| Driven......................40 | |
| the obvious outer actions of those who are driven by self-will, for to none of you would | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| or motive. In other words, if you are driven into certain attitudes by your unrecognized fears, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of authority has prevailed too long, and has driven the law-breaker deeper into ignorance and darkness, instead | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| This cannot work. If attempted, one will be driven by rebellion and compulsion, no matter how right | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| You do not realize that as they are driven out they continue their existence underground. The really | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| decide for the unselfish act rather than be driven to it as before. This in itself will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of making a free choice that is not driven by compulsion. This, in turn, will show you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| by further exaggerating the need because you are driven by your unconscious reactions and motivations. Once you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| are wrong in having the need. Awareness is driven even more into hiding and that causes you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| really facing and make a choice. You are driven. As within, so without you see only two | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| understood and dissolved as long as you are driven by superimposed standards. As long as shame and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| inner tension and pressure. You are then often driven into acts you cannot help committing if only | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| life later prohibits similar gratification, the personality is driven to seek to duplicate the pleasurable state it | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| themselves quite reasonable, but other people may be driven into a different direction and are incapable of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| that this eliminates it, the more it is driven underground, where it continues to do its work | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is so difficult to admit that you are driven by unreasonable fears, superstitions, generalizations, obsolete situations that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| from truth. The moment you know you are driven by false ideas, you are no longer operating | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to admit to it. Such people therefore are driven by it into a blind automatism that they | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you grope and clutch tightly because you are driven by blind needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are driven by blind needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions, reactions, and actions that you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| destructive for all concerned. You will not be driven to the opposite of compliance, namely stubborn rebelliousness | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you really feel and why, you are constantly driven, and suffer from all sorts of compulsions you | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| be in confusion and untruth because I am driven to think, feel and act in a way | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| interaction always works both ways. Because you are driven and controlled by the destructive force set in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you alternate between the two choices and are driven from one extreme to the other. For a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| longer chooses either excitement or peace; one is driven to choose the distortions. Being alive becomes a | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| helpless straw between the two pulls, and is driven into painful contact. Thus the pull toward contact | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| put yourself at a disadvantage; you will be driven into damaging behavior patterns. On the sexual level | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| doing; you do not know how you are driven, so you are unable to stop the destructive | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| yourself can effectively supply, the more you are driven to betray your truth. One can escape from | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| even remotely aware of. When an individual is driven to act according to the images, the power | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| messages coming through. When an individual is still driven by unconscious images -- thus also driven by | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| still driven by unconscious images -- thus also driven by the negatively operative involuntary processes -- he | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| for them assumed, the less will you be driven against your will to act them out. Such | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you nor even in what direction you are driven. You become desperate because in your urgency to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| self. However, the conscious ego is often blindly driven to act the way the unconscious, fearful, life-refusing | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| all sorts of reasons. You may even be driven to destructive actions, to seeking troublesome life situations | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| its distorted version does it become a blindly driven, senseless destructiveness. QUESTION: What is the positive origin | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| their immediate desires were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires, regardless of ethics and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| recognizes in much deeper terms why you are driven as you are, why you must go through | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Drives......................43 | |
| or unconsciously. The longing to feel this love drives, pulls, spurs humans and spirits. They will have | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| it really is, with all its motives and drives, since you can conquer only that which you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| and more human beings would let their sex drives mature and mingle with love -- and with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| conflicting a way it may manifest by contrary drives and compulsions. Heartbreaking problems arise from this conflict | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the real you. It consists of the compulsive drives and impulses which you unconsciously think you have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| therefore constitutes a major part of your compulsive drives. Subdivisions, divisions of this drive, such as the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| wrong conclusions, are unreal. All the impulses and drives you employ in their service are equally unreal | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| using all their power, all their selfish, ruthless drives, to defeat the enemy who always stands in | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the real feelings underneath and the compulsive manipulations, drives, and impulses which you confuse with your feelings | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in one way or another. All your compulsions, drives and a good part of your motivations are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessitate a struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives, and compulsions. In addition, these often confront one | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and stands in such contradiction to my pleasure drives, that I have no choice other than to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| trying to do justice to two mutually exclusive drives -- for and against gratification of the needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| daydreams. One comes from thoughts that arise from drives. These drives are connected with your idealized self-image | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| comes from thoughts that arise from drives. These drives are connected with your idealized self-image, your self-glorification | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is emotional and comes from needs instead of drives. Your repressed, unrecognized needs may create an even | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| by learning about yourself, your real needs, your drives, your pseudo-fulfillment in fantasies and about their purpose | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| just indicated. QUESTION: What is the difference between drives and needs? ANSWER: A need is a very | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create compulsive drives. The needs, on the other hand, may become | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| free itself. Fear and shame of disapproved instinctual drives cannot possibly mature them so that they integrate | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| with guilts, shames and misconceptions. Therefore, the instinctual drives manifest much more intensely. However, experience of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| taboos, fears, and an artificial separation of instinctual drives. Their existence prohibits the natural development. With growing | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| astray; in reality, becoming aware of these instinctual drives will merely attune them to the development that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| mental processes which immediately reduced their selfish primitive drives and made them more responsible for others and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| often with much effort to overcome the infantile drives to destroy what stood in the way of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| always those who act according to these infantile drives and whose sense of responsibility for others is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| child were self-sufficient and independent while possessing self-centered drives, you may imagine what would happen. It would | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| stronger and therefore better equipped to pursue selfish drives at the expense of others. This limitation and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| inner peace due to split aims, mutually exclusive drives, contradictory concepts. You now know that the human | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| death be encountered without the help of instinctual drives, and why must human beings work so hard | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| as apparently right and wrong emotions, feelings, reactions, drives, needs, expressions. Fear of being comprises all of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| human beings are often governed by impulses and drives they can very glibly rationalize but whose real | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| is only whether the ego follows erroneous destructive drives or whether it is activated by the real | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| exists, which is not quite conscious -- that drives you into actions and feelings which are truly | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| In neither are you aware of the blind drives that lead you into submission and rebellion. You | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| cannot be abused in the service of power drives and negativity. What now seems like an altogether | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and rare. In such a world the powerful drives had to be restrained in order to make | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| on the other, it also constrained humanity's natural drives, and this was temporarily necessary. Only now, as | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| people acted out for millennia the most bestial drives in sexuality, thus giving rise to the belief | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and beauty for egotistical reasons or competitive power drives. Then the inner guilt will not let you | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| rising consciousness as well as from your lower-self drives. There are, of course, boundaries, laws, and rules | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| fulfillments. The longing may also manifest in compulsive drives. Whatever it may be, it is important to | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| so would have meant overcoming personal pride, power drives, self-interest and self-serving opportunism. If this had happened | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |