| unaware that to stay separate is almost a conscious wish. With many of you it is this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| yourself. Go below the surface layers of your conscious reasoning and explanations for your attitude in this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you. Be in God! 45. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES Greetings in the Name of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you know a bit about yourself -- your conscious aims and reactions, your tastes and idiosyncrasies, and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| existence. Your unconscious desires often deviate from your conscious ones. I think you all understand by now | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| their full significance. The fact is that your conscious desires and aims that guide your actions are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| within in relation to the noble desire. The conscious noble motive convinces you that there is nothing | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Here my desire is this or that. The conscious desire is good. But I recognize that this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as well as negative thought forms. The strongest conscious conviction or thought is nothing compared to an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in following the path. By making your emotions conscious, you turn them into thoughts, and then, if | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| process, a new opinion may evolve. Or, after conscious and mature deliberation, you may decide the old | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| come to the surface. Remember that the more conscious your hidden emotions become, the more likely you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the more unselfish you must become, the more conscious of your effect on your surroundings. And now | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| encounters a law-upholder who is governed by healthy, conscious and mature motivations based on strength, not weakness | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| by selfishness. This conflict is often not yet conscious. You are aware that you do want the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| doing before the core is reached. Wherever the conscious emotions, opinions, thoughts, conclusions, and desires are separated | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the expression psychologically, used by the unconscious or conscious mind as an instrument? In other words, is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| instrument? In other words, is the unconscious or conscious mind an instrument, or are they connected or | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| attitudes. It is the sum total of your conscious and unconscious trends and traits. It is that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it forth. Is that clear? QUESTION: But the conscious or unconscious mind then would be an instrument | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mind that produces it, the unconscious or the conscious mind. You can say that it is the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it is the personality, made up of the conscious and the unconscious mind, that produces it. Therefore | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| these questions by learning to make your emotions conscious and articulate, you will understand deeper layers of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| from giving itself up at all. Maturity is conscious understanding, which, in turn, raises the intuitive powers | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| degeneration. In your images, your wrong conclusions, your conscious and unconscious ignorance and errors, you do not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Does this disappearance occur when you have become conscious of everything that was behind the wall, or | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| spiritual rebirth can occur after you are completely conscious of everything that was behind the wall. Then | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to realize what it means to be completely conscious. It includes applying the findings at all times | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| not so easy. QUESTION: Can one be completely conscious of all one's wrong trends? ANSWER: The time | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| can do, or whether they are an almost conscious hypocrisy, the outer mask must be dissolved in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| many trends and feelings diametrically opposed to your conscious beliefs about yourself. Your mask has not brought | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| although some parts of this circle may be conscious. It is important in this work that you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| words are not addressed so much to your conscious mind, to your intellect, but to the level | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| guide you to make at least one part conscious. This will not be so difficult because many | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| up to you to make the chain reaction conscious in your work on this path of self-finding | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on this path of self-finding and self-development. Becoming conscious of these hidden currents will give you freedom | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and when you do not succeed in a conscious and legitimate desire, and looking at your life | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| find the pattern that the fulfillment of the conscious desire was constantly frustrated, as though you had | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the time, even though the guilt is not conscious. You think that by being so perfect you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the divine conscience at all times and be conscious of it. They are constantly whipped by the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your emotional tendencies, requirements, and desires from you conscious knowledge. You may know perfectly well, and even | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| knowledge. The discrepancy has to be made fully conscious before you can hope to break the circle | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| immaturity -- without being ashamed, and apply your conscious knowledge to them, catching yourself whenever you fall | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wrong conclusions cover it up. By making them conscious and then working them through point by point | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will change, not necessarily in your outer and conscious actions, but in your unconscious childish requirements and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| And even if hatred is at times entirely conscious, later it is often suppressed. Then the same | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| cease only when the vicious circle is made conscious. Some people may develop a sickness which will | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that do not correspond at all to your conscious concepts. The less the unconscious concept coincides with | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| The less the unconscious concept coincides with the conscious one, the greater is the shock when one | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| If and when a growing human being becomes conscious of such an impression, he or she often | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| within yourself. Do not be deceived by your conscious convictions. Rather try to examine and analyze your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| any image? First you have to become fully conscious of the wrong concept. That is not as | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the personality may enjoy it -- usually the conscious side -- another part feels deflated and lifeless | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| motives which may be selfish, while the outer conscious motive may be unselfish. QUESTION: This question was | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| incarnations as well as in this life, by conscious as well as unconscious deviations from truth and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. Intuition has the further distinction of being conscious. The moment it is intuition, it must be | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| The moment it is intuition, it must be conscious, while an instinct may remain unconscious. It may | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| which one is unaware. An intuition must be conscious, otherwise it would not be an intuition. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| fact that the impure and selfish motives are conscious causes the wish capacity to function better. Because | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| currents either prohibit the fulfillment of the particular conscious wish itself, or they may affect negatively another | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desire for which may or may not be conscious. But deep within yourself you know there is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you say to yourself -- though not in conscious thought -- I do not deserve that which | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| all cases do the self-punishing currents affect a conscious desire, even though this desire may contain unhealthy | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| contain unhealthy motives in addition to healthy and conscious ones. Self-destructive and self-punishing forces, brought forth by | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a fulfillment of a wish you are not conscious of. You may be burdened with certain difficulties | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| They may not coincide at all with your conscious opinion of yourself. Not knowing why you feel | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this is a wrong conclusion and not a conscious thought, but an unconscious emotional attitude. None of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| actions do. Nevertheless, every thought and attitude, whether conscious or unconscious, is a definite act. But the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| more effectively by allowing it to enter your conscious mind. You will then come to understand to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the negative side of your battle has become conscious, it will lose power. But if such an | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is observed and therefore becomes more and more conscious, you will be less and less under bondage | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to do or to forsake. But the more conscious it is, the better for you in the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| an opinion that does not correspond to one's conscious and reasonable thoughts is an obstacle. However, you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| my friends, none of these thoughts are ever conscious. They are entirely unconscious arguments. You can only | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you loathe some aspects of it in your conscious mind. All this seldom happens in a very | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| know that these emotions exist, regardless of your conscious concept. This aspect of the God-image ties in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| anything that is out in the light of conscious awareness, if wrong, is open for correction. It | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you may experience happenings that may change a conscious conviction. However, if you are unaware of a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and reactions, to analyze them, to make them conscious, and not to wait until the good times | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is often contrary to your outer personality and conscious awareness. And this is important. You do not | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| those desires that may run contrary to your conscious desire, or other currents and conflicting reactions in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rebellion and compulsion, no matter how right one's conscious motivations may be. This will cause the development | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Union cannot and should not be forced. A conscious desire should not be enforced because of my | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| behind the facade of a reasonable discussion, the conscious aim of which is supposed to straighten out | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| was meant merely constructively, at least in the conscious mind of the woman. QUESTION: But since this | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is often hidden in the unconscious. On the conscious level, the greater part of the personality may | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at one time or another really, or almost, conscious. This emotion is that you desired to be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the solution proved to be false and the conscious wish for health remained on the surface. But | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desires battle with one another deep within: the conscious wish for health and the unconscious wish for | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The best approach is to find and make conscious that part in you which chooses sickness as | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment when the desire for sickness was almost conscious, you will have accomplished a major part of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you must find this contrary desire to your conscious one, and become aware of it. That is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusions, and misconceptions you carry in your conscious and unconscious mind. These always make you uncertain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish impulses. Only by a growing awareness and conscious discrimination can you be in a position to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be selfish. Whether this misconception exists in your conscious or in your unconscious mind, how can you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| may be deeply buried and has to become conscious first. You cannot bypass this stage. If you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will then comes from a combination of the conscious and the subconscious? ANSWER: Yes, that is correct | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Yes, that is correct. A combination of the conscious and various levels of the subconscious mind. QUESTION | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mere fact that the impure, selfish motives become conscious causes the wish-capacity to function better. ANSWER: That | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that has probably nothing to do with his conscious ideas on the subject. I believe that the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the hope and the doubts may not be conscious, then it furthers something unhealthy and makes for | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the first place, this conclusion is no longer conscious, therefore you cannot change it. You know very | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| from one's own involvement and interest -- outer, conscious, material ones, or inner, unconscious, emotional ones. World | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| do less harm than the person who is conscious of the best motives, but unaware of certain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to lose power over the self because the conscious mind holds on too tightly. This may afflict | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the obstructions in the human soul due to conscious or unconscious misconceptions, wrong conclusions, deviations -- in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| side. If you are governed by your emotions, conscious or unconscious, you lose control over your self | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| do the opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| them as they appear in order to become conscious of the mechanism of thought process. You will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| still alive within yourself, whether you are fully conscious of their far-reaching significance or not. But, to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| not. But, to the degree that you are conscious of their significance, the difficulties will be easier | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is very necessary that you revise your views, conscious or unconscious, on this subject. Revise them according | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is far more knowing and far-seeing than your conscious mind, knew that this culminating point was bound | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| extent. But even so, you are only partly conscious of the inner sadness, the unfulfilled longing, and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| love you, I do not refer to any conscious action on your part. I am speaking of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| also not to love you. If you are conscious of your original desire, and then of your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| off in the psyche, entirely unknown to the conscious mind of the person. It may be an | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disappointments that you do not allow to be conscious. This is so partly because you tend to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| concepts, attitudes, and ideas may be to your conscious ones. When you gain a little more overall | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| because you are aware of it. In the conscious, concise thought I do not know lies the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| yourself that is most deeply hidden from your conscious -- you might also call it the super-conscious | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| What is the psychic law operating between the conscious and the unconscious mind? Is there a strict | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| There is no strict dividing line between the conscious and the unconscious mind. You may have noticed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| It was somewhere in a region between the conscious and unconscious mind. There is no strict dividing | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| There is no strict dividing line between the conscious and the unconscious mind; there is rather a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Imagine the entire personality, psyche or mind, both conscious and unconscious, as a rounded form. The more | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| haze recedes and you become more and more conscious of yourself. Since the universe is in you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| so that the part which was unconscious becomes conscious. QUESTION: Does patience hinder ambition? ANSWER: Patience, if | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| insufficient measure. During childhood, this need is rarely conscious. Children have no way of putting their needs | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| In both cases the real emotion is not conscious and therefore cannot be properly evaluated and come | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| their own conflicts and immaturities. The light of conscious reasoning has to be applied to these very | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| factor, but is so deeply hidden from your conscious understanding! The most frequent way of attempting to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| from your mind as you focus on your conscious aims and wishes. It will take a great | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Now you have to look at this pain conscious of the understanding you have gained. Only by | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you may have forgotten this hurt on a conscious level. Yet it is not forgotten at all | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| unconscious motivations which exist in addition to the conscious and proper outer ones. If you learn to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| confusion is or what is incorrect in your conscious or unconscious thinking. I cannot emphasize too strongly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| personal relationship. Check your real motivations behind the conscious ones. Check whether or not you have a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| lose the feeling of injustice, which may be conscious in some people but is perhaps unconscious in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| utmost importance to make such concepts of life conscious. Some of you have succeeded in doing so | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you ought to want. Keep such established motivations conscious and clearly defined, working toward their goals. While | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of an unknown fate, whether your fears be conscious or unconscious. My friends, it is very important | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is blind searching, as opposed to mature and conscious searching. Many motivations may exist that can explain | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |