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gradual process and happens only when you truly want and cultivate it. Before such awareness is cultivated 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
This is a painful process, my friends. I want to say to all of you who do 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
think you have answered both tonight. Would you want to say a further word about this? ANSWER 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
feeling that you have to obey, whether you want to or not. The idealized self-image serves the 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to provide you with what you need and want, to lead you by the hand, to make 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
this doesn't apply to you. If you really want to find the truth you will. You always 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
life. You can help yourself if you really want to, if you are ready to sacrifice something 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
ready to sacrifice something. Let us say, you want happiness in a certain direction -- and this 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
find how you can really get what you want out of your own creativity. God is in 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
investigate your emotional reactions and find that you want companionship out of fear of being alone, then 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
least partly, from a poor motive. If you want to be alone out of fear of involvement 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
fail to convey your message. ANSWER: Such people want only a qualified answer; that is, an answer 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
answer compatible with their defenses. They do not want an answer that they find unpleasant. This would 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
try to force the issue. The more you want to penetrate the resistance, the more frustration and 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
unrealizable hope that you can have what you want without meeting the necessary conditions to get it 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the necessary conditions to get it. If you want happiness you must be willing to give it 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
necessary to do so because you did not want to be hurt, you did not wish to 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
imperfect. It falls considerably short of what you want to appear to be. You hold on to 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
Therefore, it is wise on your part to want to look at, to face, and to acknowledge 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
this without tending to your emotional growth. You want to believe that the one is possible without 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
up your mind as to whether you really want emotional growth or you still want to cling 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you really want emotional growth or you still want to cling to the childish hope that spiritual 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
need not be dangerous, if you do not want them to be. If inner anger is not 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
taken care of, not being given all you want. Once you are aware of the reason for 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
from your attitude about yourself. You will always want to find the final solution at once. And 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
point to your fallibility, which you do not want to accept. Something in you, deep down, knows 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
be heedlessly and ruthlessly destructive, and another to want to be a saint; to be superhuman and 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
quietly, you will see it. I do not want to be too repetitious now. Let me repeat 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you are not yet as perfect as you want to be. If you cannot accept yourself as 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
view of your discovery in this respect. You want to hear me say that you moralize so 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
feel bad that you cannot accomplish what you want instantly. Instead of pressuring yourself into a state 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
motivations, moralizing, and the idealized self happen to want the same thing as the higher self. You 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your aims. You feel that just because you want it, it cannot be valid. The repression of 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
own decisions based on their own evaluations, they want to adhere to a dead ruling. Then they 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in that way. You will not need, nor want, to skip a full life-experience under the well-sounding 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your aim is communion with God. If you want this, there is a fear in you to 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to meet life full face and you therefore want to avoid it. True spiritual states of elation 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I know that motives are important. I may want to worship God, which is probably not existent 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
probably not existent in me. Or I may want it for the idea of getting something, which 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
something, which is in me. Or I may want it for an intellectual comprehension. I think there 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
need which you disregard and do not even want to recognize. But for the moment, the motives 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
what you are doing and why. You will want to do so because you will fully understand 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
makes you even more impatient with yourself. You want to speed yourself on in order to free 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
have to face and eventually change, that you want to see the truth, that it depends on 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
not forfeit your dignity when you no longer want to fulfill those needs through a pseudo-solution. You 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
finally, one part of you is beginning to want to give up childhood. When this movement is 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
The effect is wonderful for what you really want, or for what you think you want? QUESTION 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
really want, or for what you think you want? QUESTION: For what I think I want. If 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you want? QUESTION: For what I think I want. If I follow through with a defense to 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
and live a constructive and full life and want to realize most of your potentials, then you 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
In short, it is your struggle. If you want to become happy, to lead a fruitful, rich 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
words, the pain of not having what you want is much less than the additional factor of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the issues and what it is you really want. Consider where you can change things and where 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
way? will always yield results, if you fully want to find the answer. As long as the 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
hint as to how to find it. I want to show you a certain rhythm of development 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
yourself when you reach the point when you want to change a pattern because you have made 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
are unhappy in the old way and you want to change, yet in doing the right act 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
development. In fact, this is the development you want so badly. Every step on the path of 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to be willing to give up what you want to gain through pretense if you cannot have 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
difficult to risk the change. You do not want to stand on your own feet. You want 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
want to stand on your own feet. You want to continue using the crutches that have once 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
tired of myself in this way. I don't want to go on and on like a broken 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
you are concerned, what matters is what you want, think, feel, as well as how you experience 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
do I feel this way? Why do I want what I want? What productive effect does it 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
this way? Why do I want what I want? What productive effect does it have on others 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to you that, at first, you do not want to know. Go to the trouble of deciphering 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
the other person and thus convey what you want. Then words will be just one of the 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
additional words I spoke tonight. I do not want to repeat too much. I can only summarize 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
Full awareness of what you really feel and want is your first aim. Sit back, so to 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
QUESTION: It is a very subtle thing I want to ask and it is very hard to 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
everything you wanted. There are things you did want and which you attained, so that you are 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
purpose of what you do or what you want. Does your purpose include other people, or is 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
their lives in the here and now. They want complete control of circumstances, which they can have 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
make others behave, feel, and react as they want, and the reality, which is often different and 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
are displaced fears. They are the fears you want to have rather than the basic fear you 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
on to a hated image. Why would you want to do that? It may be your very 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of people in your early environment because you want to see them with a mature attitude and 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
are so wonderful. If you are willing to want to understand what made them the way they 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you do not really mean, I do not want to. Even if you think you cannot, make 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
understand why it will help me, I just want to see the truth as far as I 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
on, one clings to it and does not want to give it up. Healthy pleasure seems hopelessly 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
meaningful part. Only by tackling what you most want to shy away from will you find the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
an unrealistic, shortsighted remedy this is. You will want to change and would rather welcome the pain 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
others and withhold from them the love you want to give them and that they want to 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you want to give them and that they want to receive from you. By submitting, you do 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
cringe away from, however. You also do not want to take upon yourself mature self-responsibility. This may 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
other person, which that other also does not want to see. Maybe one is stronger and the 101 THE DEFENSE
yourself, because you believe that having what you want would give you happiness, when, in fact, happiness 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
perhaps unconsciously -- of the very thing you want most. You may have desires and be unaware 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
isolation. It is the childish attitude of I want to have, to get, without a true spirit 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
last analysis, arise only because you do not want to come out of them and change -- 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
unbearable that the very unhappiness finally makes you want to face it and change. If the will 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is not half as great as human beings want to believe. This happens especially when not committing 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
and do the very opposite of what they want to do merely to show that they are 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
do the very opposite of what they really want to do. But it is also possible that 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
seems, gives love very easily and certainly would want something in return. If a person is, let's 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
on your ability to love. Since you do want to be loved, your main concern has been 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
for the failure of relationships that you would want to work out. It takes considerable insight to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
more than you give, or less than you want to give. If this happens without contempt, resentment 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
1) When you are unaware of what you want, even if what you want is in itself 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
of what you want, even if what you want is in itself healthy and productive, the very 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
once was deliberate, really amounts to self-deception. You want something, yet you feel that what you want 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
want something, yet you feel that what you want is wrong, so you try to believe that 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you try to believe that you do not want it. Outwardly you pretend to yourself and to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
and to the world that you do not want what you want inwardly. And it is this 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
world that you do not want what you want inwardly. And it is this self-deception that causes 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
connotations that is responsible. Thus you do not want what you want. You are so unsure of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
responsible. Thus you do not want what you want. You are so unsure of yourself and of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
withdrawn, become apathetic and are too fearful to want to lead a meaningful life; if you do 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you do not feel, even though you may want to. But you need your will to observe 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
grow together into one stream. If you truly want good relationships, you must want to have them 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
If you truly want good relationships, you must want to have them, but without straining and without 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
of who you really are and what you want at any given time will free you of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
do not quite understand what it is you want to know. QUESTION: If my childish desire and 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
for the child's fear. The more compulsively you want to get rid of the destructive feelings, the 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
being, in awareness. They often realize that they want something more than a life of material satisfactions 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you really are, as opposed to who you want to be. All the products of thought process 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
yourself as you happen to be now, and want to be different already. You run away from 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
dependency on public opinion. Find out why you want to resolve your problem. Then be aware that 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
yourself as you are, and not as you want to be does lead to self-knowledge, yes. But 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
use your will for the purpose of I want to know myself, that is good, constructive, and 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
disciplinary action has made them into what you want them to be, has made you into what 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to be, has made you into what you want to be. But you are not. If you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
not have to repeat it here. I only want to add this: Channeled emotions are negative emotions 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
best to another person; that you do not want him to suffer; that you would do what 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
one of the greatest assets you will not want to miss under any circumstances. The progress of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
you do not see yourself. You do not want to expose yourself. This will undoubtedly improve, as 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
selfishness cannot be successfully eliminated. If you truly want to contribute to the good of general conditions 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
as unhappy and confused now as before? I want to remind you of two things. One is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
between domination, rebellion, submission, appeasement and resentments. Both want something from each other that neither is willing 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
always free. QUESTION: Between two human beings who want to relate, but both, for various reasons manipulate 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
blurring the realistic perception of others. If you want to disregard and bypass the inner noise of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
be forced to do something you do not want to do if you allow yourself to feel 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
need. All they can see is what they want, or what they fear will happen to them 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
the difference between pity and compassion, I now want to present an explanation indicating why one feels 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
them. The human error is always that you want to deny the barrier's existence and push against 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
against it, which only strengthens the block. You want to remove it without seeing what that obstacle 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
unearth this particular guilt, but if you truly want to find it, you will. As long as 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
respect. How? You will know if you truly want to. You must expiate this inner guilt, which 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
your will. To quite some degree, if you want to remain sane, you have to go through 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
then such a weariness is the outcome. You want things done for you. You do not want 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
want things done for you. You do not want to cope with decisions, with the strain of 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
it without false moralizing and justification, you will want to change. Mature responsibility also requires love and 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
demands are justified or not. It does not want to deal with obstructions, frustrations, criticism. It will 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
come to that, my friends, if you really want to become healthy and strong. Let us now 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
the time will come when you will truly want to make good, even though it may mean 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
way. But as long as you do not want to face the pain you have inflicted, you 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
the pain you have inflicted, you cannot truly want to make good for it. Moreover, because you 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
good for it. Moreover, because you do not want to become aware of the pain you have 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT

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