| Indulging...................14 | |
| fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of indulging in resignation that is not only unnecessary but | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| same in other subtle little reactions? Instead of indulging in the death fantasy, you can punish your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| out your selfishness. You can recognize it without indulging in any selfish or damaging conduct. But you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of your problems. Instead of repressing daydreams or indulging in them without trying to observe and understand | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| drawing a wall of isolation around the person indulging in such a destructive activity of the mind | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that you can ward off real unhappiness by indulging in a false one. You express it with | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| part from the precarious pleasure you derive from indulging in destructive feelings and attitudes. This may evolve | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| when it is a result of self-indulgence, of indulging in a destructive line of least resistance, maintaining | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| longings from this point of view, rather than indulging in the usual assumption that one is unlucky | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of negativity within you and stay in it, indulging in it, because you have now found a | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| your path you still had the habit of indulging considerably in daydreaming. Perhaps even without really noticing | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| live in the pseudo-solution of loving yourself by indulging yourself, by blaming others, by excusing and justifying | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you love yourself in the true way, without indulging your lower self and its childish demands, you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| with the divine will of loving yourself without indulging yourself, without whitewashing your lower self, seeing it | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Indwelling..................12 | |
| surface, the individual often feels as though an indwelling destructive entity, over which there is no control | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| own up to and feel responsible for this indwelling entity. You connect with it and can identify | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| The struggle between the educated ego and the indwelling destructive element ceases as soon as the outer | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fear. For as long as you fear the indwelling negativity, you must also fear the indwelling power | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the indwelling negativity, you must also fear the indwelling power for positive experience and unfoldment. You will | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| cocreator in the universe. It means finding the indwelling creative powers. All this, and more, is the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| positive attitude is constantly obstructed and fought by indwelling negativity and destructiveness. No matter how much it | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| evil is understanding its original nature and the indwelling possibility that it may manifest again in its | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| need exists if you listen to the universal indwelling spirit. Every solution to every problem will unfold | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| every problem will unfold if you trust this indwelling spirit. Seek it and you will know your | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| and to conceive of themselves according to their indwelling potentials. A true exemplary figure inspires you to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| lives. This is a commitment to the all-consciousness indwelling in every creature. It can be called by | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Ineffable...................4 | |
| division of the different worlds -- from the Ineffable to the Outer Darkness? If not, it is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are designated in various gradations. Immediately below The Ineffable, or the House of God as we call | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| can you slowly come to sense, in an ineffable way that cannot be conveyed in words, what | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to bliss, to oneness -- and therefore to ineffable peace. You can no longer doubt the design | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Ineffective.................16 | |
| inner wall is partly your goodwill that is ineffective because of wrong conclusions and ignorance. Do not | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| back it may be, the divine substance is ineffective to the degree of the strength of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| You will grasp that your former unselfishness was ineffective because it was false, not because unselfishness as | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| was false, not because unselfishness as such is ineffective. This approach will lead you safely into emotional | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not sustained by similar emotions, is not only ineffective but even harmful for the personality -- at | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| so to speak. This truth, then, will be ineffective because the motives are wrong, the underlying feelings | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their service are equally unreal, imaginary, and therefore ineffective and damaging. They are the superimposed layers, which | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are often not obeyed. When the rules prove ineffective, your insecurity is increased for two reasons: 1 | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not recognized that the defense is destructive and ineffective, that in fact it brings you the very | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was, the remedy must also be false and ineffective. Let us further assume that this same mother | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in order to dispel it and render it ineffective. Please repeat this in your daily meditation -- | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| they are not balanced, each way produces inappropriate, ineffective, and even destructive results. It is important for | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pressuring the resisting part is as useless and ineffective as accepting its direct refusal to budge. When | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you invariably become weak, and your fight is ineffective. Effective fight, healthy aggression, becomes possible only when | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| energy and emanation of others will be totally ineffective against you. You will not need to build | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| can function. The tight selfwill of the little, ineffective ego is strengthened in order to ward off | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Ineffectual.................9 | |
| they bypass the real issue and are therefore ineffectual. This paralyzes success, which, in turn, causes frustration | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear about your imperfection. Therefore, such goodness is ineffectual, unconvincing to yourself as well as to others | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the perpetually rebelling person a machine, and an ineffectual one at that, who constantly puffs aimless steam | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is of course true that a weak and ineffectual ego diminishes your sense of individuality. Hence the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| tension produced by trying too hard in an ineffectual way. It is a lonely existence beset by | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| from it, you fight against it in an ineffectual way. Fighting against anything in life, you also | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| find themselves inexplicably paralyzed. Their actions will become ineffectual; life will seem to obstruct all their goals | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the human sphere quite often as having innocuous, ineffectual, primitive minds, with the herd mentality that does | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| yourself to be much weaker and much more ineffectual than you actually are. Since you must experience | 254 SURRENDER |
| Inefficient.................4 | |
| same thing, these unconscious strivings are not only inefficient, but they bring further conflict. On the one | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| When the pathwork demolishes this pretense and the inefficient pseudo-solutions -- instead of strengthening them as one | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| tightly holding on is really your false and inefficient weapon against a negative vision of the universe | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| with even stronger forcefulness as it proves itself inefficient: you become more forceful, more possessive, demanding, jealous | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Inert.......................6 | |
| virtue out of a fault. Those who are inert may deceive themselves and think they are patient | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| when you find yourself stagnating, lazy, passive, or inert, and when you desire to do nothing, which | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| your inner journey. When you are passive and inert, it is as much of a choice as | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| quiescence. Is it not an excuse for staying inert, avoiding effort and risk? Only when you are | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| penetrate the void that is totally stagnant and inert. False receptivity is masked inertia. The more false | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| pulsation that penetrates onward, that bleeds through previously inert mass -- the mass of the void. Once | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Inertia.....................32 | |
| impulses. Lazy people will get out of their inertia. The routine-bound person will naturally and without effort | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a great temptress, pulling one toward sluggishness and inertia, so that one does not have to try | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the personality fears union and is tempted by inertia. This dissatisfaction is either conscious -- although in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| stronger than the temptation of the comfort of inertia and sluggishness. Then the marriage will be disrupted | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your own? One possibility is, simply, laziness and inertia. Anything that does not touch you personally is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| its negative aspect manifests as stagnation, putrefaction, lifelessness, inertia. It is important to realize that every soul | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that and not a distortion, as for instance inertia, cannot be a hindrance to anything. Of course | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| patience, if it is purely constructive -- not inertia, inactivity or laziness - - can only be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| already made, rather than letting yourself slide into inertia again. Then you will yet experience the greatest | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the first attempts are made and the initial inertia overcome, it ceases to be difficult. It is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it will be more difficult to move. Such inertia requires more willpower, more meaningful mental work and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understanding in your meditation, the tremendous resistance and inertia will vanish. The inertia itself will turn into | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the tremendous resistance and inertia will vanish. The inertia itself will turn into a wonderful new energy | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relaxation; it must not be confused with the inertia of lifelessness and with lack of energy. Its | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| pain. In some personality types the result is inertia. Misapplied will and action produce excessive tension. Where | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and anxiety on the one hand, and in inertia, laziness, and neglect of active growth on the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| It expresses itself in your awareness as laziness, inertia, apathy, even as not wanting to do things | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| but relaxation is not passive apathy, paralysis or inertia. True relaxation is a constant, harmonious movement. It | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and withheld emotional matter -- spite, stubbornness, rigidity, inertia -- stagnant energy exists that must create disturbance | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA Greetings, my very beloved friends. What is the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| on the whole scale is not hatred, but inertia. Inertia, on the energy level, is the freezing | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the whole scale is not hatred, but inertia. Inertia, on the energy level, is the freezing of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| freezing of the flow of divine energy. In inertia the radiant matter of divine influx thickens, hardens | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| blocks, and deadens. On the level of consciousness, inertia means exactly what I have been talking about | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to God than the self-righteous, apparently good person. Inertia refrains from action for the good. Laziness, nonmovement | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| In order to take you out of your inertia, which is an ever-present temptation, you need to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| accustomed to movement as enjoyable, life-giving, and relaxing. Inertia is believed to be restful, while activity is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to establish harmony in your soul. Stagnation and inertia are indeed the greatest evil. They are of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| totally stagnant and inert. False receptivity is masked inertia. The more false receptivity exists, the less real | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| God, you need to be active, to overcome inertia, to move and do and act, to risk | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| activity, and at times even pushing through the inertia that wants to keep you from being active | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| my friends, ascertain the exact nature of your inertia, and, even more important, how you rationalize it | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |