| Antagonism..................5 | |
| own causes. It is withdrawal from life, or antagonism against it, due to failure to understand life's | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. In the other instance it will create antagonism because you wish to be accomplished in order | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| No matter how you try to justify your antagonism toward Jesus Christ, you are not in truth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| fear of its coming true inevitably created more antagonism and actual persecution of Jews. So the misconception | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| specific guidance for subsequent reincarnations. For example, the antagonism that generally existed between men and women had | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Antagonistic................4 | |
| are embedded in sexuality, sexuality becomes vicious and antagonistic to spirituality. This is why people acted out | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| separate from others, but that others are essentially antagonistic to its well-being. Everything the ego does is | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| that not only actual infants make egocentric and antagonistic claims to omnipotence. Undeveloped, immature and destructive people | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you perceive life as your enemy, foreign and antagonistic to you, while you are its victim. In | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Antagonize..................5 | |
| effect is the result: they are bound to antagonize people so that these actually do become hostile | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| both negative currents are out, both withdraw or antagonize one another. At still other times, both temporarily | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| or she desperately needs and cannot afford to antagonize. A special temptation strengthens the tendency to forsake | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| feelings must be hidden so as not to antagonize this other person whom you perceive as the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| who wants to depend on them and not antagonize them. Then there must be underneath the desire | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Antichrist..................5 | |
| the occult teachings true that there is an Antichrist incarnated now? ANSWER: Oh no, oh no! Definitely | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not, if by this is meant one particular Antichrist. Of course, all spirits who come from the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| light of goodness, love and truth is an Antichrist. In that sense, yes. They are still that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there is no particular, single, incarnation representing the Antichrist. QUESTION: So the idea that existed for a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| existed for a time that Hitler was the Antichrist is wrong. ANSWER: It is entirely wrong. Hitler | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Anticipate..................5 | |
| running through your life -- you have to anticipate coming across inner misconceptions that will first give | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the subtle climate which causes you to assume, anticipate, and therefore either fight in an unproductive way | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not compatible with your real nature, because you anticipate that this foreign body is the final answer | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| in contact with people -- you at least anticipate rejection and discrimination, slight and disapproval. Very often | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| up the season behind us, it will also anticipate the work in our next season together. An | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Anticipated.................3 | |
| have had this experience, my friends. When you anticipated a certain event, how many times did you | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the peak is reached, the downside will be anticipated. On the unified plane of consciousness, because there | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| proves not as difficult or dangerous as first anticipated. In fact, the relief and liberation, the coming | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Anti-life...................6 | |
| would be the connection, similarities, and differences between anti-life force and the abuse of the life force | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The abuse of the life force is the anti-life force. It brings anti-life force in its wake | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| life force is the anti-life force. It brings anti-life force in its wake. It is merely a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is strong, it is a product of the anti-life force; if the life instinct is small, if | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| two tendencies which are the life and the anti-life directions. They can also be called the direction | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| my way, and my way is so often anti-life, anti- God. Self-will resists truth, love, union -- | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Antisocial..................12 | |
| none of you would ever consider committing an antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you are faced | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| average human being does not commit crimes or antisocial acts, partly because he or she realizes that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| will be found in the person who commits antisocial acts. The mildest form may not even be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| kind of behavior that self-willed, primitive, undeveloped or antisocial people display. It does not mean living in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| if the idealized self-image is predominantly rebellious and antisocial, because the rebelling minority also represents rules, but | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outlet. Sometimes such outlets take the form of antisocial acts. Then the criminality is an outlet to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| self- centered and excluding. Hence, it cannot be antisocial. It is only antisocial and excluding if the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Hence, it cannot be antisocial. It is only antisocial and excluding if the adult manifests his or | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a way appropriate for a child. Children are antisocial, self- centered, and therefore excluding. Emotions that remain | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| out, but the activating forces remain hostile and antisocial? In that case you will inevitably get into | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| with this kind of blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions and attitudes must be | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| distinction between good and evil, between social and antisocial behavior, between constructive and destructive acts. This was | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Antithetical................4 | |
| In former times, sexuality and spirituality were considered antithetical. It was not known that true spiritual union | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that produces these tight, untrusting, insisting attitudes is antithetical to divine consciousness. An imbalance of trust is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| love on your part. Love and must are antithetical. Forcing does not allow freedom to the other | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in which others can participate. Secrets are always antithetical to relationship, to intimacy, to real and fulfilling | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Anxieties...................17 | |
| refer to faults and weaknesses but also to anxieties and unhealthy currents -- the more the person | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| grip of your ego with its fears and anxieties, you cannot live in the present. You sometimes | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| will succeed. Thus you will uncover your hidden anxieties and complexes which are responsible for your disease | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| utmost importance and relates directly to your hidden anxieties. This is the only way your problems can | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| further along toward liberation from their fears and anxieties. QUESTION: Do animals killed for the purpose of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| despise yourself. It will reduce certain fears and anxieties, especially when dealing with other people. Your fear | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all represent a form of personal | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| finding it. You wish to have your fears, anxieties and uncertainties assuaged from the outside. But if | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yet, ventured onto this path, think about your anxieties and your insecurities and realize in what ways | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| clearly that what renders you most unhappy: your anxieties, your worries, your self-dislike, your insecurities, your discontent | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Under the category of fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions. The ego's trick is to make | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| suffering. You may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to other | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| be surprised to learn how many of your anxieties and tensions you had ascribed to insolubly deep | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| life because you want to shut out your anxieties and fears, my son. And you need not | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| will help you to feel and explore your anxieties. The anxiety you produce by denying your anxiety | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| guide you. This will free you of the anxieties so that you can be calm. It is | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| dualistic state with all its painful strains and anxieties. Denied fear creates more fear. Denied longing and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Anxiety.....................223 | |
| do not want to give love, out of anxiety and over-sensitivity, then you must also inwardly reckon | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| understand right away what this choice implies. Selfishness, anxiety, oversensitivity and pride have won out. When as | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| positive divine influence -- and the greater their anxiety will grow. In their ignorance, they will violate | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| is greater than any self-delusion, wishful thinking, or anxiety. This has to be done through objective self-analysis | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| people, including you, my friends, harbor thoughts of anxiety, and if not thoughts of hate, then of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| all. You will not be gripped by anger, anxiety, or hostility. You will live more and more | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| there is some desire connected with the future. Anxiety comes from the wrong type of desire. If | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| responsible for your disease. Most of it is anxiety or fear. This is true of almost all | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| time you feel an unpleasant emotion like anger, anxiety, or resentment -- and your days are often | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you see and feel them is through unhappiness, anxiety, and puzzlement over many apparently inexplicable things in | 38 IMAGES |
| The mystery of such unreasonable reactions and the anxiety connected with them will present difficulties that cannot | 38 IMAGES |
| that what made you tense with fear and anxiety was as illusory as this abyss. So I | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| fears in your soul, to the frustration and anxiety you cannot quite understand and for which you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you may feel all tense and full of anxiety. If you analyze these feelings, you will discover | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| such as a certain shame, a kind of anxiety or a reaction, may give you an acute | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| doubtful. The inner will is certain, knowing neither anxiety nor doubt. Impatience arises when one doubts the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to wait with calmness. Hence impatience, doubt, and anxiety are closely linked. Since the inner will knows | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| about itself. Confusion creates doubt; doubt impatience; impatience anxiety and tension. In addition to this chain reaction | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a poor substitute. It is full of tension, anxiety, and impatience. Since it cannot function, it brings | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| therefore you will suffer correspondingly less tension and anxiety. Incidentally, another misconception or illusion, which is largely | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| not hindered by the pressure and tension and anxiety of the soul. If you analyze it you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| felt, is accompanied by such feelings as tension, anxiety, inner pressure -- all of which are based | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you. The next layer might be anger, resentment, anxiety, frustration. Behind all these reactions you will find | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a healthy growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are also those who tolerate | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| feel ill at ease, guilty, tense, full of anxiety or impatience. In other words, even if for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| have either manifest problems, or inner feelings of anxiety or disharmony. Then check out what your motives | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| full of inner unrest and unhappiness, guilt, and anxiety that you never know about, because he may | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| forcing current. It creates constant struggle, tension, and anxiety. The more unaware you are of it, the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| or untruth, there must be constant uncertainty, tension, anxiety, struggle, and doubt. A part of you deeply | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| it by seeing the degree of frustration and anxiety an unfulfillment creates in us. ANSWER: Yes, that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| change, bringing losses and unknown factors that create anxiety in you. All these seem to block the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to some degree, in hours of depression and anxiety, that even though your intellectual memory retained what | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| shame, fear of exposure, secretiveness, tension, strain, guilt, anxiety. It will take some progress in this work | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of the particular idealized self, they cause additional anxiety, in that the idealized self will be exposed | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your ideals will not throw you into depression, anxiety, and guilt, but will rather strengthen you. You | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| impossibility. When you have a feeling of acute anxiety and depression, consider the fact that your idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by life. Recognize the self-contempt that underlies the anxiety or depression. When you are compulsively angry at | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is painful at first, because the emotions of anxiety, frustration, guilt, shame, and so on, have to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will develop instead, and produce an even greater anxiety. Why people have these compulsions again cannot be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the personality also becomes self-centered. Self-centeredness brings frustration, anxiety, tension, compulsion, guilt and insecurity, to name but | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| going through the process feels acute insecurity and anxiety when called upon to give up the pseudo-solutions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| in the personality of the parents. This creates anxiety. The child sense an atmosphere of danger. In | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| stunting of creative forces, which in turn cause anxiety and frustration, among other feelings. Since both instincts | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are ashamed and therefore hide it produces strain, anxiety, pretense, and fear of exposure. What makes this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and with a very different understanding. The acute anxiety and fear that you occasionally experience will be | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| do not realize that strain, tiredness, and vague anxiety result from repressed emotions. Mostly, they are unaware | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| resolution of intent. In this way resentment, guilt, anxiety, animosity, and other negative emotions will rise to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of and that are connected with guilt and anxiety. But you will find that not all resentments | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| musts I have discussed. It shows in the anxiety and the guilts when these compulsions are not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |