| Articulate..................18 | |
| like. Why should I sacrifice? If you can articulate this inner doubt, my dear ones, that is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a time. Learn first to establish a concise, articulate awareness of your desires. Then we will examine | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| by learning to make your emotions conscious and articulate, you will understand deeper layers of your being | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the creative life force, or one can deliberately articulate the direction in which one wants the creative | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this enemy is first to ascertain, admit, and articulate it. This approach will diminish fear to a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| am more. Of course, these thoughts are not articulate, but they may not be altogether unconscious. Distorted | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ways. Now, obviously, the first necessity is concise, articulate awareness, for otherwise you will unconsciously respond in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| being placed on you. Only then can you articulate and pinpoint it. In a relationship that is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| undesirable, destructive way, or become frozen and stagnant. Articulate clearly the insight that these ugly traits, whatever | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| distinction. The moment you identify, observe, and clearly articulate your destructive aspects, you have found your real | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of awakening, when you can acknowledge, observe, and articulate what you do not like; when you can | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be frightened by it. This capacity to observe, articulate, evaluate, and choose the best possible attitudes for | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| over and over again to identify, observe, and articulate what I do not like, without being identified | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a past one. Not that this belief is articulate. If it were, you would be nearer to | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the word -- is not necessarily conscious or articulate or vocal. So my friends, take care with | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| each lecture and its sequence spell out an articulate message the spirit world is sending to you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| understanding of marriage and use this knowledge to articulate your longing. This is always the first step | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| love, attention or understanding. If this awareness were articulate in the child, it would be a relatively | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Articulated.................5 | |
| aspire to, whether or not this aim is articulated, if you bypass this confrontation. This approach includes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Even though such thoughts are hardly ever actually articulated, for they are senseless, many individuals unwittingly build | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the negative attitude. These must be very clearly articulated in your consciousness. Some of you still battle | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| in a longing, a striving that is not articulated or in actual instructions and words. Your path | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| been attained. The feeling is, if it were articulated: How can life -- God -- be so | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Articulation................3 | |
| the capabilities you need. Clear-cut, concise formulation and articulation of what you wish, in what way you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and integration. Meditation functions here as a constant articulation of what was previously unarticulated. It is a | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| A critical aspect of this work is the articulation of these ideas. And yet, how often all | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Artificial..................79 | |
| a good, genuine color or an unreal, sweetly artificial coloring. You even have created a word for | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| in that sense can never be induced by artificial means. And only a person who has experienced | 18 FREE WILL |
| the subconscious, neither can it be reproduced by artificial means. That would be completely senseless, illogical, and | 18 FREE WILL |
| same person masks the true faults and invents artificial guilts to divulge? ANSWER: That happens. You see | 31 SHAME |
| real failings can be atoned for by the artificial and over-demanding conscience; in reality no one needs | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| compulsive in the same sense as your second, artificial conscience. For what lives in the individual always | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| case of seeking the wrong remedy. For such artificial means, sought in ignorance, will eventually cause a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that you forcefully straighten them in an unrelaxed, artificial way. Observe all that as you would closely | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| very different effect on your personality than the artificial manipulation, even if the goal is the same | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the deviations and basic false premises. In an artificial manipulation you prevent your soul from growing in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is important to understand the implications of the artificial manipulation of your feelings, either making them bigger | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| prohibit your real feelings from functioning and substitute artificial ones, you cannot know them, and therefore you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| negative emotions on your genuine feelings. You produce artificial feelings because you are under the impression that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are supposed to feel. You cultivate these artificial feelings for a long time, until they become | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you produces impatience. It causes you to assume artificial attitudes and emotions. Since neither this desirable world | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You see, my friend, you constantly manufacture an artificial strength, using compulsive elements to build it up | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unsatisfactory and damaging attempts to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped attempts bring you so much | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the self-confidence established through the idealized self is artificial, the result cannot possibly be what was expected | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| day you will be that self. But this artificial squeezing-into-something-you-are-not process can never attain genuine self-improvement, self-purification | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of your real being; nevertheless, it remains an artificial construction. The more you invest your energies, your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| keep in mind that such serenity may be artificial, if actually, unconsciously, you are seething with strong | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a sign of repression. It may be either artificial or genuine. The very first step in growth | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not labor to find this phenomenon by an artificial and intellectual process. Yet, be aware that it | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| can first give up the false, distorted, superimposed, artificial needs, and then you can go about doing | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| QUESTION: How do you determine which is an artificial need and which is a natural need? ANSWER | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and healthy need has been starved and the artificial one has taken its place. The fact that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| needs, as everybody does, and a number of artificial, or false needs. They may not even be | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| these layers are not your real self, but artificial traits you have cultivated for so long that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| form in your emotional life? Do they seem artificial, robot-like, lacking the complexity of the human personality | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the early impressions of the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive love and honor, you are even further | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| attitudes that are not to your liking is artificial and can never bring genuine liberation. A person | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it is not a natural, spontaneous process, but artificial and compulsive. But this natural concern and warmth | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| firm foundations, without any falsity? To talk about artificial faith and hope as if they were genuine | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a healthy robustness and resiliency is always an artificial and unconsciously deliberate process. Once you understand this | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| The false remedy, in this case, is an artificial, protective wall, set up to prevent constant heavy | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you have glimpsed that all unhealthy reactions are artificial. They are much more difficult to keep going | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| would free the life-force. It is an unnecessary artificial creation instilling an unrealistically distorted view of oneself | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| however, if there are taboos, fears, and an artificial separation of instinctual drives. Their existence prohibits the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of these early feelings. Then layers of destructive, artificial emotions cover up the basic condition. In this | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the apparent helplessness of self-surrender by exerting an artificial and unhealthy control, she becomes even more helpless | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to fully grown selfhood and an insistence on artificial infancy. This carefully nurtured parasitical state prevents liberation | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the true life -- not by following forced, artificial, superimposed commands from the intellect, but the spontaneous | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| deny this fact. The denial comes from the artificial holding together of one's inner forces, and from | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| nevertheless attempted under a misunderstanding, it becomes an artificial manipulative act that can lead only to self-deception | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| suffering may all be dramatized and clung to. Artificial feelings, both positive and negative, serve to alleviate | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and all are the result of false feelings. Artificial production of positive and negative feelings are both | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| split off from their divine origin in an artificial duality that presupposes they are evil and regards | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a result of -- and results in -- artificial intensity, which is, half- consciously, deliberately cultivated and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| breathing can only exist when there is no artificial intensity in the system. The indentation of soul | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| taut and immovable, no matter how frantic the artificial movements may be. The movement is an outer | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| extremely important to comprehend, for it explains how artificial levels are created. These artificial levels do not | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| it explains how artificial levels are created. These artificial levels do not exclusively result from misconceptions in | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of the solar plexus, rather than the volitional, artificial thought processes people use when overemphasizing the intellect | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| deliberate stopping of breathing and pulsebeat through some artificial, inorganic means. Again, I would like to point | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| deny the anxiety, nor force it away by artificial means. But you must be prepared that your | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| form of alcoholism, drug addiction, and all the artificial ways of obtaining relief from an overtense ego | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| be quite impossible. If it were attempted through artificial means, or by mechanical means, such an attempt | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| organic process. Negative creating and destructive attitudes are artificial and contrived, even though you are now so | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to be good. The blindness, compulsion, and the artificial concept of life that accompany this forcing create | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| entities. Here, too, the separation is an arbitrary, artificial construct of the mind, as it were. In | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that is alienated from your core and therefore artificial and more painful than the original experience it | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| feelings will inadvertently lead you to manufacture an artificial doubt about the safety of the process. Together | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of the process. Together with this comes an artificial illusion that going in can be avoided and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| self can be deciphered and admitted, the manipulative, artificial hopelessness -- which is always unbearable -- will | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Such guilt may find its outlet in an artificial, unjustified guilt as I have explained many years | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is -- without denial or exaggeration, without imposing artificial interpretations on the event. Then no misconceptions, no | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| pride. It maintains its separateness by creating an artificial conflict between the self and others. It says | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| human being? You may try all sorts of artificial ways to instill self-confidence in yourself, but it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| sign that the anxiety was overcome through an artificial deadening process. This path cannot skip the step | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| very unsatisfactory results. The person may resort to artificial stimulants, and then sexuality becomes even more split | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| will contain a new aliveness that the old artificial fullness of your mind made impossible. In fact | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| defense. You had killed your aliveness with this artificial fullness. So you became needier because without your | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| -- a limited aspect. You have created artifacts, artificial thought-splits that confuse your mind. They are as | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of strife and upheaval, natural as well as artificial, expressed this conflict between the seemingly divergent interests | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| begin to see how untrue this is. Such artificial divisions burden your soul substance, your inner consciousness | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of everything you think. You may adopt an artificial brittle security that is not built on sound | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of your mind. This entire turmoil is an artificial creation. Be that as it may, you again | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| into a controversial figure, but by eliminating the artificial, erroneous controversy that is based on human limitation | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of these weaknesses are inherent. They are unnecessary artificial constructions due to a false attitude and ignorance | 254 SURRENDER |