| well as the lack of love and understanding cause what is called a neurosis. You accept this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you will realize that your present unfulfilled needs cause the pain. Your frustration will be with your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| You thus draw your awareness to the central cause where the problem really lies. You focus your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and come to terms with, pain, the underlying cause of it, has to be dealt with similarly | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and more, and institute the very patterns which cause others to hurt and frustrate you again and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| out which you feel diminishes your value. Another cause of fear and dislike of others is the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| does not come true. Is this not a cause for natural anger? ANSWER: Before we deal with | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and fear are not mentioned. They too are cause and effect at the same time. ANSWER: It | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the effect is spoken about and not the cause. At one time, humanity was not ready to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the effect was more concentrated on than the cause. Now that humanity is evolving, more attention must | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of psychological understanding, and by dissolving the underlying cause. If you tell people, You must not fear | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and separating, and they will no longer find cause for such irrational fear. It is more or | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| One cannot say that mind, intellect, and will cause suffering and misery, but using them when they | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the mind is a hindrance and a direct cause of your misery and confusion, where it prevents | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| write, but cannot. The mere wish will not cause self-condemnation. If, however, society proclaimed that everyone who | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| rebellion against imperfection, many patterns transform and you cause less suffering for yourself. But your conscious or | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to rebel, to resist, to erect barriers which cause more imperfection and suffering than life would otherwise | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| confusion of the mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| means exist that can interrupt the laws of cause and effect, that God can protect you from | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in yourself the unproductive depression with its underlying cause, in spite of the rational sadness. Let us | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| healthy introspection to find the gnawing undercurrents that cause the depression. Only then can you free yourself | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| then can you free yourself forever of the cause that will come up again and again in | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| aim of understanding it. The dissolution of the cause of depression not only serves the purpose of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Since depression is the effect, it is its cause that prevents you from really living and fulfilling | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| yourself against the destructive effects of the inner cause. Therefore please take up depression as a problem | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| affect the involved parties and sooner or later cause a disturbance if the shallow relationship is a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| may add that unconscious expectations, claims and demands cause havoc in relationships. This is not because all | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| necessarily wrong, but because they smolder underground and cause a mutual strain as they clash with the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to your surface awareness, even justified expectations will cause problems for you because of your unawareness of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the past you discussed the close connection between cause and effect. Are we then to believe that | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| But if you mean that this law of cause and effect is to the finest detail an | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are constantly confronted with the living reality of cause and effect. In the smallest daily issues cause | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| cause and effect. In the smallest daily issues cause and effect operate, but you are so used | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| lost the ability to see the operation of cause and effect with the newness that is necessary | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| different law operates merely because in one case cause and effect are close together, while in other | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| no bearing on it; it only discloses the cause or the effect to you. Sometimes human beings | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| would realize that their inability to see either cause or effect does not change the fact that | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| or effect does not change the fact that cause and effect are interdependent. When you uncover cause | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| cause and effect are interdependent. When you uncover cause and effect sufficiently in your own personal life | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| results have puzzled you when you saw no cause for them. By getting to know yourself better | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| terminologies change with the times, but the underlying cause is always the same. The cosmic inner forces | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| sorts of solutions but rarely discover the real cause and therefore the real cure. A deeply permeating | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not yet, or not fully, understood the underlying cause, which basically is always the refusal to face | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| caution, use proper timing in approaching this deepest cause of human unhappiness and disease of soul. As | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| because you are not aware of its real cause. The result is imbalance: either you lean over | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| You have told us about certain activities that cause justified guilt feelings. How can we atone for | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that what you withhold from others can also cause hurt! And now to the part of your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of your fright of such change, and the cause of it -- where you believe that the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| In one instance, definite restitutive acts, that perhaps cause you some hardship, will appear as the solution | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| than it needs to and even favorable impressions cause exhaustion. You may all have experienced that you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| In short, something that frightened you once will cause you to be frightened again by an outer | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| very limited. Whenever effect does not immediately follow cause, people lose the link and therefore become unable | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to make judgments, such judgment must be faulty. Cause and effect are often far removed in time | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| human beings may experience the effect of a cause from way back, while the new causes they | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| With increasing spiritual development, inner health, and oneness, cause and effect come closer together. As long as | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| particular areas of development, is still limited when cause and effect are removed from one another. Only | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| development, and therefore it can become actualized, are cause and effect closer together. Moreover, when motives are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| will come to recognize factors within yourself that cause you to be subjective, distorted, and out of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not pay attention to them, finding the inner cause will become more difficult. In these instances you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| reasons for your unfulfillment and the difficulties which cause you to strain away from them, you would | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| identify with causes. No matter how good the cause itself may be, if it serves as a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| harm is not in your embracing this worthy cause, believing in it and working for it -- | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| not understood your hidden motivation for embracing the cause you are still compelled to identify with an | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| a great difference, my friends, between embracing a cause out of a healthy conviction and inner freedom | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is an effect, while self- identification is a cause. Whenever you find an emotional dependency on others | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| The psychic, or subtle bodies are always the cause; the physical body is the effect. With great | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| destructive patterns, inner fear, and insecurity. These hurts cause you to struggle in the wrong direction, which | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| yourself to become aware of the fear will cause an overflow you cannot cope with. It is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| find and dissolve the obstructions in you that cause inability and unwillingness to love. Humans need not | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your control. By understanding a little more of cause and effect in your own life, and seeing | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in fact lessen the isolation and separateness that cause so much suffering and loneliness. Since your inner | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not force yourself, because then your anxiety will cause such a strong counter-current that the benefit may | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| explanations and justifications. Simply admit those aspects that cause you shame. Write down in exact and precise | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| frustrations in childhood have been recognized as the cause for deeply embedded problems in the personality. Now | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| are superimposed rules, taboos, and false guilts, which cause anger and rebellion. Such anger and rebellion are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause violent anger. The infant knows nothing beyond this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and cruelty could often parade as a righteous cause, while the truly meaningful and mature solutions for | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| with one another and the less friction they cause within and outside in the life of the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| healthy interaction, natural and universal, and therefore no cause for guilt and denial. A generally ignored need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| all a rightful place. Ascertain which particular needs cause you to feel guilty and ashamed. Ascertain which | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| need and its present unfulfillment is bound to cause it to attach itself to another situation. Perhaps | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| them have their rightful place and should not cause guilt. By not acknowledging these needs you will | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is the root of all. It is the cause. It is the inner source, and provides you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| is not a remote effect of a remote cause, even remote in your self, but a very | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| self, but a very direct effect of a cause that is right in front of your eyes | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| instead of wanting to change the attitudes that cause your unhappiness, you grumble and blame the pathwork | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that you should no longer have negative feelings, cause you to struggle away from the now, which | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be it rejection, criticism, or loss -- can cause suffering, one is in illusion. This seeming contradiction | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| know the truth, you more than understand the cause and effect of images and misconceptions. You know | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| reflexes; understanding why they exist and what they cause; knowing the truth behind the automatism caused by | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| When a person finally recognizes the significance of cause and effect in his or her own life | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| ten times removed, but direct, visible links of cause and effect, that is, visible if one chooses | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| how you can influence it; (b) the exact cause of your unfulfillment: how you act as a | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fences. It is an important transition. The direct cause and effect is observable without mystical faith in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| real, and not my vague, childish fears that cause the resistance. Another prevalent attitude expresses, I am | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fence wherein which you do not see immediate cause and effect. You are helpless because you believe | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you doubt? Here is the direct link of cause and effect that must be clearly recognized before | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the more remote links can be seen. When cause and effect cannot be linked immediately, where they | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| temporarily accepted -- but only as long as cause and effect remain obscure. The instant the more | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| same as with the obviously direct links of cause and effect: the negative result dissolves instantly and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| can you come to a wider view of cause and effect, so often ascribed to an unfathomable | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| unfathomable fate? The first phase, the phase where cause and effect is obvious if one chooses to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not first fully experience the truth of immediate cause and effect? For example, you have a disharmonious | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| past ignorance, you obstruct the removal of the cause that created the hardship in the first place | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| courage of ruthless self-honesty -- the past negative cause dissolves and you feel the inner freedom to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| moment you are truly willing to change the cause that has brought the effect of unhappiness. When | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| more you establish and experience the links between cause and effect, the more secure you must become | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| its results. The knowingness that the law of cause and effect must fulfill itself will bring its | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| -- as well as to any person or cause -- is feared because disappointment is taken for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| life. But now that you observe and understand cause and effect, you have the key to change | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that must first be considered, understood in its cause and effect, and eliminated before you can get | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| shelve this problem now. The more you comprehend cause and effect in your immediate life, where blindness | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| will be of the self as the central cause of your life. All my friends still overlook | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| my friends still overlook very immediate links of cause and effect: how you forfeit the results you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| there is a veil over these links between cause and effect, it is impossible to feel how | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| from occasional heart palpitations which have no organic cause. I have found in my work that this | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is lacking, all sorts of negative emotions will cause ill health, especially when the trouble remains unrecognized | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| that unhealthy anger is the healthy version. The cause cannot determine whether the emotion elicited is healthy | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| emotion elicited is healthy or unhealthy anger. The cause may entirely justify real, genuine, healthy anger which | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| one had no control, becomes gradually visible as cause and effect operating by remote control, as opposed | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| prohibitions I do not yet quite know that cause me to be only partly alive. I want | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| important to understand, because these misconceptions are the cause of humanity's predicament. All misconceptions, as you find | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| with your innermost being but also with the cause and effect within yourself and with that inner | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is out in the open and you understand cause and effect. Conversely, when you give up the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| so bad, because you begin to understand its cause and effect. This makes a drastic difference in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| whatever you experience is a result of some cause you have set in motion, the moment you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| because you are, within yourself, contemplating your own cause and effect. I have discussed this in different | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| gain awareness of either unless you contemplate the cause and effect and cultivate it with your conscious | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| cannot be different. You fully recognize that the cause is in yourself. Point 2: Let us separate | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| govern all your actions and attitudes. It will cause thoughts and emotions which must bear fruit all | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| at the meaning of pain and its real cause. Pain is the result of conflict. It occurs | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| is the unconsciousness that creates a gap between cause and effect. The cause is the negative wish | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |