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at the bottom of such a nucleus? What needs have grown disproportionately strong due to denial and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
being. Nor are you quite conscious of your needs and their rightful place in your life. Hence 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
do not know why this is so. Your needs are now less fulfilled than before, but since 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
into which you shift all the feelings and needs. It does not suffice to be generally aware 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
mate. You have to specifically recognize that several needs are embedded in this expression. For instance, apart 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
need for ego- gratification. All these are legitimate needs, provided they are not overgrown and one is 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
reason found. Even where all these various partnership needs interact in a healthy way, the entire nucleus 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in a healthy way, the entire nucleus of needs might be blindly shifted into another outlet, if 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
are ignored in a temporary phase. All these needs might be fulfilled to a certain degree in 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
supposed to furnish you with all the unfulfilled needs of the missing mate, you must become overintense 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
yet found the clarity to acknowledge your real needs without imagining dire consequences and creating false guilt 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
find yourself more frustrated than before, the respective needs are left without any outlet. Unconsciously, you seek 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
channel. Again, it is important to recognize various needs connected with this one issue of vocational self-expression 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
should not cause guilt. By not acknowledging these needs you will displace them onto a relationship or 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
negative emotions. Then examine and deeply ponder the needs which lie behind the activity or relationship. It 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you feel you ought not to have these needs, and whether or not they are distorted due 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
the sooner can fulfillment occur. However, unfulfillment of needs does not hurt half as much as believing 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
much as believing, consciously or unconsciously, that frustrated needs are necessarily painful. This is one of the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
is one of the predominant reasons for repressing needs -- believing that thereby they will cease to 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
thereby they will cease to exist. By repressing needs, the imagined pain of frustration is supposed to 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
the point of view under discussion. Acknowledging your needs -- even though you may not yet be 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
be able to distinguish between distorted and healthy needs and emotional attitudes -- but acknowledging them for 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
recognized in its full significance and detail. Displaced needs are transferred just as one might displace, or 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
The identical mechanism works with displaced feelings and needs. Are there any questions now? QUESTION: I have 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
love and be loved? Doesn't self-forgetting create stronger needs which may be frustrated? Does this not mean 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
not bring more pain than isolation. Fulfilling one's needs only partially does not make them more stringent 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
welcome it. If you are unaware of your needs or their intensity because you have displaced them 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
around you who are supposed to fulfill your needs. Using this key is nowhere near an insurmountable 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
possible to utilize it. Becoming aware of your needs and their original direction and force directly leads 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
the lack of awareness of real and specific needs; (2) the extent and urgency of such needs 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
needs; (2) the extent and urgency of such needs; (3) the frequent lack of awareness of specifically 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
of specifically who is supposed to fulfill the needs and in what particular way, since all the 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
unwillingness, of the other person to satisfy your needs to the full extent. Because you do not 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
from what you wish at present. Your blind needs issue blind, unconscious demands which are often quite 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
may relinquish your demands. No longer displacing your needs will generally mature you sufficiently to be able 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
long as lack of awareness of one's own needs creates excessive one-sided demands, disappointment and fear must 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
mood will so often yield information about unconscious needs and demands, either your own or those of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
you persist in blinding yourself to your real needs, to your demands that come from the childish 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
in others, at least as far as your needs are concerned, can you come to terms with 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
is no longer a threat and no longer needs to be fled so your life instinct will 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
and excuses outside yourself to hedge what most needs to be tackled. This applies to practically all 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
is not an easy topic to understand. It needs more than a searching for understanding with your 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
mind, which, in itself, will accomplish little. It needs the keener understanding of your being, which can 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
If you look at your desires, fears, and needs, your apprehensions and reactions -- right or wrong 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
formulation of previously vague feelings is invaluable and needs to be learned in the early stages of 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
novelties. Nothing unfeasible is required to discover what needs to be discovered for living a meaningful life 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
believe that what you now find suffices and needs no further attention; rather, it has to be 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
follows this advice. Again, I emphasize, no one needs to blindly accept my word for it. You 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
to be in contact with it. All it needs is your awareness of its existence and your 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
are always a result of attitudes. Sometimes one needs merely to concentrate on one's attitudes, and harmonious 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
how to use the fine, sensitive directives one needs to contribute with one's knowing, at the right 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
clutch tightly because you are driven by blind needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions, reactions 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
apparently right and wrong emotions, feelings, reactions, drives, needs, expressions. Fear of being comprises all of this 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
Now, are there any questions? QUESTION: My daughter needs a little guidance and further help. Last summer 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
I have discussed in the past but which needs to be discussed again in this context. When 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
unaware of its confusions. Then all this material needs to be expressed. In order to succeed in 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
inner vessel is filled with unclear substance that needs to be emptied out, constant interaction between impressing 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
use of the material according to the momentary needs of your psyche. You try to use the 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
fear something that has no existence. Nothing true needs ever be feared in such a way. Wherever 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
are an actuality, reach everything in you that needs to be activated in order to find yourself 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
dark, fearfully half-trusting, half- distrusting, thrown between one's needs and one's fears. Love and self-confidence are inevitably 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
you to sense the other's vulnerability and human needs. The other's strengths and weaknesses become distorted and 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
outer God has arisen -- a God who needs to be implored and appeased. Finding the true 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
with the inner self, so it does what needs to be done. When you realize this, it 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
intent to unguardedly reveal yourself to yourself; nothing needs to be hidden, feared, avoided. And to those 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
demonstrated with the following example. Each human being needs and wants love. When a proper balance of 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
The more resourceful you become in formulating your needs where you wish for the inner center to 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
you realize that no situation in your life needs to remain unresolved, unhappy, or frightening -- that 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
help you to go the way within that needs to be trod. May it help you to 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
a relationship. Since they experience only their own needs and desires, and since they believe only they 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
need life to move always according to your needs, or rather your imagined needs. You then become 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
according to your needs, or rather your imagined needs. You then become resentful of those who prohibit 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
state expands infinitely. It never repeats and never needs an opposing motion. It has transcended the principle 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
going into it, relinquishing the insistence that it needs to be feared and therefore avoided. When you 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
receiving from it. Then no good you desire needs to have a shadow side. At that time 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
the point you need to find, which also needs to be fully recognized, accepted, and understood. But 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
be dangerous, hostile, a force against which one needs to defend. This defense must exclude all attitudes 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
yourself without infringing upon other people's rights or needs. Quite the contrary, your best will contribute to 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
people the individual believes he or she desperately needs and cannot afford to antagonize. A special temptation 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
for others' approval requires humility. The courage one needs can be attained only when humility exists. You 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
blind spots. Perhaps they persist in overlooking what needs most to be faced as they overconcentrate on 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
need confirmation or reassurance by others. Any unreal needs have an addictive quality; the more one needs 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
needs have an addictive quality; the more one needs them, the stronger unhealthy striving becomes and the 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
used to it, the more one thinks one needs it. When you go into the moment, ask 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
can muster at all times. But the effort needs to be expended for the sake of seeing 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
quite correctly so, that a human being's unfulfilled needs to receive create damaging conditions in the psyche 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
Just as the body becomes thwarted when its needs are not fulfilled and it is not given 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
so the human soul becomes thwarted when its needs are not fulfilled and it is deprived of 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
the helpless child depends on receiving all its needs from others; however, far too little emphasis has 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
force or authority for all your wants and needs. Because of this distortion of the facts, you 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
they are sublimated. Other, more or less compulsive, needs come into existence. All the while you are 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
yourself and to others as though your wishes, needs, and demands on others are not only justified 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
from a fresh, new approach. However, every problem needs examining as if it had never existed and 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
it. QUESTION: What if one doubts that one's needs are justified? Isn't it also a question of 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
neglect to go into themselves to face what needs to be faced and change what needs to 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
what needs to be faced and change what needs to be changed. At the same time, how 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
precarious sort of satisfaction when they feed the needs of their destructive demands. Usually people overlook, or 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
while a person violates his or her spiritual needs for growth -- for total feelings of love 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
with life and death. Both are good; neither needs be feared or fought against. The more other 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
only on the superimposed levels of falseness, neurotic needs, and destructively selfish and exploitative demands that hinder 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
truth, and love, so that it no longer needs to secrete deadening stuff. This principle is very 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
there is no point on which the path needs to stop -- for anyone. The expansion of 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
all relationships. This is so self-evident, it hardly needs further elaboration. Since you blame others, they must 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
creation of a universe. If what is created needs to be constructive, fruitful, joyful, and pleasurable, these 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
it. This may be so subtle that it needs close scrutiny to bring it out into the 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
the latter attitude becomes the lever the person needs to open the locked gate. For example, a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
is necessary to attain what she or he needs and wants. The helplessness and the feeling of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
path becomes a self-perpetuating reality, producing its own needs and messages, if you are attuned to it 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
works toward a state of self-consciousness. This state needs structure to protect it from the chaos of 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
will come easily from your real nature, which needs no concealment. When you re-create, formulate your sentences 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
this, and more exists within you already, and needs only to be allowed to surface like the 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
it is threatening to hate the person one needs and depends on. Love is possible only when 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
importance. You will see something about yourself that needs clarification, so that switching tracks will become easier 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
this indicates some unrecognized weakness and fear that needs to be faced. If a relationship is dissolved 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
receive from life, to facing and changing what needs to be faced and changed, and unless you 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
and positive expression, very often the destructive side needs a good cause in order to find an 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
on the revelation of the egotistic infant, one needs to ask constantly the guidance of the universal 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
you discover your most destructive, ignorant side, which needs insight, purification, and change. Through your willingness to 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
patiently without doubting or impatiently pushing. This waiting needs an open attitude about the way the help 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
because human negativity is a stagnant mass that needs to be shaken up in order to be 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
are not aware of their longing or their needs. With their sensibilities dulled they suffer only indirectly 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up. Fluid consciousness and energy 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
of one another and by expressing your innermost needs to one another, as true brothers and sisters 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
that is not yet integrated into the whole needs to be unified and synthesized into one harmonious 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
find closed doors to realizing their talents, their needs, their selves. So-called laziness may be one manifestation 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
able to feel it! 192. REAL AND FALSE NEEDS Greetings to all of you, my friends. Blessings 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
ago on the topic of real and false needs. This lecture is also an organic sequence, a 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
deals with the topic of real and false needs. Since then, many of you have encountered your 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
fully experienced before, you also came across the needs you had as a child whose unfulfillment caused 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
painful element is the unfulfillment of your legitimate needs as a child. As I discussed in the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
the earlier lecture, the negation of your real needs creates your false needs. This is tremendously important 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
negation of your real needs creates your false needs. This is tremendously important to observe. What are 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
is tremendously important to observe. What are real needs and what are false needs? In the first 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
What are real needs and what are false needs? In the first place, whatever is real at 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
Let us take a specific example. A child needs to be taken care of, needs solely to 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
A child needs to be taken care of, needs solely to receive care, nursing, good feelings, attention 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
and appreciation of its own uniqueness. If these needs are not fulfilled, the child must suffer. If 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
unfelt, or only half experienced, the more false needs will fill the personality which then is bound 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
connections I make here. What are the real needs of an adult? They are self-expression, growth, development 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
way or another, connected with a perpetuation of needs once real, which have now become false needs 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
needs once real, which have now become false needs. The perpetuation of false needs creates any number 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
now become false needs. The perpetuation of false needs creates any number of destructive conditions within the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
within the soul of a person. Since these needs can never be fulfilled, continuous frustration and emptiness 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
focus. Only when resistance to recognizing the false needs is vigorously overcome can all this be reversed 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
vigorously overcome can all this be reversed. Real needs never require others to comply and give it 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
be loved. But this confusion between the two needs is quite frequent. As long as you believe 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
your present real need will be fulfilled. Legitimate needs can be fulfilled only to the degree you 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
that you discover and give up the false needs that have accrued from denying the pain of 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
which it is perpetuated, pursued, and justified. Unreal needs are demands made upon others. Unreal needs can 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
Unreal needs are demands made upon others. Unreal needs can never be fulfilled. It is an unreal 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
yet unrecognized territory within yourself where the false needs and the unexperienced residual feelings create a destructive 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
must remain lonely and unfulfilled in your real needs now -- thereby perpetuating the old wounds of 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
by the spiritual self by discarding the false needs, a wonderful force is awakened. This plea is 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
result of this very distortion of pursuing false needs and insisting on their fulfillment. This mechanism seems 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
find the truth where your non- recognized, legitimate needs as a child created fear and pain which 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS

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