| not in love and in truth. Only such work can produce and gradually bring about this state | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems to me that through our years of work here, there has been a tendency on the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain way, even if not in the inner work. Maybe just because all the concentration is focused | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all the concentration is focused on the inner work which progresses very well, there may not be | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends to the conclusion that the better you work personally, the fewer questions you have, because it | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of questions, interest and participation. But when the work proceeds in the proper direction, then the resisting | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: No. My advice here is not to work and concentrate on this issue. This is an | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| her, that disturbs or depresses her, when you work it through, you will see that all these | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| substantial, as the reality it is. Let it work with you. Use it for your inner will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one direction that is all-encompassing: this path, this work. Be blessed. Be in peace. Be in God | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to keep the sand from trickling back. The work may prove tedious, but it certainly is worth | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| form of communication. All universal laws tend to work freely when the human entity is in harmony | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and whenever balance is upset, the universal forces work toward reestablishing it. This is often a painful | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you can easily see this, especially in the work of self-search. You may be quite unaware of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| knowledge will avail you nothing. Only your personal work -- your personal search for these deviations, distortions | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| for quite a while, and it can even work for a limited time. But it is not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you can discover the truth is through the work you do on this path, facing and examining | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it. As I have often said, the real work of self-search cannot be done alone. This applies | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| does the reality principle stand for duty, responsibility, work, achievement, and is therefore constructive? On the other | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| all the conflicts you have discovered through the work on this path is a larger conflict always | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| pleasure and unpleasure. Let us consider, for instance, work that is not always according to your creative | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| conflict and confusion. In the course of this work you may have become acutely aware of the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and effects. You learn this anyway in your work on the path. But you also have to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| subject in our everyday life and in this work? How can we learn to eliminate time? ANSWER | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is the process you are using in this work. You all began working on this path with | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| So in this respect you have a new work assignment, and the more you work on it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a new work assignment, and the more you work on it the closer will you come automatically | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that I hardly need to go into it. Work first toward the recognition and awareness of the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| away, if I may use this expression. This work brings into clearer focus the awareness of that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| matter, bound to decay. There is struggle and work for daily subsistence, and obligations imposed upon you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| faith. But this form of expression, through the work produced, emerges from the same root: the desire | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| show you how the present phase of our work, of your inner development, fits in with the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| individual case. This requires a great deal of work for which all the preceding work was necessary | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| deal of work for which all the preceding work was necessary. The dissolution of the idealized self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| but the results and findings of your personal work in this respect are more important. As a | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| anxiety. It will take some progress in this work before you begin to experience the difference in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in feeling between the genuine desire to gradually work toward growth, and the ungenuine pretense imposed upon | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of this contradiction is missing until this particular work is well in progress. There are many more | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| outstanding indications that your idealized self is at work. These are the consciously felt emotions out of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and impoverish it. In the course of this work, you have sometimes come upon the puzzling and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| from this new angle. Your private and personal work will help you in this direction, but it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you proceed in this particular phase of the work, you will come to understand the exact nature | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you proceed in this new phase of your work, you will sense and feel this inner tightness | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| approach this most important part of your inner work with a general concept. As usual, your most | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by them. When you begin or continue to work in this direction and allow yourself to feel | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| forms. In the healthy person these three principles work side by side, in perfect harmony, alternating according | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| like to speak in detail about how they work in the psyche, how they form a supposed | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Painstakingly, you have to find them in the work you are doing. It is not easy to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| gain an awareness of all this. Only the work you are doing can bring out how any | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this has to be found in your individual work. Do not forget that such attitudes born of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| at all. The most important part of this work is to feel these emotions, to truly experience | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| even worse than before you started with this work. But this is not so. It is your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| your emotions to come to the fore and work with them. Then, and then only, will you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| You have also shown us how these attributes work hand in hand in the healthy way. But | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| distortion. Every person has to find in their work exactly why and how two trends oppose one | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| way to combat them is by doing this work and finding the underlying reasons. There must be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in your idealized self-image are weakened by this work. Proceed on this path of happiness. Gain more | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| unreality, these instincts become warped and no longer work constructively. The instinct of survival -- or self-preservation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| this feeling destructively. As you proceed with this work, you learn to become increasingly aware of feelings | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| disharmony is your distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety or, as it is more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is not obvious. Even after having done this work for some time, you will feel it only | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Here, as in any other aspect of this work, the more you become aware of, the more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| These soul movements are very subtle. Only this work can bring them into your consciousness. Since both | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to your preconceived rules. Since life does not work that way, your commands are often not obeyed | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| toward stagnation. All of you who do this work have experienced it, and traditional psychoanalysis in any | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you sense that such solutions do not really work, the stronger your drive becomes to make them | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the stronger your drive becomes to make them work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that instant the instinct of self-preservation starts to work. In order to ward off danger, the personality | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| one of you as you proceed in this work, my friends. You will then know and experience | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| All this has to become conscious in this work. Whenever an unsuccessful, half-hearted attempt is made to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| procreation serve both ends. This, of course, cannot work. For instance, the quest for power aims at | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| both needs with attempts that do not even work for one basic need. All this is very | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and often unsuccessful striving for solutions. In this work you have to uncover layer by layer how | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| place of loving others, the barter does not work. This is what they resent. Not until they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| until they recognize the just inner process at work between themselves and others, will they change. Submissive | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| pretense, and fear of exposure. What makes this work temporarily so painful is the uncovering of something | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| its weight. The more you progress in this work, the more important it becomes for you to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| lifelessness. Before appreciable progress is made in this work, this general outer climate is usually regarded as | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| say to all of you who do this work, do not shy away from the pain for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| ask yourself what is your attitude to this work. When certain painful points are reached, what are | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are reached, what are your reactions to the work, to yourself, to the people who help you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Do they alternate in time? How does that work in a personality? ANSWER: I just explained that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| would like to know is, how does it work when two or all three of these tendencies | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| these are pseudo-solutions and therefore they do not work. They may work occasionally to a certain degree | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and therefore they do not work. They may work occasionally to a certain degree, if life and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not permitting one of these attempted pseudo-solutions to work, then the others may in turn be resorted | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| favorably to him. This solution, then, seems to work for him. Thus the power drive is predominant | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| can be found and verified only after extensive work. If the idealized self-image shows in the desire- | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| due to unreal or self-caused provocation. Only extensive work on this path will eventually bring you to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of inactivity in the group and in private work as a period of stagnation. It need not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| already see clearly, as a consequence of this work, that your inner problems are responsible for your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| away from spirituality by our emphasis on psychological work. The one must include the other, and you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and more in the coming phase of our work. If we purposely refrained from evaluating your inner | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| return to perfection. It applies also to the work on the Path. There are many closing circles | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| psychological sense, these layers are examined in the work you are now doing on the path. These | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| integration. This can be accomplished only through the work of self-search. Wherever unsolved problems and conflicts exist | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chosen. This fate will enable the entity to work out the particular problem with the ensuing difficulties | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this fact, life conditions produce sufficient material to work out the existing problems without this added burden | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we enter into an important new phase of work. Be blessed, my dearest friends, our love envelopes | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion. You know by now, because of your work on this path, that one of your great | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| thrown by this temporary state, but continue to work. You need to be willing to take it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| simply decide in your mind. It does not work that way. Its emotional impact would remain if | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the same it has always been in this work. Find these attitudes and understand them more fully | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Certainly. That would be part of your private work: which words you use and why. QUESTION: Often | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| our blessings for the coming year for the work that is before you. Yes, help is given | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| You recognize the evasion and the escape-mechanism at work. But some of you are still so involved | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your pseudo-solution, and with this defense mechanism at work the child in you hopes and fights for | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| before. You will feel the growing process at work, because you are actively engaged in it with | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| success you have already accomplished through the hard work of facing yourself, sooner or later all of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have emotional maturity. QUESTION: If someone doing this work finds wild emotions going back to childhood, how | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| disintegrate without the person who helps in this work right there? At the time, let us say | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| out when one is not actively doing this work with the so-called helper. This in itself points | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of the child in you. This is the work you have to do in this particular phase | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| When you get over this particular hump, the work will proceed much more easily. Whenever you are | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not dissolved, but rather rechanneled, so that they work constructively. This happens, for instance, if a creative | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you, expect to find it sometime, and your work will lead you to it, sooner or later | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| admit to such opinions. This subject needs intensive work. Some of you have begun to discover certain | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| have already discovered as a result of your work that such exaggerated emotional reactions exist. You have | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| make them all bad and all wrong. The work on this path now calls for awareness of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| ever find what prohibits your true growth. This work demands that you discard the outer mask of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| for not supplying the desired approval, people who work on their emotional growth will try to discover | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| self. The underlying motivations and emotional forces at work indicate that. In many sayings of Jesus, as | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| moralizing is not good either. ANSWER: In your work you have found out why you wish to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that it takes a little more time and work. You have nothing to fear. The only cause | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for this is the basis on which to work. This may be unnoticed by anyone else. Real | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense of God. I tried it through my work, from books. Now what do I do, where | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your life. So this phase of your work carries us a great deal further and deeper | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| slowly but surely, as you proceed in this work. Those who are not doing this work with | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| this work. Those who are not doing this work with the help of another person may indeed | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it. The faster you advance in your personal work on this path, the sooner this will happen | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| again and again, as you observe them at work, with shorter and shorter intervals between occurrence and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a little more light and help in your work, a little further incentive, hope, strength, and inner | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of you. For, with the proper development and work, the nucleus of the inner problem is supposed | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| us consider the three major directions of our work so far. At first, we were concerned with | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the main image. The second concern of our work is to deal with the repressed needs, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| proves that your defenses against it do not work. This increases the original hurt of the experience | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| same mother was quite demanding as far as work in school was concerned. She expected a high | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| have some importance by being successful in my work. Needless to say, such thoughts are not really | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to be loved. And: Approval for my professional work is one and the same as being loved | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| based on a wrong assumption. Therefore it will work out. The claim for success will be fulfilled | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| logical error, a misconception, and therefore it cannot work. By gaining the one, you do not gain | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| So this is where the image does not work. Therefore the constantly frustrated needs grow and are | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| traits that are meant to make the image work. Now let us go on to the next | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| easier to do so with all the preliminary work you have done. Once you see the main | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Then consider the hidden claim, which did not work. Look at the needs involved with this image | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| The inner peace is the result of your work which makes you, at least partly, prepared to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aware of gradually, after a great deal of work. Moreover, what may happen here is just what | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a sudden, neglect a healthy interest in his work. But harmony will gradually establish itself, and the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| meaning and their origin. Use also the group work in which, among other benefits, you get more | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |