| Misinterpreted..............23 | |
| Unfortunately, human beings have, sometimes ignorantly, sometimes deliberately, misinterpreted these words -- as they have many others | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Though your yearning for God is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misdirected into wrong channels, it is still | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| mere formula. Acceptance also can be abused and misinterpreted. In its healthy form, acceptance helps to shoulder | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| often the same. Truth can so easily be misinterpreted because the essence of truth is the willingness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| recognition, such a statement might easily be so misinterpreted. But once these insightful levels have been reached | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| have a negative reaction if the story is misinterpreted. False myths will not have a negative effect | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| or other influences, as well as misunderstood and misinterpreted truthful influxes, will take effect only where the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| If you are relatively free of error, of misinterpreted past experience -- that is, images -- you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| understand why and in what way you have misinterpreted the event. Only then will your responses be | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| search in the right direction. The significance of misinterpreted material from the past cannot be stressed enough | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you can begin. All this should not be misinterpreted to mean that you have to reach a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not established on all levels, such nudging is misinterpreted. The accumulated pressure of the need to talk | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| fears is confusion, misconception, illusion. It is these misinterpreted hurts and pains which are responsible for the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| more practical terms, cruelty exists because reality is misinterpreted, which causes the individual to further inactivate the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| unified state of consciousness affords. This longing is misinterpreted by the personality, partly because it is an | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of such a state exists, it is still misinterpreted for yet another reason. When freedom, mastery, unification | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you are special. At the same time, the misinterpreted message from the real self wants you to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| spitefulness. The spite comes from hurts you have misinterpreted; it was originally directed against your parents but | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| This sentence can, like everything else, be easily misinterpreted and distorted. Evil is nothing but the consequence | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is the omnipotence correctly ascribed to God and misinterpreted by the child who has an inner knowledge | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| However, when the inner message of longing is misinterpreted by the negative, greedy, ungiving and demanding personality | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| teachers and channels know this, but many have misinterpreted this event. They believe it will bring geological | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| as you describe it, is very often the misinterpreted desire for the organic, real inner change that | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Misinterpreting.............3 | |
| hurts, as some people want to believe, by misinterpreting spiritual ideas. Quite the contrary. Only by facing | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in the areas of your difficulties, go on misinterpreting reality. You do not perceive what goes on | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| from yourself, and is ultimately a result of misinterpreting reality. You cannot interpret reality accurately as long | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Misinterprets...............3 | |
| therefore your happiness is not important. Another illusion misinterprets the right to individuality; it claims that you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| blindness and false modesty does not understand. It misinterprets this benign voice that invites it to follow | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| center. It is not only the child who misinterprets what happens around it. Where the child has | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| Misjudged...................3 | |
| as bearers of light when they are not misjudged, denied, and split off from their divine origin | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the enormous difference between the hurt of being misjudged when you do not lose your being from | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| with the attitude of being rejected, hurt and misjudged. When you listen for the truth you will | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Mislead.....................3 | |
| can or should be made. That would only mislead you and tempt you to seek the solution | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is so desperately urgent. Instead of letting this mislead you into assuming that this proves the absence | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is a difficult one because it may easily mislead childish, self-centered, falsely selfish, separating personalities, who may | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Misleading..................26 | |
| this sort. That could be very dangerous and misleading. It can only be found by individual work | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| pinpoint the cause so easily. Generalizations may be misleading. Each case is different. In one instance, it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and feeling forms on yourself, it would be misleading to say that they cause hardship for you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| fact. But judging this fact alone may be misleading because you ignore what led to this insult | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of readymade opinions and generalizations. They are very misleading. The assumption that the person who loves animals | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| individual. You may again fall back into the misleading, shallow comfort of false religion. If you develop | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your defense mechanism, but this is a very misleading conclusion. Immature emotions earned you punishment as a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| any rule I could pronounce, would be very misleading. But I can describe the emotional experience of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have found it. This may be very misleading and may encourage false self-sacrifice, defeatism, and self-destructiveness | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| hearing a few words. That would only be misleading. Were you to ask someone who speaks a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| ANSWER: My dear friend, it would be very misleading to say you can learn it. This is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| ANSWER: Evaluating this is difficult and may be misleading. It may be true that sloth is more | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of wrong translation. The word fear is extremely misleading and damaging. The original meaning is respect or | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| own personal experiences of the past may be misleading because they are conditioned by your patterns, images | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| childish as it may be. It would be misleading to assume that each of these stages I | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| extreme actions, and even then it is often misleading to label them as such. The value of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| merely with your intellect. This may be very misleading. Only extensive work on this subject will reveal | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| process. It demands fierce overcoming of stubborn, easily misleading resistance, and refusal to yield to temptation. There | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| higher self? ANSWER: Yes. Only it might be misleading to believe that the child is necessarily the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| avoided here. To say this would be grossly misleading and would hinder insight. But when fear of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that two different things are connected. This is misleading, for the two are not different in nature | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a recalcitrant child. All this is even more misleading because, as mentioned before, such immature rebellion and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| here. Much of what I say may be misleading, if you do not understand it intuitively and | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| is complete relaxation. The word relaxation could be misleading and I hesitate to use it, but the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| some extent. Once again it can be quite misleading to try to judge whether it is right | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| human terms. They may sound oversimplified and therefore misleading. Of course in our reality there is no | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Misled......................9 | |
| to face the real guilt. Do not be misled by such discoveries. Go on from there. You | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the image-finding know that you must not be misled when you find an unrealistic current hiding behind | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| also important to note that you are often misled in this respect because in your fantasy life | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| approaches are often misunderstood and abused; people are misled into a temporary hopefulness, into temporary success, but | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| no loss at all. Nor will you be misled into believing that you have not progressed. This | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| This is another important point: Do not be misled by limited expectations of possible alternatives. It is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| wish to say that you must not be misled by the fact that you may consciously have | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| punitive attitude. Thus human beings are weakened and misled about their own potentialities. Psychology ignores the important | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| feel the reality of eternal life are equally misled. Recently I spoke of the importance of working | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Mismanagement...............12 | |
| household well. You have allowed disorder, disorganization, and mismanagement to set in. The exactly right and necessary | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| name but one important aspect. Wars, revolutions, and mismanagement of the world's riches are the obvious result | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| question that was asked about fear and the mismanagement of instinct in that regard. Instinct is natural | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| functioning human being. Would you comment on the mismanagement of instinct in that regard? ANSWER: It is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to wander away is a sign of some mismanagement in your inner makeup. Every person needs an | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| factors play a role and bring about this mismanagement. Your further development in that direction will be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| comes from an emotional and/or spiritual disturbance or mismanagement. On both the emotional and spiritual levels, real | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| need is neglected due to inner disorganization and mismanagement of the entire human personality, a false need | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| always have the form of compulsiveness and craving. Mismanagement will make people helpless and dependent on others | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| inner problems. They are not paralyzed by inner mismanagement. The richness of your spirit, of your human | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of a healthy spirit which rebels against the mismanagement of the outer personality. Thus the weight is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is too frightening to admit the imbalance and mismanagement. When sufficient faith is lacking, the false world | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |