| you unfold your destiny. There is no human being who does not operate on pretense at some | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| guidelines adapted to the limits of a human being still held down by the physical body. I | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of not seeing your mate again, of not being good enough, this very fear is a product | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to experience yourself for the first time as being no longer helpless. Whenever you find an issue | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| in order to be safe. To give up being a helpless, fearful baby means to you that | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| years. The fruits of this training are constantly being used, and this is the only way to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that one's own happiness depends on everyone else being in truth. Still another is a feeling of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| another is a feeling of inadequacy when not being able to reach or persuade another person. These | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| in such communication a different level of your being operates. You will be able to convey through | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| operates. You will be able to convey through being, through your full life-experience, and that will direct | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| with the difficulties of life that accrue from being in matter. I said just before, in another | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| how great a destructive energy you generate by being unaware of your unfulfillment. The repression is harmful | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| change. Your haste, and your shame for not being perfect, create a rigid wall that makes growth | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| productive attitude become an integral part of one's being. There is another subtle deviation in the wrong | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| your emotional striving, from which not one human being is entirely free. So accept the imperfection, for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| think you should already be above all that, being already perfect -- how can you discover what | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the greater depth of the reality of your being? How then can you convince yourself of the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in the dark, and I, as a human being, often grope in the dark. I do not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| underneath you will discover and become aware of being hurt, of feeling rejected. Your shame and fear | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| grow a step at a time, while still being far away from perfection, you cannot stagnate. Acceptance | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is the only way you can grow. However, being perfectionistic is such a strain, leads to such | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you. There may be many sides to your being where you are quite relaxed and free, and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| crutches, rather than the reality of your own being. On the other hand, you will find that | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| The human entity is a deep, involved, complex being. Therefore, in order to be undivided and unified | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in one way, while another aspect of his being waits for unfoldment and growth that cannot be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| something entirely unconnected with the soul, with one's being. Quite the contrary! In the last analysis, it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| duty, but to make yourself more capable of being in joy, and thus capable of giving it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of God, pure reason, pure love, or pure being. Each little victory may give you an occasional | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of the great freedom and indescribable happiness of being a part of this eternal current. Humanity is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is to make your life meaningful, but without being merged into this current this cannot happen. Many | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| inner person often cultivates such a desire without being consciously aware of it. Then things begin to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your lack of self-confidence. There isn't a human being who does not, even consciously at times, indulge | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| do not wish to face: the fear of being yourself. Since these are not your real fears | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| face the reason why you are afraid of being yourself and develop from that point, the other | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is true that in a higher state of being harmony and happiness are the same, just as | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| However, the two are entirely different. A human being can often be consciously aware of his or | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the human personality? Think about the term human being and what it really means. Does it not | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| perceive the reality of your parent the human being. You may know perfectly well with your intellect | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with the living, dynamic complexity of the human being who was closest to you. It is most | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| second step, you can become a free human being. But how do these revisions take place? Begin | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to understand them in the fullness of their being. Understand their lives, their inner and outer struggles | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and frustrations? Understand them as one mature human being tries to understand another, with as much detachment | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| objectivity, and consider as many facets of their being as possible, not just those aspects that have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| monster lacks the totality of the whole human being. You cannot understand those traits that have hurt | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the detachment and objectivity of one uninvolved human being toward another. As you begin this process, your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you do so, you respect the basic human being in everyone, regardless of their many aberrations and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the real honor and love that one human being can have for another, no matter how erring | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the psychological, emotional, and spiritual levels of your being -- those which cannot be seen. You may | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| expense of outer approval from society, you are being true to yourself, then you have the integrity | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| represents the emotions: the flow, the state of being, a healthy passivity. Both healthy activity -- fire | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| brings you into harmony with the state of being which would mean heaven. QUESTION: Could you talk | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| love and affection. It also suffers from not being fully accepted in its own individuality. By this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and from living, it is a defense against being hurt. Only after considerable insight into yourself will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the way to a new inner life of being emotionally willing to let go of all the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the threshold into emotional adulthood. Can you imagine being spared experiencing the pain against which you instituted | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| last analysis it is true, of course, that being freed of your shackles of error and deviation | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| opportunities and independent ability to choose, instead of being utterly helpless and waiting for fate to bring | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| seeing how to get out of it, thus being dependent on outer intervention over which you have | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| patterns will eventually establish themselves in your inner being and will make you see the possibilities you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| wish to love, and live in fear of being hurt, if you do not wish to take | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| degree, this can be found in every human being, but to a greater extent it is found | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| misconception did not exist, if one knew that being in reality is not only feeling rejected, but | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| reality is not only feeling rejected, but also being in pleasure, one would not need to seek | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| last lecture that the effect of one person being in truth is of greater cosmic importance than | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the negative, distorted soul parts of a human being in the sense discussed tonight, you will also | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| pseudo- solution is bound to reject another human being. When you submit, you do not experience the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is important that unrealistic fears should cease, and being on the defensive for no valid reason be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| actual and unreal threats, because the state of being on the defensive has become second nature. This | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| All these defenses stem from your fright of being exposed to the possibility of danger. You live | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| defenses. They are automatic processes in every human being. Even a child will have automatic reactions without | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to preserve your status as a lovable human being. You use such heavy fighting equipment only to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| QUESTION: But what if we get annoyed at being unjustly criticized? ANSWER: The very feeling of annoyance | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| who have no reactions? ANSWER: When a human being gets into that state, it is a result | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| into that state, it is a result of being overdefensive. Outwardly and consciously, emotions may be dulled | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| I have an inadequate concept of a human being. What is a human being? ANSWER: If I | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of a human being. What is a human being? ANSWER: If I were to answer that, it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and the range of feelings in every human being. Every human being has, in both a positive | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of feelings in every human being. Every human being has, in both a positive and a negative | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the limitless possibilities and potentials of any human being, the further do you come in understanding a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| do you come in understanding a particular human being. On the other hand, the more you believe | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| believe, either consciously or unconsciously, that a human being is only this or only that, in other | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that if there is less to a human being, it is easier to know one another. This | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| recognizing your immaturity. If you do this, without being angry and impatient with yourself, your emotions will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| conflict within you. Such a conflict is your being afraid -- perhaps unconsciously -- of the very | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| or the lust for power, for money, for being liked, or for a particular thing. When these | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| for power, for money, for fame, for always being right, or for anything else. The fourth cardinal | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| position you find yourself in -- that of being hurt. In pride, you lie about your real | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| development. The fulfillment and happiness of every human being is a necessity for the entire evolution. It | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| others. Whoever reaches out takes the risk of being hurt and accepts this risk as worth while | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| defense-mechanisms I have discussed. In your fear of being hurt, you defend yourself by becoming lazy and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a sin, this will not prevent them from being frightened. They will be even more frightened. But | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| They will perceive the contradictoriness of the human being and will be able to apply this knowledge | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| God's infinite greatness is such that no human being can even remotely understand it. As you grow | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| make an independent choice because they cannot risk being different. The outer manifestation does not show whether | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this feeling through you. As though some new being took hold of you inwardly. You may perhaps | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| from a new and unaccustomed area of your being. It is something calmer and wiser that thinks | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not come in all areas of living and being at once. It may first appear in the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| subjective and destructive involvement, even if non-involvement is being used as superficial pseudo-solution. In the new state | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| real self. QUESTION: If a man marries without being really deeply in love with a woman -- | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of affection, respect, liking for the other human being are there, together with certain common basic interests | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| one could ever receive love, since no human being is quite perfect. At the same time, you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| received, another kind of relationship could come into being that may be very rewarding. Yet you miss | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in this destructive imbalance many times without really being aware of it. With this attitude, you destroy | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| yet only on a superficial level of your being. But do you also accept it when it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| inner growth and freedom can come only by being yourself. Through a path such as this, you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| childishness and get to that area of your being where this very childishness receives the soul forces | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| shows a complete misconception of what the human being is and what life is. It is the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| -- we cannot say none since no human being is free of it -- the only way | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a degree, take place in every sphere of being. But where the hindrances and obstacles are greatest | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the sum total of his or her entire being, outer and inner. According to this personal vibration | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| words again ring an echo in your innermost being. May they become fruitful for you, perhaps not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| understanding of how the real self comes into being and what obstructs its functioning. The obstruction is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of a spontaneous, creative experience that comes into being unbidden, when least expected. This is very important | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| primitive stage of development is a state of being without awareness. Animal life, plant life, mineral life | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| life, mineral life are in a state of being without awareness, without self-consciousness. Primitive man was only | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| proceeded, the less did the state of unconscious being exist, and the more it changed into a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| state of becoming, in awareness. Here the human being is striving, using intellect and will, to survive | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be used to get into a state of being, which is not of matter. They can be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| thereby create an obstruction to the state of being, then thought and will must be used to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| own production, and never with the state of being -- the real you. This means first understanding | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| highest stage of development is the state of being, in awareness. This does not manifest suddenly, after | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| instincts that had slumbered in the state of being in unawareness. Without will and intelligence they could | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to approach the threshold of the state of being, in awareness. They often realize that they want | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| they attempt to reach the higher form of being by using the tools of intellect, thought process | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are and have now. The harmonious state of being can come about only by accepting your state | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mean you love. Love can only come into being when you remove your errors, your confusions, your | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| by fully understanding them. Then love comes into being by itself, just as the real self comes | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| itself, just as the real self comes into being by itself. You cannot make up your mind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and so to remove what prevents you from being a good and loving person and what stands | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| stands between you and a full life, of being your real self. Can you now perhaps understand | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| There is no misery. In the state of being there is no misery. Misery, however, will exist | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| exist as you grow into the state of being in awareness, unless you have learned to go | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| just superficially, how these false structures came into being. There are many religious systems which realize the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Dissolve its negative use in areas of your being where the mind is a hindrance and a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| self is the product, the result that is being born in you through your understanding and accepting | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cycle, approaching the threshold of the state of being in awareness, yet they oppose the organic growth | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to security cannot bring the real self into being. If you follow this procedure step by step | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be of the mind. Another region of your being -- the real self -- produces a different | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| also possible, of course, that wrong terms are being used by translators and others who try to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| lead further away from the real state of being. They may, however, lead to an illusory, imaginary | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| however, lead to an illusory, imaginary state of being. The great spirits of all times have said | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it comes to the growth of your inner being, discipline is very harmful. If you discipline your | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| real self, of love. Can love come into being by discipline, by an act of will? Can | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of will? Can any creative process come into being by discipline? Can you be a good person | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are still immature. How can they mature by being channeled? Do you channel any living organism, a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| QUESTION: If one is in the state of being, which is the real self, and is functioning | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your manner of going about it -- namely, being free from repression and having the willingness to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to calmly and unjudgingly see what is, without being in a hurry about it -- that can | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is the only way God can come into being. Light, love, joy -- all these are the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the last lecture I discussed the state of being without awareness, as the first stage in the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |