| you believe yourself to be helpless, that your desire is hopeless, and that therefore you must pretend | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| self-expression, vocation, profession, set the goal you really desire to achieve. Then you may ask yourself what | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the inner freedom to express happiness, to fully desire it, without tension, without urgency, without guilt, without | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| either/or is false, illusory. As long as humans desire positive experiences out of fear of the negative | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| genuine affection as much as fearing weakness and desire for dependency. The loser fears the resentments and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| just to some socially approved forms. A superficial desire for fulfillment is not enough. Taking for granted | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the obvious aim is not enough. Leaving the desire in a hazy, unformulated fog is not enough | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| said that the more tense and strenuous your desire, the more an unconscious countercurrent must exist. Truly | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| logic, or meaning. This conviction will strengthen your desire and will remove the false guilt which made | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| this sphere of consciousness, is characterized by the desire of the positive not for itself but for | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| therefore it strives to recapture them. If you desire pleasure because you fear pain or the absence | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| aspect of living follows this principle. If you desire health in a spirit of fearing sickness, you | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| further measures for ousting it. Of course, the desire to do so must, as always, be clearly | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to yourself, to life, and to the particular desire that has remained unfulfilled because you have overlooked | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| again in this context. When you have a desire or aim which is legitimate and realistic, yet | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| as you are only aware of your conscious desire and do not see the unconscious withholding of | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| see the unconscious withholding of yourself from the desire, there must be hopelessness. The only way you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| have to learn to let go of a desire for pleasure supreme and make do with limited | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the reluctance of letting go of this childish desire for omnipotence, the dream of pleasure supreme -- | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the right to reassume them, should you so desire. This will strengthen your ego. Then you will | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the conscious level, to be so indifferent. The desire to hurt others may exist merely as an | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| situation, so that in spite of the conscious desire for acceptance, the pleasure current will only be | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| are so inhibited because the shame of the desire for either inflicting or enduring cruelty may prohibit | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| will not remain as you quietly and calmly desire to grow, then you cannot help but progress | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| example of this state is the dichotomy between desire and fulfillment. In health and truth these two | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| about either. The self- alienated person experiences both desire and fulfillment as something negative. Healthy desire is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| both desire and fulfillment as something negative. Healthy desire is a relaxed expansion, a reaching for ever | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| ever new possibilities and fulfillment; in distortion, the desire becomes frustration. Desire and frustration appear the same | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and fulfillment; in distortion, the desire becomes frustration. Desire and frustration appear the same in the psyche | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| When the self is no longer feared, neither desire nor fulfillment need to be feared, for the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| be feared, for the self then knows that desire will be fulfilled and fulfillment will be not | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| outlook is so negative that the fulfillment of desire is inconceivable. Hence even healthy desire is rejected | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| fulfillment of desire is inconceivable. Hence even healthy desire is rejected; the person in this state withdraws | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| that fulfillment is impossible, you cannot dare to desire. When you do not desire freely and openly | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| cannot dare to desire. When you do not desire freely and openly - - which is possible | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| cannot be feared. In the distortion, you fear desire no matter what happens: you fear it when | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| do with it. You fear and reject both desire and fulfillment to the degree that you fear | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| will you live in that vibrant experience where desire is never painful and, therefore, where desire and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| where desire is never painful and, therefore, where desire and fulfillment become one -- as you become | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| then know what you really feel, you can desire and determine to feel differently. This desire has | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| can desire and determine to feel differently. This desire has its effect. When it comes to your | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| your life. But to arrive at a constructive desire is possible only when you know what and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| secret, or hazy and vague, the relevant constructive desire will not even be known to you. Suppose | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to see what is in me. And I desire and intend to change these emotions into truthful | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you which can be controlled, namely, what you desire to think, feel, and do -- the inner | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| secretly harbor. If you state and restate the desire to, above all else, give up this inner | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| not be feared as an end; nor does desire for all the good in creation need to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| can get rid of today, if you so desire! With these words, I bless all of you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| freely, without fear of being controlled. Express your desire to feel and experience the oneness of love | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the simple formulation of the right thought and desire. This is the only constant effort you need | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| make that effort. You must clearly formulate the desire to emerge from any negative inner or outer | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| anyway. You can always express a clearly formulated desire for a constructive result. Even while you doubt | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| effort with your outer mind to formulate constructive desire and to contact the inner being, for you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Be in God! 138. THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS Greetings, my dearest | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| greatest struggle for human beings is between their desire to overcome isolation and loneliness and their simultaneous | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| close, intimate contact with another being. Often the desire and the fear are equally strong, so that | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be brought down to the struggle between the desire and the fear of closeness as the simple | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| And this truly is torture. At times you desire more: at other times you fear more. The | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to fruition, I request, I decide, and I desire that it be put to constructive use, so | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| must be painful. The key lies in the desire to offer to life what you already are | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you can still be. When you follow this desire, you automatically release and bring to fruition more | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| both are cultivated, and if simultaneously you truly desire to contribute to life in whatever way possible | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to which I open myself totally. I deeply desire to understand the truth of 'I and others | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you cultivate such an aim by expressing this desire, particularly in moments of discontent and disharmony? Or | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of expressing the deep and full intention and desire to see the full truth about oneself at | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| when I feel slighted that I feel the desire to kill those who seem to slight me | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the psyche that violently objects to the negative desire, so that pain must result. On the physical | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the discovery and awareness of where they themselves desire the negative. Now this is an exceedingly important | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| awareness. The more the awareness of a deliberate desire for the negative exists, the more you will | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| an entity is not aware of its deliberate desire for the negative, the suffering must be infinitely | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and hopelessness. The moment awareness of the negative desire has been attained through the painstaking struggle of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to some extent at least, of a negative desire and nevertheless ignore that this negative desire is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| negative desire and nevertheless ignore that this negative desire is the immediate cause of any number of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| denial of positive experience, or even your direct desire for the negative. You will see that this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and increased in exact proportion to your active desire to be constructive and to give up the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| it is as yet impossible to issue the desire to be constructive and positive, assert that this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| out the emotions. Consciously, there is the great desire in you to be a strong man. You | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| unfoldment, stimulation -- all that one could possibly desire -- exist. The further removed you are, the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to be destructive, how you wallow in your desire to be destructive. This is great progress, my | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| yet come to the point where you truly desire to give up the destructiveness and turn to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| relinquishing the importance of the little ego. The desire to be with others instead of against them | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the following instruction into your psyche: I truly desire to give up my destructiveness. I want constructiveness | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| moment -- as you issue into yourself the desire for constructiveness, happiness, fulfillment -- and express the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you to realize that everything you can possibly desire is within yourself. May it help you to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| longing and your deepest fear. Such dichotomy between desire and fear is particularly strong in those life | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| by properly formulating it and subsequently stating your desire to change it by creating a new positive | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| possibility of change does exist, and then the desire has to awaken to follow through, without shirking | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the negative can be reversed if you truly desire this and are prepared to go through with | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| divine principle of transcendent, unified truth. If the desire to be in truth is genuine, the inspiration | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| first notice a shrinking back from such a desire and a more or less overt or subtle | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| overt or subtle way of covering up your desire for flight. Catch yourself in this act and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| for example a particular fulfillment that you greatly desire. You have done everything possible to attain it | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| human being for no other reason than a desire to contribute to life, rather than to make | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| come when the difference between moralizing and the desire to transform yourself should be clearly recognized. I | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| is so unhappy about the defect. The genuine desire to transform defects is never burdened by an | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| wish to change is so genuine. In this desire you express your love for the universe because | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| So when you find yourself stuck in your desire to reach unlimited good and creative power within | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to where you are negative in expressing your desire, but also where you are connected with a | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of receiving from it. Then no good you desire needs to have a shadow side. At that | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| must want to give up selfishness and the desire to cheat life, yourself, and others, in whatever | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| one is forced to hold back the total desire to love and to give. Rewards and punishments | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| bring the awareness. The clearer you state the desire and intent to want to live in reality | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| other reasons which you have already verified: the desire to punish or to use the forcing current | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| connection with a question about the harm of desire or need to be special. In connection with | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| when the need to be special contains a desire to triumph over others, it marks an attitude | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| other's value, at least in terms of your desire and aim, if not in actual fact. The | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| latter engenders two fundamental defensive reactions: either the desire to hurt or the sense of being hurt | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| any little or big wish, any fulfillment you desire. If you feel inwardly tense and are unwilling | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of the personality. Negative contact manifesting in the desire to hurt expresses itself in quarrelsomeness, hostility, aggression | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| to seek answers independently, an innate decency and desire to be truthful often provide the incentive that | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the now, which presupposes the absolute and primary desire, I want to look at the truth in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| two trends. One is the innate and genuine desire to be outgoing, to love, to be truly | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| are made, it is possible to utter the desire to be able to feel and love. In | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| state. After truthful acknowledgement of lovelessness and the desire to love, the next step is to find | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| a choice to use as much as you desire. Are there any questions in connection with this | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the truth in the self, with a genuine desire for constructive participation in the creative process of | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| feeling and you do not want it; you desire fulfillment and you fear it. Precisely because of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be destructive and negative must still exist. A desire to cheat life must still exist. Conversely, to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| refuse this honesty, this integrity and, also, the desire to give your best, positive self to a | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a right to the pleasure you so much desire. You vaguely suspect that you may be wrong | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| begin to displace the original, natural need and desire for pleasure into other channels where they are | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| be, feel, and do what you need and desire. These demands may not manifest outwardly at all | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is to formulate the thought, the intent, the desire, the decision. But its limitation is in the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the execution of the thought, the intent, the desire. After it has fulfilled its task of deciding | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| must work in the opposite direction from this desire, if the desire remains unfulfilled. You do not | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the opposite direction from this desire, if the desire remains unfulfilled. You do not search within for | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| out, by all you think, feel, will and desire. It is an expression of all your attitudes | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you know it or not. Each thought, each desire, each hidden fear, each shrinking away from experience | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| wake other destructive attitudes: stubbornness, blind resistance, the desire to punish those who one thinks are responsible | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| look for the cause of this split of desire and motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not want, you intensely push away. Anything you desire you intensely grasp. You grasp for the good | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| or denial. If you were to express your desire, it seems absolutely unbearable to you that your | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| has been removed and disclosed as weakness and desire to placate others so as to use them | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| recognize this attitude in its full significance and desire to change it. Seeing reality can then be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| childish, self-centered, falsely selfish, separating personalities, who may desire to proclaim their destructive selfishness and separateness as | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| unselfishness always implies an inner bargaining, a secret desire to get away with something underneath an outer | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to the state of realization than confusing your desire to feel and love, because you believe in | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feelings by choice when and how long you desire, in the knowledge that this unburdening is your | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to turn away from life, love, and the desire to contribute positively to life. It is this | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| attitudes. One of the most important is the desire not to move. This can be verified by | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| nonmoving. When the life center is deadened, the desire to move dies as well. You can see | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for yourself that as people grow older, their desire to move diminishes. This is usually explained away | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a deep level. Discover in yourself where you desire not to be alive, not to move or | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| who stay young long do not lose the desire to move. It is wrong to state that | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to state that they do not lose the desire to move because they stay young for a | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| may first feel it simply as a simple desire to be immobile, which is really no pleasure | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it comes from a very strong, cramped, stubborn desire for something. Some philosophies even advocate desirelessness because | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the unfolding, inwardly imploding life energy. The cramped desire is the one that says, I must or | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |