| Avoidable...................4 | |
| what you fear, whether or not it is avoidable, makes you abandon the very desire. The healthy | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that which is inevitable, you bring upon yourself avoidable handicaps. You are so afraid of the inevitable | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| by not shirking truth. Thus you prevent accumulating avoidable real guilts and putting yourself unnecessarily under the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| least it is then no longer unknown. But avoidable negative experience has a bitter taste. Negative experience | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Avoidance...................36 | |
| accomplished spiritual work, the cause could be the avoidance of an unpleasant contact with somebody one was | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| with somebody one was meant to help, the avoidance of a soul with whom one could have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| have thereby eliminated what you recognize as wrong. Avoidance or denial is the greatest mistake a human | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| stronger repercussions if you continue stubbornly in your avoidance. So you may not be able to get | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| -- and here I can safely generalize -- avoidance of partnership is unhealthy. It is an escape | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and thus to avoid even greater punishment. The avoidance creates situations and patterns that always seem to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| high cost that the pain resulting from the avoidance becomes worse than the original pain would have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the issue. You chose rather the way of avoidance out of fear and weakness. This is one | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| lead to unhappiness, your secondary aim becomes the avoidance of unhappiness. This creates the early, mostly unconscious | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that your stagnation is bound to be an avoidance of inner truth. Once you recognize it, you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| aware of deliberate negative desires, or of the avoidance of positive results, which amounts to the same | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| become acutely aware of the deliberate destructiveness and avoidance of productive, positive unfoldment. Does anyone here have | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you, and you alone, deny life. Often such avoidance is present in one's conscious beliefs. But often | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| real issues. No expressions in any language guarantee avoidance of subterfuge and self-deception. Only the profound sincerity | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to go through all the unnecessary pain of avoidance and flight. The effort to shrink back from | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean a very destructive intent or aim. The avoidance of a feared possibility implies negative motivation. Upon | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| comes about. You live a makeshift life of avoidance rather than create an expansive, unfolding life filled | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of inner peace and unity that comes from avoidance of relating has even led to concepts that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| mental levels are affected by this process of avoidance when a person seeks ready explanations for what | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to achieve integration, health, and a full life. Avoidance of feelings always creates such dualistic paradoxes of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to be aware of your special methods of avoidance, and that you no longer want to deceive | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| duality can thrive only in a state of avoidance, a state of being closed to one thing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the path, unwilling to accept the truth that avoidance is futile. They insist on their illusion. It | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| treat painful experience in the old ways of avoidance and prolong the cycle. But the day comes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is escaping from something, pursuing a policy of avoidance and creating the darkness of disorderliness. You can | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| disorderliness. You can perhaps see also another connection: Avoidance fails to establish order on whatever level; avoidance | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Avoidance fails to establish order on whatever level; avoidance and lack of awareness are intimately connected. On | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| inner and outer disorder clutter up your life. Avoidance is escaping from what is. It means you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| does to the inner life. Lack of awareness, avoidance and illusion create disorder, which creates more lack | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| create disorder, which creates more lack of awareness, avoidance, and illusion, until the mind and the will | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| suffering, due also to your disorder. Because your avoidance is still active, you may manage not to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| sense of false abandonment, of wishful thinking and avoidance. It reflects your illusory state. Outer order in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| this connection I want to come back to avoidance. Avoidance exists across the board. You want to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| connection I want to come back to avoidance. Avoidance exists across the board. You want to avoid | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the golden point of God. Every area of avoidance bears within itself that golden point. Every dreaded | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| using spirituality as an escape from self, an avoidance of personal purification, a failure of fulfilling the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Avoided.....................83 | |
| currents right; some future earthly lives could be avoided by a stronger commitment to development in the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| by the knowledge that the self-search cannot be avoided. What seems to be difficult here will be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| much hardship, and often even tragedy, could be avoided. If a patient knew that he or she | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| why I was asking, whether this can be avoided. ANSWER: Certainly. He saw one plan, and if | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| drastic result of the chain reaction can be avoided. In all these vicious circles all are involved | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| temporarily while touching it, but this cannot be avoided. It is better than to leave the poisonous | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| part of the issue. Many times seeing is avoided because one wishes to have the other person | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| loving. To the measure that this risk is avoided, sexual flatness may set in. This may then | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| many a misinterpretation of my words would be avoided. So it is not possible that I give | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| still a waste of time that can be avoided if you remain aware of your findings without | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| out what is really going on cannot be avoided. You can then decide whether or not you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that, so much sorrow and hardship could be avoided! For many of you feel that although God's | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out means being crushed -- this must be avoided at all costs. The costs are high indeed | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are unhappy too. It might all have been avoided if there had been a few minutes of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| that the vicious circle between you will be avoided. That is, a mature person will not hook | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| directly, less veiled. But still, misunderstanding cannot be avoided, and therefore the dosage or proportion, as to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to happen in the future. It cannot be avoided, because the benefit for those few who derive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I will learn to accept what cannot be avoided, and thus I will eventually lose my fear | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| their soul-experience, so that the experience they have avoided can be learned by fully going through it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you invite and court extremes that should be avoided. Only by a very personal self-search can you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| further crimes by such people should be strictly avoided by curtailing their outer freedom, while helping them | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| seems brash and aggressive. This has to be avoided at all costs. But the indignity inflicted on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| unconscious that the disadvantages of adulthood can be avoided by remaining a child, who at the same | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| after life has truly been lived, and not avoided. They are very rare indeed. They do not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or evil. I explained to you why we avoided the crass term of sin. Your self-destructive guilt | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this defensive wall, so much hardship could be avoided in day-to-day communications. People would not dislike each | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| life becomes so unbearable, much unhappiness can be avoided. This is why you often see that people | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| aware of his own. Unnecessary pain is thus avoided and help is given in the most subtle | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| real situation, a lot of pain would be avoided. Pain is the result of illusion, the illusion | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| out to the other sex. Overt perversion is avoided not by the inhibiting fear of sin, but | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| skirt around this issue, hoping it can be avoided because it is so unpleasant to look at | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this senseless falsity so much suffering would be avoided. Men and women would be vibrantly alive in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you to self-honesty. The suffering could have been avoided if your vanity were not so strong. Awareness | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| hope that this vital step can simply be avoided. But this error, like all errors, is costly | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| implication of you do not love should be avoided here. To say this would be grossly misleading | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| a relationship so hazardous that it is often avoided altogether. Or you find it so frightening that | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| befuddlement, no bitter hurt. All this can be avoided only with the simple procedure outlined here -- | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to yourself; nothing needs to be hidden, feared, avoided. And to those who still struggle at this | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to the bliss of union must be desperately avoided because it threatens to eliminate control. Without this | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| that it needs to be feared and therefore avoided. When you embrace one alternative and say, I | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| imply helplessness when activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for then helplessness is a natural sequence, a | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| illusion, for meeting the difficulty cannot really be avoided. It must reappear, in different forms, until you | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| like dire threat or unbearable pain, to be avoided at all cost, soon turns into profound enlightenment | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Or life itself may be feared and thus avoided, just as the self is avoided to the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and thus avoided, just as the self is avoided to the degree it is feared. This general | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| when a healthy procedure as outlined here is avoided. The greater the rage, the worse the fear | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| is very much underestimated. All this can be avoided if the full strength of a destructive feeling | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| one is the other. This trap must be avoided. Then the comprehension of these words will represent | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| desired state of fulfillment and happiness is not avoided, but its illusory nature is unmasked by going | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| experience of who you are now cannot be avoided. Only by learning to do this can you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| facing these aspects of your being can be avoided, skipped, bypassed or whisked away by some magic | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| face what I am discussing here can be avoided. They run from pillar to post, and whenever | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| confronted right at the start. Crisis can be avoided by looking at the inner truth when the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| would be understood and much pain could be avoided. I say to you now: Do not wait | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| cultivated. Then the painful, disruptive crisis can be avoided, because no inflamed boil will form. The process | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| is nothing else but that -- could be avoided if crisis were not allowed to swell to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to the illusion that going through can be avoided and taking refuge will do some good. Actually | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to the psyche which can, and should be, avoided. You are now truly ready, my friends, to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| an artificial illusion that going in can be avoided and still permit you to achieve integration, health | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you go through the heretofore denied reality of avoided feelings. Your spiritual self with all its joy | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will bring forth the very condition that you avoided previously. I have said this many a time | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| which in turn exists only when feelings are avoided and repressed. A person can never know who | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| back to the clean, original feeling one has avoided. If you can so discern your hidden messages | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| similar experiences later in life. If you have avoided your childhood and are unaware of what truly | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| moment arrives to experience feelings that have been avoided. These fine alternations must be sensed both by | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will sound, perforce, repetitious, but this cannot be avoided in any summary. Yet it will prove helpful | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| inside, no matter how painful, cannot simply be avoided but must be experienced, there is an enormous | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| resistive, evil one, major crisis may again be avoided for awhile; the personality may stagnate for long | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| shake-up of the inhabitants' present life can be avoided. So it is with a personality -- and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| into hiding again. This ought to be strictly avoided - - and you on this path know | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that the ego is not being transcended but avoided. The ego must change its lazy, resistant attitudes | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| learn to experience feelings which you have previously avoided, you are setting the stage, as it were | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of truth, movement is desirable, and non-movement is avoided. Let us take the physical level as an | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that anything that exists in you can be avoided. Another illusion is the belief that what is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to a personal crisis. Such crisis would be avoided if the personality would focus on the undeveloped | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| further light and no longer need to be avoided, whether they be pain, guilt, fear, or whatever | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| point, in the illusion that something can be avoided that is in any way unpleasant. You create | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| harbors the hope that such confrontation can be avoided, is unnecessary. Doubt of this kind is seldom | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of truth. All this must and will be avoided here as long as you stay dynamically involved | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| psychic, emotional, and spiritual stress. This must be avoided. On your path you have learned to contact | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you into a crisis that could have been avoided. The force is there, whether you use it | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a superficial substitute because the real change is avoided. Only when you constantly look for connectedness with | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and development? The break in consciousness can be avoided in that way. This is not always possible | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |