| Disapproved.................6 | |
| this! You always suffer acutely when you are disapproved of. It may even rob you of sleep | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| grow and mature, not being loved, or being disapproved of, will not upset you. And as it | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| am not perfect, I will be unhappy, or disapproved of, or not loved. Or, the fear is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| courage to free itself. Fear and shame of disapproved instinctual drives cannot possibly mature them so that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| wrong. Because the need to receive is completely disapproved of or denied, its counterpart -- the need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the opposite extreme. This form of substituting the disapproved need or emotion with its opposite is very | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Disaster....................13 | |
| happen to you might appear to be a disaster at the moment it occurs -- and it | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| it occurs -- and it will be a disaster if you have the wrong attitude. A happening | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you or to save you from some imagined disaster. When you discover the error of this assumption | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is not a threat. Neither is it a disaster if you have to accept your own inadequacy | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| assure you my friends, that even a mass disaster, of which there have been many in the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in the case of a child and a disaster. Are there within the child already these positive | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| What to one would seem a major personal disaster, a loss of face, another will not experience | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| longer feel any frustration or unhappiness as a disaster. You will give yourself time to grow. It | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that what is their advantage seems like a disaster, and what is their disaster seems like safety | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| seems like a disaster, and what is their disaster seems like safety. Once more: If divine truth | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is one in which frustration appears to be disaster. Hence fear and tension; hence closed life centers | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| live in you as phantoms. These phantoms create disaster and chaos. Turn around one hundred and eighty | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| away with this solution for warding off the disaster you secretly expect. If you are by nature | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Disasters...................5 | |
| that, once incarnated, difficulties, tests, and even so-called disasters are often necessary to lead one to the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| First of all, even in mass or group disasters, an individual will never need to experience anything | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| sharing the responsibility for wars and other mass disasters. Not only the politicians or those few who | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| ten incarnations ago, some even less. If great disasters and accidents happen in which many people are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| pointed out before, even in national or mass disasters, some people are badly affected, others are not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Disastrous..................6 | |
| you will no longer regard this hurt as disastrous. You will have a different reaction to the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| whatever negativity exists in you no longer feels disastrous, because then you know that it is not | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is the result of avoiding the feared area disastrous; it paralyzes your best faculties. If you avoid | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and feeling processes. Frustration is not dangerous or disastrous. Heed and recognize this, my friends. Observe your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| must disappear, for they are pitfalls, much more disastrous than whatever aspects you hate yourself for. When | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the cause. An apparently good action often has disastrous results because it is undermined by covert negativity | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Disbelief...................5 | |
| have deep in your hearts a corner of disbelief. You are afraid to face the corner of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| You are afraid to face the corner of disbelief, and this attitude is responsible for your resistance | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| God and even sincerely wants to strengthen the disbelief. Do not cover up any doubt for you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| reservations. These reservations may take the form of disbelief: Oh, it is not possible to have what | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| because they fear ridicule from others. Thus their disbelief is often every bit as unnatural, dishonest, and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Disc........................4 | |
| while the other half is open. Picture a disc which tilts occasionally more to one side, and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| trends in the male. The more flexible this disc is, the more these opposite trends manifest. The | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| female side is mostly turned outward on the disc, so that physical birth manifests. However, this does | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| at other times, when this face of the disc may tilt inward. Man, on the other hand | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Discard.....................17 | |
| must be for you, but only if you discard all self-flattering disguises, everything that nourishes complacency and | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| may not make sense to you. Do not discard any of the ideas; do not resist them | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| concept is useless and harmful. When it comes, discard it -- not outwardly, but truly within yourself | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you find that they are insignificant, learn to discard them. This process will bring forth additional material | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| -- indicating a disturbance in your psyche -- discard them quietly, without getting impatient with yourself. Resume | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| my child, you cannot say, Now I will discard my God-image. It is not something you can | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your true growth. This work demands that you discard the outer mask of appearance and that you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you are forced to take yourself in hand, discard worn out and incorrect concepts, and leave behind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| change, the solution no longer words. So you discard it in order to adopt a new way | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| at a still later period, you have to discard it again. We may liken civilizations which have | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| another is the humility to search for, and discard if necessary, the ideas and opinions you both | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| particular traits we decide to emulate or to discard. The ability to make such choices well depends | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| this concept, there would be good reason to discard it. If faith were a gullible lack of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| imposed from the outside, if we are to discard tyranny, must exist only where self-discipline is lacking | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| dealing with themselves and others! They will neither discard their reactions nor take them blindly at face | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| ground rule of life and begin gradually to discard the old one that has proven detrimental because | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| errors of religion, so it is foolish to discard marriage altogether because of previous distortions. Before marriage | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Discarded...................8 | |
| realizes after life is over and it has discarded the material shell that it has not fulfilled | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| mean that the past approach will now be discarded. Quite the contrary, it will often be necessary | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Judged at that point the spring might be discarded as unclean and worthless. Yet, the very next | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| false attitude. Wouldn't prayer change too if we discarded this concept? Wouldn't everything change? ANSWER: Yes, of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in for much greater trouble than if you discarded the superimposition. Because only then can you get | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| mature solutions for humankind's problems were too often discarded as wrong. The child's mind lacks the power | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| mental and emotional accumulations that need to be discarded so that the currently valid thoughts and feelings | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| enlivened, renewed tradition. Other old beliefs will be discarded because they no longer make sense -- and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Discarding..................5 | |
| thought that my discussion contained the message of discarding moral codes has not as yet understood its | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| discriminating among the ideas they have learned and discarding what they cannot accept, or perhaps returning to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and perhaps more evolved, philosophy of life and discarding a less truthful general concept you have held | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| others, is expressed by the spiritual self by discarding the false needs, a wonderful force is awakened | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| hand, there are many spiritual movements that practice discarding and inactivating the mind altogether. This is equally | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Discarnate..................3 | |
| result becomes evident to everyone. However, as a discarnate spirit you cannot do this, for most people | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| changing it. This may even apply to unseen discarnate entities who are very deeply involved in their | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| person, whether in human form or as a discarnate entity who is filled with evil, experiences excitement | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Discern.....................17 | |
| person who has had some spiritual schooling can discern very accurately, when he or she thinks back | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| spiritual consciousness is raised, you will come to discern in which category among your fellow-creatures you belong | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| ANSWER: The difference cannot be generalized. You will discern it clearly within yourself as you work on | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it will be quite helpful for you to discern their difference. The first kind of rigidity is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| imagine anything else and are unable even to discern what you think or feel. A good part | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| less than you could experience. Perhaps you can discern that you stand back in life and feel | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| feeling one has avoided. If you can so discern your hidden messages, you will make a great | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| because will action also applies to attitudes. Also discern in what areas to momentarily accept your limitations | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| very finely calibrated listening mechanisms in order to discern your hidden motivations for whatever you do. Your | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| a way that is often more difficult to discern. You also know that your own consciousness is | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| closely-knit unit. Only the more mature mind can discern an effect removed from a causal agent. Where | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| nuclear points are materialized, you cannot measure or discern them with your human instruments at this time | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| unaware of every fractional now point. You cannot discern its meaning or message until you are willing | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| attune to it and hear it, you will discern it, first vaguely, later strongly. You need to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| listen to the rhythmic balancing factors, you will discern that your own inner system is an integral | 228 BALANCE |
| and liberation it is to find and to discern -- not only in your world view, but | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| look closely, it will not be difficult to discern the wish to hide something that is unpalatable | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |