| Trees.......................5 | |
| The life force penetrates everything that grows: plants, trees, grass, flowers, fruits, vegetables, the animal world, even | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, the two trees: I understand why the fruit of the Tree | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to the incarnated spirit. The meaning of both trees could not possibly apply to the liberated spirit | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| that you cannot see the forest for the trees. Fear and desire are only the most common | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| on a much lower scale of consciousness. Even trees, plants, birds, participate. Their life span is not | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Tremble.....................3 | |
| false maturity, of your idealized self-image. And you tremble because you know it and you think you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| up and you feel and you cry, you tremble and you writhe, and you experience directly and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| thus spiritualizing all that is. Yet those who tremble at the thought of physical death because they | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Trend.......................68 | |
| are your faults -- as well as any trend that breaks a spiritual law. Even if you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| meditate on the divine law which your inner trend has broken. Whoever follows this path, whoever sincerely | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| your present hardship; for as long as a trend has not been purified it exists in you | 18 FREE WILL |
| soul. The two trends often mix; the clean trend is diluted and spoiled by the unclean one | 18 FREE WILL |
| you have found this out, consider with what trend in you this might be connected. And then | 21 THE FALL |
| that is not recognized as yet, where one trend of the subconscious wants to go this way | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| had at least one realization about an inner trend that has made this trend really conscious. Nevertheless | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| about an inner trend that has made this trend really conscious. Nevertheless, in many other areas your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| with incidents that have always brought out this trend in you. Then try to translate these feelings | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| aware of the positive side of a particular trend, while you ignore its existence on the negative | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| them. Returning to your question: Meditate upon this trend from the point of view shown you here | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| difficult right middle path concerning every individual human trend. Therefore, perhaps you will come to a better | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| mistaken notion that either one or the other trend is true. Yet both have their reality in | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| should concentrate in this life on one character trend, or whether it would perhaps be better to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| understand if you think of each quality, each trend, each attitude, good or bad, as a power | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| accomplished. The same may apply to a good trend or a talent. The spirit specialists examine their | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the centuries to come. You can observe this trend already. Some time ago, people killed each other | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| search successfully, you will encounter within yourself the trend of wanting to be more than you are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| means being inferior. When he grows up this trend sometimes remains and manifests in an over-adherence to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| utterly free of selfishness, vanity, or whatever other trend may be involved. I can only pray and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a country where there is perhaps a strong trend of nationalism and exaggerated patriotism. They remain in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you find such a strong predominance of one trend in a person. There is always a mixture | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| situations, or with what types of people one trend is predominant and when the other. That will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| way. If your search shows you again a trend you already know, it means that you have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the full significance, meaning, and consequences of this trend. Therefore, you need to continue working with the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Coming up from your own unconscious this particular trend tells you, You will find me as often | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to be, you believe the outer and known trend must be unreal. Therefore, you cannot accept the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is difficult to find the correct balance. Today's trend does have its drawbacks. It causes many young | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and their true origin. This is an important trend in human nature and needs further understanding in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| less developed than another in whom the same trend is more hidden and more subtle. Rather, it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| degree of suppression. By working on this particular trend, all of you will eventually find that part | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| means survival for you. When you recognize this trend, you will also free yourself from destructive self-accusations | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| for the very reason I stated previously. This trend in itself is a sign of refusal to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| life. In both cases you mention, some similar trend may also exist, but a more rational personality | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| double one, or rather a quadruple one. Each trend -- the selfish and the unselfish -- is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the expectations of a particular environment. Thereby each trend presents the expectations of that environment, thus presenting | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will discover the weakness embodied in this trend and begin to understand its cause. All that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is much more difficult to detect because the trend is so hidden, so well camouflaged and rationalized | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| as to humankind as a whole. The growing trend in our time of accepting and exploring the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is always a question of finding the real trend or emotion. No asset can ever be detrimental | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| other person does it, the perhaps much smaller trend in you is affected and brought to the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for instance, you can be sure that this trend must exist within your psyche. In other cases | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of life. You must find out how one trend may be more predominant in one situation and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be more predominant in one situation and another trend in different circumstances. QUESTION: You have shown us | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be able to determine an obvious though gradual trend with many a relapse, leading from the false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| because of all the upheaval and confusion, the trend is stronger than ever toward true religion. What | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| free souls, and this will happen. The whole trend of history points in this direction. QUESTION: You | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| how wrong the general concept is that a trend or quality in itself is either good or | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| On the whole, it is not true. Each trend or quality, originally, before the split, was good | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| become destructive the moment one aspect of the trend is misused by the afflicted part of your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| person thinks of the constructive side of a trend, while the other has its negative and destructive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to believe that masochism indicates a better character trend than sadism. I bless each and every one | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a positive and a negative aspect, every emotion, trend, or characteristic you can name. The reasons why | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not say that every missionary necessarily has this trend, but many may. If you have to offer | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| positive level, and then one discovers a neurotic trend on a deep level, the real self seems | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| when he can no longer continue in this trend, his intelligence, which has grown in the meantime | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| life that proved unsatisfactory with this specific constructive trend. One individual or one civilization does not invent | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is detrimental. In addition to substituting the opposite trend for the one that is denied, another form | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| longer feel and react according to a destructive trend means repressing it and superimposing a constructiveness that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| in the misunderstanding that a similar, though disguised, trend is a protection. The psyche says, I stop | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| refuses to give up his or her negative trend, moralizing brings more negativity in its wake, even | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| do not wish to give up this very trend. Then go ahead and find out why not | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a defensive position toward life, perpetuating the destructive trend. In the last lecture I discussed the necessity | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| actually feeling and loving. This is the general trend or stage in which humanity finds itself. You | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| unfoldment and the elimination of obstructions. The other trend is away from it. The human condition can | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| self and denies its intrinsic divinity. The current trend, as a result of the pendulum having swung | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| am saying in order to justify a lower-self trend to defy an outer law. Again, very close | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| quite a time in your terms, but the trend is in this direction. Where you act out | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Trends......................147 | |
| particular situation, if you want to discover unconscious trends and emotions, or if you find yourself in | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you. Just observe your inner feelings, reactions, and trends. Do not try to cover your true feelings | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| which the lower self can display these general trends. Such manifestations depend on various other factors, such | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| manifestation, intensity, degree, and direction that these general trends may take. We see both the higher self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| not dark, black, or sinister as are the trends of the lower self in different variations; the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you are free of very wicked or evil trends, the higher your development evidently is. Therefore you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| opinions, emotional reactions. People carry many of these trends with them from an early age, due to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| really want. Make an inventory of your emotional trends and soul currents. By re-examining them you can | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of it. Once you have separated these two trends in yourself -- the selfish or vain one | 18 FREE WILL |
| what is willing from your soul. The two trends often mix; the clean trend is diluted and | 18 FREE WILL |
| know that these two very distinct and different trends exist in you. Separate them. After making this | 18 FREE WILL |
| not apply anymore because you have overcome these trends during your past incarnations, must begin to apply | 18 FREE WILL |
| divine law within your soul, in your inner trends, in your soul currents, in your emotional reactions | 18 FREE WILL |
| ultimate goal must be to change the negative trends, but this cannot be done before you have | 21 THE FALL |
| this enlightenment. And others, whose different personalities follow trends of another direction, may receive great and wonderful | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and purification I advocate, overcoming their own lower trends, recognizing in self-honesty their own lower nature, and | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such regression, in purification, in uncovering the subconscious trends for the purpose of harmony in the soul | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was responsible for the Fall, but certain personality trends which lend themselves to the deviation from divine | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speaking, but this is blocked by psychological subconscious trends which can be dissolved only in the above-mentioned | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an unconscious fault or wrong inner current. These trends and tendencies about which you have hitherto deceived | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and rearrange in conscious understanding all these various trends, thus purifying the basic good trends from all | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| these various trends, thus purifying the basic good trends from all masks of self-deception and from influences | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| blame yourself when you begin to recognize these trends in you. I am stating a fact, and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that you accept the fact of many negative trends still existing in yourself. Only from this premise | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| subconscious, at least to some extent. Distinguish the trends in you which stand in direct relationship to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| an act of will. You will also discover trends in you which are connected with your emotions | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| problems are alike, but how all these various trends and currents work, what plays into the lower | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not the variety of different races and their trends part of the beauty of life? ANSWER: Yes | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and without pride. Where you still discover these trends, examine what is behind them and gain further | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| whole is concerned, but about individual currents and trends within you which the lower self does not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| further knowledge about yourself and about your subconscious trends, you will be able to combine certain factors | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Whether the lower self still contains such dark trends in a younger spirit, or whether the lower | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| conscious and you will discover your own inner trends. You will most certainly recognize definite patterns in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| on the surface because of other, psychologically conflicting trends. But within their soul everything sizzles under the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| so many of their own faults, their sick trends, even those quite noticeable to anyone else and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and self-will have left you. The two opposite trends combine in a temporary state. But you must | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| after you have deeply understood many of your trends and reactions of which you are still unaware | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| gradually begin to alter some of your wrong trends and begin to react differently. Clarify your motives | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| its special talents, inclinations, characteristics, and the personality trends that brought it to fall are inscribed and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| plan for the entity in question. The negative trends and faults that were overcome and the tasks | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| way or another of your spiritual development, psychological trends, and so forth. But beware of rules and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| prepared before birth. This preparation determines what urges, trends, and leanings should come to the surface at | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| very well. After work has been accomplished on trends that were on the surface, other trends, left | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| on trends that were on the surface, other trends, left deeper embedded by the spirit helpers, can | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a spiritual path often display at certain periods trends that have never been noticed before. Of course | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the mask self. On the other hand, these trends may have been left to emerge only after | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| all the more shocked to find the same trends all over again. You will either react by | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| about your hidden reactions -- whether they concern trends you find repeatedly or whether you come across | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to find an inner understanding about your hidden trends and reactions and leave it at that. The | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| until you recognize the signs of the hidden trends that must be made conscious. You have to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You will understand how your hitherto unconscious desires, trends, and attitudes have governed your life. But now | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| in harmony with the qualities, characteristics, and personal trends of the entity. But where an image exists | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| may find in yourself the same faults and trends that in a former life caused you to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| such cases you do not see the very trends you most strenuously object to in someone else | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| without weaknesses. But you continue to ignore many trends, half-consciously thinking that this attitude proves your love | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| no completely purified human being, however, the three trends are often directed into wrong channels, aside from | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| way. It would seem possible to eliminate such trends by simply forcing them away. In reality you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| do not say that all joy contains low trends. Not at all! In such a case, a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| by his or her own compulsive and unconscious trends? The particular path on which I lead you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so with everybody that one of the two trends is predominant? ANSWER: No. I said that in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| tackle what lies behind the wall. All these trends are the building materials of the wall in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| perfection, one slowly begins to take out certain trends and attitudes from behind the wall and transpose | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| comes out from behind the wall, the fewer trends remain locked in. This is good work, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to a good start in extricating some hidden trends from behind the wall but strengthening the wall | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hide your faults, emotional conflicts, fears, and negative trends behind a truth. In its crass and superficial | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the sum total of your conscious and unconscious trends and traits. It is that which governs you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| one be completely conscious of all one's wrong trends? ANSWER: The time must come. I do not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| The majority of your findings will deal with trends and tendencies you already know in a vague | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not made connections between this knowledge and other trends. You have not realized the full significance, meaning | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| into your soul. There you will find many trends and feelings diametrically opposed to your conscious beliefs | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| solved unless you understand your unconscious motives and trends. Outer measures may sometimes seem effective, but truly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will do it. If you discover their wrong trends again and again, long after you have initially | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| body are all your emotions, impressions, attitudes and trends, in other words, your true, inner personality. As | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| proportion, general development, the particular development of certain trends. Out of all these have arisen the circumstances | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It means that your wrong thinking, your wrong trends and attitudes, your twisted emotions that have brought | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to temperament and individual characteristics; according to other trends, healthy or sick, which determine the strength and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| variations exist, governed by temperament, personality, and character trends -- and also by certain environmental factors in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to activity and passivity, but also to other trends that may be thought of as typically male | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not due to activity, but to other trends. Woman has always emphasized her intuitive forces and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's other half also accounts for supposed male trends in the female and supposed female trends in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| male trends in the female and supposed female trends in the male. The more flexible this disc | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| flexible this disc is, the more these opposite trends manifest. The more rigid it is, the less | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| manifest. This, however, does not mean that these trends do not exist. The healthier a soul is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| harmonizing rather than conflicting with the accepted typical trends of the sex in question. One of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is that all these supposedly male or female trends exist in each person, and have a right | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| first place, men and women suppress their opposite trends, feeling guilty and inadequate about them. Needless to | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| resulted in a deliberate overemphasis on the allowed trends fitting the sex in question. For centuries and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| work; it is no different in these universal trends. The increasing occurrence of homosexuality in both sexes | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| many other seeming contradictions, in connection with soul trends, where such misunderstandings can be really confusing for | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is very often a recognition of deeply hidden trends in one's own soul. By virtue of such | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the soul, with all its currents, attitudes and trends, there is no one separate thing. Everything works | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| kinds of people. There are many more substitute trends for the longing to be loved, but I | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| come to see the power of your hidden trends, compulsions, and images will not only readily believe | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| love object who has exactly the same negative trends that one or the other parent had. Is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it reality that this particular person has these trends? Or is it projection and response? ANSWER: It | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| from giving out love and affection, all these trends of the child in you constantly provoke the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| that is the outpicturing of those attitudes and trends. And therefore the other spheres are for the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| profoundly as to their real reactions and hidden trends. If done sincerely, astonishing insights must follow -- | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are not only unhappy, but, with these trends causing unhappiness, you compound the unhappiness. Thus, from | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shed the pretense of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good, ethical, or moral. Aggressive, hostile, proud, overambitious trends are glorified, or idealized. It is true that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| individual pseudo-solutions combining all sorts of mutually exclusive trends. All this has to be found individually. Let | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| receive love, such people develop several typical personality trends and patterns of inner and outer behavior and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| master life. To avoid uncovering this falsity, these trends become incorporated into the idealized self- image. Thus | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Thus people succeed in believing that all these trends are signs of their goodness, holiness, unselfishness. When | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| least, they are always thwarted by the opposite trends of other pseudo-solutions which are also always present | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to look with very discerning eyes at these trends in order to find out how he or | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| become acutely aware of all these often contradictory trends, and this will be painful. The pain that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in their work exactly why and how two trends oppose one another through seeing the cause and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| for a while and coming across corresponding emotions, trends, and reactions within yourself, you will understand two | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not accept and like yourself because unsuspected negative trends exist in you. Instead of trying to whisk | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your real values in spite of your destructive trends. It is the only way. Your attempt to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the past, could be discussed only as unconnected trends. First, let us briefly recapitulate what constitutes a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a whole because of your disapproval of these trends. This is the moralizing I'm talking about. Moreover | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the whole becomes black due to partly black trends, or white for that matter, then moralizing occurs | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| if it does mean the recognition of undesirable trends in one's character. On the other hand, when | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present. You will feel guilty about existing negative trends while still wanting to have it your way | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| genuine spiritual experience. A combination of mixed inner trends may have led to this mixture. If the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you find yourself beginning to recognize that similar trends exist in you, and try forcefully to relinquish | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| be so great that you produce other destructive trends and remain unaware of them. But if you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| split in yourself into both positive and negative trends, confusion sets in in the same pattern that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| distinction in all languages. However, for many other trends or qualities only one term exists, so that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| You cover it up with the very opposite trends, thoughts, feelings and attitudes. Yet there is a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| facts and actions, or with the more subtle trends, attitudes, and qualities. But when it comes to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| exists, then, needless to say, it indicates unhealthy trends. But if variety is sought because of the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| your sense of proportion. When you approach certain trends you are not ready to accept in yourself | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a thorough understanding of what disregarding your lower-self trends does to you. Not facing these afflicted areas | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| disproportionate hurt at any suggestion of certain negative trends, and your disproportionate fear and rebellion against such | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| in its distinct and extreme manifestations and character trends, as well as of the subtle overall climate | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| 2) repression of creative and productive aspects and trends; (3) repression of instincts which are as yet | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| realize that all three categories of inner negative trends need acceptance and awareness, each for its own | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| You suppose the confusion regarding the actual lower-self trends will disappear when you deny their existence and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| own beautiful, healthy way. The healthy and unhealthy trends are intertwined and the personality is thrown into | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| she also feels that all her creative, active trends are considered unfeminine by the world, and reflecting | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| resourcefulness, or courage. She then fights against these trends as well. This, of course, is interdependent with | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| extent that she fights it and cultivates masculine trends as a weapon against her femininity, to that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a false femininity by repressing her so-called masculine trends. These trends are no more masculine than the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| femininity by repressing her so-called masculine trends. These trends are no more masculine than the man's need | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| hate and hostility, of envy and vindictiveness, these trends fester in the unconscious, too. You can grow | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| earth, in spite of the remnants of immature trends in the psyche of humanity. Many aspects in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the individual grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason and the power to understand, so | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| up the inner lie, you will discover negative trends in yourself and you will understand more deeply | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| sentimentality is due to a combination of two trends. One is the innate and genuine desire to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Only when all surface layers and all contradictory trends of consciousness have unified with the innermost being | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| motivation behind it may come from dependent, self-alienating trends. Try to ascertain the desires behind each fear | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| character with all one's attitudes, personality and ego trends, problems and impurities, as well as one's already | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| life, in your potentialities to develop, in general trends of life, as well as in little everyday | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |