| Guise.......................20 | |
| is also a pretense used to maintain a guise of decency, while underneath the pretense there is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not merely by adhering to dogma. Under whatever guise dogma appears, it shows rigidity and lack of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| dissolve the destructiveness, while non-relating, even under the guise of false serenity, is further down the scale | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| person, even if the demands parade under the guise of giving. Those who are starved and therefore | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| someone more powerful. Conforming can occur under the guise of nonconformity, especially if such individualism is very | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to manifest stronger than ever in a different guise later, or you become more negatively involved and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| all over again, this time in a new guise. You ascribe your emotional discomfort to factors outside | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| negative pleasure principle has reappeared in a new guise. This is where you lose your harmony and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and resignation are adopted in a so-called spiritual guise, and render pleasure impossible. Instead, feelings of hopelessness | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| these times. It often takes place under the guise and pretense of real letting go. When rigid | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| who accepts the sacrifice -- always under the guise of righteousness. Can this be furthering truth and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| particular facade of blame and victimization, in whatever guise it may appear. Your feelings of being injured | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| You willfully doubt and negate abundance under the guise of intellectual considerations, and yet inwardly begrudge what | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| attempt to find your essence but under the guise of following your spiritual inclinations refuse to face | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a desire, but it often parades under the guise of being one. Positive, real desire is a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| welcome or desired. Not doing so under the guise of a so-called loving goodness and taking it | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the denial of the outer life under the guise that this furthers inner spiritual life. This distortion | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| as such because it is presented under the guise of divine truth and seems unassailable. The resulting | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of evil. Cruelty will be hidden under the guise of expressing your feelings, while maligning and distortion | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| can you avoid capitulation and resignation under the guise of surrender? How can you avoid a false | 254 SURRENDER |
| Gullibility.................3 | |
| quiet trust? Or is your trust perhaps a gullibility and an expression of wishful thinking, so that | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the wrong and distorted version of faith. Also, gullibility, the lack of right doubt, contains many negative | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to a point when you no longer confuse gullibility and wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Gullible....................10 | |
| in being objective and the opposite of being gullible. This, then, will serve as an excuse for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in or swallow anything. Such people fear being gullible because deep down they refuse to be independent | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| doubting attitude is intelligent because it is not gullible. To distinguish between what is real and what | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| attention, take it seriously. Also, do not be gullible. Realize that tests must come for you to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| reason to discard it. If faith were a gullible lack of discrimination, then of course the intelligent | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| faith. For you do not want to be gullible, you do not want to be stupid, you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| vision. But this is by no means being gullible or unintelligent. Quite the opposite is true. We | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you lived without doubt, you would indeed be gullible. That would fit into the category of the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| doubting because they do not wish to appear gullible in the eyes of others never doubt their | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| too distrustful in the wrong place and/or too gullible in the wrong place. So, my beloved friends | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Habit.......................82 | |
| Taking spiritual nourishment has to become a regular habit, for it is possible that you get accustomed | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| do not understand. Humanity has fallen into the habit of calling events or phenomena that it does | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you can change yourself. This requires the new habit of seeing yourself clearly, without any false motives | 21 THE FALL |
| proper time is really nothing else but a habit that has to be formed. So if you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| it. It does take training, and forming the habit of observing yourself from this point of view | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| see that it becomes second nature, a good habit without which you would not and should not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| just say words that have also become a habit, and that, though they are good words as | 36 PRAYER |
| subconscious that you cannot get rid of the habit from one day to the next. Breaking the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| from one day to the next. Breaking the habit requires a great deal of training, concentration, and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| great deal of training, concentration, and effort. New habit patterns have to be established until you recognize | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the relationship which seems to evaporate the more habit and familiarity with one another sets in. You | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the pitfall of becoming bound by time and habit, because elusive eros has disappeared. With sex it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| You reach a certain state of familiarity and habit and you think you know the other. It | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| though it may have some very pleasant features. Habit is a great temptress, pulling one toward sluggishness | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| in clear-cut, simple words? Try to make a habit of such self-questioning, my friends. Take all your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| superficial, without any personal importance for you -- habit and your surroundings have influenced you to maintain | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| so that the entity will benefit by this habit in future incarnations. I will retire into my | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the danger of self-deception, they have ignored their habit of using the many layers of consciousness to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| After some years this became very much a habit. Some time ago, when I asked you about | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| good because there is a rigidity and a habit in such prayer and that we should try | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it will benefit only those who develop the habit of questioning the significance of their various emotional | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and free. You are so conditioned to the habit of going through life concentrating on the apparent | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be any single important action or constant pattern, habit or inclination in us that has exclusively healthy | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is a great step forward. Yet, through long habit, your soul forces are geared to function in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| constant recognition of these reactions before a new habit pattern is created. Yes, to some degree a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and feelings that cause provocation will weaken the habit of provocation sufficiently until you finally will cease | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to speak. After many years of constantly repeated habit patterns, these inner habit patterns are established. When | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| years of constantly repeated habit patterns, these inner habit patterns are established. When not constantly watched and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not mean that remnants of the same old habit patterns do not remain. They have to be | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because it takes considerable time for a new habit to form in your emotional reactions, but also | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| for a cure, but if you form a habit of taking them, you will be damaged in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and observation are constantly interrupted by your ingrained habit of hiding, moralizing, and justifying. You may succeed | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| aware of in order to take on the habit of looking, seeing, and trying to understand while | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| stage, while he outwardly still clings to old habit patterns; patterns he adopted in a former stage | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is already beyond it. The mind is habit-forming. Habit is an intrinsic quality of the mind. Experience | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will you fall into the trap of set habit patterns; of clinging to old concepts and ideas | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is in you now, you free yourself of habit patterns that hold you back from productive living | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the same, it is being. Is it not habit that made such deep grooves into your mind | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| experience turned into a rigid image? Isn't it habit that causes you to stick to misconceptions, wrong | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| from doing himself. Yet, in spite of this habit in prayer, he begins to face himself. Only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| give us some information about the power of habit in a person, again in relation to role-playing | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| relation to role-playing? Could a person assume a habit and then have difficulty shedding it because it | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| difficulty shedding it because it has become a habit, even though he recognizes the harm? ANSWER: Whenever | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| he recognizes the harm? ANSWER: Whenever an inner habit, a habit of attitude is difficult to shed | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the harm? ANSWER: Whenever an inner habit, a habit of attitude is difficult to shed, it would | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| explain this away by saying it is a habit. A habit is easily shed if the attitude | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| away by saying it is a habit. A habit is easily shed if the attitude in question | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| unconsciously holds onto it because one feels the habit is a protection, a solution, a necessity. Once | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| one will then be able to shed the habit. The first step in such a case is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| on the unconscious belief that you need this habit. Thereupon you can go further and find out | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| or unwillingness at the thought of shedding the habit, in spite of also desiring to do so | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it to be an inevitable law, happening through habit, or other circumstances. But it would not have | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| revert back to the shame out of long-standing habit! But once you pay attention to it and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| The moment you become aware of this old habit pattern, you have a way out -- and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out -- and little by little a new habit pattern will be formed. Nothing seems to require | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| facing fear impossible. When you reverse the old habit pattern of blaming others and circumventing what you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| needed to survive. But if it becomes a habit, it is extremely harmful. When something alive is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| But something else in you is bound by habit patterns and does not know yet how else | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| or her own inner powers, but the old habit pattern of holding back is so firmly rooted | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| to do with you. It is merely a habit you cannot shed as long as you are | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| belief is deeply ingrained. You must break the habit of negative expectation over and over. You will | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| using all its knowledge and resources. Observe this habit of self-beating, hopelessness, and capitulation in yourself and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| an unhappy situation? Once you take on the habit of first questioning your hidden wrong assumptions and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| stuck in the old rut of reacting from habit and easily justifying it. You indulge in compulsive | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| immediate thought process is always available and your habit of thinking can be changed quite easily to | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| expend to establish order. In the process, new habit patterns are formed; you deal instantly with what | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| and its ingrained negativity. Let go of the habit and let God. Let in new attitudes, new | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| this stage you need to acquire a new habit pattern. It takes time. Perhaps when you are | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| do you reach the state where a new habit pattern is instituted, where the act of self-surrender | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to everything that occurs is overcome; a new habit has been formed so that the divine process | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| are just too lazy and too resistant by habit to deal with the real situation. Then it | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the temptation to hide, as well as the habit of doing so, are strong obstacles; so are | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beginning of your path you still had the habit of indulging considerably in daydreaming. Perhaps even without | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| shrink back. This is not simply an old habit. It is the result of still being committed | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| feel now when you blindly revert, out of habit, to outdated reactions toward yourself and your environment | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in an unthinking attitude, adhering to a blind habit that does not make sense, that fails to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and is merely repeating an act out of habit, makes a great deal of difference. Politics and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| now, although you do not know it. Your habit of putting effect before cause creates gross misconceptions | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that prevent you from experiencing grace. The automatic habit of this reversed thinking extends to many different | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Transparency is a new way of being, a habit that needs to be cultivated with patience, devotion | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| very contrary to what you usually do. By habit, you put all aggression into the service of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| even more of a sacrifice to shed a habit that stems from your lower self and gives | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |