| Plunged.....................3 | |
| faculties intact -- although emotionally you may be plunged in darkness, rebellion, cowardice and self-pity -- the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| on the dualistic plane, you will immediately be plunged into the very conflict you seek to avoid | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| entities who have chosen thoughts and actions that plunged them into darkness. It is to ensure this | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Pointers....................3 | |
| faulty. I will help you and give some pointers how to recognize your own particular way of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| lecture I wish to give you some clear-cut pointers and initial concepts of what to look for | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Make a real effort. Such questions may be pointers to the spirit's special inclinations and directions. Answer | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Pointless...................5 | |
| fruitless, not constructive, and revolves around the same pointless thoughts, complaints, self-pity, self-deceptive ideas and subterfuges, it | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in the established direction is wasteful, the suffering pointless, and the fragmented personality better served by starting | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| its guidance, inspiration and energies? Too much becomes pointless, and the personality aspect may just as well | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| aware of the non-giving attitude is superficial and pointless. You have to recognize such attitudes before this | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| information is usually -- with few exceptions -- pointless, and only serves sensationalism. Only when traits and | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Poise.......................6 | |
| to give happiness. You can arrive at spiritual poise only if you do not flinch from unhappiness | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and purified, but a certain degree of inner poise has to exist, with at least the awareness | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| cope with defeat honestly, humbly, with dignity and poise; without embellishment, projection, humiliation, or pretense. The pretense | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| harmony. It will show in the grace and poise of your movements, the balance and coordination you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| level, appropriately and beautifully. There will be a poise and a beauty in your whole bearing -- | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| obey the structure of the highest creation in poise, in ease, and with tenderness. They embrace the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Poised......................15 | |
| desire, the more will this needle remain still, poised, restful and controlled -- not controlled by any | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and now. You can almost feel yourself standing poised on guard at a sort of threshold. If | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| implied that you should constantly have your mind poised, let alone be tense in your mind. You | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will spontaneously be the best you can be: poised and unrepressed. You will say the right thing | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Your potential will become reality. You will be poised within yourself and in life. You will not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| rhythmic and relaxed, effortless yet vibrating with power, poised and calm, peaceful and dynamic. This state, when | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| version is full of life and inner movement, poised in the confidence that natural action comes in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| deliberate, conscious ego and its willpower must be poised in a firm but relaxed way. The resistant | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it is the result of the unstrained, natural, poised outer efforts. But when people expect direct and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will see that there existed a combination of poised alertness -- of active involvement and participation and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| moment be so still, so untense, yet so poised and there with your attention and awareness, that | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| calmly as possible, you will suddenly find yourself poised on the brink of an apparent void. This | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| attitude toward the voluntary and involuntary functions, balancing poised effort and discipline with relaxation. Each step of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| result of effort and struggle. It requires a poised and relaxed forward movement into life. The effort | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised for all possibilities. Thus it will be able | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Poison......................15 | |
| out -- perhaps until now unconsciously -- such poison that aids and abets the powers promoting war | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| This work is not exactly pleasant, for the poison may even affect you temporarily while touching it | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| of true love, understanding, forgiveness, or compassion. The poison of the underlying motive distorts and destroys that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be led into a wrong channel, thereby generating poison. In distortion, the following tendencies come into being | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| any religion. It is a subtle and pervasive poison. QUESTION: I have noticed that when I confess | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| released from your glandular system contains a certain poison which will not damage you if your defense | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your system goes back to normal functioning, the poison is absorbed and dissolved. This poison is a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| functioning, the poison is absorbed and dissolved. This poison is a necessary stimulant for the moment, but | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of by others. The so-called medicine and the poison are frequently the same. When people begin to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| development considerably and spread peace and joy. The poison of friction will soon be eliminated. It will | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| such unconscious interaction. The launching of blame spreads poison, fear, and at least as much guilt as | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| they are acknowledged. The moment you deny them, poison spreads from you to others and through your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| energy can penetrate the murkiness and disperse the poison of others' negativity. Thus, a free person can | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| psychological, and often also your physical system. This poison can be eliminated only by feeling what you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| aware of how my judgments hurt me and poison my life. Yet I can't seem to stop | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Poisoning...................3 | |
| are! What a pity that you persist in poisoning your life with this falsity. A few of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| system. There can be no more toxic psychic poisoning than undisposed waste material of energy that should | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| been neglected would color and affect the relationship, poisoning it as if from underground. When you find | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Poisonous...................18 | |
| your soul as unruly shrubbery and often as poisonous growth, instead of turning away from them as | 36 PRAYER |
| understand divine truth. If you have planted a poisonous plant in your garden, spoiling all the good | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| avoided. It is better than to leave the poisonous plant in your garden. Pain has to be | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| find a certain relief in the realization that poisonous matter has left your system in a manner | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is the second fear which is a particularly poisonous one, the fear of exposure that you are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| not question the validity of the reason. The poisonous substance is released the moment you are frightened | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be ruled out of your life, otherwise the poisonous substance will affect your bloodstream and nervous system | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| automatically concentrate -- with the help of the poisonous stimulant -- on the issue at hand. You | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| because no actual danger exists, you are releasing poisonous substances into your physical body. You are limiting | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| exists in everyone. It is most deadly, most poisonous when it is still unconscious and rationalized. Therefore | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| but its subtlety does not make it less poisonous. If, on the other hand, you courageously and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| people, life itself. And this already removes a poisonous atmosphere in your psychic organism so totally alien | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| darkness that the negativities create. It penetrates the poisonous walls of separation created by ignorance, illusion and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| against your deep accumulated experiences which have become poisonous from not being released. These painful experiences cannot | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that is not met and therefore transcended becomes poisonous, toxic energy. Fear that is not even conscious | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| stones, then you have already vastly overcome this poisonous attitude. But you, too, must have had it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Therefore the appearance value system is insidious and poisonous. It is much more harmful, my friends, than | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| their energy. Challenging them is like pulling out poisonous weeds and planting new beautiful seedlings. When you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Poisons.....................3 | |
| defensiveness. QUESTION: You say that the body releases poisons which damage the physical system. On this path | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| If and when the defensiveness is eliminated, further poisons will cease to contaminate the system. This in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| very different from the unhealthy kind. Unhealthy anger poisons your system. It calls forth your defenses and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Polarities..................6 | |
| sufficiently evolved to have transcended some of the polarities. In such cases, the average human being no | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| friends, that the more you succeed in conciliating polarities about all sorts of aspects within your own | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be feared or fought against. The more other polarities or dualities begin to unify and are experienced | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be good. Since all of life consists of polarities, the fact that most of them appear as | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| as stated before. At other times, the two polarities which arbitrarily seem to be mutually exclusive, annul | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| from all true solutions. The conciliation of all polarities lies in seeing the good in both opposites | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |