| Dramatization...............10 | |
| is constantly clamoring for attention, it uses the dramatization either openly or subtly as a means of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you have fully recognized its existence. Concerning your dramatization of the negative side, I would say that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will give me the admiration I want. The dramatization can take many forms, but it is always | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of yourself, but also to a tendency toward dramatization. If the great drama cannot be, then you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to understand better the reason for your self- dramatization. Once you understand that, the need will lessen | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this separateness may be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are only | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is what I often referred to as self- dramatization. This may happen even within oneself and never | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you play those hidden little games of deception, dramatization, and pretense with yourself and others, not daring | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| realistic and well-proportioned manner, without exaggeration, hiding, or dramatization. It is possible to recognize the chains you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the deliberately produced feelings may be distorted through dramatization, exaggeration, fakery. Selfwill may be used to put | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Dramatize...................8 | |
| and real personality. In a subtle way, you dramatize yourself and your love all the more because | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a further conflict. That is the tendency to dramatize oneself, which is present to some degree in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| for you. This black-and-white attitude causes you to dramatize yourself. You not only overdramatize the world around | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| world of illusion -- where and how you dramatize yourself, and what is behind it. Then ask | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| feelings. You do so when you exaggerate and dramatize a positive feeling about a person. And you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| elements like confusion and puzzlement. You intensify and dramatize your emotions, as I explained in the last | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| flow smoothly. Some personalities find it expedient to dramatize the weakness and thus attempt to make an | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| rejection of it, and vice versa. When you dramatize frustration as annihilation of your world, it soon | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Dramatized..................4 | |
| Hence, the feeling is manipulated, artificially exaggerated or dramatized. Again, this may apply to positive or negative | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| denied unfulfillment. Anger, hurt, suffering may all be dramatized and clung to. Artificial feelings, both positive and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you grow and expand your horizons. A false, dramatized hurt can never accomplish this. Any superfluous emotion | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| small, momentary frustration or difficulty or disappointment is dramatized into a tragedy and induces a person to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Dramatizing.................4 | |
| but also to positive or favorable incidents. This dramatizing is based on the childish view of the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not understanding, projecting anger on those who help, dramatizing and exaggerating actual difficulties until the pathwork is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| this may apply to positive or negative emotions. Dramatizing negative emotions is just as frequent as pretending | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and not denying, not whitewashing the self, nor dramatizing oneself into an all-bad human being. All this | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Drastic.....................26 | |
| correct your soul tendencies in a hurry by drastic means -- which, of course, is not feasible | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| be found earlier so that this final and drastic result of the chain reaction can be avoided | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you automatically picture something very specific and often drastic. Let us establish what belongs in the category | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your healthy impulses; instead, you pick the most drastic examples for your experiment. The drastic examples are | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the most drastic examples for your experiment. The drastic examples are the selfish impulses. Only by a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| others, this is a total misconception, which needs drastic revision. I am quite certain that when you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| into another, conflicting one. With this approach, a drastic change is bound to occur in your entire | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| opinions do not even have to undergo a drastic revision. They may essentially remain the same, but | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| misunderstood to mean that you should undertake a drastic change in your outer life. The transition is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| without expecting immediate results, rather than anticipating a drastic change. There is no magic formula. You can | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| or she would not have resorted to such drastic means. I have pointed out before that all | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| with quite well and does not experience as drastic unhappiness, another temperament and character feels to be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| effects are connected with it? A further and drastic result of this problem is the constantly increasing | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| any minor rejection, criticism, or disapproval as such drastic danger that they will again quickly withdraw either | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or not you are ready for this more drastic change, only you yourself can know. As long | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not ready for a forceful relinquishing and a drastic change. In this case, you must continue bringing | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| is. The treatment of children has undergone a drastic change in your society in recent times. Until | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| understand its cause and effect. This makes a drastic difference in your inner experience and climate and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in your outer life experience will be so drastic that words cannot describe it. What was difficult | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the destruction may bring about more or less drastic outer changes. When you are in a transition | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| difficult to reach; it certainly constitutes the most drastic change in self-perception and the perception of life | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| one, you may have coped with the most drastic changes and objectively traumatic events -- wars, revolution | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| have the power to make an immediate and drastic change. This last attitude is no more positive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cumulatively it becomes very noticeable indeed. Consider the drastic change of an infant growing into childhood, then | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| you operate on the being level, some very drastic changes occur. These are byproducts of the integrity | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| clearly be seen in your times by many drastic changes. The women's liberation movement, the sexual liberation | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Drawbacks...................4 | |
| both the opposing alternatives and none of their drawbacks, having their cake and eating it too. When | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the advantages and not accepting any of the drawbacks of the two alternatives. For instance, when you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the correct balance. Today's trend does have its drawbacks. It causes many young people to make a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is a happier one, without many of the drawbacks of your current abode. You are in the | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Drawing.....................10 | |
| who love God. They are very keen on drawing them away from God. They do not have | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| wrong conclusions are leading you to and actually drawing toward you. I cannot emphasize strongly enough for | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| so unrewarding but rather false and compulsive goodness. Drawing the wrong conclusion, you may now be tempted | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| even deeper insights. They will guard you from drawing the wrong conclusion that your love is rejected | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| got rid of the pain deep within. By drawing out the pain you will lose it. By | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to this still immature stage, rather than to drawing people out of it. You may rightly wonder | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and subterfuges, it will, of necessity, result in drawing a wall of isolation around the person indulging | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this sphere? ANSWER: That is one reason for drawing souls into this particular sphere of consciousness. But | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| crisis, eruption, breakdown, are inevitable and are steadily drawing nearer. Yet you resist doing what could avoid | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| consciousness. Your unpurified consciousness has the effect of drawing devils near you who confuse you with lies | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Drawn-out...................3 | |
| in a short time. It is a long drawn-out process. And even after you have understood your | 38 IMAGES |
| to a strong resistance. It is the long, drawn-out result of consistent repression. Due to such repression | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| are in such a predicament, you experience long, drawn-out states of disharmony, anxiety, crisis, depression, upheaval. It | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Draws.......................12 | |
| divine law, you emanate a certain substance that draws spirits of light toward you. By the same | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| violate divine law, you emanate a quality that draws the spirits of darkness near you, like a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| whatever is in your lower self that constantly draws you away from this inner work. Here are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| toward me? As I said before, your image draws these happenings to you, as inevitably as night | 38 IMAGES |
| happenings to you as inevitably as a magnet draws iron to itself. These forces can be truly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| open a grave danger. It is ignorant and draws utterly erroneous conclusions in this respect, as in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the God-image. Thus the contrary pull, which draws you away from the mass image of self-importance | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| whom they, in turn, come into contact. It draws rings upon rings of effect that interact. If | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the self. The apparent reality, which is false, draws the self that created it deeper and deeper | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| sexuality between man and woman. The power that draws them together is the purest spiritual energy, leading | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| magnetic block is a powerful force that inevitably draws to you the very experience you wanted to | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| sisters, sons and daughters. Again a working season draws to its end. But each end is a | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |