| unconsciousness goes on doing everything to counteract the desire of the spirit. When life approaches its end | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| causes all your conflicts and deviations is your desire to be happy, or to be loved. Being | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Subdivisions, divisions of this drive, such as the desire to be approved of and admired, may take | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and admired, may take the place of your desire to be loved; it may also be an | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| conviction, you cannot arrive at the liberation you desire. The more your intellect conflicts with your hidden | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the stronger the forcing current, which expresses your desire to get your way. There is another attitude | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the only means of getting the happiness they desire. Needless to say, the opposite effect is the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| still remains, consider whether the fulfillment of the desire would mean to you an imaginary protection against | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| idea what it could symbolize? Sacrifice. Purification. Inner desire for development. ANSWER: The fire of love. The | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| victim. All this contributes greatly to the unconscious desire to hurt oneself before anyone else has the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being. On the one hand, there is the desire for love -- to be loved and to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other hand, there is the aggressive tendency of desire for rulership, for mastery over others, for dominion | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| their negative functioning within yourself. For instance, the desire for love is quite legitimate. But if this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for love is quite legitimate. But if this desire is used in your adult years to overcome | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in this direction, the urgency of this blown-up desire becomes destructive. It no longer fulfills its original | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will never cause interference and mutual exclusiveness. The desire for love and healthy aggression are meant to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. Blessed is this hour. Since you so desire, I shall answer your questions which, we hope | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| expresses itself in many varieties. There is the desire to be loved and the rejection of love | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pretense. This does not only refer to the desire to appear better than you are, in order | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because of a wrong conclusion and an unrealistic desire. You are under the mistaken impression that you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| False motivations cause impatience. The strong, often unconscious, desire to belong in the world that seems most | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tries to dissolve these obstructions because of a desire for development, peace and harmony, or due to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you are overeager or overanxious, if your desire for communication is exaggerated into a craving, the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| directed at you, and in spite of your desire for love and communication, you could not help | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| sabotage the attainment of the very thing you desire so much. Many of you fail even to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| also unconsciously feel humiliated by the constant nagging desire that can never be fulfilled, because it has | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| false protection automatically precludes the fulfillment of your desire, you constantly vacillate between these various measures, never | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| law of communication and therefore sabotage your heart's desire. But when you simultaneously pursue several mutually exclusive | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| for bliss and eternal life, but many who desire it are terrified of not attaining it. Therefore | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| thing, that is, throwing away what they most desire. They violently oppose each other, because to each | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| claims that this deep-seated longing stems from the desire to return to the womb, where the fetus | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not achieving it to the degree that you desire. You say, Death, or loss, is unavoidable anyway | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you may have become acutely aware of the desire for happiness, love, fulfillment, or -- to put | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| lies still deeper. The difference between the immature desire and the craving on the one hand, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| something makes you rush into it. Your repressed desire for the exact opposite of what you fear | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it is avoidable, makes you abandon the very desire. The healthy way is to say, Yes, death | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you tackle your seemingly insignificant daily reactions of desire and fear. Only then will you learn the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it? you will come to the love you desire and to your fear of not getting it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| may not get the kind of love you desire -- exclusive, limitless, guaranteed with absolute certainty that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| make it worse. In the same way, your desire never to die makes you reject life. All | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in existence after death, and do not consciously desire existence past death very much, like to enjoy | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| personality, including the need to sublimate, is the desire to produce art, and by that creation become | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| manifests on this earthplane is also ignored. The desire for immortality through art is just another variation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| work produced, emerges from the same root: the desire for immortality. Neither wants to let go; they | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| on a person's professed belief and attitude. The desire to die, for instance, does not necessarily indicate | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experience the difference in feeling between the genuine desire to gradually work toward growth, and the ungenuine | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| by conscientiousness, honorable standards and goals, and a desire to be good. The genuine desire to better | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and a desire to be good. The genuine desire to better oneself leads one to accept the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in return. It is ultimately a self-centered, one-sided desire. The effects of this entire attitude are grave | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you to misunderstand me as saying that a desire for pleasure, as such, is wrong. Quite the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| real aims you wish to pursue with your desire for spiritual perfection, then, and only then, can | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from your real self. Consciously you have one desire. You act upon it, but without realizing how | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this gratification. People do act according to this desire of yours. Consciously you may feel you had | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| haste increase just because the false value and desire has been gratified. Outwardly you may be quite | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prayer. Regardless of how much real talent, healthy desire, or serious striving you show, the severity of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answer. The guilt feeling comes from the unrecognized desire yourself to be a Trujillo, to have that | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| nature. On the one hand you have the desire to be like such a person. On the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person. And in the third place, the desire exists to free yourself of the yoke of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conviction and never from fear, nor from the desire to please and appease a more powerful person | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of your great struggles is overcoming the unconscious desire to remain a clinging, protected child, to refuse | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| really making you helpless, while the god-authority you desire to take over your responsibility is just not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in the other, you hide the helplessness and desire for protection, the tendency to appease and be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| have a strong tendency to withdraw, then your desire to be alone springs, again at least in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and hate still exist along with the child's desire that manifest conflicts should be resolved while the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and flexible person will handle confusions and the desire to do the right thing. This would produce | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| about it. Simultaneously, there will be a simple desire to act on a more mature level -- | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life played a role; whether there is a desire for pleasure supreme that cannot be attained through | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The predominantly healthy soul will have no particular desire for such euphoric states of elation. Your desire | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desire for such euphoric states of elation. Your desire will rather be to procure all the pleasure | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the utmost. You will recognize that your desire for communion with God existed because you wanted | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the opposite wrong extreme of laziness, without the desire to change and grow. Soon, you will perhaps | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relinquishing is. Do not take a particular surface desire and sacrifice it in the mistaken idea that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| leaves you unfulfilled. Find the unpronounced claim and desire, the repressed need that you have neglected, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in the most devastating way, when you least desire them. At that point you are no longer | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| necessity of seeing yourself realistically, so that your desire to change will grow. The desire to change | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that your desire to change will grow. The desire to change can arise only out of true | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| detect a hardening, a fearfulness, an apprehension, a desire to reject whatever it is that comes to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| can choose to remain infants, if you so desire. You do not have to grow up. But | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| strong and invulnerable, whose acceptance you may particularly desire, takes on an aura of awe for you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| You will not feel apathetic. You will not desire to remain idle. You will enjoy your periods | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| will find in the overactive person a nostalgic desire to do nothing. Your strength, energy, and zest | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| approach is to make conscious what you feel, desire, fear, and then to find your own innermost | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| answered? The inner person often cultivates such a desire without being consciously aware of it. Then things | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| using some form of discipline to repress your desire to daydream in order to improve your life | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| everything not happening exactly when and how you desire it. But fulfillment is possible only if you | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of the time. Sometimes, of course, an unconscious desire may exist of which the person is unaware | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the other side. That other side is the desire to see the truth about others, your parents | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| way to gain more truth about yourself. The desire to see the truth about others -- their | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you may have a veneer of indifference. The desire to see the truth has to be cultivated | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| cultivated. Determine first whether or not you inwardly desire the truth. As long as you reject a | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you cannot, make yourself wholly open for the desire to understand the truth. Without truth, there cannot | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| inability to cope with problems, or the inner desire not to cope with them. All the processes | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| examine where you find resistance accompanied by the desire to avoid looking at it. That is the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| they are still geared to the one-sided, childish desire to merely receive. The more you observe yourself | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| lust mean? It means any kind of passionate desire, whether or not it has to do with | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| deceive yourself because that which you so strenuously desire may in itself be something constructive. Yet, you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does not matter whether this refers to sexual desire, or the lust for power, for money, for | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| love, you mentioned that it is nursed by desire, by a wish. Isn't a will also nursed | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you want to know. QUESTION: If my childish desire and my love and my will are directed | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you can be aware of your own innate desire, you have to separate your true wish from | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your own efforts in this direction. The sincere desire to face the truth in yourself, the reality | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and liberation. This applies to all who truly desire to face themselves. Many of you, my friends | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| or no. Both a changing relationship and the desire for variety may indicate healthy or unhealthy motives | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you have to sacrifice when you have no desire to do so or to give in when | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| selfish and not loving. Your motives may be desire for approval and admiration or love, but not | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| sake of love. You can cultivate the deep desire to change and find ways and means to | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| a destructive aspect, so it is with the desire to float. There is the healthy floating that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| at all. Only when you determine this unhealthy desire concisely, and acknowledge it without self-deception, can you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and inadequacy, in other words pride. There is desire for greater perfection than you have. It is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| action before you are fully convinced of your desire of doing so. Ask about the how in | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| pain you may have inflicted on others, your desire will be strong enough to remove that pain | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to this point, you do have a deep desire to make restitution, then that very desire, uttered | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| deep desire to make restitution, then that very desire, uttered in prayer and meditation, will make you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a genuine regret will remain, and a healthy desire to gain deeper understanding will not be obstructed | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that is burdened with unresolved problems will not desire to cut this bond, but instead will do | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| go wrong. Those who persevere with a wholehearted desire to look at themselves in truth will, sooner | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| further fear having to give up your childish desire for instant gratification of all your wishes. These | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you may perhaps fear, even while you also desire it to some degree? How can you raise | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you, to a greater or lesser degree, a desire not to give up being a child, despite | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| childhood conditions in later life, it indicates a desire to remain a child. It indicates greed and | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| same time desiring the advantages of childhood. The desire to be a child, as well as anger | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to cramp and hinder you where you least desire it. When dealing with the pain and pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| greed exists, but also about the legitimate, rightful desire to receive. You feel just as guilty about | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| because you are acutely aware that you ardently desire this fulfillment and can experience it without inhibition | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| You are not split in motivation and in desire. But in areas where you are repeatedly unlucky | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| at least in part. Any goal you consciously desire and nevertheless do not attain is proof that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| You may have been aware of a strong desire for this fulfillment and in your pathwork you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| unnecessary. It may be due to the childish desire of not wanting to pay the necessary price | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to surface, if you express this purpose and desire it strongly enough without shying away from the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| pathwork in various ways: lack of energy and desire, laziness, being blocked, not understanding, projecting anger on | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| specifically how you say No to a special desire or a cherished fulfillment, you reach a major | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you say No to the very thing you desire most, you can no longer be insecure and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it is a yes-current. Apart from the opposite desire on an unconscious level, such a yes may | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| refuse to stand on their own feet. They desire a higher authority to be responsible for them | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| is your awareness of its existence and your desire to make use of it, concisely formulating your | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you take the additional step and assert your desire for the eternal presence of the life force | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| overcome them because you have brought forth your desire to find clarity by acknowledging your present confusion | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be sought in order to strengthen one's childish desire for magic, to encourage the equally childish greed | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of the child incapable of giving up the desire for utopia. Why do we then take such | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| which reiterates the necessity to give up the desire for magic? Whether or not you have made | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| why one must be free of the childish desire for magic and be able to accept the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| possibility for happiness. You see, my friends, the desire for magic represents the wish to avoid the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to avoid the consequences of one's actions; such desire denies self-responsibility, liberation, and true mastery over one's | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not yet able to change the illusion. Your desire to change from illusion to truth, while acknowledging | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of your soul that becomes accessible through your desire to tap divine truth, the life force in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| provided you assert this fact and express your desire for contact with the life force. Then you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| out of fear, obedience, wishful thinking, or the desire for dependency and reward, through rejection of self-responsibility | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| changed before a true God-experience is possible. Every desire for escape must disappear first. Then the experience | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| way, until perfect happiness becomes possible. When you desire the utmost self-expression, for the greater happiness of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to coddle a weakness. When you no longer desire happiness in order to avoid unhappiness, you have | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to the extent of the sincerity of my desire. Such inner action means taking the reins of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |