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a love current coming from you. For their demands are often an unconscious, blind plea for love 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
often an unconscious, blind plea for love. Their demands are a substitute for what they really seek 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
really seek. Once genuine love is given, the demands are bound to diminish. The second aspect is 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
a relaxed and calm way. It grabs and demands. Such a person wants to give, but does 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
does so compulsively, to have his or her demands fulfilled, not wisely and in sensitive awareness of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
often get into conflict with one another. The demands and the forcing current frighten away the other 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
frighten away the other person, even if the demands parade under the guise of giving. Those who 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
lead you to give in to the unjustified demands of others. This will only simply strengthen their 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
not know when to assert yourself against unjustified demands, and when to give and act unselfishly. Truthfulness 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
make efforts, to cope with people and their demands; to decide whether or not these demands are 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
their demands; to decide whether or not these demands are justified or not. It does not want 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
be in God! 111. SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS Greetings, my dearest friends. Welcome, all of you 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
work, we have often found and discussed your demands. I am now referring mainly to the hidden 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
am now referring mainly to the hidden, unconscious demands that exist in you without your being aware 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
were often surprised to discover how stringent your demands on others, on yourself, and on life, really 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
have not reached full awareness of your own demands, you may be well advised to investigate your 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
that an imbalance does exist: You have excessive demands, on the one hand, in that you expect 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
now consider another aspect of this theme: the demands that are made on you. How do you 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
made on you. How do you react when demands are being made on you? How do you 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
that you may be no more conscious of demands on you than you are conscious of your 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
you than you are conscious of your making demands on others. The fact that you are unaware 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
others. The fact that you are unaware of demands made on you does not eliminate their effect 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
with them. You certainly react strongly to such demands, even though you may never know it consciously 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
of being aware of how others are making demands on you and, subsequently, of your real reactions 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
to devote some attention to the topic of demands. Look at your associations and relationships from this 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
until you have clearly become aware of your demands on others and others' demands on you, as 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
aware of your demands on others and others' demands on you, as well as your real reactions 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
-- in this case, the currents of others' demands on you -- when you cannot healthily assimilate 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
effect that others have on you, then their demands have an overpowering impact. Either you will interpret 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
may give in to the most immature, unjustified demands from others to avoid feeling guilty or fearing 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the recognition that they are your responses to demands being made on you. You are often unconsciously 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
you. You are often unconsciously so fearful of demands, or of your compulsion to give in to 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
is not so much a reaction against the demands themselves as against the temptation and compulsion to 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
healthy intercommunication cannot exist. Your response to the demands of others may frighten you so much that 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the fear of having to cope with the demands of others. Now, my friends, it is important 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
friends, it is important to become aware that demands are all around you. The more you are 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
you. The more you are involved, the more demands multiply. When you calmly consider them, you will 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
you will see that in some instances the demands of others are excessive and childish. On other 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
are excessive and childish. On other occasions, the demands are simply a part of human communication, and 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
what they really do not ask for, their demands become more urgent, while you become more guilty 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
to enable you to deal freely with any demands being made on you, you have to look 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
Where were you oblivious of your own excessive demands? They may reside perhaps in another area, hidden 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
to establish that you cannot cope with the demands of others, it is not in itself sufficient 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
importance is to find where your own hidden demands exist. When you find these, and transform the 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
capable of coping very satisfactorily with other people's demands on you, thus maintaining good, deep relationships. And 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
shame, hurt, arrogance, self-importance, self-pity, insistence on unreasonable demands, and many more. You struggle against these feelings 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
personal sacrifice or consideration. Objects will make no demands. Next on the scale is love for abstract 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
knows no mercy; which is inflexible in its demands and is blind in its evaluation. Yet one 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
reject yourself as a human being. Between its demands and the demands of the primitive, self-centered child 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
a human being. Between its demands and the demands of the primitive, self-centered child you still harbor 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
quite free and function without clinging to superimposed demands, standards, or rules as they may actually exist 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the self-centered child. It continues to make unfair demands you cannot cope with and push out of 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
demanding and the parents could not gratify these demands. I think the child was ashamed of not 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
obscure and repressed. When all the various inner demands and attitudes are out in the open, the 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
at present. Your blind needs issue blind, unconscious demands which are often quite impossible to fulfill. The 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
filling your need and you may relinquish your demands. No longer displacing your needs will generally mature 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
Apart from the frequent unreasonableness of unconscious excessive demands on your part, it may also happen that 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
your part, it may also happen that your demands are in themselves quite reasonable, but other people 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
capacity to objectively evaluate the unreasonableness of your demands, will open the flow of true relating. So 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
utterly unaware of the strength of their unreasonable demands and commands that, like the rest of humanity 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
can only bear to look at the raw demands you issue forth, if you can just face 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
dearest friends, you will no longer fear the demands others make on you because then, and only 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
them. If you can look at these raw demands of yours with a little laughter at your 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
enough that you need to look at your demands without excuses. Then you will be able to 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
Then you will be able to withstand the demands of others. Do you not know that your 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
Do you not know that your unconscious excessive demands make you prone to the unconscious excessive demands 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
demands make you prone to the unconscious excessive demands of others? And these two forces make a 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
awareness of one's own needs creates excessive one-sided demands, disappointment and fear must create a barrier of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
dearest friends. Are there any questions? QUESTION: Our demands are so hard to find. We all know 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
rationalizations. In this way you will find your demands and be able to subsequently come to terms 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
Face your anger about the fact that your demands often remain unfulfilled. Also face your apprehension of 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
unfulfilled. Also face your apprehension of other people's demands on you which may vaguely feel like a 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
you. The more you realize what your own demands are, the better you can cope with those 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
can cope with those silent, subtle currents of demands flowing toward you which in the past have 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
so often yield information about unconscious needs and demands, either your own or those of others you 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
to your unreasonable feelings and requests, your unfair demands, and your childish selfishness. Let the irrational voice 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
blinding yourself to your real needs, to your demands that come from the childish voice within you 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
total involvement and investment in the process. It demands fierce overcoming of stubborn, easily misleading resistance, and 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
either that of a greedy, self-willed child who demands the fulfillment of all its desires, while fearing 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
and uncertainty are inevitable. The winner makes strenuous demands on the self which are not only impossible 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
concerned. The loser, on the other hand, makes demands upon the world and on others to reward 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
wholehearted commitment, because you falsely believe that it demands giving up your intelligence, your rights, your self-preservation 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
to assert your rights without hostility against unjustified demands, where compliance would be destructive for all concerned 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
or think that restraint is due to outer demands, outer authority. With the awareness that you are 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
great difference if restraint is exercised because of demands from the outer world, or because you choose 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and since all children are insatiable in their demands, when will there be an end to this 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
others will not only not comply with your demands, but also that they will demand from you 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
makes you go overboard in complying with the demands of others. It is exactly because of the 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
-- say no, and not give in to demands being made upon you. So, the reality is 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
fulfill this role; there is the fear that demands will be made upon you when you assume 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
not deserving it, or are afraid of life's demands when you do have it, these still do 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
may pay it, they must fear all the demands activity makes on them. The passive, static state 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
seems desirable because it does not make any demands; it does not hold any fearsome expectations or 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
that the only alternatives are intense insistence, rigid demands, or renunciation of happiness and fulfillment. Both extremes 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
loving. Such people believe they give into society's demands and they thereby lose the integrity of their 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
own inner, momentary truth. The child makes such demands on the parents, it wants to possess them 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The forcing-current says, you must, and you make demands on others to be, feel, and do what 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
and do what you need and desire. These demands may not manifest outwardly at all. In fact 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
all recognize that you place expectations and make demands on others which no one else but you 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
to others as though your wishes, needs, and demands on others are not only justified, since there 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
conclude you are being rejected, since the unrealizable demands are not fulfilled. You may not be able 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
when they feed the needs of their destructive demands. Usually people overlook, or even ignore, that neurosis 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
always submit, to never say No to any demands, no matter how exploitative. The spinelessness and weakness 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
falseness, neurotic needs, and destructively selfish and exploitative demands that hinder the unfoldment of truth and the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
you insist on living up to its unreasonable demands, then your perception of yourself must be faulty 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
to the living spirit of perpetual growth. It demands time, perseverance and wise, mature insight into the 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
demanding. She may never openly express these silent demands; she may not even be clearly aware of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
in all ways -- financially, emotionally, spiritually. He demands of them, at the same time that he 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
hatred and vengefulness. Also, by making mutually exclusive demands that cannot be fulfilled -- by virtually destroying 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
the aspects of yourself because your standards, your demands, and your expectations of yourself are unrealistic, it 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
of other people's cruelty and hostility, the unjustified demands they make on the world and therefore also 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
cruelty and greed, for selfishness and one- sided demands upon others must be released so you can 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
pain in this life leads to greedy, insatiable demands, such as to be spared all frustration, to 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
your way. Until you recognize and abandon these demands and go through the original pain, you will 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
circle. You submit to another's equally insatiable, unreasonable demands and join in a power struggle for control 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
be independent only when you cease making the demands. This will happen when you are willing to 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the personality which then is bound to make demands on others. When these demands are not being 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
bound to make demands on others. When these demands are not being fulfilled, the resentments -- and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
when you are capable of admitting your irrational demands and of seeing how you want to deal 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
so painful that the non-fulfillment of these insatiable demands for total, unconditional gratification of selfwill and pride 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
is perpetuated, pursued, and justified. Unreal needs are demands made upon others. Unreal needs can never be 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
that you are immersed in expressing your insatiable demands which are your false needs, you may get 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
done to me! Your not complying with my demands deserves the punishment of my annihilation. And the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
let go one by one of your insatiable demands and unreal needs, you will find out that 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
gain fulfillment, contentment, pleasure, and happiness without these demands being fulfilled -- a novel idea at first 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
and for expressing the self in life. This demands making an effort to come out of old 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
refusing to give anything to it except my demands and resentments. I want to stop all that 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
here: one part of you senses that your demands and responses are unjustified; another part feels so 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
jealousy, your envy, and your unfair, one- sided demands are truly unjust. Only then will you also 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
in situations where you express your irrational, childish demands, and then your destructive intent once those demands 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
demands, and then your destructive intent once those demands are not met, or in situations where you 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
is used to shed light on the irrational demands making it clear that they are unrealistic and 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
Yes I have hate, envy, blame, bitterness, irrational demands, or whatever they may be. Yes, I am 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
The acquisition of new knowledge and skills also demands the cultivation of the attitudes necessary for self-transcendence 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
own negative intentions, lovelessness, untruthfulness, spite, and unfair demands. If you are aware, for instance, that you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
expose every detail of the disparity between your demands, your own ungiving intentions and the punishment you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and the punishment you mete out when your demands are not being met, the more you clear 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
not letting me get away with my one-sided demands. And if you dare to react to this 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
your negativity. The guilt caused by your unfair demands, your spite, the withholding of your love, and 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
will punish you for not fulfilling my insatiable demands. I will not love you or give you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
punish them for not living up to your demands and for not accepting a deal from you 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
order to justify your unfairness and your unloving demands, you not only unhook yourself from this terrible 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
you when you do not comply with my demands. But I do not allow you to feel 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
innocent victim. If you admit your similar unfair demands, your cowardice in giving your feelings, and your 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
the dark areas of the self. This path demands from an individual that which most people are 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
is not to be confused with childish, neurotic demands. Not giving feelings makes mutual exchange impossible. Since 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
your spiteful withholding? By more blame? By more demands? Certainly not! Only when you decide that giving 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
outer events requires courage, humility, and honesty. It demands the utter integrity of self-responsibility. But the relief 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
above all others. The Godself makes no such demands. What obstructs real greatness from flowing forth are 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
a sentimental giving in to neurotic and unhealthy demands. It is true giving. And in giving to 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
then rule by possessiveness, domination, jealousy, coercion, and demands. Remember that this can occur in either the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
an open energy system by seeing how your demands and your tight holding defeat your fulfillment and 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
require an impossible feat of you. It only demands what is indeed possible, to deal with something 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
can easily recognize and refute other people's exploitative demands rather than submitting to them because of your 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
from it because of your expectations from and demands on it, as well as because of the 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
To the degree she makes unfair and unrealizable demands, she must resent and blame male authority and 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
that. You discover the infant in you who demands omnipotence and magical solutions. You express these claims 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
is a quite accurate description of your irrational demands that you busily try to justify. You have 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
blinded by self-interest and self-righteousness, by resentments and demands, by fear and guilt, by coveting and jealousy 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
without indulging your lower self and its childish demands, you will find that being firm with yourself 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
bear the seed of hate, distrust, suspicion, selfish demands, maligning of truth. There will come a time 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
them as a meek, passive, sexless figure who demands the same kind of distorted self-denial from all 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
issued forth by an arbitrary authority that makes demands on you and then possibly rewards you with 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
received every comfort and convenience but made no demands for herself. In exchange for these services, which 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
blinded by wishful thinking, by your self-will which demands that the other person be a certain way 254 SURRENDER
shed your selfhood in safety, as your soul demands, without the danger of losing yourself. Or perhaps 254 SURRENDER
resent them for not living up to your demands. What exactly are these demands? They are, as 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
up to your demands. What exactly are these demands? They are, as I said, that you be 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
cause or meaning, something in your rhythm pattern demands that you accept this as a rhythmic phenomenon 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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