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| yourself. When you fully understand the most accessible cause-and-effect connections which are within the first fences, the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| In order to deal with the less obvious cause-and-effect situations, it is important to understand an apparent | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| this decision is fully made, then further removed cause-and-effect connections also become immediately accessible. The more you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| negative nucleus in its entirety, its connectedness, its cause-and-effect chain-reactions. As I said, this requires dedicated, committed | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
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| seemed so difficult to renounce. Most damages are caused by not making any choice and allowing all | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| suffering -- you call it masochism -- is caused by specific tendencies. On the one hand you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| whether you are paying for something that you caused in this life or in a previous one | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| live contrary to their basic nature without having caused it or being able to do anything about | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and by this development overcomes the fault that caused the sin, the sin is extinguished. Every karma | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is even more applicable to something you have caused in this life. And now, my dear ones | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| It may also be that their reluctance is caused by fear of disappointment, that perhaps it cannot | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| which started long before the material earth existed, caused the coming into existence of disharmony and evil | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| as I have already explained before. It is caused by the bloodstream of the mother in order | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you that has, at one time or another, caused this -- some wrong current or attitude, some | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from all masks of self-deception and from influences caused by character weaknesses. The higher self in you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and think of all the instances that have caused you disharmony in any manner, shape, or form | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| soul, and as long as there is blindness caused through lack of self- knowledge, and as long | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of the vicious circle, how one defect is caused by another in a chain reaction. When you | 36 PRAYER |
| and what it is in you that has caused misfortune to come to you, then you have | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and your conflicts mean and how you have caused them. You may grasp some perhaps, but not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| these conflicts. You will not yet know what caused them, how they came about. But once you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| conclusions that have become conscious have affected and caused your various conflicts. This process should be painstakingly | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| will liberate you. Understanding what in you has caused your problems, your worries, your discontent and unhappiness | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Self responsibility: find out (a) where you have caused your suffering and (b) how it is in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you have directed your life, how you have caused events of which you seemed the victim, you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| about which we really can't do anything was caused by our images? ANSWER: You understood correctly. Except | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| faults and trends that in a former life caused you to commit a graver action, one that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| certain intervals it happened again, the next time caused perhaps by another group, another nation. You can | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the former has begun to destroy the effect caused by the mass image of his or her | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of the disadvantages their own rebellion may have caused them. There are many shades and variations in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and hidden way, the manifestation of it is caused by the current. Imagine it as something like | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that in you which causes and has constantly caused pain. You must learn to distinguish between two | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| analysis, in absolute truth and reality, you have caused it. You have to find the cause and | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| truly free yourself from the chains of error caused by the egotism that is so destructive. You | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| understand the chain reaction this wrong attitude has caused within you, eventually also harming your relationships to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the wrong attitude. Every crisis, every breakdown, is caused by a basic wrong attitude. You need never | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| world around you -- blind to how you caused the negative results. The next step might be | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| finding in your own life how you have caused happenings that seem entirely unjust. The better you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your pride, your egotism that directly or indirectly caused that which seemed, so far, to come your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is the very medicine to cure the pain caused by the deviation and, therefore, brings you closer | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the right emotion in the fear and guilt caused by the possible wrong one that you may | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that way. Find out what rejection must have caused your self-love, this being in love with yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| other respect as well. Such a misinterpretation is caused by psychological twists. In other words, if a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| unconscious wrong conclusions, plus your guilt and fear, caused your sexuality to remain almost as infantile as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without trying to find what in you has caused them, but rather believing it to be the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mishap can ever occur that you have not caused in some way yourself. You know intellectually that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| pain ceases, even though the outer condition that caused the pain still prevails. Thus the very incident | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| still prevails. Thus the very incident that has caused you acute pain before the recognition now becomes | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| aspects of yourself that have at one time caused the cause, if I may put it this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| now, it means, foremost, finding out how you caused certain effects in your life and taking the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will is kept from functioning. The prohibition is caused by the various layers of error, deviations from | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in this earth sphere with the limited outlook caused by your own distortions. Once you raise yourself | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| how hidden and unconscious they are. To have caused a mishap or tragedy should be understood not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to solve the accumulated bad effects you have caused. Therefore, it may stay behind and be utilized | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| cause you half the distress and despair it caused you before. But as I said, first you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| they can lean. It was this tendency which caused religion to be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| between your parents and the people who have caused you hurt or are causing you pain now | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| inner reaction, or an actual outer happening apparently caused by other people, try to find out how | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| then realize that it is you who have caused it, and not a chaotic universe or God | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| own power -- by finding within what has caused it. And there are other responsibilities, such as | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| conclusions. They do not see that they have caused this condition, and are constantly aggravating it. This | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you have as yet not found how you caused it. Only in understanding the causes that you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself, in the present, the root that has caused an evil. So this saying of Jesus is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that so many mishaps in your life were caused by other people's faults, or an unkind fate | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| process of activity. Those who believe that God caused their suffering, which they have to accept without | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| except in the positive sense, because the experience caused you to grow. It added to your whole | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| resentments are unjustified. Some are, because you have caused the conditions; but others are not. Yet you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| rebellion, bitterness, hostility, and aggression. This battle is caused by resistance to giving up the cherished self-image | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| obedience that is entirely on the surface and caused by the sickest motivations. QUESTION: I understand. But | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of feeling? Realize that it is you who caused this state of unfulfillment, and it is you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you believe it is the crisis that has caused these reactions in you. You wish to ignore | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| earned you punishment as a child; either they caused you actual pain, or produced an undesired result | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| working on this particular phase. You now have caused entirely unnecessary hindrances in your life. You have | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that happens, once you can feel the emptiness caused by an unfulfilled need and can pinpoint it | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| can you then find why and how you caused this unfulfillment. This is a slow process. If | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| how you have done so; what defense mechanisms caused such sabotaging. Eventually you will find one focal | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| giving up a precious defense. The impatience is caused to a large degree by the unconscious misconception | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| frustration, this deep aggression you have, which is caused by the neurosis, you become ill before you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you begin to repress the original hurt that caused you to form an image. You not only | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| but what you are unaware of, what originally caused you to produce your main image, you now | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| need. He will clearly see the behavior pattern caused by the false need and how it damaged | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| on the surface. It can be provoked or caused, for instance, when you do this work with | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not facing and coping with your reality, that caused your soul's sickness. Hence it is this area | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| must understand that in many respects you have caused your own unhappiness through your own destructive and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you incapable of properly dealing with it. It caused you to turn away from it and look | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is much more the present pain of unfulfillment, caused by your unproductive patterns. Consciously you cannot distinguish | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| past. The past is important only because it caused you to institute the unproductive ways responsible for | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| stage is reached. Thus a double frustration is caused -- and this generates tremendous pressure. It is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the apparent risk of living and feeling is caused by an original sense of inadequacy, and continuing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| wish for it is a healthy one, is caused by a conflict within you. Such a conflict | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| into clear focus the question of, Have I caused an inner problem in this child due to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| atmosphere which produces his fear. The strain is caused more by your compulsive striving to be something | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| life where you do not encounter the hindrances caused by matter. One can still grow and develop | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and what obstructs its functioning. The obstruction is caused by the various layers of personality that are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| surplus of mental and voluntary activity that has caused the misuse of these faculties. One cannot say | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| out of the way. So much unhappiness is caused by the compulsive need to live up to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cure of the soul. The sickness is not caused by outer events, but by a violation of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| load a double guilt upon yourself: the first caused by actual selfishness and lack of love, manifesting | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of rigidity. The second type of rigidity is caused by a condition of the soul that is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| both kinds of rigidities, alternately and simultaneously, one caused by the other and overlapping. Sometimes one is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| identical in nature to the one that originally caused you to misinterpret a painful condition or occurrence | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a difficult period, that the difficulty is not caused by this work, but by your unresolved problems | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the last analysis, your repetitive patterns are not caused by the faulty ways of your parents, but | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| manner in which they are used. The disharmony caused by the misuse of these forces creates unrest | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fate, the truth is that these events are caused by nothing else but the governing force of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| illusion it always was, an illusion which has caused so much suffering. I should like to point | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the most feared event happens. Misery is never caused by the feared event itself, only by one's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| they cause; knowing the truth behind the automatism caused by specific misconceptions. When the personal path is | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Our common efforts to uncover the untruth that caused the disorder and destruction have made this fact | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| nothing to do with your choices, but was caused by a power over which you have has | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| clearly and specifically in what way you have caused a specific hardship, difficulty, or void. When such | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| discomfort oneself. Much of the world's evil is caused by this state of soul. Because it is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| resilient firmness should prevail. The imbalance is always caused by the ignorance of, and lack of differentiation | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of power over oneself. Ultimately mental disturbance is caused by this conflict. But when your psyche no | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| point -- the recognition of what in you caused the lack, so that you deeply experience the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the imbalance and a special sort of tension caused by the opposite direction. This is what causes | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the self-perpetuating principle. The sequence of chain reactions caused by any thought, belief or action is self-perpetuating | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| continuous anguish? It is not a momentary experience caused by a one-time condition that then dissolves when | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| outer conditions. The pain of this blockage has caused destructiveness which at the same time contains aspects | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| private life or not -- it must be caused from within, from a wrong inner idea according | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| pain its natural healthy rhythm, you allowed experience caused by error, illusion and unhealth to take its | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| only when you comprehend the far worse pain caused by the frustration of not giving what you | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| words, the inhibition of the beautiful vital forces caused the distortion. This happens over and over to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The continued frustration, which you believe to be caused by the other person's mean refusal to cooperate | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| back from it in fright. The fright is caused by a wrong conclusion. Experience of pleasure, as | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| emptiness and unfulfillment, all frustration and suffering are caused by being disconnected -- as you know and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| at your fears. To what extent are they caused by pride? To what extent are they a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is always an expression of misunderstanding the processes caused by the false idea that inner blocks can | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| explain the anger away by theorizing about what caused the hurtful action. All the explanations and theorizing | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you deplore and render others responsible for is caused by negative attitudes you actually enjoy and want | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| beyond the level of appearance. The dissension is caused not by actual differences among units of consciousness | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| for too long that problems in relationship are caused only by others and not by oneself. This | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| final analysis such tense desire comes from fear caused by the infantile belief that you will be | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| do not delude yourself into believing they are caused by anything you experience or fail to experience | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| toward everybody whom one substitutes for those who caused the original hurt in childhood: You must now | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| needs you had as a child whose unfulfillment caused most of your painful, and therefore repressed, feelings | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and stagnant, denied feelings. Tensions and energy stagnation caused by distortions on any of the other levels | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| if you disregard that the undesirable outcome is caused by this, then you cannot help feeling embittered | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| and of real feelings and interests, is also caused by pride. The illusion of separation is so | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| movement toward the being's ultimate fate. While distrust caused by fear is the motivating force, the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the honest admission of your negativity. The guilt caused by your unfair demands, your spite, the withholding | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| withholding of your love, and the compounded guilt caused by punishing others for your misery, must erode | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| at fault in my misery? How have I caused it? How have others caused it? -- thus | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| How have I caused it? How have others caused it? -- thus fluctuating between blame and self-blame | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| consciously or deliberately; nevertheless, you know you have caused the results you now experience. However, when it | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| that you already know your mood is not caused by any outside factor, but simply occurs in | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| pain that is not, in the last analysis, caused by a violation of spiritual law, a basic | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to the meaning of the crisis that was caused by obstructing the movement will feel victimized by | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| illusion that your painful feelings of self-rejection are caused by something or someone outside. In such instances | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to deal with and overcome them. If what caused a negative experience is not elicited into the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| traditionalism. The suffering in your world is exclusively caused by those attitudes that are often confused with | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Their proximity and their effect on you is caused by your own unpurified, limited, and undeveloped consciousness | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| all people share. The denial of the fear caused secondary guilts. Some of these secondary guilts gave | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| It is a grieving pain about the destruction caused by evil. It is healthy and good to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |