| Slide.......................4 | |
| it remains in the foreground and does not slide unnoticed into background thought. If you want to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| considerable progress already made, rather than letting yourself slide into inertia again. Then you will yet experience | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| feel and experience this wall and you can slide it away, opening yourself to Creation with its | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| yourself see what is already here and not slide back into focusing your gaze on all the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Slighted....................16 | |
| often in order to punish those who have slighted him. The child feels and thinks somewhat like | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| indulge in such fantasies anymore when you are slighted, don't you still carry the same germ with | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| many other ways. Whenever you feel rejected or slighted, check your innermost reactions where the element of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| view of the person who you think has slighted you cannot possibly be reconciled with the current | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without terror. Being without the terror of being slighted or rejected, you will become willing to love | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even if ever so subtly, when it feels slighted. You will, moreover, see that these emanations contribute | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you who cries inwardly when its wish is slighted. Is it any wonder then that with this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| thought that the birth of Christ would be slighted if He, too, was born as other human | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in which you prove to those who have slighted you how superior or great you are. In | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| In such daydreams you are admired instead of slighted and you experience satisfaction, revenge and gratified pride | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your life that you first felt rejected or slighted, and later through a variety of circumstances you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| example to make this more understandable. You feel slighted, discriminated against, rejected. As a rule you admit | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| My feelings are so strong when I feel slighted that I feel the desire to kill those | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| friend, about where you feel you were insulted, slighted, rejected, or discriminated against. Put it down in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| because your imagined real need for love remains slighted. Once you are truly ready to give up | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| others, perhaps your family or those who have slighted you. Even in these ego gratifications, however, the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Slip........................13 | |
| in the future, and thus you let life slip by. You miss out on seeing and appreciating | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| great not to let errors and false interpretations slip in -- not to speak of the danger | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| foreseeing the many human errors that inevitably must slip in, in the course of time. Despite these | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- being careful not to allow it to slip away again into unconsciousness -- you will be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| opportunities for self-knowledge and purification. You let them slip by. If an unpleasant feeling comes up in | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| understanding alone, for you may then very well slip back into the same old pattern. You can | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| cherishing your findings I mean not letting them slip back into hiding, for then the work has | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| awareness. You need this constant reminder because discoveries slip out of awareness so fast. Neither should you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| seems at stake, for all happiness seems to slip out of reach if you cannot maintain the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| which could be improved. Somehow, you let opportunities slip by. I do not speak of outer opportunities | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| for yourself. But once you let the choice slip by, you become truly lost and helpless and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| not aware, you cannot be in truth; things slip away from you. You become confused. Confusion and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| be trusted in anything? The ground seems to slip away from under the feet of the child/adult | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Slipping....................3 | |
| of our group members was a borderline psychotic, slipping in and out of reality. When he first | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| which makes you fear that your life is slipping through your fingers without your having realized its | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you think you are alive. And you think slipping through the gate means being dead. Even during | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Slips.......................5 | |
| animal. In other cases, the moment the animal slips out of its physical body, it is awake | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the most hidden, subtle and unobtrusive ways, one slips back inadvertently. However, the knowledge of the finding | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| occasionally, this second point. However, such awareness habitually slips back into the unconscious, from whence it must | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| glimmer of the cosmic feeling comes and quickly slips away, it is a sign that your love | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| One's affairs are left unattended, as life constantly slips away, waiting to be lived, fulfilled in the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Sloppy......................4 | |
| inadvertently, arbitrarily, haphazardly by your unwise, destructive and sloppy thinking processes, your fears, your misconceptions, your ignorance | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| so. Thank you. QUESTION: Sometimes I feel very sloppy, and I want everything to be very messy | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| nice. Why do I want things to be sloppy and messy? ANSWER: Well, I would say perhaps | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| if you feel you want to be disorderly, sloppy as you say, to ask yourself, Am I | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Sloth.......................22 | |
| healthy, or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is SLOTH. Sloth is the indifference and apathy that I | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or productive. The seventh cardinal sin is SLOTH. Sloth is the indifference and apathy that I just | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the indifference and apathy that I just mentioned. Sloth represents the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from living and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| relate to them. Nothing produces more waste than sloth, or apathy, or withdrawal -- whatever name you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not withdraw, and therefore will not become apathetic. Sloth always indicates selfishness. If you are too afraid | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| see this basic selfishness and self-concern as unhealthy. Sloth is one of the defense-mechanisms I have discussed | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and indifferent towards everything that is life-producing. Therefore sloth is rightly called a sin. QUESTION: What happens | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| point of view, that has been wasted in sloth? ANSWER: The life has to be repeated, again | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| larger scale. If a life is wasted in sloth, time after time, finally the circumstances of an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| struggles out of it. Unfortunately, only too often sloth takes the path of least resistance as long | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| conditions that make it harder to live in sloth because the instinct of self-preservation finally takes over | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| each other. Sometimes they seem like opposites, like sloth contrasted with covetousness or with gluttony. They are | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| if there is any definite connection, say, between sloth and gluttony? ANSWER: The two are opposites, because | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| reaching out, coming from a frustrated need, while sloth is indifferent withdrawal and does not reach out | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| withdrawal and does not reach out. Yet both sloth and gluttony have the same common denominator: an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| fulfillment, namely childish self-concern and selfishness. Since both sloth and gluttony come from confusion and disorder, they | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| seven deadly sins? Sometimes it is said that sloth is worse than pride. ANSWER: Evaluating this is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may be misleading. It may be true that sloth is more difficult to overcome because it is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| more difficult to overcome because it is inactive. Sloth paralyzes the faculties, and thus lasts longer. But | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be manifest or it may take shape as sloth, apathy, stagnation or a sense of utter drabness | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and your goals. This leads to indifference and sloth, to stagnation and even masochism. It leads to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| or evil, such as, for example love, perseverance, sloth, laziness, impatience, kindness, stubbornness, or malice. They all | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Slow........................57 | |
| goal can be achieved only by following a slow, laborious path. Pray for help in this respect | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sudden measures supposed to eliminate the effort of slow growth are in accordance with the laws of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| are very effective, very quick, but never lasting. Slow growth and development, however, are in accordance with | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| has to be dissolved by the process of slow, organic growth. As long as this process lasts | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| one wants. Instead of overcoming selfishness by the slow process of development, people often act as though | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the state of being and the state of slow growth and organic building. Whenever God wills it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| as it is called, happened gradually as a slow process of degeneration, whereby everything divine very slowly | 21 THE FALL |
| divine creation in a particular way through the slow unfoldment of this special creative power. Directed to | 21 THE FALL |
| this can only be accomplished through the same slow process of development as the Fall with its | 21 THE FALL |
| The latter could only occur as an exceedingly slow process, however. Spiritual darkness annuls knowledge, which is | 21 THE FALL |
| on your thoughts. Changing your feelings requires the slow process of self-development and self-recognition. You may realize | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the power ultimately led to evil through a slow process, even if it did not become evil | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| begin to see even at this time the slow but sure development in the direction of eliminating | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| person finds it easier to do this by slow stages while another wants to quickly get it | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| all activities. To find God is perforce a slow and gradual process. To seek and to find | 36 PRAYER |
| setting down one foot after another in a slow but steady process. In this jungle you constantly | 36 PRAYER |
| your temporary inability to react differently, knowing that slow growth is the only possible way. Take the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| threat. Whether it happened suddenly or in a slow realization, this threat is the shock referred to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| obstruct your perception, even emotionally. But where this slow or sudden shock-impression has affected the soul, one | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or not, it is a sign of a slow destruction of religious mass imagery, step by step | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| on this path of self-finding is a gradual, slow way -- and there is no faster way | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you are not that far yet. But by slow degrees you approach it. And some of my | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cannot occur harmoniously. All healthy growth is organic, slow and steady. Here the principle of restriction is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| which is real growth. Real growth is a slow unfoldment based on profound understanding of the self | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| him even more. The goal must be the slow unfoldment of undistorted qualities which are really needed | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| separately. But incarnated humans are evolving in a slow re-climbing from the Fall? ANSWER: That is correct | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frequency. In contrast, the inner will maintains a slow and even flow, always rounded. This will again | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| reason. Death can be more painful in a slow consuming disease or in an accident. Murder may | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| accept beforehand that change and growth are a slow process. QUESTION: With regard to the last lecture | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you will eventually discover a very gradual and slow change. You will become naturally more alert to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| The subconscious can only be reeducated by the slow and gradual process pursued in our work. Most | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| stand in the way. What you said about slow progress is true to a certain extent. But | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| locked and blocked as others. Although this is slow work, each tiny step forward brings liberation and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| formations of granite, while sandy accumulations call for slow digging and eliminating to keep the sand from | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in words. But, my friends, this is a slow process. It does not come overnight. It comes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| how you caused this unfulfillment. This is a slow process. If you approach it with the perhaps | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of them. But if you go through the slow process just described, organic growth occurs and the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of the imperfection of this world, with the slow process of striving, grasping, and drowning, is very | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| do not fully understand the roots. Accept this slow process of your growth. Remove the compulsion and | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| develop. From mineral life to primitive man, a slow ascendancy in awareness, intellect, and will can be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and digestion in such a case is so slow that it engages all your faculties, thus arresting | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is a must, it is contrary to the slow, harmonious waves of the life stream, or life | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the human entity has to go through very slow stages of evolution. QUESTION: In my work on | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and false ideas. All self- destruction is a slow form of suicide. Death is unconsciously longed for | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| aspect of the divine in you? In the slow progression of such a pathwork, it will come | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of the soul, precisely because the process is slow and there are no quick, magic results. For | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| example. For that reason the growth must be slow and sometimes arduous. It is up to you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| created by your underlying negative attitude. Thus you slow down the process. Now you are reviving the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the infinite space of creation. This causes a slow, late and organic deterioration of the body. When | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| a sudden accident or illness, in a painful, slow illness and, above all, with the conscious mind | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| be pursuing a delusion. Knowing yourself is a slow, step-by-step process. It doesn't ever require an impossible | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that emanates from the lower self is very slow moving. It is often halting, condensed and heavy | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| exists, the spreading of this knowing is a slow process. All of the soul and the personality | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of the eternal nature of life requires a slow process, contingent on many other attitudes that have | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| and venture that evil comes into existence. The slow penetration of the spirit into the void permits | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is beginning to grow up. The process is slow and often hindered by personal resistance to growth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| allowed into surface consciousness. Old age is a slow withdrawal of the personality that lives forever. When | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |