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| weariness can be found in an attitude of withdrawal, in which a person retires into a lonely | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| risks, or out of a crass ego-centeredness. Such withdrawal into a self-created world may yield them certain | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| used as a rationalization for the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from life because the negative unconscious is constantly | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| which the child within still yearns. An individual's withdrawal from and refusal to love is often much | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in the last analysis always create fear and withdrawal from life. When the illusions are gone, the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you can, the good and the bad, without withdrawal, without fear. For life cannot ever harm you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-punishment, your frustration, your anger, your hostility, your withdrawal from giving out love and affection, all these | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is the attitude I have so often called withdrawal. In this case, people are convinced of never | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| rather than finding your own causes. It is withdrawal from life, or antagonism against it, due to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unresolved conflicts and problems, the motivation for such withdrawal will be unconscious and negative. In the relatively | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of over-eagerness coming from an exaggerated need, and withdrawal. Strange as this may sound, sometimes you pursue | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| tentative feelers of the other soul back into withdrawal, or by insisting on your own isolation and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| false detachment, which is nothing but fear and withdrawal into isolation, protection against being hurt. The hurt | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| life's problems. The attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal are the distortions of love, power, and serenity | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| had to be found by resorting to a withdrawal from inner problems, and so from life as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and so from life as such. Underneath the withdrawal, or false serenity, that soul is still torn | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| them because they violate the dictates of the withdrawal solution. These dictates are, You must look benignly | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and thus receive pleasure. The third pseudo-solution, namely, withdrawal, the quest for serenity, is secondary. It is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| attempt at solving life takes the form of withdrawal from emotional involvement, a feeling of wanting to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| category belong the attitudes of submissiveness, aggressiveness, and withdrawal. These three aspects, as well as the idealized | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of feelings is connected with the pseudo-solution of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the true sense, a manipulation. As for choosing withdrawal, which is connected with underplaying what you really | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| wish to avoid. When your pseudo-solution is a withdrawal from feeling, from loving, and from living, it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| it will then seem to you that your withdrawal was right. Only after plowing ahead will you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you reject the other person outright. In your withdrawal, you never give warmth, you never fulfill the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| You choose either the pseudo-solution of aggressiveness, or withdrawal from life, or appeasement, which robs you of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| But whether the defense is outer aggressiveness or withdrawal and flight, both are equally damaging and have | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| I just mentioned. Sloth represents the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from living and loving. Where there is apathy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| produces more waste than sloth, or apathy, or withdrawal -- whatever name you give it. A person | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| from a frustrated need, while sloth is indifferent withdrawal and does not reach out. Yet both sloth | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| relate. In reality this merely covers up your withdrawal, which exists on a much more hidden level | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| temporary necessity because of a reaction to previous withdrawal, and, as such, the seeking of variety may | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| unjustified guilts substitute for the real guilt of withdrawal, unlovingness, and isolation. In other words, these little | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| theoretically and intellectually, but actually -- your selfish withdrawal from loving, regardless of how well you keep | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| emotional independence is often misunderstood as isolation, whereas withdrawal from involvement while frantically holding onto dependency is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| introspection, looking within. To others it may mean withdrawal from the outer world. As to the latter | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| real or imagined rejections. This must lead to withdrawal in one form or another. Yet, if you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate, the inability | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| contradictory. It is much more that your fearful withdrawal from life causes a lack of understanding and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Perhaps you could say something about the fear, withdrawal, and reluctance one has, although one knows there | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| so reticent. Being overcautious about loving increases one's withdrawal and isolation. Many an individual is half-willing, but | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the false version of letting go, which is withdrawal, indifference, non-involvement, non-commitment, numbness of feelings, separateness and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| that it is impossible to completely want isolation, withdrawal, and separation. If it were possible to fully | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| basic ones: the aggressive, the submissive, and the withdrawal solutions -- they are destined to triumph over | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| leads some individuals into temporarily withdrawing. Of course, withdrawal can take many forms: it can manifest in | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| include compliance in varying degrees, passive resistance, spite, withdrawal, refusal to cooperate, forceful outer aggression, intimidation, and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| self. It is also important to remember that withdrawal can be very subtle and may be outwardly | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of opening and flow, although without real mutuality. Withdrawal and contraction also include anger and hate, disappointment | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| -- first perhaps partial, but then total -- withdrawal, that is, contracting movement. A short life span | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| into surface consciousness. Old age is a slow withdrawal of the personality that lives forever. When you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| never be death, there can only be a withdrawal of life from the outer encrustations, leaving them | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| phenomenon, each incarnation representing a pulse beat, each withdrawal from matter not as a dying of life | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| as a dying of life, but as a withdrawal from matter, an inbreathing. In this vision you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
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| toward spiritual progress -- which does not mean withdrawing from earthly problems. On the contrary: for earthly | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| comes, God's world will help again by slowly withdrawing from the medium the occupation that was necessary | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you tried to counteract the rejection by unconsciously withdrawing from life, shortchanging it, cheating it in a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| become willing to love others, often by quietly withdrawing and simply respecting them as human beings, even | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and how guilty you feel, deep down, about withdrawing. Find also how you need to force others | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| further misconception is that the remedy lies in withdrawing from love altogether. So you fluctuate between the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| superimposed lack of need that is simply a withdrawing from life, love, and communication due to fear | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to bear, they establish a false serenity by withdrawing from life. But what I would like to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| do not experience life at its fullest. By withdrawing from pain, you withdraw from happiness and, most | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| between the two ways, you may resort to withdrawing from life, from love, from reaching out toward | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the self, as well as to others. By withdrawing, you reject others and withhold from them the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| that cannot be received, and feeling resentful and withdrawing. You are as yet incapable of preserving a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the two alternatives of either forcing love or withdrawing from your natural feelings are not the only | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| that too much perfectionism is a substitute for withdrawing from loving in one form or another. The | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| as when, for instance, you are withholding and withdrawing, you will still find ways to make up | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| out and obtain what you wish. Instead of withdrawing and pulling back from people, you will reach | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| inactivate the live center are various: separating and withdrawing, toughening yourself, numbing your feelings, denying your real | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of such contact leads some individuals into temporarily withdrawing. Of course, withdrawal can take many forms: it | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| can depend on yourself much more adequately without withdrawing, without becoming in any way defensive, without becoming | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| if one is inclined to use it. By withdrawing from this challenge and sacrificing the fulfillment of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| a process of constant billowing, thrusting, expanding and withdrawing, pulsating forward and pulsating back. Pulling back is | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| has already been totally fulfilled. Instead of life withdrawing, a new pulse beat sets in, heralding another | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |