| Dislikes....................5 | |
| than reality warrants, not because the other person dislikes you, but because his or her reaction is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| indicated by an emphasis on strong likes and dislikes without discriminating as to what the values are | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| exist. The attitude one adopts to what one dislikes about the self -- secretly or semi-consciously or | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for magical omnipotence because the personality fears and dislikes dealing with the present limitations, it cannot possibly | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| traits I feel remorseful about. The I that dislikes and wants to change destructive, untruthful, deviating aspects | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Disliking...................3 | |
| are not above them, but you are not disliking yourself for them. Such self-contempt is connected with | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| am aware of a very deep tendency of disliking people, almost inadvertently. It is frightening to me | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| any undesirable, ugly trait, without in the least disliking yourself for it; without in the least losing | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Disloyal....................4 | |
| not, in addition, accused of having perpetrated a disloyal or dishonest act of some sort. The pain | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| seems necessary to betray others, to be ruthless, disloyal, or selfish. But as long as your good | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| everyone. Do not fear that you are being disloyal to your faith when you face that part | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your images of your parents. You may feel disloyal and guilty if you stop glamorizing an adored | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Dismal......................17 | |
| as with his deeds is a dark and dismal one. Afterward, an incarnation is waiting for him | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and the awareness that whenever the world seems dismal and gray it is an indication that you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| easy, especially when you are in such a dismal state, to deceive yourself into believing that when | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| side, the psychologist asserts that reality is so dismal, so hopeless, so despairing, and stands in such | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| unhappiness, another temperament and character feels to be dismal woe. At any rate, unhappiness and lack of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a straightjacket, from a hopeless choice between two dismal alternatives -- your previous basic way of life | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| never come; if you believe your life is dismal without it. After having thus determined that the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it actually is. The either/or choices shed a dismal light on life. Both are poor and between | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| for many that they pretend that life is dismal and hopeless, clinging to others to sustain and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| enter into the closed chambers of your dark, dismal misconceptions about life and your own innermost nature | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| anything you can conceive of: from the most dismal state of hell to the most sublime state | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| so to justify your position: if all is dismal anyway, then there is nothing so strange about | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you and accept that reality is not all dismal. It is indeed a beautiful reality. The universe | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and accept that life is just this flat, dismal, gray place? Do we not hear over and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| unfair, which you proceed to prove by the dismal results you are about to create. This can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| let go, or you resign yourself to this dismal state in order not to hold on. This | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| win cannot be corrected and is an utterly dismal prospect. A related manifestation is its converse: Whenever | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Dismayed....................5 | |
| gets in the way. Then they become so dismayed that they cannot pick up the thread. As | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| If you would only start and not be dismayed by the first struggles, you would finally succeed | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| my motives were different? You must not be dismayed. On the contrary, finding the pieces of information | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| successful -- and very treacherous. Do not be dismayed that your unpurified emotions do not change merely | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| now, only without awareness -- to be totally dismayed and hopeless, thinking that it is impossible to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Dismiss.....................8 | |
| make only too easily, or the intention to dismiss the whole problem. Observe your reaction when you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| can be found in each religious concept, people dismiss everything, at least emotionally, as illusion, imagination, and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| hidden from consciousness within themselves. To accept or dismiss disquieting words can also be a test. When | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| recognize the very words you have tried to dismiss to be indeed the truth. Such an insight | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| experience both. The first is the tendency to dismiss a recognition of something within yourself because -- | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| contrary to what you otherwise are that you dismiss them, saying, This is all nonsense, this cannot | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| when such love is given to you, you dismiss it. As you proceed on this particular stretch | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not. Only complete dedication, watchfulness, awareness, readiness to dismiss wishful thinking and restrain pride will protect you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Disorder....................58 | |
| the uncertainties ferment in your feelings and create disorder in your soul. All unclarified conflicts, big or | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| higher self are tainted with lower-self motives, a disorder is created in the soul that makes its | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| great deal of harm; they create conflict and disorder within you. This all represents the uncleansed or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not managed your household well. You have allowed disorder, disorganization, and mismanagement to set in. The exactly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| why their souls become sick and suffering. Great disorder is created in the soul, which, of course | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in accordance with changing circumstances. Thus, they create disorder. The pure currents flowing through a human soul | 38 IMAGES |
| the selfish motives suppressed, the more confusion and disorder are created within you. A basic misunderstanding exists | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| cannot win out. There cannot be chaos and disorder. But these answers can come to you only | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| therefore exhausts it without your knowing it. This disorder and disorganization is universal but for a few | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| both sloth and gluttony come from confusion and disorder, they create more of the same. It is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| from undue overreaction, tension, frustration, and the inner disorder and imbalance which is always the result of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| one's afflicted area is diverted into other channels, disorder and stagnation follow. The momentary relief from having | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to false ideas your personal world falls into disorder. Our common efforts to uncover the untruth that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| efforts to uncover the untruth that caused the disorder and destruction have made this fact familiar to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to mend; psychic upsets begin to balance; confusion, disorder, conflict, make way for order and unity. This | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the wrong way, the psyche is thrown into disorder. Overexertion of the will and attempts to direct | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| everything is seen out of context, you perceive disorder and chaos. The disorder and chaos on the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of context, you perceive disorder and chaos. The disorder and chaos on the human level of life | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| I will discuss what constitutes inner order or disorder, as well as outer order or disorder, and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| or disorder, as well as outer order or disorder, and their meaning, connection, and relationship. Inner order | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| ends. Conversely, wherever awareness is lacking it indicates disorder. If you are not aware, you cannot be | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| away from you. You become confused. Confusion and disorder interact as you grope in the dark, struggling | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| connection between order and awareness. When there is disorder in the life of a person, he or | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| peace will be lacking if inner and outer disorder clutter up your life. Avoidance is escaping from | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of order is reality. When you are in disorder, you live in the illusion that your evasions | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| life. Lack of awareness, avoidance and illusion create disorder, which creates more lack of awareness, avoidance, and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| unfolds; it allows for more reality. You breed disorder out of your illusion that it will go | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| from this particular suffering, due also to your disorder. Because your avoidance is still active, you may | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| other matters. The fact remains that your self-created disorder is responsible for so much of it. It | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| or the unimportant ones. The smallest neglect causes disorder and creates discomfort in the soul. This rule | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| gauge of where a person stands inwardly. Outer disorder diverts so much energy that the inner life | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| begins to happen. They become preoccupied with the disorder they create. This is often an ongoing process | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| have. Nothing could be further from the truth. Disorder consumes energies, wastes them, dissipates them. Since order | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| consciousness dim. The creation of inner and outer disorder is therefore a tool of the unconscious negative | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| a new angle for you to view outer disorder. In whatever way disorder exists, it fulfills the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you to view outer disorder. In whatever way disorder exists, it fulfills the purpose of resistance to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of resistance to harmony, truth, health, and wholeness. Disorder creates tensions and preoccupations; it consumes valuable creative | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| may not be conscious of the anxiety that disorder creates on any level, the anxiety is there | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| this new order and to clean up old disorder, and then sustain it. Deliberately meditate for the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| relinquish control where it is not needed. Outer disorder in a person's life always reflects the inner | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for those whom they help. Wherever you find disorder in your outer life, in whatever areas it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| resistance to self- discipline, the need to make disorder in your life, is an expression of such | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to how disturbed you really are by your disorder. The resisting part in you knows that if | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| if you free yourself of the burden of disorder, your inner work will be much easier. And | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| orderly person who merely compensates for the inner disorder. Disorder makes concentration and focusing impossible. The mind | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| person who merely compensates for the inner disorder. Disorder makes concentration and focusing impossible. The mind must | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| The mind may not directly wander toward the disorder, toward the immediate disturbance created by the disorderliness | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| so? In what way do you suffer from disorder? Are you aware of the fact that you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| of how much you do suffer from your disorder and how it was always so. See how | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| how it was always so. See how your disorder makes you lose yourself in the wrong way | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| deceitfulness, of your negativity. Displacement creates chaos and disorder. It creates a total confusion about what really | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| balance is order and creates order. Imbalance is disorder, but it creates more disorder only temporarily and | 228 BALANCE |
| order. Imbalance is disorder, but it creates more disorder only temporarily and to a degree because temporary | 228 BALANCE |
| only temporarily and to a degree because temporary disorder is a step toward an order of a | 228 BALANCE |
| conscious mind. Your instinct is to battle against disorder and imbalance. Yet it is precisely this disorder | 228 BALANCE |
| disorder and imbalance. Yet it is precisely this disorder and imbalance that affords you the opportunity to | 228 BALANCE |
| to discover the inner meaning of the temporary disorder will you find the new order. Only when | 228 BALANCE |
| problems in what you create, look at the disorder and contradictions of your various levels of thinking | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |