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be in reality when you are compulsive, for reality cannot be evaluated in the extreme terms of 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality these are not feasible alternatives at all. The 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
the disruption to the situation itself, but in reality, it stems from your attitude about yourself. You 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
how overly strong certain reactions are, relative to reality. This applies not only to negative but also 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
of your feelings and so move away from reality. You no longer see yourself in relation to 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
people can do this because they are in reality. They do not expect the impossible of themselves 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you with a perception and inner experience of reality. With such a foundation the inevitable outcome is 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
for yourself and thus make it a living reality. You will thus continue to remain dependent on 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
more than compensate you for the difference between reality and illusion. To find that condition in you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
relinquish, because you dare not face an unwelcome reality and cope with it, you cannot be spontaneous 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
Needless to say, this prohibits truth, spontaneity, and reality. In a secondary reaction, you focus your inner 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
meant to hurt or reject you, when in reality no such intent existed. Unawareness of needs distorts 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
no such intent existed. Unawareness of needs distorts reality. Everything is exaggeratedly good or bad, favorable or 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
on considerations that have nothing to do with reality. If you are free enough to cope with 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
illusion and false hope, your reluctance to face reality, or to relinquish a desired illusory goal. This 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
primary reactions. This will help you to face reality and relinquish illusion, so as to be free 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
become intense that it is impossible to face reality, to cope with frustration, to relinquish an illusion 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
bring a similar result. Thus, what was once reality now turns into illusion, because no such generalization 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
This is all the more disappointing because in reality the very opposite happens to what the remedy 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
is something utterly good and beneficial. This is reality. Illusion only breeds conflict. By finding where, through 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
speak, and that you see yourself in stark reality without any dilution; without shying away from the 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
that you do not bow down when, in reality, you would never do so anyway, whether or 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
nothing but weep for the other, while in reality you weep for yourself, due to your unwillingness 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
life is not distorted but in accord with reality, you will express all the benign forces -- 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
is simply inactivated by your distorted perception of reality, of certain factors in your life. The self-estranged 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you be in a position first to perceive reality and thus find your real self in this 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and gain insight into your distorted sense of reality, your sense of reality itself will improve automatically 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
your distorted sense of reality, your sense of reality itself will improve automatically. The result of this 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
factors as success, responsibility and pleasure in their reality will increase, and you will have access to 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
foreign to the real self whose nature is reality and reason. Moreover, the pseudo-solutions and the idealized 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
can only become manifest when my perception of reality becomes more truthful. This is how people who 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
How then can you experience others in their reality? You experience certain facets of them which you 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
for you that is out of proportion to reality. You are tense and anxious with such a 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
yourself, you do not experience others in their reality; they affect you according to your own problems 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
your ability to experience yourself and others in reality -- requires a great deal of self-observation on 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
respects -- you take a greater step toward reality than if you tried to force yourself into 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
goodness is to your disadvantage. Of course, in reality this is not so. But first you have 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
again is by fuller and fuller awareness of reality, growth, change, on all levels of your being 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
self, if you were in contact with its reality, you would be in absolute awareness of your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
because you have entered a further stage of reality and truth. You run away from awareness of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
reached the strength, courage, humility, determination, and the reality to face your real needs -- to receive 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
your alienated self -- finds home within the reality of the core of your being. To reach 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
deeper, fuller insight and thus coming closer to reality, you will slowly begin to cause different effects 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and learn and gain further hold of the reality of yourself, a period of partial fulfillment will 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
entirely new pattern, a new cause, in health, reality and productivity. However, the effects will not manifest 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
area of your life. Live in truth and reality. Face every issue in its entirety. Look at 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
not identifying with yourself and your deep inner reality but instead with the superimposed layers of your 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
not a question of age -- not in reality, my friends. Although it is true that a 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
you have to learn first is acceptance of reality. If you were more accepting of the world 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
negative finding will give you the experience of reality, thus of the real self. This is where 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
You can come to terms with it in reality. You can accept it. You can accept frustration 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
result of feeling and responding to aspects of reality. But self-pity and depression are not. Boredom is 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
is such a thing as finding God. In reality and in health, this is a very concrete 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
is so because your demands are incompatible with reality as you know it. Most of the time 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
because it is based on truth. Again, the reality, or truth, of your world is imperfection. And 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
truth, of your world is imperfection. And the reality, or truth, of your personal state of soul 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
from which to proceed, unless you face the reality of both truths -- one in the world 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
come to know the greater depth of the reality of your being? How then can you convince 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
vague and not registering any particular reaction. In reality, there is a reaction on your part. This 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
by superimposed, immature reasons, crutches, rather than the reality of your own being. On the other hand 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of inadequacy and inferiority. You correct your undesirable reality with fantasy. Obviously, there is harm in spending 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
not enough to say that daydreaming is escaping reality. This is true, but let us understand more 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
degree that you learn to love life in reality. Then the daydreams will simply cease by themselves 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
and not merely an escape from a drab reality. When you are unwilling to leave your isolation 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
capacity to feel, to live, and to experience reality. This, in turn, creates many vicious circles, which 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
stream. Due to the unconscious conviction that in reality fulfillment is impossible, you can completely withdraw from 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
than what you are capable of experiencing in reality at this time. Determine whether this holds true 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
may even spur you to seek fulfillment in reality. In that case, daydreams do have a beneficial 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
feel, and react as they want, and the reality, which is often different and requires flexibility and 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
expecting that today's fantasy will turn into tomorrow's reality. Of course, the morrow never comes. The reality 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
reality. Of course, the morrow never comes. The reality never conforms to the fantasy that has been 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
prepared in daydreaming; this causes frustration. In truth, reality is infinitely more satisfying than the daydreams, but 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
that it may prevent you from living in reality. Now, what is the benefit of this kind 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
as development proceeds, and with it awareness of reality grows. The more you are in reality, the 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
of reality grows. The more you are in reality, the more your outlook widens and the more 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
may become the great keys to freedom and reality and love. Once again, let us talk about 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you to love and experience others in their reality, while you are centered in your own real 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
in your own real self, which is your reality. The child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
is your reality. The child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions which influence the way you relate 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
both. Therefore you still do not perceive the reality of your parent the human being. You may 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
this tie is not dissolved by seeing the reality of your parents, you will continue to have 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
in you to have everything well ordered. A reality, which is flexible and contradictory, for which there 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
a mature attitude and understand them in their reality, you may find a certain fear and resistance 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
this, even if one sees one's parents in reality? ANSWER: It happens naturally and by itself. The 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
perhaps for the first time in truth and reality -- know that this had nothing to do 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
The moment you experience them in their living reality -- at fault, surely, but now understood in 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
people of your early environment in their human reality, you will no longer need to practice self-rejection 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
often such a strong resistance to knowing the reality in this respect. Your this would not help 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
As I went deeper, I discovered that, in reality, sex is pleasure. So I found that for 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
happiness, joy, pleasure, life, and love is in reality just a rejection of yourself. This is exactly 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
a strong person to care for you. In reality you inflict upon yourself more pain because you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
yourself and others, to accept life in its reality, and you are therefore incapable of coping with 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
was, thus not facing and coping with your reality, that caused your soul's sickness. Hence it is 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
what you wish. No, my friends. However, the reality is much better. In reality you will learn 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
friends. However, the reality is much better. In reality you will learn to cope with the mishaps 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
root. You shift your emphasis from evasion to reality. The real pain has to be experienced in 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
in pursuit of pleasure, you are not in reality. Reality means rejection and unpleasure, therefore you escape 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
pursuit of pleasure, you are not in reality. Reality means rejection and unpleasure, therefore you escape from 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
This, then, seems to confirm the contention that reality and pleasure are incompatible. To a lesser degree 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
not exist, if one knew that being in reality is not only feeling rejected, but also being 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
Needless to say, this is not so in reality. Only the process of growth will give you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
unconsciously, a threat to your safety, which in reality is null. Frustrations may be undesirable, but not 101 THE DEFENSE
not truth-producing. It does not give truth and reality any breathing space. Wherever a defensive wall is 101 THE DEFENSE
affection, and understanding. Therefore, you are not in reality, and you cannot really communicate. Your system is 101 THE DEFENSE
this state a vital part of life and reality is left out of consideration. Defensiveness can take 101 THE DEFENSE
why your emotions are not functioning according to reality and truth. Get a clear understanding of how 101 THE DEFENSE
in you, understanding it and comparing it with reality and truthful concepts; as you go through this 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
now, is the truth. It is your present reality. If you accept this without guilt and judgment 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
does not take into account the other person's reality; if the strength of the wish is stronger 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
the strength of the wish is stronger than reality warrants, then you defeat your purpose. (4) If 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
them, will not give you the freedom of reality. It may prohibit your meeting life afresh so 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
because the will is set on something else. Reality should fit into what you wish it to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
yourself. You may believe you do, when in reality you do not, but that does not mean 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
happen to be now. As you accept the reality of your actual state now, the real self 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
even the truth, because the present has, in reality, no resemblance to the past, or would not 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the right road. But when their smoldering inner reality disrupts this false peace, they despair. If only 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
as what yoga calls becoming the mirror of reality? Also that the mind should become the slayer 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
slayer of the mind in order to reach reality? ANSWER: Yes, it is the same, only it 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
mind. Is that genuine? Can that lead to reality? When you are off guard and do not 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
will have to find themselves in truth and reality, instead of pretending to be something different. That 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
desire to face the truth in yourself, the reality that is in you right now, is the 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
remind yourself constantly to be alert to this reality in you; to cultivate the awareness. After this 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
himself. Thus he cultivates awareness by facing the reality within. As he proceeds to do this, forever 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
you do not face the temporary, often unpleasant reality. Only then can the great Reality be experienced 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
often unpleasant reality. Only then can the great Reality be experienced. The latter will first come occasionally 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
is a product of the mind. Therefore, in reality, future does not exist. Just as past does 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
due to his own evasion of truth and reality; once he not only understands this as a 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
When you truly come to terms with your reality, you can also accept the imperfection of life 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
so much blindness and lack of awareness of reality, it shows such spiritual immaturity, that it cannot 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
in awareness before you can sense that, in reality, in the state of being, there is no 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of reality causes supplication, prayer will be expressed accordingly. When 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
sense. It is awareness of God in His Reality. But this kind of prayer cannot be imitated 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
differently. Temporary suffering, parting, and death is, in reality, not what it means to you. I know 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
A group of only five people, who face reality as it happens to be now, contributes more 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
will perceive what it means to be in reality, to be in the state of being in 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
state of being in awareness. Even the unpleasant reality of the moment, the product of your conflicts 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
it, instead of running from it, even that reality is peaceful -- it is God. Only that 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
can be the door to an eventually greater Reality. With this, I bless each and every one 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
of your openness and willingness to relate. In reality this merely covers up your withdrawal, which exists 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
confusion exist, and the partners do not face reality, love cannot come into being. The fact that 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
they are not yet quite sure of the reality of this phenomenon. Since they are so unsure 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
fluctuates between underestimation and overestimation. Neither is in reality. Only by continuing on this curve can one 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
your rationalizations that keep you from truth and reality within yourself, that keep you from growing into 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
them perhaps as mere words without meaning, without reality? Blessings have a very definite reality, my friends 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
meaning, without reality? Blessings have a very definite reality, my friends. If you were but free, really 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to the fullest, these blessings would be a reality for you. You would feel the actual stream 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
and confusions before you can actually feel the reality of the love in you. At first, the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
reactions, but since the unconscious currents are a reality, their response would prove this to be so 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
submit in evident weakness. This pseudo-strength is, in reality and essence, just as weak as submitting. Those 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING

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