| bad as your unconscious resistance would have you believe. Do not heed it. Go on in your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| reveal yourself, eros will live. The moment you believe you have found all there is to find | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your great error comes in is that you believe there is a limit to the revealing of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| steady comfort of their relationship. They may even believe that they are happy in it, and this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| so. It cannot be different. QUESTION: Certain people believe that they can cut out sex and eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| love. And this, in turn, led humanity to believe more and more that sex is a sin | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| conditions and this vicious circle, humanity came to believe that you cannot find God when you respond | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| existence. In addition, you deceive yourself, because you believe you are purer than you are. You believe | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| believe you are purer than you are. You believe yourself free of lower motives, while they ferment | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| can often explain and rationalize, and therefore you believe that you know yourself. But is there any | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| are still spiritual infants, seek selfish ends and believe that their selfishness will serve their purpose. Whoever | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and for your spirit. Thus you will readily believe that all physical sickness is only a chain | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is not pleasant. This leads many people to believe that our path cannot be the right one | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| What a misunderstanding, my friends! How can you believe that you can simply bypass all the disharmony | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| that sense do not exist. Whoever wants to believe in that kind of salvation does so because | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| it should be, the way you can safely believe in because it makes sense. And do not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| resistance and sluggishness and self-pity. You should never believe even for an instant that what you experience | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you; and not, as you may continue to believe, the better you defend him, the worse you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| The constructive attitude is: In my ignorance I believe -- perhaps unconsciously so far -- that selfishness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| what the recognition shows you to be, you believe the outer and known trend must be unreal | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| unreal, and impossible to realize, and since you believe, behind your wall of separation, that others can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not create an image of God. Most people believe this statement means that you should not draw | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| work you have done so far, make you believe that they are true. In a subtle way | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your God-image, whether you fear God because you believe in injustice and are afraid of being the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| God who is unjust, as your subconscious may believe, but it is your wrong use of the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| will come to understand what led you to believe -- perhaps unconsciously, but all the more powerfully | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and its hurts, as some people want to believe, by misinterpreting spiritual ideas. Quite the contrary. Only | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| extreme is separateness, the attitude that makes one believe one can go through life avoiding its negative | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self-love. As far as egocentricity is concerned, I believe this has been answered, although I did not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| By acting in the apparent opposite manner, they believe they save themselves from bondage. The healthier you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that one extreme is wrong, one wants to believe that the other extreme is right. This would | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further thought. It is a complete error to believe that independent decisions are necessarily selfish and self-willed | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into place. Go on developing, finding yourself, and believe that whatever happens in accordance with God's laws | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much falsity and error, my friends. You often believe something is selfish that in reality has nothing | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you, you keep blaming God, perhaps unconsciously. You believe that somehow it was He who has punished | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| concerning your work in self-search. Many of you believe that to find yourself, to explore the unconscious | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you seek relief from this unpleasant feeling. You believe, mistakenly, that this can be accomplished by receiving | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| I have just explained. It leads you to believe that when you are extra-special in the eyes | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that when others agree with what you do, believe, and think, you gain in worth in your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| will have to understand fully that you unconsciously believe that your pride serves to gain something for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| seek admiration in various ways. One person may believe that material wealth will gain him greater stature | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the world around you, you are lost. You believe you lose the firm ground under your feet | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the wrong way to go about it. You believe you rebel against a world that tries to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| yourself that your inferiority feelings are unjustified. You believe, deep in your heart, that you need all | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| gave is just one of many possible ones. Believe me, my friends, whenever you experience something that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| put you into the position of rulership you believe you need in order to be happy. The | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| This is the phantom fear which makes you believe your life is at stake. Otherwise you would | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| clear if you still need clarification. But I believe any of you who take this particular approach | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| an injustice that you would consequently have to believe in a chaotic and godless world. You would | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the very end, it is inconceivable to believe in a Creator of love and justice and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from their inner bonds. Those who like to believe that often do so because it would be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| belief. And it is equally possible that people believe and accept this truth -- or any other | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| just as wrong as saying, You have to believe in God. It only creates harmful reactions, such | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gets a foothold within you, and you unconsciously believe that to be selfish would bring you happiness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| approval, or to obligate others, or because you believe that God will reward you for having been | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| other people who -- so you wish to believe -- force you into it. The next step | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| with his conscious ideas on the subject. I believe that the person in question is well aware | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Not in the sense, as many people would believe, of not participating in political activities, but in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up to the individual whether or not to believe it. There is something else that I did | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| variations. I do not think any of you believe that this part of the work is over | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of deviations, images, wrong conclusions, or because you believe the right thing to do is what is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| supposed to bring. Many of my friends consciously believe or vaguely feel that when they have worked | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| But you do not yet know that. You believe deep down, It is wrong for me to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| than the opposite. To recapitulate: Deep down you believe that you are unlovable, and this is what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| cannot get it -- which is what you believe. It is much easier to face shortcomings than | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| displeases, hurts or disappoints you -- or you believe so -- you will develop resentment and contempt | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| another. Moreover, it is your human illusion to believe another person as being so happy simply because | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being to your disadvantage. If you did not believe this, you would not resist. Moreover, maintaining your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| further, What is the aim? Do I really believe it is as bad as all that? The | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| very much. In fact, many of you may believe that you have been practicing it all the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and feel what is true, and not merely believe what you want to be true. As you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| irrational and unfounded fear. This leads me to believe that there must be a rational and a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not know that something else might exist. They believe this is the way it should be. Or | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| for now as it was then. Blindly, you believe that by willing it more strongly and more | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| trends, compulsions, and images will not only readily believe it, but will soon experience the truth of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are afraid of this pain and like to believe that by ignoring it they can make it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| whim. And even if you do not actually believe in such a god, that is your concept | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and not those in accord with what you believe you ought to want. Keep such established motivations | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| adopting such an attitude toward life, you will believe you are an innocent victim; you will feel | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| outer manifestation may, once again, lead you to believe that this is unjust. It is the same | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| essentially separate, alone and unique. At best, you believe that others may be in a similar plight | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is nothing selfish in that, though you might believe that the unavoidable happiness that results from purification | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is in itself a selfish act. If you believe that, then it would seem a higher aim | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of these teachings are, they do not genuinely believe them. There is a great difference between believing | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| resentment and contempt for a person because you believe that this is protection against the tragedy of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| will not need to exaggerate. You will not believe that you must have everything or you have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| go according to your wishes. You will not believe people are good or bad, neither depending on | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| for self-confidence. But in your unreality you may believe it does, simply by avoiding looking for what | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| self that is so much nearer than you believe, guide you in the stream of life. All | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Another saying of Jesus has been misunderstood, I believe. It has been distorted as meaning injustice. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| circle. ANSWER: Exactly. You see, my friends, I believe it almost impossible for anyone to truly understand | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this respect. It may appear that way, but, believe me, it is not. The inner processes are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you in a way that you may not believe possible now. Your inner strength will flow out | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| some degree. It is your human illusion to believe an outer deformity stands more in the way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| images, conflicts, and distortions. In your unconscious you believe you must have love, affection, and attention. It | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| have made you so cautious that you consciously believe you are genuinely and healthily detached, but your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that you are unaware of it. You may believe that the stronger the need, the more aware | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| your readiness and willingness for it. You may believe that your submissiveness is true sacrifice and unselfishness | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| illusion, because when you feel the need you believe your life is at stake. You may not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| formula. You may develop the best theories and believe them with your mind, but your feelings may | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| If I have to give up what I believe, then my whole world and personal safety crumbles | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as much difference as you are inclined to believe. You seem to think that if it is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| friend, you are very much mistaken if you believe that I advocate one- sided love. In a | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to be raging outside themselves; they tend to believe that they are merely victims caught in the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| dull, sterile, uninteresting. There are many people who believe that the very presence of unhappiness is what | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the solution lies in acceptance. But you also believe that in acceptance lies annihilation. As long as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life has to offer, including death. Some people believe they have risen to genuine acceptance, when in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| slows down the process of activity. Those who believe that God caused their suffering, which they have | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| You have daily opportunities. Whether you can now believe in a life after death does not even | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| whatever he or she may or may not believe, to make the best of life by realizing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| inherent fear of physical death. People want to believe in a physical continuation of life. Therefore, they | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your time and age it is called, I believe, a materialization of spirit substance. It is condensation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Now, those of us who do not consciously believe in existence after death, and do not consciously | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| go through a successful analysis often come to believe in the reality of spiritual laws and truth | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| person does. The latter says, I want to believe because I am afraid of death. I do | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| necessarily containing both. Intellectually you may accept and believe this, but emotionally you do not. What you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this in a healthy way. They despair. They believe they ought to be able to live up | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| I know I am imperfect, but I make believe I am not. Not to recognize this dishonesty | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is a life or death struggle. You still believe you need the idealized self in order to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| long as you battle against this badness and believe you cannot tolerate it, duality exists. By accepting | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| approval, sympathy, help, and love. Unconsciously such people believe that self-assertion and standing up for one's wishes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| I must be loved, so that I can believe in my own worth. Then I may be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this will appear as a relapse. You will believe you are even worse than before you started | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in the previous lecture, because you did not believe in your real worth. Because you build the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a very contradictory attitude exists. The person may believe that love and strength can be combined, that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| reasons: 1) you do not receive what you believe you should; and 2) your rules prove unworkable | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| theoretically, you may understand it quite well and believe that you are acting on your understanding, you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are very afraid of your emotions, you may believe your lack of strong negative feelings is a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for pleasure and safety. In giving in, you believe you will receive what you crave, while protecting | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to outer provocations, and you remain content to believe that you are otherwise all right. Of course | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| vast accumulation of smoldering emotions that you often believe to be entirely alien to your character and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| So, my friends, do not for a moment believe that you move away from spirituality by our | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems, in a sense it feels better to believe the goal itself is still valid, but for | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the goal seem difficult to attain. You believe you have an aim, even though it may | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| notice a reincarnation taking place, they prefer to believe that it is an exception. Otherwise such spirits | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| itself it is not even important what you believe. The important thing remains always one's own development | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if this is your main image, you may believe that you can find the safety and pleasure | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this difficulty, you will not be tempted to believe you are in truth, when you are merely | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not so much of anti-religion, as you may believe, but of false religion. This distortion is promoted | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| infancy. Search in this direction even if you believe this doesn't apply to you. If you really | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| itself. Contrary to what many of you may believe, the unfolding of creative ability is not a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| other words, somewhere deep inside, you hope and believe that it is possible to belong and to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is not the same. Inside, you hope and believe it possible to unite with others, to communicate | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| consciously thinking about it in these terms, you believe that the emotional growth process should come about | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| these actual feelings reach the surface. Then you believe it is the crisis that has caused these | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you -- no more and no less! To believe that it harms you more to know what | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| tending to your emotional growth. You want to believe that the one is possible without the other | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| love and approval from others -- as you believe it will -- but also serves to protect | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that you are incapable of being what you believe you really should be will subside because you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is deep misunderstanding here. You now seem to believe that I implied every moral act is moralizing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| where these tendencies exist in you. You now believe that you should abstain from right actions. This | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Now you may certainly be unaware that you believe this, yet it is true for every one | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in God if you do not trust and believe in yourself. To the degree that you do | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You see in their aloneness and separateness people believe deep down in their emotions -- although they | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, love, and involvement, but also because you believe, mistakenly, that certain needs are forbidden and wrong | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unconscious attention solely on responding to what you believe exists, not to what actually exists. In a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| set out to find in what respect you believe an advantage exists for you in maintaining the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| twisted condition, and in what way do you believe, in some part of your being, that its | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |