| without uncertainties, feeling at ease with life and people. QUESTION: If the hypnotist has to be free | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| this facet of your personality, especially toward certain people. You may already surmise that the connection between | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of your personality is gravely thwarted. Just as people often ignore the difference between love and sentimental | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a few exceptions. And, unfortunately, in these exceptions people have learned to control their thought process at | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of how much progress you have made. Some people may search and work with a strong outer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| life. Therefore, it is exceedingly difficult for other people, no matter how well they know you, to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| before. But even that can be deceptive, for people are often quite shrewd in deceiving even themselves | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of effort into another direction. For instance, some people put a great deal of effort into some | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the only difference between these two types of people is that the person who searches in the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| longer feel it an injustice that undeveloped, selfish people seem to have an easy life. You will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| come your way, just as it befalls other people. This may be the product of a problem | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| shine, to be better than others, to impress people, to be important. Somehow this seems less shameful | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| yourself. The substitution can assume various other forms. People may have to agree with you, to follow | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| with public opinion or the opinion of certain people, or what you think their opinion is -- | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| before -- is part of this conflict. Many people have a little of each of these tendencies | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| coming to the fore with other kinds of people. There are many more substitute trends for the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| struggle contributes strongly to the adverse result of people not loving you, whereas you could be loved | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| way. Why should it matter so much that people admire your intelligence, or your success, or whatever | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| may not necessarily desire the love of the people you want to be approved by; there may | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to you freely. First you will allow other people to not love you if they so choose | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in the last analysis you want to force people to love you. And forced love is no | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your consciousness. Thus you first have to let people free by permitting them not to love you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| emotions. If you translate your emotional reactions to people, you will see that it amounts to that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| for yourself. Your love will function only if people do right by you, at best. This means | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You expect to be so well understood that people love you in spite of your shortcomings and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| undisturbed also in the realization that not all people love you to the degree and in the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child in you would demand. When some people do not love you, or even disapprove of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| admonition. With rigidity, the inner meaning gets lost. People follow through blindly and simply take the Sabbath | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| minimum effort, maximum effect can be had. Many people belong to this category, and not only those | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subtler ways in which this can be done. People in the other category say that ritual means | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of thinking any more freely and independently than people of the other category. Ritual in itself has | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are thus deluded. According to the distorted God-image, people feel that God requires them to be unhappy | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human beings are. Actually, this is endearing, but people, in their distortion, are ashamed as much of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel it an injustice to see undeveloped, selfish people seem to have an easy life. You will | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| One aspect of immaturity and separateness is that people always think the other person's happiness is greater | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one does not wish to be loved. Some people have withdrawn so far and found a temporary | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| with a different understanding. You will see that people who emanate genuine warmth, who are outgoing and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of, and agreed with. On the other hand, people who withdraw in fear from love -- and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| me. And you will think of many other people to whom it very obviously does apply. Be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| predicament, you have an unreal picture of other people, since you are tempted to increase their value | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Hence, you do not see the quality of people or of occurrences in reality. Last, but not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can bring. When a relationship is ambivalent between people, they tend to create daydreams that fulfill their | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| What is intelligence other than perceiving reality? Some people may have great intelligence -- and where it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and therefore removed from reality. The difficulty with people who are intelligent is, to a large degree | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| realize where they are in unreality. But then, people of little intelligence also are unaware of their | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you may find it easier to succeed. Many people have to try various approaches until they find | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| theoretically. You must actually experience the fear. Most people who do not wish to know themselves are | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| steps is acquiring the ability to allow other people to feel about you as they wish. If | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you will trust yourself, your judgment, and other people. In not overestimating them, due to your forcing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your inner life. It may be that certain people do not feel about you as you would | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that one creates one's life and fate. Second, people who have not attained such power would feel | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| This very flexibility appears as a threat to people. They want the fixed pseudo-safety of a stone | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that is alive, it must be flexible. So people fear truth and light and life. The belief | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fear of the unknown. On the one hand, people need the strong authority who upholds the fixed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to anything. Of course, it often happens that people make a virtue out of a fault. Those | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| by wishing that things were different and that people would learn to practice mature love. The remedy | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| children, if you have any, or to other people in your environment -- so that a benign | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| inner behavior which we shall now consider. All people, including even those few who have started to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| present difficulties and problems, because only very few people experience personally -- and not just recognize in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| recognize the similarities between your parents and the people who have caused you hurt or are causing | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| admit defeat. It goes without saying that many people are not even aware of any pain, past | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| they have not become aware of it. Many people are afraid of this pain and like to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it to be remedied from the outside. Such people are in a way nearer to the solution | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| It must always be emphasized, however, that many people are not aware that they do expect it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in your not seeing and perceiving reality and people around you. In order to remedy the situation | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| desired harmony and balance. It is done because people prefer to think of their strengths rather than | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| other person. You go through life resenting other people because they do not respond to your outer | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| affects the subconscious of the other. So often, people feel unjustly treated when they know their actions | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and feelings, you will then understand why other people react to you as they do and you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you solve this conflict, your awareness of other people will increase. As yet, you are so unaware | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are so unaware of the reality of other people. On the one hand you accuse them and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so humiliating that they prefer to be angry | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| each one of you. Blessed is this hour. People in this country have just celebrated the day | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are. If this truth were realized, many more people would try harder. All suffering comes from ignorance | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| an actual outer happening apparently caused by other people, try to find out how you are confused | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of injustice, which may be conscious in some people but is perhaps unconscious in most. When we | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| them. That is not difficult. QUESTION: When two people are involved in an outer manifestation, and it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the ills of the world. In unawareness, two people will set up a vicious circle operating from | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to establish a benign circle between the two people involved. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the entire universe. When there is conflict between people, strong energies clash. In this particular respect, each | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| partner usually elicits a very strong reaction in people. Your emotions become full of self-pity: Poor little | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in education would be the unifying quality. Young people should be shown the truth that there is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and dissolution of the personal conflicts in young people. Where the personality is more robust, due to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| creative forces will flow much freer. In such people, the natural attitude will be to grow from | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| when truth did not come through among certain people. It was taught and it spread, but as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| truth penetrates a little deeper and among more people whose souls are evolved enough to yearn for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that the truth is understood by many more people today than a few hundred years ago, or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| with an individual. You may ask why certain people are outwardly so successful, while they are really | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not where you see it. Even though many people may be adherents of that church, there are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| not successful. At the same time, the few people who concentrate on the teachings of truth without | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| efforts and understanding of a handful of such people are more important for universal success in its | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| success in its real sense than thousands of people going to a church. Be blessed, all of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and misconceptions. Then you find union with all people. You feel, experience, and think in an entirely | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| moment is also felt by millions of other people. It was felt by millions in the past | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| negative, joyful or painful -- have existed and people have experienced them. That you seem to produce | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| but you will experience and feel them differently. People are so afraid of change. But you have | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| existing confusion. Often the greatest difficulty is that people are not even aware of being afraid. When | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| everyone, if normal, understands that, but emotionally many people do not. They say life has its rainy | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| responsibilities, such as the responsibility to protect weaker people physically and emotionally. You can recognize an emotionally | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| with a different slant. I know that many people are afraid that they pray out of mere | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia in general for all | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| ANSWER: What causes insomnia in general for all people? The cause of insomnia is usually a fear | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| sleep very well may have other symptoms. Older people often have insomnia because, approaching the time they | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| more uneasy because less time remains available. Younger people may subconsciously tell themselves that they may still | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the time comes, the less this is possible. People may not realize this fear consciously at all | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| It is an entirely different matter that older people do not require as much sleep, but that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| found that has sometimes been distorted by well-meaning people who thought that the birth of Christ would | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| suffering and use it for purification, too. Many people are ready with the excuse that they cannot | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| leaders and teachers had a perfectly easy life, people would say, This way it is easy. He | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| right. QUESTION: If there is a danger that people might think somebody who has an easy life | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| life includes and what should be accepted. Many people reject different things, even good things, either out | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has a different concept of this word. What people usually are most emotional about concerns the prejudice | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| mature person will not hook in. But most people, in one form or another, are so insecure | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is another element: Again, you all know that people have resistance to finding out truth about themselves | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| for your pushing ahead, trying to force life, people, and circumstances to succumb to your will, to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| way. There is another attitude, often chosen when people are more inclined to be hopeless of ever | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is the result: they are bound to antagonize people so that these actually do become hostile to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have so often called withdrawal. In this case, people are convinced of never attaining happiness, and this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| before that all three aspects exist in most people in some combination and this creates additional conflicts | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| this creates additional conflicts in the soul. If people resort to several means, hoping to be guarded | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| according to your wishes. You will not believe people are good or bad, neither depending on them | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| And you will also see the weaknesses of people, without being personally threatened, and without generalizing this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| we want to nurse our resentments for certain people and that's why we seek their faults? What | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| guide you in the stream of life. All people on this earth who have found ways of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| emotions which are bound to affect your environment. People who live with this attitude will tackle any | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their way in an entirely different spirit than people who still ascribe certain happenings to a fate | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain happenings to a fate outside their control. People understanding and living according to this truth will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Some of you, my friends, have experienced that people in your environment suddenly began to react differently | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a change of position of the person himself. People can produce, manufacture and do things with their | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more developed, if my teachings were presented to people who are far away from such thinking, such | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to you can have such a result. If people are unwilling to apply it personally, in the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| partly true. Without recognizing their own negative tendencies people would gain an acute perception of other people's | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be handled with care and responsibility. If people are inwardly ignorant, it is better not to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we can always keep in mind that other people or schools of thought think of something different | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Yes, exactly. COMMENT: It would seem that people are not capable of creating an image of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the proof that, in spite of this commandment, people have made an image of God and it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an attitude of trying to please the very people whose acceptance you crave. In doing so, you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on this earth plane does not exist. Some people have a vague idea of union, and in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a different form in a primitive society where people organize their own communication with nature and the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| proceeds further and the community increases in size, people have to organize communication with their fellow creatures | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| communication with their fellow creatures accordingly. The better people get along with each other through proper cooperation | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| human race that this truth is ignored. If people were taught to understand this truth your world | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| so must it be returned unto you. When people truly learn this, a change always occurs in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a shell of isolation, or who aggressively antagonizes people, shows an unhealthy, uncaring, false independence that comes | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| referring to something else. You spoke of two people needing each other in a wrong way. One | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is the place of myth in religion? ANSWER: People do not understand what myth really means. For | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| something else would stand in the way. Often, people are so bound by their allegiances and loyalties | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in the psychological problems, in the false safeguards people have built for themselves, and in their resistance | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as this state prevails among the majority of people responsible for achieving unification, their inner obstacles will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |