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| when your strength is caught up in negative circles of spiritually unproductive currents, it gets depleted and | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| them. These forms have far-reaching effects: in ever-spreading circles, actions create reactions, which again have consequences, so | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| an investigator for psychic research, cooperating with scientific circles, and has had much experience with mediums that | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| already created by some mediums in convincing certain circles of the reality of the spirit world will | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| therefore never lead to liberation. They create vicious circles, they lead to heaviness, sadness, whereas truth always | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this way you continue to run around in circles; the question will never be settled as long | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| seems as though you are going around in circles, always encountering the same scenery, apparently not moving | 36 PRAYER |
| closes. When you have found several such vicious circles, you will have made a major step forward | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| once you have found some of these vicious circles: Put into words concisely the wrong conclusions they | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| about. But once you have found these vicious circles, further search will uncover a single common denominator | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| from it. Thus one of those oft-mentioned vicious circles came into existence. Because of the belief that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| reaction can be avoided. In all these vicious circles all are involved, not only the law-breaker, not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| order to build a world in which vicious circles are prevented or broken before they come to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at a certain point and go around in circles without penetrating deeper. This happens when truth and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Tonight I shall discuss one of the vicious circles that is very common among human beings. To | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in connection with one of the fundamental vicious circles in the human being. When a breakdown occurs | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of this -- and all other -- vicious circles you may be caught in. Understand that none | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| running around in one of those famous vicious circles: the wrong motive makes you feel even more | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| remedy. To break this hopeless running around in circles, begin to see clearly your motives, your desires | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| involved, create very unfavorable chain reactions and vicious circles. Not only does the very same principle underlie | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a mistaken idea in many metaphysically inclined circles. Their measure of spiritual progress is whether or | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a spiral. You seem to go around in circles, but you eventually find out that it is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| effort to maintain your illusions causes many vicious circles and chain reactions. As you learn to understand | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| deviation, misconception or conflict exists in you, vicious circles result. They snowball. They become bigger and bigger | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resentment. In this way, you go around in circles. Inwardly, of course, you know, but outwardly, so | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you build up additional insecurity, and further vicious circles come into existence. The original insecurity which was | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and ecstasy. So another one of these vicious circles comes into existence. The more one is estranged | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| yourself in another one of those unfortunate vicious circles. True safety comes from seeing the people you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| work on the Path. There are many closing circles. Tonight I mentioned commencing with spiritual emphasis, then | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| leave you utterly dissatisfied. You turn around in circles and cannot find the way out because you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| experience reality. This, in turn, creates many vicious circles, which then make it even more difficult to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| defend yourself more, and two full- fledged vicious circles are set into motion. One is a vicious | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| process, while they are merely going around in circles. Undirected or misdirected methods of self-confrontation often bring | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| temporarily discouraged, believing they are going around in circles. Inwardly, however, they occasionally already experience and see | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than it was the ninth time around. The circles get narrower and narrower, until they meet at | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self-deception and pretense which brings you into vicious circles and inner conflicts destroying your happiness and self-respect | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| You find yourself in one of those vicious circles we have so often mentioned. As long as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| involved and confused than ever, running around in circles. But when you make the effort to look | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you greater strength to come out of vicious circles and self-generating negative attitudes and will make the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| self- governing, autonomous. The principle of cycles or circles -- whether benign or vicious -- is always | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| person's inner problem is seen as interacting vicious circles. When you truly realize that the situation must | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Here, again, is one of those famous vicious circles that result from every error instituted in human | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| balance structure of soul forces so that benign circles can begin to perpetuate themselves. You also need | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you. This is one of the important vicious circles you stubbornly refuse to change into a benign | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| feel as if you were going around in circles. Yet the freshness issuing from the source is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| give to you? So you run around in circles, and it becomes a vicious circle, because the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| because it makes such people go around in circles. The more entangled a man becomes in this | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| with the truth, with the picture of benign circles; and (2) it must actively call upon the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| thoughts. See yourself brooding in the same vicious circles; see yourself almost willfully pursuing the same roundabout | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| person becomes involved with any number of vicious circles simultaneously, which seem difficult to break. It is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| a breaking point. It avoids the many vicious circles within the human psyche and in relationships that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it. All repression and all hiding create vicious circles and negative chain reactions: the false needs create | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| affect all other levels. They always create vicious circles which entrap you in hopeless situations. It is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in one of the most tragic of vicious circles: because you imagine that you cannot face the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the spiral configuration: level upon level, until the circles in the spiral become smaller and smaller. As | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is love. This simplicity means little when the circles in the spiral are still large. Then everything | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| right direction. Once again we can observe two circles, one vicious, the other benign. When you stay | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| object is thrown into water, waves form in circles spreading wider and wider. These waves never end | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| few years the principle of benign and vicious circles of human attitudes, which is only a limited | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| point I mentioned in connection with the vicious circles. The latter is a deliberately sought measure to | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| joy. But it is one of those benign circles working where it is hard to say what | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| expressions might be useful here also: the three circles, the mandala-shaped design. In this figure the higher | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The spiral always seems to go around in circles, yet if the growth is real, these are | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| if the growth is real, these are not circles that repeat on the same level. They repeat | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fulfillment that was previously quite impossible. Whatever vicious circles used to confine him will now turn into | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to confine him will now turn into benign circles. Instead of inferiority feelings closing the heart, creating | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| commitment needs to be made. The rounds or circles are not closed, they have openings. As you | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| more frightened than when you have reached deeper circles on the spiral of growing consciousness and go | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a cyclic process, leading to benign or vicious circles. A fuller understanding will take you to fuller | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| mental and emotional condition creates chain reactions and circles -- either benign or vicious ones, according to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
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| physical symptoms. These conflicts actually create a short circuit in the soul. A third alternative is that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| for two impossible things and create a short circuit within, stemming from these conflicting desires. Become aware | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| human soul become disturbed and distorted. A short circuit is established. This is the way we in | 38 IMAGES |
| affect you adversely because something like a short circuit occurs when two opposing forces clash in the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| range of thought and feeling and you short circuit your creative processes. You do not see the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and pressure. The way to eliminate the short circuit is to uncover the no-current, understand its faulty | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a burden because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit there is a certain leeway | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit there is a certain leeway for ideas, opinions | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| education and the mores of your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to learn and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| degree you have grown and expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it is | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| has widened; however, it is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas about | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| necessary that you begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately dissolve it; you live with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| it, you can see how you keep the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other words, you, as a receptacle, need | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| word persists underneath, will only create a short circuit. So if you say on only a superficial | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |