| Discrepancies...............3 | |
| of this work, you have often come across discrepancies of this sort, but you are still unaware | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| other faculties for the emotional ones and thus discrepancies and disharmonies come into existence. The richness of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fantasy life. Comparison of both often demonstrates your discrepancies and contradictions, as well as your immature expectations | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Discrepancy.................45 | |
| to this factor. When there is too much discrepancy between the material and the spiritual development, then | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| self. You will always be aware of the discrepancy -- but now without being upset by it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| thoughts into their subconscious and thus disregard the discrepancy between what they want to think and what | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| every day. Sometimes there will be a greater discrepancy, sometimes less; this depends on many things. If | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| I want to be, and to bridge the discrepancy I shall have to have patience and the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| least a clear and true picture about the discrepancy between feelings and actions. In this way, no | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| facts. But we spirits see such a tremendous discrepancy between the concern for material nourishment and the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the nature of God. There would be a discrepancy between the basic law of free will and | 18 FREE WILL |
| very strong inclination toward the good, but the discrepancy between good and evil in them is much | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an efficient way. There is then always a discrepancy that you have to iron out sooner or | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| point is reached on this path, is the discrepancy in themselves; how one part can want one | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| other side in you wishes. To recognize this discrepancy is the most important factor of all. So | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the outer one. To find out such a discrepancy is extremely important, for how can you control | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| suffice to bring it to the surface, the discrepancy between the trance state and the normal state | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| still are from your prayer. By seeing this discrepancy and yet praying for that end and continuing | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that is why I occasionally point out this discrepancy. Be careful to understand that I do so | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| life, and thereby cause not only a painful discrepancy, but untold conflicts and problems with your conscious | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| emotions, still deviate from such intellectual knowledge. The discrepancy has to be made fully conscious before you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| greater is the shock when one realizes the discrepancy. Practically everything the child enjoys most is forbidden | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| QUESTION: I would like to ask about a discrepancy. In the last Question and Answer Session the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire to be loved becomes. The greater the discrepancy, the more you are torn in this conflict | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it does not. This will show you the discrepancy between the issue and the intensity of your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| after ascertaining realizing your wishes and seeing the discrepancy between them and your actual needs the intensity | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| I really? This is the result of the discrepancy and struggle between the real and the false | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| are directly or indirectly the result of the discrepancy between your capacities and the standards of your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to the fore. The moment you see this discrepancy, you will no longer feel threatened by the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the self with which you are familiar. The discrepancy both frightens and discourages you. Your fear is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is on an even keel. There is no discrepancy. More highly developed people often do not realize | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| work lies barren. It is not only the discrepancy as such that causes the disharmony, but the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to be candid with yourself to uncover the discrepancy in you and to accept it even for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| will feel less capable of experiencing fulfillment. The discrepancy between daydreams in which they can make others | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| outwardly he wants to disappear, it is a discrepancy that can have no hope of finding realization | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in reality the psyche did commit sin. This discrepancy has to be evaluated. Once the full impact | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| like to function, but insufficient consciousness creates a discrepancy between the creature's capacity for pleasure and its | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| your secret convictions about life. To discover the discrepancy between your conscious and unconscious beliefs must always | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| unless one comes face to face with the discrepancy between what one consciously believes or what one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings. This discrepancy presents a major block, for the unconsciously held | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and false presentation of it could be. The discrepancy between what you partly are and what you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to disrupt the false structure, the greater the discrepancy between the surface and the underlying emotions. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to the test. You have to face the discrepancy between what you claim to believe and what | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| heavily because they create an imbalance and a discrepancy. Did you get off your train in some | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| too, is part of it. The greater the discrepancy between your spiritual potentiality and the actual direction | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| not a tragic event that indicates such a discrepancy. It may even be more often a chronic | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your key. Do you have to allow the discrepancy between your process and your ego state to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| were less obsolete and therefore less of a discrepancy, you would not even feel as uncomfortable as | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Discriminate................37 | |
| to feel the difference and know how to discriminate one from the other within your soul, you | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| being has to learn first of all to discriminate independently, to think and choose freely, out of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and many people like you, are unable to discriminate between the fake and the genuine goodness in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| do make it more difficult for you to discriminate but you are obviously strong enough to master | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| opinion only if you deliberate and weigh it, discriminate, and select. During this process, a new opinion | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will, among other things, strengthen your power to discriminate in a very subtle way -- not intellectually | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| intellectual understanding and inability to weigh, judge and discriminate are the very result of a desire to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your youth! A child is hardly able to discriminate, yet it is subject to influences which may | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this path -- they will learn gradually to discriminate without exaggeration. They will cease going from one | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish for happiness simply because you fail to discriminate between actual and imagined selfishness. Every time a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and motives. Only in that way can you discriminate and judge which one is selfish and which | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| stage will you be in a position to discriminate, judge, and choose your own actions and attitudes | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| outlined before, in addition to the power to discriminate between your foreground and background thoughts, you will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| but also because you will see, observe, and discriminate. For those who are unafraid of loving and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reality of the situation. After that you can discriminate intelligently and you will respect yourself, not only | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| advantage. True patience will always know how to discriminate. At one time, just waiting will be indicated | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| capacity to think, to judge, to evaluate, to discriminate, to form concepts, to plan, to use your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| meeting it, and in so doing, learning to discriminate between that which is inevitable and that which | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| automatically be your fault. You will learn to discriminate. You will discover that some resentments are understandable | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| action are one and the same. You cannot discriminate between the two courses. Neither can you discriminate | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| discriminate between the two courses. Neither can you discriminate between a constructive aim for which it is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| held in check. You will also learn to discriminate between genuine good feelings and the false good | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| nature. On this path you also learn to discriminate between what is really destructive and what is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| free. You will be in a position to discriminate -- to make choices and decisions -- because | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| such. You must be aware in order to discriminate between changing to obtain more fulfillment and simply | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| unawareness. Without will and intelligence they could not discriminate and refrain from acting in ways harmful to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to ask questions, to doubt, to think, to discriminate. He lives in the now, but without awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to give in to them. Your inability to discriminate is what makes you insecure. Keeping your reaction | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| capable of forming their own ideas. They cannot discriminate between reason, common sense, logic, and their opposites | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| devil's temptation. As long as human beings cannot discriminate between what is constructive and destructive, they must | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of your outer self which are to think, discriminate, decide, and act appropriately in any situation you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is not only the power to think, to discriminate, and to choose; that is obvious. It is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| must learn laboriously, through your personal growth, to discriminate between cause and effect, reality and manifestation. This | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| find their ability to think, to weigh, to discriminate, to retain knowledge, to remember, in short, to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in any productive, healthy life. The need to discriminate when to trust and when not is also | 254 SURRENDER |
| means that you give away your ability to discriminate and to make independent decisions forever. It may | 254 SURRENDER |
| The road to the clarity and ability to discriminate is the willingness to search, question, probe, be | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |