| Calmer......................3 | |
| unaccustomed area of your being. It is something calmer and wiser that thinks and feels through you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| others. The latter are much less urgent, much calmer emotions, not at all self-centered, the way the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| come up -- whatever it may be. The calmer and the more relaxed you are, intently listening | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Calmly......................49 | |
| through self-deception, build on untruth. When you accept calmly who you are just now, you possess true | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| do tell you your faults, think about them calmly. Someone may say something that at first will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| doing. Sit down quietly, my friends, and consider calmly what your worries, your conflicts are. These may | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| authority. The moment the mixture of motives is calmly and freely recognized, even if you are as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| able to talk freely to your adversary, explaining calmly what you feel has been a misunderstanding, the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| seemingly disadvantageous. You will be able to work calmly on the reasons, now out in the open | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your accepted imperfections which you can now observe calmly, while gaining more understanding about them and thus | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| determine -- without strain, compulsion or pressure -- calmly and quietly. Make daydreams the useful symptom they | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| should just listen to someone who criticizes? ANSWER: Calmly listen and evaluate: Could there be some truth | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| cannot harm you if you look at it calmly. Your defense against it does the harm. The | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| intrinsic selfishness and greed of it. As you calmly do so, you will automatically mature in this | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| disregard the other, cannot sit back, relax, and calmly look at the other person? Or, my friends | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| or another, sooner or later. But when you calmly look at it, you reach a deeper level | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that be real? If you look at yourself calmly without moralizing, without justifying, without complaining or resenting | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for that matter, that I believe if you calmly reread what I said and open your mind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| free from repression and having the willingness to calmly and unjudgingly see what is, without being in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| forcing away what you feel, but by first calmly looking at it with the aim of understanding | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| it to your relationship with others. When you calmly observe your reactions to others, you are bound | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| their own need. They have no room for calmly looking at the other person and sensing the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and humility to be what you are, to calmly accept yourself as you are, will you have | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to be in self-pity? Or can I just calmly look at myself with the negative tendencies that | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| The first is finding and facing these aspects, calmly and proportionately, without self-condemnation or self-justification, yet fully | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| are involved, the more demands multiply. When you calmly consider them, you will see that in some | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| reactions. Pull them out into the open and calmly look at them. Determine your harsh, intolerant treatment | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are perfect, in a sense, when you can calmly face, acknowledge, and come to terms with your | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| listening to yourself. If you can acknowledge this, calmly stating to yourself, I'm too nervous and restless | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in an entirely different way, but observe it calmly, with all the keen one-pointed attention you can | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| makes you tense and defensive, can be observed calmly, in the way you have learned to do | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| aware of the right to be happy and calmly striving toward fulfillment on all levels of life | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it while at the same time you are calmly wishing to be enlightened. The combination of facing | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| urgency, without guilt, without the fear of unhappiness. Calmly, and with certainty, you will know that you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your own inner expressions and emanations. If you calmly observe what emanates from your own psychic forces | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and will not remain as you quietly and calmly desire to grow, then you cannot help but | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| be realistic and expect fluctuations. They must be calmly observed. Such a major transition can never be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approach is to use both alternately: instruct firmly, calmly, and determinedly the destructive part of the hidden | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the climate in which living them becomes possible. Calmly let yourself be and let yourself unfold. Be | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| place almost all the time. Therefore I shall calmly observe my thinking processes, to what extent they | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| for self-discovery or reorientation of your negativity. Breathe calmly but distinctly through your abdomen. Feel your lower | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| but by doing this practice as unintensely and calmly as possible, you will suddenly find yourself poised | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you can afford the wonderful, relieving luxury of calmly admitting any undesirable, ugly trait, without in the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| state of mind and emotions is quietly confident, calmly expectant and receptive, patient and unanxious, unhurried and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an absolute prerequisite here: it means ingathering yourself; calmly, quietly wanting to know the truth of this | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| listen to it, to take it in, to calmly receive its expressions without hating yourself, without pushing | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| transform the self-defeating aspects, leading the dialogue and calmly but firmly instructing the ignorant child. The other | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you would be better advised to set out calmly to uncover your inner negation of the frantic | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| lecture is meant to motivate you to very calmly observe, probe, measure, examine, and evaluate your destructive | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| this feeling, that is all right. You can calmly go to work on the obstacles, without self-deluding | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the feeling that I must experience it now. Calmly wait. Learn to become inwardly relaxed. See your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| when, in spite of the fear, you decided calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness. So | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Calmness....................9 | |
| development had the particular characteristic of wise judgement, calmness, and detached reflection. These attributes would enable the | 21 THE FALL |
| the results, one cannot afford to wait with calmness. Hence impatience, doubt, and anxiety are closely linked | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| thinking process. You will begin to sense what calmness really means. Your thoughts and emotions will stand | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| calm until you have found some clarification. Remember, calmness is indispensable for this exercise! Even minor success | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ability to direct your thought process and attain calmness of mind as the background thoughts decrease. Awareness | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the well? Yes, there is. You must seek calmness, outside and inside. Every day, enter into a | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| needs and come directly to the well of calmness, you will not really reach the inner treasure | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| inner soul movements. In proper balance there is calmness; without strain, you let the result of your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| In order to be thus attuned, an inner calmness must prevail. All agitation of the mind must | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Camouflage..................13 | |
| so they withdraw and use desirelessness as a camouflage to fit their image. This is a very | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| A complex in its manifest form is a camouflage of its real content. For instance, someone may | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| thought, teaching, philosophy or recognition serves as a camouflage behind which you continue to hide. This happens | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| little outer things but the outer unselfishness can camouflage your emotional selfishness or ego-centeredness. You may give | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you will find that it often is a camouflage a real guilt. It is as though the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I also said, these unjustified guilts are a camouflage for the real reason about which one feels | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| great deal of outer effort in order to camouflage his or her inner resistance. Only the inner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| The resisting part desires to cover up, to camouflage messages that lead you toward self-recognition and inner | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| away. Even currently fashionable psychological truths serve to camouflage this simple process, my friends. Make attempts to | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your divine self and then use it to camouflage the split-off and distorted aspects of consciousness. The | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| give in to your own ideas, which often camouflage your fear of meeting yourself head-on. You may | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| You may then seek out various ways to camouflage the unwanted parts. When you succeed, the truth | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| usually happens is that privacy is used to camouflage the intent to keep secrets. In other words | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Camouflaged.................10 | |
| because the trend is so hidden, so well camouflaged and rationalized. The only way you can find | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this constantly, no matter how much it is camouflaged. Your right, spontaneous, uninhibited expression depends solely on | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and need. Such inner behavior, no matter how camouflaged, never expresses a free choice for healthy independence | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| because it is so subtle and so easily camouflaged. The less you are aware of it, the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| continue to smolder, but they may be artfully camouflaged, explained away by apparently real provocations, and successfully | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| a hostile role, no matter how this is camouflaged by outer submissiveness which, in itself, may appear | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| go unnoticed because it can so easily be camouflaged. It permits the person to follow the most | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| What fleeting thought passed through you when the camouflaged anxiety came up? Try to pinpoint it. Hold | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| with its hidden evil, its dishonesty, cheating, and camouflaged hate and malice; when to focus on the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| well as others. Such thoughts may well be camouflaged and rationalized away. However, thoughts of maligning and | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |