| Shrinks.....................9 | |
| the less can life grow, the more it shrinks and is prohibited from functioning. QUESTION: In modern | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| knows it is a great thing, yet one shrinks from it. ANSWER: Quite apart from the many | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| accepts your instincts and nature, but another side shrinks back from this movement. Deprivation, emptiness, meaninglessness, and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the fulfillment of your conscious wish, your unconscious shrinks away from it in terror. The resulting frustration | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the negating principle. It pulls back, retracts, denies, shrinks into itself. There is a general conviction and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| else to react. Therefore, something in you again shrinks from living, especially when faced with the threat | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| at first observing a subtle inner soul-movement that shrinks back when something good comes along. As you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| opposite of the manifest behavior. The man also shrinks from the responsibility of adulthood and envies the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a position. There is no maudlin sentimentality that shrinks fearfully from confrontation. The courage to risk rejection | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Shrubbery...................3 | |
| an unexplored jungle, seeking the way through wild shrubbery and growth, setting down one foot after another | 36 PRAYER |
| faults, which appear in your soul as unruly shrubbery and often as poisonous growth, instead of turning | 36 PRAYER |
| effort to work yourself out of the thick shrubbery and see the light again. The light will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Shut........................19 | |
| to the spiritual experience will have to be shut for quite a long time. I do not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| comes to the inner nucleus, the door is shut. Eros then departs and a new search is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| The moment you step into real life, you shut off this awareness and you live as though | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| step closer to seeing your own barriers that shut out truth, love, and reality. For that is | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are open. You do not keep them deliberately shut because you prefer to cling to a rosy | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| unfold. But when the soul is even partially shut off, it is rigid, and the vital energies | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the destructiveness you fear so much that you shut out life itself. Do not fight the pain | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to overcome the remaining defenses and fears that shut off their further expansion into blissful being. The | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to your conscious mind, for you manage to shut out the truth, and thereby commit the gravest | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to create more expansion but, rather, more tightly shut defenses. Bliss is a necessity, for bliss is | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| steps you can incorporate this power rather than shut it off. The first step must be applying | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you, you absolutely need your destructive defenses that shut you out of life. It is your task | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| avoid the feared experience because your inner defenses shut off life so successfully that nothing touches you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in not wanting to know the truth, you shut out the light. One of the most important | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| an inner aliveness, and you tend to immediately shut the lid tight again. Yet by denying your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| You hurry through life because you want to shut out your anxieties and fears, my son. And | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| defiance is nothing but an ill-advised attempt to shut out other voices within. Therefore, instead of becoming | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| cannot see the connection, because he may have shut off his awareness of having chosen to build | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| do not, you will always impoverish yourself and shut out your feeling nature. You will become an | 254 SURRENDER |
| Shuts.......................6 | |
| are in error, my friends. Such erroneous thinking shuts a door. You believe an illusion, a superficial | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| within which is undesirable in its present manifestation shuts them off from what is already clear, liberated | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| much more a result of the tightness that shuts out God than of not having what you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| energy system closes more and more tightly and shuts out life's riches. Your illusion of life's negative | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| stubbornness, my friends; it is a wall that shuts out the divine inner guidance. Understanding this material | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| sinful. Therefore rebelling Christians create a defense that shuts out Christ in order to affirm their sexuality | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Shutting....................4 | |
| is even more important and fundamental is that shutting off this undesirable part causes it to remain | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| thinking and concentrating, consolidating your thoughts and listening, shutting out the vagaries of the mind that want | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Christ in order to affirm their sexuality. But shutting out Christ means shutting out an essential part | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| affirm their sexuality. But shutting out Christ means shutting out an essential part of God's world of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Shy.........................60 | |
| to do what is right and just, they shy away from doing something because it may not | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| doing anything, must have a consequence. When you shy away from making a decision, it means you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| to change the feelings, and you will not shy away from such work. You will then, in | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| inner process works in the following way: You shy away from admitting your guilt where it is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| may be, as I said before, that people shy away from knowing themselves truthfully, developing themselves on | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to ask questions often hesitate because they are shy. They think someone else may want to ask | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| distortions. So I say to you: Do not shy away from what is in you! Many people | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the good. Not one of you should feel shy. If your shyness stands in the way, a | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to grace. It is pride that makes you shy. I cannot stress it enough, my friends, and | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| your self-will that paralyzes you and makes you shy. And where pride and self-will exist, fear too | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| not the case and you could not be shy. An inferiority complex is not determined by one's | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| everyone, provided that he or she does not shy away from the labor and is willing to | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| origin of your fear. As long as you shy away from facing your erroneous reactions, because of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| addition, self-responsibility will cease to be something to shy away from. If this work is done in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| many of you have experienced. When you are shy and reticent, it creates in the other person | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it is often the real abyss that you shy away from. It is responsible for so many | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your choice, and the other person. Therefore, you shy away from loving all the more, although there | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| degrees and many variations. In your ignorance, you shy away from the kind of love you could | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fears. When you go deeply enough, and don't shy away from following through, you are bound to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| often a clear indication of emotional immaturity to shy away from taking on certain responsibilities, even though | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Another possibility is that the person may still shy away from a fundamental inner problem. Since, due | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know about your innermost self, you will not shy away from the possibility of receiving such help | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of you who do this work, do not shy away from the pain for it is healthy | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| give and receive happiness. To the degree you shy away from any kind of emotional experience, to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| experience these painful emotions -- perhaps because you shy away from feeling a slight pain, or you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| can indeed shorten the process. However, if you shy away from going there, you are bound to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Only by tackling what you most want to shy away from will you find the door behind | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for your present pain. If you do not shy away from the pain but go through it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| substitute emotion is. You know that I usually shy away from the word sin because it encourages | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| unconscious knowledge of this pressing question makes you shy away from facing it and you become more | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to do for him what he used to shy away from doing himself. Yet, in spite of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you are capable of truly understanding. If you shy away from yourself, how can you be willing | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| one deals with these personality levels -- to shy away from any implications of sinfulness, indeed from | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you have an indication of how you, too, shy away from fully facing your lower self. Question | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| closer. Only facing that within yourself that you shy away from will do it. Therefore, faith and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| than a professed believer. The former may not shy away from taxing involvement and mutual growth through | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| statement that those of you who do not shy away from this deep and ultimate growing process | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| who ardently pursue a path of self-exploration yet shy away from certain facets of their innermost selves | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| barrier to areas within the self that you shy away from exploring and understanding. It indicates a | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| on the many levels from which you still shy away. When you avoid parts of yourself, you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the proper questions, realizing that you must not shy away from any effort, for without divine help | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| often a good mirror for you. Do not shy away from such interactions. This coming year is | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to use. There is nothing that human beings shy away from more and are more afraid of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| potentials and powers. Finally, you will no longer shy away from the ecstasy of a fully lived | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| find that a cowardly opportunism exists wherever you shy away from your truth in relation to universal | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of consciousness, it means little if you still shy away from going through the experience. Jesus expressed | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more for going through a process most people shy away from. Is all that clear? QUESTION: Yes | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the second, seemingly so difficult step. If people shy away from finding the causes of suffering within | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the causes of suffering within the self, they shy away even more from this step. All their | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to become a happy person. Nor must one shy away from the effort of finding the cause | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you blame others for their evil because you shy away from facing your own. In this state | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| all aspects of the subject. You will not shy away from investing all your energies, all your | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| too strong to bear. As long as you shy away from a feeling, it remains a wall | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| them to happen. Enrich yourself and do not shy away from the risk and from the momentary | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the total personality is included. Since human beings shy away from accepting and dealing with certain parts | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of my innermost being unfold. I will not shy away from destroying my self-image, my vanity, my | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| a way imagination could never accomplish. Do not shy away from the momentary anxiety that the leap | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| create paradise on earth if you do not shy away from the labor of purification work. But | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| cannot as yet name. If you do not shy away from that unnameable something, it will sooner | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| perceive receptive quietude within active movement that they shy away from movement, from becoming, from effort. They | 228 BALANCE |