| Originate...................5 | |
| blocks, faults, and weaknesses? The chief life-conflicts always originate there. QUESTION: People who are too strongly rooted | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to show to humans that life does not originate on this earth plane. But then, people often | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from fear? ANSWER: Definitely. A positive attribute can originate in either a positive or a negative motive | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the world of duality is where your images originate. Strangely enough, this underlying source becomes on the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| so that physical or spiritual needs may also originate from emotional disturbances. When one neglects to satisfy | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Originates..................5 | |
| spirit -- the bringer of light. That name originates from that time. Where you can find it | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friend who is absent. The need for pseudo-protection originates in the creation of an image. Can this | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| misconceptions and the splitting of the individual. It originates from some fears and creates others, but it | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| responsible for yourself, ask especially where the fear originates in you. Where is the cruelty in you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| can partake of everything, no matter where it originates. Why do you think God has distributed resources | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Originating.................3 | |
| the creative one, not only with God, but, originating from Him, it is the creative principle in | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| struggle between God and the devil. The confusions originating from this duality are said to be Satan's | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| on superimposed modes of coping with life, not originating from the real person, are emotions. The real | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Origins.....................10 | |
| significance and causes conflicts, it must have karmic origins, but to think about it, what it may | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cannot be generalized. Homosexuality has so many different origins. To say that homosexuality comes from this or | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you can always find the psychological roots and origins in this life. This, incidentally, applies to everything | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| ANSWER: Again the reasons are manifold. The same origins may prevail as for homosexuality, but weakened by | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| due to certain circumstances and conditions whose true origins the person ignores, come to possess certain powers | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you roughly, when the accumulated destructive attitudes whose origins lie behind the barricade finally break loose, you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| study. Whatever reveals itself should be explored for origins, results, further ramifications. What underlying misconceptions are responsible | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| understand, and you cannot trace them to their origins unless and until you have the courage and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| as monarchy and feudalism. What are the divine origins of this format and what are its distortions | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and resolve. But in addition to these psychological origins and explanations there is the repressed great existential | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Ostracized..................7 | |
| to this desire he or she will be ostracized, or disliked by others -- an outcome no | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| on the other, fearing the stigma of being ostracized, despised, of not belonging. This conflict can only | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| all these weaknesses and faults. They feel themselves ostracized, different, separate -- and therefore it is a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as much as the sinner. Sick people were ostracized. It is only rather recently that this has | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| protection. There was no code of ethics which ostracized an offender. Humans fluctuated between ruling and being | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of the blame, you surely expect to be ostracized. This assumption is an unbearable load; it is | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| insanity were chalked up against them. They were ostracized as sinners and outcasts and judged by others | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Ostrich.....................3 | |
| a problem instead of avoiding it like an ostrich that buries its head in the sand. If | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| it is nothing more than dishonesty, self-deception, an ostrich attitude, and a lack of self-awareness. On the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will then know that shying away was an ostrich policy that never got rid of the pain | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Other-centeredness..........5 | |
| truth. A similar confusion exists concerning self-centeredness versus other-centeredness. Self- centeredness can be childish self-importance in which | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| think the world expects them to be. This other-centeredness amounts to losing the self. It is self-alienation | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| organically results in the proper balance between self-and other-centeredness. Others deserve the same consideration as the self | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is at one end of the scale; healthy other-centeredness at the other. If you reverse one so | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| experience and perception of right, healthy self-centeredness and other-centeredness; as well as right, healthy control and letting | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Other's.....................41 | |
| with this band of love will feel the other's pain with the same intensity as their own | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| with the same intensity as their own; the other's joy will be like their own. The experience | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| faults are indeed so much less than the other's, and your qualities so much superior, that is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| revealing themselves, by searching the depths of the other's soul. Thus what is in each soul will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| where no abuse is ever possible, where the other's maturity meets one's own maturity. The immature person | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| always make the mistake of battling against the other's blindness and lack of understanding instead of trying | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| half the effort you usually make when finding other's faults to recognizing your own, you will see | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| are still filled with the untruth that any other's disadvantage may be your advantage; there are moments | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| why you do not want to see the other's point. There is certainly enough friction in your | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in defiance and rebellion against your dependence on other's opinions of you. Unconsciously, you rebel just as | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| experience. Only after accepting your own or the other's inadequacy in the areas where heretofore you could | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| affect the healthy and positive part of the other's personality. This work increases awareness, and awareness is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| stake, although you may indeed contribute to the other's unfaithfulness by your own childish craving to be | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| -- often sets one's own pleasure against the other's. However, from an expanded vision, this ceases to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| sense of competence may be involved. Or the other's acceptance of the truth may have an urgency | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that time. Thus you do not respect the other's integral right not to be receptive to what | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| give and receive, but also to question the other's capacity in this regard. Knowing the importance of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| develop the nobility of spirit to respect the other's incapacity, even if it were sick. This attitude | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| go and be more finely attuned to the other's needs -- whether she or he wants to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| not need to resent the condition which the other's domination unconsciously imposes. They will let go and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| looking at the other person and sensing the other's needs. The idea of being refused is devastating | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| your conscience, but because you actually experience the other's hurt, bewilderment, unfulfillment, belittling. And this increased awareness | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| nor taking the trouble of pondering what the other's needs are, or the effort to establish mutual | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| parents, and in their confusion constantly engendering each other's misconceptions and fortifying the split. This process is | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| does it occur to you to sense the other's vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| sense the other's vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and weaknesses become distorted and discolored. Both | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of allowing your self-expression and also receiving the other's self-expression. Since no rule can be made about | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| second appears when you pleasurably indulge in the other's wrongness, and this blinds you. What you first | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| it comes to proving your right and the other's wrong. On the dualistic plane each issue ends | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| win because your side is true, while the other's is false, you are deeply involved in the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| little truth, not to give in to the other's little truth in fear of the consequences if | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| are always destructive. It actually does destroy the other's value, at least in terms of your desire | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of blaming the other and depending on the other's doing right in order to avoid unpleasantness or | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| another entity, while remaining open to receive the other's outflowing energy currents and soul movements. Your disunity | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| effect, you say, I am dependent on the other's evil or freedom from evil. It is not | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you are helpless in the face of the other's wrongdoing, and omnipotence, in the illusion that others | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| degree you cling to and insist on the other's fulfilling you, to that degree you must remain | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the form of severe accusations that malign the other's character. You may never have thought about it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Everyone has the choice of either using the other's bad intentions as an excuse to stay in | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| part of an interaction and what is the other's. This kind of suffering comes only from concealment | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in his or her distrust because of the other's distrustful attitude. Since man was physically stronger, and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |