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like professional fulfillment, marriage, or friendship. Indetermination may create tension and conflict in a particular personal relationship 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
education would be most important in order to create a new humanity, so that one day the 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
That is right. Thinking about it may help create new perspectives. It may help gain new understanding 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
assimilation causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create blindness toward you. I have said that before 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
gets much worse. Out of this evasion, you create conflicts and wrong attitudes which result in bringing 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it meant that humans are not supposed to create an image of God since human-made images are 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are only projections, but that only God can create the image of himself in man? ANSWER: I 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it would be a distortion. ANSWER: They cannot create an image of God. It is an absolute 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
constant change, bringing losses and unknown factors that create anxiety in you. All these seem to block 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
you deliberately choose what you don't want, you create an unhealthy, deadening condition within your soul. It 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
But because any limitations of your wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief that the 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
another. One contradicts the other, so that they create conflict. This happens because one of these attributes 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
rejection -- both real and imagined. These feelings create insecurity and lack of self-confidence, which the person 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
These two tendencies are mutually exclusive and therefore create conflict, and additional conflict arises from the very 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
constantly reach for false solutions in order to create an illusion of security that can be pulled 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
to the child in you. This conflict will create more anxiety, more tension and impatience with yourself 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and artificially created needs of the idealized self create guilt feelings, but just as often the healthy 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
endured. Unawareness and repression, on the other hand, create such an urgency that the immature, unconscious condition 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
split, incompatible aspects appear on the horizon, and create confusion. The two examples I have given will 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
the real needs, for the latter will never create anxiety and urgency. Only real needs shifted into 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
one is a helpless victim, that you all create your own life and fate, nevertheless there is 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
haste, and your shame for not being perfect, create a rigid wall that makes growth and change 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
they are not manipulated by unconscious needs, will create a very different inner situation and therefore eventually 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
different outlets and symptoms. It is better to create a little distance from this activity by observing 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
instead of drives. Your repressed, unrecognized needs may create an even stronger force, just because they are 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
fulfillment that everyone inwardly strives for. You therefore create substitute fulfillments, which you partially experience in fantasy 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
self-image and your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create compulsive drives. The needs, on the other hand 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
and therefore the root, which remains embedded, may create another destructive pattern or image. So it is 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
say that self-rejection may in some personality structures create a more active process of masochism. Self-rejection in 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
defense mechanisms rather extensively. The images that you create are defense mechanisms. Through their wrong conclusions you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and know that it is you who can create all the fulfillment your soul craves for -- 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
Commandments, which are definitely based on fear, or create fear in their application. ANSWER: Yes. Every teaching 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
Yes. Every teaching, if misapplied and misunderstood, will create fear. A rigid commandment, if pronounced without the 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
and gluttony come from confusion and disorder, they create more of the same. It is perfectly true 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
material. If thought and will overproduce and thereby create an obstruction to the state of being, then 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
spiritual growth. When used wrongly, thought and willpower create confusion and suffering. When you consider what an 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
a substitute for loving, lack of self-respect -- create confusion and make you incapable of coping with 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
in your personality. All it can do is create self-contempt and guilt, which must rob you of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
other areas are blocked off. Obstructions and misconceptions create a wall. But wherever walls do not exist 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
on the personality is heavy. Then unfavorable circumstances create suffering that goes way beyond what is warranted 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
these reactions you restrain the natural movement and create tension, setting your soul forces to work in 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
the planets constantly orbiting through space. Their movements create rhythmic waves. Over the centuries, humanity has sensed 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
few of them, fortunately, are not barricaded; they create a healthy and constructive attitude toward yourself and 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
areas that do not hurt, that do not create anxiety in me? If this is so, then 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
can be more loving. This, in turn, will create good relationships, which will afford you a wider 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
feel the productive warm feelings of love that create a benign circle connecting the three life-aspects. My 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the surface of consciousness germinate and accumulate and create great inner tension and pressure. You are then 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
give; the ability to relate harmoniously and to create a life which is useful not only in 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
hidden as the very misconception itself. It may create a pattern of continuous disruption of relationships; of 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
femininity, to that degree may she often, artificially, create a false femininity by repressing her so-called masculine 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
artificially suppress her activity in order to falsely create the caricature of a woman. These are good 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
into details. This may prepare the way and create the proper climate. It goes without saying that 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
present values, the pleasurable indulgence and permissiveness will create as many problematic conditions in the child's psyche 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
with the problems that a child represents will create an inner disturbance. To atone for having common 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
not the act or its consequences alone that create the damage, but the guilt, confusion and conflict 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
as well as anger for the frustration, must create shame. This tendency completely contradicts the ideal which 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
personal unconscious misconceptions, making abundantly clear how they create the various conflicts that force you to choose 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
alternatives. Of course, both alternatives are unsatisfactory and create a state of hopelessness, simply because they both 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
problem, how severe a fault, it could never create an abiding disturbance if the person were completely 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
to feel hostile, so expressing aggression will not create guilt. You will also be able to make 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
above. Fear of love may, in other personalities, create an overemphasis, an exaggerated need for purely sexual 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
healthy and necessary. But ignoring the process must create untold and unnecessary hardship and confusion. If a 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
distorted ideas on this subject. These distorted concepts create fear of the other sex and fear of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
need to love and be loved? Doesn't self-forgetting create stronger needs which may be frustrated? Does this 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
creates excessive one-sided demands, disappointment and fear must create a barrier of separateness. Follow through this sequence 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
They hold on with the little self and create a wall of clouds between their higher consciousness 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
realism, awareness, and consciousness. The two opposing forces create such tension through the pressure of two opposing 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
wrong conclusions, the molds in the soul substance create unfavorable, destructive situations. In short, a man's and 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
False solutions and means to cope with life create false strength, false security, false happiness -- or 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
the insistence on a childish way of life create the contradictions. The moment you give up resisting 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
them simultaneously from two directions. All false ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create tense, harsh, rigid soul 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
directions. All false ideas create disharmonious emotions, which create tense, harsh, rigid soul movements. Truthful concepts create 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
create tense, harsh, rigid soul movements. Truthful concepts create relaxed, warm, positive feelings and flexible, harmonious, rhythmic 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
it is always, and exclusively, the misconceptions that create havoc, disharmony, unhappiness. Nothing else can ever do 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
confusion perpetuate the chain reaction. Illusion and misconception create a duality which appears as an arbitrary split 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
no contradiction. But where illusion and false concepts create duality, an imbalance comes into being: control exists 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
against them, and thereby mastering them. Human conceptions create a duality here, an either/or. You feel that 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
of these forces, you inactivate yourself and thus create imaginary fences that need not exist at all 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
conditions in which it seems almost impossible to create a new relationship. This condition, then, is an 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
are the masters of their fate and must create their lives in accordance with their personal inclinations 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
must let go and allow cosmic intelligence to create what is needed, it is busy, distrusting, and 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
blind foolishness and most certainly, it does not create helplessness in the face of abuse. Quite the 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
temporarily accept certain limitations within the self which create an undesirable destiny. Denying these limitations by sheer 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
directing the powers within yourself, so as to create favorable, or more variable, circumstances. These approaches are 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
untruthful ideas is merely self-deception, superimposition. It cannot create a genuine constructive attitude. Your psyche is like 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
solve a problem that does not exist must create real problems. The predicament against which you battle 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
the ego is underdeveloped, your efforts to compensate create a weakness and evasion that can produce only 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
wish for and overlook patterns and attitudes that create certain undesirable conditions in your immediate life. As 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
to give up any of the facets that create the guilt, you will have a profound understanding 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
underestimation of the self and misinterpretation of reality create the barriers to loving and its apparent danger 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
nor the conflict, nor even the misconception which create turmoil in your soul, but it is your 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
in a well-integrated life. Healthy anger does not create inner disharmony. It is a great misunderstanding to 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and misconceptions embedded in the psyche. These distortions create a barrier between the outer and the inner 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and anger, as well as the guilt, that create sickness? ANSWER: Of course. Let me put it 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
All the destructive emotions that are hidden underground create problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in the physical 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
that come from distorted values and wrong concepts, create illness. But it is also true that the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
can have access to the inner self to create a state of helpless endurance, instead of correcting 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
victims. It is the inner being that can create a constructive life, in which everything is given 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
deeper level. I have often said that misconceptions create strife, and this is perfectly true. But there 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
the many souls inhabiting this earth, added together, create the general strife of humankind. When you realize 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
result of misconceptions. These particular resistances, for example, create a confusion of motions: either the strained mobility 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
e) how these must affect others, and thereby create the present situation. You often overlook that the 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
wanted it oneself. Lack of such awareness must create a psychic climate in which the individual feels 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
between cause and effect in one's consciousness must create confusion, doubt, and hopelessness. The moment awareness of 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
By themselves, your positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings create more positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. These, in 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. These, in turn, create fulfillment, productiveness, peace, and dynamism. The principle is 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
the product of attitudes, thoughts and feelings -- create this negative world. There are many variations, degrees 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
of misunderstanding, misjudgment, and hurt, which, in turn, create further negativity. Let us imagine two people, A 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
reactions. It is the nature of cause to create effect. The energy that creates the ensuing chain 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
the larger self the opportunity to manifest, to create, to guide, and to be. Genuine control is 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
be your trust in the energy fields which create your life apparently independently of your volitional ego 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
will be torn between fighting or submitting. Both create tension, anxiety, and inner and outer disadvantages. Thus 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
against them. In the other instance it will create antagonism because you wish to be accomplished in 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
former and feel guilty about the latter. Both create intense frustrations and anxiety; both yield no salvation 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
are of their deadness. You then proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
concepts form a specific expectation of life and create a specific emotional climate. Wherever such negativity exists 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
and finally ends in fright. False feelings always create problems on the dualistic level. Let us take 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
only in fantasy. It lacks the courage to create it in reality. You have to ascertain how 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
in previous existences, the outer negative conditions will create a severe blockage, freezing the floating energy current 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
previous blockages exist, the outer negative conditions will create only a temporary disturbance in the flow of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
Envy, guilt, dishonesty, and the belittling of others create the need to put the brakes on one's 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
on a deep level and cannot help but create negativity and destructiveness. The way to eliminate the 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
fear, distrust, and other destructive feelings, must then create negative contact. All human beings experience some counter-pull 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
relatively blissful and unproblematic. Their pleasure principle will create mutuality, genuine love, and pleasure supreme. To the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
so much unnecessary pain. Nothing else can ever create as much pain as running away from the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
not consciously recognized and come to terms with, create false guilts and exaggerated standards of perfection. It 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
refusal to give of oneself wholeheartedly. All these create the need, as it were, to be intense 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
show this real love feels naked, so you create a false love. You may really feel anger 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
But this real anger feels naked, so you create false anger. You may really feel sadness, but 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
acknowledge this sadness, even to yourself, so you create false sadness, which you can easily display to 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
this, too, is humiliating to expose, so you create false pleasure. This even applies to elements like 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
feeling seems so naked and exposed, so you create a false one. This falsification functions like a 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER

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