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or lesser extent. The sooner you realize the inevitability of deviation from truth anywhere on earth, and 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
self, so it is with the question of inevitability. By running away from that which is inevitable 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
may be accepted in a false spirit of inevitability, taking for granted what need not be. Each 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
 
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impact, assailed by their original doubts. For these inevitable times of doubt I wish to give you 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
or indirectly from one's own imperfection, and its inevitable purpose must also be to increase learning and 20 GOD: THE CREATION
had learned in the previous years -- was inevitable. Often He wondered whether He was not under 22 SALVATION
it is within myself that made such defeat inevitable. What can I learn from it? Help me 35 TURNING TO GOD
what I call the spiral. This is an inevitable experience on the path. All your faults, errors 36 PRAYER
do not let yourself become discouraged by the inevitable initial hurdles, eventually, little by little, you will 36 PRAYER
being to go through a fate that is inevitable in a spirit of positive and constructive self-search 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
unfulfillments. The latter are a logical result, an inevitable projection of the former. Perhaps you desire fulfillment 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
development and spiritual fulfillment. The fulfillment is so inevitable that it must happen one way or another 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
long as you maintain the wall, resistance is inevitable, and only the form and manifestation of the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
distinction between saying yes to an imposed or inevitable duty, or struggling against it and being forced 47 THE WALL WITHIN
liberating yourself from errors. As the first and inevitable step, you have to bring them into consciousness 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
takes courage and humility, the two attributes so inevitable to reach any success on this path. But 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
be dissolved, but the relief that is the inevitable result of understanding certain causes and effects in 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
subconscious. The guilt has a further, and again inevitable, reaction. Feeling guilty, the unconscious says, I desire 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
ever to become happy, the punishment, which seems inevitable, would be that much greater. Therefore the child 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
be situations in your life when it is inevitable to hurt others; these situations arise from your 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
try to find, briefly, a common denominator. One inevitable factor in bondage is fear. As you well 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
they turn out right or wrong. It is inevitable in every human being's life to make some 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
argues: Since happiness is denied me and unhappiness inevitable and inflicted on me against my will, I 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
and freedom. While pain is known to be inevitable, it is not sought: it is taken in 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
to do just that, in spite of the inevitable flaws in perfection and truth that exist anywhere 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and inadequacies enter into the picture, which is inevitable in disagreements or quarrels, man is afraid he 62 MAN AND WOMAN
be damaging to someone else. Hence, it is inevitable that your conscience bothers you every time you 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
hide your true self behind a wall. The inevitable effect must be the realization that you are 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the acceptance of life is the acceptance of inevitable pain and death. The healthy person will not 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
at this time of general human development are inevitable anyway. These imperfections in each system take many 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
from within, so that fulfillment becomes natural and inevitable. In other words, when such a condition exists 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
not understanding -- and therefore abuse would be inevitable. QUESTION: I didn't mean my question in such 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
forcing current, and you will fully understand the inevitable response. Visualize the soul forces, and then remember 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
different from a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not cringing from it, you 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
doing, learning to discriminate between that which is inevitable and that which is not. If you meet 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
is not. If you meet that which is inevitable -- physical death as well as the results 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
what way you choose difficulties that are not inevitable. For the more you choose the latter, the 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
how you react to both that which is inevitable and that which is not. This question poses 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
inevitability. By running away from that which is inevitable, you bring upon yourself avoidable handicaps. You are 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
avoidable handicaps. You are so afraid of the inevitable hardship that you take onto yourself more hardship 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
pattern and you are bound to discover that inevitable hardship ceases after you have acknowledged and gone 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
yourself out of it. Trying to avoid the inevitable is useless; what really helps is to acknowledge 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
pride cannot admit defeat. Since defeat is occasionally inevitable, when it does come, it threatens the very 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
experience of reality. With such a foundation the inevitable outcome is real, secure self-confidence and self- respect 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
content with the result, but you overlook the inevitable byproducts that make you far from happy. And 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
conformity, that is compatible with acceptance of the inevitable with humility, and with healthy interdependence. On the 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
become precisely aware of these needs. This is inevitable if you wish to come out of your 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
liberated. In this liberation, genuine God-experience is the inevitable outcome. This genuine God-experience is very different from 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
are as integral a part, or rather as inevitable an outcome of this work, as are love 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
are absent. Such a limited, subjective evaluation is inevitable if the soul suffers too much. The suffering 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
outer reason does not eliminate their presence. The inevitable difficulties of life can be met only if 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
tolerate frustration. So, my friends, look at this inevitable chain reaction. It would be useful if my 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
changes. Knowing the truth makes the change organic, inevitable, so natural that it just could not be 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
suffer because you believe suffering is necessary and inevitable. If you believe that you must bleed, you 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
either/or concept in the belief that suffering is inevitable, in ignorance of the power inherent in your 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
deprivation? In both attitudes, guilt and uncertainty are inevitable. The winner makes strenuous demands on the self 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
peace of mind. The ability to accept the inevitable -- such as death, or other acts of 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
long as you have fear, it is sometimes inevitable that you experience what you fear in order 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
general level of truth-perception is higher, it is inevitable that the circumstances that arise will be less 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
mutually excluding either love or happiness, as seems inevitable when love is attempted by outer good will 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
is rationalized by claiming it to be an inevitable law, happening through habit, or other circumstances. But 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
equally freely and openly -- frustration is indeed inevitable. Yet partial fulfillment does occur even in the 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
feels singled out as a victim. It is inevitable to feel helpless when one lacks the awareness 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
to the problematic emotions about it. It is inevitable that the negative direction must again take over 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
It is because of the gnawing guilt -- inevitable when negative desires exist whether or not one 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
other was bad has brought you to the inevitable next step on this road of illusion, which 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
than others, I must be separate, disappointment is inevitable. This belief cannot bring the desired result because 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
constantly embrace pain, either by believing it is inevitable, or by believing that it is safer than 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
a solution. The more you believe in the inevitable truth of these two alternatives, the more you 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
held back, or you are ruthless, with the inevitable guilt and outer consequences. The truth of the 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
or the sense of being hurt which are inevitable byproducts of the contact. Since the pleasure principle 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
The peace between body and soul is an inevitable product of self- realization. It is erroneous to 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
with mass opinions and false limitations, considering them inevitable laws of life. They might not rebel against 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
believe they had to bow down to something inevitable. It is tragic how much waste and unnecessary 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
still take for granted. You blindly accept as inevitable many laws and precepts that are by no 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
not natural and in facts that are not inevitable. You are compelled to prove your specialness and 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
total understanding, brotherhood in the real sense is inevitable. Dislike is only a superficial factor, and you 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
the consequence of deeply lodged misconceptions with their inevitable further result: fear, guilt, anger, hate, greed, cruelty 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
purpose, a full acceptance of the condition is inevitable. Even purely chemical medication attempts to artificially loosen 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
be lived through and dynamically experienced. This is inevitable and necessary and constitutes the facing of the 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
this initial condition, allowing for the number of inevitable relapses that must forever be newly observed, you 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the resourcefulness of the real self, it is inevitable that such people -- and they comprise the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
of the great difficulties in life is the inevitable downward curve in all growth process. Life is 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
by evasion. The courage to accept what is inevitable strengthens the capacity to find genuine and meaningful 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
very bad. The duality makes a painful cramp inevitable. Anything you do not want, you intensely push 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
attitude of going through what is self-produced and inevitable must not be confused with masochism, deliberate self-destruction 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
have unresolved inner problems, such an imbalance is inevitable. For, no matter what side you look at 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
ego condition is preferable to disintegration, which is inevitable when the outer, ego personality is incompatible with 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
counter-reactions, defense measures, further false beliefs and their inevitable consequences, which create more and more chain reactions 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
one or the other, distortions and imbalances are inevitable. Because it is impossible to use only one 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
or mature, the more they become deprived. The inevitable further result is secret destructiveness and ruthless selfishness 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
tension breeds unpleasure, making bliss impossible. Tension is inevitable as long as one is under the illusion 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
between self-interest and the interest of others is inevitable. It seems, indeed, a real conflict. And on 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
in a sphere of consciousness where death is inevitable. You hasten death to the degree you refute 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
against life. In turn, you fight against the inevitable frustration that results from these divided motivations. Here 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
you increase the fear. You make the experience inevitable. You constantly live in the shadow of it 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
pain and tension in your being. This is inevitable when you are not yet aware, generally and 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
pleasure and inner growth? Do they use the inevitable difficulties in the relationship as yardsticks for their 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
innermost being knows that crisis, eruption, breakdown, are inevitable and are steadily drawing nearer. Yet you resist 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure. This is inevitable. What I say is no mere theory. Many 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
as a natural, spontaneous, unplanned event, as an inevitable result of opening yourself and encountering first the 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
the good experience, so that the disappointment becomes inevitable. Whenever you are in a blissful state and 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
is based on unreality, it must lead to inevitable disappointment and to an apparently even more justified 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
to feel your sadness through the circumstances you inevitable attract, your terror, arising from your conviction that 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
real self, abuse of these powers will be inevitable. Love has to first be awakened in the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
giving and loving feelings, will fulfillment become an inevitable reality. Conversely, to the degree you cling to 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
the only reality, apprehension, fear, and despair are inevitable. These illusory perceptions can only be eliminated by 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
dark, and distorted cosmic substance exists, suffering is inevitable, whether or not you choose to know this 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
all these levels are conscious and when their inevitable divergence from each other is faced and accepted 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
an answer. This reaction is predictable and even inevitable. It should not make you feel guilty, and 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
helplessness and powerlessness: dependency on others, with its inevitable resentments arising from unfulfilled expectations; fear and the 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
the stillness in you will answer. This is inevitable if you really want to know peace. If 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
one day the difficulties and frictions that are inevitable in such a venture at the beginning will 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
the inner life is important. They prohibit the inevitable movement from the inner to the outer life 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
and unified person expresses outer form as an inevitable sequence of inner con tent. When the outer 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
in the long run leaves you empty. An inevitable manifestation of the continuous process of actualizing your 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
oneness with all of life that are the inevitable result, make former resistance against this state seem 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
stages even the negative explosions and crises are inevitable and serve a very important purpose for the 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
through periods of darkness and crisis. They are inevitable, and it is good that way, because these 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
that this will not matter. The resulting and inevitable blindness, be it only momentary, must present experiences 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
for some blindness, as I said, is quite inevitable. The more your path progresses, the more aware 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
to deal with the dissensions that are sometimes inevitable. You have recognized that dissension with others is 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
ego consciousness. In such a conflict crisis is inevitable. The resisting part creates the crisis by obstructing 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
destructive acts. This was a totally dualistic state, inevitable because the consciousness of the planet was not 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
the new. This division is necessary, organic, and inevitable. Individuals who are blind to the meaning of 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
it, that it is too difficult, you invite inevitable crisis and pain. Exactly the same applies to 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
no longer applicable. However, this polarization was an inevitable byproduct of the rule system -- rules which 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
you take certain phenomena as if they were inevitable, and then you see their cause as the 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
to see death as an unknown phenomenon, an inevitable fact, and you conclude that your fear of 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
separated themselves and lost their knowing, eternal and inevitable connectedness with the All-Consciousness. You need to re-establish 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
of all life. Obviously, this leads to the inevitable vicious circle: If life is meaningless, all you 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
expressed in human life, those who experience the inevitable beauty, goodness and rightness of it, logically attempt 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
and separated from its entire meaning. This is inevitable, since your reality is limited. In the fourth 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
beautiful reality began to disintegrate when, as is inevitable in human nature, the lower self entered into 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
of all an entity expresses, so that the inevitable consequences become the measure and the medicine to 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
that resist this movement, crisis and pain are inevitable. Pain and crisis are much more severe in 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
one extreme to another. This is at times inevitable, sometimes even desirable, provided the swings are limited 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
distortions, and a certain amount of upheaval became inevitable. The sexual revolution had to manifest at times 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
impose at the end of one's existence an inevitable event that is unfathomable, that is totally unknown 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
a certain way, is necessary. It is the inevitable prerequisite for plowing through the mazes of the 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
for you when life becomes hazardous, when your inevitable mistakes force you to pay the price for 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
group consciousness, and exposure. We also discussed the inevitable parallel between all these aspects manifesting on the 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE

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