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| degree whether freed to some extent of other substances or still covered up by them. So you | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| produced animals, plants, and minerals, but also other substances which were at first without self-awareness. Just as | 21 THE FALL |
| plant is without self-awareness, so too were these substances. As time went on, more and more beings | 21 THE FALL |
| a shortcut substitute is looked for in such substances. QUESTION: We are surrounded by thought forms of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the path. These psychological layers exist as various substances of radiant matter. Such stages occur at certain | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the attraction of similar and repulsion of dissimilar substances. Again and again you search in vain for | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| no actual danger exists, you are releasing poisonous substances into your physical body. You are limiting your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and more overlaid, hidden and covered by tough substances. Without an adult and realistic understanding -- that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| alleviated by holding on to unmoving, petrified psychic substances. The unmoving seems safe; the moving, perilous. To | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| can melt with life, melt with the psychic substances of others, exchanging love and truth. Universal truth | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| can mold, shape, and form out of the substances within matter. Take, for example, the need to | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when there will be only light and life. Substances of consciousness and energy -- the two inseparable | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
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| grow in you, for which no words can substitute. QUESTION: Very little has been written about these | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| does not amount to using Him as a substitute. This is not the only motive in your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| misdirected in two ways: God is really a substitute for you; and secondly, you are lying to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| proper kind of self-love -- you try to substitute disproportionate self-love in other areas of your being | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| will is always unhealthy. It is a poor substitute. It is full of tension, anxiety, and impatience | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| similar behavior pattern and use it as a substitute for the real? The loving, giving, outgoing personality | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| real self. I do not mean that this substitute outgoing personality is an affectation, or what you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| up the sadness and to fight for a substitute for the love you lack. The fight wears | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| broken. Now, what is this wrong way? You substitute for your desire to be loved the desire | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| other kinds of people. There are many more substitute trends for the longing to be loved, but | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| You are, at first, even unaware of the substitute desire -- the fight to prove yourself. Sooner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| too inadequate to be loved, but that the substitute layer that you artificially concocted is the problem | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| problem demands therefore that you recognize 1) your substitute emotions which find gratification through the subtle current | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forces from giving and loving. You will not substitute the genuine you with a slightly false one | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| constantly prohibit your real feelings from functioning and substitute artificial ones, you cannot know them, and therefore | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| more constructive and full way, not as a substitute for, but as a completion of life. My | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| yourself honestly. Thus validation by others becomes a substitute. As you begin to trust and like your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the goal may have been shifted to a substitute. For instance, the idealized self-image may dictate to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| shoulds and the coulds of achievement that a substitute must be found. A compulsion to buy things | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| may have similar roots. It may be a substitute for the frustration of not being able to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| wanted to attain. Once this is seen, the substitute with its compelling nature will lessen to the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| greater the longing for it. Then a shortcut substitute is looked for in such substances. QUESTION: We | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the powerful adult world, or God, or any substitute for these two, to take on the responsibility | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| spirituality; namely, its use as escape, as a substitute for your weaknesses, as a consolation for your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| by your own efforts. When religion is a substitute, it may help for a while. It may | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| When you no longer need grace as a substitute for your own weakness, when you do not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| how is it possible to handle them and substitute for them and let them disintegrate without the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| up with it. The rules and regulations you substitute for your real self may not always be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| sacrifice which can often be used as a substitute for the real relinquishing. The latter is never | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| intuitive, creative, and spontaneous capacities cannot unfold. You substitute other faculties for the emotional ones and thus | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| escape mechanism as your daydreams. You experience either substitute fears or substitute fulfillments. Since you do not | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your daydreams. You experience either substitute fears or substitute fulfillments. Since you do not tackle the problem | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that everyone inwardly strives for. You therefore create substitute fulfillments, which you partially experience in fantasy. It | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| attitude, I cannot be fulfilled, therefore I need substitute fulfillment. One is tied to the other. This | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| hurt -- your primary reaction -- and you substitute anger and hostility for it. You begin to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| fulfilling yourself. What you covet may be a substitute for your real needs of which you may | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| need is unconscious, a displacement occurs and a substitute need is pursued lustfully. No matter how legitimate | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| original need, but you never can with the substitute need. If this original need is still childish | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| else the power to hurt you. Therefore, you substitute anger for the original pain. Anger seems less | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not contrary to love and communication, while the substitute emotion is. You know that I usually shy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| underlying real need. However, masturbation is also a substitute. It may be an easy way out to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you do is done without love, as a substitute for the love withheld, your actions do not | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| doing what you now do compulsively as a substitute for loving, lack of self-respect -- create confusion | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| blind plea for love. Their demands are a substitute for what they really seek. Once genuine love | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of the psyche. These little and unjustified guilts substitute for the real guilt of withdrawal, unlovingness, and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| being right without love? Nothing. Perfectionism as a substitute and atonement has, indeed, quite the opposite effect | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| greater perfection than you have. It is a substitute for the love you don't allow yourself to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| often said that too much perfectionism is a substitute for withdrawing from loving in one form or | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that the psyche has built up as a substitute for true self-confidence; if you have freed yourself | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| like. So beware of quick judgments. You unconsciously substitute others for your parents, who were the original | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| nonconforming minority may very well serve as a substitute authority to identify oneself with. People may also | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| itself may be, if it serves as a substitute for self-identification, there is harm. The harm is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| inner freedom -- but in your need to substitute something other than yourself to lean on because | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| as the parent may overindulge the child to substitute for feeling irritated, and unwilling to tackle the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| The pleasure principle becomes, at least partly, a substitute for emotional growth and awareness. You need to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| The new person will no longer be a substitute for the original parent you still seek. Then | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| need for sex is denied and superimposed with substitute needs. Feeling erroneously guilty about the natural need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| original, denied need with the feelings of the substitute need. Doing so will bring immeasurable relief and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| peace. You may be frightened of love and substitute your need for it with the expression of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| left without any outlet. Unconsciously, you seek a substitute channel. Again, it is important to recognize various | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| path. If God is looked for as a substitute for mature self-responsibility and accountability, true contact with | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| exist. When you want an outer authority to substitute for you, then all your faculties are paralyzed | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and fear and who should act as a substitute for a parent. They want such a God | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of your basic problem. The self-punishment is a substitute for giving up the guilt-producing attitudes. By doing | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the reality of your feelings. Also, you often substitute fear for another emotion, so that when you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is great, for anger and self-pity offer a substitute gratification. The ego must make its most constructive | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| as passionate pleasure. It is used as a substitute for real honesty with oneself and life, for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| more childishly you hang on to a parent substitute, making him or her responsible, wanting to be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Wistful, resigned daydreaming that grabs fantasy as a substitute for drab reality is not at all what | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| no longer need parental permission or a parent substitute as your source of pleasure and life. You | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of self must become very flat and unenjoyable. Substitute pleasures are then -- often frantically -- looked | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| way of being. Nothing can replace it. No substitute solution you seek or hope for can ever | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| But the false submission cannot ever be a substitute for real inner giving of self. In fact | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| assume self-responsibility and thus uses others as a substitute for his own conscience or authority. The abdication | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| self. When the outer serves as a mere substitute for the inner enlargement of life, it is | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| value, but they miss the mark as a substitute for inner growth. When inner growth is the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| good experiences may then impel you to seek substitute fulfillment in fantasy -- or in obtaining approval | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| effort you use in other ways as a substitute for experiencing your feelings, unless you really fully | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| by the fearful, small, controlling mind. When you substitute a forcing current -- I must not experience | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| were possible for an adult to finally obtain substitute parents, ideal and perfect according to the notions | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| trying to fulfill the childhood need with a substitute parent. In your heart of hearts you are | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| or in yourself. Being right is really no substitute for seeing yourself as good, you know! But | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| aware of this searching and project it on substitute fulfillments that you expect to come from outside | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| who use the group as a crutch to substitute for individuation halt the movement as much as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| change on a more superficial level as a substitute. QUESTION: During this lecture I had this image | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| utterly organic, or it can be a superficial substitute because the real change is avoided. Only when | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| rather than using your work and accomplishment to substitute for your sense of self-value, this always finally | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| valuelessness. Only when you pierce through the superficial substitute maneuvers of false self-value, making room for facing | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to escape from it by spinning daydreams that substitute for reality. This consumes a lot of creative | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| is often submerged, covered up or displaced onto substitute levels and manifestations. Once the deep existential fear | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| push it away and assuage it busily with substitute problems, pains and fears. Have the courage to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to God -- you must succumb to a substitute, a false surrender. My friends, this is important | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| total annihilation, you may tend to bow to substitute powers, rather than to God's will. You may | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission to substitute authority and power, as well as indiscriminate rebellion | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |