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the fault. Yet, generally, people are more easily inclined to make some material sacrifice with which to 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
who do not give them pleasure. They are inclined to apply what was true for them before 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
need to or cannot do it. They are inclined to cling to what is easiest. But what 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
not harboring any negative thoughts that they are inclined to push all negative thoughts into their subconscious 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
happiness comes from the lower self, they are inclined to quarrel with God and destiny whenever they 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
If you are an artist or are artistically inclined, you know how to determine a good, genuine 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
you. If your fault is that you are inclined to furious outbursts, you will have a specialist 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
impossible to accuse you and will even be inclined to contradict your self-accusations; thus the ego is 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
cannot change circumstances or other people. People are inclined to revolt inwardly when things do not go 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
of the laws of God. You often feel inclined to say that something is too difficult for 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
the causes behind this inability, you are often inclined to give up altogether, and you tell yourself 38 IMAGES
what to do with them. You will be inclined to say, What next? How does it help 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
well understood. Woman is by nature more emotionally inclined. Man is by nature more spiritually, or on 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
spiritually, or on a lower level, more intellectually inclined. By that I do not mean that he 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
respective mass image. Then they will not feel inclined to break the image for some time to 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
or her best. You human beings are always inclined to judge everyone alike. We cannot do so 47 THE WALL WITHIN
tendency, but until then a person will be inclined to hold on to others' opinions. Another motive 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
which one of these two extremes you are inclined to lean. QUESTION: What would be the connection 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
possible that a negative and weak person, destructively inclined, has incarnated sooner than was good for him 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
scientist, for instance, while woman is more spiritually inclined. This has been built up by society. But 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
something else. Just because woman is more intuitively inclined, she is more open to the spiritual forces 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is an altogether different matter. Spirits are often inclined to take advice from their dear ones on 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
there is a mistaken idea in many metaphysically inclined circles. Their measure of spiritual progress is whether 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
another attitude, often chosen when people are more inclined to be hopeless of ever getting from others 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
not make as much difference as you are inclined to believe. You seem to think that if 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
themselves in a hopeless depression will be less inclined to hide. Instead, they will go to those 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
to do something your little ego is not inclined to do, or to give up something which 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
goes on this path, the less one is inclined to take one opposite and put it up 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
instrument of purification and self-recognition if one is inclined to use it. By withdrawing from this challenge 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
you will be more in truth and less inclined to act out the evil, which you sometimes 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
concentrating on those very aspects you feel least inclined to deal with. That is the very reason 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
will fear much less. You will be less inclined to hide and whitewash and be a-tremble of 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
often pride themselves as being not even religiously inclined at all. So their violent reactions against the 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
was totally lacking. Today even the least spiritually inclined individuals experience your entire planet in very different 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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This heightened pleasure includes the physical level. Such inclusion comes, in turn, from facing death and suffering 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation, beauty, love, inclusion, union, pleasure supreme. Whenever this direction is counteracted 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
pull toward the light, toward wholeness, toward loving, inclusion and constructiveness, toward beauty and unfoldment. Your denial 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
moves eternally toward further unfoldment, greater happiness, more inclusion. You do not stop this movement with your 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
switch from destructiveness to constructiveness, from separateness to inclusion. You must use the power to become aware 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
only useful definition is that whatever furthers unity, inclusion, expansion, union, and manifests the benign nature of 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
This defense must exclude all attitudes of openness, inclusion, movement toward the other -- that is, love 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
and meditation. Without this constant interfacing, without the inclusion of all these levels, development would be lopsided 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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positive attitude. When you are outgoing, constructive, open, inclusive, all things go easily. You do not have 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
up the destructiveness and turn to a constructive, inclusive, friendly attitude toward life and others. You still 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
inner climate must prevail, producing a life-affirming, positive, inclusive attitude. The person who, inwardly or outwardly, rebels 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
of itself, the experience is hardly ever that inclusive of all of one's being. You are most 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
as static, very limited and exclusive, rather than inclusive. Therefore perfection deteriorates into perfectionism. When this happens 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
 
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and peace that come from this realization are incomparable. No good that comes to you from the 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
patterns of thinking and reacting, will discover the incomparable treasure within you. Then the word sacrifice becomes 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
And you will experience at some time the incomparable peace of no longer fearing what you do 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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the subtle and unconscious factor it is. The incompatibility creates the fear of success. I shall now 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
love, we have to also talk about emotional incompatibility. ANSWER: Of course, will is determined also by 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
out of itself. As to the question of incompatibility, I do not quite understand what it is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
toward a human relationship where there is an incompatibility, then the whole thing is wrong, if such 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will be answered. If there is such an incompatibility, it is just because the will -- of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
to be. That is how such problems of incompatibility come into existence. QUESTION: I would like to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you is. The artificiality of it creates an incompatibility between your inner personality and the universal power 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
quite often when frustration is ascribed to sexual incompatibility, the sexual incompatibility may not be a result 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
frustration is ascribed to sexual incompatibility, the sexual incompatibility may not be a result of an absence 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
 
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begin answering it. Self-responsibility is not only completely incompatible with irresponsibility, but it is the very opposite 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
should be the byproduct of real success, is incompatible with the separate state; even when this separate 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
false religion encourages and teaches it, is completely incompatible with the idea that a free human being 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you will realize how preposterous they are; how incompatible with your conscious belief; how contrary to your 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the existence of such emotions which are probably incompatible with the image you have of yourself. If 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
always the same: When a truth is split, incompatible aspects appear on the horizon, and create confusion 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
individuality. This is so because your demands are incompatible with reality as you know it. Most of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
confirm the contention that reality and pleasure are incompatible. To a lesser degree, this can be found 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and conviction that happiness and unselfishness are not incompatible. QUESTION: You said in the last lecture that 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
Therefore, faith and hope are not contradictory, nor incompatible, nor just something remotely connected with this path 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
you were probably shocked to find out how incompatible they were with your conscious concept of yourself 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
This is so because split and harmony are incompatible, and therefore as the split mends through comprehension 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
direction creates, and is created by, various attitudes incompatible with the origin of all life. The spiritual 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
to, the outer ego. This outer ego is incompatible with the unified world of all good since 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
such as excitement and peace. They must seem incompatible opposites that cannot be reconciled, so that the 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
flow will stream without obstruction. When conditions are incompatible, it is blocked. According to how the unblocking 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
less taut intensity which is foreign to and incompatible with the universal power. This very intensity may 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
real self's functioning. But this is certainly not incompatible with living in a body on this earth 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
by trying to cheat life, you make yourself incompatible with the laws and power of your own 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
the ego is attached to attitudes which are incompatible with the laws of the greater reality. If 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is attached to a destructive attitude, it is incompatible with the universal forces. Therefore when it lets 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is inevitable when the outer, ego personality is incompatible with the universal self. If the superior universal 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
This is ungenerous and untrusting. This attitude is incompatible with the nature of the divine center, so 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
to risk is ungenerous. And anything ungenerous is incompatible with the nature of the power you wish 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
logical laws. If your character and attitudes are incompatible with the laws of the greater power deep 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
psyche, if I may use this expression, are incompatible with the bliss that you long for. This 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
your psychic organism so totally alien to and incompatible with the bliss that is, by right, your 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
Such a forced act would be unnatural and incompatible with organic development. Its effects might be worse 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
state of soul and body that is essentially incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
greyness. The power of the universal spirit is incompatible with the slow-moving energy of evil, defense, unexperienced 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
a cheap imitation, and rotten. When these two incompatible types of material become inextricably mixed, the structure 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL

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