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| see that until now, in your emotions, you wanted these things for yourselves alone, because you wanted | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| wanted these things for yourselves alone, because you wanted to be happy. Again, in your emotions, until | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| wounded a fellow human being, not because you wanted to but because in your own blind insecurity | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| above all, a world of order. QUESTION: I wanted to know what the spiritual world thinks about | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| word initiation could be applied. QUESTION: The medium wanted to ask a question: Apart from biological reasons | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| remained in the world of God and who wanted to help their fallen brothers and sisters to | 22 SALVATION |
| time for desirelessness to set in. QUESTION: I wanted to know what the fault is in a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| I have explained in this lecture. QUESTION: You wanted to talk tonight about the problem of desire | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| could, of course, see it if you really wanted to, even without this process of self-analysis but | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| guilt is ridiculous. It is as though you wanted to say, You see, I declare myself guilty | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| respects. And he manifested extreme self-will. His self-will wanted to be already at a point that only | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to be punished and despised. The bargaining you wanted to do did not work out. It could | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that your emotions have often claimed that you wanted to receive more than you were willing to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you really try. Try to recognize when you wanted a subject and not an object. Find out | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| by all these negative attitudes. If you truly wanted a happy outcome, you would display an inner | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| more understandable to you. In this lecture I wanted to explain self-destructiveness in more fundamental terms, since | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reminded of someone who, as a young girl, wanted very strongly to leave her home. It is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I have a question from a friend who wanted to know about the newly discovered Gospel According | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many more people on this earth. And I wanted to know where they come from. ANSWER: Perhaps | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the person by association of, objects the baby wanted to play with or to hold but was | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| could be selfish, I could do anything I wanted. That would mean happiness. On the other hand | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| father is desirable also because that which is wanted from him or her is desirable. Therefore, to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| freedom from one's own conflicts. QUESTION: I also wanted to ask about the effects of post-hypnotic suggestion | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you were drawn away from thinking what you wanted to think about. All of a sudden you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be to feel, The type of love I wanted so far is wrong; it cannot be. But | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| attained as quickly as the child in you wanted it. In fact, when you do receive something | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| convinced that you had all the love you wanted just because you actually did have some love | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| was lacking. You were outwardly given everything you wanted and needed. How could you draw the subtle | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a certain course without even knowing whether you wanted this particular goal or why you wanted it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you wanted this particular goal or why you wanted it. Such indetermination is often more damaging than | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that He was the Son of Man, He wanted to indicate in a subtle way, as He | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you try to pretend that what you really wanted is no longer desirable. This is not merely | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| many times I could not get what I wanted, this means I can never get it, therefore | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| continually worsen the situation. That which you originally wanted to run away from gets much worse. Out | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without such evasion and cowardice. The bargain you wanted to make by assuming a defensive, wrong inner | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know, but outwardly, so far, you have not wanted to know what really bothers you. If you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you the very opposite of what you originally wanted and why you assumed the role -- it | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| crassly contradictory to what people believed of, and wanted to see in, Jesus Christ. Jesus' last words | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the most unchaneled and primitive instincts if I wanted to realize my pleasure drive. But, on the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and your means of attaining what you desperately wanted -- life, happiness, security, self-confidence. The awareness of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| found that they prohibited the very things one wanted to attain. Once this is seen, the substitute | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| story attempted this venture out of pride. They wanted to reach the heights by the wrong method | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you expressed them. You lost something you wanted, such as the affection of certain people, or | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| exactly the opposite way to what you originally wanted. This will give you an inner understanding about | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the first answer will always be because I wanted to communicate with God. I wanted it in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because I wanted to communicate with God. I wanted it in order to develop myself. But do | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such experience for the sake of an unconsciously wanted shortcut. You will rather be more determined than | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire for communion with God existed because you wanted to avoid a communion with yourself. Courage and | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this defensive wall brings the very unfulfillment you wanted to avoid through the erroneous image conclusion. Even | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| found that I had failed in everything I wanted. After I realized that, and also what you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| exaggeration about such complete failure of everything you wanted. There are things you did want and which | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a failure there. You see only what you wanted and did not get, and forget that you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| did not get, and forget that you also wanted what you now have. But there is also | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| why and how they are unproductive. QUESTION: You wanted to talk about the background of the seven | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| symptoms of the same underlying causes. QUESTION: I wanted to ask about the fear of the Lord | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| as destructive in giving more than what is wanted as in giving too little. To love too | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| To love too much when it is not wanted is as insensitive, as egocentric, and as greedy | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| be content with your intuitive faculties. QUESTION: I wanted to ask about restitution to the loved ones | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| ego, to diminish feelings of inadequacy, to feel wanted and desired because one feels insecure and helpless | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Can I give an example? I have always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't do it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| that I wouldn't be as perfect as I wanted to be and wouldn't want to take the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| On the contrary, you were convinced that you wanted with all your being what remained unfulfilled, that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| what you want or could have if you wanted to, while you believe the opposite. In spite | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| as simple as it sounds. How it is wanted, what soul movements accompany this wanting, has first | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| This does not happen when the negative is wanted, for as we have seen, this wanting merely | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| can ensue when one is aware of having wanted it oneself. Lack of such awareness must create | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and way of life has to be actively wanted, embraced, cultivated. It does not happen otherwise; it | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| guidance that automatically manifests when it is truly wanted. When one truly wants to become aware of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| truth to this, for unpleasure cannot really be wanted. You cannot resolve this dichotomy unless you go | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| You became very angry about it all and wanted to hit back at those who seemed to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they did not have to do what I wanted -- I made this remarkable discovery of being | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and eliminated, and this, too, must truly be wanted. Then the creative power will grow; the divine | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| your pain, are all direct effects of deliberately wanted negative attitudes. At step two you are still | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| this negative expectation of life, as if you wanted to accuse life of being mean. These are | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| that is very disquieting. Having everything they ever wanted, people still cannot remove a nagging dissatisfaction. The | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| inevitably draws to you the very experience you wanted to avoid. The pain you avoid must come | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| are, will be sensed as self-caused and self- wanted, sometimes wisely, sometimes destructively. Exactly the same principle | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| minute you admit the ugly truth that you wanted hidden and for which, on top of it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and inanimate matter fall under this category. I wanted to show that nothing exists that does not | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| spirit of service but by design. You always wanted this authority to do something for you that | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you the excitement and the peace you always wanted. Enter this new phase, my dearest friends, with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| so she could be taken care of. She wanted an authority figure to make decisions for her | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and battle with the hardships of life. She wanted to indulge in the pseudo-comfort of subjugation. This | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| well from your pathwork that what you secretly wanted from a superior father authority you have shifted | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| levels of consciousness and attitudes that you never wanted to admit to yourself, you automatically become aware | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| discovering all the things he or she always wanted to know, in finding out how things really | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| something to give another and it is not wanted, not taken, it hurts. But when the other | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| path. Increasingly you find that the pain you wanted to avoid makes room for joy -- a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Clarification will come when the truth is really wanted, even if a part of the truth at | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |