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may not be flattering for you, therefore you repress it and keep it under lock and key 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
of everything from which you cringe; do not repress this fear. You will then begin to see 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
choices. It is quite true that if you repress your pleasure drive, it must still express itself 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
understand what causes human beings to particularly neglect, repress, and cripple the growth of their emotional nature 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
follow in their place, but you will simply repress existing feelings. You will bury them and deceive 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
feeling unhappy. You also found it necessary to repress existing emotions because the expression of the negative 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
whatever made you react that way. You quickly repress and displace the true origin of your feelings 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
and compulsive force. Because of this you often repress them; they are so strong that when they 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
engulfed in this emotional deviation, the more you repress your real needs, the awareness of your unfulfillment 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you have this awareness, that you do not repress this insight. This is of great value; it 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
such a conflict about the matter that you repress awareness of the repetition. You repeat it in 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
created a distorted view that induces you to repress and to subdue what should be encouraged in 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you crave even more. Since you continue to repress your needs, the entire process has to be 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
needs, you would not find it necessary to repress them. As it is, one part of you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
soon after its first impact, you begin to repress the original hurt that caused you to form 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you to form an image. You not only repress the hurt, so that you are no longer 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
as a vague, general climate, but you also repress many of your needs. This happens because the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
are you trapped in confusion? What do you repress? Compassion makes you feel and understand, but it 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
in this life. This is why you often repress your reactions to an imperfect situation -- and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
enough to be able to accept imperfection. You repress your lack: your unfulfillments, your frustrations. You are 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
patterns responsible for such frustrations. Second, when you repress you cannot accept what is impossible to change 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
them. Simply using some form of discipline to repress your desire to daydream in order to improve 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
from previous talks on the subject, you either repress awareness of your needs or displace them onto 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
a danger to your safety. Thus you immediately repress the hurt -- your primary reaction -- and 101 THE DEFENSE
acted out. On the other hand, if you repress these feelings and desires out of fear and 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
your own rightness that you suppress, and ultimately repress, your wish capacity, your willpower. You may transform 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
mind by exercise and discipline, what happens? You repress what still exists in you, and when confronted 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of tearing it out. This only makes you repress the awareness of confusion's existence. But if you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you come across a disturbed area you again repress, judge, and strain away from what is. This 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
never dared to face. So by struggling to repress your insecurity, you actually increase it. By denying 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to do so. Or one will suppress and repress the hostility and turn it against oneself. In 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
are now used to the latter, hence you repress and suppress the combination of pleasurable feelings and 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
you withdrew from your own feelings; why you repress and why you stand guard over the most 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
point to remind all of you: Do not repress that child. Nor do you need to completely 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the problem. You begin to negate, deny, evade, repress whatever is destructive in you. Consequently, you are 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
being. Your sense of awareness dims as you repress the undesirable part of yourself. The less aware 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
unconsciously wants the opposite, and then fights to repress awareness of this dividedness. The result is that 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
deny pain, refute it and rebel against it, repress and project it onto outer circumstances, you cannot 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
vary, of course. It may be that you repress a certain feeling, a certain perception of those 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
 
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evil should be cleared away. Whenever anything is repressed into the unconscious, you can be quite sure 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
since the little voice was at one point repressed into the unconscious, it did not die; it 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
direction and become destructive. The same with a repressed passive current, where an unhealthy, compulsive activity is 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
work until now dealt mainly with facing the repressed negative aspects of the human personality. But this 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
of something makes you rush into it. Your repressed desire for the exact opposite of what you 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
if actually, unconsciously, you are seething with strong repressed emotions. These have to reach the surface consciousness 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
that strain, tiredness, and vague anxiety result from repressed emotions. Mostly, they are unaware of their negative 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
assimilated in emotional experience but has instead been repressed will constantly be reactivated by present situations. These 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
ability is already freed to a degree uses repressed, unresolved emotional energies for a constructive purpose. It 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
emotions are so deep-seated, so deeply buried and repressed, for such a long time, that they simply 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
resisting is that the full scope of one's repressed emotions comes as a shock because it is 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
certainly you have less control when they are repressed, and you are unaware of their existence, than 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is that a great deal of emotions are repressed. You crush not only destructive emotions which you 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ones. Be in peace. Be in God! 92. REPRESSED NEEDS -- RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS -- PRIMARY AND 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
It will show you that in connection with repressed needs, and along with your unawareness of them 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
needs can be healthy and normal. However, if repressed, they will turn into potent forces of destruction 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
can be destructive when awareness of it is repressed or non- existent. Among the needs of the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
to do with this? The answer is that repressed needs cause you to act contrary to your 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
that sexual needs do not have to be repressed. They are not, in themselves, harmful and sinful 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
needs. As already stated, if your needs are repressed, the urge for gratification becomes much stronger. This 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
All neurosis is built around a nucleus of repressed needs and contains the inability to give up 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
have to plough along exploring your emotions, bringing repressed needs to the surface, and unrolling the inner 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
what I am talking about. This condition of repressed and mischaneled needs, with all the consequences that 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
not caught in the trap of your own repressed needs with the consequent negative condition. If you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the illusion of hoping to bring gratification for repressed needs, you are capable of seeing what actually 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
capable of seeing what actually is. The more repressed, and therefore the more urgent your natural needs 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
be tackled from both ends. By bringing your repressed emotions and needs more and more into awareness 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
of an in itself healthy need has been repressed, some unhealthy factors must have become attached to 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
God! 93. THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES Greetings, my dearest friends. God 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
of our work is to deal with the repressed needs, and, in connection with them, repressed emotions 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the repressed needs, and, in connection with them, repressed emotions, positive and negative. In the third phase 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
The real need for being loved was already repressed by the time the image came into existence 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
frustrated needs grow and are again and again repressed, because the personality is not willing to face 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
one link between the main image and the repressed needs. The repressed need for love is, in 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the main image and the repressed needs. The repressed need for love is, in itself, a healthy 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you. Your submissiveness is the result of your repressed needs and of your denial and shame of 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
unfulfilled. Find the unpronounced claim and desire, the repressed need that you have neglected, and you will 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
personality which would bring about fulfillment. He has repressed the knowledge of this need. Instead, he pursues 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
experiences, you fear for yourself. The fear is repressed and therefore you can't deal with it and 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
all your resistance and rationalization, you finally allow repressed emotions to reach your awareness, you will see 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
can they function if the negative emotions are repressed and you barricade behind a solid wall many 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
on. The forcing current comes from your strong repressed needs, all the more forceful because you are 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
all these painful emotions -- whether exaggerated or repressed -- are illusions, and that you really do 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
and comes from needs instead of drives. Your repressed, unrecognized needs may create an even stronger force 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
an even stronger force, just because they are repressed. This force then must have an outlet. If 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
Moreover, daydreaming of this kind encourages awareness of repressed needs. You will appreciate by now how important 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
frustration the child could not deal with is repressed. It is put out of awareness, but it 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
not be pleasant. It cannot be. All the repressed negative emotions, as well as the repressed pain 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the repressed negative emotions, as well as the repressed pain, will at first come into awareness, and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
is immature can mature, and the healthy but repressed forces can be brought into their proper channels 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
which you cannot apply these exercises, what was repressed reappears on the surface. So it is only 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
necessary stage was not fully lived through but repressed due to outer influences and pressures. So my 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
such shock and guilt that it is entirely repressed and overcompensated by a weakening, unproductive pity. The 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
please ask them now. QUESTION: If someone has repressed fear and then has come to realize it 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
this inner confusion so much is obscure and repressed. When all the various inner demands and attitudes 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
maturity frequently hinders the pleasure principle, which is repressed when consciousness does not penetrate the levels. Therefore 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
it is thought wrong and bad and therefore repressed. Each individual has to specifically ascertain in what 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
emptiness it is possible for hitherto checked and repressed material to surface, if you express this purpose 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
in my work that this is due to repressed guilt. Is there self-punishment involved? ANSWER: Yes. It 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
wants non-health. Since the striving for non-health is repressed and ignored, the struggle toward health becomes all 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
lost awareness of your negative desires. You had repressed, denied, and hidden them, having superimposed false positive 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
it all along. This applies as much to repressed psychological material from this life as to great 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
must clearly understand that these words apply after repressed material has been made conscious, for not knowing 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
achieved when these negative feelings are no longer repressed and therefore need no outlet. Then the good 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
without serving as outlets for negative feelings, for repressed hostility, because the hostility is then dealt with 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
hoped to eliminate only increases when it is repressed and acted out indirectly. In this dualistic approach 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
case it is the guilt that would be repressed, creating further splitting and duality. Let us now 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
and squarely admitted, neither acted out irresponsibly nor repressed and denied, but fully accepted, will never become 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the soul; then the terror is denied and repressed -- and this repressed terror has additional adverse 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
terror is denied and repressed -- and this repressed terror has additional adverse effects on the personality 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
turn exists only when feelings are avoided and repressed. A person can never know who she or 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
unfulfillment caused most of your painful, and therefore repressed, feelings. As I said, any person not bringing 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
unconscious feeling experiences into consciousness must carry this repressed material into the next incarnation. The embedded material 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
hurt, and it will not add to the repressed residual pool. But those who still have to 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
lot of what you previously ignored, denied, or repressed. Needless to say how important and vitally essential 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
the word. It is not at all deeply repressed material. It is really a conscious attitude and 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
The past pain and anguish may really be repressed in the true sense of the word. In 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
state. For example, the less you fear your repressed anger and the more you learn to accept 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
inclinations, whether allowed to manifest or denied and repressed. If character defects deform one's sexual drive into 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
guilt and the ensuing self-punishment are denied and repressed, they may show up in a sexual inclination 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
this side of her had to be totally repressed. It was as socially unacceptable as the man's 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
general rule. Usually the longing is suppressed and repressed. It then becomes transformed into subsidiary longings, such 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
these psychological origins and explanations there is the repressed great existential longing as well as the fear 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
too threatening. So, the rebellion, too, must be repressed and denied, only to create more guilt, more 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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