| Cramps......................7 | |
| so completely separated. Your fear of your feelings cramps you and makes you manipulate them in a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| experience, withdraw and cringe from it. The organism cramps up in a movement of fear, away from | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you so ardently wishes. The more the ego cramps up to get what you want consciously, forgetting | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| in you when abandonment threatens you, and it cramps up in you. As you observe this, you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| possibilities but the one insisted on. Therefore it cramps up within itself. A strong desire of this | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| state, your awareness of inner knots and tight cramps will follow quite naturally. You will suddenly detect | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| more than you could at first feel the cramps and tensions. This very distinct focusing on yourself | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Crash.......................3 | |
| only will you learn that you do not crash and perish, but that you float beautifully. You | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| not only short-lived, but usually lead to a crash, to a severe disappointment whose origin cannot be | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| not, they would break apart, the planets would crash into one another and the whole system would | 228 BALANCE |
| Crave.......................17 | |
| want to show your best side. You all crave admiration, acceptance, and love. You think that showing | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your self-respect is established, the less you will crave for the respect of others, for you are | 31 SHAME |
| denominator of pride and self-will. Self-will: because you crave the gratification of your pride so much that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| suffering needs a different answer. The love you crave in the mistaken idea that it will set | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you still rebel against authority. Since you still crave to belong, and your rebellion is not only | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| to please the very people whose acceptance you crave. In doing so, you often despise others who | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The soul rebels against this. It continues to crave pleasure. The less this craving is heeded because | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| in, you believe you will receive what you crave, while protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| one. The love and fulfillment you must increasingly crave for makes you blame others, circumstances, the fates | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| experience whatsoever. He or she will not even crave it. If there is no longing for it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such hurts which will prevent the fulfillment you crave even more. Since you continue to repress your | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| with the guilt of rejecting what you also crave? Or are you one of those who is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| away, or withdraw from, the very fulfillment you crave -- as you see it again and again | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| financially dependent, or a mate whose love you crave and need. If your surrender to God is | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| secretly and often unconsciously most dependent, those who crave most for a perfect authority to take over | 254 SURRENDER |
| all- important state of autonomous selfhood. You still crave an authority figure who will take over for | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| and fully understand on all levels. You still crave the perfect life in which none of that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Craves......................10 | |
| denied your spirit some of the nourishment it craves -- most probably in the right way of | 31 SHAME |
| of divine love, the child in its ignorance craves an exclusive love that is neither divine nor | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| however. In short, the exclusive love the child craves can never be gratified. Furthermore, whenever the child | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| does not want to forfeit the love it craves for. These contradictory currents, or apparently contradictory currents | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person is, the more he or she craves being loved without taking the apparent risk of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| immature and cannot give the love the child craves, or give it only in insufficient measure. During | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to appear invulnerable just as much as he craves to be loved. So the temper tantrum may | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| give the love and comfort my soul really craves for, I may get the next best thing | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| who can create all the fulfillment your soul craves for -- a craving you were not even | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to avoid the deep inner contact the soul craves. Human beings who live in perpetually crowded conditions | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Craving.....................48 | |
| to God's spirit world. Ego, power, vanity, pride, craving for admiration can be just as great hindrances | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| ego intrudes again. I have to give up craving recognition by others -- or whatever it may | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same spot as you are in now: craving for affection, respect, and love to assuage their | 31 SHAME |
| give it to you, were wrong. Thus the craving for love becomes more and more strained and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| inner child has only the immature desire and craving for love, and wants to be loved and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to the other's unfaithfulness by your own childish craving to be loved instead of giving love maturely | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your desire for communication is exaggerated into a craving, the soul forces will automatically become harsh, pointed | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| You may be quite unaware of your hidden craving and exaggerated need; you may have covered it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| what matters. And when you discover your exaggerated craving, you will understand that this hitherto unconscious current | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| nothing. You will understand that your childish, exaggerated craving has nothing to do with healthy love, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as damaging as the other extreme of childish craving and forcing. These are the two major distortions | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of life or death to satisfy the child's craving, you will not have to resort to the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| can try to determine how much urgency or craving is there. The stronger the craving and the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| urgency or craving is there. The stronger the craving and the unhealthy exaggeration, the more likely it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| analysis and insight will show you that this craving has nothing to do with real love, and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| present in an unhealthy situation based on immature craving instead of free readiness to love and communicate | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unfulfillment as a child, now manifesting as exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy wish | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| healthy wish for mature love and the childish craving need to be loved. With the help of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you free yourself to some extent from the craving. Nevertheless, it is necessary for you to understand | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Nor is it enough to say that childish craving is one-sided, while mature love is willing to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| wishes to receive. In the adult, the childish craving subtly merges with the mature love-capacity, so the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| The difference between the immature desire and the craving on the one hand, and the mature wish | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| search to be loved -- apart from the craving for pleasure supreme -- there is the element | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Addictions are often also motivated by the strong craving for love, pleasure, and ecstasy. So another one | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| than in a healthy, flexible, receptive way; greed; craving, which leads, in crass cases, to addiction. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| which leads, in crass cases, to addiction. The craving for pleasure, although perhaps completely unconscious, can be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a very different way. The more unconscious the craving is, the greater is the havoc within the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to a life of serene detachment, while underneath craving and dissatisfaction do a great deal of damage | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self-centered will preserve its safety, or satisfy its craving. Nothing can be further from the truth. Nothing | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self of the other person. Contrarily, the grabbing, craving motion I described in this lecture, the distortion | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| It continues to crave pleasure. The less this craving is heeded because of the greater imaginary need | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the greater imaginary need, the greater the unconscious craving becomes. Unconsciously, you confront the alternatives of safety | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the helpless child, looking for love and protection; craving pleasure and happiness; feeling vulnerable, submissive, insecure, and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it needs to remain healthy, but if a craving for something inessential persists, then you have a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| needs always have the form of compulsiveness and craving. Mismanagement will make people helpless and dependent on | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| afraid of forgiving yourself because you fear your craving for self-indulgence. You also fear to face fully | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving, and dependency. Let us take another quality: charity | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| deep down in your soul you have a craving to be loved. When this craving reaches your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| have a craving to be loved. When this craving reaches your awareness, it is often confused with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the fulfillment your soul craves for -- a craving you were not even conscious of when you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| itself be something constructive. Yet, you are the craving, needy child who wants to be the center | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| temporary reaction to an unhealthy submissiveness, to the craving for affection, or to any other one-sided neurotic | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of moral standards, laws, and rules lies the craving for pleasure supreme, regardless of the consequences. In | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| luxuries may be such a transformation, or a craving for food and drink. Full awareness of this | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| You find yourself in the preposterous position of craving the love and acceptance of a person whom | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| because deep down they refuse to be independent. Craving approval more than having the integrity to be | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| false values may have crass manifestations, such as craving approval and selling out one's truth to impress | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| as a sure sign that you are still craving the right authority, the super-person who protects you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |