| character. The ability to live in the comparative reality accessible to you as incarnated human beings depends | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| must understand, at least theoretically, how living in reality depends on maturity, and how maturity depends on | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| give as much as you ask. This is reality. It is not reality to ask for more | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you ask. This is reality. It is not reality to ask for more than one is willing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| one is willing to give, nor is it reality to claim one does not wish to be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you are to have any chance of approaching reality and you may not be aware of them | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| hope to attain even the slightest glimpse of reality? The higher spiritual, absolute reality cannot be found | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| slightest glimpse of reality? The higher spiritual, absolute reality cannot be found by a shortcut. It can | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your inner world of unreality into one of reality. You cannot do this if you are unwilling | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what I say to you here is true. Reality is truth, far beyond what meets the eye | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| meets the eye. The more you are in reality, the deeper is your comprehension. You may be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is your comprehension. You may be in comparative reality in one area of your inner life, while | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| hurts because it brings you into truth, or reality. This is why it is said that truth | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension, and fear. Reality, or truth, is bound to bring you happiness | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you wish, you fail to perceive it in reality as carrying the particular flavor or stamp of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| therefore you feel yourself endangered. Every indication of reality clashes with your illusion, disappointing you, and in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| -- are overvalued. They produce more joy than reality warrants, not because the other person dislikes you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| we discussed last time, is one phase of reality versus unreality. You must understand that you create | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the quality of people or of occurrences in reality. Last, but not least, you are in unreality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| true significance or, to put it differently, the reality value of what happens. I often use the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| event. Thus, the maturing soul who approaches inner reality, ready to meet life, unafraid of loving, unafraid | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| absence of this forcing current bring you into reality, and thereby into a more secure state of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| therefore the freedom that only the approach to reality can bring. When a relationship is ambivalent between | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of old standing. This is an escape from reality which is so bleak that you create a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| escape is part of a vicious circle. The reality is so bleak precisely because of your forcing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| everyone approve of you. That is what makes reality so unbearable that you escape into an illusory | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| around this unending vicious circle. For how can reality ever fit into your fantasy? It cannot. So | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| flexible and able to face what is in reality. You will not have hidden hostility and resentments | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| perhaps understand and somewhat experience what the term reality actually means. It means freedom from fears, and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of being willing and able to love. Hence, reality and the capacity to love are directly connected | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the freedom you give -- you can perceive reality. It is then that you experience the real | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| result your emotions will be more attuned to reality. Only in this manner can you slowly come | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that cannot be conveyed in words, what absolute reality really means and why this world of the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| glean a sense of cosmic, spiritual, or absolute reality. What is intelligence other than perceiving reality? Some | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| absolute reality. What is intelligence other than perceiving reality? Some people may have great intelligence -- and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it functions, they are in a sort of reality. Where it does not, they are submerged in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| submerged in their confusions and therefore removed from reality. The difficulty with people who are intelligent is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| intelligence also are unaware of their lack of reality. Mental and emotional health is reality. To the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| lack of reality. Mental and emotional health is reality. To the degree that you are unhealthy, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| words, the rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your full experience of what life | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| change concepts that are not in accord with reality. This practice is a great help, provided it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| now, how much you are away from the reality of the moment. To the degree that you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| moment. To the degree that you live in reality, to that degree will you be able to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| given unto you now help you to approach reality. Be in peace, be in God! 72. THE | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| extent, it is not true in essence. In reality it is you who are the center. Your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is a decisive step, my friends, and, in reality, it is more dramatic than anything that can | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| With such an attitude, you can perceive the reality of the situation. After that you can discriminate | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| really is. In that, you not only ignore reality, but you reject it. Accepting reality and seeing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| only ignore reality, but you reject it. Accepting reality and seeing what is, your intuition will grow | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in your time and your world of accepting reality. We have discussed this many times. You all | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| woman -- but this apparent imperfection is your reality and has to be accepted. When you do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that which may be inconvenient means acceptance of reality, loss of your fear of loving, and the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with one string. Immaturity is non- acceptance of reality because reality is not always perfect or pleasant | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| string. Immaturity is non- acceptance of reality because reality is not always perfect or pleasant. Immaturity exaggerates | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| understanding of the inner world, its laws, its reality, and the interplay of cause and effect in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| continues, mankind will perceive more and more the reality of the inner universe, thus also understanding the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with spiritual law. If we are the highest reality, one in mind with God, then we will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| misunderstanding about certain terms in the Bible; in reality the word fear means something quite different, perhaps | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the wrong way. It does not feel the reality of the morrow, therefore it thinks that what | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| accomplished now does not count and has no reality. The mature being can wait. He or she | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| thoughts and concepts by aligning them to the reality of each situation. As a consequence, you will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| forcefully, the parent-partner will now yield, whereas in reality love cannot come that way. Only when you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Only by doing this will you grasp the reality value of your current problems and see them | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| one or the other parent had. Is it reality that this particular person has these trends? Or | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| on life, in your not seeing and perceiving reality and people around you. In order to remedy | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| life, therefore fear of being in the present reality of life, and fear of coping with life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the difference seems enormous, but when you perceive reality, you begin to break the repetitive vicious circle | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| As yet, you are so unaware of the reality of other people. On the one hand you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is hidden from your awareness now, is a reality you will come to perceive very clearly. This | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of the other person? Sometimes you see the reality intellectually, but by the time you order your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| attain at the moment. Once you accept the reality of your imperfect self, the resulting hurts will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your misconceptions and wrong conclusions as compared with reality and fact, and when you also understand where | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| sign of emotional immaturity, not facing life and reality as they are, and lacking the courage to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| being unduly selfish preserves the self. But in reality this is not so. The instinct of self- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You cannot penetrate anymore into the feeling of reality you have tasted at other times. And it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to succumb to your will, to conquer the reality in which everything cannot go according to your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your real self. Your real self functions in reality. It cannot manifest in a self-created world of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| cosmic life force, the stream of life, or reality. In reality you are not unhappy if you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| force, the stream of life, or reality. In reality you are not unhappy if you do not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have faults you cannot tolerate. Nor is it reality that you can never get what you really | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| impulses operate. They can no more function in reality than real feelings can in a world of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| want it, and when you want it. In reality it does not make you unhappy to wait | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you remain in illusion, you cannot hold onto reality, which alone is secure. The only safety lies | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| my friends, once you have established this inner reality by removing the untrue premise and forever taking | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| protect themselves from disappointments and failures, which in reality would not hurt half as much as they | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| joy and liberation will be a strongly felt reality. What you have so far experienced only on | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have no use for. Your potential will become reality. You will be poised within yourself and in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a seemingly hostile world. You will judge in reality, seeing what is valuable and trustworthy, but not | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| peace, my friends. Rejoice in the knowledge that reality must make you happy. Be blessed, be in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| it is only in a vague feeling. In reality, the two are the same. Now let us | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| finding this responsibility. Thus you are not in reality, in its true sense. By facing yourself squarely | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misfortune. But in your health, in accord with reality on all levels of your being, you produce | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believing that thereby you also gain love. In reality the aggressive force, in its healthy way, is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a wrong impression about the facts and about reality, must exist. This simple truth is being constantly | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you go about obtaining it is based on reality or truth, your real self is covered up | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mistaken belief that it will produce results. In reality, however, it has the exact opposite effect. It | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strength with you as something substantial, as the reality it is. Let it work with you. Use | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of a psychosis and brings you back to reality. But then you have to start working out | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| ANSWER: You said it brings one back to reality. It does that only in a very limited | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| death instinct, or the pleasure principle versus the reality principle. In connection with the reality principle, however | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| versus the reality principle. In connection with the reality principle, however, there is also confusion. So often | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in it without hurting others? And does the reality principle stand for duty, responsibility, work, achievement, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| It created life conditions on earth which made reality something that opposed the pleasure principle, to speak | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| speak in psychological terms; in spiritual terms, that reality on earth opposes the divine principle of bliss | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| duality and the world of duality creates a reality that says no to humanity's longing for complete | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of those who want to avoid confronting the reality of death on this earth. Another attempt to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this pleasure supreme is constantly in conflict with reality as you know it on earth. This is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| present life on earth. In these ways a reality principle is created that stands in clear opposition | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| makes life unnecessarily difficult. Thus your often unpleasant reality is in many respects unnecessary, and shows up | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| also help to change the overly harsh collective reality principle. Now I wish to touch upon another | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| such excessive expectations on this earth given the reality that humankind has created. Nor is it enough | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not understand what you mean by saying our reality is negative for us, so that we cringe | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| do not like it, but it is your reality at this stage of evolution. QUESTION: Can you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| from it all? Does he face up to reality or is he avoiding it? ANSWER: In general | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| often appear so in your state of temporary reality and distorted vision. People have to let go | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and love envelops you. This love is a reality. May you feel it and carry it with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| they have risen to genuine acceptance, when in reality they simply reject pain and suffering, and therefore | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death and life, are connected and are in reality one and the same, your happiness and pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| reasoning, surface desires and fears which are, in reality, but a symptom of your particular way of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| demonstrated. Life on earth is a symbol of reality, and not vice versa. And so it is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| horror therefore must have been unreal, for a reality is permanent and unchangeable. Only an illusion loses | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you experience something that is unreal as a reality, the remedy is not in talking yourself out | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| creativity. People like that begin to experience the reality of the spiritual laws and truth. It is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| successful analysis often come to believe in the reality of spiritual laws and truth. This rarely indicates | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| much such a person is cut off from reality on all levels. This means not only that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| laws and spiritual truth are disregarded, but that reality as it manifests on this earthplane is also | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| On the other side, the psychologist asserts that reality is so dismal, so hopeless, so despairing, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| bit, melting away the duality. In doing so, reality, as you know it on earth, begins to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| altogether different from the truth. In truth and reality, healthy and genuine self-confidence is peace of mind | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| they are not yet fully in truth and reality, in perfection and purity. But the feelings of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| but there is still a certain sense of reality. QUESTION: In the last lecture we learned that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this love is supposed to be given. In reality, a disturbed person who adopts such a solution | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is needed to maintain the submissive attitude. In reality, this type of person does not really care | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| so godlike in its justice and objectivity. In reality one's view may be just as colored by | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| apart -- that self-estrangement increases steadily, and therefore reality becomes not only more ugly, but also more | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is therefore bound to make you blind to reality. It inhibits your spontaneity and intuition and prevents | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| idealized self. The anger at others is, in reality, nothing but blame that they prevent you from | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| unconscious that if the idealized self were a reality and not a fake, you could never be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| one recognizes both its nature and the underlying reality, certainty, and stability of the real feeling slowly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| since anything activated out of the unconscious resists reality. While you may consciously have some new ideas | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| The dream may seem very real, but in reality you are not moving one inch forward because | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and understood. The inner world is the only reality that counts. It determines your material life just | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual and the psychological is arbitrary and, in reality, nonexistent. But since you do think along these | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the perfection you will have regained. Yet in reality they are one; only in your eyes do | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbolic of the inner world. The world of reality, the world that determines your life, is the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| most of you can sense and feel their reality. May they have a lasting effect. May you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| protect society. Superficially this may seem right; in reality it is not. For although it is true | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| yourself could do to make these expectations a reality, and you will understand why you have not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| begin to relate to others in truth and reality, not in falsehood and self-deception. When this happens | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of yourself. If you learn to accept the reality of yourself instead of your mistaken self-image, the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not a choice. And you cannot be in reality when you are compulsive, for reality cannot be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |