| Discerned...................3 | |
| interchangeable that it can often no longer be discerned which is which. Both become indistinguishable in one | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the truth of this can no longer be discerned. That is why the inner voice of truth | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| education will unfold. The inner voice will be discerned when its laws are understood. The child needs | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Discernible.................8 | |
| yarn is spun, until truth is no longer discernible -- at least not easily -- even for | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| response to life, the life stream will become discernible and its wise guidance and meaningfulness will become | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| imaginable. Its voice becomes forever more distinct and discernible. A few of you have begun to experience | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| locked up in you. This, too, may be discernible only indirectly, through the manifestations of your life | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| begins to focus again, the material immediately becomes discernible. Such material is not truly unconscious. This difference | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| state of consciousness, cause and effect are immediately discernible and almost simultaneous; there is no time-lapse between | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will be reinstated because their truth will become discernible on a deeply felt level; this means preserving | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| lying instantly wanes. This may not be immediately discernible to the entity who cannot see the light | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Discerning..................4 | |
| submissive type will have to look with very discerning eyes at these trends in order to find | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a different direction. The real conscience is very discerning about any kind of self-deception. It is adamant | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| yourself feel, as well as wanting to be discerning about your discoveries. All this is necessary before | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| better life experience, you should look with a discerning inner eye for the corresponding inner negativity that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Discernment.................3 | |
| may be extremely subtle and require all your discernment to discover it. When you do, you will | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| with great honesty and a great deal of discernment will you find both these distortions within yourself | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| evil should be both viewed with caution and discernment and examined in as much depth as possible | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Discharge...................4 | |
| Recognize yourself, analyze your emotions, but do not discharge them on others. The more self-aware you grow | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| movement of energies? Do they charge, do they discharge? ANSWER: As I said, I shall comment much | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| tasks as leaders of nations and of governments, discharge themselves of their responsibility according to divine law | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| or her part? Such a personality wants to discharge only the minimal amount of rebelliously executed duty | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Disciples...................11 | |
| it was said that Jesus appeared to his disciples after His death, it was also a form | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| able to speak in openness, face-to-face to the disciples? ANSWER: You all know, my friends, that spiritual | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| task. Is that clear? Yes. QUESTION: Are the disciples of Jesus powers which do not have to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question I say: There are some among the disciples who do not have to come back anymore | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends, not to ask me which of the disciples do not have to reincarnate anymore and which | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not speak that way to some of His disciples or to close friends. To them He spoke | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| ashamed and afraid of losing face with the disciples. This basic fear is often rationalized by acceptable | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not want to let down or weaken the disciples. But in fact it is the lack of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| praises children's willingness to experience life intensely. Jesus' disciples have this quality; they too experience fully. And | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not at all. When Jesus appeared to his disciples, his dear ones, a phenomenon occurred that has | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| true sense of the word. Therefore, what the disciples saw was real, although most of them did | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Disciplinarian..............3 | |
| will be, my friends, exactly. This may sound disciplinarian, but it is not. It is the way | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| this intelligence and power. God is not a disciplinarian; God is beyond good or evil. People often | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| up their concept of God as a small disciplinarian whom they want and fear and who should | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Disciplinary................3 | |
| reborn into your real self. Cutting out, forcing, disciplinary action, slaying, are all forms of resisting. When | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| points I make again and again is that disciplinary action is force, and therefore leads away from | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| will be disappointed because you thought your channeling disciplinary action has made them into what you want | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Discipline..................141 | |
| from these currents, from the lack of self- discipline and self-awareness, from all the formations that manifest | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| such as this. Then you can learn the discipline to go into your inner stillness at any | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| attend to yourself, examine yourself, and acquire the discipline to overcome the resistance which is so difficult | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| only by entering a spiritual path of inner discipline, self-knowledge, and self-search. For all this, my dear | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| it is so difficult to muster a daily discipline, then, after asking for help, search into yourself | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| who leads his own life. It requires work, discipline, and training to feel into these currents and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| vision by taking a path of self-search and discipline, of love and humility, in order to establish | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| much. Only what comes to us through inner discipline and overcoming of what is difficult, only that | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| second and further step you need a certain discipline and concentration which you learn through prayer. Most | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the insight that nothing can be gained without discipline, regular work, and the best will to give | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in prayer to some degree, practicing regular self- discipline for this purpose, you may encounter the problem | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| these steps, to overcome perhaps a lack of discipline that makes it so hard for you to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is important because of the concentration and the discipline that are prerequisites for the process of purification | 36 PRAYER |
| you cannot give yourself a necessary and regular discipline? How can you be on the path if | 36 PRAYER |
| your development. In addition to the concentration and discipline prayer helps you achieve, you benefit in that | 36 PRAYER |
| only in training your ability to concentrate, to discipline yourself; you also learn to cultivate thoughts you | 36 PRAYER |
| easier for you to arrive at this daily discipline by sending you the necessary inspiration and mood | 36 PRAYER |
| The more difficult it is to summon the discipline for the daily prayer, the more you need | 36 PRAYER |
| person who has already made prayer a daily discipline must be careful of an opposite extreme -- | 36 PRAYER |
| a duty done. As long as the daily discipline is difficult to muster, you have to fight | 36 PRAYER |
| that say that in order to achieve the discipline of daily prayer, one should set aside the | 36 PRAYER |
| person continues to have difficulty in mastering a discipline, then the same time and same place every | 36 PRAYER |
| may be helpful. There are also cases when discipline can be just as well or better developed | 36 PRAYER |
| the soul, and the partners may have enough discipline to remain faithful to one another. Yet an | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| concentration at all, such meditation is a good discipline. It is favorable to learn concentration through prayer | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| just as well to combine them. Once the discipline is learned, one has to guard against the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| By mastery, I certainly do not mean a discipline that suppresses anything, negative or positive, in you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and controlled -- not controlled by any strenuous discipline or outer willpower, but by your relaxed summoning | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| degree of efficiency in these exercises by mere discipline, while neglecting to find your inner obstructions. Such | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| function where you are free already, but the discipline by itself will not eliminate the areas of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| thoughts, the subconscious does not respond to such discipline. Truce, as you see it, cannot really work | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| made to force the compulsive behavior away by discipline, the best you can hope to achieve is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| If you merely let go because you lack discipline or an aim, and expose your negative emotions | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| out of control and express them without the discipline of having a specific aim, namely that of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this sort are not to be advised. However, discipline of a sort is necessary. For instance, admonishing | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and taking account of one's actions and reactions. Discipline is also needed to be aware whenever the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answer to your question is a combination of discipline in the sense I have indicated and of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approach your progress with the right kind of discipline -- not by attempting perfect action, but by | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. To see what is right there requires discipline and wanting to see it. QUESTION: Isn't prayer | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see it. QUESTION: Isn't prayer a kind of discipline to keep oneself in a certain chosen direction | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can easily lead to misinterpretation. If you force discipline, without independent decision and full conviction, the motives | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not ready, but when are you going to discipline yourself? ANSWER: In this stage, the discipline should | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to discipline yourself? ANSWER: In this stage, the discipline should take the form of finding why you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this respect. Therefore, do not force yourself, or discipline yourself in your actions toward others, but rather | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in your actions toward others, but rather use discipline in finding out more about yourself. QUESTION: When | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the second current kicks in, where does the discipline come in? ANSWER: As I said before, the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| I said before, the use of the word discipline might lead to misunderstanding. It may lead to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this area and therefore change, with its necessary discipline, is premature. Look only for further awareness here | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| second which requires a more direct form of discipline. In the first stage discipline also must exist | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| direct form of discipline. In the first stage discipline also must exist, but with emphasis on further | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| benefit from them. Simply using some form of discipline to repress your desire to daydream in order | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| artificially cut out the mind by exercise and discipline, what happens? You repress what still exists in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| negative circumstances. There is no need to use discipline or any exercises, for what is not there | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to be does lead to self-knowledge, yes. But discipline connotes compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have said in this lecture, intellect, will, and discipline are necessary for your outer actions, for your | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| comes to the growth of your inner being, discipline is very harmful. If you discipline your thoughts | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| inner being, discipline is very harmful. If you discipline your thoughts and emotions, you force them to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| look at yourself in truth, this is not discipline. It is an intention which you follow through | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| without complaining or resenting, then you do not discipline yourself. You simply look at what is there | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of love. Can love come into being by discipline, by an act of will? Can any creative | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Can any creative process come into being by discipline? Can you be a good person by discipline | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| discipline? Can you be a good person by discipline? Certainly not. Do you understand a little what | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mean? QUESTION: There are many different ways of discipline, and this is not what I had in | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| how can you be free? Selfhood is freedom. Discipline and channeling lead away from freedom. QUESTION: If | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| times, the norm has been permissiveness, lack of discipline, indulgence. This does not mean that the parents' | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| He fears self-loss not only because the necessary discipline of fulfilling his responsibilities in life appears as | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| full relationship. It seems to him that his discipline will have to be given up, which he | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| by thinking that he has to choose between discipline and the ability to let go of himself | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| would be productive and harmonious and he refuses discipline and self-responsibility where this would be functional for | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| barriers also practices both these inner activities of discipline and letting go, but in reverse, which necessarily | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| more control she exerts, and the more false discipline she uses in order to prevent the dreaded | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of her femininity. So she, too, fluctuates between discipline and letting go of herself, exercising both in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| a healthy state, the two primary aspects of discipline and of letting go -- they might well | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| himself. And they are both the same! When discipline and letting go of oneself occur through wisdom | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and unifies all levels of the personality. When discipline and letting go of oneself occur through blindness | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this respect. The masculine and feminine principles of discipline and strength versus self-surrender and letting go of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| more fully and harmoniously. Through healthy strength, flexible discipline, and mature self-responsibility the entity becomes strong enough | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and outgoingness, the personality finds the strength and discipline required to live productively in union, by living | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| able to tolerate frustration if need be. This discipline of self-awareness and the self-responsibility of facing the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| anger, is the healthiest way conceivable of practicing discipline and self-responsibility. In this way you can face | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| destructive elements. All this does require a certain discipline, as well as unflagging willpower. The difficulty is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you and you no longer have to exert discipline? In this case, you no longer feel effort | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| peace. Everything else is strain, effort, and difficult discipline, which is not conducive to the great freedom | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| there is a distorted and harmful version of discipline. Self-realization - - the full bringing out of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the constant weighing and testing of a relaxed discipline, alternating with a proper letting go. Neither attitude | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| given up. This is the perfect way, where discipline and letting go bring a harmony which reconciles | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| which reconciles these two apparently opposite attitudes. When discipline is used against letting go because letting go | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| facts that contradict cherished illusions about the self, discipline becomes a rigid constriction of creative processes. The | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to outer rules and regulations, tight and fearful. Discipline is used against truth, not for truth. This | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for truth. This is what makes opposites of discipline and letting go. By the same token, letting | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| becomes as dangerous as the wrong kind of discipline. Both distortions create a heavy defensive wall in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and rigid. When the heaviness of the false discipline imposes too much stricture, some personalities break. The | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-indulgent person, the derelict, one who negates all discipline, all responsibility -- as a warning to justify | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| running away from the self by abandoning all discipline. The cohesive factor that makes all danger impossible | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| all threats, that combines the apparent opposites of discipline and letting go is the ever-renewed will to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| use your ego faculties, your will faculties, your discipline, to involve your total being in whatever you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| giving always the best of yourself: when this discipline is cultivated, then you have nothing to fear | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and by the willpower to hold back, to discipline all spontaneous impulses. When this consciousness grows and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| effort for bringing change about. The energy, the discipline, the stamina, the initiative essential for effecting a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| appreciate, it requires a great deal of honesty, discipline, and effort to overcome resistance to make this | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| voluntary and involuntary functions, balancing poised effort and discipline with relaxation. Each step of growth, each victory | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| I must remain deprived and in conflict. The discipline will be much easier to acquire, the willingness | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| sickness and suffering. As you progress in the discipline of facing yourself you become more able to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and what hurts it most. It lacks the discipline and the perseverance, the commitment and the faith | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| defeating life's natural movement toward evolution and unification. Discipline, courage, humility, and the ability to commit yourself | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Freedom, in its real sense, is unthinkable without discipline. And, conversely, the people who indulge themselves and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the people who indulge themselves and who reject discipline are inevitably dependent, weak, powerless, and consequently afraid | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| attitude often leads either to actual or imaginary discipline being imposed upon the person by others. When | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| by overcoming the embedded resistance against expansion. The discipline must be used for stringent recognition of the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| falsely -- dispensing with it. Order always means discipline. The immature person refuses discipline in any form | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Order always means discipline. The immature person refuses discipline in any form, associating it with parental authority | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| fulfillment of your real needs. By learning self discipline, you will establish order in your life: In | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to insolubly deep conflicts will vanish as you discipline yourself. Of course, the resistance to self- discipline | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| discipline yourself. Of course, the resistance to self- discipline, the need to make disorder in your life | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| needed no excuses. The ability for restraint and discipline was practically non-existent. The capacity for empathy with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| be fought for every time. You need self- discipline to remind yourself. Although resistance is gone, the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to exert all energy, courage, honesty, and self discipline toward making the deeper knowledge self- perpetuating, leads | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| is childish. So is the inability to take discipline. That is childish in the sense that a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that a person who is unable to take discipline is governed by a false understanding, and this | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| development are not ready to undergo the necessary discipline of the work. But there are more than | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| finding the fine balance between freedom and self- discipline. This applies equally to learning and education. The | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| exists also. You have to distinguish clearly between discipline that is chosen by the self and discipline | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| discipline that is chosen by the self and discipline that is imposed from the outside. Discipline imposed | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| and discipline that is imposed from the outside. Discipline imposed from the outside, if we are to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of freely chosen self-discipline, as opposed to necessary discipline imposed when the self-discipline is absent, can be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is very capable of understanding that the outer discipline is a structure that is waiting in reserve | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| pleasurable at the moment -- the outwardly imposed discipline is essential for the child as well as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| choose self-discipline and no longer need to have discipline imposed from outside. External discipline can then be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| need to have discipline imposed from outside. External discipline can then be a structure in reserve to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will have a new flavor so that the discipline necessary for it will in most instances be | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of the divine self. Those who have the discipline to do the work on the conscious level | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| growing. If this deep sincere commitment to self- discipline is lacking, the sexual force cannot be borne | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the ability to exert a certain amount of discipline, of firmness, of strength, of not succumbing to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| be bothered and dispenses with this necessary, healthy discipline, is as much at fault and does as | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| her domination. Neither can find the balance between discipline and relaxation and the intuitive knowing of when | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| when one and when the other is appropriate. Discipline cannot be used toward others in a fair | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is capable of giving. If you follow that discipline within yourself, then you earn authority in the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| an unruly child who needs a parent to discipline it. Do you not always find an area | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| way, or the complete way. In every spiritual discipline the goal is to perceive life in this | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| religions usually approach it by long practice and discipline. This, in conjunction with solitude and outer stillness | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| not want to experience any frustration or necessary discipline. When these goals remain unreachable, you resent and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |