| Church......................17 | |
| God will ever tell you to leave your church or your temple or your faith. For if | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to work with. It may be through a church, or through a particular teacher, or through a | 21 THE FALL |
| and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is a well-known fact that the Catholic Church builds on the belief that from that time | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on everything is so settled that nothing this Church says could be wrong -- based on the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religious organizations via certain people of a particular church, the Plan of Salvation could not function properly | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that some of the martyrs of the Catholic Church, for instance, confused the two attitudes? ANSWER: Very | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| ecumenical conference to bring together the whole Christian Church. With this convocation, he specifically expressed his firm | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| here. The Christian religion, or, specifically, the Catholic Church did manage to survive until the present day | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| inner peace. By the same token, the powerful church you mention is successful outwardly, but is not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| though many people may be adherents of that church, there are many more who are not. And | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| That is not strength, and therefore such a church is not successful. At the same time, the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| sense than thousands of people going to a church. Be blessed, all of you, in the Name | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Bishop James A. Pike of the Protestant Episcopal Church referred to various myths in the Bible -- | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| like to ask you about the emphasis the church places on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| other being is often a human authority or church authority claiming to act on behalf of God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| conform to all the rules and regulations of Church, society, and public opinion, and be faultless in | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Churches....................9 | |
| people were influenced by the doctrines of the churches to believe that everything is outside: Hell beneath | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| understand? QUESTIONER: Yes, I do. QUESTION: In organized churches there are priests -- and I have childhood | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| its full significance, least of all the organized churches who have almost completely misunderstood what salvation is | 22 SALVATION |
| conditions and blindnesses. Without such incarnations in different churches and groups it would be impossible to tear | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| will no longer be necessary. Then the various churches and religious organizations will teach their followers in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| question regarding the possible unity of the Christian churches. There have been attempts made by the Pope | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| point by way of search and self-realization. The Churches have played a dominant role for many years | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| advice is, do not search for God in churches or temples. Do not search for Him through | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the average person, existing only in the churches to any important degree. But there again, the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Circle......................244 | |
| I repeat for those friends who joined our circle recently: What is usually said, is Lead us | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| this time could be utilized. Now that your circle is growing bigger and bigger, these things could | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| explain. Until the people belonging to the inner circle who actively help to build this community have | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| individual's weakness. You who belong to the inner circle have great responsibility and therefore must become strong | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| latter guide their proteges to someone in your circle and perhaps inspire that person to propose the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to understand it. Just look at your own circle -- and it is similar everywhere -- many | 21 THE FALL |
| produce bad effects on others. Thus a vicious circle is set in motion that can only be | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| crucial point on this path in a vicious circle: you wait for a change in your conditions | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| or love. So you must break the vicious circle. Everything goes in cycles, as I always say | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you have. But if you break this negative circle and set up a positive one, then the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| active. Thus, you find yourself in a vicious circle: the more you deny to yourself the experience | 31 SHAME |
| and you despise yourself even more. The vicious circle continues in full force and carries you into | 31 SHAME |
| The other person hurts back and a vicious circle is set in motion. But when you do | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| by another person and fully understood, a vicious circle is already broken by the mere fact of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| others. So you see, my friends, how the circle must close here, too. The more you practice | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| illusion. Actually, you are moving on, and the circle is what I call the spiral. This is | 36 PRAYER |
| ignorances, and their complexities create one big vicious circle in your soul. This circle consists of individual | 36 PRAYER |
| one big vicious circle in your soul. This circle consists of individual faults which affect and interact | 36 PRAYER |
| cause a chain reaction. To break this vicious circle, you have to understand thoroughly the individual faults | 36 PRAYER |
| thoroughly the individual faults that constitute your vicious circle. You have to concentrate on one after the | 36 PRAYER |
| the link of cause and effect within your circle. The whole circle cannot possibly be understood completely | 36 PRAYER |
| cause and effect within your circle. The whole circle cannot possibly be understood completely from having made | 36 PRAYER |
| the various highlights and individual points in the circle until eventually you see the whole circle in | 36 PRAYER |
| the circle until eventually you see the whole circle in your mind and understand the interdependence of | 36 PRAYER |
| become free and reach the light. Thus the circle becomes a spiral leading upward very gradually. Some | 36 PRAYER |
| go around and around in your particular vicious circle. By now you know that all faults come | 36 PRAYER |
| and again; you have to follow the vicious circle through until you grasp it well enough so | 36 PRAYER |
| or feel that there is such a vicious circle in you. You experience such confusion that you | 36 PRAYER |
| can see the whole picture of the vicious circle, how one defect is caused by another in | 36 PRAYER |
| a clear picture of this cycle. The vicious circle consists of a multiplicity of character defects which | 36 PRAYER |
| change as you move around your personal vicious circle. And life will bring challenges and experiences for | 36 PRAYER |
| and alive. The various points of your vicious circle will come up in turn, as time goes | 36 PRAYER |
| equal strength on all the points in your circle, but there will come the phase where you | 36 PRAYER |
| centralize a few major issues in the vicious circle. Concentration on the overall picture can be practiced | 36 PRAYER |
| reactions to them relate to your inner vicious circle. You can thus resist the temptation of making | 36 PRAYER |
| if such incidents were brought to the inner circle. The time will come when you will be | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| You will find a chain reaction, a vicious circle in yourself. One reaction leads to another until | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| yourself. One reaction leads to another until the circle closes. When you have found several such vicious | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| has influenced your life, start to reverse the circle and the conclusion into its opposite -- at | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| means that karma and images make a vicious circle? ANSWER: Of course. If you will reread the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| actually eros. You find yourself in a vicious circle and think that marriage is a hopeless proposition | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| existing force, they would then break this vicious circle and more human beings would let their sex | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| Because of these distorted conditions and this vicious circle, humanity came to believe that you cannot find | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| wrong. These two opposite extremes set a vicious circle in motion: the greater the rebellion on the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and fear. As I said before, the vicious circle, when it goes on and on with a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| When people are that far in this vicious circle, they can no longer recognize the true and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| severe problems are due to some raging, vicious circle that has to be crystallized out and understood | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be formed, similar to the first so-called inner circle. We would recommend this very much. In such | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Be blessed. Be in God. 50. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless this gathering | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in the subconscious, although some parts of this circle may be conscious. It is important in this | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| important in this work that you follow the circle until you uncover it in its entirety, for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the level of your emotions where this vicious circle exists. Even if you are aware of some | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are aware of some parts of the vicious circle, use these words to search for all the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| are utterly unaware of any part of this circle. In that case and to begin with, these | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will easily show you that, though unconscious, the circle very much lives within you. Still, do not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| consciously think and react according to the vicious circle; realize that it is hidden. It will be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| certain limited logic of its own. The vicious circle that is my subject tonight begins in childhood | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| This is the second part of the vicious circle. The need for love that cannot be gratified | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| present. A further chain reaction in this vicious circle is the personality's split in its desire currents | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| between love and hate, which started the vicious circle, causes further splits, as you can see quite | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feelings. You have to uncover the whole vicious circle and see its lack of reason; you have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| inferiority serve to further close the great vicious circle. Again, your unconscious little voice argues, I have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the position of hating and creating this entire circle. The admiration and respect from others would also | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| way emotions argue below the surface. So the circle closes where it started, and the need to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| becomes -- all ensuing points in the vicious circle become worse and worse as life goes on | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that the sick personality in which this vicious circle is strong can never take that risk as | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| back to you, this time in a benign circle. What you give out will flow back, provided | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| give are unconsciously based on the great vicious circle, you can never receive love in return, even | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| It is like a bottomless well. Thus the circle closes. It is your work on this path | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your work on this path to find this circle within yourself, to experience it, particularly as to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can really dissolve it. If you let this circle be only an intellectual knowing, without emotionally reliving | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| cannot identify the various points of the vicious circle in your emotions, the existence of the chain | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| from your emotions. Therefore, once you find this circle in your personal work you can break it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscious before you can hope to break the circle. Only after you have realized and fully absorbed | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| aware, point by point, of the great vicious circle. After the emotions have come to the surface | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| help you further to break your personal vicious circle. Thus you will become free and independent. The | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| So, my dear friends, work through this vicious circle and experience how it is active in your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| age limit, and cease only when the vicious circle is made conscious. Some people may develop a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| bring you unfavorable results, which create a vicious circle as you rebel even more strongly against the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| on in this way you create a vicious circle: the more you hold opinions not your own | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| how every wrong inner condition creates a vicious circle, apart from the great vicious circle I discussed | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a vicious circle, apart from the great vicious circle I discussed last time. The only way to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| last time. The only way to break the circle is to have the courage to examine the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and thus begin to break this particular vicious circle. On the other hand, if you arrive at | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| guilt feeling that arises from the main vicious circle. Hence, you are compelled to have an opinion | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you in coming out of your own vicious circle. The guiltier you feel about possible wrongs you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| too much. In the lecture on the vicious circle, I told you about your guilts, about your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| before. Until then, you cannot break your vicious circle. But at the breaking point -- once you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| sexuality with love feelings. This creates a vicious circle. The more the existence of sexuality is suppressed | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will come closer to the truth. In a circle there is no beginning and no end. One | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| yourself, deep in your soul. Hence a vicious circle, always built on a false premise, is activated | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of these two images together causes a vicious circle. One current is: I need to be in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| looking away from it. Thus the following vicious circle is created: the guiltier you feel, the more | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| his or her surroundings. So a particular vicious circle comes into existence, which goes like this: If | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| which they constantly inflict upon me. The vicious circle works like this in one direction: I need | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| particularly in one lecture about the basic vicious circle, that self-punishment and self-destructiveness are very strong factors | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I have told you tonight, the basic vicious circle will become clearer and more understandable to you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that universe is the nursery, the house, the circle of friends and acquaintances or the town or | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| upon and connect them. We will close the circle between personal and mass images. This will also | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| be loved and will be loved. The vicious circle would be broken. Now, what is this wrong | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| commencement. It is like the closing of a circle or cycle. When you close a circle, it | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a circle or cycle. When you close a circle, it is a state of peace, of rest | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unfair demands. Thus you are in a vicious circle. Disapproval strikes a chord in you because you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it. The escape is part of a vicious circle. The reality is so bleak precisely because of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the more you spin around this unending vicious circle. For how can reality ever fit into your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| whether your will is met. Thus the benign circle continues. In such inner freedom -- the freedom | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| chain-reaction is set in motion, replacing the vicious circle that existed before. Intuition is the highest sense | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| for this is a chain reaction, a vicious circle. It is useful to start by finding your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| reality, you begin to break the repetitive vicious circle. As you truly perceive such a mutual interplay | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| unawareness, two people will set up a vicious circle operating from one to the other, and steadily | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| his or her optimum, to establish a benign circle between the two people involved. I cannot emphasize | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| content, all of you who participate in this circle, to simply see what happens, and learn from | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| rejection in such a way that the vicious circle between you will be avoided. That is, a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| each other. The only way to break the circle is by not waiting for others to be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to refer to the principle of the vicious circle. ANSWER: Exactly. You see, my friends, I believe | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stuck and cannot get out of a vicious circle in the work. Whatever disturbs or bothers you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of bliss. This puts you into a vicious circle. How to get out of it and find | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with it that we can break the vicious circle. Humanity has tried to cope with the problem | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is very important to see how this vicious circle works. But this cannot be done until and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| involve themselves more and more in a vicious circle. Unaware that the very solution they undertake brings | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one. The time will come, however, when the circle will close and we will return to a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| directions. Evolution is always the movement of a circle closing. This applies to the huge overall picture | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dependent and helpless -- and so the vicious circle continues in atoning for your rebellion against God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to hold on to. This creates another vicious circle. In other words, if you do not trust | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is self-evident that in thus entering a benign circle, negative emotions such as self-pity, helplessness, hostility, guilt | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| only then, will you enter into a benign circle, after having broken a vicious one. QUESTION: What | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| find yourself trapped, caught in your own vicious circle of continuing to do what is against your | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| mechanism, you will be able to close the circle and recognize that this defensive wall brings the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you explain how the latter falls into the circle of pride, self-will, and fear? ANSWER: Where there | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| are set into motion. One is a vicious circle within yourself, and the other a vicious circle | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| circle within yourself, and the other a vicious circle between yourself and others, which triggers your defense-mechanism | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the more you are caught in a vicious circle, the more difficult it is to break out | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in life. And here we come around full circle to the beginning of this lecture. Ask yourselves | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the spiral movement it pursues, coming around full circle, meeting the same problematic area all over again | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| show you the difference. True, sometimes the same circle has to be repeated before you can proceed | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one. But whenever the transition to the next circle is made, the reality of the forward movement | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that you are not moving in a stationary circle. We discussed various aspects and meanings of life | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| warm feelings of love that create a benign circle connecting the three life-aspects. My friends, try to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an increase in perceiving reality in an ever-widening circle in width and depth. The more this is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and later to the world outside the family circle. The early adolescent is most preoccupied with companions | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| more secluded manner, but even within their own circle of immediate family, their growing became a necessity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the less it is feared. Although a vicious circle exists in which fear dulls the senses, every | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| in which fear dulls the senses, every vicious circle can be broken. You may argue that actual | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| there is disharmony, there is no love. The circle closes. Where there is no love, there can | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| least partially, are destructive and malignant. This vicious circle between life's malignancy and one's need to set | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to what you know. This creates a vicious circle, in that the dualistic rules and precepts, which | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| connection between hurt and pleasure engenders a vicious circle. The more painfully the pleasure principle of the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| tension. Opposition grows, conflict increases, and the vicious circle continues. The evolutionary problem for every single conscious | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| therefore to deeply comprehend and experience this vicious circle without misjudging the negative connection between contact, pain | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a state of bliss. Here is the vicious circle: The more you sell out, the less you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your truth. One can escape from the vicious circle only by working on a path of self-finding | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not ever relinquish. You get into a vicious circle: the more you press in the wrong direction | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it, thereby getting deeper involved in the vicious circle. The only way to reverse it is, as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| levels. When people are involved in the vicious circle, it is because they base certain assumptions about | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Now let us go back to the vicious circle, which perpetuates itself when a healthy procedure as | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| meeting what is feared. Thus in the vicious circle the love forces are feared because they demand | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| own destructiveness. You thus enter into a benign circle. When you no longer wish to hurt, you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tragedy, for you thus move into a vicious circle. Whenever a misconception is accepted as truth, immediately | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| misconception is accepted as truth, immediately a vicious circle comes into being paralyzing the pleasure forces, which | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| powers of your adult state? The particular vicious circle I mentioned before is this: When you do | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| their own benefit and delight. Thus the vicious circle continues. The continued frustration, which you believe to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of truth to you. The more this vicious circle goes on, the less pleasure remains in the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is yet another aspect of the same vicious circle. The less you see yourself as responsible for | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| much too limited to comprehend this. A vicious circle comes into existence when the ego is given | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and feeling victimized you are in a vicious circle. The destructive projections and blaming of others consumes | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| around in circles, and it becomes a vicious circle, because the less life gives you as a | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| on and on it goes -- until the circle is broken. In such a negative cycle, the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| will ultimately remove the lack of fulfillment. Misconception-Split-Vicious Circle Every misconception creates duality and inner conflict, which | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| inner conflict, which in turn create a vicious circle. An examination of any inner problem and conflict | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| truthful concept creates unity which creates a benign circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a young | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| above-mentioned conflict, which led to the following vicious circle: the more he tries to be masculine and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| The case history demonstrating the law of Misconception-Split-Vicious Circle also demonstrates the interdependence of false and real | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| delight in every way, you continue a vicious circle. The result must be frustration and limitation, which | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| represent your essence. This is indeed a vicious circle, for true self-esteem can, of course, come only | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the case, you remain trapped in a vicious circle. In order to come out of this circle | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| circle. In order to come out of this circle, life must be understood in its essence. No | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| find a way to break through the vicious circle in which you are caught, which goes like | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Further pleasure leads to more unification. This benign circle is the stream of life. Unification brings pleasure | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| you inordinately frightened of it. So the vicious circle continues. The fear induces a cramp that becomes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| depresses you even more. This becomes a vicious circle. The first depression -- or fear, or another | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| will be set off in the self-perpetuating vicious circle. The consciousness of the person becomes more and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| its light further and further. An increasing benign circle is beginning to establish itself: the effectiveness of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| -- and on and on goes a benign circle. Contraction takes place when a negative attitude toward | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| cheating and self-rejection exist. Within the larger vicious circle, a smaller ingrown one is then at work | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the closed, contracted state. Thus a larger vicious circle becomes a self-perpetuating force in your life. The | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| To find the key to breaking this vicious circle, the conscious volitional self must make a deliberate | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it, you must remain trapped in the vicious circle I described. Thus, the first step out is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| must learn in order to break the vicious circle is to observe your own contracting movement when | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| creative substance. When this occurs, a positive, benign circle will very definitely and solidly build itself. Now | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| us talk for a moment about the positive circle or sequence. Offhand, it may appear as though | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| feelings, thoughts and attitudes. You create the vicious circle we are discussing. A dearth of good experiences | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| guilt is devastating, because it creates a vicious circle by itself that maintains the destructiveness. The guiltier | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the two extremes which lead to a vicious circle. But do you not have other options available | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| distorted, it will form part of a vicious circle, from which it is always difficult to extricate | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to extricate oneself. Another part of the vicious circle is the denied anger and rage for being | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of submission and rebellion, which is another vicious circle. You submit to another's equally insatiable, unreasonable demands | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| limited results, and doubt will close the vicious circle by reinforcing the withholding of commitment. Because doubtful | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| sense of deprivation, so that a continuous vicious circle seems to entrap the person in a state | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| as long as you move within a vicious circle there is no hope. But the moment the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is no hope. But the moment the vicious circle is broken, you are liberated from the trap | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| mental attitudes and behavior which create a vicious circle. This always means to basically change a concept | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| what way it leads you into a vicious circle. You need to ask, How does this vicious | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| You need to ask, How does this vicious circle evolve? What is the corresponding true concept and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| choice of either a vicious or a benign circle. The vicious circle is: If I unconsciously hold | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| a vicious or a benign circle. The vicious circle is: If I unconsciously hold back and do | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| responsible for your unfulfillment. And so the vicious circle continues. Some of you have a momentary glimpse | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the effect, they will go around in a circle, and not in a spiral, which is the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| be a help and incentive! I come full circle and close this lecture by saying: Commit yourself | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| energy to come into the middle of the circle and honestly confront each other. Another way may | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are you ever going to break the vicious circle unless you use this key? Go into your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| can you ever get out of the vicious circle and the bind that you are caught in | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| people of influence will be drawn into this circle -- perhaps first seeking to work on themselves | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| that they constitute your real being. This vicious circle makes you more determined to hide and therefore | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to withhold, give nothing -- and the vicious circle continues. As you transform the vicious circle into | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| vicious circle continues. As you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle, almost inadvertently you are | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle, almost inadvertently you are led naturally to an | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| I explain here. Wherever you discover a vicious circle within your psychic system you feel caught in | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the breaking point, where you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle by changing the specific | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| you transform the vicious circle into a benign circle by changing the specific attitude that sets the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| by changing the specific attitude that sets the circle in motion. When humans find themselves in the | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Many explosions and re-formations of the same vicious circle must ultimately come to the point of absurdity | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| an ongoing chain reaction -- really a vicious circle. You may start out with the concept of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| be fulfilled in a real sense. A vicious circle was established as you strove to get fulfillment | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| efficiently. The need then arose to widen the circle of human relationships. Thus group consciousness came to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to widen their relationships beyond a relatively small circle of their own clans. Eventually, larger groups, and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and blame of the other sex, the benign circle will open the heart. The fully autonomous, self-responsible | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to alter, if necessary. Each entrance to a circle represents such a phase of renewal of commitment | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| game then reinforces the negative belief. The vicious circle accelerates, and you find it ever more difficult | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| and live fully. So we have a vicious circle here: because you fear the movement and stop | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| life. Obviously, this leads to the inevitable vicious circle: If life is meaningless, all you can do | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| meaningless all life will appear. Thus the vicious circle continues. Still, many of you have made your | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| aspects of these images -- wrong conclusion, vicious circle, proving the wrong conclusion correct. We shall also | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| enmity came into existence and became a vicious circle. In the consciousness of the Jews, the pagan | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| for a tooth. Here we have a vicious circle: Believing totally in the old tradition of Judaism | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| These two kinds of pain create a vicious circle. Nevertheless, they are two entirely different kinds of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| sequential emotions within a vicious or a benign circle are different, even though they create one another | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| assimilated the negative experiences, they come around full circle to the light of love, truth, joy, peace | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| empty and impoverished, you automatically create a vicious circle. This belief must make you hoard yourself, your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of life and self. In contrast, the benign circle can be established by risking giving out, in | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| risking giving out you enter into a benign circle; you can afford to release more of your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to yet another obstacle to establishing the benign circle in which you flow in harmony with creation | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the accuracy of your conviction. This self-perpetuating vicious circle, this law that manipulates your vision according to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| toward self- exposure and communication with your immediate circle of dear ones with whom you share your | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| you. You are always involved in a vicious circle here. When you feel unworthy, unlovable, unacceptable, it | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |