| the advice or they may not. Still, their wish is considered. In other cases, their choice is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in peace, be in God! 56. CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE Greetings | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| respect. For the creative life force does not wish you anything but good -- if I may | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it. One of these is the capacity to wish. Whenever your capacity to wish is hindered, consciously | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the capacity to wish. Whenever your capacity to wish is hindered, consciously or unconsciously, fulfillment cannot come | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| factors within work against the fulfillment of this wish. First of all, let us determine the difference | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| impure and selfish motives are conscious causes the wish capacity to function better. Because, as I said | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| either prohibit the fulfillment of the particular conscious wish itself, or they may affect negatively another area | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you know there is something wrong with your wish and therefore you say to yourself -- though | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| -- I do not deserve that which I wish. Humanity is very confused about what is selfish | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| I to deserve this? Given these reservations, your wish capacity does not function fully. In such reasoning | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you just want to enjoy it, even this wish need not be selfish. But should you desire | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desire need not be outright wicked, or a wish to inflict material disadvantage on another person. Your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them unhealthy. Hence your fulfillment is blocked, your wish capacity hampered. In order to avoid all possible | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| It may even concern a fulfillment of a wish you are not conscious of. You may be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| up. Only then can you truly express a wish that is free of hindrances stemming from your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inwardly and unconsciously you hesitate and do not wish a certain part of it. The stronger this | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| particular strength that helps you to unfold your wish capacity and gives you the strength to purify | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| so not out of malice, not because you wish to belittle others -- who must automatically become | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| cause, and the stronger you are compelled to wish a wrong attitude away, so to speak, by | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a fruitful way, if you so desire. The wish for happiness exists in every living being. However | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to fulfill what the person desires. When this wish cannot be gratified -- and it never can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| approving of me completely and doing what I wish, then I could be perfect. With that, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it completely escapes your attention, unless you truly wish to notice it. I should like to emphasize | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| as compared with the complete rulership you unconsciously wish to exert, you prefer to destroy that which | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| say: No, I do not have the slightest wish to rule over others; that is not true | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your many emotions amount to? Do you not wish to be perfect in order to have people | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| do exactly as you please? Do you not wish to be loved and approved by everyone, without | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| approved by everyone, without exception? Do you not wish to be perfect in order to be better | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| senseless to you to be denied what you wish. It seems unfair and unreasonable. So you can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| quite healthy, at least in some circumstances. The wish may be due to unhappiness, to predicaments one | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more likely it is that the originally healthy wish turns compulsive. This is one form of compulsion | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will help more than you think. If you wish to correct the evils of this world, you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth. Sometimes you cannot wake up and even wish for truth, unless you have gone through the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life in all ways as you desire. You wish complete freedom in every way; you want to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is to your credit. However, you do not wish to be responsible for anything bad that happens | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| into the open. This is so because you wish to make this authority responsible for the negative | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| thought or attitude amounts to just that: you wish freedom without self-responsibility. Thus you wish for a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that: you wish freedom without self-responsibility. Thus you wish for a pampering, indulgent god, like a parent | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| without self-responsibility to the full extent. You may wish to assume self- responsibility in some areas of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your rejection of self- responsibility, and the continued wish to be free. The world of Utopia as | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| be it accepting or rejecting. You may not wish to reject the whole because you reject a | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you reject a part; and you may not wish to accept all of it, because you accept | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do with it. I did not say or wish to imply that creativity exists only in the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possible only within the healthy soul. I merely wish to state that the healthier a soul is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| solution proved to be false and the conscious wish for health remained on the surface. But actually | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| battle with one another deep within: the conscious wish for health and the unconscious wish for sickness | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the conscious wish for health and the unconscious wish for sickness. In this part of your psyche | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sickness as a solution, although you did not wish for the problems that the sickness brought along | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you all have had the experience that you wish very much for something, but in vain. This | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| may have no direct bearing on the particular wish. In short, the healthier your psyche, the better | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| cannot penetrate the unhealthy layers. What you outwardly wish you inwardly question. Not only do you doubt | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you doubt that you can gain what you wish, but you also doubt the rightfulness, the justification | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will feel a very calm serenity in your wish. You will also feel the certainty that you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| pay in happiness and joy. You dare not wish for happiness simply because you fail to discriminate | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| together with the healthy ones. At times, a wish may be wholly right and good, but your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of the wrong motives. You can, if you wish, continue to do the right actions even while | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| probably blame other people who -- so you wish to believe -- force you into it. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| expected of you, and that you do not wish to offend people because you want their approval | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You can then decide whether or not you wish to act as before. In the course of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be fully aware of it, but you may wish to do God's will, to be a spiritually | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| out of hiding. What is it you really wish and why do you wish it? Simple as | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| it you really wish and why do you wish it? Simple as this question first sounds and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| That is quite true. Wish-capacity functions if the wish is unhindered by counter- currents. Therefore, it is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| heart of another person. When you pray and wish well to another person, it generates a pure | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contact is sought merely because you grieve and wish to be in touch with the departed one | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motive or emotion should be examined. Often the wish to establish such a contact, quite apart from | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| acceptance to the degree that the child would wish it seems unattainable. The desired aim -- exclusive | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not so ready to give you what you wish. It need not be love, it may be | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and affection is strength. Since you do not wish to be weak and needy, you not only | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| inner will to be happy and does not wish to escape from life in any way. Adversity | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| or you build a daydream of what you wish to happen in the future, which is vague | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| for five minutes, not more, any time you wish. Choose a time and a place when and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of dependency on others' approval? Or was the wish based on unhealthy motives in the first place | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| must be directly related to the change you wish. To determine the relationship of effort to desired | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| outer change is bound to occur. What I wish to convey is that there is a mistaken | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a quite different topic. The second subject I wish to discuss tonight is connected with the creative | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| causes reactions that defeat the very end you wish to achieve. Each one of you, in your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| success. And a superimposed layer, covering an original wish, is never genuine. Even if you succeed temporarily | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| cannot come from as many fellow-humans as you wish. But, above all, you cannot get fulfillment because | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the manner and in the measure of your wish. Your psyche knows very well how to distinguish | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you to fear life, therefore, often unconsciously, to wish for death in various degrees. The unconscious desire | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire with various other desires, such as the wish for approval. The more immature a person is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is it reality to claim one does not wish to be loved. Some people have withdrawn so | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you imagine situations in which you see this wish gratified. You view every favorable sign in the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you actually obtain the love or admiration you wish, you fail to perceive it in reality as | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| let go. But often, you can obtain your wish -- but only in freedom, without urgency, and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| If you feel uneasy and anxious, if you wish to limit such insight, you know that the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| experience the fear. Most people who do not wish to know themselves are not even aware that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| all, to be loved totally, to have every wish gratified instantly, and to be loved in spite | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of itself? The child in you makes you wish to reign supreme over those who are supposed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| child in you who cries inwardly when its wish is slighted. Is it any wonder then that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that love means slavish submission, you do not wish to love. You do not wish to follow | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not wish to love. You do not wish to follow another person's will. You do not | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to follow another person's will. You do not wish to give up your autonomy submitting to the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| other people to feel about you as they wish. If you can give this inner permission genuinely | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and this fact must be accepted if you wish to cope with life and make the best | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not feel about you as you would wish -- and I do not merely refer to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| part of such instructions should be that you wish to become aware of where, how, and why | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you. Such instructions should deal foremost with the wish to face yourself, to understand and to assimilate | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| become aware that this is what you still wish, and then you no longer seek this kind | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| brought to the fore, so that you, too, wish to do the same thing. It is so | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| must be clarified and nursed constantly; the inner wish to help unselfishly should be expressed in prayer | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| must be checked and nursed. Every day the wish should be formed that, if not more, then | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| certainly is nothing selfish in it if you wish other creatures well and if you can bring | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| spirit and, perhaps, hearing something one may not wish to hear. If insomnia exists, it should be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| conscious, or memories from the Spirit World that wish to serve the same purpose in a different | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that you can never get what you really wish, that you can never be loved and respected | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| considered the illusion of the importance of your wish fulfillment and your feelings still remain as tense | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| recognized also concerning a potential one does not wish to go to the trouble of building up | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| talent may indeed exist, but the person may wish its perfected state without the labor and effort | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disturbing, and disharmonious feelings must be some original wish and its frustration. When you find this, you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| can determine how real or how illusory the wish is. Only after you are able to comprehend | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to avoid, and you forfeit that which you wish to gain. So it is not in acceptance | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the overly harsh collective reality principle. Now I wish to touch upon another conflict and confusion. In | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy wish for mature love and the childish craving need | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the spirit. Now you may ask, If this wish has a spiritual origin, then why is it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| craving on the one hand, and the mature wish for love and pleasure supreme on the other | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of an instinct or the fulfillment of a wish may produce a conflict because it may simultaneously | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| wider outlook. Take the instantaneousness out of the wish which in itself is healthy, and you will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the attitude of keeping alive, in principle, the wish to obtain what you seek, you are using | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| coping with death. The giving up of the wish itself is really an unhealthy acceptance of death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| block the way toward the gratification of your wish for pleasure supreme. You do not like it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| above pleasure and pain do so because they wish to avoid rather than go through those deep | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it may not be to the degree you wish it. You may not get the kind of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it again. But because any limitations of your wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your exaggerated belief that the nonfulfillment of your wish is unbearable, you forfeit the love you could | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| one cherishes, can produce true growth. So the wish for immortality through art, or science, or any | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |