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 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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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

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