| about it and this gives you incentive to change, it is good. If shame does not weaken | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| characteristics have to be taken into consideration which change the entire picture. But I may shed some | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other factors play a role, so the symptoms change. People who steal because they are in need | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self projected on the outside world. Hence, the change brought about by revolution or rebellion ignores something | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in life: the cycles of menstruation and the change of life. Man goes through similar cycles, only | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| they do not accept Christ. This does not change the facts, however. The facts are that Jesus | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self, yet you do it in order to change, you don't want to do it compulsively. But | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| reach the point where your inner concept will change and the conviction of truth will be yours | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| motives, but at the same time desiring to change, I still feel it is a little selfish | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| conclusion is no longer conscious, therefore you cannot change it. You know very well that nothing can | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| communism. Being arrangements, they are obviously subject to change to meet the varying exigencies of human need | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| world of your illusions, so that you can change it all into true concepts, it feels certainly | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| yourself, how can you possibly expect a real change in your life? Even those who are most | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| comparatively superficial effort your inner life would so change that outer problems ceased? In spite of some | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| still be hidden. Your life could not possibly change, because your emotional reactions still function more or | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| does not suffice to bring about an immediate change to the extent that no mishap can come | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| can come that person's way. For recognition and change are not the same thing, although the former | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| created. Yes, to some degree a very gradual change is taking place by virtue of the constant | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a healthy and liberating process that sometimes outer change may also occur. But the real change is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| outer change may also occur. But the real change is taking place inwardly, and that is what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| place inwardly, and that is what counts. Inner change is best indicated by the changes in your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your efforts must be directly related to the change you wish. To determine the relationship of effort | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| To determine the relationship of effort to desired change, you need maximum honesty with yourself. It is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| resistance. Only the inner will to face and change oneself determines the outcome. To know what your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as well as at its worst. The rhythmic change from positive to negative outer manifestation, and back | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| thinking. You unconsciously claim a maximum of favorable change in return for a minimum of effort in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in facing yourself and in the willingness to change and give up obsolete, damaging tendencies and inner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| this unfair demand you extend to God, and change it, you will notice that the help God | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| if you succeed in bringing about an inner change, outer change is bound to occur. What I | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| succeed in bringing about an inner change, outer change is bound to occur. What I wish to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| it is certainly a sign that no great change has taken place. On the other hand, you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| so that you face yourself fully and then change. And yet, illness or other trouble may one | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| possibly realize now, you are bound gradually to change these elements and attitudes, slowly but surely. You | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In the process of growth all this will change, not only because of the reasons stated, but | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain facets, you still lack sufficient insight to change these emotions. So, you know this is what | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the fore when you are provoked. Inner change takes a very long time, you all know | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be the best way to achieve the inner change. You must understand that this change cannot happen | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner change. You must understand that this change cannot happen so quickly because your wrong reactions | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| slowly grow. My dearest friends, to find and change all this is of primary importance to all | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| addition to analyzing your emotions in order to change concepts that are not in accord with reality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| approaches are favorable. Although the inner search and change are indispensable and can bring you to the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in the full realization that emotions do not change quickly. An important part of such instructions should | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| should keep in mind and accept beforehand that change and growth are a slow process. QUESTION: With | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will eventually discover a very gradual and slow change. You will become naturally more alert to the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| other one does not, can the situation really change? Or just for one person? ANSWER: The situation | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| that by that very understanding the condition may change so that the partner will no longer need | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| In doing so, the situation is bound to change one way or another, in the most natural | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| organic natural growth will bring an organic natural change. If a person is so divided within that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| in love, is in vain. You can only change a feeling genuinely if you understand it, but | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| should not even attempt to effect a major change in one's life, unless outer conditions become too | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Words will not convey to you what this change really means. You have heard them many times | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| another, conflicting one. With this approach, a drastic change is bound to occur in your entire inner | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| make this transition, your values are bound to change. Your purpose, your aim, and your concept of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and your concept of life are bound to change. This change will not be the superficial adoption | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| concept of life are bound to change. This change will not be the superficial adoption of new | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth. The change comes slowly; it is an inner change rather | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| The change comes slowly; it is an inner change rather than an outer. Your outer opinions do | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| feel them differently. People are so afraid of change. But you have nothing to fear. Much of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your opinions may remain the same while you change. This sounds like a paradox, my friends, but | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| not. To remain the same and yet to change is possible in a good, constructive, and natural | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the maximum. However, it is also possible to change and remain the same in some wrong and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to mean that you should undertake a drastic change in your outer life. The transition is much | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| them, your concepts, outlook and values begin to change, subtly and slowly, but surely. With a higher | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| expecting immediate results, rather than anticipating a drastic change. There is no magic formula. You can accelerate | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| ANSWER: What I spoke about tonight should not change your approach to your Pathwork in the slightest | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| time, then slowly the fear will begin to change by itself. ANSWER: That is right. Thinking about | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| messages that lead you toward self-recognition and inner change. That is all it can do, if your | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| so doing you gain the key to a change in your life. Most of you have begun | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only medicine, the only remedy you need to change the underlying incorrect attitude. This, and this alone | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mere fact of your own inner growth and change has made it possible for others around you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature that may take place without causing a change of position of the person himself. People can | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The major actions -- feet -- symbolize decisive change, great decisions, self-propelling movement -- or the lack | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out of all proportion, ignoring other factors that change the overall view. With this outlook, they become | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reason why I sometimes consider it useful to change an expression or terminology. When it is too | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resulting from uninterrupted effort and perseverance will eventually change this. All that you should expect now is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| root of it. If you should find and change these currents, I can promise you, in spite | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are due to wrong impressions, can you gradually change this state. Keep in mind, as you examine | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unto you. When people truly learn this, a change always occurs in their lives. They begin to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| drive. In that sense death also means loss, change, and the unknown that may actually contain something | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| this problem within, he or she helps to change the world and these conditions in ever so | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| much healthier way. Simultaneously you also help to change the overly harsh collective reality principle. Now I | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you fear not only the negative, but also change, because it is unknown to you. This is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that you may not like. Life is constant change, bringing losses and unknown factors that create anxiety | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| as you know it on earth, begins to change, first subtly in your own inner world, and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in every part of your being. This will change many things. First will come changes in your | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by little, outer things are also bound to change. Your different attitude will have new effects. Overcoming | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| makes it unduly difficult to go through any change that would allow life to bring forth joy | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| communication. QUESTION: Many times people are reluctant to change something about themselves. It might be something either | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| We give ourselves the excuse, If I do change in such and such a way then I | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of the self-preservation instinct is resistant to any change or growth. That is its nature. It is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| any form knows it too. The resistance to change is one of the greatest hurdles to be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as the real reason for the resistance to change is unconscious, it is not amenable to change | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| change is unconscious, it is not amenable to change, correction, or reconsideration, since anything activated out of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you may consciously have some new ideas and change certain attitudes and approaches to life, this hidden | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| has battled with the other part that wants change. Unconsciously, you hold on to what you chose | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as salvation and safety: the pseudo-solution. It makes change, growth, and liberation extremely difficult. The reason you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are, the less you are your real self. Change and growth will bring the real self into | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| at work between themselves and others, will they change. Submissive people also feel guilty about these resentments | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| acceptance is the only basis for growth and change. This fact requires the neutral approach we have | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see and understand this, you will begin to change -- and your strength will grow. You will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| decades of learning the false attitude. Wouldn't prayer change too if we discarded this concept? Wouldn't everything | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| too if we discarded this concept? Wouldn't everything change? ANSWER: Yes, of course. But you see, my | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| emotional impact would remain if you tried to change it by a mere outer decision. In order | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| impossible. After seeing and understanding all this, the change happens organically, by itself, as it were. A | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| gain full insight and then be able to change. You must find these subtle and unobtrusive emotional | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| dissolve the God-image because your attitude will naturally change. You will, for instance, find what your expectations | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you see it fully you will have to change and you can no longer cling to the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| unfulfillment, and it is you who can still change it, regardless of your physical age. Another reason | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| process of emotional growth wherein feelings will naturally change their direction, their aim, their intensity, their nature | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| but how it is in your power to change them. Understanding the interaction between yourself and others | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| understanding their significance will make it possible to change these harmful tendencies. This moralizing tendency may exist | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your emotions will mature and your reactions will change, and a healthy trust in yourself, in your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| let these emotions come out without trying to change them, because you cannot do so as yet | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| time, many other things will first have to change. The next step will be the strict observation | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what constitutes improvement. As you all know, actual change is such a very gradual process that it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you only discover it much later. A quick change in one's personality is rarely to be trusted | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself honestly, again and again; or resolving that change takes time and needs a great amount of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong extreme of laziness, without the desire to change and grow. Soon, you will perhaps sense the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you ignore this, you are temporarily unable to change. This makes you even more impatient with yourself | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| But finally there comes a point when a change occurs within, almost as though by itself. A | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not, will finally enable you to relinquish, to change. This change, too, will come as if by | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| finally enable you to relinquish, to change. This change, too, will come as if by itself. Observation | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| realization that you have to face and eventually change, that you want to see the truth, that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the distortions so as to be able to change would lead you away from spirituality, is utterly | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and its laws you will be able to change yourself without pain and discomfort. This cannot be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| about spiritual factors would not induce an inner change. But what you are all doing now on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| path is bound to bring about an inner change that brings you closer to true spirituality than | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| due entirely to the resistance to growth and change and to the fear of letting go of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a state which outwardly resembles the fight against change, this is due to discouragement with yourself, with | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a great deal of deep insight, growth, and change in particular areas. All this is necessary before | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| which enables you to go through an inner change. In order to do that, you need to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the real need. Therefore he will begin to change in that respect. This is relinquishing in the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| false needs and the destructive defenses. But the change can never happen by an act of will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| seeing yourself realistically, so that your desire to change will grow. The desire to change can arise | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| desire to change will grow. The desire to change can arise only out of true and genuine | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| lack of self-responsibility, and the will not to change yourself but to make the world change. Because | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to change yourself but to make the world change. Because of the split in yourself into both | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the concept of self-acceptance and the will to change. If you rebel against rigid principles, against perfectionism | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the strength and maturity in real repentance and change; of the humility and realism of accepting oneself | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this world. Indiscriminate rebellion can do nothing to change the world. To do that you first have | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| world. To do that you first have to change yourself and overcome your inner split. Every concept | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| for him. You rebel against what you cannot change because it is outside your control. If you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| becomes incapable of changing that which he could change, which is not beyond his control. He is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| upon discovering that here is something he cannot change, goes with the stream, thus saving his strength | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| for the issues where he can make a change and thus make his life more meaningful? Let | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is you really want. Consider where you can change things and where you cannot. Have you really | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| able to receive new inspiration in order to change an old ill brought on by your own | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of temporary storms. You have the power to change this, step by step, through the pathwork process | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |