| Discriminating..............16 | |
| neglect the equally important reasoning functions of thinking, discriminating, selecting, and weighing. They must learn to use | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| inner and outer life. This realization and a discriminating attitude toward your inner motives will give you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| an emphasis on strong likes and dislikes without discriminating as to what the values are? We use | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| use the wrong yardstick. Instead of measuring and discriminating, we are either for or against something, because | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| become capable of letting go, of receiving, examining, discriminating, and objectively looking at an issue without defending | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| depend on love being given to them; by discriminating among the ideas they have learned and discarding | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Never developing the independent faculties of thinking and discriminating, one becomes weaker and more dependent, less able | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| emotional level. When the movement of searching, thinking, discriminating, evaluating is not directed to hidden emotional areas | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| mind lacks the power of independent thinking, of discriminating, and it shirks the labor of even making | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the wrong way, by not relying on your discriminating ego to make your own decisions. Rather you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with a relaxed, free-flowing, flexible will, based on discriminating reasoning power, and calling upon the intuitive levels | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and intuitive faculties, as well as with your discriminating mind. If fear governs you, the discriminating mind | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your discriminating mind. If fear governs you, the discriminating mind is being used and perverted. If the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| If the feelings are open in honesty, the discriminating mind will be the servant it is supposed | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| as a very sharp tool of learning, of discriminating. But when it ends there it becomes a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| because the human being is a thinking and discriminating creature. Humans are not meant to live by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Discrimination..............24 | |
| hate, of separation, of egoism, of injustice, of discrimination, of wanting more for oneself than for one's | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| has to come freely by proper and independent discrimination. As I said, there are cases when an | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| across it. They will blindly react without inner discrimination, because they have no concept that a difference | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| love, kindness, and intuition, if not kindled by discrimination, which is the result of reason and intelligence | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| impulses. Only by a growing awareness and conscious discrimination can you be in a position to make | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| genuinely trust others, you will have the proper discrimination and judgment and will attract a good many | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| can be constructive. All this demands understanding and discrimination, judgment -- and certainly a maximum degree of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| tightly. This may afflict the intuitive sense of discrimination. A healthy person would cooperate in some cases | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| pseudo-religion out of weak motivations. This lack of discrimination has serious consequences for the human personality. The | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| further benefits, such as a general power of discrimination; increased inner and outer vitality; better memory; clearer | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| capacity to love will increase. You will show discrimination in the kind of love to give others | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what you want, will heighten your intuition, your discrimination, your awareness, and therefore your self-respect. It will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| force. It means self-respect, trust in others with discrimination, and, consequently, more reliable perception. So you see | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with all truth, each case stands for itself. Discrimination and an active thought process are necessary all | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is important to cultivate and develop intellect, memory, discrimination, and willpower. Without these qualities, as I said | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you insecure. Keeping your reaction hidden will make discrimination even less possible. Your lack of trust in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| all this is an unconscious process into which discrimination and reason cannot enter, along with the actual | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what is constructive and what is destructive. Its discrimination will improve. In the past, while in the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| people -- you at least anticipate rejection and discrimination, slight and disapproval. Very often you think it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| has other functions. It has functions of will, discrimination, and action, but it does not possess the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| am talking about. A human being must exert discrimination and choice. You have the freedom to choose | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it. If faith were a gullible lack of discrimination, then of course the intelligent person would rightly | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with discrimination. As a great pianist can be a channel | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| this belief was held, the more hatred and discrimination, separation and enmity grew in the consciousness of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Disease.....................34 | |
| this strength. For instance, someone who has a disease of which he knows he must die. What | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| anxieties and complexes which are responsible for your disease. Most of it is anxiety or fear. This | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| human beings, but human beings learn from their disease. What can an animal learn from having a | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| What can an animal learn from having a disease? ANSWER: That is not the point. At that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is of utmost importance. When you have a disease, when you feel pain, when you have a | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| itself in the course of time until the disease will be cured forever. Union with God, which | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| will come. It is just the same with disease, my friends. War is nothing else but a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| my friends. War is nothing else but a disease. Your human history and your human science show | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| how many ways medicine has found to eliminate disease. Many diseases that existed a relatively very short | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| science and medicine make. As long as the disease is not cured from within, war or other | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| hardship in life -- and hardship is always disease, spiritually speaking. The technicalities of cause and effect | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| human being. According to the severity of a disease, or of a sudden accident where shock occurs | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| such as criminality, war, injustices of any kind, disease, and other serious problems, are the result of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the positive sense, as when you resist disease, and not the resistance that should disappear when | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| path of searching into yourself. Fear is a disease. Now, my dearest friends, God's love and forces | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may happen in various ways, either by physical disease that the psyche produces, or by various mishaps | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wrong conclusion, they will be cured of this disease, really cured -- not superficially by restraining the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be more painful in a slow consuming disease or in an accident. Murder may be a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| physical bodies, its processes, developments, its degeneration through disease and aging, and how we may relate the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You mean an unpleasant truth? QUESTION: Yes, about disease or death. ANSWER: That depends very much on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self is still there and it can cause disease, accident, loss, and outer failure in many ways | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| further cruelty impossible, while healing criminals of their disease -- if they are at all willing to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| if there are no symptoms? If a physical disease is hidden in an inner organ, without producing | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| approaching this deepest cause of human unhappiness and disease of soul. As long as worldly psychology seeks | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| free. Frustration, every lack of fulfillment, self-dislike, guilt, disease, lack of energy or creativity, any negative aspect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| something dangerous in it, such as a serious disease and finally death. If you know that the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the real self, other symptoms of this principal disease will appear. Total well-being cannot be accomplished, even | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| The difficulties you experience are a kind of disease, as it were, and unnecessary; something that can | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| name you give it, it is indeed a disease. In order to heal the disease it is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| indeed a disease. In order to heal the disease it is necessary to understand it to some | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| waste that is not expelled and eliminated creates disease in the body, so does unassimilated, unexperienced feeling | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| body, so does unassimilated, unexperienced feeling matter cause disease of the soul. Your full commitment to everything | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the medicine that would, in time, cure the disease of evil. My beloved friends, it will be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| attract according to certain cyclic rhythms. Like all disease, the devils near you are cause, effect, and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Diseases....................8 | |
| you to understand. QUESTION: Animals have the same diseases as human beings, but human beings learn from | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| ways medicine has found to eliminate disease. Many diseases that existed a relatively very short time ago | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| time ago are not possible anymore. But other diseases have sprung up that you cannot cure, and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| sprung up that you cannot cure, and new diseases will continue to do so until a greater | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is not cured from within, war or other diseases will exist. If it is not war, it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| body. It reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods, diseases of body and soul, the basic character type | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the more clearly you will observe this. All diseases of the soul are based on just that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| by your environment. One of the most common diseases of humanity is a tendency to generalize and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |