| Habit-bound.................6 | |
| conclusions with your intellectual knowledge. Emotions are more habit-bound than outer tendencies; moreover, they are so elusive | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| psychological factors, and your emotions are involved! How habit-bound the human soul is! How great the fight | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Giving them leeway, and realizing that they are habit-bound will do it. If you discover their wrong | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do not forget that the human psyche is habit-bound; it is geared to function in a certain | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fades away after a while and your old, habit-bound emotions revert to their fearfulness of long standing | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| pulsation. You are usually too busy following your habit-bound, conditioned reflexes, in which you respond to what | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Habits......................29 | |
| have often wasted many lives, and because wrong habits of thinking and feeling have implanted themselves deeper | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of it they fall back into the bad habits of their erring souls. Love, well-meaning and unselfish | 36 PRAYER |
| have worked before. You may also have established habits in prayer and meditation. They were useful in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| naturally and without effort get rid of static habits. The erotic force will lift a person out | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| whenever you fall back into old, bad emotional habits, your subconscious will gradually reveal more and more | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| reactions, but also because you cannot form new habits until you have gained a fuller view and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| necessary because otherwise you cannot uproot old ingrained habits, in spite of your free will and your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| move away from it, tempted by your old habits. In this alternation between fulfillment and unfulfillment, you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the mind. Experience out of being never forms habits. It is only the mind that does it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| The memory, combined with the tendency to form habits, is the danger of the mind in regard | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to shed it. This even applies to physical habits that are destructive and difficult to get rid | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| beauty and wisdom, but the fetters of your habits in thinking and feeling prevent you from shedding | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you may have heard words like these, your habits are deeply ingrained on both counts: First your | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| become more conscious of the ingrained but subtle habits with which one covers up one's inner nakedness | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| ego so as to nurture and cultivate healthful habits regarding food, sleep, exercise, in order to maintain | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to play. Its task is to choose healthful habits regarding the activity of the mind, so as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self one tries to enforce. These are healthful habits, necessary for the involuntary processes to be affected | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in the personality. The cultivation of healthful mental habits chosen by the ego can be paralleled on | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are not real at all. They are cultivated habits. So are the roles you play. Each objective | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| therefore on negativity. Crisis shakes loose ingrained, frozen habits so that new growth becomes possible. It tears | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of time. It may mean facing and overcoming habits of procrastination, the pattern of postponing things, rather | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| This applies as much to a person's outer habits and orderliness, or its absence, as it does | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| rule applies as much to a person's outer habits and life as to the life of the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to pay attention to your outer life and habits from this point of view. So far we | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| an orderly person in his or her outer habits. He or she is not only clean in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| that forces you to succumb to the old habits of your separated self. You will thus gain | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of the known safety valves, the familiar ego habits of finding security and self-fulfillment in at least | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| be made, so as to shed old bad habits of thinking, feeling, reacting, willing and being. In | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| you insist on holding on to your old habits and stay where you no longer belong. You | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Habitual....................19 | |
| perhaps your dreams of insight have become too habitual and therefore they do not require much spiritual | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to change your emotions, your images, or your habitual inner reactions. It will come to you the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| idealized self-image. QUESTION: Is a criminal, especially a habitual one, necessarily in a state of low spiritual | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| tension due to fear, pride, and selfwill. People's habitual state is one of more or less taut | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| have conditioned yourself to let it ruminate in habitual negativity, self-rejection, and needless limitation. But once you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| other. As long as you assume that this habitual approach is the only one possible, you will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| that I can't stand pleasure. Coming from my habitual state of unpleasure, pleasure almost seems unnatural. ANSWER | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your thoughts once you are aware of their habitual patterns. This self-determination is your key to liberation | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| with it in the best possible way. The habitual reaction of the average human being to pleasurable | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| at your disposal in ways other than your habitual old groove. Such new thoughts may take into | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| in other respects. But it is those little habitual reactions and thoughts that must be explored. For | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| not trust it. You trust your old, destructive habitual defenses more. Then of course there are always | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The new person is not functioning from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| desire is God's will. At first, by old habitual standards, you will distrust that your desire is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| truth of life. As you thus counter the habitual trickery of the superstition of pessimism, where it | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Think about this, my friends. Relinquish your taut, habitual reactions. And now, before ending this particular message | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| that is, to change an attitude or a habitual approach to the situation. Once you make an | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| often hindered by personal resistance to growth, by habitual ways of thinking whose pattern is never questioned | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a notion of the theory, but in your habitual thinking you resist its truth. You think of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Habitually..................10 | |
| to explore their own unconscious mind and emotions, habitually overlook the strong link between the child's longing | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| too tightly which, of course, is what you habitually do. It is therefore necessary for you now | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the greater the confusion becomes. Human beings are habitually trained by upbringing, and everything they learn from | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| self-surrender, and thus pleasure, impossible. The person who habitually overcharges and exhausts the ego faculties will then | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| very important to understand this principle. People are habitually not only tense, but tense because of an | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| least occasionally, this second point. However, such awareness habitually slips back into the unconscious, from whence it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| all this is so vague and muddled, so habitually glossed over, that if you are asked what | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| to this later. From now on, instead of habitually evading, which breeds emotional illness, problems, and suffering | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your anxious, angry, confused reactions. If you stop habitually pushing aside and rationalizing what disturbs you, you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your being, notwithstanding the limited thoughts you still habitually follow. You will hear an inner voice instructing | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Half-conscious..............11 | |
| for resistance, lack of self- honesty, unconscious or half-conscious as it may be, will be taken into | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not often act by it, but in your half-conscious wishes and aims you do react from this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| cannot come in half-measures. Making the conscious recognition half-conscious again is due to the specific reason, my | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| focus your attention on them. There are the half-conscious thoughts, the vague and diffuse attitudes and expressions | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a part of you. But none of the half-conscious feelings, reactions, and concepts are clearly formulated into | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| formulated into concise thoughts. If you watch the half-conscious reactions in the problem areas of your life | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| more help is needed than the observation of half-conscious material and its translation into your known language | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and its translation into your known language. The half-conscious material comprises your immediate emotional reactions as well | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| reactions. As long as so many unconscious or half-conscious reactions remain hidden, you are oblivious to the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| corresponding actions as well as vague thoughts and half-conscious wishes -- when this is concisely crystallized in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your advantage. This belief is always there, underneath, half-conscious or completely unconscious. It creates a terrible conflict | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Half-consciously............4 | |
| weaknesses. But you continue to ignore many trends, half-consciously thinking that this attitude proves your love and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| ignorance selfish motives arise, unconsciously or sometimes even half-consciously. You are unclear as to what you want | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| layer. But you may -- unconsciously or vaguely half-consciously -- feel that you, as a mature and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| a totally different direction from the one you half-consciously fear and assume. The moment you know that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |