| Beclouded...................3 | |
| underlying principle about which you are confused and beclouded. So the best, indeed the only possible way | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in its richness if your perception is so beclouded? Only by being yourself are you capable of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| perhaps without even knowing it, you will feel beclouded and your life will seem to contract into | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Befall......................9 | |
| to those higher spheres where no disadvantage can befall you, even while still in the body, in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| out and harmonize in perfection. Moreover, when tests befall you, as they must, pray that your thinking | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that bring you more needless hurts than would befall you without your imagined defenses. My friends, hurt | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| rested after such periods. Many other benefits will befall you. You will also get accustomed to watching | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of the moment. Even the real tragedies that befall every human being will be felt very differently | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to react to this situation that seems to befall me out of nowhere and to which I | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| become increasingly obvious that positive experience does not befall you by accident either. You will sense that | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| delude yourself that unhappiness and bad moods just befall you out of nowhere, or that you have | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| director of your thoughts. Your thoughts do not befall you. Through your thoughts, you create the flow | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Befalls.....................5 | |
| if only in the background, watching that nothing befalls their protege that is not according to God's | 22 SALVATION |
| one day come your way, just as it befalls other people. This may be the product of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| something you choose; it is not something that befalls you. Once you have truly progressed on this | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| sad is catastrophic and that, if this catastrophe befalls you, you must perish. This unspoken, unarticulated assumption | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and spite, instead of blaming some fate that befalls the innocent you, is a key to finding | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Beg.........................19 | |
| a spirit may ask the higher beings: I beg you, help me, not only with your strength | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| miss the happiness of the now. And I beg all of you, my friends, to whom the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| new and unusual for some of you, I beg you to open your minds. Many things are | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| my friends, for our time is up. I beg all of you, especially those who have come | 21 THE FALL |
| another form, a concrete form for us. I beg you to keep this in mind and not | 22 SALVATION |
| tasks to fulfill on this earth. I explicitly beg you, my friends, not to ask me which | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It takes so very little time, and I beg all of you, for your own sake, to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| word the subconscious to explain this phenomenon. I beg you, my friends, divorce yourselves of the preconceived | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| go on from there. This, my friends, I beg you to remember very well. Do not choose | 31 SHAME |
| but you help yourself. My dear friends, I beg all of you to think carefully about this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| stress it enough, my friends, and I cannot beg you enough to do what I suggest if | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| that you all so badly need. And I beg of you to use it in the right | 38 IMAGES |
| threshold from the darkness into the light. I beg any of you who has not started yet | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| my dear ones, for many of you. I beg you not to say offhand that you do | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| had nothing to do with you. So I beg of you, my dear friends, consider the outer | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| any way bad or harmful or disadvantageous. I beg of you, think about this, meditate upon it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| danger of life. You do not have to beg, cry, submit and sell your soul in order | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and yield more and more results. And, I beg of you, choose to remember the many times | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of living and of your innermost being. I beg of you, do not close your eyes to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Beginnings..................8 | |
| -- some of you may still see the beginnings of it -- when you will have machines | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| time it takes to reach the first tentative beginnings of this new strength and later to increase | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| will change the educational system, although some tentative beginnings have already been made. Perhaps first only in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| All that you know. You have made tentative beginnings in this respect, in some instances very good | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that render them unhappy and lonely. Some make beginnings, but when they approach those dark spots they | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| my friends. At first you will experience the beginnings of this kind of knowledge only occasionally. It | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the pioneers. They create a new civilization. The beginnings have already been made, in various places all | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| have an overview. You will then sense the beginnings of a rebirthing process. With some this may | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Behave......................14 | |
| is often extremely difficult to know how to behave when such tests come along, for the dark | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| if I just try to be good and behave right, that should be sufficient. Why do I | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| all your misery. This excessive fear makes you behave like a person so afraid of death that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| seem rather to be quite unsubmissive, quite rebellious, behave in such a forceful way only because deep | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| situations, or rather how your emotions react and behave. These reactions are often quite subtle. Such subtleties | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| hold true also for others. So, when people behave negatively, you will no longer feel frightened or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and your defenses -- how they make you behave inwardly, and therefore also outwardly. You will come | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| between daydreams in which they can make others behave, feel, and react as they want, and the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| emotions if they are channeled. They may outwardly behave, but that does not mean they have grown | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| will know what their unconscious says, when they behave in such and such a way. When you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and cannot succeed, this conviction will make you behave in such a way that you will indeed | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| strong influx of warm feelings, I have to behave in the exact opposite way. The next moment | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| directed toward others who, one insists, have to behave in a certain way to enable the self | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| being? How does this inner expression make me behave in such a way that I make it | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Behavior....................134 | |
| he now sees as examples of his selfish behavior. Such recognitions will make him very uncomfortable at | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| earlier incarnation has accumulated much karma through offensive behavior toward his or her own sex -- and | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| affairs, you will recognize the so far inexplicable behavior of the other for what it is, just | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| yourself on this path. One is your outer behavior, the recognition of your apparent faults and qualities | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the underground workings of your reactions and the behavior of your various soul currents. Merely by doing | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| will feel a new independence from other people's behavior or reactions and know that in the last | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| toward others; perhaps not always in their outward behavior, but in their inner attitude. Try in your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| some sort of pattern, whether it is a behavior pattern in response to certain occasions, or events | 38 IMAGES |
| the shame; you would not feel that such behavior deserved shame if you encountered it in others | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you resort to such defective defensive measures. This behavior falls into the same category as blindly idealizing | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| adult and color his or her reactions and behavior patterns throughout life or until they have been | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| other types, approval is sought by the opposite behavior. Such a person may always act against public | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| find the pattern-like later repetition of your early behavior and reactions, and only in that light will | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your self- search. There will be patterns of behavior to recognize. QUESTION: Is there a special way | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| such a situation there are two forms of behavior. On this path one tries in a spirit | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| people fall into this category. This type of behavior is so crass and elementary that we do | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| intellectual concept is completely different from the emotional behavior and attitude. This should furnish an important clue | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the universal truths, yet you feel that their behavior is not quite genuine. Inwardly they are hiding | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| misunderstood. It does not mean the kind of behavior that self-willed, primitive, undeveloped or antisocial people display | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| What people say when they indulge in such behavior is, I am unhappy, you see. You have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on this path you realize that a certain behavior on your part, being good and right in | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a world that tries to force you into behavior patterns. But this, too, is an error. You | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| or even completely covered by rational and reasonable behavior. But this in no way proves that the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that the infant desires. Intellectual conviction and outer behavior are in no way an indication of the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| maintain the picture of your idealized self. This behavior is the infant reacting in you; your brain | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Only then can you take the other person's behavior and mannerisms and compare them with what you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| seems cold, aloof, and free of emotions, this behavior pattern -- imagined or real -- becomes desirable | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in you encased, while you borrow a similar behavior pattern and use it as a substitute for | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| want. Since certain outer aspects of such submissive behavior seem superficially to resemble true love, it is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| correction is very contrary to your present inner behavior which we shall now consider. All people, including | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| childhood truly behind and start a new inner behavior pattern that will be infinitely more constructive and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| reasons and explanations for his irrational, emotional, subjective behavior or attitude. QUESTION: At one time, you said | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| if this is a repeated pattern, then such behavior would indicate a certain aspect of immaturity. It | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Many motivations may exist that can explain such behavior; we cannot consider all possible alternatives. If this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you can recognize the real motives of such behavior truly -- not just theoretically -- only with | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| which is right underneath the tense, compulsive, emotional behavior pattern. Once you stop believing, as you unconsciously | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| real self knows. Trust it. Your superimposed compulsive behavior pattern is completely blind. The one is haphazard | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to more unhealthy dependence and need. Such inner behavior, no matter how camouflaged, never expresses a free | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| personality trends and patterns of inner and outer behavior and reaction which tend to make them weaker | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| type will have corresponding distortions as standards of behavior. One must always be in the background, never | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the attempt is made to force the compulsive behavior away by discipline, the best you can hope | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and attitudes. It also creates rigid rules of behavior and attitude; it freezes ideas and feelings as | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| than being egocentric. Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed behavior patterns and rules, however subtly and vaguely felt | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the question! It is possible that your outer behavior in defeat leaves nothing to be desired. But | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to you to examine the surface reactions and behavior patterns. To experience defeat in a healthy, mature | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| danger, the personality assumes certain inner and outer behavior patterns, above and beyond the character distortions that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| resentment is unjustified because they themselves chose this behavior pattern. They have no right to blame others | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| infancy. Once you analyze and understand certain emotional behavior patterns, you will realize how preposterous they are | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| make the decision as to whether these inner behavior patterns are worth keeping or not. You are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| fear of letting go of familiar, although defective, behavior patterns. If you still find yourself in a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| -- you are bound to pursue the very behavior pattern that will push love away from you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| least, begin to notice the difference in your behavior and reaction when you feel the defensive wall | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the false need. He will clearly see the behavior pattern caused by the false need and how | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| their inner, unpronounced claims, and see the resulting behavior pattern; when you observe your reactions to others | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| relinquish false needs and replace them with constructive behavior patterns that fulfill your real needs. My dearest | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| deeds. All thoughts, emotions, attitudes, inner decisions, and behavior patterns are actions. Actions coming from the outer | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to no longer follow the old pattern of behavior. It requires your will to institute a new | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not entirely eliminated. You know how contagious human behavior is. Thoughts and emotions are also contagious. In | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| emotions are also contagious. In other words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| In other words, outer behavior will influence outer behavior, while thought influences thought, and unconscious feelings influence | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and stems from the same root as the behavior of those persons who cannot make an independent | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| spirit of truth for the sake of right behavior. The child could be encouraged from the beginning | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| who are incapable as yet of directing their behavior into constructive actions. Because education is so far | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and admit that your very proper and correct behavior is often not dictated by love at all | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to these motives, you are convinced that your behavior leaves nothing to be desired. And yet, so | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| sense of unworthiness. These subtle effects of your behavior are more difficult to determine and are also | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| exists also in emotional reactions, not just in behavior, which one may well have under control. All | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you have found that you have attitudes and behavior patterns similar to those of the despised parent | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| toward you, as well as the resultant images, behavior patterns, and defense-mechanisms you developed. Only by seeing | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| responsible for your problems, and yet their faulty behavior toward you has to be faced and understood | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| finally become a reality, because then your own behavior must be rejecting. This example has often been | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| dealing with the influence of parents and the behavior patterns deriving from the parental relationship, you will | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| prohibited the fulfillment of this need, certain destructive behavior patterns you could not see, once you can | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| no longer have to hold on to self-protective behavior in the pseudo-safety of isolation. However, you cannot | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| unconscious not only harbors petrified wrong conclusions, destructive behavior patterns resulting from images, and negative emotions due | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| your particular No, and how it influences your behavior, whether obvious or subtle, you come to understand | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| fear and wish, as though your attitude and behavior had no bearing on the desired outcome! For | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you, and you alone, determine your actions, your behavior, your decisions. The moment you do this, something | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| since you have started out to shape your behavior according to this belief. As you know, images | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| images, the wrong concepts, the destructive emotions and behavior patterns. To the extent that these are changed | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| thoughts, feelings, emanations, attitudes in inner and outer behavior; and e) how these must affect others, and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the appropriate laws, and change your attitude and behavior regarding these laws. You will work with, instead | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| your psyche is afflicted by images, by neurotic behavior patterns, and misconceptions so deeply engraved that you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| when values are based on outer standards. Such behavior aims to please or impress others, to conform | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| in thinking and feeling or also in actual behavior. In order to truly and sincerely want to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| it can manifest in your outer life and behavior, but it can also manifest in a much | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a disadvantage; you will be driven into damaging behavior patterns. On the sexual level, such an individual | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of your good or bad thoughts, feelings, or behavior. This is extremely important to comprehend, for it | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| natural. If nature is not squashed, if good behavior is not superimposed over a seething pool of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through your errors, misconceptions and destructive feelings and behavior patterns -- created these unpleasurable experiences. That is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to extricate yourself from this pattern of inner behavior. Blaming brings in its wake other destructive attitudes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| testing the reality of further chain-reactions and compulsive behavior patterns based on such assumptions. So, when you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the result of an inner attitude with concomitant behavior patterns, you are no longer a helpless tool | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in short, neurosis -- only indirectly. It | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| concepts and illusion, and the unworkable pseudosolutions and behavior patterns they generate. Ever since we started together | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| thinking may change and create new attitudes and behavior, new feelings, new ways of being. And if | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to give up negative and destructive patterns of behavior and feelings, makes the real pleasure not only | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| evil, of negativity, of destructiveness in feeling and behavior. Do not be afraid to recognize it, my | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| they? The misconceptions; the destructive emotions, attitudes and behavior patterns that arise from them; the pretenses and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| infinitum. For example, you know that misconceptions create behavior patterns that inevitably seem to prove the correctness | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of the assumption, so that the destructive, defensive behavior will become more firmly entrenched in the soul | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Your inability to cope with this acted-out, destructive behavior of others toward you again reflects your lack | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| a corresponding attitude in life, they influence actions, behavior, responses, reactions, emanation and deeds. Such an attitude | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| yourself into a tight little box of prescribed behavior and values that is not the true expression | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| up those components of your mental attitudes and behavior which create a vicious circle. This always means | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| psyche and open up new channels of spontaneous behavior no longer based on conditioned reflexes, and of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| some faults and destructive attitudes, of some neurotic behavior and feelings, but I cannot sufficiently emphasize that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| by a particular attitude which leads to specific behavior. See how you close yourself off and stay | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| being by making something more of other people's behavior than necessary. It cuts off the vision of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| have to be completely justified in explaining your behavior, then you also put yourself in a terrible | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of the hidden waste. False opinions and obsolete behavior patterns are literally waste material, to be disposed | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| against which he continues to wage war. This behavior is among the obsolete waste material of soul | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to repression and denial. Often you admit your behavior but simultaneously engage in it as if the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| but do not wish to see this self-blaming behavior. The more you blame yourself, the more you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| made room for constructive, outgoing, positive attitudes and behavior. All too often human beings are stuck and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| place. It is not a reward for good behavior. It is a simple act, instituted by the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| impossible. Attitudes, ways of being, and patterns of behavior have a particular power to influence us; we | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| applies to both positive and negative attitudes and behavior patterns. Even feelings and the states they create | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of commensurate desires, defense mechanisms, destructive actions, negative behavior patterns, and so on. Needless to say that | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| see, but fail to understand, this truly senseless behavior of a part of yourself, and you even | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| between good and evil, between social and antisocial behavior, between constructive and destructive acts. This was a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in order to preserve decency, kindness, and constructive behavior because such action is still so deeply experienced | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| deprived you feel when you refrain from destructive behavior, and also how guilty and self-rejecting you feel | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| consciousness, one finds the opposite of the manifest behavior. The man also shrinks from the responsibility of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| do with his or her negative attitudes and behavior, whether this is verbally expressed or not. This | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| truth and their effect on your life, your behavior, your receptivity, so that you can develop an | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| an attitude, or a defense, or a familiar behavior pattern, a way of reacting, a personality trait | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| avoid, against his will. This is truly the behavior of an unruly child who needs a parent | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| when you do not stand up to evil behavior, when you collude with it and refrain from | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| person who indulges in this kind of negative behavior there is a cloud of guilt, confusion, and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| anger creates self-doubt and self-hate, self-hate creates negative behavior patterns and self-destructiveness. All these emotions, although interconnected | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| truth or error of your belief, attitude, and behavior pattern. When you are in the illusion that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and nurture negative thoughts, dishonest actions, and destructive behavior patterns. The person who has a stake in | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| conditions unless the others change their attitude and behavior toward you. Most of you have felt something | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |