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will mingle. The sex force, instead of being suppressed, is taken up by the erotic force and 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
that could not mature because you kept it suppressed wants just that: the fulfillment of two or 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
desires are superimposed on selfish ones, which are suppressed and relegated to the unconscious. This is partly 47 THE WALL WITHIN
another. The more you keep the selfish motives suppressed, the more confusion and disorder are created within 47 THE WALL WITHIN
because you have felt guilty about it and suppressed awareness of it as much as you could 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
your anger and rebellion, experience what you have suppressed for so long, but do not consider it 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
they finally dissolve. If hostility and aggression are suppressed, if fears are suppressed and not faced, if 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
hostility and aggression are suppressed, if fears are suppressed and not faced, if hatred is ignored because 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
at times entirely conscious, later it is often suppressed. Then the same tantrums may continue inwardly in 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
not necessarily mean that it might not be suppressed later. QUESTION: Would you be kind enough to 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
is sometimes the case. Realize that the hitherto suppressed wrong concepts and ideas have to evolve clearly 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
circle. The more the existence of sexuality is suppressed by the concept of its sinfulness, the less 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
man. But if a healthy, active current is suppressed, it will go into a wrong direction and 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
understood this deep symbolism, it would not have suppressed a valid part of the personality in each 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
exists in woman too. Only when this is suppressed, and thereby mischanneled, can it be harmful. If 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
shown clearly that activity and intellectual curiosity were suppressed in Eve, but it is shown that they 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to get what they desired and how they suppressed the hurt, making the compulsive need all the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
side. At the same time he has deliberately suppressed and discouraged the unfoldment of his emotional and 62 MAN AND WOMAN
unfold her dormant qualities which she had wrongly suppressed for centuries and centuries. Only she did not 62 MAN AND WOMAN
out that their legitimate desires and impulses were suppressed, but this discovery also brings out the selfish 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
of this misconception, the desires themselves are often suppressed and have to be brought out of hiding 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
selfishness -- which are for the most part suppressed. Only when these flaws come to the surface 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
face and therefore only that needs to be suppressed. But this is not so. Just as frequently 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
motives, you will be able to bring the suppressed positive tendencies to the surface and view them 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
as you have learned to do with the suppressed negative traits. Apart from these individual and very 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
it will certainly be easier to search for suppressed positive tendencies which you now know deserve full 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
images, wrong conclusions, and deviations. (2) Finding your suppressed creative forces, directions, and activities and unfolding your 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
certainly more painful than facing something you have suppressed because you thought erroneously that you must be 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
the creative and legitimate desires that are often suppressed and the problems this brings on. In the 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
provocation. Provocation is a result of unconscious and suppressed hostility, and the hostility results from unconscious and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
hostility, and the hostility results from unconscious and suppressed hurt. Go your way, my dearest ones, and 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
become mature and constructive, the childish emotions are suppressed, put out of awareness and buried, so that 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
be acknowledged and understood, not pushed away or suppressed. When you understand them sufficiently, the warm, natural 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
the person's consciousness, if it is no longer suppressed. Hence, one cannot say that infantile traits cease 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
as a general rule. Usually the longing is suppressed and repressed. It then becomes transformed into subsidiary 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
personality, the power current has to be denied, suppressed, and split. Sexuality that manifests without love, commitment 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
final ideal, it becomes as damaging as the suppressed and dependent child-woman you no longer want or 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
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By controlling yourself, I certainly do not mean suppressing anything, but rather holding life's reins firmly in 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
controlling them, neither giving vent to them nor suppressing them. If you listen within yourself and interpret 39 IMAGE-FINDING
next incarnation wish to kill without doing so, suppressing his desires, keeping them, perhaps, as an imagined 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
without giving in to them, and yet without suppressing their existence. The beginning is always the most 47 THE WALL WITHIN
over them, rather than the false control of suppressing them. In emotional maturity you will no longer 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
all these unruly feelings. Discover the difference between suppressing these emotions and accepting them as a symptom 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
the organism of the soul. Tiredness results from suppressing the destructive forces of the soul, barring them 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
you. Fatigue is a symptom that you are suppressing knowledge and recognitions from yourself. Let fatigue be 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
may cause further harm to your self by suppressing its true nature. You may have an unconscious 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
more options than the two alternatives of either suppressing or acting out your selfishness. You can recognize 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
realize. It also affects your own psyche by suppressing your personal unfoldment, creativity, and expression. This may 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
your present way of life you may be suppressing the talent or activity that would afford your 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
the rules of society at the cost of suppressing his or her individual spiritual unfoldment, the soul 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
baby, not going through this unpleasant time by suppressing the instinctual urge to scream, would eventually damage 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
In addition, his resentments -- the result of suppressing his natural aggressiveness -- now mingle with the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
and without, does not mean that you are suppressing or repressing your negative, destructive helplessness. Repression is 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
what thoughts you think without either repressing or suppressing undesirable and destructive thoughts. This does not help 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
 
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much confusion in your soul due to the suppression of conflicting or unwanted desires that everything is 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
and untruth is hostile to the life force. Suppression is always self- deception; therefore, when self-deception or 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
is always self- deception; therefore, when self-deception or suppression exists, the life force cannot regenerate you. On 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
because the opposing forces bottle it up. Without suppression and self-deception, spring would revive you. Fatigue is 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
still-lingering emotional false concept. This would only cause suppression. On the other hand, you should not allow 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
small, it may be heightened by guilt and suppression. But by facing it, it will be reduced 53 SELF-LOVE
that is very true. On the other hand, suppression is bad, and moral self- righteous judgement of 53 SELF-LOVE
be put to constructive use are inverted by suppression and therefore affect you adversely, but meanwhile you 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
it is a question of the degree of suppression. By working on this particular trend, all of 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
will diminish her womanhood. But so does the suppression of her healthy strength, of her activity, and 62 MAN AND WOMAN
to desire at all. In the process of suppression, unable to distinguish one from the other, you 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
that is the cause. In the process of suppression of all desires and impulses, the childish and 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
you. Be in peace, be in God! 68. SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
add a new approach in searching for the suppression of positive and creative tendencies as they clamor 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
to be found in every soul, is the suppression of spiritual unfoldment. This may no longer apply 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
may already surmise that the connection between the suppression of the negative and the positive aspects is 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
as much cause for personality disturbances as the suppression of the negative aspects. In the work ahead 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
Thought control can be mastered without rigidity and suppression. On the contrary, properly done it will bring 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
the surface. Many current movements teach thought-control by suppression. As I have often said, this is not 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
painful. On the other hand, a discovery of suppression of healthy outlets -- which is always based 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; FULFILLMENT OR SUPPRESSION OF THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED Greetings 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
about your yearning for love and your subsequent suppression of it, you cannot silence this clamoring voice 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
lead to misunderstanding. It may lead to repression, suppression, to a forceful, superimposed action that cannot be 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
lead to self-knowledge, yes. But discipline connotes compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
but you are unable to prevent it. From suppression and repression, as you all know, strange and 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
it? ANSWER: Fighting implies a forcing away by suppression, and this is not real development. Real development 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
may erupt at any moment. The greater the suppression becomes, the greater the contrast with the false 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
easily be misunderstood and lead toward a renewed suppression or repression of the destructive part that is 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
times, which I described earlier, was a complete suppression, repression, and denial of the spiritual power currents 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
so much the angry feelings themselves as their suppression and repression that cause the strain. The fact 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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