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 Uncertainties...............8
to God with all the little problems and uncertainties. You are prone to letting the uncertainties ferment 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
and uncertainties. You are prone to letting the uncertainties ferment in your feelings and create disorder in 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
find out why, and investigate what motives and uncertainties block your inner will. This will shed an 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
is thought to be a defense against your uncertainties, your fears, your vulnerabilities. Only when you find 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to some degree, without compulsions, without fears, without uncertainties, feeling at ease with life and people. QUESTION 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
so necessary obtain freedom, to lose inhibitions and uncertainties, and allow the real self to emerge. But 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
You wish to have your fears, anxieties and uncertainties assuaged from the outside. But if this ever 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the personality's unresolved problems, insecurity, guilts and doubts, uncertainties and contradictions. The issue itself may warrant justified 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
 
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anticlimax. If you are not sure, take this uncertainty, voice your question clearly, and ask for truth 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
one of this earth life's rules, that the uncertainty also has to be accepted. This includes the 32 DECISION-MAKING
What do I really want? What does my uncertainty, my indecision actually mean? Doesn't it mean that 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
unable to cope with. Emotional life necessarily carries uncertainty and risk, whereas the rational type tries to 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
investigate the reasons for the hesitation and the uncertainty. Self-punishment for hidden wrong motives is only one 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
certainty is ever as hard to bear as uncertainty. Let me tell you, my friends, that you 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
anything to blame himself for. Yet a deep uncertainty remains. Why? You on this path who have 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
surface, you are bound to find the same uncertainty and doubt. In either case, you will be 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
be too weak. They have to have the uncertainty to the extent that they still have to 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
awareness, and therefore your self-respect. It will eliminate uncertainty so that when the right situation is at 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
self, your intuitive nature manifests, there is no uncertainty in you, no doubt about your right reaction 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
is illusion, or untruth, there must be constant uncertainty, tension, anxiety, struggle, and doubt. A part of 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
great, courageous step to face your unbelief, your uncertainty, and your fear, and come to terms with 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
truly become strong, from knowing and accepting the uncertainty of death in small ways, every day. This 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
will meet it in full awareness of my uncertainty. I am now aware that I still fear 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
understanding of its own individuality, from a general uncertainty in the atmosphere or in the personality of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
and certain. The mature person will accept life's uncertainty and cope with it. The immature person will 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
of functioning on the emotional level breeds an uncertainty so that one is sometimes too active when 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
is also something else responsible for your present uncertainty. Investigate the motivations, both healthy and unhealthy, and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
feelings; this in turn results in guilt, fear, uncertainty, anger, resentment, helpless rage, and confused fluctuation between 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
humanity as a whole the result is strife, uncertainty, unrest, and the absence of peace. For the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
selfish motives, by ambiguous, confused, contradictory emotions, by uncertainty or fear, or the slightest gnawing feeling of 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
or an evasion, an illusion, under which fear, uncertainty and many other negative attitudes slumber. All this 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
more often to such periods of depression, anxiety, uncertainty, and disharmony, and if you do not pay 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
struggle there is no anxiety, no fear, no uncertainty, no doubt. Whenever you struggle for an apparently 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
you can no longer avoid confronting your inner uncertainty. You must raise questions you have never dared 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
security by pursuing wrong values and by fearing uncertainty that need not be feared. You often artificially 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
necessarily wrong, this belief eventually makes it wrong. Uncertainty, fear, guilt and shame about the existence of 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
express your abilities and talents without conflict and uncertainty. It takes a little more insight and understanding 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in individuals who are filled with fear and uncertainty. When inner problems remain unsolved, as you know 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
goodness means deprivation? In both attitudes, guilt and uncertainty are inevitable. The winner makes strenuous demands on 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
yet simultaneously accept the fear. Where there is uncertainty about what the future will bring, there is 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
you gain strength and self-confidence. Where you felt uncertainty and guilt as you experienced friction with another 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
hostile aggression to assuage your self-contempt for your uncertainty. Whatever you did, however you responded with your 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
Then ask yourself where you are unsure. The uncertainty underlying your present truth must be brought out 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
connected you become with something that removes all uncertainty and all conflict, the more you will feel 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
would be experienced with pangs of hesitation, doubt, uncertainty and guilt -- even if negation is healthy 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
in every human being who experiences feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and 174 SELF-ESTEEM
an indirect one. You can certainly sense shyness, uncertainty, insecurity, apprehension about being rejected or criticized, as 174 SELF-ESTEEM
a maze of falseness and confusion in which uncertainty, defensiveness, and weakness may make you either retreat 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
where you shift guilt on others. Fear and uncertainty will make it impossible, under such conditions, to 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
appears in the form of pain, difficulties, upheaval, uncertainty, or merely the insecurity that comes from starting 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
accustomed shore and float momentarily in what seems uncertainty. But you will not mind this. You will 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
Inwardly, however, people do rebel against the momentary uncertainty of stepping into an apparent vacuum created after 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
uncertain before, where you needed to defend your uncertainty, where you were truly groping in the dark 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
are wrong in wanting it. You flounder in uncertainty. When you have a deep, sincere commitment to 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
need not invest in a waiting period of uncertainty. You speak the negative belief and it occurs 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
some of them might be, you suffer the uncertainty that comes from hiding from yourself. Thus you 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
the courage to go through a tunnel of uncertainty. You need to take the risk to allow 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
 Unchallenged................3
of the unconscious. If left alone, untouched, and unchallenged, the obstructions of the no-current do not manifest 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
dissolve the soul substance still hardened by preconceived, unchallenged, and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and tight 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
that create the words you speak -- the unchallenged, unquestioned thoughts you utter within your own mind 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
 
 Unchaneled..................3
would have to live according to the most unchaneled and primitive instincts if I wanted to realize 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
a priori. So the situation is hopeless. These unchaneled, primitive instincts are not more conducive to the 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
in a much higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical level 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
 
 Unchangeable................16
the true state of things. The form is unchangeable and yet in constant flux, since everything in 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
nor circumstances, nothing at all. Imagine a wheel, unchangeable in its basic form, but constantly turning. At 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
and form of death, are determined by an unchangeable destiny? ANSWER: No, it is not correct. As 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
very nature flexibility, in the final analysis, is unchangeable, yet never static. QUESTION: The word fear has 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
been unreal, for a reality is permanent and unchangeable. Only an illusion loses intensity as time goes 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
Deep inside, you often rebel against whatever is unchangeable in your world merely because no perfection can 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
oneself. The divine attributes and eternal values are unchangeable in themselves, but their application keeps changing. It 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
unacceptable categories, and see its primitive manifestation as unchangeable rather than a temporary stage. The childhood phase 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
static, like a hard object made of an unchangeable substance. This fear is justified in a way 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
and destructive substance you fear in yourself is unchangeable only as long as you do not wish 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
convinced that life itself is a certain fixed, unchangeable thing, life must turn out to be exactly 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
condition. It is no more real, true and unchangeable than the level of what you believe exists 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
anything when you believe you are a fixed, unchangeable blob. You know that according to your belief 174 SELF-ESTEEM
laws according to which what is fixed and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain to this 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
even in your divided consciousness, you find the unchangeable unity: as you do not give, you cannot 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
bad you will find one day an ultimate, unchangeable level of truth in which all is good 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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