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worth with the outer situation. Only after becoming aware of this process and of your faulty reasoning 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
in the course of this work, have become aware that in some situations you do not function 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
This is so subtle that you cannot be aware of it right away. Intellectually, you know better 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
self-accounting and observation in this respect to become aware of what goes on in you all the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
happiness. This you can now easily see. Becoming aware of these conditions, of this limited outlook and 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of it. The very fact that you are aware of your unreality is an important step out 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
phases. The first phase is recognizing and becoming aware of the roots of your problems, your errors 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and automatic, so that you are not even aware of when it occurs. It happens through the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
in physical matter, though you may not be aware of it. When you are always together with 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
needs. To begin with, you are not even aware of any particular needs. Of course, in theory 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
still be unaware of what you need. Becoming aware of your needs even superficially requires focused attention 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
are fulfilled. As you thus proceed, you become aware of your real needs. The real needs can 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
can also be subdivided. First, you will become aware of the need to receive, be it love 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you know that. And then you will become aware of the need to give. You may need 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and before is that now you are acutely aware of the needs and the unfulfillment, while before 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
into false ones have that power. Thus being aware of your real needs, long before you can 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
deep pain, even more so when you are aware of your own feelings and you are aware 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
aware of your own feelings and you are aware of the depth of love you have -- 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
for that is the only key to becoming aware of your real self. And now, my friends 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
can feel it, you will first become utterly aware of a falseness, no matter how subtle; a 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
built on a subtle pretense. Once you are aware of it, you are much nearer to realizing 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
I have. For a long time, I wasn't aware of these superstitions, but all of a sudden 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
selfhood cannot come unless you are very much aware of the significance of your own emotional reactions 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
how much progress you have made, are quite aware to what extent your need for perfection alienates 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
Most of the time you are not even aware of what falls short of perfection in your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
your unfulfillments, your frustrations. You are not fully aware of them. You vaguely skip over them, knowing 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
-- namely, imperfection as such. You must be aware in order to discriminate between changing to obtain 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
fully accept imperfection, you must first become fully aware of your resentment against it. Only when you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
many hidden crevices in your soul, that becoming aware of them demands your full attention and focused 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of their intensity. The moment you are fully aware of a need and understand all its aspects 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
in your groups, enables you to become more aware of what really goes on in you. The 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
and training to wake up and become acutely aware; it does not happen overnight. Once you get 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
path, you will often find that you become aware of a certain reaction on your part perhaps 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
so much later what you should have been aware of instantly. This indicates progress, however, because until 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
because until now you might never have become aware of your real reaction. You might have passed 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
that you cannot, all at once, become perfectly aware -- will you rejoice in your growing process 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
blindness gradually vanish. And as you become more aware of what is really going on in you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
really going on in you, you will become aware of the unconscious, still-existing perfectionism that makes it 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
vanish; because underneath you will discover and become aware of being hurt, of feeling rejected. Your shame 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
more unpleasant feelings of aggressiveness. Once you become aware of the hurt, which is a more genuine 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
important for you to investigate this and become aware that this is so, as well as why 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
on the scale, it is necessary to become aware of what goes on in the deep, involved 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
often cultivates such a desire without being consciously aware of it. Then things begin to happen. Conversely 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
But, my friends, often you are only vaguely aware of your needs, or if you are conscious 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
awareness. When you are unconscious, you are not aware. Now, there are degrees, of course. Do not 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
you have knowledge of which you are not aware. In certain states of relaxation and concentration, such 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
is not tackled, when one is not fully aware of what one is confused about, then such 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
and some of you may be very much aware, that deep down in your soul you have 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
different. A human being can often be consciously aware of his or her need to be loved 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
falsified imprint. The remedy is first to become aware of what you really feel about all members 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
this knot. The first step is to become aware of your distortions. Ask yourself: How do I 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
diminish. First, however, you may have to become aware that a hurt exists. What if the parents 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
free. However, right now you have to be aware of what you feel, how you experience your 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
later through a variety of circumstances you became aware of certain elements in the situation you had 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you ask for this in your prayer, fully aware that this may be what He wants from 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
suffer from this, although you may never be aware of it in these terms or in exact 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
pseudo-solutions. You are, to some extent at least, aware of the particular nature of your idealized self-image 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
are. All of you may not be fully aware of all these factors, but most of you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
these factors, but most of you are sufficiently aware of them to be inwardly ready to give 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you learn to do so, you will become aware of many opportunities for happiness that you ignored 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
solutions and misconceptions, whose depths will make you aware of your needs. The primary result on this 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
cannot distinguish this. You may not even be aware of the original childhood pain. It may take 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
from the pain but go through it, becoming aware of its significance, you will realize that your 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you have no control. Only after courageously becoming aware of all these impressions and reactions, will you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
various protective layers, you cannot even be fully aware of your real needs. You may know some 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
fuller understanding of yourself do you gradually become aware of the basic, naked needs that you have 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
possibility, if you so choose, to become precisely aware of these needs. This is inevitable if you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
As you go through the process of becoming aware of your needs and of the frustration of 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you have done, you have not only become aware of so much that was hidden away, but 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
even though you may not yet be fully aware of it. As you encounter the pain, you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the frustration did not exist before you became aware of it. It did exist, but it created 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
sickness, or in other symptoms. As you become aware of the central core, the pressure and pain 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
its shades and varieties. You have to become aware that your needs are exactly both to give 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
yourself in an interim stage. You have become aware of your need to receive, which is in 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
vanish more and more, and then you become aware of the pain. The fear is an inadvertent 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
Be on the lookout, and become more intensely aware of the defensive reaction so that you may 101 THE DEFENSE
could ever be. Also you are no longer aware of the original hurt, but only of the 101 THE DEFENSE
on the right track, you become more acutely aware of its permanent existence. You not only defend 101 THE DEFENSE
not damage you at all if you were aware that others will not like you less because 101 THE DEFENSE
why it is of primary importance to become aware of all the emotions you were not conscious 101 THE DEFENSE
oversimplification. QUESTION: After a person has become greatly aware of his hidden currents -- let's say, he 101 THE DEFENSE
hidden currents -- let's say, he has become aware of seventy-five percent of them and can see 101 THE DEFENSE
out. May you all become more and more aware of your defenses. May you understand what they 101 THE DEFENSE
real needs of which you may not be aware. Covetousness, as well as pride, separates you from 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
produces lust. To the degree that you become aware of your real needs, you automatically increase your 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the other so-called sins, you may be utterly aware of the original feeling. Due to certain missing 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
why I have been admonishing you to become aware of what you really feel. Whether you call 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the same. Most human beings are not even aware that they feel anger. Once they become aware 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
aware that they feel anger. Once they become aware of it, it is easier to find the 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
to comprehend Him. In the moment you become aware of this incapacity, you are already much greater 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
level of the other people's consciousness, the more aware they may be of the emanation they perceive 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
level of consciousness, the less will they be aware of it, but unconsciously they would still know 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
any kind of human relationship. QUESTION: I'm becoming aware of a new kind of feeling. As depressions 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
this destructive imbalance many times without really being aware of it. With this attitude, you destroy potential 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
from this perspective and you will eventually become aware of the significance of your rushing forward. You 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
cope with it because you are no longer aware of its existence. But it may well be 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
have to put it into action. Be fully aware that it exists. Thus the need transforms into 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
feelings which you let go by without becoming aware of their existence and therefore, eventually, of their 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
and the living experience of an expression, be aware of it. Awareness counts so much. Forgetting the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
there is confusion in you, you are more aware of yourself, and are therefore nearer to your 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
mind's limiting and erroneous structures, is to become aware of them, look at them, and understand them 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
self-justification and self- condemnation? ANSWER: As you become aware of justifying yourself, ask yourself why you are 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
resorting to condemnation. But before you can be aware of your own innate desire, you have to 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the self-condemnation. Now, separate these two aspects. Become aware of your dependency on public opinion. Find out 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you want to resolve your problem. Then be aware that whenever you look at the problem, you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
are condemning and justifying. The more you become aware the less will you justify and condemn. And 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
is the beginning of understanding. As you become aware of and understand your self-moralizing and self-justification, they 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
will be constructive. Emotions of which you are aware, even if negative, cannot build anything destructive. But 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
do not have it because you are not aware of it. But that is not getting rid 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
This is the difficulty one has to be aware of in order to take on the habit 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
deeper into emotional levels, so as to become aware of their existence, and then of their significance 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
so essential for your liberation. As you become aware of your own defenses, you will learn not 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
anger, which is a sign of not being aware of what is really going on in you 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
essentially they must be there. When you become aware of them, know that you, and millions of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
degree that man has become more self-responsible, more aware of himself, more mature. But wherever social reforms 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
is that those who feel liberated and are aware of their growth have also gone through phases 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
which you do not permit yourself to become aware of. Since you are not aware, you cannot 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
to become aware of. Since you are not aware, you cannot cope with it. This, then, causes 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
To the degree you permit yourself to become aware of these feelings, to that degree will you 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
truth. You have to become much more acutely aware of what you experience and how others affect 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
manipulated, whether or not he or she is aware of it, will either react by giving in 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
this is true, whether or not they are aware of this hidden conviction against which they may 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
come to the fore only as you become aware of all those aspects of yourself that bar 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to others, you are bound to become acutely aware of an inner tension, a cramped closing up 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
you come across this current and become more aware of it, you can let it go. The 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
occasionally, weakly, not dramatically. When it does, be aware of it, let it flow, and see what 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
order to get approval. They may not be aware of these reactions, but since the unconscious currents 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
not conscious. You may not be at all aware of these inner processes, but if you look 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
say holds true for you. Perhaps you are aware of it already to some degree, but have 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
may feel guilty about something you are not aware of. A universal attitude is that of feeling 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
what that obstacle really is. Once you become aware and understand what it is made of, you 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
deep-seated guilt, whether or not you are now aware of it. Hence you burden yourself with attitudes 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
accept your real values, even to become profoundly aware of them. This is why it is so 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
It often takes considerable time to even become aware of the false guilt, let alone the real 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
inner conflict confuses you because you are not aware of its real cause. The result is imbalance 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
prayer and open yourself. When you are fully aware of the pain you may have inflicted on 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
Moreover, because you do not want to become aware of the pain you have inflicted, you do 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
liberated. As long as you are not fully aware of your lower self, a real closeness to 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
how it is with recognition: One may be aware of something, but the awareness may be more 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
force, its reason for existence. You may be aware of overambition, for instance, but unaware of the 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
and reason for this tendency, you cannot be aware of how this ambitiousness affects others. You are 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
and deeply understood. You have to become fully aware of the scope of such tendencies. What takes 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
are unaware of a guilt, or only partly aware of it, you cannot experience the other person's 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
demands that exist in you without your being aware of them. When you found them you were 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
that will finally make you capable of being aware of how others are making demands on you 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
cannot be taken until you have clearly become aware of your demands on others and others' demands 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
and fear do not permit you to become aware and investigate what has set off the alarm 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
Now, my friends, it is important to become aware that demands are all around you. The more 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
awareness is the first step. So, do become aware of your inner striving away from the now 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME

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