| to what purpose. By analyzing your daydreams and desires, you will always find the same common denominator | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to effect the outer change. The more one desires something but is unable to follow it through | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personality. I said that the infant in you desires everything the way it wants it, how it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| find that this childish part of your being desires just that. You want to have a benign | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this lasts only as long as the person desires to run away from himself. Whenever people decide | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problems, assets and liabilities, unconscious destructive or constructive desires of everyone concerned, may differ vastly, the outcome | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| innermost emotions in each individual case; finding those desires that may run contrary to your conscious desire | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unless and until he uncovers his unconscious motives, desires and conflicts. Then, as you all experience it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a martyr and sacrifice your innermost and rightful desires -- not the crude, undeveloped and destructive desires | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| desires -- not the crude, undeveloped and destructive desires -- and subordinate them because of such misconceptions | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| least for a while. For none of them desires to remain in that state all the time | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remained on the surface. But actually two conflicting desires battle with one another deep within: the conscious | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer will is often motivated by immature feelings, desires, reactions, and reasonings. The inner will comes entirely | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| wrong makes you altogether uncertain even about your desires and wish-fulfillments. Even if the desires are quite | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| about your desires and wish-fulfillments. Even if the desires are quite legitimate and healthy, you are still | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| once again, to make a list of your desires. Then listen deep into yourself, and by finely | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish desire. You fail to distinguish whether your desires are actually selfish or not, and you indiscriminately | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| selfish or not, and you indiscriminately suppress all desires. In the belief that all desires for happiness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| suppress all desires. In the belief that all desires for happiness are selfish, you do not dare | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| together the really selfish with the really healthy desires which have nothing whatever to do with selfishness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in a position to freely decide for some desires and against some others. In short, this is | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| In short, this is the unconscious concept: since desires aim for happiness and wanting happiness is selfish | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| wanting happiness is selfish, I must suppress all desires. You do not realize that as they are | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| they continue their existence underground. The really selfish desires in your unconscious make you feel guilty, but | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| feel guilty, but so also do the rightful desires. Both continue to claim and clamor inside of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| cause. In the process of suppression of all desires and impulses, the childish and therefore actually selfish | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| awareness. As a consequence, your legitimate and healthy desires and impulses, which are not selfish in the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| certain stage. They find out that their legitimate desires and impulses were suppressed, but this discovery also | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| but this discovery also brings out the selfish desires, which they now act out, going from one | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not even be fully aware of what these desires are. Because of this misconception, the desires themselves | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| these desires are. Because of this misconception, the desires themselves are often suppressed and have to be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You are often utterly unaware of what your desires really are, and why. If and when you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the unselfish love and well-wishing, by the constructive desires that have nothing to do with your selfish | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| vague, unrealistic, elusive and unconnected to your real desires, and doesn't take account of the obstacles within | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| exercise. Also try to think about your past desires from the point of view I introduced tonight | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| tonight is connected with the creative and legitimate desires that are often suppressed and the problems this | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| they are not undermined by the unconscious opposite desires. As to the second half of your question | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love and covers this desire with various other desires, such as the wish for approval. The more | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| afraid of loving. Since the child in you desires complete surrender from others, being sure that this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| By the same token, you may direct these desires to your own subconscious, strengthening the healthy aspect | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| remember that I frequently mentioned how the child desires to be loved exclusively and without limits. In | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| not, except for crass acts. In all your desires and attitudes it is the motive that counts | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| happiness results from giving in to all the desires coming out of the lower nature. If you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you get the message itself. The resisting part desires to cover up, to camouflage messages that lead | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in which everything cannot go according to your desires. There are various ways in which you try | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| effort of cultivating it. Insight into one's hidden desires and their reasons will bring the talent forth | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that strengthens. Motivations of actions, as well as desires and ambitions, have to be examined with a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resentment, hate, or contempt. As far as valid desires are concerned, one is conscious only of their | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the pretense of positive and negative attitudes, trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine attitudes | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine attitudes, desires and motivations. These words will make sense to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Compulsion is a result of artificially accelerated emotions, desires and ambitions. The artificiality, in turn, is the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you fear. Go beneath surface reasoning, surface desires and fears which are, in reality, but a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self-image. A very active fantasy life in which desires are fulfilled is an expression of an urgent | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Likewise, you ignore the contradictory aims, attitudes, and desires within yourself. You can no longer link cause | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to these moral standards out of new motivations, desires, and reasons. And this will have an entirely | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| terms with them, but also valid and constructive desires and aims. You do not heed them out | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only vaguely. The child in you resists growth, desires to remain immature, and is burdened with unworkable | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| prohibits the attainment of your deepest goals and desires. You will understand how you inhibit yourself from | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| emotional experience is colored by your fears and desires in connection with this person -- even if | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| there, enabling him to contribute his very special desires and instructions concerning my growth. I ask from | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to allow yourself the luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints against life or fate | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| be able to ask yourself whether your fears, desires, or the ingrained principles you think you have | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| as well as other considerations. Loss of conscious desires, wishes and goals, or hopelessness about them, which | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| facing a confusion or a problem and wholeheartedly desires to resolve it in the best possible way | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| very thing you want most. You may have desires and be unaware of many obstacles to their | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| other hand, if you repress these feelings and desires out of fear and guilt, the results are | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| But if you freely admit your feelings and desires, if you acknowledge them in yourself and face | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| most effective, provided the person in question so desires. The deeply embedded problems are not called forth | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| he grows more conflicted and fearful, after his desires become more urgent, all these emotions and attitudes | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it. Your own subjective colorings, stemming from your desires and fears, distort reality, blind you to factors | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in what particular way, since all the original desires have been displaced; (4) the extent of the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| attitudes toward love, regardless of your conscious, healthy desires. You will find that the fear of the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| at this moment. If you look at your desires, fears, and needs, your apprehensions and reactions -- | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| stamina, and ability to change. These two fundamental desires, being part of the great yes-current, must be | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| child who demands the fulfillment of all its desires, while fearing the opposite, or you harbor the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| now has nothing to do with it. The desires of the smaller and the larger self may | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are the same and what the smaller self desires is not necessarily wrong. The question is the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the way will be open. If she truly desires to remove the imaginary threat, to concisely formulate | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| formulate what it is she fears, and then desires to become convinced of its unreality, the answer | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and remove unconscious reservations, limitations, doubts, and opposite desires. If you are afraid of not obtaining the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| examine a few of most human beings' fundamental desires. We will begin with the great duality of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| dynamic, joyful aspects. All that the human heart desires is immediately available when one has overcome fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| I have discussed general aims, but your specific desires, with the fear of their opposites, have to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| pathwork that you first have to shed these desires or strivings before you can come to them | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and utter pleasure. In the underdeveloped ego, these desires are not only illusory but selfish and destructive | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| It cannot be said that a person unconsciously desires rejection, but the reflex was already established at | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| is no sense to anything if even fulfilled desires turn sour. For the soul in truth with | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| part that hates and nurtures destructive wishes and desires. You begin by hiding it from others but | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| your negativity, regardless of what emotions, thoughts, and desires you secretly harbor. If you state and restate | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| means complete constructiveness in all endeavors, in all desires, and in all aims. If you meet each | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of it, including what your real feelings and desires are, you will find what your attitude really | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| and do justice to your pleasure and your desires. This ingrained conviction governs and motivates all of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| ask yourself the question: Do the circumstances, the desires of the other person and the facts bear | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| or not to be aware of his negative desires. There are, of course, degrees of awareness. It | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you are capable of giving up the negative desires, because you do not yet understand the reason | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| these initial inroads to awareness of the negative desires must be careful to extend this awareness and | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| have caught the first glimpses of your negative desires have gained a new strength and a new | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| be when you no longer have the negative desires, even though you do not yet know why | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| why and how you insist on the negative desires and why you harbor them in the first | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| try their very best to find their negative desires. On the surface the majority of people cannot | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| people cannot imagine how they might harbor destructive desires. Even some friends who have been on this | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| path continues with becoming aware of deliberate negative desires, or of the avoidance of positive results, which | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| possibilities, according to the strength of the negative desires, the awareness of both positive and negative desires | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| desires, the awareness of both positive and negative desires, and the balance between the two. You may | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| yourself. Where you are relatively free from negative desires, it will be fairly simple and easy to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| will then experience that the more constructive your desires are, the freer you become and the easier | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| was that you lost awareness of your negative desires. You had repressed, denied, and hidden them, having | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| yourself. Had you been aware of the negative desires, you would not have been able to let | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| away by the self-perpetuating force of your negative desires, which you have consciously ignored until now. This | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| cannot take command consciously to fulfill your negative desires. This can happen only with positive desires. When | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| negative desires. This can happen only with positive desires. When you issue such positive desires, you will | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| with positive desires. When you issue such positive desires, you will become stronger, more self-governing and less | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of the gnawing guilt -- inevitable when negative desires exist whether or not one is aware of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| exactly because of the negative direction of your desires that you do allow yourself to be taken | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of that! Were you free from the destructive desires, you would not feel guilty, hence you would | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you will be aware of your main negative desires concerning your identity as a man. QUESTIONER: Yes | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| numb and lifeless. So, first, all your aims, desires and wishes -- constructive or not, no matter | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Since they experience only their own needs and desires, and since they believe only they count, they | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| -- to prove something. A person who genuinely desires to transform character defects is not in the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| giving in, giving up one's own rights and desires for the rights and desires of the loved | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| own rights and desires for the rights and desires of the loved one. So the way out | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| lack concentration, are divided in their motivations and desires and deceive themselves on the other. This imbalance | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| direction existed, the directions must unify; where conflicting desires existed, the stream of the desires must unify | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| where conflicting desires existed, the stream of the desires must unify; where impairment of integrity and dishonesty | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and again, that this is quite possible. Unhealthy desires and negative emotions exist indeed. They are the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| around these early experiences. The existence of these desires and emotions is not affected merely because you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you are of all the negative feelings and desires put together. Anyone who goes deeply enough in | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| vaguely conscious -- fear that these unacceptable impulses, desires and emotions are your true nature, that in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your discontent, your hurts and fears, your real desires. Once this is done, squarely and honestly, you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| understanding of why they exist and why the desires are not fulfilled. Their very existence in your | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a creature completely unconnected from conscious aims and desires. Only little by little, when these two parts | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you get confused between the childish aspect that desires unreasonable and unrealizable love and attention, and the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires you pay no heed at all to others | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| threatened by rejection, criticism, frustration of my immediate desires, I at once withdraw from life my vital | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| resignation, escape from the conflicts that one's undeveloped desires may bring. Healthy desires are relaxed. They are | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| conflicts that one's undeveloped desires may bring. Healthy desires are relaxed. They are in rhythm with the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| movement. Only as you give up the specific desires behind the fear will the fear vanish and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| from dependent, self-alienating trends. Try to ascertain the desires behind each fear. This is my message to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| this lecture? QUESTION: Yes. Letting go of these desires is an act of will? ANSWER: Yes, of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| come to terms with your negative emotions and desires. When you fully face these feelings, they will | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| fully see and accept these damaging emotions and desires, only when you totally comprehend and evaluate them | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you can bend others to comply with your desires, it never removes the emptiness you suffer from | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mysterious no to the fulfillment of their deepest desires, the longing for the most intense bliss imaginable | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| reactions, the contradictory wishes, hidden fears, and negative desires will surface. When they are recognized, they can | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| get away with the specialness that your immature desires want to arrogate to yourself. Such answers are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| development must bring all the confused and contradictory desires, beliefs, and the inner knowing to the surface | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to give. Life cannot comply with such unfair desires, and you feel cheated and resentful because you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Why do human beings harbor these utterly senseless desires? Why does the mind want to take this | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| certainly possible on this path. Anyone who seriously desires it can bring what is unconscious into awareness | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| this kind of blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions and attitudes must be exposed | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a way to accept your destructive impulses and desires without condoning them; to understand them without identifying | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| You must learn to evaluate such impulses and desires realistically, without falling into the trap of projection | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| one is aware only of what one consciously desires, wishes, wants, wills, intends, longs for. The person | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| actual inner No exists which contradicts one's conscious desires. So it is not easy to accept that | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| aware of negating what he or she consciously desires, and yet feels strangely paralyzed, is eligible to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| awareness of the negation of their most cherished desires. It can be considered as homework and as | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| it respond with involuntary contraction, notwithstanding your conscious desires and aims? This observation will allow you once | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will seem to obstruct all their goals and desires. They find closed doors to realizing their talents | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a rejection, or frustration of your will or desires -- in all these cases, your primary feeling | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| life. All concepts and opinions, all views and desires, create a will direction, and this creative force | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| or rights which may not coincide with your desires, you will be able to accept this. First | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to be, even if that interferes with your desires. The little infant will then no longer make | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| expression. Therefore one cannot always say that having desires is a hindrance to spirituality. Eastern philosophy expounds | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| a protective, defensive tightness is put into both desires, which influences the soul current. Approach the current | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the soul current. Approach the current of these desires, feel it. As you feel the tight, strenuous | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Let us say that your attractions, needs, and desires are strong on the physical level. Let us | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| one admits to having these feelings. If one's desires to put down others, to be self-serving, or | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that experience is a specific result of commensurate desires, defense mechanisms, destructive actions, negative behavior patterns, and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| sense of security arises because now one's thoughts, desires, feelings, and attitudes are seen as the creative | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| which a part of the personality remembers and desires, on the other, there is a resistance to | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| undisciplined and irresponsible as far as their immediate desires were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires, regardless of ethics and morality. So for that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| not simply be a victim of man's egotistical desires to feel superior and stronger and to possess | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| be free from rebellion against authority and secret desires to exploit others. This fundamental understanding of self-discipline | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| from yourself by ardently attempting to produce imaginary desires and goals, acting as if you believed in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| that you are also confused about your own desires, longings and goals. This confusion only adds to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| adopt them, always disconnect you from your true desires, from knowing what is essentially you -- in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your true self, with its expressions and its desires. And thus you will find what it is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| values, you cannot trust your perceptions or your desires. They are not trustworthy when they are tainted | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| being values, you are used to distrusting your desires. They have been polluted for such a long | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| discover the miracle that these pleasurable and forbidden desires which you thought were the expectations of the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| must at least seem, eternally contrary to your desires. It often is so, because your real self | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| not really want to do. The superimposed, false desires do not give real pleasure, nor are they | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| God. They are dictated by appearance values. Such desires and God's will are opposites. Sometimes the desires | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| desires and God's will are opposites. Sometimes the desires seem pleasurable, perhaps because they seem naughty and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| truth of your real being and values and desires, you are disconnected from knowing your Godself. In | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to have to create. The many conflicting thoughts, desires, feelings and intentionalities cause a perpetual flickering of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| oneness and the wholeness of the utterance. Feelings, desires, concepts, perceptions, knowing must all be one cohesive | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| and magical solutions. You express these claims and desires and your rage when these desires cannot be | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| claims and desires and your rage when these desires cannot be fulfilled. You learn to accept the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| occasional happiness and fulfillment, or gratification of your desires, yet this never relieves the inner anxiety that | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| reason why even if you do have your desires fulfilled, even if you live in health and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| myself above others. If a part of me desires this, I do not want it. I pray | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| one may not always respond according to your desires and selfwill. To give is courage because the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| toward you, and exclusively concerned with your lower-self desires, that you can indulge in every destructive action | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| You refuse to see your personal stake and desires in an issue and you build justifications around | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and you build justifications around your personal, tainted desires. You claim objectivity and impartiality when this couldn't | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| reality according to the emotional colorations of your desires. By now, as a result of your practice | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| if this seems at first to restrict personal desires. This is the act of love and freedom | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| knowing, without sight or sound. Thinking of your desires and surface longings, your emphasis in prayer may | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| power of the spirit, of the Eternal, which desires to penetrate the void that is totally stagnant | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| be. When issues are tinged by personal emotions, desires, or interests that belong to the realm of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| many -- is that thoughts and intentions and desires can be kept secret and should therefore have | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| are firmly rooted, that each new person who desires to commit himself or herself to stage four | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| embarrassed about yourself; your innermost thoughts, dreams, and desires feel shameful. To begin with, these aspects are | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| observe closely their reactions to their fears and desires in connection with life and death, pleasure and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| go of the ego, of cherished ideas, goals, desires, and opinions -- all for the sake of | 254 SURRENDER |
| in order to accommodate some of your distorted desires and aims? Since a part of you knows | 254 SURRENDER |
| your thoughts, your beliefs, your attitudes, and your desires! The power of your own living spirit still | 254 SURRENDER |