| Unnoticeable................3 | |
| that are so subtle as to make them unnoticeable to others until a direct attack is launched | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| can be very subtle and may be outwardly unnoticeable, manifesting only in a certain guardedness and distorted | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| In fact, it almost always begins in subtle, unnoticeable ways. But you will be an authority in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Unnoticed...................8 | |
| remains in the foreground and does not slide unnoticed into background thought. If you want to think | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| very gradual process that it passes by almost unnoticed and you only discover it much later. A | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| basis on which to work. This may be unnoticed by anyone else. Real improvements are often subtle | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| born out of numbing the feelings, can go unnoticed because it can so easily be camouflaged. It | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| others. You feel that if you go by unnoticed, you cease to live. This may sound exaggerated | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| naturally that it may at first even go unnoticed. This ease will come once he sees the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| guilty is so pervasive that it constantly passes unnoticed. One human being blames the other, one country | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| forms. but it must begin in apparently invisible, unnoticed attitudes toward yourself and your immediate environment, with | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Unobserved..................3 | |
| in a most damaging fashion because it goes unobserved. The latter is more difficult to find, especially | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| can happen whenever the old roots still exist unobserved. Here, my friends, the continuation of the path | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of your daily mental activity, which goes on unobserved, without critical evaluation, so you are unaware of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Unobstructed................17 | |
| outer will can succeed if it is relatively unobstructed by inner, often unconscious scruples and other hindrances | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are no opposites and no conflicts. When this unobstructed wish flows directly into the deepest regions of | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| are fortunate indeed. Their path lies before them unobstructed. From then the work becomes a question of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| can come forth. The inner guidance will be unobstructed once you have moved from the outer level | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| God. As such I am, in my healthy, unobstructed state, a happy individual. For only a happy | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and energy. When this fundamental creative process is unobstructed and harmonious, the endless continuum of energy spreads | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| negative creations. Sometimes certain channels happen to be unobstructed, but where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| with creation, you will need to recognize the unobstructed, unconcealed destructiveness and negativity behind facades of various | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| ANSWER: The creative soul substance, when it is unobstructed, free and in harmony with its own creativeness | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| fact that resistance itself is, and breeds, evil. Unobstructed energy flows smoothly and harmoniously, like a gentle | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| from the other. If the movement is followed, unobstructed by blind resistance, by fear of change, but | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| exist when this movement is intact and as unobstructed as possible. Growth must combine the old and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| moment -- for the purity of your uncluttered unobstructed spirit is freed through all the shells and | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| process. For you truly give birth to your unobstructed, unencumbered spirit in its full glory. You eliminate | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| which spirit can flow through into matter, how unobstructed matter has become, so that the maximum of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| spirit, the totality of life in its pure, unobstructed form. This stuff of life contains all possibilities | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| -- spiritual versus worldly concerns. Make room for unobstructed life, for unencumbered spirit! Let it fill every | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Unobtrusive.................3 | |
| soul where the deviations are very subtle and unobtrusive. You may have a perfectly legitimate desire, yet | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| they function in the most hidden, subtle and unobtrusive ways, one slips back inadvertently. However, the knowledge | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to change. You must find these subtle and unobtrusive emotional reactions. They are neither obvious nor strong | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Unorganized.................4 | |
| may. If he is an earthbound or an unorganized spirit, so to say, if he does not | 18 FREE WILL |
| also many spirits around each human being -- unorganized spirits, spirits who are not necessarily bad, as | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| applies to the divine spirits. How much an unorganized spirit can influence you is again up to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Of course. But that does not mean that unorganized spirits are not also around you who may | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Unpalatable.................4 | |
| and whenever they are confronted with their own unpalatable truth, they run away. The imaginary need to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you away from seeing how you reject the unpalatable reality of yourself and others, and how this | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| because if change is contemplated before the unpleasant, unpalatable truth is fully seen, accepted and dealt with | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| discern the wish to hide something that is unpalatable to someone. Either you wish to keep something | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Unpleasant..................170 | |
| sends your way is, of course, often somewhat unpleasant -- not because He wants it so but | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| sufficient strength will, because they are aware of unpleasant or harmful experiences with people on a lower | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a stage where these contacts will not be unpleasant to them, and so they do not wish | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the cause could be the avoidance of an unpleasant contact with somebody one was meant to help | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that which you experience as most difficult or unpleasant is perhaps precisely where something gets bogged down | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Whoever is ready to hear even what is unpleasant, saying, Father, your will be done, I want | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are also anxious that God might demand something unpleasant from you. This is going only halfway toward | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will be done, God, even if it is unpleasant for me, even if I cannot yet comprehend | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you allow that the people who bring out unpleasant feelings in you are also God's children, just | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sadness, whereas truth always liberates, no matter how unpleasant it may feel at first. Examine your own | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| fact that although occasionally it has to say unpleasant things in order to help further spiritual development | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| it will never humiliate or hurt in an unpleasant way. On the other hand, it will not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is so important to know that whenever anything unpleasant occurs outside or inside it can only be | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| their resistances. They rather push away what is unpleasant to recognize in themselves. Yet this is a | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| Truth must always make you happy -- even unpleasant truth. All my friends on the path have | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| experienced how they must occasionally encounter unflattering or unpleasant aspects within themselves. But when desire for the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| truth within becomes greater than all else, this unpleasant truth will always strengthen and bring happiness. By | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| that side in you which hates to recognize unpleasant currents within yourself. You then disregard what actually | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| unless you discover first your own temporary truth, unpleasant as it may be. Ask God, therefore, for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the emanation and effects of the lower self, unpleasant as they may be for us, but at | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| being, and also knew that this lower self, unpleasant as it may be, is not the ultimate | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to purify yourself, not merely rid yourself of unpleasant consequences that are most visible or noticeable to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| drug himself so as not to face an unpleasant reality, then he or she is on the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| my friends, this is the truth. Even the unpleasant things in life will not have the power | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| no control. Say to yourself instead: If anything unpleasant happens, the answer must be within me: the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not do that most of the time, unless unpleasant events occur in your life. Now God is | 18 FREE WILL |
| life. Now God is not sending you these unpleasant occurrences willfully. Due to your deviation from divine | 18 FREE WILL |
| by this process, the less you will need unpleasant experiences. Or rather, what used to seem unpleasant | 21 THE FALL |
| unpleasant experiences. Or rather, what used to seem unpleasant will not be so any more. You cannot | 21 THE FALL |
| and you will know: this is God's answer. Unpleasant as it may be, it will be a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the point where you embrace the heretofore unpleasant incident because you have understood its healing nature | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is that to recognize yourself as imperfect is unpleasant. The other is that the lower self is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you, especially when it comes to facing the unpleasant things. So the first step, my friends, in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the escapist imagination concocts to get away from unpleasant reality. Remember that! Another thought for meditation: when | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| enlightenment about yourself; ask for help to receive unpleasant truth from others in a productive way. If | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your inner reactions when you deal with the unpleasant within you. This is of utmost importance. I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| become involved when you are dealing with the unpleasant side of your personality. By thus recognizing your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| incidents. If you try to formulate concisely an unpleasant inner reaction of yours, you will always come | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| freeing your treasure, so you do this temporarily unpleasant work to get it over with once and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of doing it. Each time you feel an unpleasant emotion like anger, anxiety, or resentment -- and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not say that all emotions are wrong, but unpleasant emotions must have a faulty premise somewhere, no | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to decide for you or to alter an unpleasant situation without your active participation in the process | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| behind it, even if what you find is unpleasant. The first time you will struggle, but after | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| purification. You let them slip by. If an unpleasant feeling comes up in you, you are very | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| When guidance appears in the form of an unpleasant test, you cannot fully understand what is happening | 31 SHAME |
| case when a human being becomes spiteful and unpleasant because of his or her own insecurities. Even | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| it does not occur to them that the unpleasant experience was the very answer to their prayers | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| are no unconnected happenings in your life. All unpleasant experiences are probably connected with your image at | 38 IMAGES |
| This is true whether it is pleasant or unpleasant. You can measure it and it still remains | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| this by saying: Things are depressing; I experience unpleasant things and that is why I am cut | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| inner misconceptions that will first give you an unpleasant sensation. To encounter them with a feeling of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| recognition. Formulate the feelings. Be aware that the unpleasant reaction often occurs before you are aware of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| one's own truth can bring no matter how unpleasant it may at first appear, no matter how | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| what it finds and therefore will push this unpleasant knowledge into the unconscious and, because it feels | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of it. To become aware of it, something unpleasant must happen, otherwise you would never pay any | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| Perhaps the spirit preferred to choose a violent, unpleasant death and get it over with quickly, so | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a great deal by enduring a violent and unpleasant death. Would you prefer that to the other | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| emotion of the child, for whom seeing an unpleasant truth in the beloved person is unbearable, still | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is often answered in a form that seems unpleasant to you -- a conflict, or a friction | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| often cannot help acting in ways that are unpleasant to others. You may not even be fully | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to be followed through, and often in an unpleasant way, until you get to the roots of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the wall you store all that which is unpleasant to face. You store not only your faults | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a truth or made a recognition, even an unpleasant one -- or rather exactly these -- has | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| and in your life. Such recognitions are obviously unpleasant to face at first. The two obstacles seem | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| shows the humility and patience to take any unpleasant result as a healthy medicine. However, it does | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| eradicate that. So you seek relief from this unpleasant feeling. You believe, mistakenly, that this can be | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| under any circumstances, because even the disadvantageous or unpleasant events will have a purpose, bringing me that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your illness, or that you can escape certain unpleasant facets of life by unconsciously choosing to be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| constructive approach to pain -- or any other unpleasant experience -- the value is a tremendous one | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suppress positive aspects since only the negative is unpleasant to face and therefore only that needs to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Just as frequently as you suppress the more unpleasant, you also suppress the most creative, the most | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| for you. Therefore it will not make you unpleasant. Inwardly, you constantly want to force others to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| easy and pleasant conditions cause stagnation, while an unpleasant condition may shake the entire person out of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| echo in yourself. In fact, at the slightest unpleasant reaction you have when pondering these words, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| yourself and do not like to face anything unpleasant, and partly because in your intellect you know | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this respect your emotions still react childishly. Something unpleasant happens to you now and you become depressed | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| outer manifestations occur that make you feel disharmonious, unpleasant, anxious or angry, you often forget that there | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| bothers you, be it merely a mood, an unpleasant inner reaction, or an actual outer happening apparently | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| lie, or avoid it? ANSWER: You mean an unpleasant truth? QUESTION: Yes, about disease or death. ANSWER | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this by saying, Things are depressing. I experience unpleasant things and that is why I am cut | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a half-truth and that is always dangerous. The unpleasant things you are experiencing are but a reflection | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| with by evasion, deadness results. No matter how unpleasant the temporary truth in you may be, facing | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that makes life unnecessarily difficult. Thus your often unpleasant reality is in many respects unnecessary, and shows | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| mastery in achievement and accomplishment of the so-called unpleasant problems? ANSWER: Here again, it depends on the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| illusions. QUESTION: Doesn't the healthy state deny the unpleasant emphasis? ANSWER: No, I would say it is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and death. QUESTION: Therefore it could not be unpleasant, otherwise it would be life or death. So | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| pleasure. Doesn't the healthy attitude therefore deny the unpleasant emphasis? ANSWER: Let us not confuse the end | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| used to avoid facing that which still seems unpleasant, if for no other reason than that it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life and the crass things you encounter are unpleasant? Aren't they pleasant for he who has mastered | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| has mastered them? Therefore this does deny the unpleasant principle, except in terms of an unhealthy attitude | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fears to face the truth. Truth is never unpleasant, but it may often appear so in your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| incidents, such as a person being unfriendly or unpleasant one day. Not being greeted may seem like | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to skip a very necessary phase that is unpleasant at the moment but without which you cannot | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are therefore doubly upsetting. With this penetration, although unpleasant at first, you begin to eliminate the causes | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| face yourself truthfully and sincerely, no matter how unpleasant this may be. To the degree that you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not want an answer that they find unpleasant. This would cause an inner resistance so strong | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| respect. For the baby, not going through this unpleasant time by suppressing the instinctual urge to scream | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| most. This, in itself, is not such an unpleasant situation; it is rather the role that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| false one. Real peace and strength usually follow unpleasant self-recognitions that one has accepted fully. QUESTION: Isn't | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make you superimpose the hard and much more unpleasant feelings of aggressiveness. Once you become aware of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| temporarily. To a spiritually developed person, the most unpleasant truth will have a liberating effect and thus | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| less developed you are, the more you experience unpleasant truth as harsh and unloving. Separation of concepts | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of course. But all evasion must have more unpleasant results than feeling the original pain. Unpleasant as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| more unpleasant results than feeling the original pain. Unpleasant as the original pain may be, once one | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| no longer in truth. The hurt you experienced, unpleasant as it may have been, is no real | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the circumstances of an incarnation may become so unpleasant that the entity pulls itself together and struggles | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| if you do not face the temporary, often unpleasant reality. Only then can the great Reality be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| sincere intent to face what may be most unpleasant. It is prayer because it contains the attitude | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the state of being in awareness. Even the unpleasant reality of the moment, the product of your | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| serves the purpose of freeing you of very unpleasant feelings, but above all it liberates faculties which | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| when love is obstructed. Therefore the protest itself, unpleasant as it may feel, is the medicine. I | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Yet the former is based on escape from unpleasant truth about the self, while the latter is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| possible because one is too preoccupied with the unpleasant effect of the dent upon the soul-stuff. If | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the feeling or emotion. You may have an unpleasant feeling, yet it is based on truth, on | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are dealing with a feeling, even if highly unpleasant. In another case you may have the same | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| In both instances, they may be pleasant or unpleasant. The language is often confused. One speaks of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Your vague hopes for the future and the unpleasant, unfulfilled state of the present are your reasons | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| how you are always tempted to shove an unpleasant feeling aside in the hope that it will | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| not want to feel fear because it is unpleasant, fights against the part of yourself that happens | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| best and most reasonable way possible. If the unpleasant result one fears is not eliminated, then acceptance | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| no longer be the subject of pleasant or unpleasant assumptions or theories, but will be seen as | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so wholeheartedly and not because you fulfill an unpleasant duty. Those of you who have not, as | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the work on the path is finding the unpleasant, faulty aspects of yourself that are painful, humiliating | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| unflattering. You have by now learned that this unpleasant moment need not last long if you proceed | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Your resistance to accept what seems to you unpleasant reality is the same energy-current that, if released | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You will soon see that the pleasant or unpleasant result is not as vital as you may | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| but you may also say yes to something unpleasant because it conforms to the superimposed, arbitrary value | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| which is also connected to both pleasant and unpleasant childhood conditions. The consideration of the exact opposite | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| experienced the blessings of working yourself out of unpleasant moods, irritations or depressions, rather than waiting for | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| although it may at first seem difficult and unpleasant, you soon see that the situation is not | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| resentment toward others, whom he blames for the unpleasant results of his weakness. Or, he expresses aggressiveness | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it can be avoided because it is so unpleasant to look at; even the most obvious signs | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| not conscious, when it can be denied and unpleasant feelings ascribed to other factors having nothing to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| often not based on the fear of facing unpleasant aspects, but, just as often and on a | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| which appear difficult and uncomfortable. That they are unpleasant for you now is a sign that they | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to transform defects is never burdened by an unpleasant admission of a fault, no matter what it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and could merely surmise its presence by the unpleasant manifestations in your life. Now you are coping | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| state. Each life manifestation you experience that is unpleasant, problematic, or anxiety-producing is the result of a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| their natural way, you might not feel that unpleasant intensity about this or that at all. Is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| for me to do anything -- face anything unpleasant, change my personality, or give up a destructive | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| nihilistic philosophy of life, one can comfortably shirk unpleasant aspects of self-facing. This is why hopelessness is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| makes up its force, then it becomes an unpleasant duty. Humanity fluctuates between these two extremes: either | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in the old way of pulling back from unpleasant feelings. Do not lose patience with yourself. The | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| best to overcome the fear of facing something unpleasant; giving the best in you to find your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| for scapegoats who can be blamed for these unpleasant feelings and reactions is a very frequent way | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| ideas and are destructive for you and feel unpleasant. You can search for more understanding so that | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| manifestations of underlying tension that has become too unpleasant to bear. Only after you are aware of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| typical dualistic confusion that apparently makes admitting an unpleasant truth and self-acceptance into mutually exclusive opposites. But | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| a negative sense, until the results are so unpleasant that the consciousness seeks to get a hold | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| but primarily in specific daily situations that are unpleasant or unsatisfactory. The conscious ego has to reach | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to handle them. Whenever you are in an unpleasant mood, a threatening situation, confusion and darkness, you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this means enduring a pain or some other unpleasant emotion. This is truly one of the most | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and masks. You did not defend yourself against unpleasant feelings by being critical and judgmental with each | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the hardened armor plate of your defense against unpleasant feelings is loosened up and you feel and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| home the powerlessness of the ego in too unpleasant a way. Thus it is preferable for the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and fulfillment with something arduous, difficult, or even unpleasant. In reality, the more complete the joy, pleasure | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| dishonest. For in reality you merely fear the unpleasant consequences and are thus not willing to risk | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| tried other approaches, hoping to bypass this highly unpleasant task, but real solutions cannot be reached, nor | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| fruits of your hard work in this first unpleasant phase are beginning to be reaped. A number | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| hoping that you can avoid dealing with certain unpleasant inner material. On the whole, all of you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is an escape from the problems, difficulties and unpleasant aspects of reality, then it is sought as | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| can be avoided that is in any way unpleasant. You create a new reality by force that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the life not necessarily coinciding with pleasant and unpleasant. Finding the most fitting environment, parents, siblings, friends | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| disturbing elements, so that the repercussions become more unpleasant? This is not a punishment, my friends. It | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| important, because if change is contemplated before the unpleasant, unpalatable truth is fully seen, accepted and dealt | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of functioning in life you find, to your unpleasant surprise, that these modes of functioning are undesirable | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| not wanting to accept and deal with any unpleasant aspects of the self or others, or life | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| usually not aware of. Lower-self energy is extremely unpleasant. As far as the visual sense is concerned | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| is dull or crass; it gives off distinctly unpleasant colors; higher self emanations, in their color and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| cannot imagine. The odor of impure consciousness is unpleasant; it can be a stench. On the level | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |