| Adept.......................4 | |
| 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 |
| Adequacy....................7 | |
| 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 |
| Adequately..................26 | |
| 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 |
| Adhere......................23 | |
| 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 |
| Adhered.....................7 | |
| 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 |
| Adherence...................11 | |
| 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 |