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frenzy your incentive for growth. These unhealthy, self- destructive emotions have to disappear before you can begin 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
you truly see that -- even long before destructive conditions have been changed -- in that full 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
others and on myself? What unproductive or even destructive effect does it have on others and myself 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
If it is not genuine, what are the destructive effects? Ask yourself the motivations of this ideal 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
had. You do not realize how great a destructive energy you generate by being unaware of your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
though you are now in the throes of destructive, painful emotions? You have conditioned yourself into them 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
correcting life in fantasy removes aggression, hostility and destructive impulses. Another benefit is daydreams act as symptoms 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
symptoms they are. You will thus turn a destructive activity into a constructive one, as long as 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
even more difficult to break out of the destructive pattern. Since your psyche refuses to be cheated 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
reason to feel secure in yourself now. The destructive patterns constantly confirm your unworthiness. You are thus 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
self-rejection can be cured by other insights, and destructive patterns changed to constructive ones, so much the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the root, which remains embedded, may create another destructive pattern or image. So it is always a 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
Be in God! 100. MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
be an unalterable fact, conditions you to develop destructive defenses. The original pain and frustration the child 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the unconscious mind. It is then that the destructive images and defense mechanisms begin to form. In 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
new, constructive patterns can immediately replace the old destructive ones. Such an expectation is unrealistic and not 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
is ample compensation for all the years of destructive and unproductive living, as well as for the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
experiencing the pain against which you instituted the destructive patterns? You used them to run away from 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
broken by them. You will not fortify your destructive defenses. This, in turn, will equip you with 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to say, this is never accomplished with your destructive defense mechanisms and various images. Let me repeat 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
have caused your own unhappiness through your own destructive and unrealistic evasions and defenses. You will now 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
isolated, as well as covered up. Through your destructive patterns, you pushed your painful need to receive 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
but, you have also begun to dissolve certain destructive levels. This has allowed your ability to give 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
receive which remains ungratified as long as the destructive patterns prevail. It requires some time to gain 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
not find an outlet for this because the destructive patterns were still in effect, perhaps only partly 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
in with healthy and productive pleasure is also destructive or self-destructive pleasure. The latter can't always be 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
onto others is bound to strengthen their own destructive defense mechanisms, just as their destructive defenses fortify 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
their own destructive defense mechanisms, just as their destructive defenses fortify your own. This persists unless you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
help others to weaken their own defenses and destructive patterns, even if they are not yet developed 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
greater prison than illusion. There is nothing more destructive on this earth than people unnecessarily defending themselves 101 THE DEFENSE
clear understanding of how they are erroneous, inadequate, destructive, disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with your 101 THE DEFENSE
If this original need is still childish and destructive, it can mature only by bringing it out 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
with the secondary emotion of anger, it turns destructive. Whether the anger manifests in deeds or words 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
pain. I might also add that many other destructive emotions, such as jealousy, envy, or lust, also 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
this as sinful? Not merely because it is destructive of your physical health. That would certainly not 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
perhaps, even get on the right track. A destructive feeling may have a constructive result, just as 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
to life circumstances. But the fact that a destructive feeling may produce positive results in certain cases 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
be hoped for was to prevent people from destructive actions, even if the underlying causes were not 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the contagiousness and the direct outer effects of destructive actions were decreased, if not entirely eliminated. You 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
reveal the existence of a deep, subjective and destructive involvement, even if non-involvement is being used as 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
clearer view. It is just as harmful and destructive to love too much, and thus unwisely, as 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
needs and wants to possess can be as destructive in giving more than what is wanted as 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
from loving again. You find yourself in this destructive imbalance many times without really being aware of 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
And it is this self-deception that causes the destructive result, not the quality of the wish itself 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
productive wish proves to be unproductive, or even destructive at times, if you are unaware of it 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
points of view can be both right and destructive. If your will falls under any of these 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will is coupled with moralizing judgments, it turns destructive because truth becomes inaccessible. If the will can 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
become more compulsive in trying to eliminate these destructive feelings that are evidently responsible for the child's 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
compulsively you want to get rid of the destructive feelings, the more you have to pretend to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
need their will to overcome their raw, animalistic, destructive instincts that had slumbered in the state of 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the tools of intellect and will can be destructive when not used for their proper purpose, as 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
what is genuinely within you, behind all the destructive patterns and images, if you are not ready 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
Both can be builders for something constructive or destructive. If they are used for something they are 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
not organically designed for, then they will be destructive. If the mind wants to build a spiritual 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
spiritual state, hiding the actual emotions, it is destructive. If the mind builds on what it finds 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
are aware, even if negative, cannot build anything destructive. But unconscious negative emotions are bound to build 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
But unconscious negative emotions are bound to build destructive results. Positive emotions build constructive results. If the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
outer actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive impulses to manifest. But when it comes to 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
mean. Of course the immature soul has many destructive impulses which can only be checked by self-discipline 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
inner life; about growing out of these very destructive impulses. I talk about the birth of the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
conflict between two unsatisfactory alternatives: either letting all destructive impulses loose, or incarcerating the living spirit of 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
them an outlet that will not only be destructive for an environment that does not understand, but 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
and healthy and do not contain any negative, destructive elements. You need more insight and comprehension to 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
again. Nor have you protected yourself against the destructive effects of the inner cause. Therefore please take 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
all, for then that person would not live. Destructive relationships lead to a climax that is ultimately 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
case, that it is a real tie. Unconscious destructive tendencies can only be dissolved if one faces 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
manipulating your feelings in a most negative and destructive way, with grave repercussions in your psychic life 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
Needless to say, this remedy is unproductive, even destructive. The forcing current prohibits a free giving of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
suffer with the other person, though in a destructive way. If you can discover and experience your 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
is in everything a healthy and also a destructive aspect, so it is with the desire to 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
a false perfection that is superimposed and therefore destructive. Only when you have the courage and humility 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
mean it sincerely, your extreme reaction to certain destructive tendencies, which you have so far only vaguely 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
wish to love. Or, you might wish something destructive. People often stumble over terminology. There may be 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
reality, a fear of relinquishing one's false solutions, destructive attitudes, defensive walls -- all of which are 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
illusion, hopelessness, unwillingness to change, and many other destructive attitudes. I repeat: You do not have to 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
but one may just as well commit a destructive deed for the same reason. When the consequences 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
cases are alike. It is one of the destructive aims of the psyche to deliberately dull itself 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
of it -- where you believe that the destructive attitude is a necessary protection for you in 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
This even applies to physical habits that are destructive and difficult to get rid of. And always 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
one-time occurrence is generalized and thereby falsified. A destructive pattern is set in motion, which remains in 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
remedy. Such unconsciously sought remedies are often more destructive than the original evil, as are, for example 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
least resistance and the giving in to one's destructive instincts. Before you have reached certain levels of 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
development compared to the person who can have destructive motives without inner conflict -- success does not 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
real, inner standards. When such is the case, destructive motivations, even though they may be quite conscious 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
results either if they are undermined by unconscious, destructive motives. Hence, a ruthless person may not attain 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the soul suffers from tension, a useless and destructive waste of energy. Some time ago I discussed 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
from it, it will stagnate with all the destructive results of such stagnation. It is exactly the 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
will not only be useless, it will turn destructive. The constructiveness and benefit of every discovery depends 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
This distrust is often partly justified, because your destructive, unrealistic concepts and attitudes prevent fulfillment in the 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
is always the first step toward eliminating a destructive condition. All my friends have gone through similar 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
healthy and constructive as well as unhealthy and destructive struggle. Various philosophies and religions ask that you 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
the way to overcome what is disturbing and destructive, not by struggling against it. Healthy struggle will 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
When life handles you roughly, when the accumulated destructive attitudes whose origins lie behind the barricade finally 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
debris of your past hurts and their subsequent destructive tendencies, you accumulate them behind the barricade, and 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to be untruthful toward yourself, to live in destructive patterns, inner fear, and insecurity. These hurts cause 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
that is, images -- you will have less destructive defenses. Therefore you can be more loving. This 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
sorts of evasions, pleasurable or painful, constructive or destructive. But eventually the moment must come when you 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
isolation around the person indulging in such a destructive activity of the mind. It is, indeed, escapism 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
cannot enter, along with the actual self-important and destructive impulses you also hide some of your most 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
thwarted and, in their current form, are actually destructive. They could grow into something beautiful, but are 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
to prevent a person from acting out primitive destructive instincts. For those whose inner conscience is not 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not sufficiently developed to restrain them from committing destructive acts, the mere existence of social laws would 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the soul. It certainly never prevents crime or destructive actions. In fact, it causes the opposite to 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
between the superimposed conscience and the primitive, self-centered, destructive child is a tragic one -- tragic only 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
out of sight. Accept fully the primitive, selfish, destructive child in order to make it grow up 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
would emphasize all forms of self-centeredness as being destructive and stress the need to grow out of 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
dream that they harbor similar unconscious attitudes. The destructive influence of this factor often manifests in a 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
of what is good or bad, constructive or destructive, right or wrong, is often tied in with 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
facing and changing what is unrealistic and therefore destructive in yourselves will begin to reap the fruits 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
self-concerned. If it does manifest, it is patently destructive. If it is prohibited from manifestation, the inherent 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
and what was once natural and organic becomes destructive later in life. At the other extreme, guilt 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
influence of these early feelings. Then layers of destructive, artificial emotions cover up the basic condition. In 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
know that the more you hold on to destructive patterns, even resisting understanding their mechanism, the more 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
within one individual's unconscious. It is just as destructive and wasteful. Humanity is beginning to leave the 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
represent the entity's unconscious infantile, erroneous, short-sighted and destructive elements. But the more humanity grows, the less 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
be about what is constructive and what is destructive. Its discrimination will improve. In the past, while 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
falsehood, between what is constructive and what is destructive. Crass injustice and cruelty could often parade as 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
so. As the individual grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason and the power to 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
conscience conveys the truth without the burden of destructive guilt feelings, showing a way to truly absolve 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
may combine a number of facets, constructive and destructive, realistic and unrealistic. For a while, you appear 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
mature, while continuing to harbor very immature and destructive elements. The fact that humankind is on the 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
but it does not do away with its destructive aspects. There is a significance in the fact 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
which prohibited the fulfillment of this need, certain destructive behavior patterns you could not see, once you 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
it is essential to find and transform the destructive aspects of oneself which obstruct true fulfillment. This 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
beings cannot discriminate between what is constructive and destructive, they must be in a tragic and unnecessary 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
the same. In order to avoid such a destructive escape, the life instinct must be very strong 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
prevent you from choosing death out of negative, destructive motivations. This strengthens the stamina to try and 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
the unconscious not only harbors petrified wrong conclusions, destructive behavior patterns resulting from images, and negative emotions 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
you have discovered unconscious misconceptions, false guilts, and destructive attitudes that prohibit it. You may even have 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
and childhood lessons. You will now detect the destructive feelings in the service of the no-current: fear 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
not previously tap. At first, you see the destructive elements floating up, and then you will be 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
used for self-detection and understanding the meaning of destructive elements. All this does require a certain discipline 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
and eventually you will eliminate what is most destructive in your life. Instead, you often storm ahead 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
aware of, observe, and decipher the petrified and destructive part of the unconscious. When you learn to 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
so. It happens because you have instituted very destructive defenses against the original pain and frustration. One 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
is certainly nothing negative about discovering your life-defeating, destructive attitudes that your No consists of. Many people 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
oneself can never come unless one sees the destructive nature of a false image and evaluates its 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
the molds in the soul substance create unfavorable, destructive situations. In short, a man's and woman's fate 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, constructive or destructive. It is the same with feeling, experiencing, and 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
the no-current, that has a deeply hopeless, doubting, destructive, dark, negative outlook, into the yes-current with its 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
one's personal area of trouble. This may have destructive side-effects, apart from hindering the personal growth process 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT

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