| Criminals...................8 | |
| God. They do not have to worry about criminals. They have access to them anyway. But they | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to elapse before they can incarnate. The worst criminals on this earth must have already some sense | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to be stopped, of course. How many criminals commit crimes not for the sake of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| because he associated with the lowly, with common criminals and prostitutes. And all those lowly people felt | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| problems. So it is with everything else. Common criminals have to be prevented from continuing their deeds | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| everything. But this certainly does not mean that criminals should not suffer the consequences. The approach of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| approach of making further cruelty impossible, while healing criminals of their disease -- if they are at | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| recently insane people were considered the same as criminals. And it may take some time yet before | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Cringe......................22 | |
| who are not that far advanced yet will cringe away from it, for it is very painful | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| come to you, and you also will not cringe from such suffering. You will know that it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| life has its rainy days, but emotionally they cringe from the pain. That is a sign of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| what is most painful, and from what they cringe most! Truth has to be handled with care | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to become aware of everything from which you cringe; do not repress this fear. You will then | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| reality is negative for us, so that we cringe from it. ANSWER: There is physical death and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| When your will is not done and you cringe from suffering in the wrong, unhealthy way, you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| see that when you get near it, you cringe from it, just as you cringe from suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it, you cringe from it, just as you cringe from suffering. And since suffering and pain, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| strongly to avoid the struggle of life, they cringe like the predominantly fearful and appeasing type, but | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of deciphering them, even if at first you cringe away trying to forget them, trying to belittle | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sadness, and self-pity mixed with futility. When you cringe away from sadness, you wind up in shallow | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| not only the pain of unfulfillment that you cringe away from, however. You also do not want | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| clear contour. You will discover how you slightly cringe at the thought of the fulfillment whenever it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| yourself to be happy, you will no longer cringe from fulfillment. Be in peace. Be in God | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it; you feel deserving and hence do not cringe away from fulfillment; hence it comes. Your whole | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| produced it, they reject the experience, withdraw and cringe from it. The organism cramps up in a | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you will permit yourself happiness, you will not cringe away from the delight life is in its | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are too distrustful to take it and you cringe from it, preferring the apparently greater safety of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| through your misconceptions and destructiveness, and do not cringe or run from it but explore it. Hold | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| embellishing it nor exaggerating it so that you cringe with shame and fear. All these distortions must | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| say that you have to learn not to cringe away from pain, and then say that it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Cringes.....................5 | |
| you are so set against pain, if everything cringes in you at the thought of it, you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| your joy, you will grow. The person who cringes away from suffering -- denying, never facing it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| this often. You all know the person who cringes in front of superiors, in front of those | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| inner conscience feels undeserving of all good and cringes from it. That very character defect makes the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| latter occurs out of fear and weakness and cringes from experience. By fighting against the undesirable experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Cringing....................12 | |
| the only healthy way, avoiding both masochism and cringing revolt -- will pain finally cease. When you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of your personal life and reactions, means your cringing from the consequences you are directly or indirectly | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| less when you deliberately choose death out of cringing fear, in a negative spirit of weakness. It | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not cringing from it, you will come to terms with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with the real or imagined demands of others, cringing and crawling to the point of selling their | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the previous answer. There is a tendency of cringing, appeasing, and submitting to the most feared person | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of not being strong and powerful, but actually cringing. And it creates the real guilt of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and rules, you may be certain that fear, cringing appeasement, and helplessness also exist, though hidden from | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| life fully with all that it brings, without cringing from your feelings. Please, let us go into | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| distinct No to a cherished fulfillment, a fearful cringing from it that you cannot explain and which | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| able to accept the self-produced misery instead of cringing from it. And let us examine why it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| brought the outer unwelcome experience about. By not cringing away from it on the outgoing pulsebeat and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Cripple.....................12 | |
| They are afraid of emotions. They thwart and cripple them, and in doing so they cripple one | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and cripple them, and in doing so they cripple one of the most important instruments in life | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| attain true independence. You would always remain a cripple in the pseudo-safety of utter reliance upon another | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more harmful than you now can realize. You cripple yourself with this hidden attitude. And you make | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| causes human beings to particularly neglect, repress, and cripple the growth of their emotional nature. This neglect | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| authority to give it to you, then you cripple your willpower and wish-capacity. These four aspects prohibit | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| all. Yet when you resist too much you cripple yourself accordingly, and if the degree passes a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a growing body? If you did you would cripple it. And this is what happens to emotions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| true lack of feelings. You feel like a cripple who is different from others, born with less | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| experiences. Many of you, when you see a cripple who limps, or perhaps has a facial tick | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| become a detriment in your life, it cannot cripple you when you learn to receive it in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| tight container. This would thwart the growth and cripple the organism. It is the same with mental | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Crippled....................10 | |
| three faculties are predominant, whereas the third is crippled. In a great many others, all three faculties | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| purification process. Often the person whose willpower is crippled, yet who displays courage in some instances, may | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to it, thereby inviting more conflicts. Immaturity causes crippled intuition and crippled creativity, for creativity without intuition | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| inviting more conflicts. Immaturity causes crippled intuition and crippled creativity, for creativity without intuition is unthinkable. Only | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| development will be lopsided, leaving your personality structure crippled. When your mental processes mature, you have to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| negative experiences so that the personality may remain crippled for many an incarnation until it has the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| an unfortunate handicap. The individual lives in a crippled way, leaving out the best and most reliable | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| and body require pleasure; without it you become crippled, your growth stunted. It is true that the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the conscious level, the person does not remain crippled, in spite of what many would want to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| would want to believe. What does create a crippled state is the belief that this pain can | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Cripples....................15 | |
| the very result he or she seeks. It cripples the reasoning process, which, joined with the emotional | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| unreasonable fear. But in the long run, it cripples you and your growth. I sometimes have to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a disharmony in the human structure, and also cripples the entire personality. This much you know from | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| they actually are is a forceful tampering that cripples their functioning. Your intuitive, creative, and spontaneous capacities | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| no matter how beautifully-sounding a doctrine is, nothing cripples spirit and soul more than adopting a superimposed | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| even according to your own limited past experiences, cripples the spontaneity of the real self. Even if | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| life. While religion teaches the latter, it simultaneously cripples free decision and self-responsibility by forcing man to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and bound hands and feet. In short, it cripples the best in you that could only begin | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| capacity is there by nature, and your evasion cripples its unfoldment. Therefore, you are inwardly torn. The | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| You will understand how the perpetuated faulty perception cripples your determination and your entire world of feeling | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| they do. Such lack of consciousness creates self-alienation, cripples creativity, and prohibits love. It stifles the ability | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| manifest from the live center, the human personality cripples itself and puts itself out of balance. Bring | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| from outside. Your dire need for such authority cripples you, for you possess everything you ever need | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| childhood, and that they have to continue as cripples. The ability to unfold and give always exists | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the resources for meaningful action. The defensive attitude cripples vitality and joy and exudes negating attitudes that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |