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| two principles might be visualized as the primary motivating cosmic forces of the human entity. It all | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fate. While distrust caused by fear is the motivating force, the ego simultaneously uses the distrust as | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self, giving up something that is the primary motivating force of this ego seems like self-annihilation, and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| or not. This striving is in itself the motivating force to grow, to search, to move, to | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| obstruction. This requires, as you all know, a motivating force. For you constantly fluctuate in a battle | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
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| is the remedy. It is a very important motivation that has not been generally recognized by humankind | 18 FREE WILL |
| these questions, you can begin to redirect your motivation in consciousness and the inner willpower can flow | 18 FREE WILL |
| namely the desire to become happy, enters your motivation a little bit at the beginning of your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and selfish aims are also present in your motivation. These lower aims find justification in the higher | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| say that whenever a person says this, the motivation must be a basic dishonesty. There is no | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| situation is to find out what the unconscious motivation is. Do you have anything particular in mind | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This is not only because part of the motivation for the desired result may be so immature | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| want it? Beware of the error that one motivation necessarily excludes another. You know this is not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you lack. This particular confusion and lack of motivation is directly responsible for unfulfillment or lack of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| person has inner unresolved conflicts and problems, the motivation for such withdrawal will be unconscious and negative | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and in their resistance to reexamine the true motivation for their tenacity in holding on to certain | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it is not true, but also because the motivation for accepting it is fear. The more we | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life only in order to avoid death. This motivation is negative and negates the life force itself | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| premise is the main governing force of your motivation for perfection, any discovery of where you fall | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| but rather of quality. That is, the original motivation is different in these two selves. This will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| contradictions, the cause-and- effect sequences, the difference in motivation will gradually become clear to you. Another important | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| action merely because you have discovered a negative motivation or a destructive impulse inverted into a forceful | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will perhaps sense the difference in inner motivation between the urge for development because you use | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand that? QUESTION: In the form of a motivation? ANSWER: Yes. And in the form of using | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the way they were, and what was their motivation for much you could never understand, comprehension will | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| on so many circumstances. It depends on the motivation, on the kind of feelings you do have | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| But, generally, I may say that if the motivation is sincere and if feelings of affection, respect | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| made in such a case as to the motivation in both people. This cannot be quickly and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is concerned, that too depends on the real motivation. If variety is sought hastily, compulsively, due predominantly | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| long as you have not understood your hidden motivation for embracing the cause you are still compelled | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| one thing without being divided in attention and motivation. There is rarely a full commitment in anything | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| accord with reality. You are not split in motivation and in desire. But in areas where you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| unfulfilled because you have overlooked the shift in motivation. This is an all-important key. Don't overlook either | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a healthy wish exists simultaneously with the distorted motivation. Once you put your finger on the fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| choose restraint willingly, with alert reasoning and constructive motivation, the freer you become. It is not, as | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| harmony, and there is no trace of destructive motivation in the remotest recesses of your personality. What | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| a minority group. A blind, unquestioning, emotionally colored motivation, which outwardly seems courageously defiant, may be tainted | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to defend yourself against possible negative experience, your motivation is negative. Negative motivation does not necessarily imply | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| possible negative experience, your motivation is negative. Negative motivation does not necessarily imply a destructive intent. For | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| a destructive intent. For that matter, a positive motivation in this context could also mean a very | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| The avoidance of a feared possibility implies negative motivation. Upon close examination of your mental and emotional | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| do something to eliminate that fear. Thus negative motivation comes about. You live a makeshift life of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the cause of this split of desire and motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your pride squarely | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of your intelligence. But perhaps an even greater motivation for keeping your secret beliefs in the haze | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| may again be valid in itself, but the motivation behind it may come from dependent, self-alienating trends | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| three is equally important, for without it the motivation to change is lacking. However, step three is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| formed with other motives, or else the original motivation of mutuality was given up when it could | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| This will give you an additional impetus and motivation to want to feel the old, yet unexperienced | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| light of this lecture. You will find greater motivation to request guidance so that your stagnating parts | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| thoughts, judgments, and opinions because of an underlying motivation and intention. Perhaps these can be faced with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| loving state of being, you will have no motivation to attain it, no incentive to overcome the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| must be undesirable. Your guilt for this hidden motivation will be a shield standing between you and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| too, will give you light, incentive and greater motivation to put all of your conscious being into | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| give people an entirely different outlook, approach and motivation in whatever they are doing. A politician who | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| personal problems which may have been your initial motivation to come here, as far as your conscious | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in the body or outside the body. The motivation for believing in immortality plays a tremendous role | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| all your faculties and observe objectively, without personal motivation. Check whether you may want to see the | 254 SURRENDER |
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| the resistance to accepting the greater reality. Both motivations can exist simultaneously in the same person. Faith | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| - even if it is coated with higher motivations -- you must be in constant fear that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| dependency on yourself. If you understand your inner motivations and how they have actually brought you more | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| rebellion. Both react immaturely and ignorantly. The inner motivations of the law-upholder described here are rooted in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| who is governed by healthy, conscious and mature motivations based on strength, not weakness. Please, my friends | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| minding it, because you will now understand the motivations and be able to sympathize. You will recognize | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the superconscious memory, but is distorted by wrong motivations, by misunderstood basic principles, and by unrealistic approaches | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| outer actions, while ignoring and neglecting the inner motivations and reactions, thereby being a prey to his | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and compulsion, no matter how right one's conscious motivations may be. This will cause the development to | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| best in you, not only due to wrong motivations, but also because it is, or seems to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the escape into a pseudo-religion out of weak motivations. This lack of discrimination has serious consequences for | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it so is, of course, due to negative motivations. However, you will experience a great joy and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| right actions but leave out the inner unconscious motivations which exist in addition to the conscious and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| utterly honest with yourself and acknowledge your hidden motivations and feelings, you will then understand why other | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Now you can see how you ascribe different motivations to the other person's provocation than to your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| peace, be in God. 74. CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is confused and your life-goal muddled with mixed motivations, is where you will find the troublesome area | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in a particular personal relationship. Check your real motivations behind the conscious ones. Check whether or not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the moment you recognize your lack of clear-cut motivations, or the presence of destructive ones, you will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| believe you ought to want. Keep such established motivations conscious and clearly defined, working toward their goals | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not see the other, only your own obvious motivations, which may even be good in themselves but | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| aware only of the surface of your own motivations, and therefore do not entirely understand either them | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| yourself, you cannot understand the other person's real motivations which are so different in manifestation from your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| self-analysis and inner growth through understanding the unconscious motivations and reactions. QUESTION: How can you find out | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| ever commit an act of unfaithfulness, but the motivations for faithfulness may be just as unhealthy and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| be just as unhealthy and immature as the motivations which lead a person into unfaithfulness. Outer faithfulness | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| how do we determine the outer and inner motivations? You cannot do so unless you gain a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| as opposed to mature and conscious searching. Many motivations may exist that can explain such behavior; we | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and conflicts and therefore be abused by negative motivations. Hence, it would lead to oversimplification to stick | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find, out of untruth, the truth that strengthens. Motivations of actions, as well as desires and ambitions | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with a maximum of self-honesty. The outer, conscious motivations may be true, but keep in mind that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that they are not necessarily the only existing motivations. Find those which slumber underground. Take them out | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsions, drives and a good part of your motivations are to a large extent the result of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of their constructive purpose, while ignoring the false motivations beneath. After some exploration in the right direction | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions, as well as the existence of additional motivations, which may be childish, unrealistic and unproductive. At | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine attitudes, desires and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Instead you will assume genuine attitudes, desires and motivations. These words will make sense to all of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In fact, these two are often interacting. False motivations cause impatience. The strong, often unconscious, desire to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in that way. ANSWER: Yes. And also the motivations which are not fully recognized. There are some | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| recognized. There are some unrealistic, immature and distorted motivations, in addition to the conscious valid ones. These | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| addition to the conscious valid ones. These unrecognized motivations are not bad or wicked or sinful, they | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| logic, as the inner child always is. These motivations do not go to the essence of the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| before you really penetrated the hidden regions and motivations of your soul forces, all these inner actions | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you are driven by your unconscious reactions and motivations. Once you fully see and understand what is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| between several alternatives. By stripping away any superimposed motivations, at the core you are bound to find | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| people's motives. Deeply sensing the untruth of their motivations, they despise themselves for it. Moreover, the superimposed | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| truth, or when it does not. One's own motivations furnish the real answer to this question. If | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| lesson. If, on the other hand, the main motivations are truly and genuinely more constructive than destructive | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| urge for independence. However much the underlying emotional motivations may be similar -- fear of getting hurt | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| perfection; when you understand the falseness of your motivations; when you see the pride and the pretense | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the surface and caused by the sickest motivations. QUESTION: I understand. But how can we go | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| is based on the real self. The underlying motivations and emotional forces at work indicate that. In | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| according to these moral standards out of new motivations, desires, and reasons. And this will have an | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in your self-accounting you have discovered that negative motivations, moralizing, and the idealized self happen to want | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what are the destructive effects? Ask yourself the motivations of this ideal picture, which might very well | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| else responsible for your present uncertainty. Investigate the motivations, both healthy and unhealthy, and ask yourself why | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and unhealthy. You will find that, partly, your motivations in wanting something that in itself was perfectly | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| other hand, you will find that the healthy motivations you did not allow to function were put | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| so that both the healthy and the unhealthy motivations contributed to the unfulfillment, or the failure. You | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| their contradictions, their blindness, their often conflicting, mixed motivations? Does the person you may have feared and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| actions and reactions, your thoughts and feelings, your motivations, your soul and spirit. It means the psychological | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| outwardly in the right way, but inwardly the motivations may be selfish, vain, unloving, and cowardly. One | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of your mind and your misdirected will and motivations, you indirectly bring about the birth of the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| prayer! He meditates by looking at his real motivations; by allowing his actual feelings to come to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the other, then it is healthy. Often, both motivations exist. But even in the former case, there | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the inner self, a confusion about one's own motivations, about the significance of one's reactions. In other | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| The soul is the unconscious mind. The unconscious motivations, attitudes, driving forces, and inclinations are from the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| inner standards. When such is the case, destructive motivations, even though they may be quite conscious, will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| accept defeat, by well-defined aims with healthy underlying motivations, by being concerned with an issue itself rather | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| taken is right and constructive. The inner conditions, motivations and the underlying unification of the psyche make | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| would also advise that you examine your unconscious motivations with respect to this question. You might have | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you from choosing death out of negative, destructive motivations. This strengthens the stamina to try and try | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and exact awareness of your problems, confusions, split motivations, and limitations is necessary, as well as your | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| means full integrity, direct purpose, no evasions, uncovered motivations, doing the thing for its own sake, without | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| see how you want the positive for negative motivations, you will be able to accept the rich | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| -- refuses to reach for it, for whatever motivations and reasons. If you persist in denying the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| nonsensical premise. This false struggle not only concerns motivations -- energy currents going in conflicting directions -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| other people's opinions. After the honest examination of motivations one cannot help realizing that simple opportunism plays | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| while they lack concentration, are divided in their motivations and desires and deceive themselves on the other | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the inevitable frustration that results from these divided motivations. Here you have a good illustration of the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| victimized and can set out to investigate the motivations, convictions and assumptions that create the split in | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| listening mechanisms in order to discern your hidden motivations for whatever you do. Your goodwill and your | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| on how it manifests, what the true underlying motivations are. Desire must exist in the human heart | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you doubt others -- rather than your own motivations, distortions and opinions, your subjective judgments and negativities | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| be clear and undistorted by childish or destructive motivations. When this is the case, your intuition will | 254 SURRENDER |