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it most difficult to give. Both of these solutions might be wrong in a specific case. What 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
good opportunity for everyone exploring the causes and solutions of the inner and outer conflicts on the 35 TURNING TO GOD
to them that this path will bring many solutions for every one of them -- solutions they 47 THE WALL WITHIN
many solutions for every one of them -- solutions they may have consciously as well as unconsciously 47 THE WALL WITHIN
take time, but it is feasible. The usual solutions devised by the unconscious are often faulty. I 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the layers of pseudo-protection which are always wrong solutions to life. Once the real person is out 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
place, humankind's salvation is seen only through material solutions, and that never can be. In the second 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
into yourselves, instead of always trying to find solutions outwardly. You will not find it there. The 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
life as a consequence of resorting to wrong solutions, people involve themselves more and more in a 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
the extent it is counteracted by the other solutions. The person with the predominantly submissive attitude will 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
in anything. In certain combinations of the pseudo- solutions failure may be permitted because in some specific 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
certain cases resort to the power solution. Both solutions are equally rigid, unrealistic and unrealizable. Each is 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
there is always a mixture of all three solutions in a person, although one may be predominant 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
to the strength, intensity, and distribution of these solutions will the tyranny of the idealized self-image manifest 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
with respect to the childhood situation when these solutions were unconsciously instituted, but also in the present 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
product of your own conflicts and the false solutions you seek. That these conflicts and wrong solutions 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
solutions you seek. That these conflicts and wrong solutions produce corresponding forms is an incidental matter. You 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
difficulties are not consciously dealt with and pseudo- solutions are adopted, this instinct can also be led 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
to cope with life. Because they are erroneous solutions, they are necessarily rigid. The more you sense 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
necessarily rigid. The more you sense that such solutions do not really work, the stronger your drive 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
that living according to the dictates of these solutions will help you master life. In general, the 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
It is the result of the previous two solutions fighting one another and tearing the personality in 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
secondary, superimposed solution is adopted. The first two solutions are adopted in order to cope with life 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the conflict resulting from the other two false solutions. On the conscious, more superficial level of personality 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
inner battle between such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions. Such compromise may 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions. Such compromise may assume various forms. For instance 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the soul's unconscious and often unsuccessful striving for solutions. In this work you have to uncover layer 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
This is a typical manifestation of how these solutions alternate, according to the need and to the 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
a grasping at straws because the child, seeking solutions to cope with a seemingly hostile and frightening 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
images, the distortions, the wrong conclusions, the false solutions -- directly contradict the spirituality that you all 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
for elsewhere. But you constantly reach for false solutions in order to create an illusion of security 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you to look where you might find many solutions. You prefer to remain helpless, thrusting your own 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
Are you entirely open to new ideas, new solutions? Is your inner will active and able to 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
rather than on your own convictions, on pseudo- solutions and defense-mechanisms that you have laboriously built up 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
other emotions that are superimposed by your pseudo- solutions and defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
after a fuller understanding of all your pseudo- solutions and misconceptions, whose depths will make you aware 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
turn away from it and look for unsatisfactory solutions. But the pain you now experience is much 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
allow your defense mechanism, whatever your individual pseudo- solutions are, to go to war. Needless to say 101 THE DEFENSE
are accustomed to look for truth, guidance, and solutions to your problems outside yourself -- perhaps through 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
cope with life and seek all sorts of solutions but rarely discover the real cause and therefore 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
in reality, a fear of relinquishing one's false solutions, destructive attitudes, defensive walls -- all of which 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
you understand how strenuous the pseudo-protections and pseudo- solutions are. How much more easily, more reliably and 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
Often, where life previously seemed hopeless because outside solutions seemed evermore beyond your control and unattainable, you 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
righteous cause, while the truly meaningful and mature solutions for humankind's problems were too often discarded as 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
level of manifestation, and therefore cannot find true solutions. But since humankind is approaching maturity, it too 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
to dissolve to a considerable extent the pseudo- solutions, the idealized self-image, the defense mechanisms, but the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you could only get to perfecting these imagined solutions, all would be well. You would be saved 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
the most constructive, wise, and knowing way? False solutions and means to cope with life create false 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
always because you look for much more complicated solutions than the truth. You look much further ahead 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
Each situation will offer many possibilities for desirable solutions and for creative growth. You cannot emerge from 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
would have to resolve themselves, pain would cease, solutions would appear on the horizon even to problems 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
yourself will feel wrong; problems will appear without solutions. Solutions can appear on the horizon only in 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
will feel wrong; problems will appear without solutions. Solutions can appear on the horizon only in exact 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
furnishes you with energy, life force, wisdom, vision, solutions, love and harmony. It exists deep within every 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
ones: the aggressive, the submissive, and the withdrawal solutions -- they are destined to triumph over others 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
it will emancipate you from the ego-struggle. Its solutions will bring you less pain and anxiety. Answers 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
empty, dissatisfied, and increasingly frightened, as all false solutions do. The farther you flee, the more apathetic 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
one gets from the inner source of all solutions. Also, the more one gets used to it 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
of intelligence that resolve all conflict and furnish solutions to apparently unsolvable problems. All ifs and buts 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
hazy or unrealistic, so will be the temporary solutions that will appear to you as the only 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
exist in any given situation, you can find solutions where it was hitherto impossible to do so 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the other hand, always has answers, always has solutions, no matter what the problem is; it always 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
sides, as it were. Therefore it cannot find solutions and is perpetually trapped and anxious. Thus, an 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
soul substance -- from and through which all solutions, all wisdom, all well-being spring forth. How can 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
and tension -- and away from all true solutions. The conciliation of all polarities lies in seeing 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
lo and behold, the desperation vanished. Completely unexpected solutions appeared. Only by having reached the very limits 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
its unfailing responses, its unimaginable wisdom, its various solutions. Yet, when you are involved in deep conflicts 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
into that realm of reality where you find solutions for everything. In the solar plexus is the 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
when you contact it. It gives workable, realistic solutions and inspirations that neither deny your basic dignity 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
shows you how to handle problems. It offers solutions that unify decency, honesty, and self-interest; love and 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
road, but the only one that promises true solutions. 180. THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP Greetings 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
cannot be put into words. You want ideal solutions, so you always agonize on the threshold of 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
of this total commitment. But what are ideal solutions? They mean nothing if they are not based 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
psychic potential and power, bliss grows. Fearlessness increases. Solutions to all problems become increasingly more accessible: they 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
You actually invest your best energies into neurotic solutions based on unrealizable hopes or on sheer illusion 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
magnitude that all problems can be resolved. The solutions come forth in an all-inclusive way. No loose 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
to bypass this highly unpleasant task, but real solutions cannot be reached, nor can integration occur in 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
the outer personality is an insistence on magical solutions that are supposed to eliminate the need to 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
infant in you who demands omnipotence and magical solutions. You express these claims and desires and your 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
have to choose new behaviors and seek new solutions. Before ending this lecture, I wish to speak 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY

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