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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 |