| Controlled..................36 | |
| not what causes them. These undercurrents cannot be controlled as long as you are not aware of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| that his feelings were still opposed to his controlled reactions, and thus there was an inner split | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| It should be stressed that thoughts can be controlled by your conscious direction of will, just as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you cannot control. In other words, you are controlled by them and you lose your serenity, or | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are other examples where physical functions are completely controlled. When this happens, certain influences from the spirit | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to your conscious will and are thus directly controlled through an act of will. You will also | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| This feeling cannot be forced; it cannot be controlled. It is grace, my friends. And it will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Those people will let their self-will push ahead. Controlled by their desires, they will rebel against everything | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| a person may appear outwardly very calm and controlled, but inside is caught in a storm of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| recently recognized its faulty premise. Emotions cannot be controlled that way. I have said that often. But | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will this needle remain still, poised, restful and controlled -- not controlled by any strenuous discipline or | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| remain still, poised, restful and controlled -- not controlled by any strenuous discipline or outer willpower, but | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| true, and loving. However, since feelings cannot be controlled by an effort of will, you cannot simply | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And if you are not afraid of being controlled by factors beyond your influence, you will have | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| attitudes, such as the determination to remain passively controlled by resistance or negative emotions. You labor under | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| control over that in you which can be controlled, namely, what you desire to think, feel, and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of yourself instead of allowing yourself to be controlled by your negativity and thereby compounding fear, guilt | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| cling to it and allow yourself to be controlled by it. For that length of time you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| recognition you will no longer feel helpless and controlled by powers you cannot understand. If you ignore | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and pressure. You therefore cannot be owned or controlled either. Hence, you need not fear to love | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| extent you believe it necessary. Fear of being controlled -- to love -- and fear of not | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| give of yourself freely, without fear of being controlled. Express your desire to feel and experience the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to direct it to areas which cannot be controlled directly wastes energy and debilitates you. Can you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| works both ways. Because you are driven and controlled by the destructive force set in motion by | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| rightness of that course by saying the rigidly controlled person has lost contact with life. The self-indulgent | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is there, even if it cannot be immediately controlled with your mind and will. Then, and then | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Second, it is self-evident that feelings cannot be controlled by the ego. Those who attempt this merely | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| feelings the average human being experiences are always controlled and approached very cautiously -- being unaware of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| The primitive human is lopsided in being completely controlled by emotions: Will and reason are still too | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| reason and will and have their feelings most controlled are those whose aliveness is very precarious. You | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| inner functioning, which can no more be directly controlled on the physical level than you can will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of conflict where you continue to be blindly controlled by a false self-identity, or rather by its | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of your destructive aspects and were therefore helplessly controlled by them, indicating that you believed them to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Wherever this mysterious stubbornness prevails, you are still controlled by your lower self. But at least you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| exposed. Such crises can be deliberately induced under controlled circumstances when you work with your helpers or | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| through deliberate choices, by working things out in controlled circumstances. It is the result of not wanting | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Controlling.................11 | |
| them; they are mastered by them, instead of controlling and mastering them. To achieve this mastery, self-observation | 21 THE FALL |
| do not know what is within you? By controlling yourself, I certainly do not mean suppressing anything | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| currents, viewing them from a distance and consciously controlling them, neither giving vent to them nor suppressing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| have the wrong approach when it comes to controlling negative emotions. With a good intent to channel | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you try to be good and loving by controlling your thoughts, and by directing your willpower to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and outside forces influence one another. But the controlling factor always lies within the self. When one | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| it is today. It had fewer means of controlling the elements and forces of nature. Primitive people | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| hidden. Every vestige of energy is geared to controlling your secret self. When you misapply your energy | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| must fear to let go of your outer, controlling ego. Since your destructiveness comes from a negative | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| which cannot be manipulated by the fearful, small, controlling mind. When you substitute a forcing current -- | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| what is. In experiencing real pain, you stop controlling, manipulating, hiding -- the pain simply is. You | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Controls....................14 | |
| inner impression exists as a rigid form that controls all the events in your life. It also | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the universe, and that he or she alone controls destiny. The human soul strives toward this goal | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a control and the failure to use those controls and powers you have at your disposal for | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to directly contact the inner self, which then controls all inner faculties -- including body, feelings, and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are completely aware of how much this belief controls you on the ego-level, I recommend that you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| it on? Once it is put on, it controls you. You must come face to face with | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| lesser degree, depending on how much the ego controls the creative life within, it creates sickness or | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| this necessitates letting go of the direct ego controls. It requires trust and courage to surrender to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| does not want to relinquish any of its controls. If all involuntary forces are feared and rejected | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have seemed to be the saving grace that controls, prevents and dominates the realm of feelings. An | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| not comprehend that you no longer need these controls, provided you are on a meaningful path of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| it is virtually impossible to let go of controls because, unless one's ego has been strengthened through | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| lower-self aspects resides a senseless stubbornness that still controls you to a degree, in an almost incomprehensible | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| things happen; where you insisted on taking the controls, you must now relinquish them and let a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Controversial...............3 | |
| This should also bring into clearer focus a controversial subject among people interested in the spiritual life | 38 IMAGES |
| eliminating Him who has been turned into a controversial figure, but by eliminating the artificial, erroneous controversy | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| important that you understand more about this so controversial subject at this present moment. For many centuries | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Controversy.................3 | |
| all. On this point, there is so much controversy and personal feeling that the image prejudice will | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| observable and accessible. They cannot possibly create the controversy that the appearance of psychological realities created on | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| controversial figure, but by eliminating the artificial, erroneous controversy that is based on human limitation of vision | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Convenience.................4 | |
| The other part of the personality wants comfort, convenience, and will give up nothing. From time to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you act according to necessity and your own convenience while your feelings are still unpurified and not | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| cowardice to sell out the truth for the convenience of being approved of by others. The so-called | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| it that the man received every comfort and convenience but made no demands for herself. In exchange | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Convenient..................7 | |
| thing; this would be much easier, much more convenient. You have to give yourself. For, if you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is the process. Of course, it is more convenient not to do all this. It is an | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the inner situation. The outer conditions are a convenient hitching post. The more unjust and crass they | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others the right to be, whether it is convenient to you or not, to that extent you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of course, many subdivisions and variations. As a convenient frame of reference, one may classify certain aspects | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| emphasize this aspect of self-work. This is a convenient way to delude the self, because spiritual development | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| want others to lead you where it is convenient for you, but you will also resent them | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |