| Iota........................8 | |
| vanity, and your comfort do not matter an iota more than that of the next fellow. When | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| same with these spirits. There is not an iota of difference. They have to learn, just as | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the extreme of this type is not one iota less removed from harmony and divine law than | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| sermons about God will not bring you one iota closer. Only facing that within yourself that you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| more opposed to truth and peace, not one iota less aggressive than the submissive solution, whose hostility | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| believe and conceive of it -- not one iota differently. If your life experience and your conscious | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| state of being that does not require one iota more movement than to activate the very powers | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your life. These hidden fears are not one iota less painful and limiting than the actual experience | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Iron........................6 | |
| then always a discrepancy that you have to iron out sooner or later. If you do not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to you as inevitably as a magnet draws iron to itself. These forces can be truly understood | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the adversary. The cold war is on. The Iron Curtain not only separates the world geographically, but | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| human being. Then you will have broken the iron whip of a taskmaster whom it is impossible | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you treat yourself with merciless harshness. You inflict iron rules upon yourself as exercised by the cruelest | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your personal blocks. These seem like walls of iron, which enclose you and prevent you from perceiving | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Irony.......................6 | |
| out of it in the wrong way. The irony is that you try to come out of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the greatest of difficulties. This is the sad irony. They are so blind that what is their | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| include others and to unite with life. The irony of course is that without these assets people | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| body. It involves physical pleasure as well. The irony then is that these same people resent the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| if it were indeed freely given you. The irony is that often what wants to be given | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and conflict must exist in your life. The irony is that you believe exactly the opposite. You | 254 SURRENDER |
| Irrational..................74 | |
| one relives emotionally one's childhood and penetrates the irrational layers of consciousness. Merely remembering is not enough | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that the standards of your compulsive conscience are irrational, unreal, and impossible to realize, and since you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| involved in your own wrong conclusions and your irrational impressions that you are bound to have an | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| with which to impress others. It is completely irrational. It outpictures symbolically the petrified impression in the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more rational personality converts it into a less irrational, although perhaps more unethical act. QUESTION: Where is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| together your reactions? ANSWER: Speak out your most irrational and seemingly senseless feelings. Pronounce what you feel | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not my point. I was talking about the irrational fear of being murdered. You can approach freedom | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the very irrational, unfounded fear in the human soul. Humans think | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| times this evening. And you used the words irrational and unfounded fear. This leads me to believe | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to the first, about the rational versus the irrational fear is this: If you are in some | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| person will find reasons and explanations for his irrational, emotional, subjective behavior or attitude. QUESTION: At one | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| something precious behind. Try to find that unreasonable, irrational fear and resistance. It is right there in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| it just as carefully as when it is irrational. QUESTION: Will you please tell us how to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| though your reason knows that they are exaggerated, irrational, and often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot help | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| much easier to face the self, while the irrational and unconscious belief that you are the only | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| trying to force it away without understanding the irrational belief of advantage versus disadvantage. As long as | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| are on the defensive in psychological conflicts, for irrational, unrealistic reasons, your glandular system does not question | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| correcting false concepts, then they will see that irrational fear is always selfish and separating, and they | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| they will no longer find cause for such irrational fear. It is more or less the same | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to those levels of your being where such irrational attitudes exist. They are not addressed to your | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and having difficulties. This is, of course, entirely irrational, but the attitude contains considerations such as this | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| feelings, you must dare to let out the irrational and have the courage to allow your unreasonable | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| unfair demands, and your childish selfishness. Let the irrational voice reach your surface awareness. View it with | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| One may fear loneliness, lack of actual or irrational protection, by the loss of others. Just because | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| do this and no longer adhere to this irrational, senseless pattern, something stops me. I am afraid | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| will not fear the truth. This is an irrational, illogical, unfounded fear. My fear has no foundation | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to correcting these unhappy areas is a hidden, irrational fear which comes from the misconception: If I | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| or death issue. Although you may think this irrational on a conscious level, on an unconscious level | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| nature is right and good. You justify this irrational attitude by pointing to the most distorted manifestations | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| want to let go. By consulting your emotional, irrational motive as to why you still hold back | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| do not be afraid to give yourself childish, irrational, illogical answers. Allow anything that comes forth. Then | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- all the while knowing, without self-justification, the irrational and destructive nature of what is flowing out | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the right balance of letting the destructive, ignorant, irrational child in you express itself, without falling into | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| deeply should not be glossed over lightly as irrational. One should search where there may actually exist | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| has gone through and confronted such hidden and irrational feelings. If you really question them with an | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| time, able to give free expression to his irrational thoughts, feelings, and wishes. This led to the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| His reason for this unreasonable hate is especially irrational. One of the things he blames his parents | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| human being is capable of allowing the egotistical, irrational, outright destructive child to manifest in the inner | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| what you may believe awareness of a totally irrational, self-destructive will to negate what is desirable does | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| thinking that makes you unwilling to face the irrational, destructive aspects of yourself. This brings me to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| gained a certain amount of insight into the irrational, primitive self within you. When you reach the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| The conflict is the following: On the primitive, irrational level you hate and want to destroy senselessly | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your personality. Whatever the reasons may be, the irrational hate and wish to destroy exists in every | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| degree that they deny theirs. Acknowledging your own irrational self, without totally becoming it, renders you free | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| strength in you depends on: constantly acknowledging the irrational destructiveness in you. When you are in an | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to own up to being fallible, human, vulnerable, irrational, wrong, needy, defenseless, weak and unhappy must by | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| what you must do for me. When such irrational messages of the hidden self can be deciphered | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Only when you are capable of admitting your irrational demands and of seeing how you want to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| go into the child state, and allow the irrational, destructive reactions of the child in you to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| outside yourself. If you give voice to this irrational side, you will find that it invariably says | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be explored. For example, you may admit an irrational anger or hate. You may outwardly assert that | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| You may outwardly assert that these reactions are irrational, but a part of you still feels entitled | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| it. If you can first express the totally irrational desire and intent behind the totally destructive attitude | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and confused in situations where you express your irrational, childish demands, and then your destructive intent once | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| mind is used to shed light on the irrational demands making it clear that they are unrealistic | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| say, Yes I have hate, envy, blame, bitterness, irrational demands, or whatever they may be. Yes, I | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| delusion and by superimposing positive intent over unconscious irrational resistance and defiance. The two voices must be | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| imagine how your self-victimizing attitude will reinforce the irrational resistance of the other person to being open | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Guide's teachings and working through our deepest personal, irrational aspects, we did overcome in a most wonderful | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| others and to what degree this attitude is irrational and not a product of reality. For you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| This is a quite accurate description of your irrational demands that you busily try to justify. You | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| physical life. You resist the movement with the irrational idea that you thereby halt time and prevent | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| the conscious level the fear of death. The irrational meaning of the fear would read: If I | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| of the aggressive, bold ones. Thus, on some irrational level of your emotional perception, courage is often | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| an old/new truth was introduced anew. When unconscious, irrational feelings were lifted to the surface, many of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| them and thus would oppose them. Your personal irrational reactions to the truth of Him who was | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| of change. Thus your reactions are emotional and irrational. They do not allow a calm, open, fresh | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| thus lose your autonomy is totally false and irrational. Real autonomy must rest on what is cosmic | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| general fear of admitting the failure is as irrational and distorted as your fear of accepting your | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of threat may be a distortion, may be irrational, may contain false assumptions on your part? This | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| just as you learn to observe any other irrational and destructive reaction. Often this seems to make | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| overall personality, but the former anger feels very irrational and unreasonable. An ordinary person may fear that | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| very general existential matters of life, the more irrational these feelings will become; the less you can | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of fulfillment. From this state of transmuting your irrational feeling comes, first slowly and with many interruptions | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |