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| and thus bring about outer effects and chain reactions, even though they are unable to perceive them | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| decisions, however. Their emotional currents and inner, emotional reactions make them completely incapable of deciding inwardly, and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| more so in one's inner attitudes, feelings, and reactions. Those who will not make a decision are | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| When people live their whole lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual form | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| their whole lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual form is created which | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| have far-reaching effects: in ever-spreading circles, actions create reactions, which again have consequences, so that a long | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| daily, even hourly, to push the same emotional reactions into the unconscious, piling the new upon the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| quite obviously? Do you want to shrug these reactions off with a vague gesture as if you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| end of every day the person examines his reactions, he will reach, step by step, the following | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| his feelings were still opposed to his controlled reactions, and thus there was an inner split behind | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| never-ending search: What am I? What do my reactions -- not only my deeds and thoughts -- | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the course of life, through certain actions and reactions, but it cannot converse with you the way | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| know yourself, each corner of your soul, your reactions. The answer cannot always be found immediately. The | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to thoughts and feelings only, or to individual reactions to general political issues and opinions. Even when | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| opinions. Even when people are free of false reactions concerning society in general, but react in their | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| outer life but also the soul currents and reactions. You will understand that it was you who | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| conscious thoughts have this effect but also emotional reactions and subconscious thoughts. In any case, the great | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| listen within you. Just observe your inner feelings, reactions, and trends. Do not try to cover your | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the physical being. The emotional, intellectual, or spiritual reactions show in the aura of the respective subtle | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is unaware of certain faults, attitudes, opinions, emotional reactions. People carry many of these trends with them | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Yet, unaware of the existence of these old reactions and their harmfulness, people still carry them unconsciously | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to review your day and examine your own reactions to the various incidents that have taken place | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| harm other people, but in feelings and inner reactions that also put the gratification of the ego | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| its help you can find out your true reactions to certain events; you begin to pull off | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| down in a few words the occasions, your reactions and associations. If you follow this practice through | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| present part, and ignores the connections and chain reactions from the past. The past action that has | 18 FREE WILL |
| entirely on your past actions, thoughts, and inner reactions. The fact that this law applies to one's | 18 FREE WILL |
| trends, in your soul currents, in your emotional reactions, and not only in your outer deeds. Changing | 18 FREE WILL |
| some trying and training, come to see your reactions quite differently, I assure you. You will learn | 21 THE FALL |
| assure you. You will learn to recognize emotional reactions that you had been completely unaware before. Your | 21 THE FALL |
| but also in your feelings. By observing your reactions you will learn to ascertain how far you | 21 THE FALL |
| will begin to feel differently. Your new inner reactions will leave you so free, make you feel | 21 THE FALL |
| are unaware of their real feelings and emotional reactions and are thus slave to them; they are | 21 THE FALL |
| eventually find out where in your deeper feelings, reactions, and thoughts, if not in your deeds, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you to gradually change inner currents and emotional reactions, and this will automatically free a strength and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your soul becomes healthy again, if your inner reactions can conform to spiritual law. Only then will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| emanation of others and your own consequent negative reactions if you oust your own fear; for then | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| do that, train yourself to observe your inner reactions when you deal with the unpleasant within you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of your personality. By thus recognizing your own reactions and understanding them, perhaps humoring them a little | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| where you still have difficulties, what your inner reactions are, and perhaps plan together what pertinent questions | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| quite a time you will find that your reactions, your feelings and your views, even on quite | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| write your daily review and to check your reactions to all you have felt during the day | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| your various impressions of the day and your reactions, you can see where the element of fear | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| what extent. So begin to observe these inner reactions of yours and analyze them in these terms | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| yourself and see the underground workings of your reactions and the behavior of your various soul currents | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| this consistently for some time, eventually these strong reactions and inner desires and pressures will become weaker | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the light of divine law. Acknowledge your true reactions instead of making yourself believe you react in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| for you to allow into your consciousness the reactions and feelings that will come up and give | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| own soul. These repeated occurrences, along with your reactions toward them, may vary in two or three | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| notes through and recollect the incidents, with your reactions. See whether you can at least sense a | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| can promise you that. Examine the various chain reactions that led you to the present state, consider | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the better of you. You will have wrong reactions and distorted instincts, which you will then want | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| What counts is a person's inner attitudes, feelings, reactions, motives, and sense of responsibility. QUESTION: How does | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| yourself to others and therefore have the same reactions for others as for yourself. That is what | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| aside from the law of brotherhood. For your reactions are surely not just. You may act in | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the deeply ingrained faults and comparing the faulty reactions to the ideal state. Thus you learn humility | 31 SHAME |
| it. Check all your faults and your emotional reactions to them in all honesty. As you go | 31 SHAME |
| you do not consciously think so. Your emotional reactions to other people may amount to that. Test | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| a new independence from other people's behavior or reactions and know that in the last analysis they | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| have deeply understood many of your trends and reactions of which you are still unaware. So your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| another. Your deeds, your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions and your attitudes create definite forms that are | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| through your own efforts. Just as your negative reactions and thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts | 36 PRAYER |
| the daily events in your life and your reactions to them relate to your inner vicious circle | 36 PRAYER |
| the vanity of the other person, and emotional reactions followed. One can then always rationalize one's dislike | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| are not thought out; rather they are emotional reactions, general attitudes toward life. They are not completely | 38 IMAGES |
| he cannot explain. The mystery of such unreasonable reactions and the anxiety connected with them will present | 38 IMAGES |
| primitive example. Most of the time the emotional reactions are much more subtle and complicated. I cannot | 38 IMAGES |
| is so convinced that avoiding certain actions and reactions will protect you against the hurts of life | 38 IMAGES |
| meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the past and present, and through prayer | 38 IMAGES |
| formed, and to understanding the processes of your reactions when you formed it, you will have to | 38 IMAGES |
| to certain things and when and how these reactions repeat themselves throughout your life. Review the disappointments | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| have nothing to do with your actions and reactions. Afterward, when you recognize a pattern, you will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you have gained some understanding of your inner reactions and their bearing on outer events will you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| on outer events will you see that these reactions actually are nothing less than a fault, or | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| outer personality. Once you realize that your inner reactions come from a faulty attitude, there are two | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the necessary understanding. When you come across known reactions or faults in your inner images, beware of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| great deal of courage. By uncovering certain emotional reactions, tendencies and inner conditions, they come face to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| courage. Yet their discovery of certain cowardly emotional reactions is also valid. So it is important for | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| have outwardly. Outwardly you have exactly the opposite reactions, and genuinely so -- not only as a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| everything you have found out about your hidden reactions -- whether they concern trends you find repeatedly | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| repeatedly or whether you come across quite different reactions from your known outer ones -- and think | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| further enlightenment and strength to change your erroneous reactions. Simply shift your thinking to a deeper level | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| an inner understanding about your hidden trends and reactions and leave it at that. The work only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| succeeded in integrating and unifying your erring emotional reactions and wrong conclusions with your intellectual knowledge. Emotions | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of, or whether you discover some completely new reactions, you have to approach them with a spirit | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| about the why of some of your emotional reactions. If you do not find the answer, it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is that in the unconscious the personality creates reactions and conclusions that assume a rigid form. We | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the easy way out. If you analyze your reactions this way, you will facilitate matters greatly. And | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| vast amount of isolated information about your inner reactions. By letting your emotions come to the surface | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| yet capable of living according to the right reactions. But if you face your wrong conclusions by | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you will meditate on this daily, eventually your reactions will change. It is not sufficient that your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your emotions, your images, or your habitual inner reactions. It will come to you the moment you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| seemed like an easier way of life. The reactions to taking responsibility for one's life vary with | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| dig deeper you will find out that your reactions and desires take an entirely different direction. So | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you will not remember offhand your emotions, your reactions, your inner intentions, and your conclusions. You cannot | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the conclusions as such. You will review your reactions. You will reexperience the wrong emotions and compare | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the image search, you will probably discover little reactions where the process of the mind operates on | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a sensitivity with which they can observe the reactions of the child. That would be the ideal | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and objective, see the same person. Observe your reactions on hearing of faults you either could not | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| having found something unworthy in the parent. These reactions continue to live in the soul of the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of the adult and color his or her reactions and behavior patterns throughout life or until they | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| may help, but by looking into your psychological reactions and evaluating them in the light of your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| Just turn your attention to your own inner reactions, my friends, when you feel unjustly treated or | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| first type governs his or her life and reactions mainly with reason. The second type does so | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| commanded. You cannot change your feelings and emotional reactions by an act of will. You can use | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and again whatever is wrong in your inner reactions. Thus will you cultivate the very change you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| bit about yourself -- your conscious aims and reactions, your tastes and idiosyncrasies, and so on. But | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| matter, joyful and optimistic. In each of these reactions lies a desire. If you wish to find | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| ascertain the desires in each of your daily reactions. That is not as difficult as you may | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is to ask yourself why you felt these reactions, no matter how obvious the reason may be | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of such self-questioning, my friends. Take all your reactions, every day, and examine them from this point | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| with the best of intentions: you know certain reactions are selfish or unloving, and you do not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| two sides: (1) examine your childhood and your reactions at the time and (2) examine the desires | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and (2) examine the desires in your present reactions to daily occurrences. They will form one whole | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in each and every one of your daily reactions. To begin with, simply register the desires. Refrain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| do not mean your outer deeds, decisions, and reactions. These you can often explain and rationalize, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| any human being who is not forced into reactions and decisions by his or her own compulsive | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| carried over into adult life. The often unconscious reactions to authority indicate whether this hurdle has become | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| should retrace all this to childhood feelings and reactions to your early environment. Only then can you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| pattern-like later repetition of your early behavior and reactions, and only in that light will you be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will you be able to understand your present reactions. Let us examine these two basic categories separately | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as tangible outer results as the openly rebellious reactions. In the other category are those who at | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| which I speak. The more hidden forces and reactions in the attitude of the law-upholder -- even | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| If you examine your life and your inner reactions in this respect, it will not be difficult | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can furnish the cornerstones by examining your own reactions and understanding in what way you have contributed | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or are contributing by your own unconscious emotional reactions to set an avalanche rolling. In this way | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your attitude toward authority as such. Your childhood reactions still color your present reactions without your being | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |