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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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