| The next moment such reasoning is gone, the conscious decision forgotten, and what remains is a compelling | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| just because you do not wish, on the conscious level, to be so indifferent. The desire to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| in reorienting your until recently unconscious, but now conscious concepts, values, understanding of life and yourself, as | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fantasy life is denied, but sometimes it is conscious. Awareness of this must be established and understood | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| similar situation, so that in spite of the conscious desire for acceptance, the pleasure current will only | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| a power and intelligence other than your usual conscious mind, which feels as though it were a | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| though two separate entities were involved: your familiar conscious self, with its aims and thoughts, and the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Its workings are no longer separated from your conscious will. Thus your ego integrates with a part | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| dissolves, and the Divine activates and moves the conscious ego more and more, until the ego becomes | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| cause and effect and cultivate it with your conscious ego. As you own up to the negative | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| it by building molds for it with your conscious mind. As long as you fear the destructive | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| will no longer feel a separation between your conscious intelligence and will, which form the active outer | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you can correct it. You will become acutely conscious of how you give in to the most | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the process of integration, which cannot exist without conscious effort. You must work for integration by the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| aims. These negative aims have to become so conscious that they literally stare you in the face | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| truly observing yourself. You cannot fail to become conscious of moments when this vulnerable spot is present | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| realization that the live center must become a conscious aspect, to be integrated with the ego. If | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| human soul -- not only in action and conscious thoughts, but in the unconscious emotions -- when | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the origin of pain. If the personality were conscious of wanting non-health as well as health, the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| effort required of you to fill in this conscious male image. You believe that this is what | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that you find the exact opposite of the conscious striving, meaning the passive resistance against your male | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| be understood when the deliberate destructiveness is not conscious. This is what I advise you to work | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| intelligence and wisdom which by far surpasses the conscious, directly available ego-intelligence. Therefore, the latter must be | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| experience it occasionally as totally separate from their conscious, deliberate selves; and finally they integrate these two | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the integration, you must learn to use your conscious ego for the purpose of activating your inner | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| equally feared although the fear is not as conscious. Human beings fear a great spiritual experience. They | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| negativity and destructiveness in this particular area becomes conscious. Where in this respect is my pleasure principle | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| up. The fear must be countered by the conscious, rational thinking self, once it has been ascertained | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Although you may think this irrational on a conscious level, on an unconscious level being wrong truly | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| emotions knowing that what takes place on the conscious level is not commensurate with your real reactions | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and it makes no difference whether this is conscious or whether it manifests only indirectly -- and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| or not you admit its existence on a conscious level. Hence these currents come into your personality | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| though something other than their own immediately available conscious self would intervene to propel them. But this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| iota differently. If your life experience and your conscious concepts are at variance, this is proof that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| about life. To discover the discrepancy between your conscious and unconscious beliefs must always be the first | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| life. Often such avoidance is present in one's conscious beliefs. But often, where the human experience requires | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| why their experience varies so much from their conscious notions. The real is denied and the false | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| afraid of both. On a more and superficially conscious level, you are numbed and feel little or | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| circle continues. The evolutionary problem for every single conscious being is therefore to deeply comprehend and experience | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| toward an integration of the instincts with your conscious mind, your concepts, and your acceptance of life | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| that the cosmic struggle cannot become even vaguely conscious unless you gain considerable insight into and awareness | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| This inner mechanism is exact. No self-deception or conscious denial can eliminate the effects of self-dislike. The | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| opinions, thoughts and feelings which completely contradict your conscious attitudes, opinions, thoughts and feelings. This discrepancy presents | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| emotions, thoughts, and also your physical being becomes conscious and you begin to sense the unnaturalness of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you cannot quite trust. The integration between your conscious volitional self with the unvolitional processes of this | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| risk to trust faculties other than its limited conscious capabilities it will find a previously undreamed- of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| myself I endanger myself. And once you are conscious of this feeling, you possess an important key | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| more you succeed in making previously unconscious material conscious and consequently reorienting the faulty reflexes of previously | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a path within the path to become more conscious of the ingrained but subtle habits with which | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| feelings. The terror is infinitely greater when the conscious self that wants feelings is ignorant of the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| yourself equations and assumptions completely contrary to your conscious reasons and intelligence, you begin to perceive that | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| images, the involuntary, unconscious process is destructive. The conscious mind is an instrument of the unconscious perceptions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| translate them hazily. The more a person becomes conscious of the inner, heretofore unconscious processes, the more | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or perhaps even distinct fear, once it is conscious at all, is, Where will it carry me | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| its cause remains unconscious. The moment it becomes conscious, reason can be applied. Your sense of fairness | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the unconscious -- or perhaps only vaguely conscious -- fear that these unacceptable impulses, desires and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| deeply-lodged misconceptions which are often more unconscious than conscious. But it is necessary for you to discover | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| it is kept secret, often even from the conscious mind. Many a different device is invented in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that the whole personality grows lopsidedly. Your adult conscious mind ignores the fact that a crying, demanding | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| though there really were nothing else but your conscious mind, your ego self with its immediately accessible | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| identify yourself exclusively with the ego or outer conscious self, when your sense of self is predominantly | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| they strain and yearn for it on the conscious level. It must be so; it is the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fulfillment be possible. Yet it is not the conscious ego that necessarily obstructs it, but some other | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the ego nor the real self. However, the conscious ego is often blindly driven to act the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| lesser hopelessness that may be more or less conscious. A feeling of missing out on your life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of your consciousness. This includes, of course, the conscious and unconscious mind -- your total being. What | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you do not have. The separation between your conscious and unconscious mind is your greatest enemy. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the elimination of the separating wall between the conscious and unconscious mind. You must not imagine that | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unconscious mind. You must not imagine that the conscious and unconscious are two different minds. They are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| then to be a creature completely unconnected from conscious aims and desires. Only little by little, when | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| borderline to delineate the difference. As with the conscious and unconscious of the personality, so with individual | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| ends and universal consciousness begins. Your own immediate conscious mind, right now at your disposal, is the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| or origin. They are the same. As with conscious and unconscious, the human and the universal mind | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| are merely separated by lack of awareness. The conscious mind you express in your daily living is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| You are it. What is now unconscious was conscious at one time. That one part of you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| into their depths - - transcending the waking, conscious mind as well as the destructive unconscious -- | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a change. The more individuals dissolve their destructive conscious and unconscious processes and transcend them by reaching | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| essentially of the same life substance as the conscious mind -- and the discovery of the unity | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unconscious is not yet as willing as your conscious mind. Accept this for the moment, for this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you get closer to the fulfillment of your conscious wish, your unconscious shrinks away from it in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| mechanisms, which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness and conscious frustration. The soul movements in two opposite directions | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| more hopeless it all seems, the more the conscious self strives and grasps. Such tense motion -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| by this lecture as you are in your conscious mind. May you open your heart and your | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a change before the destructive attitude is quite conscious, nothing real can be accomplished. Change is impossible | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| what you believe exists, which is not quite conscious -- that drives you into actions and feelings | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| best be described as follows: the outer, deliberate, conscious ego and its willpower must be poised in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| between you and yourself. Once you are quite conscious of your true struggle, the imbalance will become | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| grasp for a solution. As you are not conscious of this either, you may explain away the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reason for a pain is worse than any conscious pain. In some personality types the result is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to establish the kind of relationship between the conscious and unconscious that is necessary to first reveal | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to unify the two. The relationship between the conscious mind and the destructive part of the unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the more truthful and constructive convictions of the conscious mind can influence and gradually eliminate the unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| waiting, initiating and receiving. In one instance the conscious ego is wiser and more constructive than the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| by far wiser and more constructive than the conscious mind. Treating both aspects of the unconscious with | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| be that you live ninety-five percent of your conscious life responding not spontaneously and directly and independently | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| being, which speaks through the unhappiness, sending the conscious ego a message that something should be different | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| personal growth. Inevitably, discontent must follow. But the conscious mind may be unable to read the message | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| vital joys of life? Such confusions are rarely conscious and concise. If they were, it would be | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of reactions, lodged in the unconscious or semi- conscious mind. The next link in this chain reaction | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| swept away by your feelings, once they become conscious, is unfounded. The faculties of reason and will | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you must learn to allow them to become conscious, let them be, and observe them without fright | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is possible. Some of you may not be conscious of these feelings yet, but at least you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| from to some degree. It may be quite conscious, or it may be concealed from awareness. It | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you become unconsciously enslaved to it. On the conscious level this will surface in any number of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it in one way or another. On the conscious level you may not be aware of this | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| ignored this fear. Now you begin to be conscious of it. Go through it. When you see | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the extent to which he or she is conscious that this process is taking place and makes | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| out. Then something in you changed. You became conscious of a tense insistence in one direction. As | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| personality, I actually mean everything about it: the conscious intelligence, the will, all the capacities and feelings | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| distortions, they, too, are included. So is the conscious ego, which is not a separated, different thing | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| It is therefore necessary to comprehend that the conscious personality, although relatively limited, contains everything you need | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| words apply after repressed material has been made conscious, for not knowing what goes on in the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| connected with having the desire. It is a conscious decision directed toward the inner feeling self, in | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| not matter. The principle is the same. The conscious attitude expresses whether or not you activate or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| much closer scrutiny. To activate means that the conscious entity deliberately claims, sets in motion, moves toward | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of creation and to what degree you are conscious of both principles and allow them both to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| no longer dangerous because it is now sufficiently conscious. The person is too alert to allow the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| exacting mechanism in you that, regardless of your conscious rationalizations and self-deceptions, knows with an inner wisdom | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| these violations go on constantly, unknown to your conscious mind, for you manage to shut out the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to convey the almost unconveyable facts: imagine the conscious, functioning personality as an overall center. Imagine it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| its opposite. When your self-work has made you conscious of only one side of the see-saw, it | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not, a person's life is exactly what the conscious and unconscious personality produces. No matter how undesirable | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| negative attitudes exert much greater power than the conscious positive attitudes. It is therefore imperative to make | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It is therefore imperative to make the unconscious conscious. Vague emotional reactions or passing thoughts one usually | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| are recognized, they can be reconciled with realistic conscious goals. Recreating Soul Substance by Changing Negative Imprints | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Imprints to Positive Imprints After you become thoroughly conscious of your misconceptions and actively experience your negative | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| courage and honesty that was necessary to become conscious of the misconceptions and negativity -- and that | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of the way. Thus the function of the conscious ego personality is double: (1) It must initiate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| constantly fluctuating balance between inner action and the conscious ego-mind. You must learn to sense when to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| ingrained idea. And I do not mean merely conscious ideas and opinions. Even more important are the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| so. The fear and anger must be made conscious. Also, your fear of disappointment, your lack of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the opening up of your unconscious. Often your conscious being has the right knowledge but is not | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| which is not as crassly definable as the conscious and the unconscious mind. There is an inner | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| has lost the contact with the inner. Your conscious willing intelligence must reestablish this connectedness, without which | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| are constantly confronted with an inner, and rarely conscious, conflict about this recognition. The conflict arises out | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| out. This applies particularly to life that is conscious, and even more so to life that is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| even more so to life that is self- conscious. The power of thought, of will, of emotions | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| You still overlook the tremendous significance of your conscious creations, and your disconnection from them causes real | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| even more. The rebellion may not be entirely conscious either; it may manifest as vague discontent with | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you cannot contact your universal self. 3) Your conscious thought processes give you the first possibility to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| contact the universal spirit. You create with your conscious thinking just as much as with your unconscious | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| yourself as the universal spirit by using your conscious thoughts in a deliberate, constructive way. You can | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| source within your own being. You begin with conscious thinking, which requires focusing attention on your thinking | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| granted that it cannot be different. On this conscious level you must see how you have taken | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |