| self- knowledge and the understanding of your unconscious problems, concepts, and attitudes. Self- knowledge and self-acceptance are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| goal beyond the mere dissolution of your inner problems. Or, to put it differently, you cannot truly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| put it differently, you cannot truly solve these problems unless you envisage this great basic transition. If | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have reached a deeper understanding of your innermost problems and deviations, as you begin to solve them | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| on a downward curve, you encounter conflicts and problems and contradictions that you have not solved yet | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| length, according to the personality and the inner problems to be solved -- the flow is cut | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| see that your conflicts, images, misconceptions and inner problems prohibit your real self from manifesting. At this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have to understand the basic cause of the problems. In the course of the work you are | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to receive personal help in some of their problems. We feel that the answers to the personal | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see this particularly by exploring innermost conflicts and problems. This twofoldedness expresses itself in many varieties. There | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a superficial investigation of the self. But wherever problems in life exist, as you well know, inner | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in life exist, as you well know, inner problems must be their cause. Such inner problems are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner problems must be their cause. Such inner problems are always connected with this process of pretense | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| individual and with each problem. There are certain problems in some inner makeups that are not as | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way that they affect the emotional area where problems exist or are in the process of forming | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work, the more you realize how your unresolved problems, conflicts, deviations and images negatively affect your surroundings | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thing indeed, but nevertheless, you all have similar problems. This betrayal has not only the most damaging | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have nothing to do with one's own immediate problems. This should not lead my friends to the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you review earlier lectures on the manifold problems of the human soul, it should be easy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| If the person has inner unresolved conflicts and problems, the motivation for such withdrawal will be unconscious | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| effect, even upon those who still have unsolved problems of this sort. This law always works. As | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that matter. The core lies in the psychological problems, in the false safeguards people have built for | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| just as your unconscious attempts to solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions are doomed to fail | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| within. It comes only by courageously facing these problems, questions, confusions and fears, and examining how you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| happiness that could be yours. Here individual inner problems have collectively brought about a state of civilization | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| investigation, however, has revealed the connection. The more problems you find, and therefore resolve, the closer you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in achievement and accomplishment of the so-called unpleasant problems? ANSWER: Here again, it depends on the motive | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it not equally illusory to think that the problems of everyday life and the crass things you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life if you do not solve your own problems brought on by a faulty attitude toward life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| reject life. All of your everyday reactions and problems can be traced back to these basic issues | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death has deep symbolic meaning for humanity's personal problems, so this utterance, too, must have significance. It | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| idealized self was supposed to solve the particular problems in your life above and beyond your need | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| get away with using the excuse of outer problems to account for acute depression or fear. Look | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you recognize that so many of these outer problems are directly or indirectly the result of the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| person to use for the solution of life's problems. The attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Unaware that the very solution they undertake brings problems and disappointments, they try even more strenuously to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| other words, love is supposed to solve all problems. Needless to say, this is not so, especially | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| power and independence from others will solve all problems. This type, just as the other, can present | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| found by resorting to a withdrawal from inner problems, and so from life as such. Underneath the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| comes from steady self-search and analysis of your problems, your attitudes, and your emotions. As you proceed | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| who needs love as a solution for all problems. This one is so convinced that love will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| instituted, but also in the present predicaments and problems of life. You must find out how one | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in fact so difficult, but because of inner problems tearing the person apart -- that self-estrangement increases | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to cope with them by solving the underlying problems. As to the effect of your own thought | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| thought forms can only bring out your underlying problems -- and this is good. I bless each | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| quest for love is supposed to solve all problems. Being nonassertive, giving in, can be damaging by | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| an entirely new understanding of yourself and your problems. If your predominant concern is with inner safety | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| be impossible to free yourself of conflicts and problems. The whole weight has to be shifted from | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| equipped to find the real solution. Beset by problems it has brought into this incarnation, it cannot | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| No, absolutely not. You bring with you the problems and conflicts of your former life that have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| by yourself -- to best solve these still-unsolved problems. Not only does general spiritual development vary with | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| but rather in terms of awareness of your problems and conflicts, you will truly see that this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a consequence of this work, that your inner problems are responsible for your outer ones. So, my | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| return to spiritual evaluation and consider your inner problems without damage and obstruction. And now, my friends | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comes into your life. The outer confusions and problems, conditioned by the inner ones, are enigmatic to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the curve where the symbols of your inner problems exist in different groups, nations, religions, languages. All | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goal, believing that its attainment will solve your problems, in a sense it feels better to believe | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on you by its failure to solve your problems, by leaving you still insecure, frightened, and restless | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only through the work of self-search. Wherever unsolved problems and conflicts exist in the soul, a part | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| case of illegitimate birth, certain souls with specific problems are chosen. This fate will enable the entity | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| produce sufficient material to work out the existing problems without this added burden. May you all absorb | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that your emotions completely deviate from such knowledge. Problems you carry through many incarnations and through your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| would misunderstand and misuse it. But the more problems you resolve, the safer it becomes to tell | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| negative effect is established that worsens the inner problems of both parties. But finding what inner hidden | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| ordinary things that reveal so much about your problems are right in front of your eyes and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a considerable amount of partial insight into isolated problems. But you have not yet gained an overall | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you still find yourself so involved with your problems, it is hard to perceive it correctly. You | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of self-alienation. This is intimately connected with unresolved problems that are based on error. It is very | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and productively, due to a minimum of inner problems. They are not paralyzed by inner mismanagement. The | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| life, if you expect the solution of your problems and difficulties to come out of only one | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| other areas where you are free from such problems. You are inhibited. You cannot express yourself. You | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| reality; they affect you according to your own problems. You cannot possibly communicate in this condition, yet | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to experience it. Take any of your current problems and look at it from the point of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and becoming aware of the roots of your problems, your errors, your unreality -- understanding them in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| change that applies to certain facets of personality problems. This type requires a new and different way | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| most intelligent people are blocked where they have problems. The intelligence that exists otherwise does not function | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| dream events. The tendency to escape from unresolved problems, from conflicts, from that part of you that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to its voice: I should have resolved my problems already. I cannot be happy as long as | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| I cannot be happy as long as my problems are unresolved; therefore, I must be impatient, compulsive | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you that you will never resolve all your problems in this life, you have a tendency to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| as your personality structure, your pseudo-solutions, your life problems, and so on. The forcing current comes from | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| give you a very different outlook on certain problems in yourself and in your life. You recurrently | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the person with whom you are angry has problems himself, but that doesn't help. How do you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| because he acts out of his own unresolved problems. All this may be true, yet in it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| their life work and in meeting their daily problems as best as they can, without the awareness | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of dealing with some of your immediate life problems. If you cannot progress and gain sufficient new | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| accept the areas that are affected by your problems. So you whisk away these inadequacies by experiencing | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| at finding the cause and effect of your problems and instituting more constructive patterns. There is also | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| you invaluable material about the root of your problems. Instead of repressing daydreams or indulging in them | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| less incentive you will have to resolve your problems so that your fulfillment can become real. In | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| also be unhealthy and a symptom of unresolved problems. Nevertheless, this is often so. The presence of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| degree of awareness. That you can resolve certain problems during sleep by instructing your unconscious mind happens | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| help you to a new approach to your problems, to yourselves, to your life experience. Be blessed | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| will understand that without resolving so- called psychological problems, you cannot become fully capable of loving. Let | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of your parents, you will continue to have problems that could be resolved only by unraveling this | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| key to your life and many of its problems you probably never thought could have any connection | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| have considered communicating. By trying to understand their problems, your own hurts are bound to diminish. First | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Try this new approach, and your life, your problems, your relationships will take on a new meaning | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| are human beings groping to solve their own problems and struggling with their own puzzlement about life | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| derives from a certain inability to cope with problems, or the inner desire not to cope with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| path approach a certain area of their soul problems where they encounter pain. To understand the meaning | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| process for dissolving it, and resolving your inner problems and conflicts as well. I shall attempt to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of coping with life and resolving your own problems. It causes you to forgo the experience of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you have shied away from facing the same problems, and facing life as it is. Now, as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| person's humanity, of his or her needs, vulnerabilities, problems, and insecurity. In your demand to possess a | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| way, perhaps due to his or her own problems, or merely to human limitations. In such cases | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| then can we go into the kind of problems we are dealing with now. QUESTION: In my | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| they have, because you cannot resolve your own problems which keep you from fulfilling yourself. What you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you are involved in your own conflicts and problems -- which, in the last analysis, arise only | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| see that people remain caught in their inner problems as long as they somehow get by. They | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| step will be to resolve the more serious problems which reveal the existence of a deep, subjective | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it again, as you tackle the still unresolved problems, repeating the cycles you have gone through on | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| incapacity reflects his or her emotional immaturity, inner problems, and conflicts. But you become angry at this | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| wish it to be. That is how such problems of incompatibility come into existence. QUESTION: I would | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| truly understand that he, too, brought his unresolved problems into this life, as you brought your own | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| begin with. He has to live out his problems, as you are required to live out yours | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| imperfect parents and environmental conditions simply brought the problems to the fore. But this truth will be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| once, but come again and again with the problems that are as yet unresolved. It is not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| It is not nature that gave you these problems. QUESTION: At one time you told us that | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| person in question so desires. The deeply embedded problems are not called forth without hindrances or obstacles | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| direction only, without being used to resolve its problems and conflicts which remain hidden away from awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it usually is, he would find that the problems he has to solve in conquering mind and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| members? What should be our attitude towards social problems? ANSWER: If you consider your question, you will | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your vulnerabilities, you cannot be helped in your problems, nor can you form real relationships. Thus your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| them. To the degree that a relationship has problems, unconscious distortions exist in both parties. One alternately | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that all involved are responsible for all the problems of a relationship. Such insight always has a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| your surface awareness, even justified expectations will cause problems for you because of your unawareness of them | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| look for truth, guidance, and solutions to your problems outside yourself -- perhaps through wise teachings, through | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| with their worthlessness. The other person's fears and problems may be as responsible for it as their | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| renewed strength, renewed insight into your lives, your problems, and show you the road. May it give | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| counteracted by a prohibition. This prohibition causes the problems. You have to find it specifically. You are | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| talents, qualities, tendencies, characteristics, and also the unresolved problems. It is according to these potentials -- positive | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| where the underlying potential consists largely of unresolved problems, the soul- stuff is so lacking in resiliency | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |