| used. Would you kindly define emotional maturity? ANSWER: Emotional maturity is, foremost, the capacity to love. Many | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Many people imagine they have it. Of course, emotional maturity is a matter of degree. But wherever | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of disappointment, or fear of life's risks exists, emotional maturity does not exist. Emotional maturity knows no | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| life's risks exists, emotional maturity does not exist. Emotional maturity knows no selfishness. This is relative on | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| things but the outer unselfishness can camouflage your emotional selfishness or ego-centeredness. You may give away your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| immature, although you may have reached intellectual maturity. Emotional maturity means being unafraid to pay the price | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| egocentric, you thwart not only others but yourself. Emotional maturity also means being unafraid of your own | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| than the false control of suppressing them. In emotional maturity you will no longer fear your positive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| important than what might happen to you later. Emotional maturity means being able to make a full | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that there is always a price to pay. Emotional maturity or emotional health means knowing what you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| always a price to pay. Emotional maturity or emotional health means knowing what you want, wanting what | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to know them fully is to attain true emotional maturity. These are universal truths, taught in all | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| puzzlement at life, the outcome of your wrong emotional conclusions. Acknowledge your anger and rebellion, experience what | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| ineffective. This approach will lead you safely into emotional maturity. It will make you truly men and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| man or a woman who does not have emotional maturity. QUESTION: Would you please explain the reason | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| by point and create new concepts within your emotional self. Whatever rationalizations you use to explain your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have to discover where you deviate in your emotional tendencies, requirements, and desires from you conscious knowledge | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on entirely wrong conclusions. Only by lifting these emotional reactions into consciousness can you realize this. Then | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| yourself whenever you fall back into old, bad emotional habits, your subconscious will gradually reveal more and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Self-will prevails to a strong degree when this emotional climate exists. The right attitude would be to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| emotions are the same in essence. Sanity and emotional health depend largely on the ability and willingness | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Human beings are often so involved in their emotional problems that they remain unaware of holding opinions | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| at independently, that are not free from your emotional involvement. Find out which of these motives apply | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| be so strong that you cannot find the emotional and subjective reasons behind it. Finding your motives | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| them to yourself -- to detect the slight emotional flavor in your reactions to some of your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| compelled, consciously, to adopt an opinion on an emotional basis. ANSWER: In the first place, my dear | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| when you have adopted an opinion on an emotional basis? I doubt this very much. QUESTION: Well | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- to form an opinion for psychological and emotional reasons that are still hidden. QUESTION: After death | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| one body, does that have any feeling and emotional personality? ANSWER: Yes, but in a very different | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the pathwork you are asked to find the emotional reactions that do not correspond at all to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| convictions. Rather try to examine and analyze your emotional reactions to authority, to your parents, to your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| concept should never be superimposed on the still-lingering emotional false concept. This would only cause suppression. On | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the proper spirit, will contribute to your mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Are there any questions in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| times. It is the same with spiritual and emotional growth. Let the frictions and irritations be a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give us some ideas on the subject of emotional bondage, especially on how to begin searching for | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is egocentric, separated and loveless because of emotional immaturity or whether it finds union and integrates | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meaning and value in them. So check your emotional reactions to specific desires. I cannot stress emphatically | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and not a conscious thought, but an unconscious emotional attitude. None of you will fail to verify | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| have harbored a wrong concept, and that your emotional survival does not depend on other people's opinion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| habit of questioning the significance of their various emotional reactions. Yet these words may leave valuable impressions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you will be increasingly able to observe your emotional reactions and you will understand them better. Then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| disadvantageous price to you. This price may be emotional. And also, if others or circumstances prevent you | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| should translate into a deeper understanding of the emotional level. For the body is always a symbol | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| By working in this direction and examining your emotional reactions to certain incidents, you will become aware | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| If you could but see all the inner, emotional effort, you would shudder, because all this strength | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is dishonest. In that sense, everything that causes emotional problems is dishonest. Only humans draw a sharp | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is supposed to be less intelligent and more emotional than a man. A man is not supposed | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| deliberately suppressed and discouraged the unfoldment of his emotional and intuitive nature. With woman, it was the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| when permeated with her intuitive power and her emotional side, the soul qualities of her nature. Whenever | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| his resourcefulness, his physical strength, but thwarting his emotional and intuitive nature. Since the latter is an | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is a blending of two people's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures. It can be done if | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| for men to communicate when there is an emotional problem between two partners. Women try to talk | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| evade it. Is that the shame of the emotional side? ANSWER: Yes, that is one reason. It | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Since it is woman's nature to dwell on emotional subjects, on anything personal, she is prepared, conditioned | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Just because he has neglected to strengthen his emotional nature, he is afraid and guilty of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to be a weakness is, of course, an emotional, subconscious and illogical reaction that has probably nothing | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and establish the patterns of the person's subsequent emotional life. The child would like to be loved | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is bound to color his or her entire emotional life. Deep in the unconscious, he or she | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| observation of how it manifests in your daily emotional reactions will bring you nearer to the removal | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you realize this and apply it to your emotional life, you may find that what you actually | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| But I trust enough in myself, in my emotional health, that when the time comes I will | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| -- outer, conscious, material ones, or inner, unconscious, emotional ones. World peace and harmony can only come | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| good quality, in a different area of your emotional life, may affect an unhealthy current and may | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| can apply to physical as well as to emotional symptoms. If hypnotism is used merely for the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| your individual fulfillment in the highest spiritual and emotional sense. You will be able to embrace in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a long time we were preoccupied with the emotional side of your nature. Again I say, the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| You have no idea how much mental and emotional -- and eventually physical -- strength they consume | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| instead of the governor. Not only do your emotional and psychic disturbances cause lack of control over | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| control their thought process at the expense of emotional awareness, so that the benefit is cancelled out | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Your life could not possibly change, because your emotional reactions still function more or less as they | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to some degree, in changing some of your emotional reactions. And where they have not yet changed | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| an ulcer or other physical illness. Also, other emotional problems may clear up. A bad marriage may | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| speaking of your emotions. If you translate your emotional reactions to people, you will see that it | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you; 2) your subjective outlook, hidden in your emotional reactions, that makes you unable to give love | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the person. It may be an association, an emotional climate which subtly affects the personality. The reason | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so far. You then become aware of the emotional unreality in which you have lived, and thereby | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| depends on your maturity, mental as well as emotional. Maturity, in turn, depends on your capacity and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| happenings are real, but up to now the emotional importance you attached to them was unreal. The | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| happiness and security. This can be only if emotional maturity exists. Emotional maturity, in turn, is the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| This can be only if emotional maturity exists. Emotional maturity, in turn, is the state of being | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unaware of their lack of reality. Mental and emotional health is reality. To the degree that you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to be taken literally; it refers to certain emotional reactions. This happens if love, acceptance, and agreement | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| particular aspect. You will feel an entirely new emotional reaction in you as you learn to give | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| tension within yourself. QUESTION: You have stated that emotional maturity is the willingness and the capability to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| intellectual maturity. And the way you manage your emotional reactions, feelings, and instincts determines your emotional maturity | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your emotional reactions, feelings, and instincts determines your emotional maturity or lack of it. QUESTION: Might one | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of their weaknesses. QUESTION: Would you say that emotional immaturity is indicated by an emphasis on strong | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| person will find adequate reasons to hide this emotional reaction and subjectivity. That is what is called | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will find reasons and explanations for his irrational, emotional, subjective behavior or attitude. QUESTION: At one time | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and force will be taken out of your emotional reactions. In fact, I would even say that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| do much to help you further. The deep-rooted emotional reactions brought to light always show the child | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you which one will affect you. Visualize all emotional experiences, from the lowest to the highest, as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state of mind and emotion. According to my emotional state, I will attract certain currents. Now suppose | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| from the pain. That is a sign of emotional immaturity, not facing life and reality as they | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to accept them that way. Another sign of emotional immaturity is the rejection of responsibility. I do | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| does not even indicate a specific lack of emotional maturity not to do that. This would be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| quite easily if you yourself increase your own emotional maturity. It is often a clear indication of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| maturity. It is often a clear indication of emotional immaturity to shy away from taking on certain | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| love and its risks is a sign of emotional immaturity. This is only to give a few | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| ask yourself the why of certain of your emotional reactions and if you cannot give yourself the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is facing everything. This is a question of emotional constitution. And those who sleep very well may | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have explained. Pain is always felt in the emotional body. QUESTION: Will you explain the saying of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of this word. What people usually are most emotional about concerns the prejudice to which they happen | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in spite of the soul picture that your emotional currents show. Forget about your own vanity and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| self, which is right underneath the tense, compulsive, emotional behavior pattern. Once you stop believing, as you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and try to apply it artificially. When an emotional obstinacy is discovered in the course of this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of one's life, while a part of one's emotional reactions still follow the old pattern, unbeknownst to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your work on this path. Watch your emotional reactions, analyze them, try to understand them and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the process of forming, due to certain emotional distress. The child will then have to be | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conducted in a way that they affect the emotional area where problems exist or are in the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instance, is a typical and frequent act of emotional killing. There is only one way for salvation | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| physical level will make you realize that mental, emotional, and spiritual subsistence is necessarily just as dependent | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| wrong ways of coping you use in your emotional response. Learn to become aware of everything from | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to your thinking process, but also to your emotional life. If you very truthfully question yourself, in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| all the while, without forcing it on your emotional reaction. Allow both to exist freely, side by | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and allow yourself to feel and observe your emotional reactions connected to your idealized self, then you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that omnipotence is always contained in it. These emotional reactions are so subtle and elusive, however, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| strong urge for independence. However much the underlying emotional motivations may be similar -- fear of getting | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| does you. You are so conditioned by the emotional reactions you have become accustomed to, you are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| your eyes. You look past the seemingly unimportant emotional reactions to certain situations simply because they have | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and hidden recognitions. But it is these actual emotional reactions that will furnish the clue, once your | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| compulsive acts? In particular, what is the general emotional basis for compulsive buying and eating? And how | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| who follow this path have come across similar emotional reactions. Here is a typical example of how | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| them is the creation of the idealized self-image. Emotional insecurity, is experienced to some degree by every | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| soul-safety or, as it is more commonly called, emotional security. You fight for security and stability in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ought to have for you. You fight against emotional danger by holding yourself in check and damming | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is not changed. It all amounts to an emotional constipation, which may or may not manifest physically | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| can be done only by truthfully examining your emotional reactions to situations. Whenever you feel disharmony of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not think of it in these terms, your emotional reaction may amount to just that. So when | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for one's anger, defeat being inadmissible. If these emotional reactions are allowed to come to the surface | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| we understand others and forgive, the more our emotional reactions will become toned down. Don't we thus | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| feelings is a sign of spiritual progress and emotional growth. So it cannot be judged whether lack | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| solving life takes the form of withdrawal from emotional involvement, a feeling of wanting to be left | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you to the risk of rejection and hurt. Emotional or sensual pleasure, on the other hand, seems | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| layer of these pseudo-solutions with all their various emotional reactions. You will unlearn the repression of forbidden | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| on all levels of your being. The first emotional level of awareness usually will be a welling | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| shamefully covered core of your problem evolve into emotional awareness. You will then experience these emotions. This | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of increased training in awareness of what your emotional reactions signify. When the new working season starts | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |