| Desirelessness..............29 | |
| are longing far sooner. QUESTION: How far is desirelessness a necessary step toward the path of perfection | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in the teachings between East and West. ANSWER: Desirelessness is also often misunderstood, not only by Westerners | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| spiritual growth, what one desires merely changes. However, desirelessness should set in as far as the ego | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you, my friends, to whom the thought of desirelessness or detachment is still a little frightening, do | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| wrong way and robs you of peace. Here desirelessness has to be achieved in a certain measure | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| ambitiousness should cease when it is time for desirelessness to set in. QUESTION: I wanted to know | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| ANSWER: On a previous occasion I said that desirelessness can be very easily misunderstood, especially if you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| better why I said at the time that desirelessness has to be approached carefully, otherwise it will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the unavoidable disappointments, so they withdraw and use desirelessness as a camouflage to fit their image. This | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| such fear can understand the true meaning of desirelessness and renunciation. Wherever fear of life is embedded | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to some degree -- the only way genuine desirelessness can be attained is by facing the fear | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You cannot force yourself into a state of desirelessness you have not yet attained; this would amount | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| them. That is the only way renunciation and desirelessness can be obtained without error and self- deception | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of how useful it is to meditate about desirelessness at the moment. Only if and when you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| who do not escape unhappiness can achieve true desirelessness, though perhaps only much later. So there lies | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| hope you will not use the idea of desirelessness and renunciation to rationalize away your inner fears | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| teachings you hear much about a state of desirelessness, but on the plane where most of you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| stubborn desire for something. Some philosophies even advocate desirelessness because they have recognized this fact, although the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| have recognized this fact, although the concept of desirelessness can easily be misunderstood. Desirelessness must not be | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the concept of desirelessness can easily be misunderstood. Desirelessness must not be confused with indifference, resignation, escape | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| examine the paradox of desire. Both desire and desirelessness are important spiritual attitudes. Only to the dualistic | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| more expanded state. If you see desire and desirelessness as mutually exclusive, you cannot grasp or feel | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| too tense a desire. Therefore a kind of desirelessness must be present which could be expressed as | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the common denominators of healthy desire and healthy desirelessness that make meditation and indeed all life-expression real | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you will even give up all desire. Then desirelessness will be distorted, misunderstood, and of the wrong | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| bliss will be yours anyway. Then desire and desirelessness will not be irreconcilable paradoxes, but complementary attitudes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| is always a harmonious blend between desire and desirelessness; between involvement and detachment; between activity and passivity | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a hindrance to spirituality. Eastern philosophy expounds on desirelessness as a necessary state. This is only partly | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Hence spiritual teachings often advocate a state of desirelessness as a necessary prerequisite for connecting with the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Desires.....................355 | |
| inner level. On the other hand, one who desires freedom to become a link in the chain | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| they run contrary to what the higher self desires. The opposing tendencies clash and exhaust the soul | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| will bring happiness. By spiritual growth, what one desires merely changes. However, desirelessness should set in as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| good has on your plane of existence. Your desires and the granting of them do not really | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| by your own disturbed soul, by all your desires and wishes, some of which are incapable of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| them because you are too busy with your desires. The now is lost for many of you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| lost for many of you because of your desires. If this kind of detachment is not reached | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| their higher selves to act contrary to the desires of their lower selves, but feel compelled to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| development in order to purify one's feelings and desires. But if this is not accomplished, there should | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the human soul is torn apart by conflicting desires -- one part of the personality wants to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and another part in the opposite direction. These desires pull alternately. By keeping the conflict in the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| can become aware of your own imperfections, unclean desires, and lower nature. At the same time you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| about this, about yourself, your life and your desires, you can find out what spirits are around | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| surrender to God is that material comfort, the desires of the ego, become secondary to considerations pertaining | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is a connection. The dreams show your subconscious desires in a slightly different way, but shed light | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| that is necessary. You may even change your desires. Only when you do this consciously can you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the existence in you of the various feelings, desires, and attitudes. Then you will be able, with | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| costs. For him the gratification of his personal desires stands so much in the foreground that he | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| ask me, How should I know what God desires? What is His will? And when should I | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God's will out from the start. Whether your desires pertain to earthly things which do not deviate | 18 FREE WILL |
| and attitudes in the soul, too many evil desires and too much blindness to fulfill the necessary | 22 SALVATION |
| types of manifest life- force. The more your desires and goals are purified, the more you automatically | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to gain, even though a part of you desires it, is the best medicine. If you can | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wants exactly the opposite. This conflict of opposite desires, which at first is always subconscious, must be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| There is one part of you that truly desires to advance and to sacrifice the comfort of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| some time, eventually these strong reactions and inner desires and pressures will become weaker. They will not | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| intention to relinquish your self-will and your own desires to God in the event that His will | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it. Desire means activity. You may have right desires: going on a path of purification, for example | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| causes pain at first, are other positive, constructive desires. Therefore the active force must be put in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to fulfill them. But there are also negative desires. Whenever resentment, fear, hatred, and the like are | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in your soul. Learn to recognize where your desires surge into wrong directions. If the active pressure | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| directions. If the active pressure of the wrong desires is relaxed, you will have much more strength | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| more strength left for the good and proper desires where an active force is badly needed but | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is going on in you, and what your desires are. Once you begin to focus your attention | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that you cannot bring about. When these overactive desires run in the wrong channel, you completely forget | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you will not only find wrong and unfulfillable desires in you but conflicting desires as well. You | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| wrong and unfulfillable desires in you but conflicting desires as well. You often wish at one and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a short circuit within, stemming from these conflicting desires. Become aware of the paradoxical state of affairs | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Use self-honesty to examine your feelings and the desires behind them. That is the process to reach | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| maturity, my friends. Your unconscious and often conflicting desires are always immature. You often desire the impossible | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| friends, try to observe yourselves; identify your real desires. You will be surprised how much relief this | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| It will evolve as you discover your real desires and put them down in black and white | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| newly- discovered inner wanting deviates from your conscious desires. But do not believe that because of this | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| ask more penetrating questions of yourself concerning underlying desires that may be responsible for your present state | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the better. QUESTION: How can we tell if desires come from the higher or the lower self | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| or the lower self? ANSWER: By examining the desires and their real motives. Very clearly and very | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| enslaved to their lower selves, to their unrecognized desires, which push and pull them backward and forward | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| also of what you want. What are your desires really? And when you have done that, begin | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| conscious will. Let us suppose a person sincerely desires to love a fellow-creature and desires to do | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| person sincerely desires to love a fellow-creature and desires to do so because he knows that it | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| circumstances your will is counteracted by unconscious conflicting desires, or by fear. As long as this reality | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you have solved the conflict between your conscious desires and the unconscious ones, you will find out | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the right direction is for you. Then your desires may change. Find out the real motives behind | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Find out the real motives behind your present desires, and find out what holds you back. Is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| state, too blind to realize that what it desires is against spiritual law and must bring hardship | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| person is already developed enough to desist the desires of the lower self that may still have | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| each one of you. For each unpurified being desires, perhaps unconsciously, things that are wrong and things | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you must constantly remain in fear that the desires of your self-will will not be gratified. Thus | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| within you run in different directions: the self-will desires very strongly something that is wrong, impossible, or | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| see how the fear comes automatically from the desires of the self-will. You will thus proceed a | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that you believe would be yours if the desires of your self-will were fulfilled. I am talking | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the misunderstandings arise. I often speak of the desires of your emotions by translating them into concise | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| effort to concentrate on others and expressing unselfish desires, already creates a definite change in the organism | 36 PRAYER |
| the hurt and bear your fear that your desires will not be fulfilled, rather than trying to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to cheating. As long as you still have desires, you have to acknowledge them and go through | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| only valid procedure: accepting that you still have desires and accepting their price. Because of the acceptance | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| accepting their price. Because of the acceptance, your desires will differ from the desires of people who | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the acceptance, your desires will differ from the desires of people who have no spiritual aims. Those | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| let their self-will push ahead. Controlled by their desires, they will rebel against everything and everyone who | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in the way of the gratification of their desires. But you who are on this path can | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and unhappiness, will not give in to the desires of the lower self. If you cannot help | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it is your motive that counts in all desires and attitudes. Selfishness always depends on the how | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| happiness results from giving in to all the desires coming from the lower nature. If you are | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| powerful as the images. You know that if desires are contained in the images that contradict your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the images that contradict your most cherished conscious desires, the image-desires overrule the outer ones, no matter | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you will find out that your reactions and desires take an entirely different direction. So you are | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| later life. Your image-conclusions conflict with the grown-up desires and aims of your life, and thereby cause | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| You want life to move according to your desires. When things do not happen as you wish | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| yourself. You will understand how your hitherto unconscious desires, trends, and attitudes have governed your life. But | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| wish to kill without doing so, suppressing his desires, keeping them, perhaps, as an imagined defense against | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| from unconscious wrong reasonings and factors. It contains desires and conclusions that more primitive people act out | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| for your further development? And many a spirit desires this. This is only one possibility, there are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| unreliable and can easily be confused with unconscious desires that have nothing to do with the divine | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| situations toward you which correspond to your subconscious desires and fears. You know that. Humanity, on the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| God! 45. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES Greetings in the Name of the Lord. I | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| most important step is to find out your desires, my friends. And when I speak of desires | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| desires, my friends. And when I speak of desires, I do not mean the important aims and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| who you are, you must first ascertain the desires in each of your daily reactions. That is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| as are now and why you have these desires. But that is the next step, which at | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| to establish a concise, articulate awareness of your desires. Then we will examine the reason for their | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| examine the reason for their existence. Your unconscious desires often deviate from your conscious ones. I think | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| full significance. The fact is that your conscious desires and aims that guide your actions are in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Purification does not mean merely that you change desires. It means that you separate the good motives | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| reactions at the time and (2) examine the desires in your present reactions to daily occurrences. They | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| one whole picture. When you search for your desires now, you will understand why some are stronger | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you attempt to find yourself by finding your desires. Although consciously and outwardly your life may appear | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| due to the suppression of conflicting or unwanted desires that everything is entangled, and it will take | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you admit that you have several completely contradictory desires, that cancel each other out? Yet the child | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| each other out? Yet the child in you desires two impossibilities, and often more. By hiding this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| daily reactions. To begin with, simply register the desires. Refrain from judgments and evaluations such as, But | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that: the fulfillment of two or more contradictory desires. The child in you wants an impossibility because | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| desire to cover up the nucleus of conflicting desires by reasonable surface desires, while the conflicts ferment | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the nucleus of conflicting desires by reasonable surface desires, while the conflicts ferment underneath. And since your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| while the conflicts ferment underneath. And since your desires, feelings, and thoughts are potent magnetic fields, they | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| conflicts. And you never know that your conflicting desires are responsible for your outer miseries and unfulfillments | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of incarnations. Someone who develops very fast and desires to take such a path, and ultimately fulfills | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| you are quite right. QUESTION: About the hidden desires. One sometimes feels joy, which also contains a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a desire, hidden or not, but not all desires are bad or wrong. Therefore every mood contains | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| They feel authority as an enemy because many desires that were neither bad nor in any way | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| friends. Blessed is this hour. Every human being desires to strive for perfection, for the ability to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| only if you become aware of your emotions, desires, and motives. Then you can separate the pure | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| always to recognize the meaning of your various desires, motives, and feelings. From there on, the path | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and self-righteously explain harboring such evil or unkind desires, while seeking self-justification in the shortcomings of others | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hypocrisy becomes subtler and more deeply buried. Good desires are superimposed on selfish ones, which are suppressed | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| make yourself unaware of the existence of wrong desires because you think that otherwise you would have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you strive for: facing and admitting the wrong desires without giving in to them, and yet without | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Wherever the conscious emotions, opinions, thoughts, conclusions, and desires are separated from those which are unconscious, we | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| resist facing certain things within. The two contradictory desires can coexist; one searches for the truth, and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mature emotionally as they are intellectually. The child desires to be loved; in fact, it needs to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| So the first conflict arises from two opposite desires. On the one hand the child wants the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| this deeply hidden guilt feeling, the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier one feels. Many personal as | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| what is unflattering, uncomfortable, and against your selfish desires. Then your hope that your inner voice warning | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| voices vary. The divine conscience has time; it desires its ultimate goal for the purpose of loving | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you deviate in your emotional tendencies, requirements, and desires from you conscious knowledge. You may know perfectly | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not in harmony with your emotions and unconscious desires. Whether you consider these emotions and unconscious wishes | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| under no circumstances do you eliminate possibly wrong desires by conforming outwardly, by adopting the opposite opinion | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the wish to die is genuine. The child desires to die most often in order to punish | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not receive as much of it as it desires; or it may receive a different kind, an | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difference between the healthy and unhealthy motives in desires. We will not concern ourselves with the motives | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| will not concern ourselves with the motives of desires which are obviously unhealthy because they are destructive | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| yet it may be unhealthy. Unhealthy and tense desires are always linked with fear. In certain teachings | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| try to find the difference between what makes desires healthy and what makes them unhealthy. One rule | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| wrong motives. Your personality registers extremely accurately all desires, tendencies, and motives. You may not be consciously | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it very useful to clarify what your true desires are. You will then find quite often that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| more mature intellect. Find specifically: What are your desires? Why do you desire them? What would be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| wrong, impure, selfish, and unhealthy motives in your desires that are not directed toward the goal itself | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them. So check your emotional reactions to specific desires. I cannot stress emphatically enough how important this | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| circles, begin to see clearly your motives, your desires, and what you want them to do for | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| demands to be elevated to first place, that desires to be special. It is not sufficient to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is understanding yourself: your emotions, your motives, your desires and fears. All these can be brought to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| idea of happiness is fulfillment of all its desires instantly and in exactly the way it wants | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| others are expected to fulfill what the person desires. When this wish cannot be gratified -- and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the infant still exists in you with its desires, feelings, and reactions, and focus your attention on | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| who blindly gratifies one's will, but needs and desires an object. My friends, before I go on | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| not an object. Find out by what emotions, desires, and reactions you can discover this to be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for the world of utopia that the infant desires. Intellectual conviction and outer behavior are in no | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |