| are also blind when you ignore the inner causes of your not having what you wish to | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not be conscious of, is disconnected from the causes that brought about the original unfulfillment. In your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of self-alienation. It is displacement. Thus, the lie causes negative effects, while owning up to your feelings | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of these deadly sins are effects instead of causes. Also, hatred and fear are not mentioned. They | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| ready to delve deeply enough to see the causes. The best that could be hoped for was | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| people from destructive actions, even if the underlying causes were not eliminated in the individual. At least | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| more attention must be given to the inner causes. QUESTION: And why is fear not mentioned? ANSWER | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| seven sins are symptoms of the same underlying causes. QUESTION: I wanted to ask about the fear | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| face them, then you can find the underlying causes. Thus you will do the one thing that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| want inwardly. And it is this self-deception that causes the destructive result, not the quality of the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| make up your mind to find out what causes you not to be all that and so | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| hidden ways, keeps you from understanding that which causes misery in your life. The misery is always | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| also the past experience of the real self causes one to take it for granted, thinking it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| God-image. To recapitulate: the first state of awakening causes man to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| into a rigid image? Isn't it habit that causes you to stick to misconceptions, wrong conclusions, generalizations | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or unconscious expectation that life should be perfect, causes you to rebel, to resist, to erect barriers | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of reality causes supplication, prayer will be expressed accordingly. When prayers | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| aware, you cannot cope with it. This, then, causes depression, and depression, as opposed to sadness, is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| probably go through the following sequence: The misunderstanding causes the deliberate cutting off of naturally arising feelings | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of love. In its own devious way it causes an inner no to giving in a relaxed | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of causality where identical effects stem from identical causes? ANSWER: Of course this is a world of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a world of causality. As for the identical causes producing identical effects, that depends on what exactly | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you mean by identical. What may appear identical causes may, in reality, not be identical at all | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| injustice is utterly impossible, in that sense identical causes stem from identical effects. Why it should be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| By getting to know yourself better, you discover causes for many effects. You discover the connections as | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| hold true also where you cannot know the causes whether in your own life, or in the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| it is counteracted by a prohibition. This prohibition causes the problems. You have to find it specifically | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| As long as worldly psychology seeks for other causes than impaired integrity, real cures will not take | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| and ineffectiveness, and a lack of self-respect that causes feelings of insecurity and inferiority. Consequently you make | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| even further. In some subtle way it always causes you to betray yourself and others, to sell | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| decreases your awareness of life and reality. It causes you to go through life with closed eyes | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| not grow healthily into resilient elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious and unconscious pain. Since the effect | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and brittle; it prevents feeling and experiencing and causes the first type of rigidity. The second type | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a cause from way back, while the new causes they institute have not yet taken effect, but | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you have not really found and resolved the causes that make you strain into the future. Such | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of the conflict with time. Fear of death causes a backward movement opposed to the natural movement | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| it. That is the forward movement which also causes your fear of growing into death -- which | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the visible manifestation, while being blind to what causes it. Be in peace. May you find the | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| identify oneself with. People may also identify with causes. No matter how good the cause itself may | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| separate yourself from all ideas, groups, loyalties, and causes. This would be isolation, and even irresponsible toward | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| sustenance from your inner resources, and using worthy causes to replace the well that exists within you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the natural need for human interdependence, which never causes anxiety or other negative emotions, you might very | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of mutuality and fulfillment. The need for control causes you to manipulate others, yourself, and your vital | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to the nucleus of your deliberate self-denial, which causes so much unnecessary hardship. You will then be | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| cope with. It is not the awareness that causes the difficulty, but the attitude toward the fear | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| would like to discuss one of the major causes of inner confusion and of the battles going | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| prevents crime or destructive actions. In fact, it causes the opposite to happen. By repressing and hiding | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| self-centered. Society's emphasis on its sinfulness so often causes this creative instinct to remain self-centered, in hiding | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and probe deeply, bringing out the issue that causes your shame. Do not try to find immediate | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| The inability to repeat what one once had causes hurt, anger and hostility. The insistence on having | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| The freshness and impressionability of the child's psyche causes early experience to have a more extensive effect | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| looking inward, behind the effect, into the inner causes. So far, humanity does not usually resolve collective | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| grow into maturity. Denying the need to receive causes the psyche, in this respect, to remain childishly | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| him wrong. Consequently, he emasculates himself. His weakness causes self-contempt and resentment toward others, whom he blames | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| yourself to. Any unfulfillment, hurt, rejection or disappointment causes an infinitely deeper suffering in the displaced area | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| barriers sets a healthy flow in motion which causes the entity to come out of itself and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| a wall, a cloud that hinders insight. Self-will causes apprehension that what you find may force you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| disappear, and you can then look at the causes of your own helplessness. Attaching the fear, or | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| may vary with each individual, but the underlying causes have to be clearly defined in order to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| let go of some of its substance. This causes the no- current to appear strongly on the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| image with its false premises and negative emotions causes deep shame. Whether you are frightened or hurt | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| your life can be traced to your inner causes, but the human being struggles against this truth | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you gain a greater understanding of the inner causes and outer effects in your personal life, and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to remain static. This fundamental misunderstanding about life causes untold pain. Without this senseless falsity so much | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the creator of your fate, by understanding the causes and effects of your life, you actively seek | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it is your attitude to an event that causes happiness or unhappiness, never the event itself. This | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| automatism despite your having discovered the image that causes it? For it is indeed possible to discover | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| between understanding and knowing. Understanding means ascertaining the causes and effects of negative patterns, destructive emotions, and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| much more that your fearful withdrawal from life causes a lack of understanding and knowing. As long | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| yet you have no inkling of the immediate causes and effects, hence the independent role you play | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| connections of a more far-reaching nature, karmic conditions, causes and effects that are once, twice or ten | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your goal. In other words, you set new causes in motion by refusing to be the prey | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to survive, creates resentment and fatigue, and thus causes greater resentment by making every further effort even | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the pathwork to detect the subtle climate which causes you to assume, anticipate, and therefore either fight | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the seed for the very opposite result. This causes distrust of life. Seeing how you bring forth | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fear of and resistance to giving up what causes the guilt in the first place. You have | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| flee from allowing yourself to love. This prohibition causes all the other ills. The prohibition against loving | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| The fact that this foreign body is denied causes more misery than the admission of its existence | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and struggling against it in an unconstructive way, causes so much soul-hardship. If you remember these words | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| inborn need for this person, the afflicted area causes even greater self-rejection, increasing the fear of finding | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of control are very much connected. Since helplessness causes pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| very much connected. Since helplessness causes pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads to evil, it becomes | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| connected with not being aware of the negative causes that you set in motion. The pathwork must | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to control what it cannot control. This struggle causes more tension, anxiety, sense of failure and fear | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| You will be connected both with the negative causes you had not seen before and the positive | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| are pulled and pushed in opposite directions. This causes a tremendous strain. The pain of isolation will | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| unfulfilled in any way, your usually vague discontent causes you to strive for another situation. A clear-cut | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the reasons for the unfulfillment itself. This also causes you to overlook the good that is in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| terms, cruelty exists because reality is misinterpreted, which causes the individual to further inactivate the live center | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| yet connected this lack with their own innermost causes. Still others may have accomplished this to some | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| caused by the opposite direction. This is what causes the suffering. It is very important to understand | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| You can tell that this is what actually causes the pain because when the struggle is given | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| work, you at least know, my friends, what causes your outer difficulties and unwelcome situations. Even before | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the points in the chain reaction of various causes and effects. It is easy for anyone to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| because you evade the truth. Such evasion always causes needless suffering, an oppressive burden, fears, and escape | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| dualism you will also transcend the pain it causes. Few human beings transcend the dualistic plane, so | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| other words, you must question the concept that causes the fear of the alternative instead of opposing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| for which you see no solution. This often causes unbearable tension and anxiety. This basic mental insecurity | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| can never accomplish this. Any superfluous emotion always causes the greatest pain and suffering. No emotion that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| destructively; where you are furthermore aware that this causes you misery, and yet are unable and unwilling | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is the outer manifestation at this moment that causes you continuous anguish? It is not a momentary | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| truly reconvert it to its original nature. What causes envy is again the dualistic concept, in which | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| its own -- whether or not it also causes false guilts. This inner mechanism is exact. No | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your inner personality and the universal power. It causes a deep indentation in the soul substance, which | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| system. The indentation of soul substance through intensity causes paralysis on all levels. Resiliency must exist on | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| through, you will dissolve the cramp such intensity causes on all levels. The misconception that intensity is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| not honest contact with another person. The separateness causes misery, because it reflects the separateness between the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is the key to finding a numbness that causes despair and frustration, because it leads to self-alienation | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| you that you shrink from -- whether it causes mild annoyance or stark fright or anything in-between | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that the experience has nothing to do with causes within yourself. It presupposes that others, circumstances, chance | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it -- thereby avoiding and refusing itself. This causes a hard, bitter, twisted pain because such pulling | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| love is rejected, since the pleasurable feelings it causes in the body are denied and accused as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| incidents loosen up the block of withholding that causes more pain than any lack of receiving. From | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to restrict it -- and that in itself causes anxiety. When we go to the most fundamental | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| product of circumstances beyond your control, or of causes beyond those you inwardly set in motion. It | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| do so you are not connected with the causes and processes within the self -- and that | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| attempt must be made to feel the underlying causes of the outer results in your life. All | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and I so often say -- from the causes within yourself. This lecture is a direct continuation | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and makes you feel hopeless about life. It causes you to put up all your most destructive | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| If you wish to connect yourself with the causes of your suffering and truly remove these causes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| causes of your suffering and truly remove these causes, this must be the process: really wanting to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| only truth, but they also mean seeking all causes in the self, where they really are. Displacing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| life because you are connected with your own causes and effects, your position toward the forces of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you face your inner difficulties and the true causes of your suffering, the more you will develop | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| when you connect with that in you which causes your negative experiences. Only then can you resolve | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Everyone who approaches this path resists finding the causes within. If all goes well, this attitude diminishes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| clings to the unconscious hope of finding the causes of his or her suffering outside of the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| understand that whenever you get to the basic causes which make you deny the thing you most | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| step. If people shy away from finding the causes of suffering within the self, they shy away | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in motion a long time ago and the causes cannot be eliminated. Thus the effects must be | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| exists, where all is one, where your own causes and salvation must be found. Then no matter | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of the evil in my life, that which causes my suffering. I truly want to look, with | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the total being, the universal self. This disconnectedness causes the ego state, thus material life, and therefore | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| something so contrary to your self-image. The destructiveness causes fear and insecurity because you do not wish | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the ego levels of the personality -- causes fear and insecurity. It is such an insufficient | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| give some attention to what you really believe causes the specific unhappy feeling -- and usually this | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| is felt as painful and undesirable. The dichotomy causes the entity to strive away from one and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to develop the faculties of reason, seeing the causes and effects of one's actions and will, using | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| entity deliberately claims, sets in motion, moves toward, causes, determines, or purposefully uses these forces by calling | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the driving force or impetus actively builds, affects, causes, and determines. When the personality is fully aware | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| is experienced. The activating principle of becoming deliberately causes things to happen; the being principle is self-perpetuating | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| truth and reality. One begins to project the causes of the alienation onto the outside world, with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| oblivious of them, we are blind to the causes of current hardship. But we do possess the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| same thing. The misconception that giving is losing causes you to close up and contract in all | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your conscious creations, and your disconnection from them causes real suffering. No other suffering is as acute | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to happiness must become so strong that the causes for unhappiness can be seen and eliminated, and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| others, in error and distortion. The resulting confusion causes grave disturbances. What you usually do is push | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| crime in any form. They need genuine good causes, which then serve as an outlet for a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and therefore need no outlet. Then the good causes can be embraced without serving as outlets for | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| but to reach into yourself and explore the causes embedded in your own egocentric childish level. Meditation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the truth of this particular circumstance and its causes. Then you need to quietly wait for an | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| process may be neglected. An understanding of the causes and effects may not be worked through. Or | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| then the understanding of the underlying misconceptions, the causes and effects, the meaning and the price to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| an attitude can you come to understand the causes of its underlying destructiveness. Only then can the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| unfoldment; it does not permit exploration of the causes of what might be unfolded; and it certainly | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| compounds. Let us take depression. If the underlying causes of the original feeling of depression are not | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| being able to do so because the underlying causes are not exposed and faced up to. Thus | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| fundamental is that shutting off this undesirable part causes it to remain stagnant and paralyzed so that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| reality of yourself and others, and how this causes a rift in you that makes mutuality and | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| yourself by the negation of the unacceptable part causes you to do precisely what I mentioned before | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| with the contracting state, due to negation, which causes more contraction -- and so on. As I | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| between the event and your own attitude that causes it, you must remain trapped in the vicious | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| -- and this is very regrettable because it causes you more unnecessary hardship. As I said, becoming | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| off, or the sudden crashing through the defense causes injury to the psyche which can, and should | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you stop fighting against it and dissolve what causes it by feeling your feelings, can you come | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| increases despair, because one does not understand the causes of the experience, and that is very disquieting | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| real needs now. The pursuit of false needs causes unbearable pain. It is tight, locked and bitter | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| painful feelings. The refusal to do so also causes you to create a tight will current to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and negative feelings, cosmic law is broken. This causes guilt and fear, which in turn require defenses | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| misconceptions are as well as the damage it causes. An interaction, a dialogue develops. Perhaps a bit | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be spiteful, to withhold -- even if this causes suffering and deprivation. Recognizing this part of the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| refusal exist, even though you know it only causes you and others pain? It makes you miss | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| out on living fully and joyfully and it causes you severe guilt and self-punishment. There must be | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that obviously goes beyond any of the aforementioned causes -- true as they are in themselves. Many | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and suffer most from are direct effects of causes set in motion by your negative intentionality. You | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| of mind, are a direct result of certain causes. They neither see that past actions bring effects | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| later even to inwardly know, important connections between causes from former lives and effects in the present | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| future, however, rests on the ability to see causes within the soul, whose inexorable, lawful effects cannot | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| what exists is due to pride. This pride causes resistance as much as it results from resistance | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| subtle inner game of disassociating yourself from the causes you set in motion by this or that | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| negative intentions toward life, which are the true causes of your unhappiness. The moment you can risk | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| it is unfair, unreasonable, unintelligent, and that it causes you and others pain and frustration, unfulfillment, and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you will free yourself of a burden that causes depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, and often physical illness | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| issues or the unimportant ones. The smallest neglect causes disorder and creates discomfort in the soul. This | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| could abuse you. The very pain that this causes makes you blind to it, therefore you react | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| split off and a counter-movement is instituted which causes a short-circuit in the system. This short-circuit is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to see creation as the relationship between the causes and effects that you have always seen as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the creative seeds you plant and their results causes unnecessary pain and frustration. Often you see the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This impression causes a great deal of fear and distrust of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| established the links in the previous stages. Whatever causes those inner clouds to suddenly cover up the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| and effect. The childish mind sees effects of causes only in an immediate, obviously apparent, closely-knit unit | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| on becoming conscious of further buried material that causes this blockage. Now at least you know where | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| your integrity on a deep level, which then causes you to doubt yourself and your right to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| world, into the infinite space of creation. This causes a slow, late and organic deterioration of the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| to be destructive. I see the pain it causes me, the senselessness of it. I know that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| imbalance that the onward movement of the light causes as it penetrates the void creates the illusion | 228 BALANCE |
| real and deep change, and because this fear causes stagnation, you seek change on a more superficial | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| of. The fear of negative reaction from others causes a tremendous amount of anxiety. Therefore the appearance | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| so far removed in your consciousness, from inner causes that you experience the effects as chaotic coincidences | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| appear; effects are seen to be connected to causes that were previously considered nonexistent. On the crest | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you will not be encouraged to improve the causes that you create, you will not perceive that | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| needed to overcome distorted perceptions which create the causes which in turn create these effects. I have | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| only the highest, best, most creative and beautiful causes are set in motion. In this enlightened state | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not occur to him to search for the causes within himself that create his desire to commit | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this call of your soul is exactly what causes all discomfort, pain, suffering, anxiety and discontent. Surrender | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| themselves, to an ever increasing degree, for the causes of their fate. It is not coincidental that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| which breeds the second principle, until that ultimately causes the first principle. In this age, humanity has | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| macrocosmic events reveal their meaning and connections, their causes and effects -- at least to a degree | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| pain of injustice and heals the wounds it causes. Think of your reactions when you witness earthly | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| laws in operation that determine when effects follow causes -- when and why, in certain instances, effects | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| an entity is developed, the faster effects follow causes. Beings who are still relatively undeveloped find themselves | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that is, to ascertain the connections between the causes you set in motion and their effects on | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of allowing yourself to know that your negativity causes pain to others and to yourself, that it | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| to admit. It is this very fear that causes the deeper fear of injustice. In not facing | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the house may then be ascribed to different causes. Such rationalizations only maintain the illusory picture of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| vibrant relationship. When the vibrancy ebbs away, the causes need to be explored by both partners together | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| of them and they can therefore exist underground causes the damaging effect. Therefore you need to make | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| longer in your terms, but the general movement causes their real, eternal being to penetrate deeper into | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the rhythmic phenomenon is also determined by underlying causes that exist within the particular consciousness. But only | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |