| Incidents...................43 | |
| proofs anymore, you will receive them abundantly. These incidents will just be an additional confirmation for you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and examine your own reactions to the various incidents that have taken place during the day. This | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| a clear pattern emerging. At first, these disharmonious incidents will appear entirely unconnected and isolated; they will | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| even in your daily lives, even in small incidents. So, spiritual worlds did exist for a very | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the child can hear and remember them. Such incidents may happen and are allowed to happen occasionally | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness. All this does not only apply to incidents of the kind you have quoted, but to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out. Listen to your feelings in connection with incidents that have always brought out this trend in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| but, due to their existence in your soul, incidents have occurred in your life that brought them | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the day in response to often seemingly unimportant incidents. If you try to formulate concisely an unpleasant | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| all daily review notes through and recollect the incidents, with your reactions. See whether you can at | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| hidden. In cases where there have been actual incidents, consider the details with discretion and tact. When | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| some cases it would be beneficial if such incidents were brought to the inner circle. The time | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of an image is the repetition of certain incidents in one's life. An image always forms some | 38 IMAGES |
| one lifetime to another. That is why certain incidents do not form an image in people who | 38 IMAGES |
| to adjust to the world. Happy or unhappy incidents in your life, favorable or unfavorable happenings, will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the emotions you register in the most casual incidents of your life? What is the emotion you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| interpretation of your reactions and feelings in certain incidents, on certain occasions. Now we come to the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| negative situations, so that you can collect unhappy incidents, injustices, injuries, wrongs, and hurts. Once you recognize | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you analyze your emotions in such, or similar incidents, you will discover without a doubt that the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| sleep, although you will rarely remember them as incidents. As I have said, the knowledge will simply | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| direction and examining your emotional reactions to certain incidents, you will become aware of the abyss of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a victim. You could link up all unfavorable incidents with your own wrong attitudes, no matter how | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to do so in the most apparent everyday incidents. It takes training to condition yourself to follow | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| -- which is how your emotions register such incidents at present. As you thus grow and mature | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have an unreal idea of the importance that incidents or the reactions of others have for you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| have said so often, is to take daily incidents and work with them. That is not difficult | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| instrument of assimilation. As you assimilate life, the incidents which could truly become an experience by proper | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| response. Visualize the soul forces, and then remember incidents in which you were involved on either end | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| come changes in your reactions to life, to incidents, to yourself and others. This changed reaction will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| how you fear exposure of certain reactions and incidents and how you avoid them. Examining these ingrained | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| may have an overly strong reaction to little incidents, such as a person being unfriendly or unpleasant | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| In depressions one may be calm. In happy incidents, one becomes overstimulated, and, in a way, disharmonious | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is joy without harmony. It applies to happy incidents, not causing sadness, but rather the opposite, while | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to negative but also to positive or favorable incidents. This dramatizing is based on the childish view | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| When you review how you reacted to certain incidents, you will be able to ask yourself whether | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is absolutely no one left who knew them, incidents will occur to you that you had never | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| from your perception. All of a sudden these incidents will take on a new meaning, enabling you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to have the healthy elasticity to quickly assimilate incidents according to their real significance. Needless to say | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| fear death, whether you consciously experience it in incidents when your life is, or seems, endangered, or | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| you adversely. This applies not only to unhappy incidents, but equally to favorable events. They often retard | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| character in understanding and forgiving. Many such little incidents loosen up the block of withholding that causes | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| for you. The interpretation you give to those incidents is exaggerated and distorted a hundredfold. You need | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| others are the clues. Examine them. In the incidents in your life, and your reactions to them | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Incisive....................3 | |
| you. Thus, step two is of the most incisive importance. It means knowing your power, your selfhood | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| The unmanifest levels are much more real and incisive than the manifest level. Hence, your negative intentionality | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| ego, have to be recognized with a very incisive, sharp self-honesty for what they are. Denial, rationalization | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Inclination.................22 | |
| changeover. The same is valid for the human inclination to worship God as a person as against | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in pursuing your spiritual development and through your inclination to take the line of least resistance. You | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| who were much darker spirits, the very strong inclination existed -- comparatively speaking -- to strive upward | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| same category -- who have a very strong inclination toward the good, but the discrepancy between good | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is a mistake to advocate one's own inclination for all. So some human beings may combine | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| also understand what the underlying motive for men's inclination to be unfaithful is. Women tend much more | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is that under existing conditions, a comparatively small inclination will not be considered a sickness. It will | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| process of maturing. Outer influences may encourage the inclination unnecessarily, while the personality may otherwise grow out | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of clarification to a person who has an inclination to bondage. The growing child strives for love | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to do so, does not matter. The mere inclination is sufficient for you to feel this as | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| single important action or constant pattern, habit or inclination in us that has exclusively healthy motives? ANSWER | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| some imbalance. There may be a strong unconscious inclination to lose power over the self because the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the denial of death. However, due to an inclination to arrive at the result through shortcuts in | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| value system of a society. Due to people's inclination to laziness, they blindly follow what is established | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| situation. In fact, a human being's natural, original inclination before any distortion has taken place is to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| greater your inner negative intention and the less inclination you have to deal with it. This correlation | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to sustain the resistance against the soul's natural inclination to follow its destiny. This unconscious effort then | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| manifests -- not necessarily in action, but in inclination -- reveals one's whole character with all one's | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| paralyzed. If this denial is removed, the sexual inclination may show up character tendencies such as finding | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| repressed, they may show up in a sexual inclination to be hurt, humiliated, or rejected. There are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you are already aware of your stake and inclination to distort rather than be impartial to the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| this longing impossible by blocking your soul's natural inclination toward surrender. All truly good things can come | 254 SURRENDER |
| Inclinations................15 | |
| their personalities, on their personal tastes, talents, and inclinations. There may be one spirit who is intensely | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| created up to the present, its special talents, inclinations, characteristics, and the personality trends that brought it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not always according to your creative abilities and inclinations, and therefore not according to your liking or | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not consider the obstacles, nor respect other people's inclinations; if it does not take into account the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| mind. The unconscious motivations, attitudes, driving forces, and inclinations are from the soul and the deeper regions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| his or her feelings and emotions, attitudes and inclinations. In other words, it determines the quality of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the pathwork is finding the true values, constructive inclinations, thoughts and feelings that you hold down artificially | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| create their lives in accordance with their personal inclinations. Happiness or unhappiness is the result of the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| as long as the ego's aims, attitudes and inclinations are diametrically opposed to the laws of the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ruthless selfishness somewhere underground as far as emotional inclinations are concerned. These underground tendencies may erupt at | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| but under the guise of following your spiritual inclinations refuse to face whatever is in you, this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the rest of the person as if such inclinations were purely a matter of taste, or inborn | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and loudly it speaks through a person's sexual inclinations, whether allowed to manifest or denied and repressed | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| questions may be pointers to the spirit's special inclinations and directions. Answer them again and again as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| life. It is the individual characteristics and personal inclinations of each entity that determine which of these | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |