you strain away from. In other words, what started out | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| as their suppression and repression that cause the strain. The fact that you are unaware of them | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| inadvertently attained a certain measure of equanimity. The strain automatically relaxes and you are then confronted with | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of your fingers. All that you fear and strain away from is nothing but illusion, even though | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| completed state there is no longer any pain, strain, or death, be it ever so temporary. There | 254 SURRENDER |
| its present state. Duality always spells conflict and strain. In the last lecture I expounded on one | 254 SURRENDER |
| expounded on one very specific aspect of this strain. Now I shall broach another topic that is | 254 SURRENDER |