| Threaten....................8 | |
| that any question, no matter how remote, may threaten to break down fences. This produces a paralysis | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life. But the small daily rejections and failures threaten your security and belief in yourself. They cause | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| If you know that the pain will not threaten your safety, you can bear it in a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| control, your destructive aims could take over and threaten annihilation. Giving up control must appear as death | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and rejecting of new ideas that seem to threaten you. When ego control is too tight, such | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that a different mode of approach appears to threaten you. But you do not realize that it | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the struggle against the dark vacuum seems to threaten the individual with extinction. Giving up evil seems | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of being unknown and new -- does not threaten you. Imagine a life in which there is | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Threatened..................40 | |
| see the weaknesses of people, without being personally threatened, and without generalizing this human aspect. Right now | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| that your idealized self may feel questioned and threatened, either by your own limitations, by others, or | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot help feeling threatened, endangered. Deep within, you panic as though your | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened by not being loved, admired, approved of or | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| me. As a result, I will not be threatened by the dangers of a hostile world, which | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| see this discrepancy, you will no longer feel threatened by the negative emotions. You will be able | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you that without it you would somehow be threatened or annihilated. Make conscious what it is you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that comes to you. You feel attacked and threatened. The feeling in you, coming as a reaction | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| on the defensive, you are frightened; you feel threatened and endangered. There certainly are realistic dangers, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of the matter. Are you really endangered or threatened because of hurt, frustration, or criticism? You, yourself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is a very distinct reason that you feel threatened and truly endangered without the doubt. It is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| means death to you because you feel nonexistent. Threatened by this I am not, you tightly hold | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| appears like annihilation, because your very existence seems threatened. Humanity's separateness is the result of this threat | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| bad. On the unitive plane, growth is not threatened by an opposite; hence it need not be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| because in the unitive state they are never threatened by an opposite. The two ways of growing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| in a new land where light is never threatened by darkness. You have constructed the old state | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| your life may be upset. You feel inwardly threatened and at a loss. Outwardly, even the apparently | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| impossible because the experience of pleasure is always threatened by the attached negativity. The individual thus becomes | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is not as strong, but you also feel threatened by natural feelings in yourself and you pay | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| struggles in her or his own development feels threatened by any display of the unchanneled primitive self | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to give anything of myself. Whenever I feel threatened by rejection, criticism, frustration of my immediate desires | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| world lends itself well to attracting enraged and threatened feelings. Thus the expression becomes one of hostility | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| will know what I mean. You have been threatened by abandonment every day since your childhood. Until | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| without exaggerating its impact on you, without feeling threatened by it. As long as you want to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| will ease up and feel less and less threatened. Instead you will become open to pleasure in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| are relaxed, unfearful, trusting. You are not easily threatened or frightened. You maintain a positive attitude, even | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| incapable of forming any relationships. He felt constantly threatened by people, by anything and everything. However, despite | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| approaches to evil. You have all experienced how threatened, anxious, and uncomfortable you feel when you are | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this intent is not maintained, the personality feels threatened: the child equates giving up the resistance with | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| yourself of guilt, you will become anxious, afraid, threatened with having your defenses penetrated -- so you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to look fully at yourself. You are still threatened by what you may see. In the last | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| On the other hand, if you are very threatened by and defended against pain -- the pain | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| exists in him. The man is then not threatened by an equal. He does not require an | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is truly one of equality; he is not threatened by someone who is as creative, as adequate | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| negativities filled you with anxiety and discomfort. It threatened you the way your own lower self threatened | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| threatened you the way your own lower self threatened you. Your perceptions may have been only partially | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| we shall start with the feeling of being threatened if Jesus Christ is indeed a manifestation of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| submitting Christian, Jews who deny Christ feel immensely threatened about their parents being wrong. If they are | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| up for it. The Jews in power felt threatened -- unjustly so -- by Jesus Christ. They | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| unjustly so -- by Jesus Christ. They were threatened only insofar as they wished to deny divine | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Threatening.................31 | |
| And also how we should feel toward the threatening Russians and Chinese? ANSWER: The most important preliminary | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or refuse to comply will no longer be threatening. You can do it in a relaxed, easy | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to postpone exposing yourself to what still seems threatening to you. Then at least you will not | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with the feared circumstances until they lose their threatening aspect. As long as you want the positive | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| danger falsely believed to be unavoidable seems less threatening when it is quickly brought about by themselves | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Loving seems such a risk, so dangerous, so threatening, so irrevocable. Nothing could be further from the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| freedom, right, beauty, love, truth, life, without a threatening opposite, but when you apply this on the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is too tight, such words may indeed seem threatening. That which is salvation appears like your undoing | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| mind that trusts what was hitherto the most threatening thing of all -- life's involuntary processes within | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The good feelings seem to be even more threatening than the negative ones regarding the loss of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fear, and fear makes expansion appear painful and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of having to hide the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is threatening because you know quite | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is threatening because you know quite well that if it | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Subsequently, you must unearth that rejection is so threatening because you feel worthless and do not wish | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| believe exists. Truth is never anywhere near as threatening as the foggy half-truths and evasions, no matter | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| way must be taken. This new way seems threatening; it seems to conflict with all past endeavors | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| are truly infinite. The path ceases to be threatening or laborious when you meet your obstructions and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| in the fresh air of truth, all these threatening feelings become more and more aggrandized, exaggerated and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the experience of them. Such an experience is threatening only before you enter into it. Once you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| hard to conceal these feelings, because it is threatening to hate the person one needs and depends | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| apprehensive of your own evil, regardless of how threatening another person or an outside event appears. If | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Whenever you are in an unpleasant mood, a threatening situation, confusion and darkness, you can be sure | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| becomes forever more difficult and exposure forever more threatening. Fear of truth -- hence resistance -- negates | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| appear desirable and makes open, flexible movement appear threatening and/or humiliating. Pride and fear are necessarily coupled | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| The ego's trick is to make change appear threatening and life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in not letting in anything that might seem threatening to you. To the degree you can acknowledge | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| of values, while anything new they regard as threatening, disrupting, wrong, bad. These people are, of course | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| restraint, strong impulses exist, but they are very threatening. Such submitting Christians feel themselves to be sinners | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of expressing the rebellion openly is much too threatening. So, the rebellion, too, must be repressed and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the spiritual forces seems to be the most threatening and dangerous experience of all. These powers are | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| unfathomable, that is totally unknown, that is deeply threatening because it may be the end of one's | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |