| you would want to be different; what you believe others do to you, what life does to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| whether you are in reality, whether what you believe is true or not. Now, my friends, this | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| other people's reactions. Then there are those who believe that they are reasonable, rational and realistic, yet | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| yourself why you feel cruel. What do you believe is done to you? What do you expect | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| expect of the other person? Why do you believe the other person is acting -- or has | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you? Acknowledge precisely what it is that you believe. Then the next step must be to ask | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| ask: Is it real, or do I only believe it to be so? QUESTION: To me it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| possibility that it might not be as you believe. That must be your next step in this | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the possibility in a serious way. What you believe people feel and think and what they actually | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| what they actually feel and think, what you believe they are and what they actually are, is | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| also in your group. Ask yourself what you believe the other group members feel about you. When | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| simply and easily. Where and why do you believe that wanting the negative is safer for you | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to fill in this conscious male image. You believe that this is what you should do, and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| or her emotional attitudes. Whether or not you believe, what and how you believe, the attitude with | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| or not you believe, what and how you believe, the attitude with which you decide to either | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the attitude with which you decide to either believe or disbelieve in a superior power -- all | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in truth. For one reason or another, you believe that not being in truth is better for | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| manifestation. This is particularly true of those who believe in good luck and bad luck because they | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| no problems and only complete relationships. Do not believe that they never destroy anything while you are | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| their own needs and desires, and since they believe only they count, they cannot share the brunt | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| against death, renders them so unhappy that they believe they don't fear death. This is an illusion | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| proving yourself right and your friend wrong. You believe that by proving yourself right and your friend | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| possibility, you are frightened of it. You cannot believe in it and you cling to what you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| plane, you struggle against unification because you falsely believe that the moment you admit and see where | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| This argument means that somewhere deep down you believe that you can exist only through being noticed | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you master it on the wrong plane and believe that you must vanquish every resistance that is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| act according to the unified principle. Whenever you believe that in order to live I must be | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| between life and death -- or so you believe. The fallacy of this can be established only | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| against annihilation. You will see what you evidently believe is required from others in order for you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you know it in the false way; you believe it to be your undoing. You must therefore | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of the dualistic either/or is realized. People who believe this misconception follow an erroneous path: they hope | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| to deal with intensely personal problems. Those who believe that imbibing general truth and collecting more truthful | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| really are, what is possible for you? I believe that those who really think about it and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to transform yourself should be clearly recognized. I believe that most of you are now in a | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Where you still feel yourself blocked, unable to believe, unable to follow through, you will find deeper | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and forth, seeking a solution. The more you believe in the inevitable truth of these two alternatives | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| unselfish since it means giving up what you believe is personal fulfillment and happiness. Nor can you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| commit yourself to it as long as you believe that some disadvantage will result from your decision | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to ask yourself specifically to what extent you believe that life is against you, so that you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| disappointed with such an answer and may erroneously believe that this is a rebuff or a lack | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| That is, life will manifest exactly as you believe and conceive of it -- not one iota | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your path. The deliberate numbing occurs because you believe life is your enemy, and your life-affirming feelings | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| reactions of other people to you. Then you believe these reactions to be either better or worse | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the rest of their illusions, which they unconsciously believe they cannot live without. Those people who have | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| real and the false in themselves therefore often believe this pathwork to be destructive or negative. It | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| because in their hearts they do not really believe either the fake good feelings or the negative | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| live a false life with false feelings often believe themselves further advanced than those who battle with | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| I could have positive feelings instead. Or you believe that after the negative emotions are dissipated, a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| product of self- realization. It is erroneous to believe that the body can simply be left aside | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| or on anything having to be different. People believe that if only this or that were different | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| against life so much if they did not believe they had to bow down to something inevitable | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| by taking for granted what others say, you believe in laws that are not natural -- explicitly | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| -- explicitly as well as implicitly -- you believe in laws that are not natural and in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| opens to you, it is because you still believe in the threat: Your misconception is that the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not ready to do this, for you falsely believe you must have definite opinions. You fluctuate at | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| good qualities, about giving and loving. Such people believe they give into society's demands and they thereby | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| feelings. You may ignore this fact because you believe something is a feeling when you merely register | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| less capable you become of coping. Since you believe that this is a result of insufficient ego | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are as yet unaware of what they really believe, and also unaware of life's laws, ignore these | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| still fear the self-perpetuating, involuntary forces. You still believe you need to guard against them. And this | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| whatever reason, than push it away and make believe you do not have this fear. From here | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| for you. For only too often human beings believe themselves to be bound, paralyzed, helpless and unable | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessary for me at this time, as I believe it will lead me to my salvation. However | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative effects become worse and worse. The immature believe that self-responsibility means confinement. Of course, the exact | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have heard these words. Some of you may believe them, at least in principle; others may have | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| such general concepts, no matter what you consciously believe. You may discover these subtle reactions by observing | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| vicious circle continues. The continued frustration, which you believe to be caused by the other person's mean | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| using inner, covert pressure on others because you believe you are dependent on them, you diminish your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| perfection -- even though you do not really believe that it exists in you any longer -- | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| hold on to, even while you emotionally still believe that your life depends on getting the other | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of letting go of ego control because you believe the false idea that letting go makes you | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| first in its negative manifestation. Even when you believe in the creative powers, in their unlimited possibilities | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| up this illusion is so tragic because you believe only in this illusory, separate state as being | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| state as being real, as having identity. You believe that you lose your identity, thus your very | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the distorted belief that they are wrong. People believe that if they assert themselves in such a | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| need for selfhood and ecstasy -- must they believe this falsity. Believing the falsity, they can not | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| pleasure and goodness. But as long as you believe that in order to be good you must | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| it to a greater extent than you may believe. This duality does not merely come from personal | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of unpleasure, cannot ever harm you, unless you believe it will harm you. The harm comes exclusively | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| This is why it is such folly to believe pleasure is possible in only an intense state | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and gives life; why they react and even believe it to be death, annihilation, the end of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| persistently -- either consciously or vaguely unconsciously -- believe that the kind of experiences I mentioned are | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| make life unpleasurable and bleak? Why do they believe those attitudes represent life and safety? These are | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| have found many reasons or pseudo-reasons why people believe they must protect themselves from the very thing | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you will understand your loneliness and no longer believe that a trick of fate is being played | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| world-shakingly important, ask yourself, What do I really believe exists? In me? Around me? In the interaction | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| it is what you actually feel, think and believe, whether true or false -- while the haze | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you give some attention to what you really believe causes the specific unhappy feeling -- and usually | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| for example, how this assumption affects what you believe about others and what you believe they think | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| what you believe about others and what you believe they think of you; what a situation or | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| really mean. If you clearly formulate what you believe a situation or event or someone's reaction means | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| If you are unwilling to see what you believe to be true, you cannot ever come to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| what you must unearth. For example, you may believe that you are worth nothing; what makes rejection | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| fresh way, you will find out what you believe exists. From there on you can begin to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| preferable to live a lie by pretending you believe in your worth, while underneath you doubt it | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the necessary logic to look at what you believe exists, in order to then find out what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| although, perhaps, in a different way than you believe. Conversely, and simultaneously, you may believe that you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| than you believe. Conversely, and simultaneously, you may believe that you are the most important and valuable | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| entanglements of false opinions -- of what you believe exists as opposed to what actually exists -- | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| always an enormous relief compared to what you believe exists. Truth is never anywhere near as threatening | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| evasions, no matter what it is. What you believe exists is a relief as compared to the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| an even greater relief compared to what you believe exists. The discovery of the manifold possibilities in | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and unchangeable than the level of what you believe exists. If you are convinced of it, it | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| happen in experience and fact. So, what you believe and what is are not so different when | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in you, to the level of what you believe exists, then to the level of what actually | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| well as on the level of what you believe exists, which is not quite conscious -- that | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| impossible for you to ever hate anyone, or believe in the evil nature of certain human beings | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and the vagueness of not knowing what you believe - - or what others believe. That you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| what you believe - - or what others believe. That you can hate, but you can never | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| really feel about your father? What do you believe he felt about you and why? If you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| in clarity on the level of what you believe exists, rather than being in the fog of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| doing and waiting, of acting and listening, you believe the separated little self is all there is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| your own opinions and views -- because you believe you need the approval of others more than | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| need the approval of others more than you believe you need your own approval. I now go | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reflexes, in which you respond to what you believe is good in one way and to what | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| good in one way and to what you believe is bad in another way. Thus you go | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is a logical connection. The more human beings believe they must sacrifice their fundamental happiness because to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| This is all the more confusing when you believe you have done right to fight against the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| -- and since the world is geared to believe that that which is blissful is wrong and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| your desire to feel and love, because you believe in it only as a principle, with actually | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a question of either/or. In this case, you believe it to be a question of your happiness | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| often set out with the wrong expectation. They believe that when they come in touch with the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| be aware of this. In fact, you may believe that you are open and ready for the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| way. When humans go the wrong way, they believe that existence and all hope of bliss end | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| seems to move further and further away, they believe that there is no other hope or solution | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| unknowingly. What you think and feel, what you believe and conceive of, what you secretly wish and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| what you feel, what you wish, what you believe in right now, or with what you choose | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| activation. It feels very creative. Things I can't believe are happening in my mind. My intellect has | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| If you ignore your own inner obstructions and believe that others or fate cause your problems, you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| certain emotions, which are locked away, they genuinely believe that whatever they feel and know about themselves | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the obstruction. For example, if you do not believe it is possible to be truly happy it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not the annihilation of self, as many falsely believe. For all life is really in the spiritual | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Reveals Inner Reality No matter what we consciously believe we want, our life situation, in its negative | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| human consciousness. My friends, as long as you believe that you have to choose between being good | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| basic human conflict, the split consciousness, you must believe that you have to deprive yourself to be | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| feels from it. Thus, in primitive religion, humans believe the universal consciousness resides outside as a distinct | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| every single one of you here. Do not believe that this is an empty word. It carries | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| erroneous attitude of defiance and self-justification, because you believe that admitting your undesirable traits means that you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| feel hopeless because of life itself? Because you believe the possibilities for expansion and happiness are too | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| traits in me? But don't you then also believe that these traits mark and define your person | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is the great struggle, my friends: you erroneously believe that what is most obnoxious to you is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| beings, against changing. For, since you do not believe that you can essentially be anything else but | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| You hold on to it because you genuinely believe this is you; you are in a fixed | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your very nature. But since you will not believe this, you cannot give up holding on to | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| that it simply does not exist; when you believe that any state other than the one you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| my friends. Underneath all these personality traits you believe are fixed, final things, the fluid life exists | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| it is impossible to overcome anything when you believe you are a fixed, unchangeable blob. You know | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| instinctual life, unfold and integrate it. You will believe and trust in it. Do not deny and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| feel into yourself and ask: Do I really believe that this is all there is to me | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| all there is to me? Do I really believe that I must be these traits all my | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| be these traits all my life? Do I believe I have the possibility to love? Do I | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |