| Borrow......................6 | |
| hold the best in you encased, while you borrow a similar behavior pattern and use it as | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| religion exists deep in your soul; where you borrow, as it were, religious precepts behind which you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of in the rigid laws and rules you borrow because you are too insecure to delve into | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you do not trust yourself, you have to borrow a rigid structure of morality in order to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the fear and denial of human imperfection, people borrow what was once alive and could again be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| are governed and polluted by appearance values. You borrow an imagined desire that fits into the appearance | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Boss........................7 | |
| untold and unnecessary hardship and confusion. If a boss, an employee, a person you work for, a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| am caught in a hostility cycle with my boss. At least on my part I feel very | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| has really not much to do with your boss. It is all a question between you and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| does not matter whether this person is a boss on whom you are financially dependent, or a | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This might mean a new position, a new boss, a new relationship or a new mate. The | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| even find that the very same people -- boss or mate -- will react differently to your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| stronger or seemingly stronger person: a mate, a boss, a dictator. By serving them, you hope to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Bother......................8 | |
| it is important not to let these interruptions bother you and not to get confused and bewildered | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| -- not when you avoid the things that bother you. This is difficult, at least at the | 21 THE FALL |
| and elementary that we do not have to bother with it. The case becomes infinitely more difficult | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| convince it that it has no reason to bother you. Of course, all this happens unconsciously. Ironically | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your pressing unconscious needs. Do not let it bother you if at the moment you are completely | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| amazing discoveries about yourself. Why do certain issues bother you and others not? QUESTION: Isn't it sometimes | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| only that part of reality which appears to bother or disturb; other aspects important for understanding the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a few of you have arrived. If you bother to deal with this attitude rather than gloss | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Bothered....................9 | |
| only real protection you have, will not be bothered or influenced by spirits who do not fulfill | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| how evil came into existence. This question has bothered many people who cannot imagine how a God | 21 THE FALL |
| with your child's intellect? The fact that something bothered you without your being able to explain it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| their weaknesses and good qualities, but without being bothered or affected by either. This, if true, would | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| are overloaded with conscience. The latters conscience is bothered by the least and the most unjustified reasons | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the first case, they childishly refuse to be bothered by the difficulties, the trials and errors; in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is unimportant anyway? Can you perhaps not be bothered to even deeply think about things that do | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| weak ruler who does not wish to be bothered and dispenses with this necessary, healthy discipline, is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| by leaders as well as by followers. Nobody bothered to even conceal it. The individual, as well | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Bothering...................3 | |
| weather. No, my friends! Whenever there is something bothering you, you will find the answer in the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| so afraid and frightened, but still something is bothering me. Deep inside I know that I am | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| any situation you are in now that is bothering you; any disturbance in your life. Look at | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Bothers.....................17 | |
| Try it also another way: Bypass everything that bothers you in the other people and visualize their | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| definitely have more peace, and that which now bothers you so very much will cease to upset | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| then that I am unwilling. But what really bothers me, I will not voluntarily expose. I have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be brought to light in every incident that bothers you. Once you have reached a certain point | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| else. Hence, it is inevitable that your conscience bothers you every time you are happy, whether you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you have found recently, or about something that bothers you, the best time to state your question | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| out exactly what the confusion is. Whenever something bothers you, be it merely a mood, an unpleasant | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| vicious circle in the work. Whatever disturbs or bothers you, whatever oppresses you at any given moment | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have not wanted to know what really bothers you. If you really and truly want to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this question directly. If you examine everything that bothers her, that disturbs or depresses her, when you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot apply. You first have to discover what bothers you most. This, in itself, is not such | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| longer helpless. Whenever you find an issue that bothers you, determine whether or not you feel helpless | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| on like a broken record. ANSWER: If this bothers you and you have the urge to discuss | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| are not yet sufficiently conscious of what really bothers you. If you realize this, you will know | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and depression indicate that I ignore what really bothers me, or do I need to instruct myself | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| something in you that you ignore and that bothers you, for otherwise there could be no problem | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| in the fog of not quite knowing what bothers you. Out of these questions more questions will | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Bothersome..................3 | |
| material has now become conscious. This is temporarily bothersome. But there is another factor important to understand | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of this path is not to remove a bothersome symptom in a person's life. This is not | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of pride, selfwill, and fear. See the same bothersome situation from the viewpoint of pride: How are | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Bottleneck..................6 | |
| and may lead you out of a temporary bottleneck in your work. QUESTION: Wouldn't a fear of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| in order to come out of a momentary bottleneck. I recapitulate them briefly: (1) What is your | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| be mistaken. So often people remain in a bottleneck on their path because they do not move | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| fully experienced and understood them, you create a bottleneck. The pathwork teaches you how to accept our | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a very substantial instrument for passing through a bottleneck you may have felt obstructing your further progress | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| this resistance. In order to deal with this bottleneck, the question of identification has to be focused | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Bottom......................8 | |
| Do I truly forgive all people from the bottom of my heart? When you clearly see that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is another attitude that may be at the bottom of the resistance to accepting the greater reality | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| can be answered and explored to the very bottom, so that a deeper understanding and realization occurs | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| its opposite is very frequent and at the bottom of many a conflict which, in spite of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| unsatisfying. What possible real needs are at the bottom of such a nucleus? What needs have grown | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is all. I'd like to get to the bottom of it and see what it is. ANSWER | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you start loving. You have started on the bottom rung of the ladder of love the minute | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| even at this highly individualized period at the bottom of the evolutionary scale, there existed the need | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Bottomless..................15 | |
| never to be stilled. It is like a bottomless well. Thus the circle closes. It is your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the most primal, selfish, destructive feelings, which seem bottomless and final. This explains, in the deepest possible | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| because the realm of feelings is not a bottomless well of meaningless bleakness, unknown terror, reasonless violence | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| quickly that the realm of feelings is not bottomless, and its veneer is relatively superficial. Once you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| though one's feelings were leading one into a bottomless pit. For anyone who is new on this | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| truly come to see that it is not bottomless or endless, and that this is not all | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and there will be no question of fearing bottomless negativity and destructiveness. This is possibly one of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| pained. This is vastly responsible for the apparently bottomless despair and rage we were talking about. When | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the point of recognition that there is a bottomless fear in you of violent, uncontrollable emotions which | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| moment self-identification takes place, a deep and apparently bottomless terror of the human soul disappears. Often this | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self fall into what appears to be a bottomless abyss. Falling into it threatens to annihilate the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| summed up as follows: Is there really a bottomless pit of negativity, destruction, and evil at the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| it is inappropriate. All these feelings seem like bottomless pits, but once you jump into them you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Everyone can experience this. It is never a bottomless abyss, for the true nature of life is | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that the tunnel of painful feelings is a bottomless pit of horror and annihilation. Thus you waste | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |