| Substituted.................7 | |
| way: identification with the beloved self, which is substituted by another human being, because the unquenchable desire | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| first step is to constantly recognize the emotions substituted for the desire to receive love. These emotions | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware and then removing the element that you substituted. You will clearly distinguish between the real feelings | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and the letter of the law has been substituted. Because people are too lazy to think and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If your lack of faith in yourself is substituted by a faith in God, God becomes a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you joyfully accept those fulfillments that can be substituted for, without making you expect what cannot possibly | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| notions. The real is denied and the false substituted -- and this is the answer. This explains | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Substitutes.................23 | |
| the universe. You can only have very poor substitutes, very poor ones. Only through personal endeavor, development | 18 FREE WILL |
| want it? -- these aims are indeed poor substitutes, especially if they take the place of the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your life and if instead you seek worldly substitutes, the latter will never really satisfy you. However | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this into account. Nor do the various modern substitutes for religion. The only way a human being | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| same. All these and many others are mere substitutes for your longing to be loved. The frequent | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| allowed to function, and if instead you use substitutes that leave you in a state of inner | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| first environment, in which the parents or their substitutes predominate, including anyone who plays an important role | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| much alive, whereas before you used them as substitutes. Often, real relating and communication is confused with | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| from the very same root. The too-troubled conscience substitutes for the inner lack of awareness, the deliberate | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| weakens himself due to the above-mentioned misconception. He substitutes for the weakness and shame its concomitant -- | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| were. One layer covers the other. Vertical displacement substitutes one form of self-expression with another. Compulsiveness is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are only substitutes for the numbness. The numbness, instituted for oneself | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to grasp whatever they need from others, from substitutes, from illusions. As I stated, the movement toward | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| sources of wisdom that are at best poor substitutes. These may be your intellect; your unexplored emotions | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of the mind. I do not mean shallow substitutes and escapes. I mean a state of physical | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| abandoning these pseudo- satisfactions and pleasures, these poor substitutes? As long as you are convinced that these | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| As long as you are convinced that these substitutes are all the pleasure you can have and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| who she or he is when the mind substitutes its so-called life for the inner, feeling self | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| expresses into life and toward everybody whom one substitutes for those who caused the original hurt in | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| people -- let us say parents or parent substitutes or general authority figures. Or there might be | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| be fulfilled, namely outwardly, from parents or parent substitutes, you will look inwardly where you can never | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| power of money or position, which then become substitutes for God. Or you may feel powerful by | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to deny it or appease it with false substitutes, unless you open yourself up. The word friendship | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Substituting................9 | |
| word. If it were merely a question of substituting a truth for an untruth, that would be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| its original form, without displacing the genuine feelings, substituting others, or superimposing other feelings over the genuine | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| one-sidedness in the opposite extreme. This form of substituting the disapproved need or emotion with its opposite | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to do so is detrimental. In addition to substituting the opposite trend for the one that is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| How have you displaced your needs -- by substituting the opposite or shifting the need or denied | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| results from denying the spontaneous real self, and substituting secondary reactions that in one way or another | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| numbing your feelings, denying your real feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings, and also becoming cruel. All these | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| -- that is, the involuntary processes -- and substituting them with the ego faculties? These ego faculties | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| hold back and try to strike a bargain, substituting a little self-seeking for doing the will of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Substitution................18 | |
| you go through life constantly proving yourself. The substitution can assume various other forms. People may have | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you were free of the entire layer of substitution. If you allowed yourself to feel the original | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| also have to become utterly aware of the substitution. You have to experience the emotions which constantly | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| toward the elimination of false religion and its substitution by real religion in the world at large | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| were the original objects of identification. Often such substitution not only occurs among individuals, but also among | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Be in peace. Be in God! 121. DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless every | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| understand in its deeper significance: that is, displacement, substitution, and superimposition of feelings and needs. This topic | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is wrong, thereby increasing the denial, displacement and substitution. To recapitulate: unfree, compulsive, problematic giving is often | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| How many of my emotions involved in my substitution actually belong to the need for love? -- | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| yourself in a spirit of realism. Displacement and substitution occur not only with one's fundamental problems, main | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| displacements, otherwise permanent denial of a need and substitution may come into existence. Such temporary displacements may | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| form, of course. Being fully aware of the substitution will make the shift harmless, even healthy and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| verify the various layers of a superimposition and substitution. The more you experience these various layers emotionally | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to be eliminated. In reality, the displacement and substitution results in much more severe and bitter suffering | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| consider the possibility of the various layers of substitution. Originally the need exists. This is one layer | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| transference is also a form of displacement or substitution. But the phenomenon of transferred emotions is often | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| feel, the impoverishment creates the need for a substitution. The mind then becomes this substitution. In order | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| for a substitution. The mind then becomes this substitution. In order not to feel your deadness, the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Subterfuge..................14 | |
| the lower self to constitute a mask or subterfuge, varies with each person. The possibilities are infinite | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| than an asset. It may serve as a subterfuge and rationalization, even as an escape. QUESTION: Also | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| hearts, such revelation to God is only a subterfuge because it is abstract and remote. No other | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the scheme of spiritual development, that is a subterfuge. The personality is looking for the right partner | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| or another, it is always a rationalization and subterfuge to which the individual soul constantly resorts. This | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and thoroughly. To do so without resistance or subterfuge, it is essential to have the humility to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you have an overall view, without any further subterfuge and self-deception, such knowledge will no longer disquiet | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| sorts of other hurts which are only a subterfuge or cover for that which really hurts you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is, indeed. Fears are so often a subterfuge to hide from the basic core of pain | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you if it is dishonest, if displacement and subterfuge are at work. If your anger leaves you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| continue to hide from the truth within. This subterfuge is not available to those who are more | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| doing the thing for its own sake, without subterfuge. It does not mean blind foolishness and most | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to transform them in all sincerity and without subterfuge. There must be a total commitment, without pretense | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| No expressions in any language guarantee avoidance of subterfuge and self-deception. Only the profound sincerity of the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Subterfuges.................17 | |
| the intellect, which are, in reality, nothing but subterfuges to avoid self-search. Use your critical faculties to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| works in the subconscious mind and sends only subterfuges to the surface. For even those of you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have wholeheartedly decided to do so, without any subterfuges. You will be relieved by the mere knowledge | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| no matter how much you cover it with subterfuges and self-delusions, deep in your unconscious the fact | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| unconscious is congenitally opposed to giving up its subterfuges. It considers coming out into the open a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| effect on you, you are still dealing with subterfuges. What you find must increase the knowledge in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| inner strength will flow out the moment the subterfuges, the superimposed, compulsive feelings are shed. And this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your reactions and feelings. You have so many subterfuges, so many hidden crevices in your soul, that | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| same pointless thoughts, complaints, self-pity, self-deceptive ideas and subterfuges, it will, of necessity, result in drawing a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this context, concerned with uncovering blind reflexes. All subterfuges, rationalizations, explanations, justifications, self-deceptions, serving to deny automatism | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| still instead of fighting against it with your subterfuges, negativities, with your games, roles, and pretenses, with | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| lacking to face the deeper issues in truth, subterfuges and excuses are very necessary for the preservation | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| what I mentioned before: it makes you use subterfuges destined to cover up the unacceptable. Yet these | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| destined to cover up the unacceptable. Yet these subterfuges are more unacceptable than whatever you originally negated | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| be deceitful, destructive, dishonest and abusive in their subterfuges and games. You cannot fear confrontation when you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| self-purification, to giving up all defenses and all subterfuges in order to face what seems most difficult | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the truth of your lower self, with its subterfuges and deceptions, mean that you have to express | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |