| Ascertainable...............3 | |
| holds true on all levels. It is indeed ascertainable on the physical level. The physical system, like | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that everything I say here is realizable and ascertainable right here and now. It is not a | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| levels which are difficult to pinpoint but certainly ascertainable. How can you gauge whether or not this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Ascertained.................17 | |
| The truth about your feelings cannot ever be ascertained by anyone but yourself. As you condition yourself | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| difference is distinct and real, but can be ascertained only when you know both kinds of understanding | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the fear of their opposites, have to be ascertained in your personal work. Nothing is too big | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Unfortunately, even though this fact has already been ascertained by some of you, you may forget it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| motion by reality consciousness. Again, this can be ascertained on your path. When you come to a | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| going through it. When it is affirmed and ascertained as a temporary reality, only then can the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| conscious, rational thinking self, once it has been ascertained that one's pleasure is not being taken away | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| course, all your reactions and beliefs can be ascertained only when you have learned to admit them | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| while the latter separates them. This can be ascertained in any individual problem once it is thoroughly | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| disturbances points to unknown elements which must be ascertained in order to eliminate destructive feelings. Hence this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| In order to be met, they must be ascertained. They must truly be faced up to -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| understand why. The fear of moving can be ascertained relatively easily. Once you stop explaining things away | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| may most bitterly complain about. Once you have ascertained that you actually want what you most fear | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| not to know it. This dishonesty must be ascertained, admitted, and finally given up. You need then | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| it contains the forcing current can be easily ascertained in yourself, and even in others. As it | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| within inanimate objects. Your scientists today have already ascertained that energy exists within matter, so that part | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| blind belief in something that can never be ascertained as real, as something that is not grounded | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Ascertaining................11 | |
| soul's destiny, so that they are capable of ascertaining and planning the most advantageous circumstances and conditions | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| this, you may be quite shocked. If after ascertaining realizing your wishes and seeing the discrepancy between | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| sure only by deeply examining one's feelings and ascertaining the parallels, the similarities of reactions. But a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| consequently others in a spirit of objective detachment, ascertaining trouble spots without guilt or anger, is the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| acknowledging that it exists at all, and then ascertaining why it exists, and on what specific misconceptions | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| great difference between understanding and knowing. Understanding means ascertaining the causes and effects of negative patterns, destructive | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| powerless to influence others to like me. After ascertaining such an attitude, it will be comparatively simple | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Even before you can shed the fear itself, ascertaining it and knowing what it means must make | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| At least now you are meaningfully engaged in ascertaining this fact about yourself. The human personality is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| a considerable time before you become capable of ascertaining in a clear-cut, concise way what you consciously | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it, it will be given to you. Just ascertaining these random fleeting thoughts and making them concise | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Ascetic.....................5 | |
| negation. QUESTION: What is your attitude toward the ascetic? Is he running away from it all? Does | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is he avoiding it? ANSWER: In general, an ascetic tries to buy himself out of what he | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fears another hardship. QUESTION: How about the spiritual ascetic? ANSWER: Exactly the same. Asceticism is so often | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| These lead often so unnecessarily to a harsh ascetic life that is joy-negating. Why do you believe | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of concentration exercises and sometimes even a quite ascetic way of life which is supposed to prepare | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Asceticism..................3 | |
| about the spiritual ascetic? ANSWER: Exactly the same. Asceticism is so often a great self-deception and a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Many movements and spiritual schools of thought preach asceticism and the denial of the outer life under | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of detachment leads to all the disciplines of asceticism and to deliberately-imposed suffering. Yet, valuable as these | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Ascribe.....................19 | |
| a message of their very own essence. They ascribe their unhappiness to all kinds of external circumstances | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Find the part in your emotions where you ascribe weakness to acts of love and humility that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you did. Now you can see how you ascribe different motivations to the other person's provocation than | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| an entirely different spirit than people who still ascribe certain happenings to a fate outside their control | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| appear, you stifle full evaluation of them. You ascribe your strong reactions to other factors that are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| variation, no individuality, humor, pleasure, and wit. You ascribe all that to badness. How wrong you are | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| result of this will inevitably be that you ascribe less power to outside circumstances than you did | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| again, this time in a new guise. You ascribe your emotional discomfort to factors outside of yourself | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is no control, were at work. You first ascribe negative events to fate, and you fear the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| life could be different. Unfortunate are those who ascribe this longing to illusion, to lack of realism | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in this separation are you practically forced to ascribe your unhappiness to dark powers that seem to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| some initiative taken in the past, such persons ascribe the manifestations to a power outside themselves -- | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| creating, you go through certain experiences which you ascribe to some obscure fate. Your experiences seem to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| violence and hostility. Both need to learn to ascribe the cause for all that happens to them | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| actually enjoy and want to maintain. If you ascribe your frustrations, your unfulfillment, or your pains to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| your fate, which you are so apt to ascribe to circumstances that seem to have nothing to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| in motion by your negative intentionality. You still ascribe the undesirable suffering to other people's wrongdoings, coincidence | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| No matter how easy it may be to ascribe the cause to others -- which may also | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| aware of your suffering. You may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Ascribed....................14 | |
| and fear that you occasionally experience will be ascribed entirely to outer provocations, and you remain content | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| when it can be denied and unpleasant feelings ascribed to other factors having nothing to do with | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| wider view of cause and effect, so often ascribed to an unfathomable fate? The first phase, the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| someone happy or unhappy as you had hitherto ascribed only to the other person. Hence you will | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and move. Strangely enough, these qualities are primarily ascribed to the physical manifestations of life and are | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is truly all-powerful. It is the omnipotence correctly ascribed to God and misinterpreted by the child who | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| road of your evolution, this haphazard fate is ascribed, on the most primitive level, to the equally | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| still do not experience it in reality is ascribed to their lack of luck in meeting the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| within by one's spiritual center and not be ascribed to the ego. The pride of the ego | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| many of your anxieties and tensions you had ascribed to insolubly deep conflicts will vanish as you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| fusion. For instance, quite often when frustration is ascribed to sexual incompatibility, the sexual incompatibility may not | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of you. This fact can no longer be ascribed to coincidence but is obviously the natural expression | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a contradiction. Whatever problems arise will not be ascribed to the outer format or expression of eternal | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| The crumbling of the house may then be ascribed to different causes. Such rationalizations only maintain the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Ascribes....................4 | |
| is nothing but self-pampering, self- pitying self-concern. Courage ascribes as much importance to a cause, to an | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| it to follow its blissful destiny, and often ascribes it to the devil's temptation. As long as | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the nature of all images. The limitation one ascribes to life and to one's relationship to life | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| much more painful it must be when one ascribes these occurrences to false reasons, and how much | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |