| Fixedness...................4 | |
| is simply a matter of letting go of fixedness, that will come. But you must clearly state | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| enforced in order to cover up an inner fixedness and resistance. What is indicated never lies in | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| stagnant and fixed. The difficulty is making that fixedness fluid again. There is no particle or atom | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| may not be right tomorrow. There is no fixedness when it comes to the divine life that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Flagrant....................3 | |
| more distorted. This is one of the most flagrant illusions on the earth plane. Distortions can only | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can disappear and will disappear. Even the most flagrant proof of phenomena offered to you will not | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you must never defend yourself against a flagrant lie, or harmful rumor. This falls under the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Flagrantly..................3 | |
| may be quite sure that no matter how flagrantly wrong the other person may be there must | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| marriage. Each friction and misunderstanding, no matter how flagrantly wrong one person may be, is an indication | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in world conflicts, often one side is more flagrantly wrong than the other -- and yet, both | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| Flare.......................5 | |
| were talking about situations in which our emotions flare up. How about human beings whose emotions are | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| when, perhaps, an old raw area might still flare up and push the personality in the wrong | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| childishness, selfishness, destructiveness. You know that these aspects flare up, at an early stage of your development | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| provocations from outside, the undeveloped aspects would not flare up and would not acquire their own ingrained | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| worked through no longer exists and therefore cannot flare up when others do wrong by you. You | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Flat........................15 | |
| contact with God's world. They live in a flat, shallow and grey world and nothing is really | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whereas now life is still more or less flat for most of you. These are the results | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| lot. It will be much more than the flat understanding of the intellect alone. I have touched | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| recognize it, you do so only in a flat, intellectual way. You also ignore the harm you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| in the next moment. For you are no flat, one-dimensional creature, but dynamic and many-dimensional. You consist | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| often proves less desirable than it seems. A flat, unliving quality constricts both the good and the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and an end. In finiteness fulfillment is a flat, accomplished end and must become a burden. It | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| true is easy; how the false leaves one flat and the true brings a warmth and vibrancy | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| life, of living, of self must become very flat and unenjoyable. Substitute pleasures are then -- often | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self. The real self transcends the flat laws of outer morality, therefore you must have | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| In this exercise you may also lie down flat. Again relax and tune in to your body | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| longing and accept that life is just this flat, dismal, gray place? Do we not hear over | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| do not fall into the error of blind, flat evaluation. Look very carefully to sense the climate | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| denied consciousness, the sexual experience must be blocked, flat, unsatisfactory, mechanical and, in more severe instances, even | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the surface personality, the result will be a flat, unsatisfying gesture rather than a meaningful action stemming | 228 BALANCE |
| Flatly......................3 | |
| divided between a rigid, sterile good and a flatly bad alternative. The self cannot feel at ease | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| whose earmark is always that one position is flatly and unchangeably perceived as desirable and its opposite | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| lead to unity. Never must any concept be flatly accepted or refuted as such. The opposition I | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Flatness....................3 | |
| go enough to give himself completely. Therefore, a flatness of feeling will set in after the first | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the measure that this risk is avoided, sexual flatness may set in. This may then cause acting | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of spontaneity and for a certain feeling of flatness that you have about life, a certain lifelessness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Flatter.....................4 | |
| to observe all your notions about yourself which flatter you and with which it is so easy | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| not do; this would give them power and flatter their vanity. But an evolved spirit of God | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| way. On the other hand, it will not flatter. These and many other tests can, and should | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| than forfeit this false salvation. They can then flatter themselves that they are realistic, because it often | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Flattering..................9 | |
| truth, even though a truth may not be flattering at this moment. So make your soul healthy | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in the latter, conflicting desire may not be flattering for you, therefore you repress it and keep | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the recognition -- even though by no means flattering or comfortable -- will give you added peace | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you have feared and that may not be flattering. For this is a great joy. Learn this | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you, regardless of whether it is pleasant or flattering, must always be resolved afresh. This will give | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| or trying to put a very glorious, beautiful, flattering message into the dream from the spirit world | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| comes from your soul is instructive rather than flattering. That kind of message is from the real | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the unknown within yourself. It may not be flattering or compatible with your idealized self-image. Even if | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| an ego trick and sit in doubting judgment, flattering yourself that the doubting attitude is intelligent because | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Flaw........................4 | |
| prove something exists, one can certainly find a flaw underneath. Truly independent, free individuals do not have | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| a deeply satisfying state of mutuality. The slightest flaw in a mood will be recognized for its | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Both will recognize their co-creation of this momentary flaw -- whether it be an actual friction or | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| no one must be allowed to suspect this flaw in you. But as you went on, you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Flawed......................5 | |
| connections and to dissolve, or pull out, the flawed roots. If you wish to be happy, you | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| be happy, you have to go to the flawed roots within yourself. This radical approach, this going | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| also applies to your children. For if this flawed way of life is not given up, no | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the childish distortion of this knowledge that is flawed because of a lack of ego. You all | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of who you are now, no matter how flawed, imperfect and destructive your lower self may be | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Flaws.......................4 | |
| do just that, in spite of the inevitable flaws in perfection and truth that exist anywhere on | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the most part suppressed. Only when these flaws come to the surface and you understand that | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as a person has not dealt with the flaws in himself that separate him from truth and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| way than when your own unresolved faults and flaws are triggered off by outside circumstances. So you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Flee........................15 | |
| signs may be right under your nose. People flee from such awareness because they mistakenly think that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to be unhappy. By defiance, self-pity, wanting to flee life or escape your trouble in one way | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| than those who are courageous enough not to flee from the life experience. But it often happens | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your fear of not getting it. When you flee from love, fearful that you may not get | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| resurrection teaches symbolically that if you do not flee from your fear of death, suffering, and the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| with their counterparts, and often equally desperately they flee from union in unreasonable fear. This fear, without | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the truth. But you build elaborate defenses and flee. You not only flee from involvement and contact | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| build elaborate defenses and flee. You not only flee from involvement and contact with others, or from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and destructive attitudes in yourself, but primarily you flee from allowing yourself to love. This prohibition causes | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| added strain to the exhausted ego. You then flee into passivity, which seems like relief and consequently | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| as all false solutions do. The farther you flee, the more apathetic you become, for, naturally, at | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of warfare against your own self than to flee from experience which is apparently disconnected from yourself | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are the experiences people so often refuse, deny, flee from -- when they are nothing but an | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience -- when you no longer fear and flee from it -- have you truly overcome or | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is successfully overcome, however, and the temptation to flee it is intelligently recognized for what it is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Fleeing.....................8 | |
| in humility as you are at present, not fleeing from your reality, and thus building up from | 31 SHAME |
| be forced to face your troubles instead of fleeing them. So by law your lives become increasingly | 38 IMAGES |
| it. Accept it in a healthy way, not fleeing it. Accept it as a necessary byproduct of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| but a symptom of your particular way of fleeing from death and suffering, and therefore from life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| have healed your spiritual organism from its afflictions. Fleeing the experience that seems painful, undesirable, dangerous, is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the experience that seems painful, undesirable, dangerous, is fleeing from yourself, just as fighting it means fighting | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| bliss because you have transcended it instead of fleeing from it; you have understood its deep significance | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of life as it unfolds around you, never fleeing it, never denying it, never using spirituality as | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |