| occurs. Everything is connected by the law of cause and effect. Take a photograph: on the negative | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| wrong and confused motives that are self-serving and cause detriment to others -- may they be ever | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| which you may be unaware of, will then cause inferiority feelings in you, even though the very | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| recognition, the more relief and liberation it will cause you. If this does not happen, you have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| point of connection between what happened and a cause in you. You know you have been betrayed | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you so bravely battle against. This side will cause you trouble until you come face to face | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| needs and compulsions work against one another and cause a short-circuit. In cases that are less crass | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| can only do so if you understand the cause of it. The guiltier you feel, the less | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the less you dare to look into the cause, and the stronger you are compelled to wish | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that one cannot always be happy is not cause for utter despair. One truly accepts that life | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| collecting unhappiness. You may ask why this should cause more guilt than anything else. I might safely | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| is therefore truly independent. Pain, or what would cause pain to someone who has not reached this | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| inner root of the problems and eliminate the cause. Compulsion enters only when the cause is not | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| eliminate the cause. Compulsion enters only when the cause is not understood. A compulsion can never be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The most important preliminary is the understanding of cause and effect. If you view any phenomenon in | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up to it by reaction and counterreaction, through cause and effect, one extreme calling forth an opposite | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who determines it that way. The law of cause and effect is constantly at work and the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is easy to see the connection between cause and effect in such a case. In more | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thing holds true, only the person cannot connect cause and effect, unless and until he uncovers his | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and conflicts. Then, as you all experience it, cause and effect become apparent. Before these connections are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It all operates within the same law of cause and effect. With the events outside your control | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself that have at one time caused the cause, if I may put it this way, of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| usually understood. It is always a question of cause and effect, how you have unwittingly, unwillingly and | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hearing from me constantly that the law of cause and effect has to take its course. Although | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go through. In other words, the law of cause and effect is thereby broken. People think if | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this does not mean that the law of cause and effect is broken. Grace is the coming | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right one's conscious motivations may be. This will cause the development to move into a wrong channel | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| existence of this mass image is bound to cause compulsions, rebellion, and guilt for the rebellion. It | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your wrong conclusion about happiness that is the cause. In the process of suppression of all desires | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that your predicament is indeed hopeless. Since the cause of your rebellion is unconscious, it does not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| leaving out the obvious. You fail to connect cause and effect, and therefore your view is blurred | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| important issues. In fact, the former are the cause of the latter. I can very well understand | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for love is relatively real and other factors cause the weakness and afflict the love capacity. On | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| door and let your real self out, will cause you to experience a wonderful new inner strength | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| frightened or personally involved. It will no longer cause you hardship. This may sound impossible, but it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| have gained, the good effect of a good cause in you, may be a hindrance for you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| untoward can happen arbitrarily. But this must not cause you to plunge ahead heedlessly. So we always | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| which would serve the person to find the cause can be hypnotized away. This can apply to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| as well. It is important to eliminate the cause not because of hypnosis but because it indicates | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| conclusions, deviations -- in short, the images which cause conflict and unhappiness. We focused on the healing | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| listen to its voice, is just as much cause for personality disturbances as the suppression of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Not only do your emotional and psychic disturbances cause lack of control over your life, but you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| past, but only manifesting at a later period. Cause and effect do not always operate instantly, as | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| there is a delayed reaction. Generally speaking, however, cause and effect work faster when one is on | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| thereafter. By what laws the time element of cause and effect works, is a different and very | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| necessary. They are part of the law of cause and effect that applies to all beings alike | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in this trend and begin to understand its cause. All that has to be explored and experienced | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the person, because the easy and pleasant conditions cause stagnation, while an unpleasant condition may shake the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the entire person out of his rut and cause him or her to seek the remedy for | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| enough, eventually also in your body. Inner errors cause you to fear life, therefore, often unconsciously, to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| get it all the time -- will not cause you half the distress and despair it caused | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| its laws, its reality, and the interplay of cause and effect in human relationship as this happens | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| half understood and digested, can be dangerous and cause damage to the individual, as well as to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| their wrong attitudes, absorbed by the child, will cause hurt and unfulfillment. In children of the strict | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a temporary flickering emotion that these words may cause in you, will be of help and open | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and understanding of your reactions and feelings that cause provocation will weaken the habit of provocation sufficiently | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| destructive ones, you will see the law of cause and effect operating in your own life. You | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it will only hide in your soul and cause you more harm than the clear and courageous | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a reflection and a necessary effect of the cause you have within yourself waiting to be dug | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| causes insomnia in general for all people? The cause of insomnia is usually a fear -- a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in order to evaluate the task and the cause and effect going from one life to the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this point we have to understand the basic cause of the problems. In the course of the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| means employed to always get what you want cause you to get less than you would have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your natural feelings. Maybe your real self would cause your real feelings to recede too in a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| so very true. You will find how you cause all your difficulties. You have already stopped regarding | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you truly understand just how and why you cause your hardships, and by so doing you gain | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| terms of retaliation, rather than in terms of cause and effect due to a wonderfully just law | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aggression most violently. The healthy way will never cause interference and mutual exclusiveness. The desire for love | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a result of a mistaken view of cause and effect; a mistaken judgement: If I am | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you well know, inner problems must be their cause. Such inner problems are always connected with this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fact, these two are often interacting. False motivations cause impatience. The strong, often unconscious, desire to belong | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are also unable to find your own cause, how you contributed to the situation. Whatever you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| simply is, it exists outside the law of cause and effect. Therefore there is no point in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| It is so forceful that the balancing forces cause the other person to withdraw from the exaggerated | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| spirit's aliveness and its bond with you may cause your subconscious to be impressed by it, so | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| real self, or your intuitive self -- will cause you to direct your affection and love toward | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you have to start working out what the cause was, in order to avoid a recurrence of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the better one will be able to connect cause and effect even if they are not close | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| illusion, and therefore the length of time between cause and effect makes a great deal of difference | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Practically, this manifests in the ability to see cause and effect even if they do not follow | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is determined also by the ability to connect cause and effect even when they are separated in | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| only develop a different understanding, a wider vision. Cause and effect move closer together, and therefore the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you have begun, and you can now connect cause and effect. You were incapable of doing this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You were incapable of doing this before, since cause and effect were not close together. Careful investigation | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that more suffering may come from this hidden cause. Since you are impatient, either consciously or unconsciously | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| sabotage all your attempts to get to the cause. What is done in impatience, haste, frustration, or | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| yourself about the most mundane, insignificant issues which cause you the slightest disharmony. When you pursue this | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| consequence is quite the contrary and frustrating because cause and effect are not obvious to you. It | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| high standards of the particular idealized self, they cause additional anxiety, in that the idealized self will | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the self is still there and it can cause disease, accident, loss, and outer failure in many | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| withdrawn type. You also have to find the cause and effect of these conditions. You will see | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| haste. Serenity in the healthy way will not cause you to hide from emotions, experience, life, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| healthy, they complement one another. But they can cause the greatest war within yourself if distorted. Now | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| solution of power? ANSWER: You cannot pinpoint the cause so easily. Generalizations may be misleading. Each case | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| two trends oppose one another through seeing the cause and effect of each. At the same time | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will lessen to the degree one understands inner cause and effect. Even if the general explanation and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| really help. The person has to find the cause of the addiction by experiencing it as his | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it would be misleading to say that they cause hardship for you. They are the product of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| threaten your security and belief in yourself. They cause shame or humiliation that has to be hidden | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| set in, with no conscious awareness of the cause. This entire process is unconscious, from beginning to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the stunting of creative forces, which in turn cause anxiety and frustration, among other feelings. Since both | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| severe because it is harder to determine the cause when one tendency is hidden. Because of this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| crassly disturbed people. Most people fail to connect cause and effect between the outer event that disturbs | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| desires within yourself. You can no longer link cause and effect and therefore you will not clear | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner conditions. Lack of understanding, confusion, unawareness of cause and effect, contradictory aims, and wrong conclusions make | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the inner world. That is always the cause. The world of matter is always the effect | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the contrary, that the outer world is the cause and the inner world is the effect. No | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your own growth and development, you will perceive cause and effect in truth. For instance, what you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this powerful authority make safety and happiness impossible, cause frustration and unhappiness. Here you are, the helpless | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an answer that they find unpleasant. This would cause an inner resistance so strong that they could | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you. Looking away from what is does not cause it to cease to exist. Therefore, it is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| say: Awareness and taking account, thinking further about cause and effect, will always yield what is right | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| work. You have nothing to fear. The only cause for worry is to be utterly unaware of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and legitimate needs of every healthy human being cause equally strong guilt feelings. This is due to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| with this? The answer is that repressed needs cause you to act contrary to your own best | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the real needs. This in itself will automatically cause the false needs to disappear. Slowly, their intensity | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| why. You still miss the main links of cause and effect. Before such understanding can be yours | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| every child experiences at least to some degree, cause unhappiness and discontent. The situation that brings this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unconscious resistance to letting go is the strongest cause of self-contempt, guilt, weakness, unfulfillment, and many outer | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| closer to reality, you will slowly begin to cause different effects. The old negative effects do not | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| do not dissolve immediately after you find the cause that produced them. It will take some time | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| set up an entirely new pattern, a new cause, in health, reality and productivity. However, the effects | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| However, the effects will not manifest until the cause has ripened, so to speak. QUESTION: In disciplining | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| age -- rather than seeing the true underlying cause. The moment you think this way, you are | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| one of the many symptoms instead of the cause. Needless to say, that remedy is precarious. Compulsive | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| relationships are imperfect as well. This is the cause of one of humanity's great inner conflicts and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| discussed tonight. They are the effect of the cause now under discussion. We have now reached the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| relief will hamper your efforts at finding the cause and effect of your problems and instituting more | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| have no opportunity to seek and treat the cause before it is too late. The same mechanism | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| life will not serve any purpose. It will cause greater anxiety, with different outlets and symptoms. It | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| in God! 99. FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE Greetings, my dearest, dearest friends. God | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the original rejection by them will no longer cause you to reject yourself. Your question is important | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| derives from a lack of understanding it will cause you to lose your own capacity to understand | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |