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you truly want and cultivate it. Before such awareness is cultivated, the average person experiences life in 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
of your being. The first emotional level of awareness usually will be a welling up of resentments 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
covered core of your problem evolve into emotional awareness. You will then experience these emotions. This is 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
terms of perfection, but rather in terms of awareness of your problems and conflicts, you will truly 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
time of preparation and of increased training in awareness of what your emotional reactions signify. When the 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
understanding than a great deepening of your emotional awareness. To some degree this has already been accomplished 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
used even in traditional human psychology without any awareness of its spiritual significance. For self-alienation means that 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
conscious. But unconsciously you battle against this very awareness, wishfully thinking in your unconscious that the disadvantages 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
appeasement, and helplessness also exist, though hidden from awareness. The shame surrounding these tendencies is so great 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
spiritual and religious point of view, however. Complete awareness and understanding of these attitudes will show you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
their unconscious concepts are still too far from awareness. QUESTION: What religion is farthest away from the 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
necessary to allow all emotions to reach surface awareness, so as to understand these emotions and to 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the childish emotions are suppressed, put out of awareness and buried, so that they remain inadequate and 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
cannot control by merely putting them out of awareness. You will be able to trust them, and 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
conscious or unconscious rationalizations in still denying the awareness and expression of your emotions, even though they 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the negative in you to reach your surface awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your being 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the negative because it is out of your awareness, this very same negative element will stand in 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
once you allow your emotions to reach surface awareness. Once you stop repressing your emotions, you will 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to allow your emotions to come to surface awareness and then determine their significance, you will not 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
The work on this path now calls for awareness of what you really feel, letting out your 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
You have to reconcile yourself to knowing that awareness of your needs, real and unreal, will not 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
the more you repress your real needs, the awareness of your unfulfillment, and the constructive search derived 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
is exactly what I am trying to say: Awareness and taking account, thinking further about cause and 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to moralizing. Your confusion arises from feeling that awareness of your immoral instincts will lead to acting 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to come out in spite of resistance. Your awareness of this certainly means insight and progress. The 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are unaware of their existence, than with clear awareness and understanding about them. With this knowledge and 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
think it is wonderful that you have this awareness, that you do not repress this insight. This 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a conflict about the matter that you repress awareness of the repetition. You repeat it in such 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
into it a little more thoroughly. Understanding and awareness of the significance of needs will be more 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is healthy and normal can be destructive when awareness of it is repressed or non- existent. Among 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
legitimate needs can be satisfied only with full awareness so that understanding can be combined with the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
process has to be unrolled and brought into awareness. Then you will be able to develop a 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
gratification becomes much stronger. This is logical, because awareness of a need and clear knowledge of it 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
do what is against your best interest. Only awareness of your needs will enable you to tolerate 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
this choice freely, because you have the necessary awareness. If awareness of your needs is lacking because 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
freely, because you have the necessary awareness. If awareness of your needs is lacking because an unconscious 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
that you are wrong in having the need. Awareness is driven even more into hiding and that 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
and therefore more difficult to handle. However, paradoxically, awareness of one's real needs and of their legitimacy 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
specifically in your case. As you allow yourself awareness of the raw needs, of their significance, their 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
rather than allowing your emotions to reach surface awareness, thereby finding the answers within yourself. Only by 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
point only after reaching a great deal of awareness about the process. When it comes, you will 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
repressed emotions and needs more and more into awareness, you will uncover your persistent clinging to illusion 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
and fulfillment. You will discover that if the awareness of an in itself healthy need has been 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the effect you have on others. Without the awareness of the difference you cannot know the effect 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
image, you will not really benefit from this awareness without the links I have now shown you 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of the image, with all its byproducts. The awareness of the real need, once it is truly 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of all the angles. This leads to the awareness that one no longer has to hold on 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
However, for this a great deal of inner awareness has to be cultivated. This is best done 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
state of being and in harmony, but without awareness. You have not yet reached a state of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
reached a state of being in harmony with awareness. This in-between state is the human struggle, a 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
that the former bring this very struggle into awareness, while the latter are unaware of it. Your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
to find the state of being while in awareness. With awareness, you can reach a proper combination 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the state of being while in awareness. With awareness, you can reach a proper combination of activity 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
them. You have not yet gained the sense, awareness, and experience of the real you. You ask 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
reach harmony again is by fuller and fuller awareness of reality, growth, change, on all levels of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
if you have to remove outer layers of awareness in order to find false needs before you 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
with its reality, you would be in absolute awareness of your real needs, whether or not they 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
through an act of receiving. In your emotional awareness it seems to you that you need someone 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the unfulfillment in an indirect way. The stringent awareness of unfulfillment may, in fact, have entirely different 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of reality and truth. You run away from awareness of your real needs not only because facing 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
to go through a period of emptiness, of awareness of your unfulfilled need and longing. But as 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
not suffer the agonies you suffered before such awareness. The unfulfillment will not weaken you. On the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
necessary discipline, is premature. Look only for further awareness here. Change may already have occurred in another 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you finally allow repressed emotions to reach your awareness, you will see that the first negative flow 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
for two reasons: first, if you had chosen awareness you would see that much frustration is unnecessary 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
already perfect to live fully, to increase your awareness, to grow steadily in your capacity for full 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
emotions out of existence -- out of your awareness that is. In neither instance do you afford 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
is the shallow living I discussed earlier. Full awareness of what you really feel and want is 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
and will, come up for discussion, but such awareness can be reached only by quiet observation when 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
reactions is a universal phenomenon that causes diminished awareness of life and self, as well as self-alienation 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of life and self, as well as self-alienation. Awareness of life and of others can come only 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
shorten the interval between the incident and the awareness of your reaction. The synchronization of these two 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
after a step-by- step development. Only with the awareness that most of the time you are blind 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
that used to be hidden from sight and awareness. If you do not make it your goal 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
problems as best as they can, without the awareness of their deeper feelings, they do the most 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you do so only out of duty, the awareness will bring about changes in you and prepare 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
previous talks on the subject, you either repress awareness of your needs or displace them onto superimposed 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
very beneficial. Moreover, daydreaming of this kind encourages awareness of repressed needs. You will appreciate by now 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
step into real life, you shut off this awareness and you live as though this other part 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
a split that could be mended by increased awareness. The harm of daydreams, then, is in your 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
could bring to your real life. A greater awareness of your daydreaming can bring many benefits. My 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
one, comes as development proceeds, and with it awareness of reality grows. The more you are in 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
of the unconscious, and that is lack of awareness. When you are unconscious, you are not aware 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
are not conscious of their entire significance. Your awareness is neither completely absent, nor is it completely 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
completely present. There exists, then, a degree of awareness. That you can resolve certain problems during sleep 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to sleep, the unconscious knowledge can reach surface awareness. Your entire striving on this earth sphere is 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
on this earth sphere is to increase your awareness of what is already stored in you. In 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
own real self. What is necessary for such awareness is the constructive functioning of your inner will 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to be loved. When this craving reaches your awareness, it is often confused with your capacity to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
distortions have to disappear before you can develop awareness. It is just the opposite: the distortions exist 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
exist because of your relatively low level of awareness. As such, the distortions themselves contain the remedy 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of this work will finally bring you this awareness. Now, why do you reject yourself? The answer 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
with is repressed. It is put out of awareness, but it smolders in the unconscious mind. It 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the repressed pain, will at first come into awareness, and it will then seem to you that 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
be the healing process. You thus draw your awareness to the central cause where the problem really 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to come out of repression and reach surface awareness in order for you to understand its origin 101 THE DEFENSE
the methods of this work to bring into awareness what was hitherto submerged. However, there is no 101 THE DEFENSE
are not feeling the primary emotion. Only with awareness can you penetrate deeper and find the underlying 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
morally acceptable or not. It is the broken awareness with all its connotations that is responsible. Thus 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
the how and when. You also cultivate an awareness of your own disturbing currents, as well as 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
bring about fulfillment indirectly. The direct approach is awareness and it does not come by itself. It 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
this self may still be, the spontaneity and awareness of who you really are and what you 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
this fact, not just acknowledge it superficially, such awareness on the part of all of you will 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
this guilt has to become fully conscious. Such awareness will bring into clear focus the question of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
obstacles. They cannot manifest, and therefore you lack awareness of them. Without such awareness, you cannot grow 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
therefore you lack awareness of them. Without such awareness, you cannot grow out of them. All this 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
experience of an expression, be aware of it. Awareness counts so much. Forgetting the living meaning of 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
confusion and error and by your lack of awareness that this is so. As you very well 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of development is a state of being without awareness. Animal life, plant life, mineral life are in 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
life are in a state of being without awareness, without self-consciousness. Primitive man was only little removed 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
life to primitive man, a slow ascendancy in awareness, intellect, and will can be noticed. The more 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
next stage is a state of becoming, in awareness. Here the human being is striving, using intellect 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of development is the state of being, in awareness. This does not manifest suddenly, after you shed 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
stage. It is the state of becoming, in awareness. But within this category, there are many different 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the threshold of the state of being, in awareness. They often realize that they want something more 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of development, mineral life. It has the least awareness, will, and the very least of mind. There 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you grow into the state of being in awareness, unless you have learned to go through the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the threshold of the state of being in awareness, yet they oppose the organic growth into it 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of my friends are approaching now requires the awareness of everything that I have said tonight. And 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
it out. This only makes you repress the awareness of confusion's existence. But if you look at 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
When you let it be there, in full awareness, then it ceases to be, after the profound 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to this reality in you; to cultivate the awareness. After this very fruitful year, it is to 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
lecture I discussed the state of being without awareness, as the first stage in the great cycle 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
still near to this state of being without awareness. He lives unto the day, tending to his 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
discriminate. He lives in the now, but without awareness. In order to live in the now in 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
In order to live in the now in awareness, various stages have to be gone through. As 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
problems and conflicts which remain hidden away from awareness, the more does his relationship to God become 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
in two ways: 1) an absolute lack of awareness and perception of life and nature, her laws 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
look at and into himself. Thus he cultivates awareness by facing the reality within. As he proceeds 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
itself is so harmful, but the lack of awareness of it; the fear of being punished for 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
eventually lead to the state of being in awareness. Simultaneously, a new relationship to God comes into 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
your own resistance and blindness, your lack of awareness of yourself, will you experience the beauty of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
confused, contains so much blindness and lack of awareness of reality, it shows such spiritual immaturity, that 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
to be in the state of being in awareness before you can sense that, in reality, in 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
still almost in the stage of being without awareness, there is no prayer, because there is no 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
comprise prayer in the highest sense. It is awareness of God in His Reality. But this kind 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
it, but rather that of experiencing yourself, in awareness, in your defensiveness. This then, is the right 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
doing. The more you mature emotionally, the more awareness do you gain, the more this will emanate 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
to be in the state of being in awareness. Even the unpleasant reality of the moment, the 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
is very important and necessary. Without comprehension and awareness of this wall in you, you cannot understand 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
as such if they come to your surface awareness, even justified expectations will cause problems for you 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
at this stage of the curve is the awareness of the fear of being wrong, due to 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
specific misconceptions you have harbored all your life. Awareness of your untruth brings you much nearer to 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING

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