| Strained....................17 | |
| the craving for love becomes more and more strained and tense with weak, unhealthy, and completely immature | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| these categories I mentioned -- if it is strained, if it is governed by immature motives, if | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to fulfill yourself and your potential, the outer, strained will is often a hindrance. It is the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| more about it. Such activity will relieve the strained atmosphere which produces his fear. The strain is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| from your self-inflicted prison, there will be nothing strained in your self-revelation and your relationships. You will | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| discussing: covering up doubt and hopelessness with a strained faith and hopefulness, rather than having faith and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of health, as compared with the distorted, artificially strained ways of living, are the best way to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of nonconformity, especially if such individualism is very strained and too great a point is made of | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| example, create a confusion of motions: either the strained mobility of striving away from what is now | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to achieve relaxed and truthful self-government rather than strained superimposition. This deep inner decision can be made | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| describe it. What was difficult, laborious, fearful, bleak, strained, and lonely will become easy, self-perpetuating, relaxed, safe | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| variations -- where thoughts, feelings, and body are strained; where reactions exist that may not really be | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| search for where you say no. The more strained, the more compulsive, the more urgent, the more | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| afford to be yourself -- you are not strained or anxious and not particularly worried about what | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| sometimes term effortless effort. It is not a strained effort. Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only | 228 BALANCE |
| It is not a strained effort. Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only if it does not | 228 BALANCE |
| tend toward stagnancy because their effort is so strained. But if they could think of effort in | 228 BALANCE |
| Straining...................20 | |
| your inner life, the more chained you become. Straining in these chains, you kick against the world | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this unconscious part is the tenser your outer straining becomes. You are unaware that unconsciously you do | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as painful and bitter as the struggle of straining toward the impossible. You will not forfeit your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you must want to have them, but without straining and without expecting an immediate result. Do not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to get out of this limitation of time, straining as a dog pulls at its leash. Time | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| conflict. Or you can, of course, resist by straining against the transition and not utilizing time in | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| state of the present are your reasons for straining away from the present and into the future | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| moment of time contains will stop you from straining away; you will thereby automatically find yourself flowing | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| using each moment and incident for growth. Not straining away from the future, you will not have | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| so that you may utilize it fearlessly, neither straining toward the future nor stemming against it. Therefore | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| have tapped your inner wealth will you stop straining away from the now and cease to be | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| being disposed to giving in the least, or straining for the false concept of love I just | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| For example, is not the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| away from it toward the desirable. This very straining is extremely painful and anxiety- producing, but it | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| firmly entrenched in the painful, fearful dualism through straining from the undesirable alternative, then it follows that | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| it follows that you must give up the straining. Yet how can I say to you, do | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| is a state of mind in which the straining relaxes, in which the undesirable can be dealt | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| as expressions of inner states, while no longer straining toward one state and away from another. This | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| way. Because you have attained a state without straining, you glimpse and finally experience this other reality | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| this other reality. Or, you can relinquish the straining because you have glimpsed this state. It must | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Strains.....................3 | |
| This wish generates two contradictory soul movements: one strains forward, the other holds back. Needless to say | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| withdraws from desiring. As a compensation, the soul strains in self-willed greed -- from the conviction that | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in the dualistic state with all its painful strains and anxieties. Denied fear creates more fear. Denied | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Strange.....................50 | |
| easy to penetrate the medium. All this is strange to her, causing, of course, obstacles which I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| themselves with spiritual questions, all this must seem strange and peculiar. The understanding can come only when | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| be impressed. You might say: Indeed, this is strange; this is wonderful; it is astounding. Yet, after | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| other, it is infinitely healthier for your soul, strange as this may appear at first, if you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| question of justice, doesn't it appear as a strange coincidence that there should be wholesale slaughter of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| indicates pride. Yes, my friends, this might seem strange to some of you, for you may have | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to go on hiding. Perhaps all this sounds strange to you and you may still not grasp | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| law of your environment. Though this may sound strange to you, yet when you think more deeply | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you think more deeply it is not so strange. Your divine conscience will never be at variance | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| human soul which is often overlooked. And that, strange as it may seem, is a desire for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you. Some of you may think it is strange indeed that this basic spiritual truth has been | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| being monotonous, give the same answer: the key, strange as it may seem in this particular case | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in self-unfoldment. If all participants did that, very strange and wonderful insights would come about through an | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| imagine that the real self is something utterly strange and new. Therefore, you fear it just a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| over-eagerness coming from an exaggerated need, and withdrawal. Strange as this may sound, sometimes you pursue both | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| this real self will in now way feel strange, for you are, of course, permeated with it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a much greater extent than you do now. Strange as this may seem, the more you accept | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| humans? Or do they take on an awesome, strange, fixed, and therefore almost inhuman form in your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| less will you understand about others. In a strange way, the unconscious aim of human beings is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| means giving up self-direction -- and this surrender, strange as this may seem, appears humiliating. In order | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| by little, as you begin to discover the strange, exciting, at times even slightly frightening and yet | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| involved part. Detached observation of something obscure and strange is the most healing procedure on the path | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| intelligence and beauty exists in you. For some strange reason, you fight against admitting it. As long | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| From suppression and repression, as you all know, strange and even more disquieting compulsions arise, with the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and therefore fear. From this idea that a strange, independent power seems to play with you, the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| possibility of dissolving them is your greatest hindrance. Strange as it may seem, my friends, even though | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| also discover your own power. There is a strange and apparently paradoxical balance: the more egocentric the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| encountered in the course of their self-search a strange and inexplicable distaste for activity and an equally | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and inexplicable distaste for activity and an equally strange and inexplicable hankering for non-action. These tendencies are | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of the smallest. The concept is new and strange to human thinking, which heretofore has measured power | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| universe. QUESTION: I want to ask about a strange and frightening experience I had lately. When I | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| other real feelings and ways of being. This strange shame manifests as embarrassment and a sense of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Sometimes annihilation seems a lesser evil than the strange sense of shame and the exposure of one's | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| watch your reactions from this point of view, strange experiences will come to you. You will learn | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| have to be faced and changed. But the strange thing is that the more people ignore their | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| or perhaps has a facial tick, experience a strange urge to imitate his postural or facial aberrations | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| detail. The climate of this may first seem strange and unfamiliar. You need to acclimatize yourself to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| much fear in a human being as the strange, removed authority figure of a punishing god. Your | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| hence pain -- exists too; this may seem strange to you, but it exists to the degree | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is dismal anyway, then there is nothing so strange about your state. So you often make yourself | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| experiencing the height of universal love which is, strange as this may seem, people's greatest fear. In | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| a task in the universe. This may seem strange, for the human brain is used to equating | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| formulate the creative thought pattern, you find a strange and inexplicable reluctance in you. It is as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you sense you already are. What is this strange wall that holds you back from being who | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| tribes -- anything that was or seemed different, strange, foreign. Distrust of the opposite sex was also | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| task. We have experts. Yes, this may seem strange to you, but it is not so strange | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| strange to you, but it is not so strange, for whatever you have on your earth sphere | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| attitude as the desirable. This may appear very strange to you now, but I truly say to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| is coming to the fore, an aspect so strange and unfamiliar that it seems at first somewhat | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| in very different ways. Things no longer appear strange or foreign. There is a greater overall awareness | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |