| Pursuit.....................20 | |
| not act but amble along as before. The pursuit of a path that seems comfortable, however, means | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| first your prayer or meditation is an intellectual pursuit, but when you arrive at the findings on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| also, what is the significance of ritual in pursuit of the path toward God? ANSWER: Let us | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one particular day should be designated for the pursuit of self-development and spiritual fulfillment. The meaning is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| intellectual, or mental pleasure is not a dangerous pursuit. It does not involve you emotionally and does | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| other hand, creating blind needs and their blind pursuit, makes it impossible to see what the issues | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the fulfillment of his real need by the pursuit of the false need. He will clearly see | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in you feels that if you are in pursuit of pleasure, you are not in reality. Reality | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| rational it may be in itself, such a pursuit indicates immaturity. The stronger the urgency, the greater | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| himself. When man reaches the stage of active pursuit of self-awareness, of facing himself as he really | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the outside need not necessarily be a worthless pursuit. You may try to escape from yourself by | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| principles is certainly more outgoing than the isolating pursuit of loving mere objects. Next on the scale | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an inner experience, derived through self-development, but the pursuit of an idea or ideal, it falls under | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and one's life leaves room for such a pursuit. In reality, it is much more important, much | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| how many people are tempted to leave this pursuit altogether because it seems too painful and difficult | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| its various voices. For example, a certain vocational pursuit may appear completely acceptable and right, but it | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| direction of fulfilling your real needs now. The pursuit of false needs causes unbearable pain. It is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your giving, the sincerity of your investment, the pursuit of your goal for its own sake without | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the more your life is dedicated to the pursuit of selfish ends, the greater your insecurity will | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| antithesis to the goal of spiritual self-realization. The pursuit of detachment leads to all the disciplines of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Pursuits....................7 | |
| one day, he should desist from his ordinary pursuits. If he wishes to focus his attention on | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| performing valuable scientific, artistic, or ethical work. Such pursuits are, in themselves, constructive and can help others | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| harm others, but are not interested in spiritual pursuits. Through their intelligence, they have recognized that the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| unrealistic concepts, wrong conclusions, self- centered and infantile pursuits, limited outlooks, lack of concern, subjectivity and unfairness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| byproducts, can be overshadowed by all sorts of pursuits. But although these aims in themselves may be | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to do something about it. By contrast, the pursuits of the ego, no matter how great your | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| practical application of the pathwork. In your artistic pursuits, you approach your creative processes in an entirely | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Pus.........................3 | |
| all know the wound cannot heal before the pus has been let out and, in the cleansed | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| nature to take over. After letting out the pus -- your errors, your wrong conclusions -- you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| it, relief will come comparatively quickly. Once the pus runs out of the boil and the attitudes | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Push........................79 | |
| you must consciously conquer your resistance. Do not push it into unconsciousness. Then you must try to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| consciousness, one will continue daily, even hourly, to push the same emotional reactions into the unconscious, piling | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| step. You cover up what is most important, push it aside, and busy yourself with worries and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| rigid opinion is such a block. We cannot push the truth through when the person is not | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the path, and overcoming their resistances. They rather push away what is unpleasant to recognize in themselves | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the spiritually and emotionally immature person is to push everything uncomfortable into the subconscious, where it does | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| any negative thoughts that they are inclined to push all negative thoughts into their subconscious and thus | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| swimming right along with the stream and never push against it. Nothing can touch you then and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| spheres of light, truth, love, and happiness, and push them into the background, so that they could | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| lower nature or the side that seemed to push them ever upward regardless of the difficulties encountered | 21 THE FALL |
| you. And when you find it, do not push it back, thinking you can eliminate it that | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their lower selves, to their unrecognized desires, which push and pull them backward and forward, left and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| now; I have tried so hard, then you push away the time for grace, because your attitude | 31 SHAME |
| the first place, it is not advisable to push the sneaking doubt aside. You do this so | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| intellectual knowledge contradicts your emotional knowledge. You therefore push down the emotional knowledge until it disappears from | 38 IMAGES |
| spiritual aims. Those people will let their self-will push ahead. Controlled by their desires, they will rebel | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is the same with physical pain. If you push against it, if your muscles tense up, an | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not like what it finds and therefore will push this unpleasant knowledge into the unconscious and, because | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| You know that the remedy is not to push these feelings aside as though they did not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the opposite. So long as you try to push the deeper feelings away because of an outer | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it may be, it does not in itself push you into the despair triggered by inferiority feelings | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| where he may just need a little outer push, he will respond. But he cannot respond where | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of any pain, past or present. They busily push it out of sight. Their problems do not | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are afraid of death can in younger years push this thought away. The nearer the time comes | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| strength. The lack of these attributes will either push you into what you fear or make you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a little further incentive, hope, strength, and inner push, without tension or anxiety, so as to free | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to pursue the very behavior pattern that will push love away from you. What you need most | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| she will prohibit my happiness. You try to push this constant fear away by self- will and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| thus hurt them. By the aggressive solution, you push people away and openly hurt them with false | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| with your innermost self. Do not try to push yourself to live up to all this. See | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you want to deny the barrier's existence and push against it, which only strengthens the block. You | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| though of an emotion. When you do not push the feeling aside, you will come to see | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| or about someone else. When you do not push the emotion aside -- and you should never | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the emotion aside -- and you should never push aside an emotion, a feeling, or anything else | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| life. Therefore you hold back while you also push forward. Fear of death exists in many forms | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| rarely do people live in the now. They push into the future. They pull back into the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and impulses. Observe how you tend to immediately push them away. Now look at the wishes and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| make unfair demands you cannot cope with and push out of sight. Accept fully the primitive, selfish | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| feeling of familiar uneasiness which you used to push aside, when you thought about the fulfillment. Is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| expectations. The more clearly you see how you push away, or withdraw from, the very fulfillment you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will bring further relief. If you no longer push and press against the natural process, but gratefully | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and you do not have to fight or push for it. You can let others be free | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| tremendous strain. The pain of isolation will always push people into attempts to escape from it. When | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| closeness induces them to pull back again and push away the other. And so the cycle goes | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and fraught with conflict because you pull and push in opposite directions. The moment you change your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you do want to receive. So you subtly push aside what is given you. Even though your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| When you recognize this shame and do not push it away as inconsequential, you take a tremendous | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| whatever is in me, for whatever reason, than push it away and make believe you do not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| inevitable. Anything you do not want, you intensely push away. Anything you desire you intensely grasp. You | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| want to find out what exists in you, push on and find out why not. What false | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| at times you need an outer impact or push in order to put something in motion within | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| religious memories and considerations may represent such a push. For others this may not be necessary. They | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you will experience, step by step, where you push a part of yourself away. As you consequently | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| causes grave disturbances. What you usually do is push one side out of the way and identify | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you can begin a new process. Do not push yourself into a state in which you are | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| functioning. So much frustration is incurred when people push with their outer will and thus prohibit the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| full commitment, you will use the energy to push others aside or withdraw into failure and passivity | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mature and realistic thoughts. The latter must not push the former into hiding again. This ought to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that whatever it is you envy, you also push away; and, third, if you examined how you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| have to struggle with the little mind and push and grab and grasp on the one hand | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you alertness and awareness, so as not to push underground what must be dealt with. As you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| old raw area might still flare up and push the personality in the wrong direction. The inner | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| in you is One. The Godself does not push for recognition. It recognizes itself and is sufficient | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| do not believe I can have, unless I push, pressure, cheat, manipulate, and force it to come | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| off from your undeveloped parts, which you then push out of consciousness. Thus a tremendous contradiction occurs | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| not hear it before, because it could not push itself through as long as you deliberately focused | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| puzzling to many of you that you soon push it aside again and act as if it | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| throughout your world. New values are seeking to push through old resistances. I will speak in this | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when you do, take it seriously, do not push it aside as an illusion. It is so | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| great reservoir of creative forces that flow and push themselves forever more as manifestations into all of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| in the feeling self, and in the spiritual push that expands into the void and thus makes | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| you can acknowledge these fears and do not push them aside, you begin to build the bridge | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| movement or attitude. On the one hand you push forward in impatience. You become discouraged and wonder | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| experience the fear and the longing, do not push it away and assuage it busily with substitute | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| a purpose and a benign meaning. Do not push this fear and longing away any longer, neither | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| These words exactly describe the divine plan: to push the spirit forward, outward, gradually filling the void | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is meaningless, all you can do is to push selfishly toward at least minor fulfillments, which are | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| interaction. Such encouragement of evil is easy to push out of full awareness. Yet around the person | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you make room for these aspects, they will push into the life of matter and you will | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |