| Repress.....................39 | |
| 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 |
| Repressed...................84 | |
| 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 |