| Disadvantageous.............13 | |
| will come to understand that without such apparently disadvantageous happenings, these weaknesses could not enter your conscious | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| And one of these laws is that the disadvantageous side of each decision has to be faced | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| making your choice, but also and equally the disadvantageous. When you have done that, knowing that whatever | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| way is equally wrong and brings results equally disadvantageous. The only solution is to learn gradually to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be in any way bad or harmful or disadvantageous. I beg of you, think about this, meditate | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| price will not be something difficult or seemingly disadvantageous. You will be able to work calmly on | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| if you have the proper attitude, the more disadvantageous the recognition, the more relief and liberation it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be happy under any circumstances, because even the disadvantageous or unpleasant events will have a purpose, bringing | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| cannot help doing it even at a very disadvantageous price to you. This price may be emotional | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| selfishness and self-centeredness which makes loving an unprofitable, disadvantageous adventure. There is, on the other hand, the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| understanding of how they are erroneous, inadequate, destructive, disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with your knowledge | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| so or to give in when it is disadvantageous or inconvenient. You believe that the only way | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the rhythmic downward curve as depressing, upsetting, or disadvantageous. For each living moment, fully experienced in the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Disadvantages...............20 | |
| be hurt or that they may encounter some disadvantages, will never be mistreated, provided they guard against | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| or what one has acquired -- advantages or disadvantages, positive or negative factors looking at it from | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or disadvantages of all sorts. Thus people create another layer | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| costly is it to attain? What are the disadvantages of not having it? Once you clearly understand | 21 THE FALL |
| in your everyday life will there be no disadvantages of any sort: everything will feel so right | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you a lesson and you will reap the disadvantages of both or all sides which you wished | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I afraid of all the little hurts and disadvantages? A searching inquiry is not being pessimistic, my | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you want it without strings attached, without the disadvantages. And then you do not understand! So in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and in order to become free of the disadvantages their own rebellion may have caused them. There | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is a basic misunderstanding of life. Yes, passing disadvantages can come to you, that is true, but | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| point of view of creation. The temporary earthly disadvantages would be recognized for what they are, namely | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| awareness, wishfully thinking in your unconscious that the disadvantages of adulthood can be avoided by remaining a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the same time refuses to face the tragic disadvantages of prolonged childhood. This soul-crippling attitude finally succeeds | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are indeed destructive and will indeed bring you disadvantages. But your error lies in the conscious or | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| concern for others, fairness in evaluating advantages and disadvantages of others and self. It does not mean | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| unfairly put upon and resents its own supposed disadvantages, competing with the other sex for its advantages | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Both create tension, anxiety, and inner and outer disadvantages. Thus, a second duality develops out of the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| few stronger, more willful individuals may then impose disadvantages on those who are not willing to stand | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| to stand on their own two feet. These disadvantages would surpass the natural, cause-and- effect result of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| factual, psychological, emotional, and spiritual cheating, impose unfair disadvantages on others, and therefore also on the self | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Disagree....................5 | |
| others not only to be wrong, or to disagree with you, or to have weaknesses which you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| really hurt another, provided you love. Therefore to disagree or refuse to comply will no longer be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you adopt or reject, which you agree or disagree with. An inner experience comes into being that | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| those who outwardly rebel against their parents and disagree with them on many issues. It applies just | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is false and therefore you can agree or disagree without rebellion or fearful submission. The road to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Disagreeable................4 | |
| realize that events that appear to you as disagreeable tests are nothing less than answers to your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| one's no-currents, existed in order to prevent something disagreeable, they would be understandable and justified. But the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| chain reactions must be negative, confining, destructive and disagreeable. Let us take any idea that you formulate | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| then a destructive acceptance is operating. If a disagreeable occurrence is made into a catastrophe -- often | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Disagreement................7 | |
| test for everyone concerned. Your attitude toward a disagreement or any sort of upheaval determines your progress | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in yourselves, wherever you have a conflict, a disagreement, an unpleasantness in life, no matter how apparent | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| kindness, manifesting it with warmth and tenderness, the disagreement does not matter. Each one of you will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the deepest ideas and thoughts and to risk disagreement and disapproval are basic. Mental fusion can only | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| being right merely for its own sake? Is disagreement a way to find an outlet for the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| manifest so that it can send forth warnings, disagreement, advice -- and then leave the decision of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of consciousness which may often be in total disagreement among themselves and whose state of development may | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Disagreements...............4 | |
| divine world. Reach out for it, especially when disagreements and frictions separate you. Tonight I should like | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| enter into the picture, which is inevitable in disagreements or quarrels, man is afraid he may not | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| aim of which is supposed to straighten out disagreements. It is very possible that the positive motive | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| inner truth, the spiritual truth, then the little disagreements or different opinions slowly disappear. First they cease | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Disappear...................95 | |
| weak person will feel liberated as the clouds disappear from his or her life. When truth illuminates | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the feeling of unfulfillment, of vague yearning, will disappear, since you are fulfilling a vital function of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| itself than for the other. The ego will disappear with each step that the being -- human | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the root is pulled out, the symptom will disappear. Therefore the problem of sickness must be examined | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| my dear ones, and eventually all problems will disappear. True, they are there at first, but they | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| themselves, understandable enough. However, your doubts can never disappear by the sort of proof for which you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| come less and less often. They will not disappear suddenly, but will recur more and more seldom | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| seldom with less and less strength, until they disappear altogether. This is the only way, my friends | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the outer manifestation of the root cause cannot disappear immediately but has to be dissolved by the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| given to you, and your illness will gradually disappear. So you should not even think of your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| happiness. All of a sudden your problems will disappear, I can promise you that. Your willpower, even | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| all weariness -- physical or emotional -- will disappear if you sincerely mean that you put God's | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| When you purify your faults, your problems will disappear. And when you do not do that, your | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| ignorance of spiritual law. These layers have to disappear, and this can only be accomplished by your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| some miracle-formula will make all your earthly troubles disappear. It is equally far from the truth to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| while, even though your main problems will not disappear from one day to the next, this has | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| yourself by covering it up, the doubt will disappear or not count. This is not so. Whatever | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you think that by hiding them they will disappear. But as you know, nothing can really be | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| between you and your brothers and sisters will disappear like snow in the sun. You will be | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| lower currents will indeed weaken until eventually they disappear. You will thus accomplish infinitely more toward your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| emotions, fear of them will not make them disappear. On the contrary, only by facing those negative | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| resist disease, and not the resistance that should disappear when you are on the path of searching | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| real reason, the guilt would have had to disappear, for then a change of attitude would have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| down into the abyss. The abyss can only disappear if you let yourself drop into it. Then | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this abyss. So I repeat: the abyss cannot disappear by itself. It can only vanish from your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| confusions. That is the only way doubt can disappear and will disappear. Even the most flagrant proof | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the only way doubt can disappear and will disappear. Even the most flagrant proof of phenomena offered | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ask yourself constantly, before your doubts can really disappear: Is it true? Is it false? Is it | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that knowledge, all your doubts and guilts must disappear, because you can be at peace with yourself | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire to receive love. These emotions will not disappear the moment you first detect them. It is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| now. You know that the childishness does not disappear by looking away from it. By becoming aware | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that by ignoring it they can make it disappear. They chose such a means of relief only | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| new strength surges out of you. It may disappear again, temporarily, when you tackle a new aspect | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self are removed, the outer barriers will gradually disappear. Much of this can already be observed. In | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their lifetime. Such strong convictions will not automatically disappear. They may linger on for decades and even | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| path, little by little the negative emotions will disappear. But while they are still present, you must | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| resentment are bound to decrease until they finally disappear. These three issues of moralizing, disproportionate reactions, and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and hope that by my looking away they disappear. Do you now understand a little better? QUESTION | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| deliberately starved such needs. That cannot make them disappear; instead, by a process of displacement, they reappear | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| itself will automatically cause the false needs to disappear. Slowly, their intensity will diminish, and gradually they | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| their intensity will diminish, and gradually they will disappear altogether as real fulfillment comes to you out | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your confusion, and then your depression and discouragement, disappear. Let us review in brief how an image | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| this entire process can the painful inferiority feeling disappear. It is the feeling of being unlovable that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| growth. These unhealthy, self- destructive emotions have to disappear before you can begin your ascent. So what | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| understand your parents, the sense of rejection will disappear, even if they were cruel to you. In | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the sense of their rejection of you must disappear. It may have happened frequently in your life | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| seem to believe that the distortions have to disappear before you can develop awareness. It is just | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a deep level, the real self seems to disappear. Why can one then not pursue any creative | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| generally, hides within, what outwardly he wants to disappear, it is a discrepancy that can have no | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to remedy the situation, because no ill can disappear before its existence is acknowledged. Then such people | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the confusion regarding the actual lower-self trends will disappear when you deny their existence and pretend opposite | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and these three make fear, distrust and insecurity disappear, life's unity is plain to see and the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| true relatedness which makes the distinctions and differences disappear. In rare moments of bliss, this can be | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| must his fear of letting go of himself disappear; then letting go of himself and disciplining himself | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| diminish; the bitter frightening aspect of it will disappear, and you can then look at the causes | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| punish others. The false, superimposed tendencies have to disappear before genuine strength, security, and happiness can become | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the new is built, the old, obsolete attitudes disappear. The degree of pain at dissolving the false | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| God-experience is possible. Every desire for escape must disappear first. Then the experience is built on a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| about her frantic fear. Then the blocks will disappear, the way will be open. If she truly | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| be blotted out, or dissolved, or made to disappear by erroneous assumptions on your part. Understanding the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| vanish. And gradually these emotional attitudes themselves will disappear, because they are faced in the now. When | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that continue to act up, until all distortions disappear. What was once a mysterious and random fate | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| forth. Enlightenment will follow and crises will inevitably disappear. An even greater force of love and power | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| see. You cannot expect to have your blocks disappear in one fell swoop. And yet you will | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| or aggrandizing it, it will soon diminish and disappear. This is altogether different from repression: the latter | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you know that your fear of pleasure will disappear proportionately to your self-purification. To the degree you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| I am afraid of pleasure, the hopelessness will disappear. You will feel the two forces within yourself | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| effortless, spontaneous unification will be incomplete. It will disappear because the unification is not yet total. More | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| as well as false self- humiliation and shame disappear. Through the steady activation of the higher powers | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| as having power to make the destructive force disappear, your meditation and request for help will remain | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| away, as if anything could be made to disappear in the universe! You must struggle between these | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with shame and fear. All these distortions must disappear, for they are pitfalls, much more disastrous than | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that makes you avoid, postpone, and procrastinate will disappear sufficiently at this point to set a new | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| an unfulfilled real need, this need does not disappear. On the contrary, the denial of the pain | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the sustenance given you by others. Anxiety will disappear to the exact degree you search within yourself | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the universe will gradually, and sometimes even suddenly, disappear. You will be able to sustain your experience | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you do so all guilt, self-rejection and self-blame disappear. You know this, for you have all experienced | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| then the little disagreements or different opinions slowly disappear. First they cease to matter; then they become | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| soul. Slowly but surely life's frustrations begin to disappear and rich fulfillment begins to take their place | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| lot of so many people gradually begins to disappear among you, my friends. In your development you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| loneliness you all suffered from has begun to disappear, sometimes by giant steps. You now know that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| only when the ill will is about to disappear. What was once a conflicting other, even though | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| nations into one human government; religious differences would disappear because the One would be recognized as undifferentiated | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| God to awaken in you, outer laws will disappear. The laws of morality will be completely flexible | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| a sheer act of will can make obstacles disappear, when what is really called for is learning | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| eventually nations, religions, and all such differences will disappear. This does not mean that individuality and very | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| mean that individuality and very individual self-expression will disappear. By no means. Quite the contrary is true | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| much different picture. Outer diversity or differences will disappear, for they lose their importance. Outer belief systems | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| you work deeply, and the fear begins to disappear as a result of your courage to challenge | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| mind. Conflicting perceptions, confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear. Enlightenment and insight into apparent conflicts make all | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this is the case, the more the clouds disappear and the fuller life becomes. This spirit of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| fear and hate--hence war on all levels--will increasingly disappear. In other words, true communication will contribute to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| nothing is ever lost, that nothing can ever disappear or disintegrate into nothingness. You will recognize these | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| diminish. Where does it go? It seems to disappear, to disintegrate, to no longer exist. From your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| such rich profusion that suddenly all woe will disappear and the suffering will turn into the blessing | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |