| Distaste....................3 | |
| meet these emotions. If I encounter an inner distaste for giving up such destructive feelings, I shall | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| course of their self-search a strange and inexplicable distaste for activity and an equally strange and inexplicable | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| When you discover your fear of moving, your distaste for it, your reluctance or resistance -- physically | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Distasteful.................3 | |
| category, the most primitive form of hypocrisy, is distasteful, therefore you suppress your true emotions, because of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a treasure, even if what manifest first is distasteful to you. You will find bliss, the universal | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| apply this knowledge to all that is most distasteful in yourself and others. No matter how ugly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Distinction.................38 | |
| terms. I should like to make the following distinction: Prayer is a preliminary step to meditation. Prayer | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| help us to understand this, to draw a distinction between the two? ANSWER: Yes, there is, but | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| on the surface. You have to make this distinction very clearly. When you begin on this path | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| ferment in your unconscious. Humanity makes a definite distinction between feelings and thoughts. You know that in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| words, the borderline is in the very fine distinction between saying yes to an imposed or inevitable | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is. Try to understand the significance and the distinction of these words. Life force is all around | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be technical about it. Intuition has the further distinction of being conscious. The moment it is intuition | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| QUESTION: May I ask about the difference and distinction of obligation as against gratitude? I mean that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| between the two. Knowing how to make this distinction will open further doors for understanding your self | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| How could you draw the subtle, fine borderline distinction between real affection and pseudo-affection with your child's | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of injustice. QUESTION: How can I make the distinction as to whether the other person provoked me | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| or principle of an already existing emotion. This distinction may appear like hairsplitting, but it is not | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| take a spiritual approach to your emotions. The distinction between the spiritual and the psychological is arbitrary | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Would you care to elaborate on the distinction between pseudo-euphoric states of elation and genuine elation | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prayer is very useful. There is a fine distinction between such healthy and right attitude and the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unconscious of the child there is no clear-cut distinction between receiving love and receiving approval. He has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that is pity. You do not have this distinction in all languages. However, for many other trends | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| can penetrate to him. This is an important distinction that will only be perceived at a later | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more important than what they actually are. The distinction is not easily drawn because it is subtle | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to grow. It is important to make the distinction and realize that all three categories of inner | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| You will also be able to make the distinction between the rightfulness of this need and the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| in this life on earth. The disappearance of distinction between the sexes is not to be confused | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| physical? ANSWER: Human beings make too arbitrary a distinction between physical and non- physical. A human being | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| can never attain unity. Let us apply this distinction to the growth process. As long as human | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| are laudable, good, right. One rarely makes the distinction that some forms of selfishness are intrinsically healthy | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| them is lacking. This is an all- important distinction. Usually human beings approach this problem in precisely | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| even easier once you can make this clear distinction. The moment you identify, observe, and clearly articulate | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it would be useful to make a clear distinction between negativity and negative intentionality. Negativity comprises a | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of truth is found. I make a clear distinction between remorse and guilt: remorse is the deeply | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| but in your mind you still make a distinction, so much so, that you go on being | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| unresolved negative feelings. We must make a clear distinction between stagnant, residual feelings the personality is unaware | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in learning the all-important art of making this distinction. Only in this way can you unify your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that something is amiss. So do make the distinction between guilt, shame, and remorse, and see that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| mean by that. ANSWER: Let us make a distinction between childish and childlike. Childlike is beautiful, and | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learn to make a very crude kind of distinction between good and evil, between social and antisocial | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| from that of others. In previous ages this distinction could not be made. Humanity was then incapable | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| reality. You all know, my friends, that the distinction between people who are still steeped in the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| fall into the category I just described. The distinction is not always immediately clear, but as you | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Distinctions................6 | |
| unfortunately, to generalize everything, instead of making proper distinctions. The contact with God's spirit world is, naturally | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you cannot yet get away from the childish distinctions between so called good and bad. This would | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with the deeper fear of losing oneself. Many distinctions between the sexes are arbitrary and unrealistic, but | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| by the healthy person. The more these true distinctions are embraced, the smaller is the barrier between | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| capable of the true relatedness which makes the distinctions and differences disappear. In rare moments of bliss | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and inner fulfillment. Let us now make several distinctions concerning the process of dying. In addition to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Distinguish.................81 | |
| consequences, which the mature person is able to distinguish and accept. He or she can thus freely | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| see the colors of the aura but will distinguish patterns. The human aura displays varying patterns, some | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| cannot be anything else. You are able to distinguish between the spirits who belong to the divine | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| others. Start with yourself. For when you can distinguish the two in you, it will no longer | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the case with hermaphrodites, where you can also distinguish between feminine and masculine types. Scientific records, I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| decision which you must approach with open eyes: distinguish the three necessary types of work involved in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in your subconscious, at least to some extent. Distinguish the trends in you which stand in direct | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| judgment is always colored. Until you can clearly distinguish if your ego is still involved and to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| really strong and give you the power to distinguish when to keep still after a personal hurt | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| just as you have to learn and to distinguish between right and wrong, between truth and untruth | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| end and a duty start? How do you distinguish between the two? ANSWER: The must or the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| has constantly caused pain. You must learn to distinguish between two basic kinds of pain, my friends | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| misconception that to love yourself is wrong. Therefore, distinguish between the sick and the healthy, that is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be taken into consideration. You also have to distinguish one other factor, and that is the degree | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| between the subconscious and intuition? ANSWER: If you distinguish intuition from insight, we might say that it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| different terminology had been used, however. Let us distinguish between a spirit entity and the spirit quality | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truly in union with the universe. If you distinguish between these two forms of existence, you will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see what the difference is and how to distinguish between the two. You will be able to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| must suppress your selfish desire. You fail to distinguish whether your desires are actually selfish or not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| all. In the process of suppression, unable to distinguish one from the other, you lump together the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| occurs on different levels. Broadly speaking, we can distinguish between foreground thoughts and background thoughts. Both have | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you harbor them without full awareness, you cannot distinguish what is important in them and what is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| wish. Your psyche knows very well how to distinguish between healthy, mature love and unhealthy, immature, dependent | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| lock your heart altogether. The mature person will distinguish between many kinds of love, because he or | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more crushing. Hence, you have to learn to distinguish between the real and the unreal, in this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to love due to, first, your inability to distinguish between true love and weak submissiveness, because this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that often you do not know how to distinguish. It is not important that you do so | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| more limited than ordinary human language. You must distinguish between the two kinds of picture languages. The | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the element that you substituted. You will clearly distinguish between the real feelings underneath and the compulsive | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of you, so that you can no longer distinguish between the real and the false you. Only | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as healthy and unhealthy independence. How can we distinguish between the two? ANSWER: The line is always | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| deceive humankind so that it can no longer distinguish between God's way and the devil's. That which | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| now manifesting as exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy wish for mature love and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| point is reached it is extremely difficult to distinguish between justified indignation due to actual provocation, and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| negative emotions, that is indeed destructive. Try to distinguish between constructive and destructive aims, try to realize | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of your needs. Then you will learn to distinguish between real and unreal needs by discovering that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this question. In the first place, let us distinguish between morality and moralizing. These are not the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of the world -- perhaps because they cannot distinguish between true morality and self-righteous moralizing -- are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| higher self speaking to us, how do you distinguish between this conscience and, say, guilt feelings? ANSWER | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| voice of conscience. The only way you can distinguish between the two is by the way you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is artificially produced. The only way to distinguish between genuine and pseudo-elation is the honest answer | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this will you also find it possible to distinguish between the natural, healthy needs, and the artificially | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| such a natural process. You cannot, as yet, distinguish between the natural action and action coming from | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| making a proper and mature choice you can distinguish between that which is real, valid, constructive and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| reached this state, do not trouble yourself to distinguish with your intellect between the real and the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| it, you will understand. Let me only repeat: Distinguish between perfection and growing. If you wish to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| caused by your unproductive patterns. Consciously you cannot distinguish this. You may not even be aware of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| pain. It may take time and self-observation to distinguish the pain at all. After you do so | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| utter candor with yourself will enable you to distinguish between them. The fifth cardinal sin is GLUTTONY | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| stage, it was often difficult for humankind to distinguish truth from falsehood, between what is constructive and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| though you may not yet be able to distinguish between distorted and healthy needs and emotional attitudes | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| stronger device to attain numbness. You must always distinguish between the active deeds of either indifference or | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| generally. It is also useful, my friends, to distinguish between two prevalent reactions to this conflict. Both | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| part with one's pleasure. It is important to distinguish which of the two resistances applies to you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| begin to enjoy this. You do not immediately distinguish between the two different kinds of joy. The | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to accept a truth about oneself. We must distinguish here between general areas of life -- of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| state, too, even healthy passivity. Because you cannot distinguish between healthy and stagnant passivity, you become overactive | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| this confusion can only be found when you distinguish between two totally different ways of measuring or | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| friends, have sufficiently progressed in the capacity to distinguish between healthy and destructive selfishness, so you will | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| body state -- you will be able to distinguish and experience quite distinctly both layers of reality | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| outer or inner system. Once you can clearly distinguish the area and feel the block, or the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the level of mind, you will come to distinguish in what areas you need to act and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| It discredits spirituality itself among those who cannot distinguish between superimposition and real experience. If you lack | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| In this state you will be unable to distinguish between the actual negativity on the part of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| As it is now, you are unable to distinguish between these two phenomena. Hence you often try | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of all in the universe. Your failure to distinguish between what is real and what is false | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| is intelligent because it is not gullible. To distinguish between what is real and what is fakery | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Desire is the blueprint we act upon. To distinguish between the creative and the destructive desire currents | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| growing a progression takes place. You begin to distinguish events that you have created, perhaps not consciously | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| in being judgmental is a great capacity to distinguish, to differentiate. It is the power to recognize | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to you. Your ego has to learn to distinguish between them. The voice of the lower self | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| lower self. The child will learn how to distinguish one from the other and come to understand | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| degree that self-discipline exists also. You have to distinguish clearly between discipline that is chosen by the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will simplify matters for you in order to distinguish between them. Wishful thinking is spinning dreams of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| develop a new reaction. First, you need to distinguish between the two kinds of boundaries: loving, meaningful | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| issues, you lack the true insight, you cannot distinguish whether the authority is indeed abusive or whether | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| need to recognize their voices and learn to distinguish where these voices come from. This is in | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| do so, it is extremely difficult to truly distinguish between actual prying and attempts to violate your | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| authority figures in your life, how you can distinguish between those whom you can trust and those | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| of this kind. You need to learn to distinguish between those events that are outright unnecessary and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| All this also teaches you the wisdom to distinguish between where the self is the master and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |