| Misdirect...................3 | |
| you do not realize it. Why? Because you misdirect your power into the wrong channels and it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is the whole misunderstanding. Many people on earth misdirect their sexual forces and therefore think that sexuality | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| regions where it has no jurisdiction. You thus misdirect the will faculties of your outer ego. Those | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| Misdirected.................12 | |
| yearning for God is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misdirected into wrong channels, it is still there. It | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| better by renouncing the world, then you are misdirected in two ways: God is really a substitute | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| not love yourself properly you do overcompensate by misdirected self-love. QUESTION: What about narcissism? ANSWER: That is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| with, in both sexes, but become harmful when misdirected. Do you understand? Does that make sense to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The driving force to still the hunger is misdirected. Real, legitimate needs can be satisfied only with | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| confusion and error of your mind and your misdirected will and motivations, you indirectly bring about the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are merely going around in circles. Undirected or misdirected methods of self-confrontation often bring this about. In | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one be capable of withstanding the onslaught of misdirected responses. The person then refuses to represent one | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| response. This must finally bring the one who misdirected his stream of consciousness to the recognition that | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is capable of realizing that this striving is misdirected does not alter the fact of its existence | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of what emotions are held back with a misdirected emphasis. How does this apply to the present | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| spiritual life. However, it is often abused and misdirected and therefore it is seen as an obstacle | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Miserable...................12 | |
| tear the person apart, so that they feel miserable and utterly lost. Those who are already on | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| who wish to get out of the self-created miserable circumstances. Since life in spirit is in direct | 21 THE FALL |
| you. It is fear that makes you so miserable, the same fear that makes you blind to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| phantom thoughts and soul-forms that make your life miserable. In your intellect you may know all I | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| suffer, how unfairly I am treated, how absolutely miserable everything is. Or conversely, Look how bad I | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| everyone's fault but my own that I am miserable. The feeling of unacceptability cannot cease as long | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his helper, whom he also punishes by his miserable state and from whom he expects magic cure | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| what you deserve because you are such a miserable creature -- but rather in the attitude of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| daring to jump. The individual is very, very miserable in this state, but still believes that the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| go on willfully ignoring how you create this miserable state yourself, because it suits you better to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| power to take over. This makes your life miserable and hopeless. You then busily deny your sense | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| from flowing to the next heart. In this miserable state, you believe that all you need to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Miseries....................6 | |
| the result of the Fall with all its miseries and hatreds. Splitting is separation from God, and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the world, or fate, or God for their miseries will, at least during the time of prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| your conflicting desires are responsible for your outer miseries and unfulfillments. The latter are a logical result | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| it. You see, my dear ones, all the miseries on this earth, the real problems such as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and shame due to provoking unhappiness and collecting miseries is the mother of all guilt and shame | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| death. Even if we remove many of life's miseries as unnecessary, as created out of confusion, physical | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Miserly.....................3 | |
| Do not hold yourself apart! Do not be miserly with your feelings! You are wrong; you sin | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| who consciously deny a superior Creator, makes them miserly with their own fulfillment. But this is not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| will regulate your expression -- not in a miserly, self-centered, vain way, not due to lack of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Misery......................73 | |
| beings? Being all-knowing, He must have realized that misery could result from it. This is indeed an | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| could so decide with this free will that misery could come into existence, either permanently or temporarily | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| be more godlike than ever before. The temporary misery for those who might decide wrongly is nothing | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| bliss and happiness of eternity after the self-inflicted misery has been experienced. The scales show this so | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| greater the distance from God, the more the misery, for only in God and with God lies | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and with God lies happiness. But through this misery arises a stronger incentive to return to God | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| not only one sphere of dire darkness and misery. As there are many gradations in the divine | 22 SALVATION |
| they do not have to live in dire misery either. It depends on so many considerations, my | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| child will go through untold and quite unnecessary misery. In later life other conflicts will come up | 38 IMAGES |
| God. Otherwise you could never emerge from the misery of the lower, darker planes of consciousness. Only | 38 IMAGES |
| knowing it and will continue to create untold misery for you, counteracting your conscious wishes. Indeed, your | 38 IMAGES |
| being hurt. Realize that this causes all your misery. This excessive fear makes you behave like a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the feeling of injustice or sadness, defiance or misery. Just turn your attention to your own inner | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| undeniable fact that you yourself have produced the misery, and that will wake you up and make | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not the other one's, keeps you in your misery about a real or imagined injustice. True, something | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the, the more you approach them through the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| them through the misery the deviation inflicts. This misery will cause you to turn around at one | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| where they realize that they themselves determine their misery or bliss. This is the love in the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| twisted emotions that have brought you nothing but misery, are supposed to be better for you than | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| voluntarily, you will give up provoking unhappiness and misery. It is not easy to come to the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| beings. One person may provoke unhappiness and collect misery to a high degree, while another may express | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| find it necessary to damage yourself by inviting misery. But how few people are capable of doing | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| nothing. To give up your Utopia seems dire misery. The world becomes bleak and hopeless with no | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and wrong attitudes which result in bringing more misery than you would have without such evasion and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of death. It can often feel like bleak misery, and in that sense seems like death to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unwanted pain, and fully understanding that the self-produced misery is of therapeutic value. Here again, a right | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of these fantastic demands and engulfs you in misery. This misery may at times be conscious but | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| fantastic demands and engulfs you in misery. This misery may at times be conscious but most of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your soul that has brought you much unnecessary misery and frustration. Are there any questions now? QUESTION | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| helplessness, weakness, self-pity, of being subjected to the misery of life. If you feel impoverished, if your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the very least of mind. There is no misery. In the state of being there is no | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| In the state of being there is no misery. Misery, however, will exist as you grow into | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the state of being there is no misery. Misery, however, will exist as you grow into the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that mind, intellect, and will cause suffering and misery, but using them when they should not be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a hindrance and a direct cause of your misery and confusion, where it prevents the creative process | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| ways, keeps you from understanding that which causes misery in your life. The misery is always self-produced | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that which causes misery in your life. The misery is always self-produced; it never comes from outside | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and floating with the universal love-current. The ensuing misery is due not only to the outer emptiness | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| yourself. You may acknowledge accountability for your own misery in theory, but when it comes to practical | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| perhaps, the greatest factor responsible for all the misery human beings have managed to afflict on themselves | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very same No has brought much destructiveness and misery, and I do not allow it to rule | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| magic and be able to accept the self-produced misery instead of cringing from it. And let us | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| perish even if the most feared event happens. Misery is never caused by the feared event itself | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the struggle against what is now produces greater misery than the event itself. If none of these | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| event and not your attitude that produces the misery. Being in contact with the life force is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| that this foreign body is denied causes more misery than the admission of its existence. People feel | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| whether the foreign substance causing you so much misery is really the ultimate you, and whether you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| danger of continual evasion and therefore of continual misery, the assertion of the following statement will help | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you are furthermore aware that this causes you misery, and yet are unable and unwilling to give | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| honest contact with another person. The separateness causes misery, because it reflects the separateness between the outer | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| everyone else and the whole world for your misery. The ambivalence is that while you feel, I | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what I mean. You will then comprehend the misery in your soul forces when you grasp on | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you are doing. Perhaps you moan about the misery of life because this or that has happened | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| narrow confines. I also discussed how negativity creates misery and yet how fascination with the creative process | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| we live in happiness or unhappiness, fulfillment or misery. This basic metaphysical concept may seem acceptable in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| them, but they are not responsible for your misery. Your insistence that they are is a profound | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| insistence on blaming life or others for your misery. There must be some area in which you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| change and grow out of negativity, destructiveness, hopelessness, misery and poverty, that the universe is abundant joy | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| become good parents out of guilt, using your misery as a weapon against them. Negative intentionality is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| life as a whole -- responsible for your misery. This brings further chain reactions. This inner state | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that it keeps you cowering in repression and misery, nor belittle it. Allow yourself to feel the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| want to punish my parents by my own misery and spite and non-giving, or, I do not | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| they seem to be the cause for your misery. You convince yourself quite successfully of this because | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| compounded guilt caused by punishing others for your misery, must erode your strength and your self-expression. It | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you feel even more inferior and unlovable. Your misery seems a just punishment rather than a choice | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| bad and of being the cause of your misery. This is how people are hooked together in | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of Where am I at fault in my misery? How have I caused it? How have others | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| yourself and then blame the world for your misery. This is where most of you are now | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| how you make the world responsible for your misery instead of connecting your misery with this or | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| responsible for your misery instead of connecting your misery with this or that particular negative attitude in | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| still fail to make the connection between the misery you experience, the dissatisfactions and the frustrations you | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| create circumstances around you that seem to justify misery and darkness, but you must have been courting | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| darkness, but you must have been courting that misery and darkness. To the degree you refuse purification | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |