| Distrusted..................5 | |
| life and to the degree they are still distrusted and their self-regulating reality ignored, self-deception must still | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| nurture the deep instincts you have always so distrusted and to find the truth of the living | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| anything other than the self was rampant. People distrusted nature, animals, the weather, the gods, fate, other | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| was also very strong, of course. Man innately distrusted woman, and woman, man. Each seemed justified in | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and alien, and therefore were enemies to be distrusted. Experiencing others to be similar when it comes | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Distrustful.................12 | |
| you, so you not only become isolated and distrustful, but your conscience cannot ever give you rest | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| spontaneously and honestly experienced, unhampered by the fearful, distrustful or cunning ego, can ever be a waste | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| from such ignorance, this tentative bargaining and petty, distrustful withholding of all the generous spontaneous moves of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and examine such desire, you will always see distrustful elements behind it. So I say to you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| numb, lifeless, and trapped in apathy. They are distrustful, negative, and withdrawn from life. They have a | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| there is the slightest risk you are too distrustful to take it and you cringe from it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| negative in your perception of life and therefore distrustful of life. Consequently, you institute pettiness in your | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| or reason. You will consequently become frightened, defensive, distrustful, grabbing, anxious, and ruthless. Instead of changing the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| his or her distrust because of the other's distrustful attitude. Since man was physically stronger, and since | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| You underestimate your own power when you feel distrustful of yourself because you operate with appearance values | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| movement, one cannot exist without the other. Where distrustful, fearful holding back makes it impossible for the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| in fear, distrust your judgment, become either too distrustful in the wrong place and/or too gullible in | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Distrustfulness.............2 | |
| substance. Violation of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness, distrustfulness, illusion, weakness, the tendency to damage the self | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| lack of faith, self-hate, limited vision, pride, impatience, distrustfulness. You will learn to abandon them, as you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Distrusting.................9 | |
| have all the reason in the world for distrusting your judgment, your choice, and the other person | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| bad, neither depending on them too much nor distrusting them and standing alone in a seemingly hostile | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| but be benign, bringing happiness, fulfillment, and meaningfulness. Distrusting this stream and therefore holding on to what | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to create what is needed, it is busy, distrusting, and holding itself together in a tight knot | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| for groping in the dark, fearfully half-trusting, half- distrusting, thrown between one's needs and one's fears. Love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| physical pulsation happen without interference by a fearful, distrusting attitude. Cooperate with this inner lawfulness by simply | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| automatically when you find the justified reasons for distrusting yourself. The process is always an automatic reestablishment | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the major inner reasons for resisting and distrusting change and growth. This illusion is so primitive | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| operate with being values, you are used to distrusting your desires. They have been polluted for such | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Distrusts...................4 | |
| to trust life, to trust nature, if one distrusts one's own deepest instincts. For where do these | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| petty defenses, pseudoprotections, and pretenses that one who distrusts life inevitably adopts. When you look closer at | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you use pseudo- intelligence to substantiate your doubts, distrusts and suspicions, in order to avoid the discomfort | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the lower self obstructs this movement. It fears, distrusts, and resists such growth. Which part you ally | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Disturb.....................9 | |
| time and that no one is going to disturb you, so that you can be wholly relaxed | 36 PRAYER |
| we shall examine later. Unvolitional background thoughts constantly disturb and interrupt you. Even if they have significance | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ambivalent emotions you are unaware of. They vaguely disturb you and you attribute that to the legitimate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| with yourself finally helps you see where you disturb the universal forces by prohibiting yourself from loving | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| fear, the fundamental faults that prohibit love and disturb the soul. In each case you will have | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| part of reality which appears to bother or disturb; other aspects important for understanding the occurrence in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| self-responsibility for the unwelcome experience, and your emotions disturb the natural rhythm of the pulsation of your | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the nature and origin of those hindrances which disturb the law of mutuality. Mutuality is a cosmic | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| you still cannot see this. When such events disturb your state of happiness and peace, you are | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Disturbance.................69 | |
| remains that this is a sign of a disturbance within the soul. The only remedy is to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| pronounced talent, or let us say, a glandular disturbance? ANSWER: A glandular disturbance is only an effect | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| us say, a glandular disturbance? ANSWER: A glandular disturbance is only an effect, as you know. Now | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| conflicts in another child will not create any disturbance. You can observe this again and again. QUESTION | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that out, you will often experience that the disturbance diminishes greatly by the mere fact that you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| pressing importance for you now -- indicating a disturbance in your psyche -- discard them quietly, without | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| hidden wrong conclusion. For, if there is a disturbance, a disharmony or an unhappiness, no matter how | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impossible if you were not disturbed. Therefore, the disturbance is bound to come into the open and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| protect you from yourself. Wherever immaturity and emotional disturbance exist, so does rigid adherence to rules in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| This either/or attitude is the basis for emotional disturbance, immaturity, and ill-health, but it especially creates the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| level, it comes from an emotional and/or spiritual disturbance or mismanagement. On both the emotional and spiritual | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fore, emerging out of all the layers of disturbance. As you learn to understand and accept yourself | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| faced in yourself. This lack of peace, this disturbance, is always a sign of subjective anger, which | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| involved parties and sooner or later cause a disturbance if the shallow relationship is a close one | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| can receive help more easily than those whose disturbance is less obvious, because the latter can more | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| until they meet at one basic point of disturbance that can only then be fully faced, understood | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are two parallel spiral movements: one pursues the disturbance, the other shows the true picture that compliments | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| influence of this factor often manifests in a disturbance of the relationship between the sexes. Such a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the relationship between the sexes. Such a disturbance may be as subtle and hidden as the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that a child represents will create an inner disturbance. To atone for having common human failings, such | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| a fault, it could never create an abiding disturbance if the person were completely aware of it | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| were fully conscious, there would be comparatively little disturbance. Let us apply that truth to this particular | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| any need for it at all indicates neurosis, disturbance, immaturity. In the well- functioning personality, the need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| facets of their innermost selves. The tension and disturbance is then glibly explained away. These people may | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| nucleus, as it were, like a package of disturbance. But it rarely occurs to my friends that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| matter how much truth one believes one sees, disturbance, chaos, and destruction remain. You cannot find a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| at the moment because of a loss or disturbance. Nevertheless, peace comes into you when you fully | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it is the only effective approach to inner disturbance and disharmony, putting you immediately in touch with | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| may be nature's attempt to straighten out the disturbance resulting from too weak an ego. Only when | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and more often, the still existing nucleus of disturbance is clearly defined as a malignant growth, rather | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| will be in peace, regardless of how much disturbance and unreality still exist in you as conditions | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| deed and therefore denying both, results in extreme disturbance for the self, indirectly affecting others, with no | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| a loss of power over oneself. Ultimately mental disturbance is caused by this conflict. But when your | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| Whenever this direction is counteracted by another, a disturbance is created. It is not the disturbance itself | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a disturbance is created. It is not the disturbance itself that creates the pain, but the imbalance | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| direction is accepted, pain must cease. When the disturbance is fought against ineffectively, and the personality wants | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| cause is the negative wish; the effect, the disturbance in the system. The two pulls continue and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of an inadvertent cause and a mere momentary disturbance. In this understanding and acceptance one ceases the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that is over, exaggerated, implies an imbalance, a disturbance. QUESTION: How can we fight it? ANSWER: Fighting | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| flow by obstructions and strong counter- currents. The disturbance created in the universal flow can be eliminated | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| room for a new reality. Whenever a vague disturbance is honestly examined and verbalized, the concept on | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| examined and verbalized, the concept on which the disturbance is based can be revealed and questioned. This | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the specific symptoms you wish to remove. Any disturbance is merely a symptom of the basic ill | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| outer negative conditions will create only a temporary disturbance in the flow of the life force. People's | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Such weakness is always a result of some disturbance of the psyche on a deep level and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| inability to tolerate frustration constitutes a severe personality disturbance and impairs one's character. When frustration is not | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the surface, never reaching the nucleus of the disturbance. The disturbance may be accepted in a false | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| never reaching the nucleus of the disturbance. The disturbance may be accepted in a false spirit of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| applies to you. No matter how insignificant a disturbance may appear to you, or how world-shakingly important | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you are only vaguely, fuzzily aware of some disturbance, which you quickly rationalize or find some convincing | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| question must be confronted again and again. Every disturbance offers the best opportunity, for if you value | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| three levels of functioning together to where the disturbance exists, you will come to the next stage | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you cannot get at the core of your disturbance. Your suffering becomes worse; you become alienated from | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| arise from the other person when one feels disturbance only in his or her presence, and not | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| those who assume responsibility for finding the inner disturbance and mutual effect can do so. Hence the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| confusion and pain. I mean the kind of disturbance that comes out of conflict and breeds further | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| look within and find the source of the disturbance in themselves. Even you, my friends, who are | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the inner truth when the first inklings of disturbance and negativity manifest on the surface. But a | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that the others' action justifies and explains your disturbance. When you resist this temptation, you are heeding | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| unified, fulfilled lives, while individuals with much less disturbance stay put. The reason for this is that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| are in now that is bothering you; any disturbance in your life. Look at the construct you | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to a considerable extent responsible for the very disturbance you suffer. See this. Often you must first | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| directly wander toward the disorder, toward the immediate disturbance created by the disorderliness. It may wander elsewhere | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| inertia -- stagnant energy exists that must create disturbance and negative experiences. It is very potent energy | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you may often lose yourself in confusion and disturbance. Further honest work will lead you to a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with the process and will recognize that the disturbance is a reflection of some blindness. The blindness | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| you need it most, when you are in disturbance or disharmony of any nature. Many of you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| occurs, when you are in a state of disturbance, fear and disharmony within yourself, with others and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| most constructive way, will the rhythm flow without disturbance and take its natural course. Doubt, rebellion, anger | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |