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manifests itself in each created being not only produced animals, plants, and minerals, but also other substances 21 THE FALL
of humility to accept the unhappiness you have produced without getting angry at yourself for still being 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
it in full understanding of how you yourself produced it. So as to avoid misunderstanding, I emphasize 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
with the undeniable fact that you yourself have produced the misery, and that will wake you up 47 THE WALL WITHIN
shoulders. What does that mean? That you have produced circumstances in your life, in your former incarnations 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
but to accept them knowing that you have produced them. They are of your own doing, whether 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
out why that which is desirable cannot be produced naturally by the personality itself without making post-hypnotic 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
happier or more desirable state that is otherwise produced by suggestion. But here, too, there are exceptions 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
of being, something that the person must have produced himself. Now, observing some very selfish and undeveloped 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
forces already exist, while the idea that you produced negative emotions yourself gave you a feeling of 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
think you should have. This, too, causes artificially produced acceleration -- and therefore compulsion. Since impatience is 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the courage to free yourself of the artificially produced strength, and investigate its origin and the inner 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
But this form of expression, through the work produced, emerges from the same root: the desire for 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
child; either they caused you actual pain, or produced an undesired result when you expressed them. You 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
existing emotions because the expression of the negative produced an undesirable result. You might say that because 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
experience this state? Not if it is artificially produced. The only way to distinguish between genuine and 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
dissolve immediately after you find the cause that produced them. It will take some time before new 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
are used and therefore a negative result is produced. Yet you also know that if you do 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
incarnations. Karma is the effect the soul has produced. QUESTION: The sensitivity is carried along? ANSWER: Of 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
state of humanity as well as the split produced by a confusion about reality. Many manifestations of 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
and connect them with the childhood circumstances that produced pain and fear. Then you can find the 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
must run counter to one's self-interest. The conditions produced by these soul movements increase the fear of 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
you look forward to without qualms. Dying is produced by the fear of it. It becomes superfluous 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
must be a point where you have deliberately produced the undesirable element, otherwise you would not be 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
the moment you say I must somehow have produced it, I want to see where and how 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
tremendous effort to escape the negativity you have produced and chosen to submit to in the first 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
It is rather obvious that false feelings are produced when one talks oneself into a feeling that 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
conflict of false love, which, in turn, is produced because one fears the state of nonlife. There 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
dropped like a cloak, nor are constructive feelings produced by a similar act of will. It is 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
asked, What is it in me that has produced this situation? How am I a co-producer of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
humans is, as we know, in reality self- produced. It is a reflection of what already exists 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
that part of their innermost self that has produced it, they reject the experience, withdraw and cringe 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
back from yourself and from what you have produced -- both in inner and outer conditions -- 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
still rebel against it as though it were produced by something other than you. Hence, you are 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension produced by trying too hard in an ineffectual way 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
human interchange, on ignorance of the existing conditions produced by yourself that make such expectations of perfect 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
this life. Much of the painful reaction is produced because you battle yourself as you are and 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
it about, and sees the secret attitude that produced the unwelcome fate. Once cause and effect are 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
and makes us retain the destructive attitude that produced it in the first place. Or we can 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
see how the undesirable life situation is self- produced -- this notion may even seem preposterous -- 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
a contributing factor to what you have already produced. If, for example, you have not freed your 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
at your immediate disposal. This new consciousness is produced by beings whose development and connectedness is more 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
experience is coming to you without your having produced it. As long as you believe this, there 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
whatever comes to you, knowing that you have produced it and that it exists within you. Current 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
in the ability to experience what one has produced, without fighting it. The mature soul makes itself 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
more clearly which attitudes, expressions, and intentionalities have produced manifestations in your life that you deplore and 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
see and understand the negative creation you have produced and how your mental attitudes and hidden feelings 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
otherwise distortions will occur. For example, the deliberately produced feelings may be distorted through dramatization, exaggeration, fakery 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the slightest awareness of what in you has produced it. The awareness can be recaptured if you 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
interim states of consciousness which the mind has produced and wishes to avoid must be traveled through 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
The self wishes to avoid what it has produced only too often, whether it be pain, confusion 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
there are airpocket-like formations and configurations that are produced by certain states of consciousness. To those who 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
to exist, because you cannot perceive what is produced from other states of consciousness and development. The 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
The negative manifestation was that a life was produced which is not totally different from the second 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
who live in perpetually crowded conditions may have produced these very conditions because they desire an outer 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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needing a more perfect love subject than reality produces. In all probability there is a measure of 32 DECISION-MAKING
making any decisions, because any extreme in character produces a lack of harmony, which must influence proper 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
as an instrument. It is the mind that produces it, the unconscious or the conscious mind. You 47 THE WALL WITHIN
of the conscious and the unconscious mind, that produces it. Therefore it is not the instrument. An 47 THE WALL WITHIN
instrument is something passive. But the mind actively produces currents. QUESTION: Where does a must end and 47 THE WALL WITHIN
ways, either by physical disease that the psyche produces, or by various mishaps, difficulties, failures, or conflicts 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the physical body, sometimes more, sometimes less. It produces the pictures that you translate into symbols in 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
your souls shrieking for attention. The earth sphere produces this loud noise for us. When we approach 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
generates a pure strength, a pure effect that produces results around you. Let us suppose that this 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
because it indicates something. Such an inner rigidity produces ill effects in other areas of life which 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
letting go of the inner tension that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner tension, whether it 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
the inner tension that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner tension, whether it is self- will 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
was unreal. The more your fear of loving produces the urgent desire to be loved, approved of 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
carry you against the current, meaning that life produces unhappiness, and sometimes the waves may be smooth 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
are mistaken in believing that the transition state produces new fears. The same old fears have existed 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
truth either, it has the same effect and produces a similar set of chain reactions as the 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the world that seems most desirable to you produces impatience. It causes you to assume artificial attitudes 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
remote, may threaten to break down fences. This produces a paralysis in the manner you describe. As 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
divine bliss that spirits enjoy, your automatic association produces something that is usually quite different from the 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
issues, holds the soul imprisoned. It prevents growth, produces some form of stagnation on all levels of 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
pain of the illusion becomes unbearable. All this produces further deliberate escapes, such as drug addiction, or 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
cruel impulses toward others. The underlying core always produces shame, which has to be hidden, and is 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
that you are ashamed and therefore hide it produces strain, anxiety, pretense, and fear of exposure. What 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
pseudo-solutions. They do not realize that any pseudo-solution produces an unhealthy dependence on others, regardless of how 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
undercurrent flows into the very opposite direction and produces just the reverse of your conscious aim. Again 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
real self by borrowing ready-made rules. This condition produces the moralizing attitude and all the rigidity that 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
that a false goodness, a forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing that many people rebel against. Genuine 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
amount of energy. The energy you thus lose produces a negation of life. There is a feeling 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Your misconception about the meeting of real needs produces repression and, subsequently, a defense mechanism which is 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
other hand, the fulfillment of a real need produces something constructive for everyone concerned. Your gratification will 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
come from unawareness. Unawareness means unreality, untruth. Untruth produces suffering. This might also be expressed as the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
images, whose patterns embody a negative tenet that produces a painful result, are inherently self-destructive. If this 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
In other words, the result of inner distortion produces what is called sin. The common denominator of 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
that remains unrecognized in its primary, original form, produces lust. To the degree that you become aware 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
-- and cannot, therefore, relate to them. Nothing produces more waste than sloth, or apathy, or withdrawal 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the form of a compromise, but the unclarity produces a thick haze in your psyche, an unhealthy 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
that you are not at one with yourself produces what unconsciously you may consider as punishment. (3 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
rather than on what is right, the will produces truth and thereby love. In any area of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
Such activity will relieve the strained atmosphere which produces his fear. The strain is caused more by 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
of your being -- the real self -- produces a different kind of thought and a different 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
weaker ones whom you are supposed to reject, produces the same self-hate you feel as when you 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
glad that others suffer too. This reaction often produces such shock and guilt that it is entirely 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
ascertain the source of the real guilt that produces the unjustified guilt, as well as the perfectionism 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
restitution for the original fault. Such double-edged guilt produces false guilt, accompanied by a sense of weakness 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
of resilient and healthily resistant softness. This combination produces the ideal conditions that enable you to go 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
situation, even if truly perceived, but utilized subjectively, produces an emotion and not a feeling. Feelings are 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
conditions that manifest the illusory state. That state produces the conditions and the environment which, in turn 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
by and emotional response to the other parent produces the other side of your conflict. You could 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
summon the courage to overcome the fear that produces resistance. Only then will you convince yourself how 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
to attach itself to another situation. Perhaps it produces a tight overinvolvement with your work, causing too 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
causing too many intense reactions. Or perhaps it produces an overinvolvement with a specific friendship into which 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
impulses toward union. One fears the self which produces the impulses and then, as a protection, one 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
to the fulfillment. Absence of such a no produces an easy, relaxed yes-current, without a tinge of 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
him. Therefore, the struggle against what is now produces greater misery than the event itself. If none 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the outer event and not your attitude that produces the misery. Being in contact with the life 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
of shedding the material body, this mass image produces such fear that the person is too anxious 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
other aspects of living. Wherever fear exists, it produces the circumstances one fears. These circumstances are, at 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
superficial and materialistic plane, the matter the entity produces for the vehicle of its spirit will vibrate 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
all the difference. The soul condition of fearlessness produces the conviction that nothing negative is ever necessary 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
same law that determines how working from abundance produces abundance, but working from poverty and need produces 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
produces abundance, but working from poverty and need produces more poverty and need. The healthy, strong ego 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
misinterpretation of reality, in other words, illusion. Illusion produces confusion along with a host of negative emotions 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
think, feel and act in a way that produces hopelessness, fear, frustration, feelings of doubt. I will 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
to make this specific choice. The wasted energy produces failure and disappointment when you give in to 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
The energy that creates the ensuing chain reactions produces the effects of the original cause, the original 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
from the truth in that respect. Each cause produces an effect. Each effect becomes simultaneously a new 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
and this is not real development. Real development produces a personality that does not need to be 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
totally constructive, totally positive and affirming. Therefore it produces total pleasure for any living, feeling, perceiving consciousness 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
is therefore distorted, and where the pleasure/unpleasure dichotomy produces an unconscious fixation of the pleasure experience on 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
you see problems in a distorted fashion. It produces guilt for wanting what others have and at 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
must be absent from the contact. The fear produces defenses, hurts, anger -- all these enter the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
position of quarreling with yourself. What one hand produces the other denies and fights, not realizing what 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
But when they are not balanced, each way produces inappropriate, ineffective, and even destructive results. It is 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
over-or under-emphasis on one force, thwarts life and produces displeasure, frustration, and restriction. When men and women 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
makes you react in a way that actually produces a painful and dangerous state. I suggest that 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
kernel that is so simple will remain: what produces growth, unfoldment of the soul, must also produce 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
painful nor as filled with anguish. It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or torment. It never 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
attempt to deny a genuine inner experience, inevitably produces inner fight and self-division. When you fear hurt 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
can express in his sexuality. Therefore, the sexuality produces real guilt, as any loveless action must do 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
And on and on it goes. False Guilt Produces Real Guilt and Vice Versa The case history 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
false and real guilt. A childish misunderstanding often produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
misunderstanding often produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and pretenses that lead to justified 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the real guilt but pressed by your conscience, produces an unjustified guilt to mask the real one 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Not Directly Responsible for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
is exactly what the conscious and unconscious personality produces. No matter how undesirable the result is, it 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
way out is to recognize how the person produces his or her own condition. This is not 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
painful it is and the less conflict it produces. Fewer undesirable experiences come your way. At that 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
arising from your conviction that you must perish, produces such strong inner turmoil that you may indeed 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
The overactive mind -- not necessarily conscious -- produces the image, I will perish if I have 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
required to accomplish this phase of purification. Evil produces pain, and the fear of and defense against 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
and the fear of and defense against pain produces more and worse pain, as well as more 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
and of consciousness. When energy is twisted, it produces a destructive manifestation. Its frequency slows down and 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
own doubting, negating ego in the tricks it produces, and if you then doubt your doubts, you 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and the other. Hating, selfish, cruel sex always produces guilt which is then dismissed and rationalized as 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
consciousness, in which creation is immediate. The thought produces the form the moment it is uttered. Impatience 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
the divine flow. The state of consciousness that produces these tight, untrusting, insisting attitudes is antithetical to 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
short leash. Stealing creates guilt, and the guilt produces doubt that you are entitled to receive freely 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
her happiness and flowing feelings unless she herself produces them through loving and through integrity, through opening 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
part -- a divine alchemy takes place and produces the true integration and transformation of your total 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS

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