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recreation begins and continues as you become more adept. First you need to discover again and again 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
choose to stay unaware, you may be very adept in rationally explaining your case, but this will 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
to your inner person. As you become more adept in recognizing these soul movements, such recognition will 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the covert side. When your personality is very adept in its chosen way of dealing with the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
 
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After you do so, your sense of strength, adequacy, and resourcefulness will grow steadily -- with occasional 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
this pattern will you find your sense of adequacy and self-confidence. The psychic law that says that 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
begins to doubt one's self, one's strength, one's adequacy. It is of great importance in this phase 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
You not only discover power, strength, resourcefulness, and adequacy -- qualities you never dreamed you possessed -- 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
his or her self- respect and sense of adequacy. You increase your strength and resourcefulness, your free 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
experience of joy and realization of your own adequacy and your potential. To acquire new knowledge or 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
itself will enhance your sense of security and adequacy. Your initial inability to express yourself adequately is 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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and its origin in the present life to adequately dissolve it, there are still cases where the 38 IMAGES
their inhibitions and their inability to express themselves adequately. They do not realize that strain, tiredness, and 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
self is endowed with. You will express yourself adequately and be understood because your real self is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
be much too limited to deal with life adequately. All this happens in such a subtle and 101 THE DEFENSE
leave you sufficient room to deal with life adequately. You can easily see that such powerfully one-pointed 101 THE DEFENSE
the category of realistic defense, which can be adequately handled only to the degree that unrealistic defensiveness 101 THE DEFENSE
the ego is sufficiently developed can it be adequately dispensed with. Now, this may sound like a 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
faculties are necessary. Only when your ego deals adequately with the realm in which your personality and 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
strength and fullness that comes when it deals adequately with the immediate now, thereby transcending it. My 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
refuse to become a strong enough ego that adequately deals with the immediate issues around you. Do 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
and certainly should reach out. But you can adequately reach out only if you trust that it 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
ego deficiencies. In this case the ego cannot adequately serve you. To want it now is a 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
not only intellectually but within themselves, they are adequately equipped to cope with the world's cruelty, which 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
removed. The removal, too, happens faster and more adequately when the inner being is enlisted. Let us 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
as it comes and to respond to it adequately. For such a flexible response the core of 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
course is that without these assets people cannot adequately live and cope with anything they encounter. Therefore 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
I shall explain how to react meaningfully and adequately to a negative experience in a moment. This 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
movement is so beautiful that it cannot be adequately described. It contains a wonderful self-regulating mechanism that 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
participate in the business of living, the less adequately can the ego fend for itself, and therefore 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
The words are of course too limited to adequately describe the inner attitude necessary to change the 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
away from it. The human condition can be adequately explained as a struggle to give up the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
defenses. You can depend on yourself much more adequately without withdrawing, without becoming in any way defensive 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
a mode of being in which you are adequately and realistically defended, rather than self-destructively and unrealistically 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
to you that you related a dream quite adequately, once you started it, although you were first 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
and adequacy. Your initial inability to express yourself adequately is totally due to your unwillingness to do 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
the ability to communicate, to listen and express adequately and appropriately also exists. To the degree that 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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the mistaken assumption that being religious means to adhere to some sect and blindly accept a set 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
for these are two different things -- to adhere to the laws of God, which you know 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
and right. In your world the tendency to adhere to such distortions is now very strong. In 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
his or her conduct. He or she may adhere to public opinion in some instances, yet this 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
responsibility task in the divine plan. The guardians adhere very strictly to divine law. They interfere only 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
work slower than the brain mechanism -- still adhere to their old patterns. Then these emotions will 47 THE WALL WITHIN
religion, politics, or anything else to which they adhere, that they are afraid to let go. A 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
no general rules to which one can rigidly adhere. I recapitulate: Since isolation and loneliness come from 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
on inflicting upon yourself as long as you adhere to it, is one that eludes your comprehension 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the importance of goodness, decency, righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules? Don't we need them? Without 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
don't dare to find the truth there, you adhere to ready-made rules, and the moment you do 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
based on their own evaluations, they want to adhere to a dead ruling. Then they feel good 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
different alternatives will evolve: one will be to adhere to a rigid principle, be it general or 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
the ingrained principles you think you have to adhere to are responsible for overplaying or underplaying your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
that this is not true, one tries to adhere at least to a superficial perfection. Again, this 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
believed to exist. It is noteworthy that you adhere to the superimposed conscience and do not accept 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
other were a correct assumption. The more you adhere to this assumption, the more shortchanged you must 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
systems, comprehend the perfection of the laws and adhere to them. What is the greatest violation that 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
where I could do this and no longer adhere to this irrational, senseless pattern, something stops me 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
life disregards the superficial morality most people ardently adhere to, or equally ardently fight against. This morality 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
these are ideals and theories, a philosophy you adhere to in principle rather than feeling it. The 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
primitive level and most of you do not adhere to such beliefs. But a much subtler superstitiousness 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
most foolish attitude, because the very tradition they adhere to now came into being at one time 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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middle path between extremes can be found and adhered to if you meditate daily and test your 18 FREE WILL
must work differently than if the person had adhered to it. But the result must always be 47 THE WALL WITHIN
truth or divine law that has not been adhered to. QUESTION: What are the main qualifications and 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
mass images in this respect to which they adhered out of their own disturbed souls. If neither 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
absolute perfection when the laws governing it are adhered to. The less you observe them -- whether 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
thus be divided into two opposites, one being adhered to as the right and the opposite aspect 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
only when the rhythm pattern is respected, accepted, adhered to and utilized in the most constructive way 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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more superficial his or her understanding of and adherence to the spiritual laws must be. This is 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
seek union with the divine, because only strict adherence to the divine can be infinite. Violation of 38 IMAGES
to public opinion in some instances, yet this adherence is entirely different from that of the person 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
immaturity and emotional disturbance exist, so does rigid adherence to rules in some form or other, which 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
child begins a process of false, pretended, superficial adherence to certain standards without inner conviction. Doing so 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
rigid refusal to look and consider -- the adherence to opinions, often based not on actual and 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
descend upon you in a life beyond. The adherence to an outer faith, no matter in what 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
rosy-colored future in a life hereafter, attained by adherence to an outer faith and obedience to laws 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
deeply into yourself and transcend the rules, the adherence to public opinion, give up the facade and 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
term is mentioned or when human conditions reflect adherence to tradition either in its real or in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
been formed. Tradition, in its best sense, means adherence to eternal values or to certain aspects of 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS

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