| with desire will you be able to leave desire behind. You cannot do it by going around | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| than the end itself. If selfishness, namely the desire to become happy, enters your motivation a little | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| defeat your own purpose and you contradict your desire to develop, which exists just as strongly as | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| strongly as your fear of it. You all desire happiness and you all desire to give happiness | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it. You all desire happiness and you all desire to give happiness, yet you cannot achieve either | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| accept my own ignorance or selfishness or my desire to find the easy way out. If you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| another, although they are both motivated by the desire to escape self-responsibility. And the more you escape | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| within you. For that is what you actually desire. Yes my friends, that is what all of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| would have had to go through in the desire to develop faster, to overstep many levels in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and death occurred according to his will and desire. It was not fate that overtook him, as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of it. In some personality types the strong desire to be approved by others will manifest in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| Many of you are filled with the sincere desire to unite with God, but before you can | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| fear of love would remain stronger than their desire. Eros is the nearest thing to love the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for the knowledge of the other soul. This desire lives in every created spirit. The inherent life-force | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| many of you it is this way: you desire marriage because one part of you yearns for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for partnership, there must also be an unwillingness | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| many of you it is this way: you desire marriage because one part of you yearns for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for partnership, there must also be an unwillingness | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| can cut out sex and eros and the desire for a partner and live completely for love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| responsibility for that, they will not have the desire to make such a journey together. QUESTION: How | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| made in immaturity and both partners lack the desire to fulfill the responsibility of marriage in its | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| insignificant -- reaction on your part contains a desire of one sort or another. Think of any | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| optimistic. In each of these reactions lies a desire. If you wish to find out who you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are concerned. Ask yourself, what might be the desire behind your reaction. Ask yourself, What do I | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| I want? Or, I am joyful because a desire of mine has apparently been fulfilled. What was | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| mine has apparently been fulfilled. What was this desire? And if I feel hopeful, is it because | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| because the chances seem greater now that some desire of mine will be fulfilled? What is this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of mine will be fulfilled? What is this desire, in clear-cut, simple words? Try to make a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| from this point of view. What is the desire? That will help you a great deal, my | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| motives existing within in relation to the noble desire. The conscious noble motive convinces you that there | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| try to become capable of saying, Here my desire is this or that. The conscious desire is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| my desire is this or that. The conscious desire is good. But I recognize that this or | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| little strings in the knot represents a little desire. Each has a different motive behind it. Unconsciously | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| take each string and ask yourself what you desire in each and every one of your daily | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you wants an impossibility because of its persistent desire to cover up the nucleus of conflicting desires | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| an inevitable projection of the former. Perhaps you desire fulfillment of a certain kind. Yet at the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| certain kind. Yet at the same time you desire the advantages of the opposite desire. The motives | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| time you desire the advantages of the opposite desire. The motives in the latter, conflicting desire may | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| opposite desire. The motives in the latter, conflicting desire may not be flattering for you, therefore you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and key. The more unconscious an emotion or desire is, the more effect it has in your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| get exactly that which you consciously do not desire, but which you want unconsciously. Only you want | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that you may not know what you really desire. Only after you have found the reasons for | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will you be able to have one clear desire, going steadfastly in one direction. You will then | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| One sometimes feels joy, which also contains a desire. Isn't it possible that one sometimes feels joyous | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| In such a case, a good and constructive desire was fulfilled, or partly so. However, there is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| yourself. QUESTION: Must every mood have a hidden desire? ANSWER: Every emotion contains a desire, hidden or | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a hidden desire? ANSWER: Every emotion contains a desire, hidden or not, but not all desires are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| bad or wrong. Therefore every mood contains a desire, for a mood is the product of an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| affinity, because the forms of thought, feeling, and desire attract that which corresponds. The whole concept of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as a child you were torn between the desire to be loved and accepted, therefore to rebel | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| for true goodness, for light and truth. The desire lives in the divine spark of every being | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| But, dear friends, quite apart from this higher-self desire, the desire for perfection comes also from the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| friends, quite apart from this higher-self desire, the desire for perfection comes also from the lower self | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| certainly not be loved and admired. Therefore, the desire for goodness is also selfish. Understand this and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Understand this and recognize within yourself that the desire for goodness does not necessarily and exclusively come | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| many people become uncertain whether to follow the desire for goodness, particularly after discovering the selfish motives | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| also be clear as to what extent your desire is colored by selfishness. This conflict is often | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| has not yet reached the stage where the desire for selfishness has been emotionally outgrown. This is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| on, the path becomes easier. Recognize where your desire for goodness comes from your divine spark and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hiding, and one of the motives of this desire is actually misapplied goodwill. But it consists also | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| justified guilt upon yourself, wish to become different, desire to give up your fear of loving. This | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| impatience connected with spiritual pride. He used his desire for good to suppress basic instincts rather than | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| loved in its own way and did not desire love in return, this conflict could not arise | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| inevitable, reaction. Feeling guilty, the unconscious says, I desire to be punished. Thus a fear of punishment | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fear of happiness prohibits the fulfillment. Although the desire for happiness can never be eradicated, yet, due | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| human personality, only the degree varies. The compulsive desire for self-punishment due to wrong and ignorant conclusions | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| instance, it will be fortified by the inherent desire for self- punishment; difficulties in this respect will | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do not succeed in a conscious and legitimate desire, and looking at your life you find the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the pattern that the fulfillment of the conscious desire was constantly frustrated, as though you had nothing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| vicious circle is the personality's split in its desire currents. The original split between love and hate | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for self-punishment, yet, on the other hand, the desire not to be punished coexists with it. Thus | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| decision turns out to be what your emotions desire for the moment. Here is the difficulty: there | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that your inner voice warning against your selfish desire may be your compulsive conscience is unjustified. At | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscience directs you toward the very thing you desire most, but you have no courage to obey | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| creating more problems and conflicts. Only when you desire love in a healthy and mature way which | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to love to the same degree as you desire to be loved, thereby taking the risk of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that risk as long as it continues to desire immature childish love. As long as it cannot | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is. The inner child has only the immature desire and craving for love, and wants to be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for holding opinions not your own is a desire to conform. The desire for conformity has a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your own is a desire to conform. The desire for conformity has a few subdivisions. For instance | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| yourself by adopting the opposite opinion. Because your desire does not conform to public opinion, you are | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or nurturing a desire for self-destruction. All this adds up to compulsion | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| do it wholeheartedly. But in other instances your desire may still be so crude that to express | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| important. When you pray, observe how sincerely you desire the answer. You may dutifully pray for the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| show the connections quite clearly, provided you truly desire the answers. You have no idea what this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the easy way, as a child does. This desire must ultimately be at the root of your | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| risk and without exposure. In other words, you desire to cheat life in some way. When you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not do your wish, you often feel a desire to punish. This can happen in very hidden | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| rejection of self-responsibility. It expresses further the hidden desire to force others, be it people, be it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| substituted by another human being, because the unquenchable desire of the soul to find the bridge to | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| same sex. QUESTION: The higher self has a desire for femininity, the state of being. Couldn't that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the degree is karmically stronger, then the inner desire to change may be lacking. Every case is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| he will find it much more difficult to desire a change and a cure of his sick | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your soul, new willpower, new understanding, and new desire for your inner growth, your inner change. Nothing | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| person may think: I must have love; I desire love, yet my experience has shown me that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| contradictory currents, or apparently contradictory currents -- the desire for love and the fear of losing the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love. The moment there is too strong a desire, or the inability to give up the desire | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire, or the inability to give up the desire, you act out of fear and out of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself in little ways. If the need and desire for love is stronger than being true to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even be dishonest to say, It is my desire to have God's will decide for me. I | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with wrong or sick ones. Certainly, a true desire to fulfill God's will can coexist with a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| allowed some further time. Others are overeager and desire to incarnate too quickly. Then, too, they are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the worse, this very fact will make you desire to change your direction, even though you may | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE Greetings, God bless all of you, my dearest | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| unconsciously, fulfillment cannot come to you. You may desire this particular fulfillment with all your might, with | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and unobtrusive. You may have a perfectly legitimate desire, yet it may be unhealthy. Unhealthy and tense | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them unhealthy. One rule is that whenever you desire something for the sake of itself, the desire | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| desire something for the sake of itself, the desire is healthy. But when you desire something as | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| itself, the desire is healthy. But when you desire something as a means to an end, it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be unhealthy. If this is the case, your desire automatically becomes tense. It becomes a need, and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Let me give you an example: If you desire financial security for the sake of enjoying that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of you may think this is a selfish desire. We will discuss this separately a little later | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this separately a little later. But if you desire financial security for the sake of impressing others | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| rational and valid explanations as to why the desire is so pressing, while underneath the true motive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| more unconscious the motive, the more unhealthy the desire, and the more it will stand in the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| say, Why, I know many people who certainly desire money for very unsavory purposes and yet they | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| may affect negatively another area of fulfillment, the desire for which may or may not be conscious | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is selfish and what is unselfish. Suppose you desire perfect health. In your praying for it, or | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| This is selfish. I have no right to desire something so strongly that benefits just me. Who | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inkling that you are egocentric or selfish. To desire health because in your full strength, vigor, and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| just you. But if you do not actually desire health in order to benefit others directly but | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| wish need not be selfish. But should you desire health for the purpose of harming others, be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| obvious sense. I mean, that, for instance, the desire to impress others is also harmful. What happens | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| see, a wrong and harmful motive in a desire need not be outright wicked, or a wish | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| cases do the self-punishing currents affect a conscious desire, even though this desire may contain unhealthy motives | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| currents affect a conscious desire, even though this desire may contain unhealthy motives in addition to healthy | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them. It just never occurs to you to desire a different state of affairs in a constructive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| then find quite often that what you consciously desire you do not desire completely, without doubt and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that what you consciously desire you do not desire completely, without doubt and restriction, without misgivings and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| for instance, the further reason that whatever you desire requires a price. Unconsciously you may not be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| problem is twofold: outwardly and consciously you tensely desire something, while inwardly and unconsciously you hesitate and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| specifically: What are your desires? Why do you desire them? What would be the required price? Are | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| now understand why you cannot have what you desire with only part of your personality. You will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the example of desiring financial security. Suppose you desire it to impress those who have humbled you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you, even though the very goal of this desire is to eliminate these feelings. In other words | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that which is in you, imperfect as the desire, action, or attitude may be, the inferiority complex | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will then no longer find it necessary to desire things as a means to an end, in | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in order to accomplish something else. If you desire wealth because you want to be wealthy, it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a means to an end. But if you desire wealth so as to alleviate an inferiority complex | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is for all those who truly manifest a desire to grow and change. They receive the personal | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a particular blend of human imperfection and humanity's desire to reach perfection. Such a universal mass image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| What is their meaning and what is the desire behind them? Only when you find the answer | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to betray the very thing or person you desire to be loyal to. To gain this special | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| invariably come up with the answer that you desire an elevated position in the eyes of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Be in peace, be in God! 58. THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS Greetings | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| God! 58. THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS Greetings! God bless all of you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this in a fruitful way, if you so desire. The wish for happiness exists in every living | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Due to a distorted concept of happiness, another desire comes into existence in the human soul which | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that, strange as it may seem, is a desire for unhappiness. I shall now discuss the chain | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| motion by a wrong concept of happiness. The desire for happiness is already in existence when the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| distorted concept of happiness actually amounts to a desire for omnipotent rulership, for unquestioned obedience from the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |