| Innocence...................6 | |
| considerations, the person has a deep purity and innocence that has nothing to do with the words | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| that has nothing to do with the words innocence and purity as used by bigoted religionists. The | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| by bigoted religionists. The person who has this innocence and purity adopts the childlike attitude Jesus recommended | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you. You no longer depend on proving your innocence. You see and know the truth. The clear | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and close to others. Your stake in your innocence prevents intimacy. Again, you cannot feel right. Most | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in one who has regained the state of innocence through the laborious descent and simultaneous ascent of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Innocent....................22 | |
| those other times and now, when he is innocent, he is forced to pay. The more obstinate | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| soul, as do some contacts, no matter how innocent they may appear. Yet here, too, nothing should | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the decision of a few, many who seem innocent have to suffer a heavy fate. To this | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| are not deliberately dishonest. Nevertheless, an untrue thought, innocent and in good faith as it may be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| toward life, you will believe you are an innocent victim; you will feel persecuted and unjustly treated | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a deliberate lie. Nevertheless, an untrue thought, as innocent and in good faith as it may be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| bring hope and security. It eliminates feeling an innocent victim of circumstances beyond your control. By understanding | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| find that you are not as right and innocent as you thought, nor as wrong as you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| involved here that does not make you an innocent victim, that does not make you helpless to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the instincts. The instincts are simple and innocent in themselves; your destructiveness is always a result | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is just that way. You are never an innocent victim, and society itself is but the sum | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| It is never good. You are never that innocent, nor are others that villainous. But, on the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| this. They would rather see themselves as helpless, innocent victims and experience all the suffering and hopelessness | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you eventually shed the illusion of being an innocent victim and avail yourself of the key to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| instead of blaming some fate that befalls the innocent you, is a key to finding the next | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| cling to the illusion that you are an innocent victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| known this and is now established as the innocent victim. If you admit your similar unfair demands | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| that the suffering person is seen as an innocent victim. The call for self-responsibility is still confused | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| life of which you form a part. The innocent state of being can exist in purity only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| motives for your submission by pretending you are innocent and good, your only fault being that you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of selfish reasons, or it may really be innocent ignorance, if there is such a thing. But | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| nevertheless, on the level of manifestation, much more innocent than man, who has a consciousness that gives | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Inordinate..................5 | |
| is nothing but the reverse side of the inordinate pride of the idealized self- image that cannot | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| from certain negative instincts or feelings causes an inordinate fear. The more you fear your imperfections, the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| unfulfilled need. Offhand, you may say that an inordinate need for approval is in itself unreal. This | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| say, in the form of encouragement. If an inordinate, and therefore unreal, need for approval exists, that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| try to understand what I am saying. Man's inordinate fear of suffering is utterly unrealistic, and again | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Inordinately................7 | |
| the one hand you accuse them and are inordinately hurt by them because you do not understand | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| affection. Or if your need for approval is inordinately strong, it is in proportion to your disapproval | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| But, my friends, think about it: pain is inordinately feared only when one does not know where | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| this is based on a wrong conclusion. You inordinately fear something that has no existence. Nothing true | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| cannot grasp or touch and, because of that, inordinately fear. In this way you breed more terror | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| cope with lack of fulfillment, which makes you inordinately frightened of it. So the vicious circle continues | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| accept and deal with feelings whose force you inordinately feared and denied. At other times you had | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Inorganic...................6 | |
| have used your mind and will in an inorganic, unnatural way, it becomes necessary to remove that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| there is a very small amount of life. Inorganic life would be closest to that state of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| stopping of breathing and pulsebeat through some artificial, inorganic means. Again, I would like to point out | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| every living thing in the universe, organic or inorganic -- is permeated with this power and intelligence | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| to change a course that leads to an inorganic and futile life experience. I have discussed for | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| occurs in contraction and fear, it is an inorganic manifestation, even though it is organic in relation | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Input.......................4 | |
| they are taking full responsibility for their own input, it is correct; but when they say it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that impacts it from the outside that outer input is simply cut off. Thus healthy intercommunication cannot | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| answered by this lecture. The assimilation of any input from outside depends on the impressionability of the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your community is a result of combined constructive input; honest investment and commitment; thoughts, intentions and actions | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Inquiry.....................3 | |
| all the little hurts and disadvantages? A searching inquiry is not being pessimistic, my friends, nor negative | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| with your reasoning faculties, you blindly reject rational inquiry. The rejection is not so much a reaction | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| special temptation strengthens the tendency to forsake independent inquiry and the forming of one's own concepts in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Inroad......................4 | |
| you choose to do so, make a deep inroad into your innermost self. Use it, explore it | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and a different angle, so that finally an inroad can be made that leads to an emotional | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the fear, you will have made an important inroad. You will also see that by tensing up | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| understand that, you will have made a substantial inroad toward transforming the hostility and freeing the energy | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Inroads.....................4 | |
| this is obvious before you have made sufficient inroads and have cultivated self-awareness. Then it becomes abundantly | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Those of you who have made these initial inroads to awareness of the negative desires must be | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| tediousness may have existed. This approach will make inroads into the creativity of the soul of each | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| itself in practical ways. We have made many inroads through various channels, various types of divine influx | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Insane......................6 | |
| these words. Let me also say this: An insane person will have fears the sane person does | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| discourage contempt and arrogance. Until only very recently insane people were considered the same as criminals. And | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| among human beings. That would be the completely insane person, the one who has to be put | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| applies to the total personality, except for the insane. Most people have many areas where they do | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| left to its own devices. Every criminal or insane person bears witness to this fact, and everyone | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feelings of rage and bitterness about what seems insane to resist and oppose -- is in a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Insanity....................15 | |
| attitude culminates, the person will be predisposed to insanity. This is one of the basic reasons for | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| This is one of the basic reasons for insanity. I do not say it is the only | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| I might add that all other conditions creating insanity are, to some degree at least, connected with | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| wish that this truth about the background of insanity would be more fully recognized in your world | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| life to learn just that but do not, insanity will finally result. The principle of insanity is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| not, insanity will finally result. The principle of insanity is the same as that of the mild | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| forms. One of the more crass forms is insanity, where the ego is completely disabled. In less | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| unpleasure, may lead to unhealthy ego liberation and insanity, since the liberated ego is unsupported by anything | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or by life is utter folly. It is insanity to believe that any unhappiness can accrue from | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| highly dangerous and is just a variation of insanity. For insanity itself is the attempt of the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and is just a variation of insanity. For insanity itself is the attempt of the ego to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| The price you pay for avoiding is literally insanity. However, if you confront what you would rather | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in which human beings' failings, poverty, illness, and insanity were chalked up against them. They were ostracized | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| more sanity. Imbalance, on the mental level, means insanity, which again can be only temporary, leading eventually | 228 BALANCE |
| may fear that it is a symptom of insanity to rile against what life is known to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |