| Numbs.......................4 | |
| rise to despair, doubt, and confusion. Active cruelty numbs the person who perpetrates it to an even | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| or disappointment. This shrinking from the life process numbs you again, so you must start all over | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it: the fear of disappointment and pain which numbs the feelings, which in turn creates frustration. Again | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Your state of numbness about your past feelings numbs you to similar present experiences, unless and until | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Nurse.......................9 | |
| and give in to the lower self, and nurse it instead of fighting it. What would happen | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| next passive period comes around you will quietly nurse what has so beautifully grown during the active | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| purpose. This does not mean that you should nurse them, justify their existence, or, worse, become lazy | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| if you don't even know yourself? When you nurse a spirit of true humility and patience, then | 31 SHAME |
| penetrate, ask yourself, How humble is my attitude? Nurse these words instead of turning away from God | 31 SHAME |
| and ideas have to evolve clearly into consciousness; nurse the awareness of them in your surface consciousness | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| pursue a path such as yours continue to nurse and cultivate the already overdeveloped aspect. That, of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| QUESTION: Isn't it that sometimes we want to nurse our resentments for certain people and that's why | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| pay conscious attention to this new process and nurse it with your appreciation of one another and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Nursed......................8 | |
| like a living organism; it has to be nursed, cared for, and developed. It cannot come to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| bodies may be injured and they are then nursed back to health, if I may use this | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| For centuries and centuries man has developed and nursed his physical prowess and his intellectual capacity -- | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| its beauty. This motive must be clarified and nursed constantly; the inner wish to help unselfishly should | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to itself. It, too, must be checked and nursed. Every day the wish should be formed that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will behind love, you mentioned that it is nursed by desire, by a wish. Isn't a will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| desire, by a wish. Isn't a will also nursed by experience and judgment? The reason why I | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| intensity, which is, half- consciously, deliberately cultivated and nursed. This cuts you off from the life-stream. The | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Nurture.....................13 | |
| interest. It is so easy to misunderstand and nurture the sick state in a personality. As far | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| have to use your ego so as to nurture and cultivate healthful habits regarding food, sleep, exercise | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to set the proper direction. Your mind can nurture brooding thoughts which encourage destructive emotions. Or your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| destructive side. You will learn to value and nurture the deep instincts you have always so distrusted | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| goes to work in you -- provided you nurture it and stay open to it. The power | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| when both participants actively reach out, give, sustain, nurture, receive, and take in. This organic self-regulating, spontaneous | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is an invaluable quality that you should truly nurture in you. By childish I mean immature. Immaturity | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| laws you need to comprehend in order to nurture this emptiness and make it a creative venture | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you now need to take over and actively nurture the principles that help to establish the channels | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| within or without, is equal to those who nurture and uphold divine truth and love. This inequality | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| You generate a new energy you need to nurture most carefully. For the stronger these energy currents | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| But by keeping the secret, you maintain and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and expansion of individual consciousness. The more people nurture this growth, the stronger the new plants will | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Nurtured....................6 | |
| and an insistence on artificial infancy. This carefully nurtured parasitical state prevents liberation through overcoming the fear | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| self-deceptions. It can cast off all the illusions nurtured about the self. It can determine to accept | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ego are acted out, rationalized, denied, perpetuated and nurtured -- as is usually the case -- you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| safe cloud of divine consciousness and you are nurtured by divine love, whether or not you know | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with an inner ear, and yet you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| has acquired in previous lives need to be nurtured. The technical skills learned in this body need | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Nurtures....................5 | |
| cowardice and pride -- in short, everything that nurtures the ego, which wants to feel special. This | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that does not know the truth, that still nurtures doubts and fears, and that fails to express | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| in you is the part that hates and nurtures destructive wishes and desires. You begin by hiding | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of the divine substance. Violation of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness, distrustfulness, illusion, weakness, the tendency to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| keeps itself balanced. The consciousness that perpetuates and nurtures the healthy body will make sure that you | 228 BALANCE |
| Nurturing...................9 | |
| for a reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or nurturing a desire for self-destruction. All this adds up | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| these demands exist -- for love, protection, and nurturing -- the submissive solution has been chosen in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| its own mode of fulfillment. It seeks a nurturing parent rather than the specific other person, and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| expresses the receptive movement of taking in and nurturing. In distortion and negativity the masculine principle manifests | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| principle in distortion turns from loving receptivity and nurturing to grasping, grabbing, stealing, holding tight, catching, and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of the higher self is felt as soft, nurturing, vitalizing; you bathe in the energy emanation of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| terms, the third level of development, that of nurturing others -- needs to go through a period | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| about others, suspicious opinions or accusations, instead of nurturing them secretly for yourself or sharing them with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| are still small and delicate plants that need nurturing with courage, with commitment to the larger cause | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Obedience...................27 | |
| to a desire for omnipotent rulership, for unquestioned obedience from the surrounding world, for a special, elevated | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and to hate whatever contradicts the image of obedience and goodness. It also creates the false guilt | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the main determinants is that in false religion obedience to authority is one of the great strongholds | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and in others less -- the concept of obedience plays an important role. True religion does not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| appease a more powerful person, being, or authority. Obedience to authority has been encouraged by exponents of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| by its passions to be let free. Therefore obedience had to be stressed in order to protect | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you have obeyed, often to the letter. But, obedience of this sort always has the wrong motive | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of emotions. Whenever fear, timidity, nonassertion, appeasement, and obedience predominate in a personality, rebellion must exist also | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| beliefs. So where there is outer religious faith, obedience, and appeasement, try to find not only the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| does the tendency of religion to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| by real religion in the world at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and teaches it, is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| free human being can attain divinity. Once blind obedience is eliminated from religion and from the soul | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will develop humility. From clinging appeasement and blind obedience -- often without understanding -- you will develop | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God by appeasing Him even more with fearful obedience that is entirely on the surface and caused | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Taken as an example, this could have meant obedience, or it could have meant freedom. ANSWER: Exactly | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God. Thy will be done does not mean obedience; it means opening yourself to the fullest possible | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| sand. It is false religion that leads to obedience and fear. It is so destructive, reinforcing weakness | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| painful state because you still act out of obedience, rather than recognition. You somehow know that the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| with healthy interdependence. On the other hand, appeasement, obedience, and dependency derive from the same greed as | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| than accepting postulates or enigmas out of fear, obedience, wishful thinking, or the desire for dependency and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you choose the directives of others in your obedience to rules. QUESTION: I find it very difficult | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| it were a duty demanded by conscience and obedience, the less does it truly manifest. Where love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is a false belief born of fear and obedience that occasional anger never exists in a truly | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| free spirit of self-choice or acts in blind obedience. The words may sound the same, but the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| attained by adherence to an outer faith and obedience to laws and rules that come from outside | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| often more complex issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking, the easy | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| gives immense self-confidence and self- reliance that constant obedience to your selfwill could never confer on you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |