| involved and it takes all your effort to work yourself out of the thick shrubbery and see | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| ones. Blessed is this hour. The more you work on this path and comprehend the nature of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this path and comprehend the nature of this work, the more you will understand that the aim | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| with yourself. It takes considerable progress in this work and understanding about certain conflicts and distortions before | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| final result of not relinquishing. Once your inner work has brought you to this point, you can | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| with yourself. There comes a time in your work, however, when it is necessary that you approach | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or caused, for instance, when you do this work with another person and certain areas in you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| get further in this important respect of the work. QUESTION: You didn't exactly define pity and compassion | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| two. It seems to me that, in the work you prescribe, the more we acknowledge and understand | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| from that, the more we do in this work we become less human and more like machines | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| if you believe that the outcome of this work is first, to conform to a rule, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| understood the most basic rudimentary elements of this work. It is time for you, with your good | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of these teachings and the method of the work is to free you of ready-made rules and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this path for some time, by doing this work, by realizing themselves, by throwing off fetters, become | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| observe yourself and others. Go deeper in this work. Look at the few people whom you may | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to give an overall understanding of your current work. I will use an approach that is adapted | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| their endeavors. The only difference between those who work actively toward finding themselves and those who do | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| others, regardless of whether or not they themselves work on such a path. This follows the law | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| help you, but you have to do the work of recognizing, of facing, of changing. In short | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your real self masters your life, your forces work constructively and productively, due to a minimum of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Most of you, in the course of this work, have become aware that in some situations you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| because it is already free, while what requires work lies barren. It is not only the discrepancy | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| resistance to change and growth where the hard work of facing and initiating change still has to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| therefore it is also within you. If you work properly on this path, you constantly thaw out | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Blessings for all of you. Blessed are your work, your perseverance, your strivings on this path. May | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| no longer believe in pretense and illusion. The work you are doing on the path -- provided | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of the previous lectures and in your private work. It is now important that you connect the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is really not possible. Therefore, you should first work on this very rebellion and subsequent frenzy. You | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you in truth: Even if you should not work on yourself at all, but accomplish nothing more | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| self-alienation, inability to relinquish, pretense that does not work in this instance. Once you have found, and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| pest already with the medium in my personal work sessions, talking about the superstitions I have. For | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| best homework is to go through your recent work session. Try to apply it and observe yourself | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you. Blessed is this hour. Blessed is your work. Many people in all sincerity endeavor to find | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| experience it emotionally. In the course of this work, you have often come across discrepancies of this | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| It takes a great deal of self-search, systematic work, and the utter will to be candid with | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| itself, possible only after much progress in this work, to observe how your feelings are not allowed | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| situation. This is not exactly the kind of work you can do in your personal work sessions | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of work you can do in your personal work sessions. It may, and will, come up for | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| alone. Of course, the whole process of this work, privately and in your groups, enables you to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| no time. This even happens to you who work on this path. The fear must exist in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| We have now reached the level in our work where we begin to see causes, while in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| progress along this path by just doing the work that is his to do? The village blacksmith | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| subconscious when he feels he is doing God's work and has fulfillment on that level? ANSWER: The | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that cannot be reached merely by doing good work. Yet, a number of people on this earth | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| enough for such deep probing. In their life work and in meeting their daily problems as best | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and what could be brought out. However, the work should never be approached in a spirit of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| -- in every possible respect, not just in work alone. Getting to know one's unconscious mind is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| kind, helpful actions and fine execution of one's work. QUESTIONER: Thank you. Be blessed, all of you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Be blessed, all of you. Continue in your work, in your step-by-step growth, for that is the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| God. It is inherent in the laws that work according to their environmental conditions. For example, an | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| productive universal forces of truth can get to work. When the confusion is not tackled, when one | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| by each one of you in your individual work. It is so much easier for the child | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| stumbling blocks in a most specific way. Psychological work is simply finding out the truth about yourself | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| establishes a pattern of self-rejection. How does one work through this, even if one sees one's parents | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as I am capable of it. If you work toward the understanding and recognition of your resistance | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in previous lectures and looked at in our work. If the entirety of the lectures is understood | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| lectures is understood, and the method of our work is followed through, you will automatically understand the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| experienced in your emotions. The continuation of this work will finally bring you this awareness. Now, why | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is this hour. Most of my friends who work on this path approach a certain area of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of feeling nothing, or very little. Continuing the work and courageously going through the temporary periods of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to put the links together requires the active work of sincere self-search. The perfectionism that is so | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| into their proper channels so that they can work constructively for you. The longer you delay this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| fully with all your constructive patterns beginning to work, is ample compensation for all the years of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| grow within your psyche. However, during all the work you have done, you have not only become | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| as a result of your evasion. In this work, you have often noticed that, after certain progress | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| here, too. QUESTION: In the process of my work, I have, of late, occasionally felt the need | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| part of you. QUESTION: I discovered in my work that mixed in with healthy and productive pleasure | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the pretense of your idealized self is at work, you do not let another person come near | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| knowledge will be very useful for your further work and self-observation. It will mean a great deal | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| other words, your instinct of self-preservation is at work when not required. Whenever instincts which were originally | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| faculties for unreal danger the less they will work effectively and spontaneously when required for real protection | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the defenses for real danger. That will not work. However, your defenses will be automatically reactivated if | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and qualities. But when it comes to this work, to voicing one's impressions and feelings about others | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is why it is so important in this work to bring the emotions to the surface. Only | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| consideration is to use the methods of this work to bring into awareness what was hitherto submerged | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| emotions will furnish sufficient material with which to work first. Even people whose approach is predominantly intellectual | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| are dealing with now. QUESTION: In my private work, my helper and I found that I have | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| percent of them and can see how they work -- what can he do to train the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you particularly in this respect for your further work and help you to free yourselves of the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is dishonest, if displacement and subterfuge are at work. If your anger leaves you freer and stronger | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| only your will to plow ahead in this work of self-finding will enable you to do so | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| one of you, on your path, in your work, in your activities, in your human relationships. May | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| exist in you. In the course of our work together, however, you have learned that the proper | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| regardless of how successful you are in your work of self-finding, can observe, if you just look | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| failure of relationships that you would want to work out. It takes considerable insight to find out | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| then, you may ask yourself, does it not work? Are there always selfish, greedy, immature currents in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you know from past lectures and from your work. Therefore a productive wish proves to be unproductive | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| self and from the other person, go to work in a harmonious way. Now, my friends, study | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| see it. As you proceed in your private work on this path, you will gain a still | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you can help him by quietly pursuing this work of self-awareness and self-acceptance. You know all this | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you and your daughter who are in this work of self-finding. Both of you have found in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you told us that it was easier to work on this path here on earth than in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| for their self-realization, and are helped by our work on ourselves. Could you explain how this works | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| come, or even in years, when, in your work of self-finding you come to the point when | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| willpower to be so. From all our previous work together you know by now that this is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| use intellect, thought, and will, in your arduous work on this path at all? The answer is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| into the spiritual life. And this does not work. When they attempt to reach the higher form | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| eliminate mind and will functioning, but this cannot work. Do not accept my word for it, my | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| reproduce them artificially and voluntarily. It will not work. The moment you try to do that, you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| And now to your questions. QUESTION: In my work on myself I have found that because I | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Why can one then not pursue any creative work? ANSWER: Creativity comes from the real self. To | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| But what if you are engaged in creative work and then, suddenly, you cannot do it any | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| hour. Blessed are your efforts. Blessed is your work. Before I turn to tonight's lecture, I wish | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| comment, please, on the progress of our group work and show us a way to make it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| dynamic experience for us, that is truly group work? ANSWER: Yes, my friend. I believe most of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| begin to sense and experience that this group work is of immeasurable importance. How else can you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as you have this last year, the group work will prove more and more fruitful, an addition | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and more fruitful, an addition to the private work that is one of the greatest assets you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| once again, also as far as the group work is concerned, learn more and more to bring | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| means, this is the way of the group work, also. This will then make a more fruitful | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| direction. The first year of this particular group work has gone better than expected. But that does | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a fact. Outer reforms, regardless how efficient, will work lastingly only when more people do what I | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| This, as you encounter so often in this work, is what you experience in the world at | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| discouragement, and depression about the validity of your work, in some corner of your being you are | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| but above all it liberates faculties which will work for you rather than against you. Depression makes | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| take up depression as a problem in your work. Every affliction of the psyche hinders living. It | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| we are so very much concerned in this work with your admitting the truth to yourself, for | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| how others affect you in truth. Your continuous work along this path in private sessions in addition | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in private sessions in addition to the group work is most important. This will help you greatly | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| who reads these words, for everyone entering this work now, or being in it already, or entering | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| knowledge you have gained about yourself through your work on this path and apply it to your | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| aspect is this: As you know from our work in the past, almost everyone has the wish | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| but now they can be utilized for the work and serve as wonderful means for discovering more | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| is food for thought and material for further work, for each and every one of you. I | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| these aspects is not immediately applicable. If you work with these aspects, you cannot help but register | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| They have trouble in their relationships, in their work. They cannot cope with life and seek all | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not found, verified, acknowledged, and experienced, the other work on images and misconceptions will not really help | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| loving, for disturbing the outgoing cosmic flow. The work we are doing together must finally lead you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| technical details. This is something my friends can work out among themselves. The laborious road of trial | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| emotionally understand something. Then through private and group work you will first verify that such emotional understanding | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| This should not be confused with the group work. The important thing is to help you toward | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and have come out of it through this work. They will communicate with them and will thus | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| after certain obstructions have been dissolved by this work. My friends on this path have done very | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| friends on this path have done very intensive work and have reached these accessible areas. For them | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| before the readiness manifests naturally in your private work, would either find you completely closed up, or | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| have been found in the course of this work -- are always the result of not accepting | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| capable of productive true experience? And hasn't this work so far shown clearly that finding the real | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to God? In the course of the individual work, every one of you has times when you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| or rather as inevitable an outcome of this work, as are love or truth. QUESTION: You have | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that most people do play roles. In this work, our whole discovery of the idealized self-image is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and your willingness to change, doing the hard work of overcoming the resistance; constantly being on the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| order to make any of your everyday appliances work -- radio, television, an airplane, a computer machine | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| understand a little of how these so-called miracles work. The power currents of the spirit are infinitely | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| very helpful in giving renewed impetus to your work on the path. Let me finish this topic | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| printless, resilient surface. In the course of your work many of you have glimpsed that all unhealthy | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the steady progress and organic growth that persevering work is bound to bring eventually, you will understand | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| soul is interrelated. In the course of this work, we have often found and discussed your demands | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| It is my advice to my friends who work in this intensive study to devote some attention | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |