| Accused.....................12 | |
| if you are convinced that you are unjustly accused. You will always find some grain of truth | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| When they voice this, however, you feel unjustly accused, because for you only the unconscious, unaware positive | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| would remain calm, even if your beloved is accused of a fault he or she does not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| betrayed to justify himself. The one betrayed is accused of having done the very thing he has | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to bear if he were not, in addition, accused of having perpetrated a disloyal or dishonest act | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| disappointed and on top of it you are accused of having done something that you did not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| their newly discovered impulses that analysis is often accused of making people more selfish. If properly handled | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Eve, Eden, Heaven and Hell. He was immediately accused of heresy by his own clergy. What do | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of your will, and criticism. When you feel accused of something true, half-true, or untrue, you feel | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it causes in the body are denied and accused as being sinful. One must then fear love | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| appears to be a great enemy and is accused of being unreliable and even dangerous. For those | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| unites the same two individuals who hated and accused each other before. You then witness what I | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Accusing....................12 | |
| smart maneuver, although it is often unconscious. By accusing yourself, you take the weapon out of the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the ego is bolstered. Furthermore, you think that accusing yourself is sufficient and that you do not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| saying anything that might appear as pointing an accusing finger at you. The implication of you do | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| temptation to indulge in self-pity, resentment, complaining, and accusing -- overtly or covertly -- in your emotional | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| The longer you dwell in the defenses of accusing and self-victimizing, the more real the limited and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and you must also be less blaming and accusing of others. Self-blame and self- accusation may seem | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| share in the mutual effect without becoming an accusing, self-victimizing judge. This has a salutary effect and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| if they admit guilt you are right in accusing them of being bad and of being the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| empty -- choosing not to understand why and accusing life of being bad. You fear and resist | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| also defend yourself against recognizing this by blaming, accusing, resenting, and closing your heart and your feelings | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| you pursue a road of blind selfwill and accusing fury. An open mind and heart allows you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| unreachable, you resent and blame authority figures, often accusing them exactly of the opposite of what you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Accustomed..................33 | |
| will receive the answer in another form. The accustomed way might still be used when it is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| occurs to people, even to those who are accustomed to praying and turning to God with all | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| do just this for some time and get accustomed to accepting objectively, almost coldly, the imperfection living | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| habit, for it is possible that you get accustomed to living without it for a long time | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| long time, just like a person who gets accustomed to eating the wrong kind of food that | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and spiritual food in the faith you are accustomed to, remain there: enough of basic fundamental truth | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| broadminded! Do not leave the faith you are accustomed to, for that is not necessary unless you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| at this point. Simply take stock and get accustomed to seeing yourself where you really are and | 21 THE FALL |
| benefits will befall you. You will also get accustomed to watching your background thoughts during the day | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| because your wrong reactions have too long been accustomed to function in the wrong way. Your personal | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| language. When you are in the human state, accustomed to a completely different mode of expression, the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| conditioned by the emotional reactions you have become accustomed to, you are so involved in them, that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| on the surface. But you have become so accustomed to examining the deeper reactions that it hardly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is, he may, at the beginning, still be accustomed to the old prayer of begging for help | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that bar access to the treasure. You are accustomed to look for truth, guidance, and solutions to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| permissive, pampering, indulgent environment, are. The psyche gets accustomed to it, and when life later prohibits similar | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and trying period because the individual leaves the accustomed and safe period of childhood behind, without possessing | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| felt emotional movements. But once your mind is accustomed to observing these reactions, such awareness is not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| awareness of the emotional reactions you were so accustomed to glossing over. The awareness of your violations | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mental and emotional levels: You have become so accustomed to thinking in a certain way, to feeling | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| yourself, you will let go of the old accustomed shore and float momentarily in what seems uncertainty | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it because your busy outer mind is so accustomed to its own noise -- that is, to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| us assume, for example, that you have grown accustomed to experience yourself as haughty, cold, and contemptuous | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| functioning from your periphery. You are now so accustomed to the latter that you cannot even imagine | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| different way from the human language you are accustomed to. So words are not easy to formulate | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and feeling ready to abandon an old and accustomed mode of operation, is already a small leap | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| enemy. They are insidious, for you are so accustomed to them. Learn to take a little distance | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| vision to which the immediate consciousness is so accustomed. This new vision brings enormous peace, security, joy | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| because your mental processes, which have been so accustomed to negative beliefs, they have to readjust themselves | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| make this new area familiar. As you become accustomed and acclimatized to the new environment, your safety | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| you change and grow, and your soul becomes accustomed to movement as enjoyable, life-giving, and relaxing. Inertia | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| seems to break the tradition you have become accustomed to. Tradition is created wherever human life takes | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a very limited angle. The mind is focused, accustomed, conditioned to operate in a certain direction and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Achieve.....................65 | |
| person contributes especially much to create tangles and achieve greater and greater confusion. But if there is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| God to guide you, so that you can achieve this goal. A person who does this is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| evaluated within, so that harmony is established. To achieve true progress, you have to grow from both | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| you and for others. You must learn to achieve the utmost for your spiritual development and purification | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| spirit it also knows that it cannot easily achieve this, and that, once incarnated, difficulties, tests, and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| given also from the outside, to help you achieve what you intend. When a spirit realizes after | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| into fruit through your own work. You must achieve a breakthrough to your inner self. You know | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| experiences. It is so difficult for you to achieve complete forgiveness, because you lack the understanding of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| again at your life. The person who can achieve already on earth this same deep understanding of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| knows that only by perfection within can you achieve perfection without, and that is happiness. Your lower | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of even harming other people in order to achieve his goal. A more highly developed person will | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| within yourself first. That means you have to achieve spiritual growth, purification, and complete self-knowledge as much | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| person who is really interested and open can achieve this. I will be very happy to give | 18 FREE WILL |
| to see oneself in one's true reality to achieve self-understanding in order to improve oneself. But how | 21 THE FALL |
| them, instead of controlling and mastering them. To achieve this mastery, self-observation, objectivity, and self-criticism are essential | 21 THE FALL |
| very physical and material life in order to achieve this. ANSWER: In the first place, physical is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in me. Ask God to help you to achieve that end, and then let the lower self | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| At any rate, none of you can truly achieve happiness in this life if you do not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| come to love God in your emotions. To achieve that is, of course, a lengthy process. Only | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to go about searching for such understanding. To achieve this purpose, it is essential that you talk | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the other divine attributes. Prayer is essential to achieve this goal. How? -- you may ask. In | 36 PRAYER |
| concentration. Without the ability to concentrate you cannot achieve anything in life. You need to be able | 36 PRAYER |
| to the concentration and discipline prayer helps you achieve, you benefit in that during prayer your frame | 36 PRAYER |
| some theories that say that in order to achieve the discipline of daily prayer, one should set | 36 PRAYER |
| form in your mind and help you to achieve a profounder consciousness of yourself. Ask yourself: What | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| only those who do not escape unhappiness can achieve true desirelessness, though perhaps only much later. So | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| all desire to give happiness, yet you cannot achieve either one without losing your separateness. And how | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| important for self-observation. QUESTION: If one were to achieve purification completely, the three aspects would be pretty | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| that a human being should not try to achieve a harmonious blend of all three forces. In | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is the greatest victory a human being can achieve, for it is one of the most difficult | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in ignorance does not alter the results. To achieve a positive outcome, a free, strong and independent | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| strives for the same end and attempts to achieve it to some degree inwardly. In rare moments | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| that defeat the very end you wish to achieve. Each one of you, in your own way | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the freedom that you are all bound to achieve sooner or later, whether you now work on | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| apparent relapse, will be the best way to achieve the inner change. You must understand that this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| defeat such submissiveness seems the only way to achieve what you want. Since certain outer aspects of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the other part. Since you are unable to achieve the final goal, you withdraw altogether. This is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| purpose and aim in this work is to achieve a proper balance. In many instances a person | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| still essentially alone. The best you can occasionally achieve is the realization that others go through similar | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| desire to make others happy. Yet, you cannot achieve either one without losing your separateness. And how | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the inner obstacles, it would be possible to achieve outer success, too. It will then be seen | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| security and healthy independence and allows one to achieve a maximum of happiness through developing one's inherent | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by discipline, the best you can hope to achieve is to force the symptom away, while other | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| great deal more time, effort and pain to achieve the latter. Unfortunately, this aspect is very much | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| COMMENT: Oh, now I see. QUESTION: When you achieve the real self we are all talking about | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| by manipulating thought, by disciplining emotions. When they achieve a temporary state of precarious peace, they easily | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to them. It is not as difficult to achieve as my earlier words may indicate. Self-exploration and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| denial. You perpetuate self-deception, and you do not achieve the result you wish. Learn to accept that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| profession, set the goal you really desire to achieve. Then you may ask yourself what you intend | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| back from self-alienation. It is the way to achieve relaxed and truthful self-government rather than strained superimposition | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| being, of vibrant aliveness, light and truth. To achieve this seems so difficult just because it is | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| perfectly, just as your body is. When you achieve this original level, you are home. You have | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| enter the unitive state where you can truly achieve mastery, is by letting go of the false | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and happy possibilities you have a prerogative to achieve in this life. It exists on the emotional | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| can be avoided and still permit you to achieve integration, health, and a full life. Avoidance of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you into a state of disunity. You can achieve a higher unified state of consciousness only by | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| still disunited personality. The less self-awareness human beings achieve, the less will they realize that the world | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| what a tragic, wasteful sacrifice you make to achieve an entirely imaginary gain. All masks and defenses | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| central divine core. One such task is to achieve clear perception and connection with the soul movements | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| escape, even though you may gain spiritual knowledge, achieve beautiful meditations and even gain genuine spiritual experiences | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| geared to give you still better means to achieve this transformation, tools that you could not have | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| life with eternal life itself. Only after you achieve higher realizations of consciousness does this focus switch | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is not an easy or quick thing to achieve. It requires patience, time, effort, and all the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| others want to be your enemies? You can achieve this only by taking the trouble of exploring | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| enemies. On the outer level you may not achieve friendship with them, for it takes both parties | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |