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 Unrealizable................15
you can start to outgrow the unrealistic and unrealizable concept of happiness and build the proper, mature 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
continues whipping and whipping you, holding up the unrealizable goal, so that each failure causes additional despair 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
what you want and that your aim is unrealizable because certain factors in it cancel each other 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
solution. Both solutions are equally rigid, unrealistic and unrealizable. Each is a constant source of pain and 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
as serene. Hence such dictates are unrealistic and unrealizable. They, too, include pride and hypocrisy: pride, because 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
can no longer cling to the comfortable, but unrealizable hope that you can have what you want 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
your self-respect and self-liking on standards that were unrealizable, impossible, and unfeasible, you were insecure. You can 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
to become. But this ideal is unrealistic and unrealizable because it is outside of yourself. The ideal 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
in an immature being may be damaging and unrealizable, their essence always remains intact and realizable, provided 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
between the childish aspect that desires unreasonable and unrealizable love and attention, and the legitimate adult need 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
may conclude you are being rejected, since the unrealizable demands are not fulfilled. You may not be 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
fear cannot let go of itself. Pleasure is unrealizable when the personality is bound to the ego 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
your best energies into neurotic solutions based on unrealizable hopes or on sheer illusion. But there exists 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
The longing is then put into channels of unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulfillment is supposed 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
else. To the degree she makes unfair and unrealizable demands, she must resent and blame male authority 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
 
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no in some fashion if the result remains unrealized. The second factor is to clearly express in 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
as a potential, and therefore as a still unrealized fact. This knowing makes it possible for the 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
total person, including his or her as yet unrealized potential. Such a vision of the unmanifest in 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
you have to battle against the as yet unrealized and undeveloped aspects in yourself. Use every opportunity 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
you is fully aware of this as yet unrealized potential. And you can tap this knowledge. With 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
 
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higher entities than themselves. This is even more unreasonable! Although it is quite true that a communication 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
and exclude the possibility of the other is unreasonable. There are many ways, indeed, to test with 22 SALVATION
They are, for the most part, impossible and unreasonable wishes. In your own particular case, due to 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
you. Furthermore, this attitude becomes more and more unreasonable and unjust, for you demand and expect respect 31 SHAME
yourself. When you have made such and other unreasonable emotions conscious, it will be easy to direct 31 SHAME
but realizes intellectually that resistance to bathing is unreasonable. He will force himself to bathe in spite 38 IMAGES
that he cannot explain. The mystery of such unreasonable reactions and the anxiety connected with them will 38 IMAGES
if your unconscious immature nature were not so unreasonable that it wished for effortless change, you would 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
victory because you will then see what an unreasonable and childish streak lives within you. For that 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
your world. Closing your eyes to reality is unreasonable. Of course, when you look for evil outside 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
in yourself that persists in being childish and unreasonable. As far as the proper concept of God 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
you have found mostly one particular aspect: your unreasonable fear of God, the monster created by your 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
denied what you wish. It seems unfair and unreasonable. So you can easily see the connection. But 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
may know perfectly well that your desire is unreasonable in its force and subjective importance, yet you 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
life. It constitutes the main result of the unreasonable desire for freedom without self-responsibility. It is the 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
realize that you can never receive the exclusive, unreasonable, one-sided love that the child in you requests 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it comes to fully facing yourself is entirely unreasonable and damaging to you. Unreality, or illusion, is 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
compliment makes your spirit surge to heights of unreasonable joy or gratification, beyond all proportion to its 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
at it more fully later to eliminate your unreasonable fear of it. For the present, I will 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
see where and how you deviate out of unreasonable fear based on misconceptions. We shall then compare 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
unlimited amount of love. The child is as unreasonable, as void of understanding, as demanding and one-sided 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
leave something precious behind. Try to find that unreasonable, irrational fear and resistance. It is right there 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
your work progresses, you sometimes see it is unreasonable of you to feel that way, yet you 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
squander yourself into life, not in an unhealthy, unreasonable way, but healthily as nature squanders herself. Then 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
may help for a while. It may assuage unreasonable fear. But in the long run, it cripples 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
You focus your concentration on something unreal and unreasonable, something foreign to the real self whose nature 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
very fear is a product of your bitter, unreasonable rebellion. And on such a foundation growth is 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
after the initial fear of it has proven unreasonable; if only you continue and do not let 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
point when you will be capable of expressing unreasonable, childish, imperfect emotions without explanations. Then, and then 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
fact that some demands are really unjustified and unreasonable, and they can only be recognized as such 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you can understand what misconceptions are behind these unreasonable attitudes. Then they will gradually dissolve, to the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
you believe that. Subsequently you will recognize how unreasonable such a belief is. It then becomes easy 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
exist. When you find these, and transform the unreasonable greed of your childish expectations, you will become 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
and shame, hurt, arrogance, self-importance, self-pity, insistence on unreasonable demands, and many more. You struggle against these 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
by the cruelest ruler and far beyond the unreasonable standards which may be exerted by society. Your 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
Only then will you convince yourself how useless, unreasonable, unfounded was the illusion that reality is to 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
heretofore hidden primitive feelings, when you overcome your unreasonable fear and shame to do so, you will 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
often equally desperately they flee from union in unreasonable fear. This fear, without which the tragic conflict 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
yet utterly unaware of the strength of their unreasonable demands and commands that, like the rest of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
irrational and have the courage to allow your unreasonable inner child to manifest on the surface. To 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
the daring step to own up to your unreasonable feelings and requests, your unfair demands, and your 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
difficult to admit that you are driven by unreasonable fears, superstitions, generalizations, obsolete situations that have no 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
nature. Therefore to distrust this innermost self is unreasonable, for nature can be wholly trusted. If nature 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
that. You allow yourself to be ruled by unreasonable defenses against the truth in you. Watch your 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
get confused between the childish aspect that desires unreasonable and unrealizable love and attention, and the legitimate 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
if you insist on living up to its unreasonable demands, then your perception of yourself must be 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
the result of your own action is an unreasonable inner act. It implies a refusal to assume 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
in his own prison. His reason for this unreasonable hate is especially irrational. One of the things 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
vicious circle. You submit to another's equally insatiable, unreasonable demands and join in a power struggle for 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
simply wish to be a greedy, demanding, and unreasonable child. On the other hand, you are equally 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
image, although you know that it is unfair, unreasonable, unintelligent, and that it causes you and others 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
but the former anger feels very irrational and unreasonable. An ordinary person may fear that it is 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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cut concise thoughts. Then, when you see the unreasonableness of the immature side of your soul, you 31 SHAME
and to be loved in spite of its unreasonableness and selfishness. This is why you are afraid 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
work and you are perfectly aware of its unreasonableness without being able to help it, then, as 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
are, and, further, you have to see their unreasonableness, their impossibility. When you have a feeling of 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
of security in yourself. Apart from the frequent unreasonableness of unconscious excessive demands on your part, it 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
well as your capacity to objectively evaluate the unreasonableness of your demands, will open the flow of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
is the same as heedless and headless greed, unreasonableness, and lack of realism. This is not so 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
you are able to convince yourself of the unreasonableness of maintaining the non- commitment. You are not 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
itself. Once the unconscious surfaces with all its unreasonableness, it can be quite naturally given a new 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
he puts his best into the pathwork. The unreasonableness and utter destructiveness of this attitude became evident 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
aware of these feelings and accept their apparent unreasonableness and childishness, you will then be able to 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE

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