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| You do not take command of your ship, believing and hoping -- again unconsciously -- that God | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| act. As long as you deceive yourself into believing that you can manage without it, you will | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| a disappointment, for people, until they face themselves, believing that they are far more developed than they | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the mistake, by confusing the basic concepts, of believing that the ego is identical with the sense | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| told to relinquish something to which you cling believing it to be God's will -- it could | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wish, so as not to fool yourself into believing that you have done everything you could and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the standards of your society, as opposed to believing that the mask self is your true nature | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| wise and mature attitude, of course, is not believing that you can change from one day to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| lends itself extremely well to deceiving yourself into believing that your idealization is love and tolerance. You | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| extremes. But all the types are wrong in believing that their own extreme is better than those | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a long time you may delude yourself into believing that all the mishaps in your life are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as to how long you can go on believing that. Eventually the situation must arise when you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you discover behind the first mask of unselfishness, believing that now at last you are true to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| disappointment. It tends to be in a hurry believing one can whisk away deep-rooted personality problems -- | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your inner motives and not deceive yourself into believing that your motives are all good and pure | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| two opposite poles, from hopelessness and despair -- believing that the universe is unjust -- to self- | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| for a time, but it actually never is. Believing that is the human blindness of this earth | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| what in you has caused them, but rather believing it to be the will of God that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with the Plan of Salvation. Every individual entity, believing in Christ or not, will have to go | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| eliminate this feeling, you strengthen the wrong motive, believing that more of the same might be the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| recognition of importance, beware of the attitude of believing that you can immediately change your emotions simply | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of many others. Please, do not oversimplify by believing that everyone who is a good subject is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| such a dismal state, to deceive yourself into believing that when you submit is when you truly | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Or, in extreme cases, they feel especially isolated, believing their lot is like no one else's. Both | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you new negative currents? You are mistaken in believing that the transition state produces new fears. The | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| believe them. There is a great difference between believing something out of fear, and believing something after | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| difference between believing something out of fear, and believing something after having faced your doubts and come | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| tense, compulsive, emotional behavior pattern. Once you stop believing, as you unconsciously do now, that the compulsive | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a hostile attitude deceives himself or herself into believing that he or she is independent, standing alone | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| use it to gain respect, power, admiration, unconsciously believing that thereby you also gain love. In reality | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ceasing to exist that he will not risk believing and then being disappointed if the religionists are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is. The person who glorifies such negative tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence, superiority and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the idealized self- image. Thus people succeed in believing that all these trends are signs of their | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-image dictates standards of godlike independence and power. Believing in complete self-sufficiency, such a person does not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| confused even more. If you pursue a goal, believing that its attainment will solve your problems, in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This knowledge will increase your own truthfulness, whereas believing that you are in truth when you are | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| growing out of them and then deceive yourself, believing you are a much more integrated and mature | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| concentrate on the outcome and the physical act, believing one choice must be right and the other | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| responds to illusion with illusion. But beware of believing that your self-pity, bitterness, futility due to shallow | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Again and again, you make the error of believing that the spiritual and the psychological are two | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| from it. The combination of suffering it and believing it to be an unalterable fact, conditions you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not half as painful as the error of believing yourself to be inadequate. The criticism would not | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you now are and will deceive yourself into believing that you are a more evolved person than | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a possibility you may remain in despair, falsely believing that wrongs cannot be made good, that you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is not in your embracing this worthy cause, believing in it and working for it -- all | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| process of growth may often feel temporarily discouraged, believing they are going around in circles. Inwardly, however | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you have, for instance, difficulty in making decisions, believing yourself very limited in scope, while perhaps overestimating | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that is hard to accept. The ignorant child, believing it has to hide, reacts very strongly before | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| needs does not hurt half as much as believing, consciously or unconsciously, that frustrated needs are necessarily | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of the predominant reasons for repressing needs -- believing that thereby they will cease to exist. By | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| while you believe the opposite. In spite of believing that you cannot have it, nevertheless hopes for | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a favorable outcome were there, but not really believing it. The doubt is so strong that one | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| And this is where the person who keeps believing that one can get by is blind. Holding | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the guilt. Therefore you go on punishing yourself, believing that this makes up for the fact that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| determine what goes on in the self -- believing oneself helpless in the grip of one's feelings | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a part of yourself secret comes from not believing in your real self. Yet, as long as | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| negative fields contain all your destructive patterns of believing, thinking, feeling, and willing, which make you fear | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you. But you constantly embrace pain, either by believing it is inevitable, or by believing that it | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| either by believing it is inevitable, or by believing that it is safer than the unitive state | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| at all. Nor will you be misled into believing that you have not progressed. This state may | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| You no longer flounder in ignorance and alienation, believing life and you are two separate factors, not | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you put yourself in the paradoxical position of believing that life comes from opposing life. Consequently, you | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and ecstasy -- must they believe this falsity. Believing the falsity, they can not shed the real | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| related to the state of duality -- through believing in something very good versus something very bad | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| express itself, without falling into the trap of believing its truth is the truth, so that an | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| and strong. It has to be independent without believing it is the only function to count on | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| life experiences and you feel at a loss, believing that what life brings is totally independent from | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| infant reveals itself, one could fall prey to believing that this destructive self is the ultimate, sad | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| human consciousness, there still was much difference between believing what I said as a philosophical statement and | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is all the difference in the world between believing that what you judge is the only truth | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is possible to be responsible for them without believing that they are your only reality. Only when | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| essential that you do not delude yourself into believing they are caused by anything you experience or | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a catastrophe. The self then talks itself into believing this, as a means to force others to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| these aspects, but you are not right in believing yourself hopelessly bad because of them. So this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| impact on your life. You delude yourself into believing that avoiding does not matter, that you will | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| confusion and diffusion. Otherwise you delude yourself into believing you receive divinely inspired answers which are nothing | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| manifest if you either have a stake in believing you cannot be like that, or if you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| thus dissolved. There is an enormous difference between believing that this temporary state is the final reality | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of truthfulness, without denial, without annihilating yourself and believing yourself to be only that part of you | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| organismic event. The mistake you make is in believing that this organismic event, this process, is a | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| interpreting the messages that I receive and in believing in them. I receive messages, but only later | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| avoids facing now. There is wishful thinking in believing that life ends, that nothing has any rhyme | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| these negative aspects without becoming downcast and without believing that they are the true you. Quite the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| try to halt the movement, fearing it, and believing it is bad. But they cannot really halt | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this process, sometimes fall into the error of believing that the life you lead in the short | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| matter of courage, a matter of commitment to believing in this possibility, even if you have not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| body or outside the body. The motivation for believing in immortality plays a tremendous role here. If | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| a safety measure. However, denying the positive and believing in the worst to appease the gods, as | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the same with you. Your courage lies in believing in the best your innermost being has to | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| live simultaneously in two worlds. You start off believing only in this material world that is very | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| a tooth. Here we have a vicious circle: Believing totally in the old tradition of Judaism, an | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| evil projection. Do not ever delude yourself into believing that negative intent and negative thoughts do not | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| will you heal the profoundly painful wound of believing that you live in an unreliable universe in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| I say to you, experience the pain of believing you live in an unjust universe. Only when | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you sail through the fear and pain of believing that this is your final reality. Soon you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| are enveloped in a veil of secrecy. Merely believing that there is something to hide creates an | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| over cowardice. For what requires more courage than believing in God's truth and your power to live | 254 SURRENDER |
| have your little corners of holding out, of believing that your selfwill knows better than God what | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |