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all, you will have to understand better the reason for your self- dramatization. Once you understand that 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
it will be extremely useful to analyze the reason for your own frustration and impatience. It may 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
change it, regardless of your physical age. Another reason for resorting to this unsuccessful pseudo-solution is the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you really felt. This then became an additional reason for you to hinder self-expression. Consequently, as you 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
to observe. I can only point to the reason behind this manifestation. If you truly absorb it 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you want. Once you are aware of the reason for all this anger, you will be able 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
they occasionally feel hate, while also loving. The reason for such occasional hate is always a hurt 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
be forced to give in to them. Another reason for resisting is that the full scope of 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
seen doctors and they don't find any physical reason. ANSWER: This condition applies to many people, indeed 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
as long as you do not find the reason for them. Once you have found their existence 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
all this reaches consciousness, that there is no reason to feel contempt for one's healthy needs. You 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
healthy needs. You will see that the real reason for self-contempt is your inner unwillingness to relinquish 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
In this case, too, there is an underlying reason missing. You have to accept that this distortion 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you are no longer aware of the real reason why you feel so unhappy. Before you choose 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
constantly scream and fight where there is no reason to do so? What makes you believe that 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
your bidding. You put your strength, resourcefulness and reason outside yourself, and direct them at others rather 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you will express all the benign forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the real self whose nature is reality and reason. Moreover, the pseudo-solutions and the idealized self are 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
highly developed people are struggling, disharmonious, unhappy. The reason, my friends, is that the former develop steadily 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you more highly developed souls are employing a reason I am not capable of, because unless we 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
good for everyone. As to different kinds of reason, there is only one reason. There are not 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
different kinds of reason, there is only one reason. There are not several kinds. Again it is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
beings, still in the human struggle, have their reason impaired. Their intelligence may not be impaired, but 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
Their intelligence may not be impaired, but their reason is. Reason comes from the real self, so 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
may not be impaired, but their reason is. Reason comes from the real self, so to the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the degree of their self-alienation, to that degree reason does not function. The real self is pure 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
does not function. The real self is pure reason and pure love. You might also call it 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
not thinkable without the other. There cannot be reason, or wisdom, without love, and vice versa. So 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
actively, to bring out all the wondrous strength, reason, love, creativity, resourcefulness, joy, capacity for happiness that 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
there is an urge, there is an inner reason and necessity. QUESTION: You used to give me 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
comes the urgency of the forcing current. Another reason may be the need to convince others because 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
yourself may not be really convinced. Still another reason may be the feeling, vague and hidden, that 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
or do. For this is usually the main reason for exaggerating the intensity of your feelings. It 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the life force, an aspect of God, pure reason, pure love, or pure being. Each little victory 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
great flow of the eternal current. The ultimate reason for living is to make your life meaningful 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
That is not necessary. If you face the reason why you are afraid of being yourself and 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to establish constructive patterns that will give you reason to feel secure in yourself now. The destructive 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
system does not question the validity of the reason. The poisonous substance is released the moment you 101 THE DEFENSE
and being on the defensive for no valid reason be ruled out of your life, otherwise the 101 THE DEFENSE
persist in keeping them without any purpose or reason would be senseless. As to your second question 101 THE DEFENSE
in the past. You all know its origin, reason, effects, and side effects. Briefly: pride is always 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
to be recognized. You will now understand the reason why I have been admonishing you to become 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
physical health. That would certainly not be sufficient reason to call it a sin. There are many 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
you will eventually turn inward and seek the reason for your unfulfillment. However, there are many wrong 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
it, but out of fear or any other reason do not execute the sinful act, does this 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
of the wish itself, but because of the reason that necessitated hiding it. Such unawareness, that once 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will, the will of your real self. The reason for doing so is purely negative. It is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
if you are unaware of it. (2) Another reason why willpower or wish capacity becomes unproductive is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will also nursed by experience and judgment? The reason why I ask is because when talking about 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
opinions that you may have adopted for one reason or another. Such superimposition leads to the self-alienation 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
observe it, thereby understanding its background and its reason for existence. In this process, he grows out 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
key: self-awareness. The ability, willingness, courage, incentive, and reason to do so, has to be cultivated and 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the surface; by questioning them as to their reason for being. In this kind of activity, prayer 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
outer circumstance is not the real or entire reason that underlies your pain. This is very important 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
just explained, you deceive yourself about the real reason for your unhappiness. You use a false reason 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
reason for your unhappiness. You use a false reason you call legitimate to justify running away from 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
when one is depressed with less valid outer reason, and sometimes with no reason. One simply does 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
less valid outer reason, and sometimes with no reason. One simply does not know why. One may 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you are sad due to a good outer reason, test your emotion in the sense in which 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
their intuition at all -- or even their reason. They may always believe that only others are 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the conscious urgent need, they will find a reason for prohibiting their real feelings for affection and 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
rebel against. That too, of course, is one reason, but there is also another. You resent the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
of right or wrong. There was a good reason for this. The most difficult thing for a 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
accept and to forgive yourself. For that very reason we remained for a considerable time in what 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
for them. Your belief is often an unconscious reason for not facing the guilt. One can make 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
God. ANSWER: As I have repeatedly said, the reason for that is that people invariably use God 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
on self and others, of its force, its reason for existence. You may be aware of overambition 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
If you ignore the fuller impact of and reason for this tendency, you cannot be aware of 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
well commit a destructive deed for the same reason. When the consequences are fully understood in that 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
undiluted power was available. Exactly that is the reason. QUESTION: In the psychic readings given by Edgar 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
not be easy to follow, for the very reason just mentioned. Even those who already pursue this 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
forming their own ideas. They cannot discriminate between reason, common sense, logic, and their opposites. They depend 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
gathering of strength. This is essentially the main reason for sleep. To free oneself of gross matter 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
of life. This is too general. One hidden reason for maintaining the barricade is that deep in 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
clings to this hope. This is a main reason for resisting removal of the barrier. Once you 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
known in connection with a now real outer reason. But the existence of the outer reason does 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
outer reason. But the existence of the outer reason does not eliminate their presence. The inevitable difficulties 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
sequence of an unbroken chain. There is no reason to assume that the chain would suddenly terminate 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
expressions of your life. It is for that reason that you should heed all discomforts as warning 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
your inner self you will understand the true reason for your loneliness and its emptiness will be 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
is an unconscious process into which discrimination and reason cannot enter, along with the actual self-important and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
need acceptance and awareness, each for its own reason. Then it will often be found that the 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
of your own inner struggle, your intuition, your reason, even if the result be the same. If 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
recognition half-conscious again is due to the specific reason, my friends, that you may not yet be 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
is the nature of the karmic link, the reason and the necessity of choice. You had to 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
one another, and this in part is the reason for the prevalent loneliness of so many people 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
face these feelings, to understand their origin and reason. If you do not, you may not appear 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
infant knows nothing beyond this. There is no reason, no sense of how its pleasure may have 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
infant must develop its mind, its intellect, its reason, as well as its emotional nature. When all 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason and the power to understand, so will humankind 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
with brute force because you can rely on reason and fairness, rather than on power. But to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
a right to exist, you will have no reason to feel hostile, so expressing aggression will not 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
his aggressive tendencies -- and asserting himself where reason indicates that to do so is detrimental. In 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
an imbalance has to be recognized and the reason found. Even where all these various partnership needs 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
begin to evaluate the situation in relation to reason, justice, and fairness. A large step will be 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
govern you without your being able, through your reason, to change it. Hence it is of utmost 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
often and in so many different forms? My reason for doing so is that none of you 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
When you do, you will have found a reason for the existence of the no- current which 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
call it into existence become conscious, and your reason and intelligence can examine their validity. Therefore, it 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
want it or fears it or, for one reason or another, says no to it? (4) If 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
you want, what your obstruction is, and the reason for your no-current has a therapeutic value beyond 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
being struggles against this truth often more than reason warrants. In all sorts of obvious or subtle 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
of obvious or subtle ways, you seek the reason for your life circumstances outside yourself. Many of 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
all obstacles and division within the self. The reason for this in your case is that by 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
to come out of it. This is the reason: You fear that if you do not say 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
freedom of choice, rather than on compulsion; on reason, rather than emotionalism. When the overall development is 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
you will have, so that you have more reason to trust, and a benign cycle is established 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
wrong conclusion. But there is a very distinct reason that you feel threatened and truly endangered without 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
of life and others grow. Through such awareness, reason, vision and freedom of choice, commitment is not 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
it. ANSWER: You see, this is precisely the reason you feel unfulfilled in the important areas of 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
by realizing the truth that there is no reason to fear, then it is not necessary to 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
incarnated in this sphere? ANSWER: That is one reason for drawing souls into this particular sphere of 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
within, you will find a deep harmony and reason to trust your innermost self. The creative forces 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
and beauty exists in you. For some strange reason, you fight against admitting it. As long as 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
after close examination reveals its nature and the reason of its coming into existence, people still act 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
that part in you which you have every reason to trust. This, my friends, is a very 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
inner movement takes place which you have no reason to fear, for it must all happen in 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
do not see that their outlook is the reason for their good luck or bad luck, for 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
generally and vaguely touched upon, for the simple reason that none of my friends were quite ready 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
unfolds. The ego-faculties will help in the process; reason and intelligence will adjust imbalances and deviation from 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
adjust imbalances and deviation from reality. But when reason is used to deny the depth, scope and 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
desires, because you do not yet understand the reason for their existence, merely knowing that you have 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
not wanting to be in truth. For one reason or another, you believe that not being in 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
exists, it is still misinterpreted for yet another reason. When freedom, mastery, unification, and the resulting bliss 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
within yourself, can you fulfill your destiny, your reason for existing. Whatever else you accomplish serves only 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
into a better human being for no other reason than a desire to contribute to life, rather 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
faults, the next step is to understand the reason for their existence, and why you cling to 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
Total pleasure is feared for a very important reason: the pleasure supreme of the cosmic energy current 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
you distrust yourself on some level for any reason -- right or wrong -- how can you 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
against life itself. This is the most profound reason for your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
oneself grows in proportion. Many times the real reason for self-dislike is, at least partly, the cowardice 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
This cuts you off from the life-stream. The reason for cultivating this destructive attitude is in part 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
is sheer folly, my friends. All you have reason to distrust is your fear of yourself, which 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
no sense, if there is no rhyme or reason, if there is no evolution and continuum of 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
difficult -- honest self-facing. QUESTION: What is the reason, and who bears the responsibility for the inability 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to reactivate your feelings with the help of reason, through realistic and rational evaluation of the circumstances 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
fight against too tight an ego control where reason and will crowd out the involuntary processes. My 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
the negative is, of course, one very substantial reason why the individual prohibits the free-flowing soul movements 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
let out whatever is in me, for whatever reason, than push it away and make believe you 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
cause remains unconscious. The moment it becomes conscious, reason can be applied. Your sense of fairness will 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
inner being. It is frightening precisely for the reason I just mentioned, namely that a sense of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
unfulfilled. You do not search within for the reason of the unfulfillment. You do not see your 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
side of you that says no, for whatever reason. Then look for the side that blames others 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
Let us come, my friends, to the fundamental reason why you fear the healthy, blissful state in 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
with the greater self, it still possesses some reason and some grasp of a limited reality. Without 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to explain your discomfort, because not knowing the reason for a pain is worse than any conscious 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL Greetings and blessings, my dearest, dearest 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
each entity learns to develop the faculties of reason, seeing the causes and effects of one's actions 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
held in check only by the power to reason, to use the mind, and by the willpower 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
now manifests in a destructive way. So, when reason and will erect a barricade around the realm 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
state. Thus a consciousness builds itself based on reason. For a long time, in the history of 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
a long time, in the history of evolution, reason and will have seemed to be the saving 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
in precisely this stage. They have sufficiently developed reason and will to keep the realm of feelings 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
go on and on overdeveloping their faculties of reason and will, so that their personalities become lopsided 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
they become conscious, is unfounded. The faculties of reason and will are intact in everyone on this 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
ulterior motive. So your fear of possessing insufficient reason and will to control the feeling world proves 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
come to the surface, they dominate. Will and reason are underdeveloped and therefore cannot stem the flood 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
destructive emotions. Humans must spend many lifetimes training reason and will. Only when these faculties have been 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
built-in safety measure of the path. Even if reason and will still have weak spots, they are 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
so powerful that all of you are using reason and will to deny your feelings' existence. You 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
of honest self-confrontation. Now, using your will and reason for honest and humble self-confrontation, you can safely 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
in being completely controlled by emotions: Will and reason are still too frail to enter into the 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
the process of living. For today's human, whose reason and will generally are overgrown and whose emotional 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
or not you are aware of the connection. Reason and will by themselves can never bring aliveness 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
is why people who are most dominated by reason and will and have their feelings most controlled 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
danger of being forced into actions against your reason and will is truly an illusion in the 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
way. The mind is so trained in overusing reason that you think you need a reason to 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
overusing reason that you think you need a reason to feel a certain way. Thus, your real 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
escape you. Since you fear feelings and see reason as the saving measure, you concoct reasons for 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
having either to act on it or to reason it out. Then you will experience a wonderful 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
or her true self than the one whose reason and will function sufficiently to hide the inner 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
to make a vital decision: to bring your reason to bear on the entire question of whether 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
give yourself the chance to do so. Your reason will also tell you, once you think about 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
Why can you find it only indirectly? The reason is that you have anesthetized what once was 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
illusions about the self and life. The second reason for self-rejection is imaginary violation, according to illusory 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
to embark on a special search for the reason why you so stubbornly hold on to a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
in the sense of feeling guilty when his reason tells him he need not feel guilty. At 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
to arrogate to yourself. Such answers are the reason why you resist contacting your inner wisdom. For 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
again tension. When you are tense, for whatever reason, you must be in error because you must 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
you will inevitably love yourself? This is the reason why you fear pleasure. For pleasure not only 174 SELF-ESTEEM
and helplessly entrapped in his own prison. His reason for this unreasonable hate is especially irrational. One 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
how these reservations, your basic reluctance, are the reason for your darkness, for the difficulties of your 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
that denies happiness, fulfillment, and beauty for any reason. So far we have discussed two phases of 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the truth, which is that there is no reason for hopelessness, and difficult periods need only to 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
you desire positive experience out of a negative reason -- out of fear of pain -- you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
refusal to ride with it -- is the reason for its existence. It is intimately connected with 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
nothing comes through to you. After all, one reason these defenses are built is to ward off 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
destructiveness of others came your way. If the reason for your bliss is the latter, are you 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
at all aware of them. And for that reason you can still delude yourself that unhappiness and 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the truth of its stagnation, and from the reason for the stagnation, which is the fear of 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
attending to this life task is your true reason for living. In addition, it is the key 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
destructive, fearsome, and chaotic, the true motive and reason for this belief must also be examined. Such 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
fear, you may often find that the real reason behind the fear is shame and its partner 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
build your destructive defenses. That is the only reason why any destructiveness sets in. The fear of 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
of the self beyond the physical body. The reason that I failed to include it in our 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
path that unfolds, and it eventually reveals the reason for your being here on this earth now 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
guilt and self-punishment. There must be a powerful reason that obviously goes beyond any of the aforementioned 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
world is a haphazard place, without rhyme or reason. You will consequently become frightened, defensive, distrustful, grabbing 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
discussed in a recent lecture that a fundamental reason for the difficulty in changing negative to positive 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
you believe in the premise that you have reason to feel deprived because someone else has something 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
individuals with much less disturbance stay put. The reason for this is that the former are more 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
varied ways -- which is, after all, your reason for being incarnated. As you gain understanding and 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
conditions that you must deplore. This is one reason why you must learn to accept the negatively 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
accept the negatively creating aspects in you. Another reason is that no matter how destructive, cruel, and 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
danger of glib judgment. This danger is another reason I waited so long to give this lecture 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
an earlier time in history, there was a reason for such postulates. They were not all that 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
only when you focus your attention on the reason for coming into this plane in the first 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
focus on the undeveloped part. This is the reason why this specific path requires a lot more 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
inclined to deal with. That is the very reason you squeezed yourself into this narrow, uncomfortable, confining 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
these narrow aspects must suffer when the total reason for being in the human ego state is 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
where any seed will grow to fruition. The reason for this reluctance is very simple. It is 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
exist. That will set an example. For that reason the growth must be slow and sometimes arduous 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
out of every darkness and therefore never a reason to despair. You will know that nothing happens 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
seem to come and go without any outer reason. Yet now you can no longer deceive yourself 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
simply occurs in you without outer provocation or reason. It is as though a cloud has come 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
all have been in situations when suddenly without reason a mood has changed from sunny to rainy 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
you can pin this fluctuation on some outer reason. At the same time, it leads you more 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
to energize the numbed matter in you. The reason for this reluctance is that it is not 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
not an isolated creation. You must have a reason to walk there, and that reason, again, is 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
have a reason to walk there, and that reason, again, is only a small part of a 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
simply by dealing honestly with the issue. The reason for this is that you are in the 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
of anesthesia sets in. There is a specific reason for this. You awaken from it, as you 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
In the case of the incarnatory process, the reason is different. Before the spiritual self takes possession 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
unintelligently and gullibly -- trust without rhyme or reason, usually out of wishful thinking, laziness and ignorance 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
according to this concept, there would be good reason to discard it. If faith were a gullible 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
truly question yourself with all the logic and reason at the disposal of your mind, you will 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
leap to truth and love as the ultimate reason for being in your own life. When you 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
life ends, that nothing has any rhyme or reason, because then nothing matters anyway. So faith in 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
do not want to know -- for whatever reason -- then your doubt is dishonest. This wrong 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
and in your process of personal growth. The reason I tell you this now, my dearest friends 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
life, you deny that it can for whatever reason. It is therefore necessary that you begin to 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
along could best be learned for a negative reason: fear of an enemy. As human development proceeds 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
always comprised of courage and strength. For another reason, it is courageous to speak the truth because 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
wind, living in a world without rhyme or reason. Fulfillment comes to you as haphazardly as tragedies 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
the effects as chaotic coincidences. This is the reason why even if you do have your desires 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
the morning. I know there is a characterological reason for this, but I would like to know 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
structure in the human being in terms of reason, will, and emotion, and apply love to these 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
shades in-between. Love is certainly pure intelligence and reason. The deeper the understanding of the prevailing circumstances 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
or, to put it differently, the emotion follows reason and will. If you have misconceptions that to 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
spineless, then your ideas reflect a lack of reason and a lack of intelligence, which will hamper 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
to love. Love is also much more than reason, will, and emotion. It is sensation on every 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
experiences, or your interpretation of them, the true reason is that you distrust the tyrant of your 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
a rebellion of the inner tyrant, which disregards reason and wisdom. It is made with the will 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
an arbitrary, chaotic, senseless place without rhyme or reason; that there is no God, no eternal life 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
crevice of consciousness. This process is the very reason for incarnation and purification. What do you think 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
the experience comes to him without rhyme or reason! This is the most painful state of consciousness 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
world in which you exist without rhyme or reason, in which you can cease to exist at 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
against this movement, but ignorantly so. The deep reason for this struggle is, as I said, fear 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
as the aristocrats in the human family. The reason why Jesus Christ was born as a Jew 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
and clearly, you need more information. For this reason I should now like to discuss three specific 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
people or events in the worst light. The reason why you secretly wish this can only be 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
is the fear that nothing has rhyme or reason, that doing good -- or bad -- has 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
meanings. Never is anything just an accident. The reason for the distribution of the world's resources is 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
maligned than lukewarm currents. This is the deepest reason why such stringent taboos existed regarding sexual love 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
these very conditions because they desire an outer reason for being prevented from being alone. However, other 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
will that can be mustered. Often an important reason for secretiveness is the fear of self-exposure. The 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
love me. If this is the way you reason -- though it can hardly be called reasoning 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
the other person as worse for the same reason. Then you can say, No one should be 254 SURRENDER
a world in itself -- the world. The reason for this difficulty lies again in the limited 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
of the tight hold of your position. The reason is that you secretly hold a low opinion 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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