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| accomplished. Then individuality will not only not be relinquished, but will come into its own in ever-increasing | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| person, uninfluenced by your need. Thus you have relinquished for the sake of truth the pressing need | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| paid for holding on where you should have relinquished is tremendous. You have forfeited peace, strength, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| life your real self was manifest, you had relinquished something. Look perhaps first for positive examples; they | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| merit. Chances are that only after you have relinquished the pretense, and whatever you think you cannot | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that would not have been forthcoming had you relinquished the false premise that you would encounter it | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| that of the little ego, must be entirely relinquished. It must be let go of before true | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| idea that outer will is omnipotent must be relinquished, and the outer faculties must entrust themselves to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that the struggle between two opposite pulls is relinquished and the existence of the negative direction is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is a fearless state, but fear cannot be relinquished by insisting that what one fears stay away | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| involuntary processes, the exaggerated ego control cannot be relinquished and you can never convince yourself of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as the rigor of ego control must be relinquished. This is how balance can be reestablished in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| when the entity refuses self-responsibility. If self-activation is relinquished and, instead of surrendering to the self-activated inner | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Law applies when a particular distortion can be relinquished only when a completely different attitude is found | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| The search, the venturing forth, must never be relinquished, or you will fall again into the old | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated self-blame must be relinquished. What is necessary is to simply and honestly | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| often for a long time, need to be relinquished. Unless this is done, the true word cannot | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
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| peace. Be in God! 92. REPRESSED NEEDS -- RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS -- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS Greetings | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| tolerate temporary frustration. You will be capable of relinquishing the urgent pressure for immediate gratification if you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| result. You have not found the point of relinquishing in either that would allow for the constructive | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Moreover, as you find the subtle point of relinquishing, you will no longer be a slave to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| quick answer as to what the point of relinquishing is. Do not take a particular surface desire | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Only when such feelings accompany the point of relinquishing have you truly found it. Until then, you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be used as a substitute for the real relinquishing. The latter is never a sacrifice. It is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not be led into the dangerous illusion of relinquishing something that could be yours -- and then | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as opposed to real self-respect. The point of relinquishing simply means discovery of where your willpower has | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| sea when I talk about this point of relinquishing. The understanding will come, slowly but surely, as | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your liking -- thus making you capable of relinquishing your illusion. Secondary reactions derive from clinging to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| other needs, and you are capable of occasionally relinquishing the need for harmony in order to gratify | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| only when you have found your point of relinquishing and are completely aware of the hardened mass | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| begin to change in that respect. This is relinquishing in the real sense. One grows into it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| process just described, organic growth occurs and the relinquishing happens in a natural way. QUESTION: Now, let | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| importance of what I called the point of relinquishing. Let us now apply both these topics to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| sufficiently is to find your particular point of relinquishing that must be hidden somewhere right in the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are concerned. When you find the point of relinquishing, gradually two different alternatives will evolve: one will | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| all that it takes. Again, this point of relinquishing cannot be found by any intellectual process, but | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and with further assistance. Suddenly the point of relinquishing will come into sight, clearly and strongly, or | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| sight, clearly and strongly, or perhaps very subtly. Relinquishing may not require outer or material giving up | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| be attained only through finding the point of relinquishing. Whenever you are trapped in the crisis of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or false. When you reach the point of relinquishing, you will find that you do not sacrifice | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| forcing anyway. You will understand that by not relinquishing you are trapping yourself and making yourself weak | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| difficulties which are the final result of not relinquishing. Once your inner work has brought you to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| past life from the point of view of relinquishing. Notice where you were confused and dependent and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| be easier to give up your resistance to relinquishing, because your own experience will teach you that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| way, you are not ready for a forceful relinquishing and a drastic change. In this case, you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| tightness, a prejudice, a closeness, a fear of relinquishing a preconceived idea. This, of course, is due | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| It often reflects, in reality, a fear of relinquishing one's false solutions, destructive attitudes, defensive walls -- | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the equal rightfulness of the need for interdependency, relinquishing, and flexibility. These latter aspects are most ardently | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the ideal fulfillment without necessitating change, adjustment, and relinquishing on your part? This prevalent attitude may be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| must be able to accept an unhappy now, relinquishing self will and greed? COMMENT: Often we don't | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| hand, the acceptance of what is, and the relinquishing of your selfwill are both necessary to be | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to control. We have discussed the importance of relinquishing too tight a control and the failure to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you want to contribute, even if this means relinquishing the importance of the little ego. The desire | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to unified truth. You will further notice that relinquishing ideals and convictions also feels like annihilation, for | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the alternative itself. This is directly connected with relinquishing what one insists upon to the extent one | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| occur. I have discussed many facets of this relinquishing and showed you again and again how inner | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| can do this: testing it, going into it, relinquishing the insistence that it needs to be feared | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| die. To find these deep levels which make relinquishing a natural act, and to perceive unitive truth | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| afraid of this total commitment to life? Of relinquishing ego- identification? Of the positive manifestations that can | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| involvement of the struggle, makes you incapable of relinquishing your separateness. You thus bar yourself from completing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| letting go and relaxing. This does not mean relinquishing forever, but relaxing into pleasure through the power | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| If you can learn to let go without relinquishing your fulfillment or self-realization, you might indeed have | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to cooperation and positive pleasure. This always requires relinquishing the negative pleasure and the pseudo-safety. The soul | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| even though learning includes hard work and the relinquishing of some immediate pleasures. The child will rejoice | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| and again, never ceasing the inner effort, never relinquishing this new goal. Doubt is, of course, part | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| also need to fight for these fulfillments by relinquishing your passivity, your irresponsibility in wanting an ideal | 254 SURRENDER |
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| actually begun to cease. You will come to relish life in a way you have never been | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and would not want it differently. Such people relish order and are willing to pay the price | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Burdens will fall off your shoulders. You will relish a peace and comfort that will give you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
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| conjuring it up in their imagination they can relive it emotionally. Others may find the connection easier | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| approach it this way, you cannot experience and relive the original feelings that led you to form | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| into the past, even if you try to relive it exactly the way it was - - | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you are free of the blind compulsion to relive the past. We have often discussed this automatism | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| basic personality difficulties. When you discover how you relive your father and mother within yourself and continue | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| most of its aspects. Then only can you relive the frustration and pain you suffered as a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |