| Inactivated.................6 | |
| your real being. Your real being is simply inactivated by your distorted perception of reality, of certain | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the degree to which this no-current can be inactivated by awareness and observation, and the measure of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have numbed your feelings, the inner self is inactivated. It alone is capable of making you and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| must be the other, even if one is inactivated at the moment. Knowing this makes it possible | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| non-organic, distorted way -- all power currents become inactivated, short-circuited. What the mind holds true actually happens | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| for your own innermost, best forces are automatically inactivated by this wrong combination. The negativity thus generated | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Inactive....................9 | |
| prepared. In another case, a talent is left inactive, and may only emerge depending on certain circumstances | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| however, that the state of being is entirely inactive; the activity, however, is of a different kind | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inwardly patient. The person who is outwardly completely inactive may be in an inner state of impatience | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| others, they are withdrawn, held back, and made inactive. Your innermost nature rebels against such great frustration | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is more difficult to overcome because it is inactive. Sloth paralyzes the faculties, and thus lasts longer | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| your personality. In physical sickness, the body remains inactive for some time in the places affected by | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| The result is that you become paralyzed and inactive in body, soul, and mind. This inactivity keeps | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| in so many people for a seemingly desirable inactive life. It is not enough to say that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| token, the practice of leaving the mind temporarily inactive is advisable, and I recommend it myself. But | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Inactivity..................9 | |
| know, signifies among other things the day of inactivity, the day of rest. In life, everyone has | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But since people are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer activity may be all the stronger | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| if it is purely constructive -- not inertia, inactivity or laziness - - can only be an | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unnecessary delay, do not consider this interval of inactivity in the group and in private work as | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so bad that you must bind yourself into inactivity, into holding back, into non- movement toward the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and inactive in body, soul, and mind. This inactivity keeps you from moving into your own nucleus | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| leave everything to God to justify their own inactivity, also fail to fulfill themselves. They seem to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| why so many people find themselves paralyzed in inactivity and stagnation. Temporarily, people will hold themselves back | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| necessary on all levels. Relaxation does not mean inactivity, paralysis, being slumped in unmoving unaliveness. Quite the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Inadequacies................5 | |
| hidden. Subconsciously you do register your imperfections and inadequacies and, although you do not want to face | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| It forfeits the healthy acceptance of one's own inadequacies, which enables the personality to learn healthy humility | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| guilt. With the proper attitude, you accept your inadequacies and face up to them. In the world | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a neutral topic, but when personal guilts and inadequacies enter into the picture, which is inevitable in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| by your problems. So you whisk away these inadequacies by experiencing their opposite in fantasy. It is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Inadequacy..................46 | |
| Inevitably the result must be a feeling of inadequacy and inferiority. Since you do not know that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is the real reason for your feelings of inadequacy and inferiority! This truth is borne out by | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| less brilliant, less successful, or less beautiful. This inadequacy and inferiority serve to further close the great | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| desire. This, in turn, causes acute feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, of regret and guilt. For the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and guilt, increasing the feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. There is also another reaction. The personality cannot | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| disaster if you have to accept your own inadequacy. Yet you cannot find out that this is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Only after accepting your own or the other's inadequacy in the areas where heretofore you could hardly | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you will come face to face with your inadequacy, but this encounter, instead of weakening you will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world. If your fear of life and the inadequacy of others is not to some degree eliminated | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| whether or not you learn to accept your inadequacy, and whether or not you learn to free | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is engendered, and a burden of guilt and inadequacy is added to it. In society, technical advancement | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a renewed doubt in yourself. The feelings of inadequacy and inferiority are thus fed anew. Outer will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you gain the self-respect which reduces the very inadequacy and self-contempt that make you weak and fearful | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| would feel extremely frustrated and their sense of inadequacy would grow rather than diminish. Only by exploring | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of which are based on a feeling of inadequacy and closely connected with the sense of I | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fear of success usually is: (1) feelings of inadequacy; (2) lack of self- responsibility, even if only | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| force to overcome your insecurity, your feelings of inadequacy. You use it to gain respect, power, admiration | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong and induces guilt, shame, a feeling of inadequacy, and therefore frustration and self-contempt. Let us now | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| basic factor in your feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. The destructive defense mechanism, trying to do justice | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as personal rejection and as proof of your inadequacy. You can relinquish this attitude only through fully | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of seeming to receive proof of your worthlessness, inadequacy and unlovability -- your being nothing. Of course | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in truth. Still another is a feeling of inadequacy when not being able to reach or persuade | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| accept what we experience due to our own inadequacy and fears. When one achieves this feeling, there | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your idealized self-image, your self-glorification, your feelings of inadequacy and your lack of self-confidence. There isn't a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| way that exactly opposes your deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. You correct your undesirable reality with | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| on finding the root of your sense of inadequacy and eliminating it. In living through such fantasies | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the accumulated inner pressure, with the accompanying helplessness, inadequacy, and confusion, is the final result. It is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| feeling is caused by an original sense of inadequacy, and continuing to run away increases that sense | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| continuing to run away increases that sense of inadequacy. Only as you change this pattern will you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| dislike of others is the erroneous feeling of inadequacy when life and others do not respond to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| always a compensation for feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. That the effects of your pride must lead | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| other hand, his fears of life and his inadequacy to cope with it, project onto this God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the confusion of the mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| There is fear of exposure to failure and inadequacy, in other words pride. There is desire for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to enhance the ego, to diminish feelings of inadequacy, to feel wanted and desired because one feels | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| if you do not say No, a specific inadequacy and shame would have to be tackled. It | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| be tackled. It is, of course, no real inadequacy or real shame, but you unconsciously think so | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| accruing from it. Or, you may fear your inadequacy to obtain or maintain it. Wanting a goal | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| equipped to solve your problem of rejection and inadequacy -- a problem that does not exist. As | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| dint of your feelings of helpless weakness and inadequacy, others assume the role of giants against whom | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| assume it to mean relapse and your personal inadequacy. Thus you become discouraged, fall into despair and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority. To the degree these feelings are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| criticized, as well as feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. Perhaps you may perceive here or there a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| vague anxiety and the feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy which result from your not knowing that you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| anxiety, depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness. All these are indubitable signs that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| that the childhood pain existed because of personal inadequacy which the individual is too ashamed to expose | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Inadequate..................36 | |
| and cannot be different. Words are, as usual, inadequate; it is hard to force the concepts into | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| provoking the unhappiness make you feel even more inadequate, the world even more cruel and unfair. Needless | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| know, in your God-image this god seems unjust, inadequate, weak, and therefore arbitrary and cruel. As such | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| should I submit to this cruel, vindictive, vengeful, inadequate god who inflicts so much suffering on us | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Obviously, the illusion that you must never be inadequate leads to your rejection of self- responsibility, and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| women suppress their opposite trends, feeling guilty and inadequate about them. Needless to say that this is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is always based on your feeling weak and inadequate. By coming to terms with your confusions, by | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that it is not you who are too inadequate to be loved, but that the substitute layer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that others may smile about you, find you inadequate. Or, perhaps, your question may reveal a basic | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| questions concisely. Even if the first questions are inadequate, it does not matter. From these first questions | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| next semester. I realize that this comparison is inadequate, but in some way it is like that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of awareness and buried, so that they remain inadequate and destructive, even though the person is unaware | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| because the rules and regulations are mostly so inadequate that you are left with nothing to hold | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| get, even though it may be often utterly inadequate. Your blindness encourages the childish greed to reach | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to the situation in an appropriate way. Such inadequate response cannot fail to set negative chain reactions | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| frustration, but this way has proven not only inadequate, it actually brings you much more of what | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| as the error of believing yourself to be inadequate. The criticism would not damage you at all | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| helper and I found that I have an inadequate concept of a human being. What is a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a clear understanding of how they are erroneous, inadequate, destructive, disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| stilling the clamoring voice by outer, and therefore inadequate, illusory means. The only realistic way of meeting | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are under the basic misconception that you are inadequate and cannot succeed, this conviction will make you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that you lack success not because you are inadequate, but you are inadequate because you think you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not because you are inadequate, but you are inadequate because you think you are and fear any | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| across. Then you believe that you are so inadequate that you cannot even successfully pretend; yet if | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| afraid, in one way or another, of being inadequate, of being rejected, of being looked down upon | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| There is this fear that you may be inadequate to fulfill this role; there is the fear | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| If the choice of the love object is inadequate, it is precisely a result of immaturity, illusion | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| become tremendously frightened and insecure. They must feel inadequate, and their sense of life, of living, of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| insufficient and must leave the individual uncertain, insecure, inadequate. The real self, on the other hand, always | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| good versus bad. As you know, this is inadequate for approaching most of life's problems. Apart from | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the personality's freedom from fear. These words are inadequate to describe the state called self-realization. But they | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| mind. Nothing renders the individual so insecure and inadequate as the incapacity for love and intimacy. Nothing | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the knowledge that you never need to feel inadequate and helpless again, for the source of all | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| self so that despair about being bad, weak, inadequate, will fall by the wayside. Many people meditate | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Hence you are afraid and feel shaky and inadequate. But when your own feelings can be experienced | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you frightened? Are you insecure? Do you feel inadequate? Do you feel an inexplicable anxiety and tension | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |