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| You are aware, of course, that the atmospheric disturbances, thunderstorms, the hurricanes, the clouds that gather, are | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| will exist, of course; it will create many disturbances, but each would be due to one particular | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| They are always due to one's own inner disturbances, in conjunction with the conflicts of others. If | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This frustration, in addition to certain other personality disturbances strengthening this current, in addition to the temperament | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| voice, is just as much cause for personality disturbances as the suppression of the negative aspects. In | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| governor. Not only do your emotional and psychic disturbances cause lack of control over your life, but | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the vibrations emanating from you, with all their disturbances and contradictory feelings, tune into negative currents, which | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the lower self always interferes. It sends in disturbances. Radio messages can be interfered with in a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| very important role. But where there are psychological disturbances and immaturities, where there is distortion and unreality | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| one hand, and to personal limitations and personality disturbances on the other, this pleasure is not forthcoming | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| risk, but at such a price that further disturbances are bound to set in. The thwarted instinct | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is entirely free of inner distortions and soul disturbances, everyone has an idealized self-image. The strength of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or spiritual needs may also originate from emotional disturbances. When one neglects to satisfy one's real needs | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| more or less disturbed. If the degree of disturbances is great, one refers to these people as | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you make excuses for not looking at these disturbances, and how everything else seems more important. Beware | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| new connections, shedding new light on the same disturbances, deliberating on them in different expressions of thought | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| suggests a more profound comprehension of your inner disturbances. You now understand why a certain unhappiness or | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what degree you have fully comprehended your inner disturbances and deviations. Nevertheless, by now you have sufficiently | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| his manhood and woman her womanhood. But inner disturbances always make people fight against their manhood and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| vastly overlooked in the exploration of human psychic disturbances. I again emphasize that conduct alone does not | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| live, the easier will it become to make disturbances and crises productive experiences of short duration. All | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| greater understanding you will gain about yourself, your disturbances, your interrelationship with others, and about the world | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| being as originally created knows nothing of these disturbances. Its nature is love, a fearless state of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| their own predicament from this perspective. All their disturbances, disharmonies, and sufferings can finally be brought down | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| personal errors from which your daily disharmonies and disturbances arise. The most insignificant problem can show you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| the self negatively. The very existence of such disturbances points to unknown elements which must be ascertained | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| open and relaxed, in order to eliminate the disturbances in a real way, so should you treat | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| error and distortion. The resulting confusion causes grave disturbances. What you usually do is push one side | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| as long as you are unaware of the disturbances within yourself, the destructive thoughts and feelings. In | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Disturbed...................68 | |
| but, as I said, this is not enough. Disturbed soul currents cannot be set on a right | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| capacity of enjoyment is hindered by your own disturbed soul, by all your desires and wishes, some | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| living in your lower nature without feeling too disturbed about it, after a while you will come | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| often a very important factor in an emotionally disturbed person. All this does not apply only to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| not have to write down everything that has disturbed your sense of harmony during the course of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mood; you do not know why you feel disturbed; it is a difficult life in general; perhaps | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| pure currents flowing through a human soul become disturbed and distorted. A short circuit is established. This | 38 IMAGES |
| where the field of the life force is disturbed in some way. As you have heard from | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| sleep would not be profound; it would be disturbed sleep. But during deep sleep your feeling-body or | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| rest than a whole night of fitful and disturbed sleep, when, because of your tensions, your feeling-body | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the God-image, the more the personality will be disturbed, because two conflicting needs and compulsions work against | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to which they adhered out of their own disturbed souls. If neither is allowed to develop freely | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a desire which is relatively small or not disturbed by unhealthy motives. Your inner will is still | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| what is going on within yourself. You feel disturbed, but you cannot pinpoint the reason. You are | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| become aware of this each time you feel disturbed and anxious, you will have made great progress | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| consists mainly of the following: (1) Symptoms of disturbed emotions and inner conflicts that never express the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Be prepared for your mind soon to be disturbed by unvolitional background thoughts. Expect them, observe them | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| meaning of your reactions. Any time you are disturbed, find out what it is that you want | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is supposed to be given. In reality, a disturbed person who adopts such a solution is hardly | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| all human emotions so as not to be disturbed. Can you picture what a conflict this is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| This would be impossible if you were not disturbed. Therefore, the disturbance is bound to come into | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not see it because whenever your plans are disturbed, you feel your life is endangered. So you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that each instinct causes when the soul is disturbed. A distortion results from adopting a particular attitude | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| course, I am not speaking here of crassly disturbed people. Most people fail to connect cause and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| penetrate this outer pseudo-calm, which is so easily disturbed by circumstances outside your control, you will find | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| self-image. It may then manifest only in the disturbed personality areas, and to a weaker extent. It | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and the next time you come across a disturbed area you again repress, judge, and strain away | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| surface intellect. QUESTION: When we are angered or disturbed by the perversity, selfishness or cynicism of others | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the perversity, selfishness or cynicism of others, or disturbed by corruption in high places, is this a | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| also true that some of the more severely disturbed people can receive help more easily than those | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| is not available to those who are more disturbed. They therefore come to a point where they | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| toward growth and outgoingness. If these forces are disturbed or thrown out of their natural channels, love | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| beings whose soul forces are more or less disturbed. If the degree of disturbances is great, one | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| if the degree is less, one calls these disturbed souls neurotic. The words do not matter, the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| it is easy to see why you are disturbed, why you are at war with yourself. This | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a relationship, and cannot come out of a disturbed feeling in spite of certain recognitions, it is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| want from you. If you look at confused, disturbed, and disharmonious feelings, you must dare to let | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| confronting a certain problem exists, you will be disturbed by the fear of death in one form | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| it is mostly conscious. Whenever you find yourself disturbed because of a persistent unfulfillment, you can be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| distorts perception and prevents self-evaluation. From these results, disturbed interaction and disharmony follow. The disturbed emotions and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| these results, disturbed interaction and disharmony follow. The disturbed emotions and distorted perceptions form a nucleus, almost | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| resistance. You will come to feel that the disturbed substance in you is truly foreign matter. At | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| impairments and distortion that the overall life is disturbed, disharmonious, unfulfilled, and unhappy. The more this is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to reestablish balance when the natural order is disturbed. This balance must be reestablished for the personality | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| part. It is like a river that is disturbed in its quiet flow by obstructions and strong | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| humanity. On the one hand, you are very disturbed by the insecurity of your existence. You sense | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a state of bliss is in an unnatural, disturbed condition. It is important for you, my friends | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is very regular and rhythmic. A sick or disturbed and fearful heart automatically loses this rhythmic quality | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of what was gained, and rest. In the disturbed organism, distorted by misconceptions, the expanding movement appears | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must always lead to resistance to growth. The disturbed organism is in fear, and fear makes expansion | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and threatening. Fear contracts into unpleasure. Hence the disturbed organism unpleasurably contracts when it should pleasurably expand | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| explained about the advisable approach to healing your disturbed psyche applies in exactly the same way to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it more accurately, the positive force is twisted, disturbed, converted, distorted, and thus becomes a negative force | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| who is very distorted, very subjectively influenced and disturbed -- and even then it is hardly ever | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a misconception exists, your balance structure has been disturbed, and an opposite misconception must also exist. Each | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| flexible giving in constitute a balance, which is disturbed by immature self- centeredness. The balance will be | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| on the other hand it is imbalanced and disturbed -- the centers close up. They become clogged | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fully decide, and you become so confused and disturbed that you react blindly and rigidly, without quite | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| wrong the other person does, if you are disturbed, there must be something in you that you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| in you that you overlook. When I say disturbed, I mean this in a particular sense. I | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| offers no way out. If you feel vaguely disturbed or irritated, without really knowing what has happened | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| as elsewhere -- that often the most severely disturbed individuals completely reverse their painful lives into happy | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| to discuss this topic. Pay attention to how disturbed you really are by your disorder. The resisting | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and climate behind it, you will see how disturbed you are by the many little things in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in experiences that leave you puzzled, confused or disturbed. When you feel resistance, admit the resistance, rather | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| recognize others' negativities without being personally affected or disturbed by them. You no longer struggle against others' | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| not think independently. This is why a severely disturbed human being who exhibits some evil traits, but | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| beings that the balance of nature is being disturbed through humanity's thoughtlessness or greed. The recent growth | 254 SURRENDER |