| Voluntary...................48 | |
| in major crises, that is, in a completely voluntary manner, kindled by the knowledge that the self-search | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| two different stories. You may be able by voluntary action to refrain from committing a crime such | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| change by organic growth, not by pressure and voluntary action, except in an indirect way. Let us | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| mixed, and confused motives. Duty is something entirely voluntary. If you fulfill a duty without compulsion, you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in more ways than one. Foreground thought is voluntary, background thought is involuntary. What I now tell | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| if you learn proper self-observation. Foreground, that is, voluntary thought, is always clear-cut and concise as long | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| going, they are not consecutive. They interrupt your voluntary thoughts and are unconstructive as long as they | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| This is something you cannot learn by a voluntary act. Attempting that would amount to a manipulation | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| necessary to remove that surplus of mental and voluntary activity that has caused the misuse of these | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| more you remove the shackles of your unconscious, voluntary blindness, the more will you experience the truth | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| being is a person's attitude toward effort. Free, voluntary and joyful effort is the result of spiritual | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| every further effort even more laborious. Free and voluntary effort, accepted in fairness, never makes one tired | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| are truly over a major threshold. But the voluntary effort has to be exerted first, by the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| unless outer will is exerted. To summarize, all voluntary body functions are under the direct control of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| in every endeavor and creative act. The self-determining, voluntary act expresses self-confidence and knowledge of one's divine | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| functioning, which can best be explained by the voluntary and the involuntary physical responses. Much of your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Much of your physical functioning occurs on a voluntary basis. Your directly accessible brain can send forth | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| This is growth. All growth must combine the voluntary and involuntary functions. Growth cannot proceed harmoniously if | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| effortlessly, a manifestation of involuntary faculties responding to voluntary ones. The voluntary faculties require effort. You must | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of involuntary faculties responding to voluntary ones. The voluntary faculties require effort. You must persist, groping and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| need to create a right attitude toward the voluntary and involuntary functions, balancing poised effort and discipline | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of effort and effortlessness, the right balance of voluntary and involuntary faculties. When the involuntary faculties finally | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| you. On the physical level you experience the voluntary hard labor giving way to naturalness when the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| are many. It is crucial to consolidate your voluntary faculties to identify and confront the specific disunity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of the path of dynamic growth. Use your voluntary faculties to make room in your mind for | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| because the unification is not yet total. More voluntary effort must follow suit, new material must be | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| spontaneous rather than direct, then harmony between the voluntary and involuntary faculties will establish itself. By harmony | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| equal in measure. Months of groping with the voluntary processes of mind and will may spontaneously bring | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| terms of your volitional efforts. Harmony between the voluntary and involuntary faculties exists primarily in making room | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| affirmed in calm trust and firm conviction. The voluntary must make room for the involuntary until the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| determined way. This is the marriage of the voluntary and the involuntary, the active and the passive | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| only in a unified, expanded, ever-enlarging state. The voluntary and involuntary functions seem separate only when you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| exceptions, continually going around rather than through. This voluntary commitment to going in and through your feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| set a new energy influx in motion. The voluntary attitude of commitment will create an involuntary energy | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will. To put it differently, there is a voluntary and an involuntary will action. These two levels | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| between the active and receptive principles, between the voluntary and involuntary faculties. After this first stage of | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be gained only to the degree one uses voluntary self-discipline -- uses it for one's own sake | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is always a result of the denial of voluntary self-discipline, which goes together with self-responsibility. Every expansion | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| negative force field? Different approaches are necessary for voluntary and involuntary intentionality. Of course, as you proceed | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| with your purification, all involuntary attitudes eventually become voluntary, but at certain stages, and in certain areas | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| approach must be different. In instances of both voluntary and involuntary intentionality it is essential for the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| What an error! Actually, the more you refuse voluntary self-discipline, the more you unavoidably deprive yourself of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| from you. They then appear disconnected from your voluntary processes. This is a very painful state because | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you can create an involuntary movement through the voluntary system. I promised to speak about the power | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| find in that state. The choice is totally voluntary. You may want to choose to embrace and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| not desire to exert. The often necessary and voluntary giving up of an immediate gratification is totally | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| you need to make the decision on the voluntary level. It is not difficult to see how | 254 SURRENDER |
| comes about gradually as a result of much voluntary work on the outer level, yet it seems | 254 SURRENDER |
| Vulnerabilities.............7 | |
| a defense against your uncertainties, your fears, your vulnerabilities. Only when you find that this is so | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to function in the wrong way. Your personal vulnerabilities are too well geared in the old channel | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people as many-faceted complex beings with their own vulnerabilities, their own struggles, or are they for you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| do not see that others, too, have their vulnerabilities and weaknesses and needs. You reject that part | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| other person's humanity, of his or her needs, vulnerabilities, problems, and insecurity. In your demand to possess | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and that you need help in exposing your vulnerabilities, you cannot be helped in your problems, nor | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| heard me say that the denial of your vulnerabilities, your shame of feeling helpless, and your feeling | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Vulnerability...............28 | |
| tenderness and understanding, with all the sympathy and vulnerability of your loving heart. There are many people | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which you resort as a protection against the vulnerability of the underlying submissive aspect. I have also | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in admitting his doubt and fear, pain and vulnerability. Only those who have this great childlike openness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| insists on and would consider it as weakness, vulnerability, and dependency in an unhealthy sense. Such a | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and its pseudo-solution, the quest for love, predominate, vulnerability and helplessness increase until the soul is actually | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| an unfulfillment points to your imperfection, to your vulnerability as a human being. Your perfectionism does not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| hurt, just because he or she hurt your vulnerability? This phantom creates havoc in your life, my | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| above the other person, rather than feeling your vulnerability, which seems an inferior place. Anger lifts you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| little fears and misgivings, your imagined shame and vulnerability, for the sake of loving. You will be | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| it will be apparent that under this exaggerated vulnerability still lies a certain hypocrisy, as well as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| resistance is a defense against exposure, hurt, and vulnerability. It is of the utmost importance to become | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it occur to you to sense the other's vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and weaknesses | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| You overlook and ignore the fact that the vulnerability is the very material, as it were, with | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the manifestation of the live center, with its vulnerability and its strength of feelings, with your adult | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| QUESTION: I am extremely aware of cruelty and vulnerability in myself. My feelings are so strong when | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| work, it has come out so strongly. Your vulnerability is also still relatively accessible. You think you | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| plasticity of soul substance, a state of open vulnerability is required to let feelings and experiences be | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| what makes you so vulnerable. This dependency and vulnerability on the psychic level corresponds to a psychological | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and pretenses, and the experience of one's naked vulnerability. It is a tall order, and yet it | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| enormous protection. Without this understanding confusion, fear and vulnerability would create a new defense. The spiritual principles | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| more about the third factor, the fear of vulnerability. This vulnerability goes beyond the obvious fear of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| the third factor, the fear of vulnerability. This vulnerability goes beyond the obvious fear of being less | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| it. But there is also another kind of vulnerability. As you become more open, more accessible, new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| incentive to use the new perception. This newly-evolved vulnerability has another effect that is not immediately experienced | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| different ways, and the more aware of your vulnerability you become, the more you will experience this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| from armoring, who does not deny the soft vulnerability that can experience the pain of all the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| heart, of feeling your self, your lovingness, your vulnerability, the beauty of creation, the endearingness of others | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| show yourself as you are, with all your vulnerability and total inner truth. This in itself is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |