| Confronts...................6 | |
| the direct and spiritual high road, who truly confronts himself day by day, he or she is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| but I know this already. If diligent search confronts you with a recognition you already know, treat | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the wrong attitude to the actual problem that confronts you. The next layer might be anger, resentment | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| be revived by increased self-awareness. A particular confusion confronts a growth-pursuing spirit in its approach to suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| obstacle that could be overcome. Finally the entity confronts the block and makes an effort to overcome | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| firmer ground than that. If the whole world confronts the outer reality you experience, you may begin | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Confuse.....................43 | |
| words do not matter so much unless they confuse the concepts. Now, what is temptation? Temptation is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| can unite with Him. It is erroneous to confuse the Godlike substance in each created being with | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to fulfill God's will. First of all, you confuse God's will with self-will. Let us determine clearly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of the wrong kind. Human beings so often confuse the two kinds of shame that now I | 31 SHAME |
| and humility to break it. Please do not confuse standing up for who you really are which | 31 SHAME |
| principle cannot exist on earth yet will not confuse you any longer. The ideal, wise, good and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| faults and weaknesses, but also all things that confuse and frighten you. Due to an unconscious wrong | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is each human being's divine spark. Do not confuse this conscience with the second conscience that has | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of you. Again, I ask you not to confuse the opposite manifestation with a healthy reaction. I | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| finger on. The little, seemingly insignificant things that confuse you serve to bring out the deeper confusion | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the compulsive manipulations, drives, and impulses which you confuse with your feelings. The real feelings are calm | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| deny the unpleasant emphasis? ANSWER: Let us not confuse the end result with the process of arriving | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| moments and will be so strong as to confuse the person. But after a comparatively short time | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| everyone has a streak of submissiveness, you may confuse submissiveness with giving up your false superiority, just | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| up your false superiority, just as you will confuse healthy self-assertion with this very same arrogance and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aggressiveness has its effect on others. However, you confuse submissiveness with the dignity that is lacking in | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| have a deeper, wider scope for living. You confuse goodness with goody-goodyness which, if analyzed, is the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in a way that does not weaken and confuse. This involvement is productive for all concerned and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is their need to be loved which they confuse with genuine feelings of affection for others. The | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| question about sacrifice. It is so easy to confuse real, healthy, free sacrifice with its unhealthy, compulsive | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| find yourself in a transitory stage which may confuse you. You know you have grown, yet you | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| greatest power at your disposal -- self-government. You confuse this, my friends, with a false control you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to promise the state of peace many unconsciously confuse with the state of being, while the state | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Anyone not having experienced this may misunderstand and confuse acceptance with condoning and finality. Acceptance merely means | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to come into your divine nature, must not confuse spirituality with mere spiritual ideas. You must bring | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| splits the truth into two opposing halves that confuse you and make it impossible for you to | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| as a human creature. As long as you confuse life with death, with inanimate matter, you will | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| become overaggressive. Only then will you no longer confuse self- assertion with hostility, or flexible compromise with | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| differentiate between cut-off thought and abstract thought. Don't confuse them. Cut-off thought is a defense against feelings | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the difference for you, my friends, not to confuse this with the sequence of events, for this | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| in reality. In the slumbering state you always confuse cause and effect, you always look through the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| come to a point when you no longer confuse gullibility and wishful thinking with faith, or doubt | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| geared to the level of manifestation and you confuse the manifestation that is animated by eternal life | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| its damaging effects for what they are. You confuse self-acceptance and self-forgiveness with condoning and whitewashing the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| negativities of the lower self; and you equally confuse self-devastating guilt and self-hate with honest admission of | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| aspect. You have created artifacts, artificial thought-splits that confuse your mind. They are as much a creation | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| have identified with for a long time. You confuse this mask self with your higher self. To | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| this expansion unnecessarily painful. In your fear you confuse issues; your thinking becomes muddled and disconnected in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the effect of drawing devils near you who confuse you with lies so that you no longer | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| of the forces of darkness is always to confuse by using a truth to cover up a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| in a distorted way. It is easy to confuse the real way with the false one. The | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of all life will be experienced. Do not confuse the ceasing of a particular level and kind | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to fulfilling God's will, then evil forces cannot confuse you. You will always know, you will find | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Confused....................229 | |
| evil, evil as good. And so humans get confused -- they who actually want so much to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| knots in their surroundings and to clear up confused situations. Thus they accomplish something they were meant | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| these interruptions bother you and not to get confused and bewildered. Do not ask too much of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| real meditation. At any moment, when you are confused, ask for help. Here, too, the word holds | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| there exists a spiritual law. When you are confused by problems in your life, it means that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| clear and open. This is not to be confused with the well-known phenomenon after dying when one | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| to utilize your dormant powers? Many people are confused and not aware of the possibilities. Thus the | 18 FREE WILL |
| a clear outlook, even though I find myself confused and unhappy and mixed up at this moment | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that apparently have no connection, and you become confused. Only self-discipline and perseverance will get you to | 36 PRAYER |
| in the spiritual life. People are uncertain and confused about how to react to tests, trials, and | 38 IMAGES |
| guilt really means. In fact, it is often confused with humility and repentance. This knowledge of what | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| is blurred and unreliable and can easily be confused with unconscious desires that have nothing to do | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the highest to the lowest. Humanity has always confused these three principles. In fact, it is little | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| This is why eros is so very often confused with love. But eros is just as often | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with love. But eros is just as often confused with the sex instinct which, like eros, also | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| easy to see why eros is so often confused with love. How then is eros different from | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of searching for a clear-cut meaning to your confused emotions. You can certainly use your will to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| if I do such and such? You become confused and uncertain about your own good motives. Only | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is always a result of untruthful, mixed, and confused motives. Duty is something entirely voluntary. If you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that, my dear friends. Try to understand how confused your unconscious thinking is. You feel guilty about | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of living. This is subtle, and is easily confused with the feeling of gratefulness and joy of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| were taught that self-consideration is selfishness are completely confused. They assume that something advantageous for them is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| appear to you like a big bundle of confused feelings. With the help of my words you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| in the unconscious. If you have wrong and confused motives that are self-serving and cause detriment to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| deserve that which I wish. Humanity is very confused about what is selfish and what is unselfish | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the martyrs of the Catholic Church, for instance, confused the two attitudes? ANSWER: Very often, indeed. QUESTION | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of things getting worse, feeling more depressed, more confused. In reality it is part of the growth | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will can function. The unhealthy psyche is always confused, not only about others and the world, but | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| result with all your might, but in a confused and divided state your inner will cannot penetrate | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| continue it, even while your motives are still confused. In either case, the important thing is to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| yourself and your motives and thereby create a confused and disharmonious situation -- for your self-deceptions and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it furthers something unhealthy and makes for a confused approach to this entire question. Talking to a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aim -- exclusive love and acceptance -- is confused with the parent withholding it. In the confused | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| confused with the parent withholding it. In the confused, immature mind of the child, the rejecter now | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| obtained only after understanding the peculiar logic of confused emotions. With the confusion about parental rejection in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which a few of my friends are quite confused, namely the results that your work on this | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as a troubled, searching human being, vulnerable and confused as all human beings are. Actually, this is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot heed this voice, because your thinking is confused -- let alone your emotions. We will eventually | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| present phase of your development. Whenever you feel confused or uncertain about something you have found recently | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a growing awareness of where you are still confused and what your inner, unanswered questions are. Last | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| have some mature aspects. QUESTION: I am very confused about thought control. I find it terribly tiring | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| this work is to recognize when you are confused about a particular subject. Perhaps a confusion exists | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| people, try to find out how you are confused; how your thoughts are muddled; how you are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this confusion down concisely, in writing: I am confused because I do not know... whatever it may | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| path to determine that wherever your aim is confused and your life-goal muddled with mixed motivations, is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to crystallize out of them any negative or confused motives and apply them to the trouble area | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| questions about this subject? QUESTION: If you are confused, it is very hard to ask questions. Because | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| very hard to ask questions. Because you are confused, you just don't know what it is. There | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| closer to the center. QUESTION: But isn't one confused because one can't put down what disturbs one | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| some important underlying principle about which you are confused and beclouded. So the best, indeed the only | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| as you are under the compulsion of your confused thinking and emotions, you are bound to affect | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| about that, or as long as you are confused and do not even know that there are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and other negative emotions are the result of confused and faulty thinking, which can be conscious or | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| that you understand it. Submission must never be confused with love. It may look similar, but the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in the physical body. QUESTION: I am very confused about all the selves. The lower self, higher | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frenzied compulsion, which manifests as impatience, so easily confused with striving and ambition. That is what blocks | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misguided -- and the soul is stunned and confused even more. If you pursue a goal, believing | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be loved and cherished which is so often confused with love. For real love and real, genuine | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| yourself as a human being, fallible and often confused, then this unavoidable confusion has the power to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lead to acting them out. You are also confused because you think that disapproval of your immoral | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the best of my ability. QUESTION: I am confused about moralizing with myself regarding certain superstitions. On | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fact that you have faults, that you are confused as to the right or wrong course, that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to become aware of exactly what you are confused about, rather than feeling it only vaguely. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to both tendencies. Or, if you are too confused between the two ways, you may resort to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to get something for nothing, should not be confused with this kind of perfect imperfection. Now let | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| right by all known standards. Yet you feel confused and anxious. The opposite course is clearly destructive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you equally dissatisfied. In either case you are confused, because your real self is covered up and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of view of relinquishing. Notice where you were confused and dependent and where you were free and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it accounts for much resistance. Inwardly, you are confused and fluctuate between these two alternatives. Again and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| so that you are more apt to get confused. Even when two terms are available, it is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are available, it is still easy to be confused between them. Doesn't it often happen that a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| times, I shall be happy to clarify the confused, split concepts the way I have tonight. QUESTION | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and passivity, action and inaction. You are often confused about this. The human struggle attempts to overcome | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you, the core of your being. You are confused because you take the superimpositions to be the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| either to others or to yourself. You are confused and anxious. Your faculties are paralyzed. This is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your ideas to others. See how uncertain and confused you are about the issues and what it | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| take on a different form. QUESTION: I am confused about harmony and happiness. I always thought they | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is not fully aware of what one is confused about, then such answers cannot come. Hence conscious | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| this craving reaches your awareness, it is often confused with your capacity to love. However, the two | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| anger leaves you freer and stronger and less confused, then it is a healthy anger. Unhealthy anger | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| love -- and this is why you are confused. QUESTION: In marital love, is it possible that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| has this incapacity, then you are puzzled and confused. With this new understanding, you may learn to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| this could never be asked. It is so confused, contains so much blindness and lack of awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| these two, apparently mutually exclusive concepts, man is confused. The question you asked is a typical example | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| get me when I am as unhappy and confused now as before? I want to remind you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of a beloved person, there are in you confused, ambiguous, as well as ambivalent emotions you are | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| as substitutes. Often, real relating and communication is confused with the childish compulsion to tell everyone everything | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| guilt, fear, uncertainty, anger, resentment, helpless rage, and confused fluctuation between giving in too much and being | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| simply strengthen their own selfishness. You then become confused and do not know when to assert yourself | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| can be kept general. This should not be confused with the group work. The important thing is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| person will no longer feel unjustly treated, and confused. In other instances, in addition to talking it | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is absolutely unhampered by selfish motives, by ambiguous, confused, contradictory emotions, by uncertainty or fear, or the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is unavailable in the deeper regions of the confused part of the unconscious mind, one will then | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you through life! This is not to be confused with the line of least resistance and the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| be pleasant or unpleasant. The language is often confused. One speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| run the risk of misunderstanding and of erroneous, confused, unclear thinking. If we remain focused on the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not easy. This realization must not be confused with a quick, glib formulation of a part | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| before an important recognition when all seems doubly confused. At such times your struggle is often very | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| double bind. The real, healthy male aggressiveness is confused with hostility for which he feels guilty. So | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| see the missing link and cease to be confused and lost. Tonight I should like to discuss | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| choose on what occasion, must be lost and confused, and their actions will prove unsuccessful. But those | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| and yourself, of what makes you puzzled and confused. With this approach you have a direct key | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| What does negative involvement mean? It means, primarily, confused notions of reality, confused concepts. Where confusion, and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| mean? It means, primarily, confused notions of reality, confused concepts. Where confusion, and therefore illusion, prevails there | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| pleasure as a way out must not be confused with the unity between pleasure and pain when | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| free and independent, which is not to be confused with omnipotence. They do not rule, nor are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| elements. But the more humanity grows, the less confused it will be about what is constructive and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| later, or you become more negatively involved and confused than ever, running around in circles. But when | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to you as individuals. Whenever a person is confused in a situation, negatively involved in a relationship | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| man fights against his own masculinity and is confused about it, a barrier is created which makes | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of the soul, so that it will be confused about the union of its masculine and feminine | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| distinction between the sexes is not to be confused with its distorted counterpart in which men become | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| up, which he considers perilous. Therefore, he is confused by thinking that he has to choose between | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| or want from you. If you look at confused, disturbed, and disharmonious feelings, you must dare to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in the past have made you compulsive, guilty, confused, and wavering. A disharmonious mood will so often | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| study the lectures and determine when you are confused and in what respect you remain unresponsive. Determining | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the healthy part of yourself from the unhealthy, confused, involved part. Detached observation of something obscure and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| You do not even have to clear up confused concepts: all you need is to realize that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you need is to realize that you are confused and to reach out to the vaster intelligence | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| from past experience. Once you know you are confused, you can meet the confusion. This is living | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you deal with your fellow humans and are confused about their actions and motives, disharmony is created | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| powers must be at work. People are often confused in this respect. They sense that without these | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your endeavors for spiritual growth. People are often confused by apparent contradictions in spiritual teachings. We have | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| psychic substance feasible. As long as you are confused, you do not know in what way you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the truth. The outer maturity must not be confused with the real self. It reaches a certain | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Where love is lacking, the psyche must be confused and, conversely, where confusion exists, love must be | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| unhealthy aggressiveness or hostility. Nor will you be confused between the alternatives of submissiveness and domination through | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| immersion in your distortions which make you so confused and blur your vision. This strength is increased | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| quite realistic protective device. Likewise, when children are confused because they perceive contradiction and conflict around them | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| them as such. You become more and more confused. A typical and important example of this state | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a burden. It also appears futile, leaving a confused feeling of what for? -- a feeling that | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| life as an entity in itself is so confused and so alien to their innermost personality that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| positivity, affirmation, or constructiveness. Those who are most confused about the real and the false in themselves | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| deep level with these problems. Often weakness is confused with goodness, and strength with ruthlessness or selfishness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| like to know where I am weak and confused and therefore where negative emotions come into existence | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| when attempting to describe it, may easily be confused with indifference, passivity, or laxness. It is none | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| sounds deceptive. Its properties may so easily be confused with truly undesirable and faulty attitudes. However, the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| motive and in experience. This must not be confused with the numbness that is the result of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Intensity and overindentation of soul substance are also confused with being alive, while letting oneself be in | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the universal power. The cramping is then often confused with seriousness, concentration, wholeness of purpose and being | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| get from peace and wellbeing and the more confused and anxious you must become. This generality also | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what is self-produced and inevitable must not be confused with masochism, deliberate self-destruction, or hopeless resignation. It | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| much easier to deal with. You are utterly confused and ignorant about what you really think and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| level of reality -- of identifying your often confused and erroneous interpretation of life, of others, and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| a legitimate need on your part, you get confused between the childish aspect that desires unreasonable and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| same applies to relaxation; it must not be confused with the inertia of lifelessness and with lack | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| can see how easy it is to be confused about the subtleties of health or neurosis. Neurosis | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| life center. You flounder in contradictory alternatives -- confused about what is right or not -- for | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| can easily be misunderstood. Desirelessness must not be confused with indifference, resignation, escape from the conflicts that | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is a threat. Her receptivity should not be confused with paralyzed passivity which is but a distortion | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| cannot ever fully decide, and you become so confused and disturbed that you react blindly and rigidly | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| This kind of giving up is so easily confused with negativity, resignation, and even masochistic self-denial. Religion's | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unification found, so that self-liking is no longer confused with self-indulgence, and honest self-confrontation need not bring | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| path of genuine development must bring all the confused and contradictory desires, beliefs, and the inner knowing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| from the truth. This statement must not be confused with the notion that intervals of seclusion are | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| The relationship must then deteriorate, leaving both parties confused and less able to cope with the self | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| are, the weaker you become, and therefore more confused and less able to solve this, or any | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with your acute self-blame which may easily be confused with self-acceptance, but is just as far removed | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| occurs, the mental activity of the person is confused. Search and groping cannot yield truthful answers as | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| evil are always there in your anxious, angry, confused reactions. If you stop habitually pushing aside and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| another will for good which can easily be confused with the former, though it is by no | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| making the change from being lost, blind, and confused about what and who you are to having | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you desire to do nothing, which is often confused with the spiritual state of just being, you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to love and give, which must never be confused with the neurotic need to be loved. But | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| feelings and thoughts. Hardened insistence must not be confused with the determination and relaxed goodwill of commitment | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| give only half of themselves and are then confused, vexed, and disappointed when the result is accordingly | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the movement of the whole personality which becomes confused, blind and caught in destructively acting out, something | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| which is mature. You have to follow this confused thought all the way and use all your | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is justified or not, you will always be confused. You will always fluctuate between guilt and resentment | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| assert yourself. You will be equally weak and confused in situations where you express your irrational, childish | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| your adult mind, let alone in those vague, confused emotions that you experience without knowing their meaning | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| will vaguely feel something disquieting: you will be confused about the negativity of others reaching you. You | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| may become angry, but you will not be confused, weak, guilty, or afraid, nor will you be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you magically? You often hold the misplaced and confused idea that self-discipline hampers your freedom, and, conversely | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| restful, although it may seem so to the confused mind. True restfulness is always alive and effortlessly | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and your false guilts, but who has also confused you by the denial of his or her | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| which the mutual guilts and accusations are all confused. Release and clarification often lead to the solution | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to see into others, to no longer be confused and torn! This ability grows from giving up | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| going into the dark nothingness -- which is confused with physical death. Since the divine reality must | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of getting rid of feelings, you must become confused. I have often said that when you transform | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| truth; things slip away from you. You become confused. Confusion and disorder interact as you grope in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| going on -- inside or outside. You become confused and disorganized, no matter how much you try | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| pretensions, defenses, unexperienced and therefore unassimilated feelings and confused thoughts are one thick crust. This crust is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| receive -- and that is not to be confused with childish, neurotic demands. Not giving feelings makes | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the divine will is not trusted. It is confused with untrustworthy parental authority, which may often have | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| innocent victim. The call for self-responsibility is still confused with the previous blaming, arrogant, punitive attitude. Thus | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| History has always borne this out. In the confused human mind this healthy movement is often taken | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your reactions, in experiences that leave you puzzled, confused or disturbed. When you feel resistance, admit the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the telescope -- and thus become more confused. Now, you may begin to conceive of the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| illusion, more false reality and become more disconnected, confused, empty -- choosing not to understand why and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| surface. This is why you become depressed, anxious, confused. It is only when you ask yourself about | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| evolutionary inner process. These laws must not be confused with the general universal laws, which apply to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| older. For you must know, adults are as confused as you are. The confusion often arises because | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| in a different way and then you become confused. It is very important to avoid this confusion | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| process of trial and error, searching, often being confused and not knowing, dealing with the not knowing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| about others. This projected self-doubt must not be confused with true intuition and perception, which feels very | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| That is the point where you often get confused and stuck. Your consciousness or personality must make | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| within you. Your mind and outer will have confused and complicated your life, so this new contact | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| groups have a mass-consciousness that must not be confused with group consciousness. The halted movement of group | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the level of manifestation, which must not be confused with the real life, the source. Matter or | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| splits off into fragments. Truth and reality become confused because of the limited perspective of the fragments | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| never be anything else. It will not be confused with the manifestation that harbors the spark. In | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| this part emerged, but it is still often confused with genuine selfhood. Both men and women must | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| not in a healthy way. You are truly confused and the struggle is painful because it is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| later you find out that you are also confused about your own desires, longings and goals. This | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of awareness cancel each other out, you become confused and you create accordingly. If you create fog | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| in positive life unfoldment can very easily be confused with wishful thinking. There is a subtle and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| importance. Outer belief systems will no longer be confused with inner independence of spirit. Personal identity will | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| needs will predominate and the personality will be confused. Thus the mind will no longer be able | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| self. Yet this higher self must not be confused with the mask self you have identified with | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| ability to love yourself is unceasing. Humanity gets confused in this struggle by the dualistic state of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and frustration with hate, then you are constantly confused, distorting reality, and blind to the magnificence of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of the choice. Again, this will never be confused with blind rebellion, with the false kind of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| attain a much better state, must not be confused with greed. It is not a greedy, impatient | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| indulge in it. When you still feel weak, confused, self-rejecting, or unfulfilled in any area, when you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| all falls into place. Otherwise you must be confused about the authority you need and serve, not | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a Christian child who grew up with this confused perception and who deals with it in his | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| exclusively caused by those attitudes that are often confused with dignity, pride in the desirable sense, character | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| impose more injustice on them. This ancient concept confused God with cruel earthly leaders and fathers. But | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Much argument, dissension, painful struggling in dark and confused states of mind, is based on a most | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| is privacy. If privacy and secrecy are being confused, either the need for closeness or the need | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| while that which is being observed is not confused with who the person is as a whole | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| I give you here is not to be confused with the practice of many psychics, who tell | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| -- hence denied. Whenever you are unsure and confused about yourself, your environment, the events around you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you follow through you will no longer be confused about individuality versus community; about self-surrender versus selfhood | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| perceive that every situation, no matter how hopelessly confused and negative it may appear, simultaneously harbors inner | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of gravity in God, you will always be confused, live in fear, distrust your judgment, become either | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| God? Even for those who are not particularly confused about this concept of salvation it may be | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |