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emotions claim that the personality must not be rejected; that rejection must not happen to it. In 32 DECISION-MAKING
heart. The truth is that you are never rejected because of what you lack, whatever it may 32 DECISION-MAKING
insecurities. Even then such a person is not rejected for the true self, but merely for a 32 DECISION-MAKING
and those wishes granted, while others must be rejected. There is no definite borderline between the state 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
than one person. The child feels excluded and rejected if the parent also loves others, however. In 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
loved. This frustration causes the child to feel rejected, which, in turn, causes hatred, resentment, hostility, and 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
represents the exact opposite of a hated and rejected authority's, be it a parent or someone else 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
you can find out where you have been rejected, you will not be so severe with yourself 53 SELF-LOVE
fellow-creatures in many other ways. Whenever you feel rejected or slighted, check your innermost reactions where the 53 SELF-LOVE
manifestation with every individual. When a child feels rejected -- and you know that every child does 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
difference -- in most instances it feels more rejected by one of the parents than by the 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
my rejecter, so will I no longer be rejected. Since the rejecter seems cold, aloof, and free 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
it yearns for love and affection but is rejected instead. In its unconscious mind the idea forms 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
is important not because the parent you have rejected suffers from it, but mostly because you suffer 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
illusion wherein you are in terror of being rejected; 4) the effect of all this on your 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Being without the terror of being slighted or rejected, you will become willing to love others, often 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and hoped, yet they are not to be rejected now because they had their own conflicts and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
search for. There are so many who feel rejected. Those who constantly feel rejected should think, Perhaps 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
many who feel rejected. Those who constantly feel rejected should think, Perhaps I am rejecting others in 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
react, you are hurt because you have been rejected. Yes, my dear ones, that goes on constantly 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
this is protection against the tragedy of being rejected. Finally, it is not surprising if you no 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
process we so often discuss. When you feel rejected and insecure, you often assume an attitude of 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
drawing the wrong conclusion that your love is rejected and that, as a result, you are worth 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
show that the body is not to be rejected or denied. If you accept death you will 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
again. Reincarnation as a hypothesis was doubted and rejected by someone, and the statement was made that 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
their way. Unconsciously, they feel alone. They feel rejected by God, by life, by human authority, and 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
force in the universe, is often misunderstood and rejected because it is seen in its distorted form 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and become aware of being hurt, of feeling rejected. Your shame and fear of these emotions make 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
as long as you feel that your parents rejected you because of your unworthiness. Due to this 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
frequently in your life that you first felt rejected or slighted, and later through a variety of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the significance of these, you no longer felt rejected. You understood that they had nothing to do 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
doubt that it was never you who was rejected. The hurt inflicted upon you, due to their 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the moment you perceive that you were not rejected because you were unworthy, you no longer have 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
will give you the answer why you have rejected pleasure. You will then find that you reject 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
that being in reality is not only feeling rejected, but also being in pleasure, one would not 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you have really loved and yet were rebuffed, rejected? Many of you have puzzling questions about this 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
are not sensitive to this. You merely feel rejected and are busy with this insult. Just as 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
struggle exists with woman. When the girl-child feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
simple example: if you are convinced of being rejected, the rejection will finally become a reality, because 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
injustice. He or she may feel excluded or rejected. If A happens to be comparatively liberated from 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
both forms. If you are afraid to be rejected in love and, subsequently, displace that particular energy 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
prevalent attitude expresses, I am afraid of being rejected. I just hope for the best, but I 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
way or another, of being inadequate, of being rejected, of being looked down upon or not taken 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
love, or because I am afraid of being rejected? ANSWER: It is intermingled. The immediate feeling is 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
evil becomes quite clear. Children who feel hurt, rejected, and helplessly exposed to pain and deprivation often 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
instance, in the case of children who feel rejected by their mother, does this marriage mean that 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
can be experienced only in connection with being rejected again, or a little rejected, or being fearful 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
connection with being rejected again, or a little rejected, or being fearful that rejection may occur. QUESTION 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
But they didn't experience pleasure when they were rejected. ANSWER: Of course not. But the child uses 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
of course. No one really wants to be rejected. The trouble is that people consciously wish to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
can be experienced at all when someone is rejected, except in the form of revenge. That I 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
desire is inconceivable. Hence even healthy desire is rejected; the person in this state withdraws from desiring 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
this more understandable. You feel slighted, discriminated against, rejected. As a rule you admit this only vaguely 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
otherwise? Even when you do admit to feeling rejected, you usually let it go at that and 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
about where you feel you were insulted, slighted, rejected, or discriminated against. Put it down in writing 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
But if I am selfish, I will be rejected, despised, not loved, left alone. And that is 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
passive state must imply helplessness when activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for then helplessness is a 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
exist in the psyche, pure pleasure must be rejected. Hence the negative pleasure is the only way 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
and to what degree pure pleasure must be rejected. When you ascertain in yourself that you fear 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
over-discipline no longer works, or when it is rejected to begin with, evasion may lead to drug 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
pleasing an authoritarian god. No wonder love is rejected, since the pleasurable feelings it causes in the 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
the reaction you have to feeling frustrated and rejected. If you feel unacceptable to girls, it is 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
longer take for granted that you will be rejected. Therefore you will not be angry and frustrated 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and accept or the right not to be rejected and hated for asserting this freedom. You do 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
controls. If all involuntary forces are feared and rejected, the various ways in which a temporary submerging 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
The childish level may conclude you are being rejected, since the unrealizable demands are not fulfilled. You 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
the difference between an accepted emotion and a rejected one. The accepted feeling is not half as 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
different kinds of pain. The pain that is rejected is bitter and disquieting and hopeless. The pain 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
certainly sense shyness, uncertainty, insecurity, apprehension about being rejected or criticized, as well as feelings of inferiority 174 SELF-ESTEEM
concepts and perceptions. Thus it is no longer rejected in its essence but assimilated. This is precisely 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
The acceptance of whatever in you has been rejected because you refused to become conscious of it 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
the real spiritual influx. Often real spirituality is rejected by people meaning to reject the false, escapist 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
woman is trustworthy because you felt your mother rejected you. You now know that this equation is 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
been accepted and are no longer feared and rejected, the greater is one's ability to move the 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
a sexual inclination to be hurt, humiliated, or rejected. There are innumerable possibilities and meanings. Each sexual 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
life plan, and what traits are to be rejected. The child can do this only to the 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
the pain of it is fully experienced, not rejected but traveled through, can guilt and fear dissolve 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
each other, even when you seem to be rejected. Love is needed, perhaps not always in an 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
that there is nothing whatever that need be rejected, nothing whatever you cannot accept and forgive. The 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
times, when anything foreign and different was feared, rejected, and conquered by force. In the New Age 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
your lower self without being devastated and totally rejected, by holding your inner balance and knowing of 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
you are attacked or judged or criticized or rejected, as long as you operate with the value 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
A thought can be revised, it can be rejected, it can be debated. The word is already 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
love that part that you have hated and rejected and use its positive forces and unite with 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
sure that no part of you remains disconnected, rejected and denied. For to any part of you 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
truth, rather than with the attitude of being rejected, hurt and misjudged. When you listen for the 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
giving up of an immediate gratification is totally rejected by those who follow, but who often simultaneously 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
exposing evil, you will be isolated, ridiculed, and rejected. In other words, you foster the delusion that 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
must include the willingness to be temporarily hurt, rejected, or put at a disadvantage. It must include 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
and peoples. Why is this possibility so stubbornly rejected, so as to not even permit consideration of 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
the profound exchange of dynamic energy levels was rejected and condemned. Marriage was supposed to be a 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE

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