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| could tell yourself that the answer was only wishful thinking. When, however, something that has been resisted | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to fulfill God's will is more than merely wishful thinking or fear, then the answer will be | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| wish for truth is greater than any self-delusion, wishful thinking, or anxiety. This has to be done | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you infinitely more strength than any type of wishful thinking you might be tempted to use, prompted | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| on it like a blindfolded child, full of wishful thinking, then you will be disappointed - - | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the desire to meet your resistances without any wishful thinking and self-deception; second, for making sure that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| growth is utterly unrealistic. It is self-deception and wishful thinking. You cannot avoid it. QUESTION: You said | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are really waste matter to be eliminated. (3) Wishful thinking. There are a few subdivisions in this | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not made into foreground thoughts and evaluated. Such wishful thinking, as well as fragments of impressions and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| them according to truth, and not according to wishful thinking. You unconsciously claim a maximum of favorable | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| This implies a laziness of thinking, and a wishful thinking that with minimum effort, maximum effect can | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others to submit, you construct unreal situations by wishful thinking. In doing so, you do not permit | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| free from the forcing current and free from wishful thinking, you will sense certain potentials, as well | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| friends. Be in peace. Be in God. 98. WISHFUL DAYDREAMS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| I would like to discuss a new topic: wishful daydreaming. Let us understand its origin, its harm | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| one. Basically, there are two different kinds of wishful daydreams. One comes from thoughts that arise from | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is harm in spending precious energy on such wishful daydreams -- energy that could be much more | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| a natural, organic process. The second category of wishful daydreaming is emotional and comes from needs instead | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| because it is based on personal needs, on wishful thinking, and on fear. The more this proceeds | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| there would be realistic hopefulness, as opposed to wishful thinking; foresight; the ability to make mature decisions | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| if the latter is blind and comes from wishful thinking. The answer to the other two questions | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| becomes bearable, you no longer need illusion and wishful thinking. You can look the truth in the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| what is, rather than closing your eye in wishful thinking and persisting in applying a forcing current | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| for you because it may lead you to wishful thinking and an overestimation of yourself. Someone who | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you do not deny its existence in the wishful thinking that by doing so it will go | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| one wants it, or to indulge in the wishful thinking of the child incapable of giving up | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| accepting postulates or enigmas out of fear, obedience, wishful thinking, or the desire for dependency and reward | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| reward, through rejection of self-responsibility. In fact, the wishful thinking has to go, the childish greed be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| tension, fear, and anxiety. It infuses hope: not wishful thinking, not escape or daydreaming of a vaguely | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| This has nothing to do with superimposition or wishful thinking. Declare, for example, that you wish this | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| these limitless potentials. This is a truth, not wishful thinking or evasion of the self. When you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is chaotic and senseless. This is as much wishful thinking as the childish hope that a deity | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| what orthodox or unorthodox form, contains as much wishful thinking as hopelessness. The latter says, There is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-facing. This is why hopelessness is no less wishful escapism than the hope of being taken care | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| This will happen -- not through shortcuts, illusions, wishful thinking, panaceas, but through decency and honesty with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| favorable for you, and this cannot happen by wishful thinking, illusory magic, or denial of the facts | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| way of dealing with pain is not illusory wishful thinking. It is the most real attitude a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the reality, and words such as these seem wishful thinking. The longer you dwell in the defenses | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to have what I want. That is merely wishful thinking. When such a response comes through, reply | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| through, reply to it: No, it is not wishful thinking, since I do not want it handed | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and more, based on realistic considerations, instead of wishful thinking. The paradoxes and opposites that you constantly | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| denial of evil as a reality leads to wishful thinking, further blindness, and the denial of the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| into blissful reality unless you give up the wishful thinking that makes you unwilling to face the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of yourself without going through these gateways are wishful thinking. There is no way around what has | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| possibilities exist because they are the products of wishful thinking. You do not see that the human | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| latter is not illusion, but fact, reality; not wishful thinking or an escape, but the stark reality | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the two extremes. These extremes are the blind, wishful thinking that listens only to what you want | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the self. It is a current illusion and wishful thinking to assume that this latter approach to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you have not consciously and fully experienced. The wishful hope with which you are all familiar is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| what visualizing is not. It does not mean wishful thinking, daydreaming, fantasizing, illusory hope. All of these | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| picturing particulars, for that may easily lead to wishful daydreaming, which is more a hindrance than a | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| would be dishonest. It would mean superimposing a wishful kind of faith over inner doubts, negativities, negation | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| need not be given up as unrealistic or wishful thinking. It need not be given up because | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| be left out or covered over in the wishful hope that it would no longer matter and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| mirrors the inner sense of false abandonment, of wishful thinking and avoidance. It reflects your illusory state | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| forth. It requires, for example, awareness of your wishful thinking, of your stake in wanting a certain | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| answers which are nothing more than your ego's wishful thinking. Only when you have attained a state | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| trust perhaps a gullibility and an expression of wishful thinking, so that you cannot possibly trust your | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Only complete dedication, watchfulness, awareness, readiness to dismiss wishful thinking and restrain pride will protect you from | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| secure, fearless, and absolutely certain -- not as wishful thinking, but as absolute, realistic, justified inner certainty | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Thus you don't need to toy in a wishful way with the future because you don't need | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| trust the wrong things. You choose to trust wishful thinking. You follow the motto that what you | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| hold back in fear, shame, secrecy and the wishful thinking that this will not matter. The resulting | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the danger, the difficulty in the groping. The wishful thinking that the positive voice is the self's | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| different, has different leanings, different weak points of wishful thinking. And you will be tested as to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| to question yourself about the extent to which wishful thinking may be coloring the reception. Beware also | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| opposite danger: To what extent does fear of wishful thinking color the reception and obstruct the truth | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| trust without rhyme or reason, usually out of wishful thinking, laziness and ignorance. Therefore, in today's intellectual | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| right doubt, contains many negative aspects. It contains wishful thinking, not wanting to accept and deal with | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| a belief. It is as personally tinged by wishful thinking as the wrong kind of faith is | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the personality frantically avoids facing now. There is wishful thinking in believing that life ends, that nothing | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| wrong kind of faith. Both are governed by wishful thinking. Very often those who are proud of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| increasingly able to differentiate between it and the wishful thinking of the mask self that hides the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas, impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very hard to explain in | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| be reliable and may contain a lot of wishful thinking, stemming from your desire nature, or it | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| point when you no longer confuse gullibility and wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with discrimination. As | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| self-expression. It is not an illusory image of wishful thinking; it is stark reality. You all know | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| constantly predominant. This is not superimposed in a wishful denial of the lower self. It is the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| self is hidden and denied implies attitudes of wishful thinking, pride, lack of faith, fear of exposing | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to believe in the best -- not with wishful thinking, not in fear of the bad, but | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a much higher reality. This reality is not wishful thinking, this is not escapism, this is seeing | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| life unfoldment can very easily be confused with wishful thinking. There is a subtle and yet very | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| a subtle and yet very distinct difference between wishful thinking and a virile faith in the positive | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the positive. You all indulge very easily in wishful thinking. Then, to be realistic -- because you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| because you already know the disappointing results of wishful thinking -- you revert into the superstition of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| us be very clear about the difference between wishful thinking and the realism of positive belief. There | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| for you in order to distinguish between them. Wishful thinking is spinning dreams of fulfillment without having | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the evolutionary process by committing to your purification. Wishful thinking is a passive dreaming in which you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| forth from the superstition of negativity to the wishful daydream. The more you indulge in the wishful | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| wishful daydream. The more you indulge in the wishful daydream to escape from the negativity, the less | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| beauty, fulfillment, abundance, love, joy, peace and excitement. Wishful daydreams are often spun by a diminished ego | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of the superstition of pessimism and, simultaneously, to wishful daydreaming. The very thing that is your inner | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| for results through the superstition of pessimism and wishful daydreaming. You ignore the inexhaustible wells of yourself | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| lower self and do not evade it by wishful thinking. Your distrust is an outpicturing of your | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| there is nothing to fear. That is not wishful thinking, not escaping, but the deep, most realistic | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| an imaginary world of injustice. This suits the wishful thinking of the lower self and makes you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| and a hope for what might be illusory wishful thinking. My dearest ones, Christ's embrace enfolds all | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is necessary, how often are you blinded by wishful thinking, by your self-will which demands that the | 254 SURRENDER |