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| realized. It works both ways. One is not thinkable without the other. If humanity had not improved | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| might also call it wisdom. One is not thinkable without the other. There cannot be reason, or | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| another. On the unified plane, neither aspect is thinkable without the other. There the complements are not | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
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| to penetrate into these levels. They are: Doing, thinking and feeling. The most difficult task is on | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| self-will, your feelings, and often even in your thinking. You want the best for yourself and are | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| renewal. Thus the first step toward willpower is thinking, or, as you also call it, meditation, in | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| if you find yourself in this situation, start thinking about God and Christ, instead of shying away | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| feelings cannot adapt themselves to the healthy, conscious thinking while they are hidden in the unconscious, they | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| dogmatically to a set of beliefs without much thinking or examining their feelings about them. They will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| insists on his or her old way of thinking, the lower the spirits will be who make | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| tell yourself that the answer was only wishful thinking. When, however, something that has been resisted comes | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| eggs into one basket. What matters is clear thinking and humility. After all, is it not a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| present. It is an error in healthy, logical thinking. A revision of thinking is necessary. Look into | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| error in healthy, logical thinking. A revision of thinking is necessary. Look into the manifestations of Creation | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| step to meditation. Prayer is a matter of thinking, meditation is prayer with feeling, it engages the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| engages the soul forces as compared to the thinking forces. To get to the second and further | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| as I said, is in the domain of thinking. It comes from here pointing to the head | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| for a human being to approach this task thinking that in no way would it lead to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| respect. Something must be wrong with your own thinking if you raise doubts about the medium just | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| still and know that I am God, without thinking, simply allowing the eternal principle of God to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| will receive different answers. The spiritually immature, after thinking about it for some time, will say, perhaps | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| fulfill God's will is more than merely wishful thinking or fear, then the answer will be given | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| for truth is greater than any self-delusion, wishful thinking, or anxiety. This has to be done through | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| close and far. Be in God! 13. POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND In the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| a much disputed subject among my friends: positive thinking. Positive thinking is, indeed, essential for the person | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| disputed subject among my friends: positive thinking. Positive thinking is, indeed, essential for the person who wants | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| as from conscious thought. Diligent students of positive thinking are therefore often encouraged to do just what | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to your consciousness. But the system of positive thinking works the other way; it tries too hard | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it. When you are so concerned with positive thinking, right as it is in the proper way | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| all should remember. Certainly, you should practice positive thinking. Observe your thoughts, but observe them quietly, with | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| often arises out of the principle of positive thinking is the following: Everybody wants to be happy | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of paying the price. Misapplied or misunderstood positive thinking wants to have outer perfection often too quickly | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| it wants. The first step to true positive thinking is to take the consequences of what you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| people who try very hard to practice positive thinking. One reason they try so hard is that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the true and best way to practice positive thinking. With this attitude you will be penetrated by | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to accept pain. The misunderstood application of positive thinking leaves out this entire chapter of spiritual development | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to say. QUESTION: When you speak of positive thinking, you say that we should be aware of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| how are we to relate the kind of thinking we should have to the feelings in us | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| infinitely more strength than any type of wishful thinking you might be tempted to use, prompted by | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| use, prompted by a misunderstood theory of positive thinking. This is much more than positive thinking, for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| positive thinking. This is much more than positive thinking, for you learn to live in reality, the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| think that deeply; instead they react emotionally without thinking about facing the lower self. The subconscious feels | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| all, but merely let the emotions react without thinking, may appear at times adequate, but it is | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| courageous enough to include spiritual reality in their thinking, they will discover all this and prove the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in the active aspect God is personality: active, thinking, planning -- the Creator. In the female aspect | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| make allowances for themselves either by saying or thinking, I am not the only one who does | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| about tiredness, weakness, or other physical symptoms, without thinking about the real reason behind them. The same | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to get it. And you digest it by thinking through for yourself what you have heard or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| heal through prayer. However, your prayers and your thinking of friends, or of anyone for that matter | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| penetrate all of the human personality. Wishing or thinking from the spiritual field involves a person's higher | 18 FREE WILL |
| So there is a very important difference between thinking and wanting in the brain or in the | 18 FREE WILL |
| left your shell behind. Your whole personality, your thinking, your feeling, and your opinions if they are | 18 FREE WILL |
| not mean the annihilation of individuality as a thinking being capable of making decisions. In this flowing | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| live on earth. Only with self-awareness, which includes thinking and deciding, can development take place. All the | 21 THE FALL |
| I think most of you know that all thinking takes place in one of the subtle bodies | 21 THE FALL |
| the spiritual body, where all purified and perfect thinking and feeling will have integrated into the last | 21 THE FALL |
| the physical life in its various aspects. But thinking or feeling belongs to different realms and therefore | 21 THE FALL |
| come from your brain region where your normal thinking takes place, but from the region of your | 21 THE FALL |
| density. Human beings often make the mistake in thinking that, for instance, the world of darkness is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you find it, do not push it back, thinking you can eliminate it that way. On the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rather believe you are living and feeling and thinking in this or that respect according to law | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are in this cloud it paralyzes your thinking and your endeavors in this direction. It is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your lower self, you turn away from them, thinking you have thereby eliminated what you recognize as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it like a blindfolded child, full of wishful thinking, then you will be disappointed - - not | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| life, and so on. But this way of thinking is so very wrong because spiritual development in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| wasted many lives, and because wrong habits of thinking and feeling have implanted themselves deeper and deeper | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of spiritual development, my friends. You are not thinking reasonably about it, however because you do not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| long as your impure currents force you into thinking things that are not according to truth? No | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| certain amount of detached and reasonable, common sense thinking. Some of you have really made this wholehearted | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| about a departed friend of mine. I keep thinking about him and I wondered if there was | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| any meaning in this. Why do I keep thinking of him? ANSWER: I will need a little | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| a little time. Just a moment. You keep thinking of him because he is very often near | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in thought. QUESTIONER: Do I have to keep thinking of him? ANSWER: You do not have to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| such emotions -- stop rationalizing it away by thinking of the wrong attitudes of others. Instead, ask | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of view, but how beneficial this way of thinking is! Once you begin and do not let | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| goal, you leave the issue in the unconscious, thinking childishly to get around it. It is uncomfortable | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| desire to meet your resistances without any wishful thinking and self-deception; second, for making sure that you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Do not choose to forget these words, secretly thinking that if you manage to evade the issue | 31 SHAME |
| child, going into them with closed eyes, wishfully thinking that the price can be evaded. Each alternative | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| And often you even hope -- again without thinking it through clearly -- to at the same | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| way, and unfortunately it very often is. Constantly thinking of other people's affairs, criticizing them, and judging | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| less selfish. The mere fact that you are thinking about others instead of yourself is no guarantee | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| act spiritually; just as the mere fact that thinking of yourself -- if done in the right | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| befall you, as they must, pray that your thinking capacity should not be paralyzed. That is what | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| First, you engage in the mental process of thinking of them; then to that mental process you | 36 PRAYER |
| is tempted to follow an old line of thinking and reacting, shirking the real issues. Another important | 36 PRAYER |
| the time of prayer, change their way of thinking and become more humble. Gradually but surely, this | 36 PRAYER |
| to embrace unhappiness as a necessary medicine, without thinking that you will always remain sick or at | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| inner conclusions. Start searching for the image by thinking back on your life and finding all the | 38 IMAGES |
| These phenomena should open the eyes of a thinking person. I have talked to you a great | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| approach. The best way to begin is by thinking about your hurts, conflicts, and problems. Regard your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to learn depth prayer, depth meditation, and depth thinking, my friends. At first your prayer or meditation | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| by depth prayer or depth meditation or depth thinking is that you take everything you have found | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to change your erroneous reactions. Simply shift your thinking to a deeper level and apply it to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| truth, the only way to ascend in spirit. Thinking you can avoid this apparent descent and yet | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is utterly unrealistic. It is self-deception and wishful thinking. You cannot avoid it. QUESTION: You said humans | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| will change. It is not sufficient that your thinking changes; your thinking might have been absolutely correct | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| is not sufficient that your thinking changes; your thinking might have been absolutely correct long before you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a fire? Isn't there some sort of wrong thinking or action there? ANSWER: There is no coincidence | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and that is the following: First give up thinking about it at all and concentrate on your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| But you continue to ignore many trends, half-consciously thinking that this attitude proves your love and tolerance | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| they neglect the equally important reasoning functions of thinking, discriminating, selecting, and weighing. They must learn to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| type must cultivate the faculty of selecting, deliberately thinking and planning. This selecting process is the beginning | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| plan. QUESTION: Aside from this triad -- willing, thinking, and feeling -- are there any other types | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| one or both partners will delude themselves into thinking that with a new partner it will be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| other ways. The mistake you make is in thinking that revelation and the meeting of souls is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| who at one time have turned around, unconsciously thinking, If I become one with the authority, much | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so important to gain the right concept by thinking this through. Once you fully realize that there | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the other hand, is the product of your thinking, feeling, and being, and it is formed from | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| within your soul because you are used to thinking in terms of either/or. If you are what | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| friends. Try to understand how confused your unconscious thinking is. You feel guilty about a God-given force | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| about expectation, especially in the form of positive thinking as opposed to acceptance? ANSWER: Each of these | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| when you embrace its extreme. Rightly understood, positive thinking means knowing that everything must turn to good | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and to face life as it is. Positive thinking, when abused, avoids facing that which is now | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| basic religious attitudes. The wrong kind of positive thinking is self-willed and impatient. The wrong kind of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a hurry, which the wrong interpretation of positive thinking tries to do. Eventually your emotions will begin | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| aware of what you unconsciously feel. A mere thinking formula can never be truly effective in getting | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| my friends realize that an illogical way of thinking, feeling, and reacting exists in every personality, even | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| much greater. Therefore the child unconsciously avoids happiness, thinking to atone in this way and thus to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| so clearly and continue to strengthen it by thinking in reverse. Bearing this tendency in mind, you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| be generated by a chain reaction of wrong thinking, feeling, and action. An inner confusion will arise | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| yourself that your emotions do not follow your thinking as quickly as you would like: Realize that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| They are obvious. It merely requires a little thinking through. The resisting emotions do not care whether | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| does not mean to rush into things without thinking through; without using one's intuition; without trying to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it amount to? It means that your wrong thinking, your wrong trends and attitudes, your twisted emotions | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is typical. Many people say: By constantly thinking about myself I become selfish. It is better | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| out; it will develop naturally without your even thinking about it. The right way will just be | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| unhappy outcome is accomplished, you delude yourself into thinking that it was really not you who had | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to your question. A great error in human thinking concerns the supposed difference between man and woman | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems impossible. For man, a woman's way of thinking and feeling is an enigma, and vice versa | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The latter is pure consciousness, it is alive, thinking, feeling, willing, endowed with all the qualities of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contradiction. You might have understood it clearly by thinking about it, or at least vaguely sensed it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilts by using sickness as a way out, thinking thus to ward off greater punishment, to be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| each one of you individually. Prepare yourselves by thinking about it, by feeling how these words apply | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish, yet you would like to be so, thinking it advantageous. Thus you are compulsively unselfish. On | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| That is the healthy inner attitude, without even thinking about it. QUESTION: My question is about a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| really waste matter to be eliminated. (3) Wishful thinking. There are a few subdivisions in this category | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| made into foreground thoughts and evaluated. Such wishful thinking, as well as fragments of impressions and automatic | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| utterly unaware that you were drawn away from thinking what you wanted to think about. All of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you think of. Say to yourself: I was thinking of this or that, whatever it may have | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| so to speak, at the threshold of your thinking process. You will begin to sense what calmness | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of background thoughts, the understanding of the whole thinking procedure with its various levels, is much more | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| according to truth, and not according to wishful thinking. You unconsciously claim a maximum of favorable change | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| immature. The wrong conclusion of this lies in thinking that desire for love in itself is wrong | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| sense behind it. This implies a laziness of thinking, and a wishful thinking that with minimum effort | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| implies a laziness of thinking, and a wishful thinking that with minimum effort, maximum effect can be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not try, and so are incapable of thinking any more freely and independently than people of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As the emotions heal, they integrate with the thinking process, instead of being two separate facets. This | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But you cannot heed this voice, because your thinking is confused -- let alone your emotions. We | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| even easier. Watch yourself as you are not thinking. Be on guard for what thoughts may come | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Start again, observe again your state of not thinking. Observe the emptiness there. The more you succeed | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will be better able to formulate your thoughts, thinking of that which you need most in the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to submit, you construct unreal situations by wishful thinking. In doing so, you do not permit yourself | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| from the forcing current and free from wishful thinking, you will sense certain potentials, as well as | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| separately at this time. QUESTION: I have been thinking about these things and should also like to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and forgiving truly inside of you, without even thinking that you have done so. You will no | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| concepts that you have arrived at independently, by thinking things through. Not because others have said so | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| hand, unchecked and childish emotions can influence your thinking capacity by coloring your views and making you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| what is incorrect in your conscious or unconscious thinking. I cannot emphasize too strongly that you need | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| unselfish motives are not expressed clearly in your thinking. Whenever or wherever such a condition exists, you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you are under the compulsion of your confused thinking and emotions, you are bound to affect the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| evaluate these findings as to how correct your thinking was when you created your images and misconceptions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you can see what damage the unconscious faulty thinking causes you and others around you. When you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you actually are. You imagine with your limited thinking capacity that only as a unique individual do | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| emotions are the result of confused and faulty thinking, which can be conscious or unconscious. By deeply | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| emotions, you are finally bound to reevaluate your thinking, your concepts, and thereby straighten out the existing | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| wrong current is the most unproductive approach imaginable. Thinking you must guard yourself against it by forceful | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to change by itself. ANSWER: That is right. Thinking about it may help create new perspectives. It | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| unrestful you will find a different way of thinking and have a different reaction and fulfill the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| yourself, as you should. The latter directs your thinking and feeling and perceiving into a more correct | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to people who are far away from such thinking, such concepts, such ideas, my words could not | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a deformity which is a hindrance in my thinking and ability. What do I need to know | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to your whole personality, not only to your thinking process, but also to your emotional life. If | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your statement as to the error of this thinking would lead one to conclude that the parts | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| would be a grave mistake to set out thinking, How can I recognize the real self in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the last question: he places an overemphasis on thinking and reason rather than on feeling and intuition | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| try to obtain happiness by self-effacement and masochism, thinking to combine the needs for pleasure and safety | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| The whole weight has to be shifted from thinking, intellectually evaluating, and deducing to feeling and experiencing | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| unconsciously you battle against this very awareness, wishfully thinking in your unconscious that the disadvantages of adulthood | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| so you learn, you use your brain, your thinking capacity; you absorb, you train your memory and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Without being allowed to make mistakes in your thinking or your opinions, your mental faculties could not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that they are constructive and beneficial. Without consciously thinking about it in these terms, you believe that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| am trying to say: Awareness and taking account, thinking further about cause and effect, will always yield | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| road which can only be attained by responsible thinking and evaluating. Rigid dogma is based on such | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has to be fought for constantly through accounting, thinking, deciding, weighing. It requires a sense of self- | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a different attitude, a new accounting, and a thinking through. QUESTION: Would you care to elaborate on | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and societies. They still deal with the mere thinking process, which often contradicts and conflicts with the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to mind how the particular defense you are thinking of affects them, it has adverse results for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| make this clear to you. You may be thinking of one separated, isolated aspect, while I talk | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you are in error, my friends. Such erroneous thinking shuts a door. You believe an illusion, a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| it shows rigidity and lack of self-responsibility in thinking for oneself. Thus it becomes something dead. The | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| they do to your entire system, to your thinking process, to your faculty of feeling, to your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| don't actually commit the sin, though you are thinking about it, but out of fear or any | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| self causes one to take it for granted, thinking it will be there again just as before | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it is based on personal needs, on wishful thinking, and on fear. The more this proceeds, the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| exist. They are not addressed to your rational thinking. And now, my friends, let us turn to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| very same attitudes may prevail: blindness, laziness of thinking and feeling, selfishness, egocentricity, cruelty, vindictiveness, and so | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| resistance. One is dullness of mind, laziness of thinking and feeling. Going through life blindly, as though | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| if you use the words as material for thinking, feeling, and experiencing. Be blessed again, my dearest | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the sum total of the inner personality: the thinking, the feeling, the concepts, the potentials, the attitudes | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| risk of misunderstanding and of erroneous, confused, unclear thinking. If we remain focused on the how, we | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wisdom, but the fetters of your habits in thinking and feeling prevent you from shedding these shackles | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| we seek to attain -- independent understanding, creative thinking. Therefore occasionally we need to redefine a term | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| following it. Never developing the independent faculties of thinking and discriminating, one becomes weaker and more dependent | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| would be realistic hopefulness, as opposed to wishful thinking; foresight; the ability to make mature decisions; self-confidence | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a foolish one, in a way, but in thinking of the sex angle, when people are unmarried | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| temporary usefulness. People's self-alienation and lack of independent thinking make them cling to what is handed to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| things appear as pairs of opposites. In philosophical thinking, humankind itself is paired -- man and woman | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| move -- stagnates. It loses the capacity for thinking. It atrophies, just as the muscles of a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |