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 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
 
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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
 
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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

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