| Role-playing................6 | |
| free. QUESTION: Will you tell us something about role-playing? People are forced to take on multiple roles | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| evolutionary role to play in this life. Does role-playing exist, or is it just one way of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| first determine what is meant by the expression role-playing. Unfortunately, it is true enough that most people | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you merely play the role of an employer. Role-playing does not necessarily apply only to a pretense | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| habit in a person, again in relation to role-playing? Could a person assume a habit and then | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| negative pleasure, the pseudo-satisfactions of your pretenses, your role-playing, your defenses? How can you begin to wholly | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Roles.......................16 | |
| sure that one mass-killing causes another, changing the roles from torturers to victims until all have learned | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| role-playing? People are forced to take on multiple roles in their lives. One can be a parent | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is true enough that most people do play roles. In this work, our whole discovery of the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you let be. These two principles and their roles deserve much closer scrutiny. To activate means that | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you are still involved in the coverups, the roles and the games, you cannot get at the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| take some time now to identify the various roles you have chosen. Name these roles in simple | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the various roles you have chosen. Name these roles in simple sentences that describe what they are | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| all. They are cultivated habits. So are the roles you play. Each objective acknowledgment of your pretenses | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of reacting already exists now behind the false roles of pretense, beyond the grip of destructiveness. Underneath | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| it with your subterfuges, negativities, with your games, roles, and pretenses, with your projections and your escapes | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and resistance to pleasure, and give up the roles and pretenses that stand in the way. The | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| ungenerous attitudes toward life and others. All the roles and games we have amply discussed and that | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| functioning being. You will do away with the roles and pretenses. You will allow yourself to fully | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the various levels of human consciousness assume varying roles of active and receptive interaction. Your conscious ego-mind | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| go into much detail to show how these roles were not always fulfilled, even though at first | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| leader, a monarch, or simply a follower. Both roles have their value and carry their distinct differences | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Rolling.....................4 | |
| own unconscious emotional reactions to set an avalanche rolling. In this way, you and many others can | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| impressions and it repeats them automatically like the rolling of wheels. As long as these thoughts remain | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| positive, involuntary process that is like a gently rolling sea with an immense and benign energy cannot | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and how more and more of it unfolds, rolling endlessly, like the waves of the sea. Now | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Roof........................4 | |
| after all, you do not start with the roof when you build a house, but with the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| by stone. It is not completely erected, the roof is still missing, and it is not yet | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| some of the walls were erected, but the roof was still missing, as were various other details | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| So the temple construction has advanced considerably. The roof is almost finished. And the coming year promises | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| Root........................87 | |
| It must be put into practice and take root in your personal life. Thus every person needs | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| about this deeply, so that the knowledge takes root in your soul. It will be to your | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to be an unimportant detail is often the root of all unhealthy currents in the soul. You | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and again into this thought, until it takes root in your soul, until it becomes such a | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| reverse, that is the original goodness at the root of your faults. By visualizing the positive you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| general rules as to what is at its root, nor tell you exactly how to dissolve it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Such a symptom cannot be removed while its root remains in the ground. When the root is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| its root remains in the ground. When the root is pulled out, the symptom will disappear. Therefore | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| enough to remove the outer symptoms, the sick root must be found in the soul. That is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| sense to solely eliminate their outer manifestation; the root of the problem has to be unearthed. One | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| superficial mistake in action only. For then the root may very well remain and nothing much is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| exists merely on the surface and has no root in you. Thus you live a lie, well | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fault, knowing that the outer manifestation of the root cause cannot disappear immediately but has to be | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| think of your illness first, but of the root of the problem. That will be the only | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| a so-called psychosomatic illness, the cause or the root of it has to be found in the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you find this out, you are at the root, and all that remains to be accomplished is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Of course, even a right idea can take root first in the brain, but as long as | 18 FREE WILL |
| another fault grown out of the same bad root of the initial splitting from God. There should | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| committing sins again. As long as the evil root is not torn out, it must again produce | 22 SALVATION |
| anymore, but as long as resentment exists, the root of hatred is still in the soul. It | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and dearer to God than other people? The root of this feeling may even exist in people | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you distrust yourself. You will find at the root that you do not live up to your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cases like that you will still find the root in your image. Because if a karma has | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| been paid off it must mean that the root is still within the self. If you had | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| off the karma, you would not have the root anymore. You may find in yourself the same | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| committing because of your development. Nevertheless, the same root must still be there, for otherwise you would | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| God, ask Christ, to show you where the root is in yourself, where you have built the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of extreme subjectivity that comes from the same root although it manifests in a very different way | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| advantages the crime may bring. The deep, underlying root is rather the opposition to either the real | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be a painful one, particularly if the inner root is not sought while the outer remedy is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that divine substance can fill you and take root within yourself. As long as your rigid wall | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from the symptoms, refusing to go to the root of the evil, or of mustering up courage | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| does. This desire must ultimately be at the root of your self-contempt, of your feelings of inferiority | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you find this side, you come to the root of your inferiority feelings and your lack of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| all guilt and shame and is at the root of all other guilt feelings. All the feelings | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| but one will try to find the inner root of the problems and eliminate the cause. Compulsion | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they truly mean, when you come to the root, you will undoubtedly find that this childish part | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the influence which encourage turning away from the root of the problems, while other parts of the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| departed loved ones almost always has at its root this very problem. Therefore, I say it is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bring you any disadvantage. May these words take root in your souls. May each one of you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is harder for you to get to the root of the problem. Then it becomes more complicated | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| elapsed, during which these problems have taken deeper root in your soul. So, you have been carrying | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| innermost self. That is so often at the root of people's resistance to religion. Psychology, on the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you only theoretical knowledge that has no real root in your inner world. By becoming aware of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in this way can you get to the root of the confusion. It is not quite so | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the point and lead you closer to the root. You will then be able to eliminate the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and secondary when we want to consider the root of the problem. It is possible that a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| contributed greatly to this understanding. The essence and root of psychology, if you go deep enough, will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| always find in yourself, in the present, the root that has caused an evil. So this saying | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not. The inner processes are at the root of it. If you should find and change | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through the work produced, emerges from the same root: the desire for immortality. Neither wants to let | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| I would like to go immediately to the root of the problem, bypassing the outer, general causes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| general causes which are only symptoms of the root anyway. In the world of feeling you experience | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the right direction. May a small grain take root in yourselves. May it help you to absorb | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your self-alienation. Compulsive overactivity comes from the same root as energy loss and is only a superimposition | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| as laziness and apathy stem from an identical root. You will find in the overactive person a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| be much more constructively spent on finding the root of your sense of inadequacy and eliminating it | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| This will offer you invaluable material about the root of your problems. Instead of repressing daydreams or | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| both have the same common denominator, the same root. They are both an expression of your self-alienation | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| One leaves well enough alone, and therefore the root, which remains embedded, may create another destructive pattern | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| really lies. You focus your attention on the root. You shift your emphasis from evasion to reality | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of the coin and stems from the same root as the behavior of those persons who cannot | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| reasons. Both manifestations come from the very same root. The too-troubled conscience substitutes for the inner lack | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| each such growth opportunity for going to the root of the negative incident or mood, you will | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| are designed to penetrate to a still deeper root of understanding in your soul, according to your | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to meditate about it. May these words take root in you. May the new friends also have | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in one form or another. Often the real root -- in what respect fear of self and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| out of the no-current. The yes-current is the root of all. It is the cause. It is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and patiently waiting until the seed has taken root and can sprout compares to the gardener tending | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| result of this threat; it is the deepest root of your fear when it comes to letting | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| understand immediately, some of these words may take root in your psyche and come to fruition later | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| this medicine treats only the symptom, never the root of the problem. When the real reasons for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| all there is to individuality. This is the root of the fear to let go of all | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| within the self -- and that is the root of all suffering. No matter how many times | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| appear that way. When you go to the root of all things, there is no conflict between | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| way of the path. As you discover the root of your negative experience within you, you become | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the guiding principle in the search for the root of your obstructions. Contemplating the fulfillment or the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| any of these manifestations with the more profound root, namely that you do not think much of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| harbors the three attitudes that are at the root of all destructiveness and deviation: pride, selfwill and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| manifestation? You invariably mistake the manifestation for the root cause. You must learn laboriously, through your personal | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| your hate and destructiveness, and that is the root of all emotional sickness and suffering. As you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| concept. Only then will the true concept take root in the psyche and open up new channels | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| attitude can easily be explored to find its root manifestation. It can then be seen that only | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is the same. Allow this thought to take root in you, and you will fear much less | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| have to readjust themselves, so they can take root in the new land of beauty and abundance | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| give time for the positive intentionality to take root and flower, so must you have patience and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| a while, so that higher pleasures can take root in you. No one else, not even the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |