| I saw in the last few days how people received such shock treatments and it seemed that | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| dream intends to convey is often lost when people diligently but automatically analyze dreams. QUESTION: Why are | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| applies not only to dream interpretation. But most people do not want to know about themselves. They | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| principle, however, there is also confusion. So often people are not clear which principle stands for God | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| trying to deal with the problem. Many religious people who cling to faith out of fear are | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as something dull, sterile, uninteresting. There are many people who believe that the very presence of unhappiness | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| out of the maze. Faced with this confusion, people often resort to religion in any of its | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your state of temporary reality and distorted vision. People have to let go of a truth that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that life has to offer, including death. Some people believe they have risen to genuine acceptance, when | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| These ups and downs indeed indicate that those people are still deeply involved in the illusion of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| spirit in its approach to suffering. Many self-aware people understand that suffering is self-created. Your realization of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| on to posterity, especially those not understood by people because, in humanity's limited understanding, they seemed to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of its seeming so crassly contradictory to what people believed of, and wanted to see in, Jesus | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| was forsaken by God. This has puzzled many people. How could that great spirit doubt and fear | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| known, it is even more certain that other people will do the same when going through hardships | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the dualities. QUESTION: You said one could let people down only by untruthfulness, and not by any | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| truth, I do not mean the little truths people often express in a thoughtless and cruel way | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| stems from the inherent fear of physical death. People want to believe in a physical continuation of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| byproduct, there is also an increase of creativity. People like that begin to experience the reality of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| laws and truth. It is no coincidence that people who go through a successful analysis often come | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| creative abilities be paralyzed. The fact that some people are very creative in spite of tremendous inner | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| accept the unknown. Now, my friends, the many people who outwardly admit this ignorance do not necessarily | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| basic problem. The most significant countermeasure to which people resort in the false belief that it will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| we frequently hear the word schizophrenia applied to people who are psychotic. According to your talk, tonight | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| either of these two alternatives. As long as people are governed mostly by vindictiveness, by hatred, and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the possibility of perpetrating further crimes by such people should be strictly avoided by curtailing their outer | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as a consequence of resorting to wrong solutions, people involve themselves more and more in a vicious | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| experience love. In order to receive love, such people develop several typical personality trends and patterns of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| receive approval, sympathy, help, and love. Unconsciously such people believe that self-assertion and standing up for one's | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| artificially and dishonestly in the last analysis, such people claim an imperfection, a helplessness, a submissiveness that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| become incorporated into the idealized self- image. Thus people succeed in believing that all these trends are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| reaction of aloof criticism and contempt for all people who assert themselves, even for healthy assertiveness and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| him or her from having what less good people attain. The pride of self-sacrificing martyrdom makes it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a more general and less defined attitude toward people in general. Artificially cultivating a toughness that is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| cultivated view of how bad the world and people really are. A person who looks for proof | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-image, and not God, not life, not other people, who demand all that. You will also begin | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| these demands of the self, you need other people to help you cope with these demands. Unconsciously | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| trust and like your own self, what other people think about you will not matter half as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| attributes cannot be combined. Therefore, when submissive, such people feel self-hate, because they think they should be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| instead, and produce an even greater anxiety. Why people have these compulsions again cannot be generalized. I | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| vicious circles. True safety comes from seeing the people you have to deal with, not only in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| act upon them. This is constantly being misunderstood. People often conclude, incorrectly, that to recognize a feeling | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the negative reaction. This holds true particularly with people who do not trust their emotions and intuitions | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| human faculties used in communication. QUESTION: Many times people are reluctant to change something about themselves. It | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| abuse and it is equally doomed to failure. People choose this solution in the unconscious belief that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the superiority over others induce love, for other people resent being made to feel inferior and will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| emotions. Let me give you an example. Submissive people, always ready to appease, to be overly modest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the sacrifice and am so modest about it, people should give me special respect and should love | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| between themselves and others, will they change. Submissive people also feel guilty about these resentments because they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| demands crassly contradicts the general character of such people. Therefore the demands have to be kept under | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| I am not speaking here of crassly disturbed people. Most people fail to connect cause and effect | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not speaking here of crassly disturbed people. Most people fail to connect cause and effect between the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| reactions to the work, to yourself, to the people who help you, to the whole idea as | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| exactly is not clear? QUESTION: I understand that people who are submissive inwardly, for example, may have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| power drive. He has associated with many submissive people who respond favorably to him. This solution, then | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will then become quite submissive. This is how people will try to gratify their needs for safety | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| really are, or are imagined to be, stronger people, but who is ruthlessly domineering toward weaker ones | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| lecture. I specifically said, for instance, that submissive people, as well as those seeking false serenity, may | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| defined as universal truth in picture form. Most people, and even most mythologists, including Frazer, regard all | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friend just read, it also says that these people tried to build the tower so high that | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| quite incongruous with your present inner state. The people in the story attempted this venture out of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an incident occurs where you receive this gratification. People do act according to this desire of yours | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may always encounter contrary opinions from various groups, people, or spirits. In itself it is not even | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instance, the latter may be less afraid of people than the former and therefore love and understand | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| equally wrong to judge that just because certain people do not love animals, they automatically love people | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people do not love animals, they automatically love people more than those who do love animals. There | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person with this particular limitation than other people who have other limitations that you do not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free, self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people act from their own conviction and never from | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| poor imitation of the real qualities. Because such people wish so strongly to avoid the struggle of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| appeased. This can be felt also toward certain people, or it can actually be your concept of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| away. ANSWER: Yes, indeed it will. When more people follow a path of self-recognition, growing and developing | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you fail to convey your message. ANSWER: Such people want only a qualified answer; that is, an | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you wanted, such as the affection of certain people, or a desired object which became unattainable when | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| feel, at the right place, with the right people, and the destructiveness of heedlessly letting go all | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| right aim, the right place, and the right people, of not wanting to use such expression as | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| ask, how about the prophets or other holy people? Were they grown emotionally? Wasn't it just love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| possible. You see, it is very important for people to understand why they occasionally feel hate, while | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Without them, we might not be such good people. It is true, as I have so often | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| personality structures. But this aspect also exists in people who are outwardly very undramatic about themselves. In | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and frustration in a relaxed, constructive way. Mature people can do this because they are in reality | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| form of compulsiveness and craving. Mismanagement will make people helpless and dependent on others to have their | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the world for not supplying the desired approval, people who work on their emotional growth will try | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| has taken on a different meaning for many people. When they use it, they think of self-righteousness | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing that many people rebel against. Genuine goodness, coming out of real | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this effect on others. QUESTION: What about the people who let their emotions guide their lives without | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| In the second place, I never proposed that people should act out their destructive impulses. It is | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| moralizing. I might add here that the very people who fling their immorality into the face of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in the fear and denial of human imperfection, people borrow what was once alive and could again | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this is unfair to the other person. Even people who are not on a path of self- | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| physical reason. ANSWER: This condition applies to many people, indeed. One of the general reasons -- and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| letter of the law has been substituted. Because people are too lazy to think and too cowardly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do so, you will not only trust other people, but you will also trust God. So my | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| order to find God. There are so many people who cling to God just because they do | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so. You see in their aloneness and separateness people believe deep down in their emotions -- although | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of properly dealing with the situation, of evaluating people. You are only capable of experiencing secondary, conditioned | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| determined by the effect it has on other people. I don't know whether I understand that correctly | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| I follow through with a defense to keep people from meddling in my affairs, they are most | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in existence. This confusion leads to misunderstandings among people, but most important of all, it leads to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a further question. Why then should such advanced people, shall we say people who have been on | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| then should such advanced people, shall we say people who have been on this path for some | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| deeper in this work. Look at the few people whom you may know who have already accomplished | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the periphery and seeking a solution from there. People who are not alienated from themselves experience the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of reality becomes more truthful. This is how people who are not alienated from themselves will experience | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| world at large and to other individuals. Alienated people experience themselves as either too small or too | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| too big, fluctuating between these two distortions. Other people will either make them feel worthless and dependent | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| make you small or big? Do you experience people as many-faceted complex beings with their own vulnerabilities | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| static. You often ask the question why some people, who obviously are still in a low state | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a certain harmony, while much more highly developed people are struggling, disharmonious, unhappy. The reason, my friends | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| keel. There is no discrepancy. More highly developed people often do not realize their potential, they do | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| indicates a lack of intelligence. The most intelligent people are blocked where they have problems. The intelligence | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not do away with the fact as such. People who are blocked will misunderstand, misinterpret, be anxious | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| strivings on this path. May more and more people find the joy of true self-facing, no matter | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| up over the course of years. So many people are held back from living by a feeling | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a helpless, fearful baby means to you that people will no longer protect you and therefore it | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of course, does not apply to life. Many people have the wrong concept of maturity because they | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| back on history and you will see how people despised the sick person as much as the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| sick person as much as the sinner. Sick people were ostracized. It is only rather recently that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| contempt and arrogance. Until only very recently insane people were considered the same as criminals. And it | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| And it may take some time yet before people stop looking down on others because they are | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that has remained in illusion and immaturity, makes people sometimes read into dreams a high spiritual meaning | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I find myself, for example, sometimes impatient with people who do not accept the truth as I | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| not? QUESTION: Isn't it sometimes different with different people? I mean if you feel someone likes you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| neither. Why is it easier for so many people to go through a real tragedy only to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is this hour. Blessed is your work. Many people in all sincerity endeavor to find God. However | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| meaningful answer. In such vague hopes and endeavors people, often unconsciously, find themselves in an illusion, hazily | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| illusory about it. When speaking of finding God, people think of many different things. What finding God | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| growth and change impossible. The trouble is that people are so often hindered by the either/or attitude | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that makes it impossible for you to accept people, yourself, relationships, and life for what they are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| know many answers. I do not understand other people, then you are in truth. But because somehow | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| by doing good work. Yet, a number of people on this earth may not be spiritually mature | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is eliminated, if only by some momentary recognition, people experience freedom, renewal and meaningfulness in their lives | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| merged into this current this cannot happen. Many people feel that life is meaningless, whether or not | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| what you want. Does your purpose include other people, or is it for the satisfaction you get | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| same mechanism applies to your soul life. Most people, however, enjoy the symptoms -- the daydreams -- | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| actual fulfillment is impossible because you cannot direct people and circumstances as you choose. This negative view | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your attitude is toward them. The more immature people are, the more successful their daydreaming will be | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and wise super-creature or a monstrous animal. Many people have extreme attitudes toward their unconscious. The unconscious | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may know perfectly well with your intellect that people can be both good and bad, but emotionally | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| When you begin to revise your impressions of people in your early environment because you want to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| everything about them. One never does, even about people one is close to. But with your new | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| essential one. The moment you experience the important people of your early environment in their human reality | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the spirit of truth -- truth about the people who happen to have been your parents. QUESTION | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| distortions. ANSWER: How long will it take for people to correct any distortion of truth, not only | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the entire cosmic development than do millions of people in error. This may sound like an incredible | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| hurt them. By the aggressive solution, you push people away and openly hurt them with false superiority | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |