| Crumble.....................18 | |
| secluded happiness is impossible. The separating wall must crumble, and that is what all of you are | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Therefore it is opposed to let the wall crumble and concocts all sorts of ruses to prevent | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you are truly desirous of making the wall crumble, to become empty and naked in your soul | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| self-image, which cannot succeed and is bound to crumble. When you realize that you cannot live up | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this phase all your faith may begin to crumble. You may be full of doubts about the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| If it is utterly healthy, it will not crumble. If it is partly so, only the part | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| part that obstructs your real God- experience will crumble. Is it so difficult to understand that only | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| increased self-awareness, parts of the wall begin to crumble while other parts still persist, occasional contact with | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| false ideas. As these false ideas begin to crumble, the destruction may bring about more or less | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| foundation of errors, and this foundation must first crumble before a foundation of truthful concepts can be | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| law that all false covers must crack and crumble. When outer form exists unconnected with an organic | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the inner, then the outer form must first crumble before it can be rebuilt as an organic | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and finally destruction, so that the old may crumble and you can begin to build the new | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your foundation is shaken and even seems to crumble when your appearance is negative. This does not | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your condensed reality. However, that self-created wall can crumble only when you accept its existence and let | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| walls around you. But these walls begin to crumble, and what was illusory separation turns out to | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| up for a while. When it begins to crumble, the builder cannot see the connection, because he | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| are the answers! Once the barriers begin to crumble, you will experience what it means to feel | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Crumbles....................3 | |
| fail to meet this requirement, the person's world crumbles. Happiness becomes an impossibility, not just for the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| believe, then my whole world and personal safety crumbles. They cannot afford to face what they consider | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and expectations, the hoped-for and carefully planned safety crumbles. Besides, the constant fear that others may, perhaps | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Crumbling...................5 | |
| I had are gone. When you understand that crumbling of the old structure is desirable because the | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| based on the error of dualistic perception, are crumbling. When you encourage this in your understanding, you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| still inflict without feeling annihilated or worthless, without crumbling under a load of guilt. Feel the pain | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the pain of inflicting pain: feel it without crumbling, without exaggerating, without doubting your divine heritage. If | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| to build on such a weak foundation. The crumbling of the house may then be ascribed to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Crush.......................6 | |
| determine not to allow this temporary state to crush you into abdicating life and struggle. If you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to learn from it. Thus criticism will not crush you; rather, will give you new insight into | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a great deal of emotions are repressed. You crush not only destructive emotions which you dare not | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the right manner. Occasional misjudgments will never crush you or put you back into hiding. But | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you completely closed up, or else it might crush you. Resiliency in accepting all the aspects of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| pain, then the pain compounds and will literally crush you. Only when you are being crushed -- | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Crushed.....................16 | |
| one now. In any case, that which utterly crushed you only a while ago, does not do | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of succumbing to it. Losing out means being crushed -- this must be avoided at all costs | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| goals and demands, your pride collapses. You are crushed and feel defeated. To reach perfection -- the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are now all bad, hopeless, and consequently, crushed. Thus you are incapable of taking criticism in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| take what has to be taken without being crushed. He or she will even benefit from it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| inability to relinquish, and your illusion of being crushed, annihilated and worth nothing if certain wishes are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| more productive feeling of compassion. Whenever you are crushed by the devastating emotion of pity, which inhibits | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| feeling diminished by your awareness. Whenever you are crushed by what you are, or fear what you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| these instincts come from? These instincts cannot be crushed, neither can they be denied, uprooted, or forcefully | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| from the idea that the ego will be crushed, it will fall into nothingness and cease to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| There is nothing to fear; you cannot be crushed or annihilated. You can only be carried, as | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| literally crush you. Only when you are being crushed -- not ever by the pain that others | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| attitude that hurt you most. If you are crushed by the pain of your guilt, this is | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| wish, you can question the necessity of being crushed and listen to your inner stillness for the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| on reality, and its flimsy structure must be crushed again so that you can then let yourself | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| The false sense of your identity has been crushed and the real sense of it has not | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Crushing....................6 | |
| On the other hand, when it cannot, your crushing disappointment is equally unrealistic. The many repercussions and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unrealistic, the disappointment will be all the more crushing. Hence, you have to learn to distinguish between | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| limitations are accepted, it is no longer a crushing shame to be wrong. Growth, in this respect | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| faced before, the experience will not be a crushing one at all. You need to come to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| reaction to and the apprehension of falling and crushing when the ego is given up as the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of freedom and bliss. The other is a crushing feeling of anxiety, guilt and insecurity. What more | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Crust.......................16 | |
| the wounds in your own souls, remove the crust with which you protect your hurt, and only | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you deep down beneath the layers of the crust, hidden by your lower self, but it is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in you. You need only to remove the crust, and that is done by first recognizing it | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| by accepting the thought that there is a crust that takes such and such a form. Only | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| this is done can the layers of the crust be thinned out and so allow the breakthrough | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in you, in your lower self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self, lies the germ | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of life. Like a spring beneath the earth's crust, without any semblance of strength it lies buried | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| those feelings themselves that creates the heavy condensed crust, but the fact that you deny their temporary | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| is a result of acceptance. Once the covering crust of outer numbness has been removed by your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| unassimilated feelings and confused thoughts are one thick crust. This crust is the most difficult part to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and confused thoughts are one thick crust. This crust is the most difficult part to penetrate in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| on the outermost level -- the previously mentioned crust in which all the negativities reside. One of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the main reasons for the existence of this crust is the refutation of pain. Evil resists what | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| worked your way through the mazes of your crust to where you can already genuinely want to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| stream petrifies. It condenses into such a thick crust that the underlying energy is invisible, that is | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the condensed, slowed-down state that finally becomes a crust, hardened and apparently dead. This is what matter | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Crutch......................8 | |
| by talking. Oh, it may be a temporary crutch, it may be one detail; or rather it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| different situations in life. Such rule is a crutch. Once you know your unconscious mind, you will | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this hidden attitude. And you make a false crutch out of the truth. False religion does more | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of eliminating the false security, the escape, the crutch that are part of spiritual infancy. Since the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and doubts; not by using religion as a crutch to support you in the face of fear | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you come to true religion after abandoning the crutch, but in a completely different sense. Now you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| give. People who use the group as a crutch to substitute for individuation halt the movement as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self no longer uses the group as a crutch because it cannot handle life. Nor is the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Crutches....................6 | |
| based on change itself, of giving up the crutches of childhood. This, in itself, is a very | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| own feet. You want to continue using the crutches that have once seemed so safe. So you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| all right were governed by superimposed, immature reasons, crutches, rather than the reality of your own being | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| removed inner conflict as well as the illusory crutches that the psyche has built up as a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| cannot yet see how to operate without these crutches and cope with life without them. The same | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| I let go of my illusions and false crutches, I have no way of living, therefore my | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |