| Temptations.................15 | |
| fight them and will not yield to their temptations, and will certainly not act them out. There | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whom you cannot forgive. LEAD US IN OUR TEMPTATIONS. I repeat for those friends who joined our | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| remain faithful to God in spite of my temptations and in spite of the most difficult conditions | 22 SALVATION |
| having to resist all attacks, challenges, hardships, and temptations that the powers of darkness could think of | 22 SALVATION |
| world of God -- had to resist the temptations of Lucifer, who put the greatest effort imaginable | 22 SALVATION |
| the other side, He was offered all the temptations of the world of darkness. Of course, Christ | 22 SALVATION |
| to God and not give in to these temptations aggravated by hardships. If the conditions of His | 22 SALVATION |
| divine worlds once more. Even the traps and temptations that Lucifer could use were, from that time | 22 SALVATION |
| everything and to resist extremes which are always temptations. You have to find a proper balance. By | 36 PRAYER |
| you will find true life. All the many temptations that beckon you to follow paths which imply | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| go further, to go all the way. The temptations of evil are so very subtle. Every truth | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| heart in order to overcome the hurdles, the temptations to self-deceit, which block the way to the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to fulfill such tasks. Sooner or later the temptations proved too much. Others followed who took the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| much maturity is needed to abstain from the temptations to abuse freedom! How much self-discipline is needed | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not succumb to the strongest of influences and temptations that the personification of evil could unleash. Through | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Tempted.....................31 | |
| receptive to it. For instance, could you be tempted to commit murder? Certainly not. But you can | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| commit murder? Certainly not. But you can be tempted to give in to your faults, whatever they | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is important to realize that you can be tempted, and in what way. You have to know | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| any type of wishful thinking you might be tempted to use, prompted by a misunderstood theory of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| my advice is not to let yourselves be tempted, because these thought forms prevent your true fulfillment | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| well, for only through them can you be tempted by the dark spirits -- do you know | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| feel into it. Let us suppose you are tempted to take an addictive drug, having the intention | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| low and coarse. Now such people may be tempted to give in to these instincts and perhaps | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| duty to do God's will. Otherwise, one is tempted to follow an old line of thinking and | 36 PRAYER |
| may be a hindrance because you may be tempted to say: Oh, but this cannot be so | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| activity and alertness. But since people are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer activity may be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| side of the personality fears union and is tempted by inertia. This dissatisfaction is either conscious -- | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| tend to be polygamous and are therefore more tempted by infidelity than women. Thus you can also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| my friends farthest advanced on the path are tempted to look at the symptoms of evil, rather | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| known the same thing all along. You are tempted to put it away quickly, saying, I know | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Drawing the wrong conclusion, you may now be tempted to go to the other extreme and act | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| gain this special place of approval, you feel tempted to do the very thing you in fact | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| unreal picture of other people, since you are tempted to increase their value if they please you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| dangers are manifold. For instance, you may be tempted to skip a very necessary phase that is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| aware of this difficulty, you will not be tempted to believe you are in truth, when you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You still fluctuate and move away from it, tempted by your old habits. In this alternation between | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| friends! Observe yourself. See how you are always tempted to shove an unpleasant feeling aside in the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| used in the right direction. People are always tempted into the ideal state they have not yet | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| not dissipate the energy by letting yourself be tempted away from it, depriving yourself of a very | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| what feels most uncomfortable, what you are most tempted to look away from. Be blessed, continue on | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| how weak you may now be and how tempted to betray your best self; for greatness, regardless | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| everyone puts up, and how many people are tempted to leave this pursuit altogether because it seems | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| path know enough by now not to be tempted into this pitfall. The process must be a | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| also help each other. When you are very tempted to accuse the other person, ask yourself, What | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| than glossing over it, as you may be tempted to do. Admit it anyway, in spite of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self without questioning it, when you are still tempted to rationalize it and do nothing to challenge | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Tempting....................12 | |
| be able to bring about. It is very tempting to escape in this seemingly harmless way, but | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your own will often seems so much more tempting. When you prefer to say to yourself: Why | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| or she feels is compassion? It is always tempting to pride oneself on having a positive attitude | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| begin to find out why this seems so tempting. I venture to say there are as many | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of obtaining it themselves. The illusion is very tempting: to be entitled to receive without having to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| movement where you stagnate because non-movement seems so tempting. It appears to be the effortless state that | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| through. Under these circumstances love is not the tempting, pleasurable experience it may be to another part | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| for their goodness and righteousness. Such praise is tempting. It appears to work like a balm on | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| ever so subtle a way, that it is tempting to believe in the negative. After a while | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| others. You all know on your path how tempting this game appears and how unsatisfactory and constricting | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| key is really quite simple. It is so tempting to follow negative thoughts and come to believe | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to know and feel them. It seemed too tempting to follow the way of the dark forces | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Tenaciously.................4 | |
| must be responsible. If you did not cling tenaciously to the Utopia of having freedom and refusing | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| except that I know I cling to it tenaciously. It is some kind of a hope for | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| when destructiveness still exists in you and is tenaciously held onto -- so much so that you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| they could not succeed if you would not tenaciously hold on to your own. In that sense | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Tendencies..................115 | |
| the diverse energy currents if only the sick tendencies of the ego would not stand in the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and as such free from masochistic or sadistic tendencies; it will not be egocentric or violate your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| call it masochism -- is caused by specific tendencies. On the one hand you run away from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of it. Encountering these previously unconscious currents and tendencies feels as if you met a total stranger | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| negative traits weigh as heavily as the criminal tendencies of a less highly evolved being. Blind, impossible | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to what the higher self desires. The opposing tendencies clash and exhaust the soul; they create disharmony | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| development to its maximum -- then the feminine tendencies that are in him will never be in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| his masculine identity, and vice versa. Instead, the tendencies of the other sex will further and complete | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the higher self may be mixed in with tendencies from the lower self, the original shade twisted | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| makes its bearer emotionally ill. All the various tendencies have different colors and, in many cases different | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| one instance; there are many other traits and tendencies that go through the same process, my friends | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that you take in, to see whether these tendencies are in accordance with the spiritual laws or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| unconsciously, by your wrong inner direction. When these tendencies are unconscious within you, they create a great | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| thing, but of a number of interacting subconscious tendencies, fears and resistances. These use up your inner | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fault or wrong inner current. These trends and tendencies about which you have hitherto deceived yourself have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| That is one of the most harmful human tendencies, my friends. When you show yourself to one | 31 SHAME |
| friends. The second possibility is that you encounter tendencies that are completely contradictory to the self you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| deal of courage. By uncovering certain emotional reactions, tendencies and inner conditions, they come face to face | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| intellectual knowledge. Emotions are more habit-bound than outer tendencies; moreover, they are so elusive that in spite | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| unconsciously impatient and want to correct your soul tendencies in a hurry by drastic means -- which | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| all over again. Whether you discover the same tendencies that you were already aware of, or partly | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| background, any quality may be motivated by negative tendencies. The same applies to faults. But the natural | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| The more afraid they are of their own tendencies of hidden rebellion against law and authority, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| motives and attitudes, but recognize your own inner tendencies and currents. Thus, the law-upholder, motivated by the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| rather than for fighting, along with many other tendencies, which will then determine a person's final attitude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you have found hitherto hidden emotions, reactions, and tendencies -- you will be able to make a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| want to do away with undesired and unadmired tendencies quickly because they make you appear in an | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your findings will deal with trends and tendencies you already know in a vague way. If | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| unnecessary. In its sick sense, acceptance fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of indulging in resignation | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to discover where you deviate in your emotional tendencies, requirements, and desires from you conscious knowledge. You | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| must remember the unavoidable connection between these two tendencies. If you would love yourself properly, you would | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| motives. Your personality registers extremely accurately all desires, tendencies, and motives. You may not be consciously aware | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| unwillingly hurt others by one of your wrong tendencies and you feel truly sorry about it and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| they be drawn to influences which apparently foster tendencies of escape. Or they will pick out especially | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it will understand that unconstructive deeds, thoughts or tendencies are unconstructive as such. If you harm someone | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find the reason why you unconsciously harbor destructive tendencies and wishes, you will alter them with the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| This is because of the absence of self-destructive tendencies or the negative functioning of the inner will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| does not call it forth due to self-destructive tendencies. Self-destructiveness will always know how to find destructiveness | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| in God! 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends. I | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not only negative aspects, but positive and creative tendencies in the soul as well. Our aim is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| allowed to be. It is evident that destructive tendencies, based on wrong conclusions in the unconscious, prohibit | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| unconscious, prohibit the unfolding of constructive and creative tendencies in you. Therefore, we shall certainly go on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| searching for the suppression of positive and creative tendencies as they clamor for the expression of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will be able to bring the suppressed positive tendencies to the surface and view them in the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| right goal and having pure motives, your negative tendencies played a role in your not listening to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| certainly be easier to search for suppressed positive tendencies which you now know deserve full right of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the case, it is always due to unhealthy tendencies and reactions. When you face your lower nature | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| still have to be linked up with many tendencies that you could not possibly have recognized. You | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of what you sowed some time ago with tendencies that are still alive within yourself, whether you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| willingness to change and give up obsolete, damaging tendencies and inner reactions. When you become aware of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| people have a little of each of these tendencies manifesting within certain environments, and other tendencies coming | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| these tendencies manifesting within certain environments, and other tendencies coming to the fore with other kinds of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| self-pity, but will grow sufficiently to shed those tendencies that prevent you from receiving what you should | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of mind, state of emotion, general development, character tendencies, as well as passing moods or outer happenings | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| be partly true. Without recognizing their own negative tendencies people would gain an acute perception of other | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gain an acute perception of other people's negative tendencies, on which they then can focus out of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or idealized. It is true that these negative tendencies exist behind all idealized self-images. But they are | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it is. The person who glorifies such negative tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence, superiority | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| so much fear. In most cases these two tendencies are combined: overexacting moral standards impossible to live | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| channel, thereby generating poison. In distortion, the following tendencies come into being, again according to character structure | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| these pseudo-solutions, one or both of the other tendencies still exist. It is possible to deal with | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| I discussed this in the last lecture. These tendencies include aggressiveness, hostility, power drive, a need to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| self-image will be set up according to these tendencies. I emphasize again that this does not necessarily | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that this does not necessarily mean that contradictory tendencies, such as the quest for love, are not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Integration and self-finding can occur only when these tendencies are individually verified and experienced, possibly in entirely | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| core of the predominant tendency. For others, both tendencies exist side by side, tearing the person apart | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is then covered with its opposite. These two tendencies are mutually exclusive and therefore create conflict, and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of your idealized self-image, comprising, perhaps, all three tendencies. Only after this is explored will the underlying | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| work when two or all three of these tendencies alternate? When a person is submissive on one | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| by encouraging humanity's weakest, sickest, and most immature tendencies. It is those tendencies that are exploited in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| sickest, and most immature tendencies. It is those tendencies that are exploited in order to maintain false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a human being overemphasis on independence, hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and denial of all laws and rules | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| though hidden from awareness. The shame surrounding these tendencies is so great that the outer personality takes | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| behind which you hide and excuse your childish tendencies to refuse to grow up. Your conscious right | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| parties. If you had no negative or problematic tendencies, you could easily accept another person's limitation. You | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| but it is altogether different to experience these tendencies within yourself. Only exploring the depths of your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will make it possible to change these harmful tendencies. This moralizing tendency may exist in many subtle | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you a few more links between these various tendencies that, in the past, could be discussed only | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you to do is to find where these tendencies exist in you. You now believe that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the defense that keeps you chained to both tendencies. Or, if you are too confused between the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of an obstacle to facing the self. These tendencies in you made it necessary for me to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the child focuses only on certain aspects or tendencies of the parents, while the rest of their | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| sins, as well as any commandments, represent universal tendencies. The human psyche is not separated into clearly | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| takes place on a superficial level. Hence unconscious tendencies and currents affect the involved parties and sooner | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that it is a real tie. Unconscious destructive tendencies can only be dissolved if one faces and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| just calmly look at myself with the negative tendencies that exist side by side with the constructive | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it sincerely, your extreme reaction to certain destructive tendencies, which you have so far only vaguely sensed | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| You know of course that all of these tendencies are not out in the open. They have | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| become fully aware of the scope of such tendencies. What takes place when this happens is what | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| commission or omission makes no difference; the same tendencies operate in both. Do not overlook cowardice. One | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| lie all the potentials -- the talents, qualities, tendencies, characteristics, and also the unresolved problems. It is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of your past hurts and their subsequent destructive tendencies, you accumulate them behind the barricade, and they | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| beings are endowed with both masculine and feminine tendencies. In the healthy person, both these aspects work | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| more masculine and the woman more feminine. The tendencies of the opposite sex are not fought against | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| concern, subjectivity and unfairness due to blind, isolating tendencies. If two nations have opposite aims, it is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| place -- because he disapproves of his aggressive tendencies -- and asserting himself where reason indicates that | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and feminine sides and will feel isolating separative tendencies as being more constructive or mature than the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to manipulate, or punish others. The false, superimposed tendencies have to disappear before genuine strength, security, and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| healthy control and letting go. When these two tendencies are perceived, experienced, inwardly lived, there is no | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| how to obtain it, what to do about tendencies you do not like. The change lies in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of your actions and reactions. The two interrelated tendencies of underestimation of the self and misinterpretation of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to loving and its apparent danger. These two tendencies make the human heart so timid and so | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| deeds of either indifference or cruelty, and emotional tendencies. The indifference or numbness may not be actively | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of the pull on the personality by two tendencies which are the life and the anti-life directions | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| equally strange and inexplicable hankering for non-action. These tendencies are stronger in some people than others, but | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is a very prevalent attitude toward one's undesirable tendencies. One glosses over them and vaguely assumes that | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies also frequently strive away from self- responsibility, deny | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| far as emotional inclinations are concerned. These underground tendencies may erupt at any moment. The greater the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be unfolding or slumbering as potentials. Since destructive tendencies and evil are not verities in themselves but | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| your self-centeredness. You must see and overcome both tendencies; you thus will make many decisions, each different | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| by looking for your own distortions and destructive tendencies, you liberate yourself from guilt regardless of how | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| selfwill, fear, wish to cheat life, and escapist tendencies. But as these tendencies are honestly recognized and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| cheat life, and escapist tendencies. But as these tendencies are honestly recognized and gradually given up, the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| removed, the sexual inclination may show up character tendencies such as finding pleasure in being cruel. There | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| You are all perfectly well aware of these tendencies, but you have applied them exclusively to the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |