| Improvement.................30 | |
| of the real ecstasy a steady and permanent improvement of the life of the ecstatic? ANSWER: Yes | 18 FREE WILL |
| the ecstatic? ANSWER: Yes, certainly! But this permanent improvement often and mostly begins much before ecstasy is | 18 FREE WILL |
| human estimation, come to the point where this improvement is felt. This happens first in one's state | 18 FREE WILL |
| the whole, a steady, permanent, and very real improvement must be noticeable long before reaching a state | 18 FREE WILL |
| path does not mean a constant and smooth improvement of yourself and your life conditions. This again | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you had not suspected, constitutes a sign of improvement. It strongly implies good progress, for without going | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will be a sign of unification and spiritual improvement. However, until such time, there will be and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self that always wants to avoid purification and improvement. Now, my dear friends, let us examine the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| in turn, will only bear fruit if spiritual improvement follows, at least to some degree. So science | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| discovered right away. In a roundabout way scientific improvement must lead to the same spiritual reality as | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of the old image or illusion, no technical improvement would have extended life. Another mass image is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are perfect. There you do not need further improvement and practice. Learn now to see the other | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| minor success in this exercise will bring marked improvement in many ways. In addition to the benefits | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it with the perhaps unexpressed attitude that immediate improvement must occur in your life, you will make | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that one has accepted fully. QUESTION: Isn't lasting improvement also a yardstick? ANSWER: Yes. What I said | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes. What I said before leads to lasting improvement. Such lasting improvement is bound to come if | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| said before leads to lasting improvement. Such lasting improvement is bound to come if such an experience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obstructions and finally resolving them. To expect lasting improvement simply because you have had such an experience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience influences one's actions and attitude to obtain improvement through one's efforts, courage, and humility. There is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is certainly not easy to judge what constitutes improvement. As you all know, actual change is such | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the other hand, it may mean great improvement if you can begin to accept yourself as | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answered in part. It has to do with improvement on the path. Does the improvement occur automatically | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do with improvement on the path. Does the improvement occur automatically through self-recognition, or is there any | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you understand -- and this is a great improvement -- not only that this is so, but | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| take the first tentative steps. When the temporary improvement is not followed through, the person is blinded | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| there is less to see because of your improvement. Close scrutiny of your emotions is a number | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| encounter. And each new contact will be an improvement until you are no longer afraid of people | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| speak up and confront a situation that requires improvement. How then can an unhampered giving of love | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| skin, in the suppleness of your form. The improvement will come in varying degrees, but it is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| many words. There is a great need for improvement in the educational system on both these levels | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Improvements................8 | |
| hand in hand with the technical and scientific improvements which, in turn, will only bear fruit if | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| do not deny this. But because of these improvements, the mass image did change, and as this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| this particular mass image began to dissolve, the improvements could be realized. It works both ways. One | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| This may be unnoticed by anyone else. Real improvements are often subtle. QUESTION: My question has already | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see that this is so. Reforms and general improvements exist in a genuine and lasting way exactly | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| We are planning to make some changes and improvements in the discussion sessions. Would you have any | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| They are unimportant. Trial and error, and the improvements you will make along the way will come | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that it may appear almost coincidental. The outer improvements may or may not coincide with ideas and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Improving...................3 | |
| or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its very nature it works against | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| state of helpless endurance, instead of correcting, healing, improving and preventing negative occurrences in the future. When | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| beings have many means at their disposal for improving their circulation, but these must not be executed | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Impulse.....................25 | |
| some of the oriental religions. ANSWER: The sexual impulse in the infantile and immature personality is entirely | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the immature and primitive personality experiences the sex impulse in an entirely selfish and separated way it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remain unconscious. It may be an urge, an impulse that is not formulated and of which one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| out. The outer result must respond to the impulse which is unconscious. The more you advance on | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| way. Love, kindled by eros and the sex impulse, can flower more easily than in other relationships | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| it is nourished by eros and the sex impulse. Without these elements the separation is more difficult | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| imagined selfishness. Every time a rightful and healthy impulse for self-expression manifests, you feel and think of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| time from following through with a positive, creative impulse because, as you are now seriously convinced, it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| life, you are bound to see how every impulse related to this outlook creates fear and insecurity | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| unselfishness: all that is despicable, and whenever an impulse of this sort is suspected, the aggressive type | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| have discovered a negative motivation or a destructive impulse inverted into a forceful compulsive superstandard. QUESTION: Why | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a few days after the event. Your first impulse will be to be angry at yourself for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fleeting pleasure of giving in to any destructive impulse. The real relief of being in truth can | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| bound to dissolve the negative feeling. Confusing the impulse with the deed and therefore denying both, results | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| resulting in a well-developed ability to love, the impulse rarely arises to examine these areas and compare | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| others and therefore feel ashamed of any genuine impulse to please others. They therefore feel more themselves | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| must exist in both instances, for the natural impulse, the spontaneous urge, is to give abundantly -- | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| not gratifying your need. You secretly feel an impulse to be so bad that you must bind | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in you, you diminish the force of the impulse to hurt. You understand that such impulses are | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and experience how this or that specific hostile impulse was originally a good force. When you understand | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| all these counts. It is never a destructive impulse itself that presents the real damage and harm | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| so typical. You negate everything about your destructive impulse. You are thus confronted with an insoluble predicament | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the individual not to do that. Admitting the impulse but not acting on it requires inner prayer | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| those earlier periods, people were governed merely by impulse and desire. What was immediately gratifying seemed good | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to this. The word is the first creative impulse. The word is the expression of an intent | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Impulses....................96 | |
| could now be developed to overcome the evil impulses of their lower nature. The change that began | 21 THE FALL |
| your lower self, with giving in to the impulses of your lower self in your deeds. There | 31 SHAME |
| the conscious desire is the weaker of two impulses, since the unconscious is always stronger. The unconscious | 38 IMAGES |
| many ways similar to love. It brings forth impulses a human being would not have otherwise: impulses | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| impulses a human being would not have otherwise: impulses of unselfishness and affection he or she might | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| person will, while this feeling lasts, have unselfish impulses. Lazy people will get out of their inertia | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| often brings greater disadvantage than resisting such selfish impulses. At this level, the entity has outgrown the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| show them openly. Thus they hide the destructive impulses and thereby create obstructions and conflicts way down | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the process of suppression of all desires and impulses, the childish and therefore actually selfish ones cannot | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a consequence, your legitimate and healthy desires and impulses, which are not selfish in the least, cannot | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| actually acting out your most childish and selfish impulses rather than your legitimate and healthy ones. This | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you to choose to act upon your healthy impulses; instead, you pick the most drastic examples for | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your experiment. The drastic examples are the selfish impulses. Only by a growing awareness and conscious discrimination | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to become completely aware of all your wishes, impulses, and motives. Only in that way can you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| They find out that their legitimate desires and impulses were suppressed, but this discovery also brings out | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| It is not necessary to act out selfish impulses. You have more options than the two alternatives | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| people in therapy often display their newly discovered impulses that analysis is often accused of making people | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is in reality a response to your destructive impulses, no matter how hidden and unconscious they are | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you. It consists of the compulsive drives and impulses which you unconsciously think you have to express | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| against these wrong conclusions, are unreal. All the impulses and drives you employ in their service are | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| In your world of unreality, unreal and untrue impulses operate. They can no more function in reality | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| feelings underneath and the compulsive manipulations, drives, and impulses which you confuse with your feelings. The real | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| devil and therefore I must sublimate my fleshly impulses and spiritualize them. This leads to repression, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and superiority, excessive demands and often even cruel impulses toward others. The underlying core always produces shame | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not advanced enough to be free of destructive impulses, the laws to prevent such destruction need not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to protect society from their untamed and destructive impulses. The truly divine can function only in free | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| expect yourself to be quite free of negative impulses and emotions and to reject yourself because they | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| alternatives are either acting out these untamed, destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| growth that must eventually make you outgrow destructive impulses. But where this cannot yet happen because you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| far developed, you need not act out those impulses but should simply take note of them. You | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| proposed that people should act out their destructive impulses. It is one thing to be heedlessly and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| because you think that disapproval of your immoral impulses means disapproval of yourself as a whole. Now | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| bear, I must look away from my destructive impulses and hope that by my looking away they | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| life in fantasy removes aggression, hostility and destructive impulses. Another benefit is daydreams act as symptoms. How | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive impulses to manifest. But when it comes to the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Of course the immature soul has many destructive impulses which can only be checked by self-discipline. But | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| life; about growing out of these very destructive impulses. I talk about the birth of the real | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| between two unsatisfactory alternatives: either letting all destructive impulses loose, or incarcerating the living spirit of truth | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| enter, along with the actual self-important and destructive impulses you also hide some of your most creative | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| some of your most creative and inherently constructive impulses -- out of mere misunderstanding. Impulses and instincts | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| inherently constructive impulses -- out of mere misunderstanding. Impulses and instincts which are potentially productive and life-giving | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| lower self in certain of your reactions and impulses. Observe how you tend to immediately push them | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the most constructive and creative life-force and the impulses that would free the life-force. It is an | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and when you learn to look at the impulses coming from it and realize that although this | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| same time, they have violent, rebellious and cruel impulses. This is exactly the stage humankind went through | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the unitive drive. Hence one fears all natural impulses toward union. One fears the self which produces | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| union. One fears the self which produces the impulses and then, as a protection, one creates a | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fears and fights in himself. The winner fears impulses of genuine affection as much as fearing weakness | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The loser fears the resentments and the selfish impulses because the striving for goodness according to false | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| I may have to let out these undesirable impulses and do harm to others and therefore ultimately | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| also a protection against their own contradictory responses, impulses, and reactions. Under such circumstances, it might even | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| permits the person to follow the most selfish impulses without open detection. Indifference may not be as | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of the severest forms is that of cruel impulses. Cruelty will truly cease to exist in the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| misinterpretation. Question closely why you have these cruel impulses. As you do so, acknowledge what hurts you | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| side of the coin -- namely, the cruel impulses in themselves. Others may be acutely aware of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| act -- in the way that induces cruel impulses in you? Acknowledge precisely what it is that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| do; for human beings are often governed by impulses and drives they can very glibly rationalize but | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| see that this is so. You fear the impulses of the larger, wiser self, but cannot want | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| display one's best, one's most loving and generous impulses; it seems much easier and less embarrassing to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the impulse to hurt. You understand that such impulses are conditioned reflexes, that you are not fundamentally | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it in exact ratio to facing the very impulses you feel most guilty and ashamed about. Then | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the feeling of unacceptability with the newly-faced sadistic impulses. That connection is the important thing. When the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by the causal connection of unacceptability and sadistic impulses, then you will be on the way to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prison. This is the prerequisite. Gradually, the sadistic impulses will lessen and the feeling of acceptability and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not only because you lose the sadistic, primitive impulses, but primarily because of the courage and truthfulness | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difficulty here is that these forces, these cruel impulses are so contradictory to the image people have | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature that was less than saintly. If such impulses would have been known, you would have been | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| under the misconception that only you harbor such impulses, except for some very bad people. No one | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one who is at all valuable has such impulses. What is, perhaps, most important here is the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only vaguely conscious -- fear that these unacceptable impulses, desires and emotions are your true nature, that | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are. When you truly understand that these cruel impulses are not the last and final reality about | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not mean license to act out destructive impulses. Some people may misunderstand. You mean by freedom | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| perhaps even vindictiveness and varying degrees of cruel impulses. This, in turn, weakens the personality even more | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| them into suffering. Thus, they indulged their destructive impulses. At later stages, humans learned that acting out | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| self-discipline to keep from giving in to primitive impulses. You will appreciate the importance of this step | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and destructive, its self-perpetuating nature creates highly damaging impulses and compulsions. This is why it is so | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| willpower to hold back, to discipline all spontaneous impulses. When this consciousness grows and the negativity of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| clear to you why you must constrain those impulses in the first place when you must eventually | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| cannot be put to use, so that when impulses come to the surface, they dominate. Will and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| activating principle then threatens to express these destructive impulses. There are many men as well as women | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| they have no compunction about expressing their destructive impulses. They do not mind activating the masculine principle | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| and reactions begin to respond to new spontaneous impulses. And these, in turn, bring forth new life | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| conviction exists, suspicion is natural. Suspicion creates ungenerous impulses and attitudes. It is in itself ungenerous to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| position where they can guiltlessly express their destructive impulses for an overtly destructive cause, such as crime | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| momentary satisfaction you give in to these destructive impulses? When questions like these are clearly worked out | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to give in again and again to destructive impulses. Such giving in does not necessarily result in | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you find a way to accept your destructive impulses and desires without condoning them; to understand them | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with them. You must learn to evaluate such impulses and desires realistically, without falling into the trap | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| greatest hatred, the most spiteful vindictiveness, the worst impulses of cruelty, if honestly and squarely admitted, neither | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| not having faced all your confusions and destructive impulses. No matter how much you have done it | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Ages were apt to act out their cruel impulses. They were not capable of separating themselves sufficiently | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not capable of separating themselves sufficiently from their impulses in order to identify them, own up to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| less encumbered by distortions, misconceptions, negativity, and destructive impulses, the more reliable become its choices. This applies | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| willfully destroys this life, acting out its worst impulses despite all its favorable manifestations. Thus the personality | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| would have been chaos, and the most destructive impulses would have been acted out to a much | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| they identify with evil. Underneath this restraint, strong impulses exist, but they are very threatening. Such submitting | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |