| being, but is not the real self. Some emotions of the real self are components of this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the importance of the discovery of your unconscious emotions. However, we shall now begin also to pay | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| another side. If you are governed by your emotions, conscious or unconscious, you lose control over your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not necessary and is actually very damaging. Your emotions must be allowed to come to the fore | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mainly of the following: (1) Symptoms of disturbed emotions and inner conflicts that never express the conflict | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sense what calmness really means. Your thoughts and emotions will stand still, be it only for a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| recognize quite clearly how unreasonably and unrealistically your emotions react -- and this is a great step | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| virtue of the constant honest recognition of childish emotions. This is such a healthy and liberating process | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Think how very frequently it happens that your emotions react disproportionately when someone disagrees with you. But | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| also apply to you. After you recognize these emotions in yourself, you will understand that you are | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of the substitution. You have to experience the emotions which constantly fight for approval. You have to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the many subtle little ways in which your emotions express themselves, have to be fully experienced first | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| has to be explored and experienced in your emotions. You will inevitably find behind this entire facade | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| this means nothing. You have to experience your emotions in this direction step by step. During this | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of the fighting current to prove yourself. Your emotions will learn to give up the useless and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| on your part. I am speaking of your emotions. If you translate your emotional reactions to people | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the first step is to constantly recognize the emotions substituted for the desire to receive love. These | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| substituted for the desire to receive love. These emotions will not disappear the moment you first detect | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aware why. As you become aware of these emotions and their deeper significance, you weaken their impact | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| problem. You will increasingly realize how subjective your emotions are, no matter how much you may pride | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| demands therefore that you recognize 1) your substitute emotions which find gratification through the subtle current of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a tragedy -- which is how your emotions register such incidents at present. As you thus | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a real way, deep down in your emotions, not superficially or by pretense, of having sympathy | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Since he himself does not know what his emotions convey, no one else can possibly be in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you still lack sufficient insight to change these emotions. So, you know this is what remains to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is bound to weaken you first in your emotions, then, when a wrong condition persists long and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconscious desire for sickness and death. As the emotions heal, they integrate with the thinking process, instead | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. Before you can entirely eliminate certain childish emotions, you have to have a vast amount of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as honestly as you know how. If such emotions simmer on the surface, try to translate them | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the work, you become aware of your emotions and their significance. Thus you find the unconscious | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| must become acutely aware of all your hidden emotions and unrealities if you are to have any | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to all of you, find the specific hidden emotions. Learn to understand their language. Analyze their meaning | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| chain reactions. As you learn to understand your emotions, you will evaluate outer happenings differently. The outer | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| where your problems are in life, discover your emotions in connection with them; and then try to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| likely to overlook the urgency of your contradictory emotions as they manifest inwardly, not necessarily outwardly. It | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| concept of time-quality is false when your childish emotions are involved without your awareness. The child in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in the relatively near future these strongly felt emotions will have lost their impact. For all your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| all your intellectual knowledge, in this respect your emotions still react childishly. Something unpleasant happens to you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| detachment, which is gained only by maturing your emotions. True detachment means that life and love are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is, again, to analyze what your moods and emotions are saying, and why. You may find, for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| again, it takes utter self-honesty to recognize these emotions. Even if you manage not to show them | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and what is behind it. Then ask your emotions further, What is the aim? Do I really | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of your work, you have recognized all these emotions and reactions, you will understand much better what | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your thinking is confused -- let alone your emotions. We will eventually discuss this subject at greater | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| truly from my words, you must experience your emotions and understand their language. I cannot emphasize this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| subject to fluctuations, and as a result your emotions will be more attuned to reality. Only in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a valuable help in addition to analyzing your emotions in order to change concepts that are not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| their work have not yet come across the emotions we discussed today. Then these words should give | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| logical deductions or they are only vaguely felt emotions. This is not enough. Therefore I should like | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and truly? When things go wrong, test your emotions. As you analyze these feelings and discover that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unfeasible, and therefore discouraging. To learn of your emotions through painstaking and diligent analysis and to let | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with yourself, you are bound to find these emotions. This applies to everyone, without exception. As long | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that which is in your everyday life and emotions will you lose your fear of loving. This | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| aware of. Apply these words to the respective emotions! We shall discuss this from other angles in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| may realize perfectly well that certain of your emotions cannot function in the right way yet, you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a calm quality, in the full realization that emotions do not change quickly. An important part of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| become aware of where, how, and why your emotions still deviate from the truth. Also, you need | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is in you, and to see where your emotions still deviate due to a lack of understanding | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| than diminish. Only by exploring the significance of emotions of which they were heretofore unaware would they | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as this happens in the inner world of emotions. Therefore, in order to understand the truth of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| incentive to begin, unless you experience all the emotions we mention here as living within your soul | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you will find through the experience of your emotions that impatience, whenever felt, is accompanied by such | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| started to explore their own unconscious mind and emotions, habitually overlook the strong link between the child's | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| reasoning has to be applied to these very emotions you never allowed yourself to be aware of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a great deal of digging to uncover the emotions that lead you again and again into situations | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and follow the usual process of allowing your emotions to come to the fore, you will gain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| requires considerable effort, for there are many overlaying emotions that cover the present pain as well as | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to find it. Only after experiencing all these emotions, and synchronizing the now and the then, will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| as yet to apply them to your own emotions and life problems. Nevertheless, I urge you all | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| not least, to educate or reeducate the childish emotions by implanting your own concepts that you have | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your own. Thus your intellect can influence your emotions through your capacity to think. On the other | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| think. On the other hand, unchecked and childish emotions can influence your thinking capacity by coloring your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| is the subjectivity that arises out of childish emotions. Of course, a halfway intellectually mature person will | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your real reactions. These may be other negative emotions; if they are positive, you are deceiving yourself | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| under the compulsion of your confused thinking and emotions, you are bound to affect the other person's | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is nothing more contagious in this world than emotions, thoughts, reactions, and attitudes. You can observe that | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| elicits a very strong reaction in people. Your emotions become full of self-pity: Poor little me, I | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| this anymore, and therefore I hate. All these emotions should be observed and followed through until one | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you will know deeply that all things, feelings, emotions, thoughts and experiences already exist and that you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| exist, while the idea that you produced negative emotions yourself gave you a feeling of greater protection | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the essential part. All fears and other negative emotions are the result of confused and faulty thinking | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| conscious or unconscious. By deeply analyzing such negative emotions, you are finally bound to reevaluate your thinking | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| flesh is the matter and the blood the emotions. Is this explanation valid? ANSWER: Exactly, that is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Do not go on living with all these emotions without clarifying them. Once you have clarified them | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| The more your intellect conflicts with your hidden emotions, the more difficult it will be to unearth | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to be happy. Their way is to reject emotions, affection, and what they may consider softness. To | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| this represents danger. Instead of real or pseudo-positive emotions, they will manufacture a hardness and aggressiveness inside | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| someone, you do not need to increase your emotions artificially. You will feel as strongly as you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you are helplessly caught in the resentment. Your emotions become so strong that you cannot handle them | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| understood and assimilated the experience. This creates negative emotions which are bound to affect your environment. People | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different from the concept of retribution. Thoughts and emotions are actions and reactions too. They inevitably have | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strength only by complete understanding of the negative emotions that still exist in you and of which | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work of daily analysis of one's negative reactions, emotions, impressions and moods. There is no other way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| loved and accepted, it also applies to negative emotions such as hate, resentment, and contempt. If you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you superimpose not only positive but also negative emotions on your genuine feelings. You produce artificial feelings | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where you realize, sometimes quite suddenly, that these emotions are false. You have them because of a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this: Consciously one is often unaware of negative emotions, be they resentment, hate, or contempt. As far | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| direction, one finds the existence of such negative emotions, as well as the existence of additional motivations | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accomplished. Compulsion is a result of artificially accelerated emotions, desires and ambitions. The artificiality, in turn, is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It causes you to assume artificial attitudes and emotions. Since neither this desirable world, nor the way | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| shalt not kill in everyday life, in different emotions, for instance. Has the destructiveness of thoughts and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| physical killing. As you rightly said, thoughts and emotions can be destructive, and in that sense they | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also does not apply merely to your destructive emotions and thoughts negatively affecting -- killing -- others | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about how you artificially overdramatize your life, your emotions, and everything pertaining to your person. You hope | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| illusion and see that the intensity of your emotions bears no relation to the issue. QUESTION: I | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| able to comprehend fully the immature and distorted emotions can you attain the healthy ones. You will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| not have to worry, plan or direct your emotions, nor force your feelings to go in any | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| your attention. By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all represent | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is at work. These are the consciously felt emotions out of all those that lie hidden underneath | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| If you have an occasional glimpse of such emotions, you do not as yet connect them with | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| vindictiveness, by hatred, and by revenge, and these emotions remain predominant, there will be no lesson. If | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| it has to be projected onto others. Such emotions of contempt and resentment in turn contradict the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| next step is to cut off all human emotions. When, nevertheless, they come to the fore, the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| such power and independence from feelings and human emotions as no human being can possibly have, it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be completely indifferent and aloof from all human emotions so as not to be disturbed. Can you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to have something in common: aloofness from their emotions, non-attachment to others, and a strong urge for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| part of this work is to feel these emotions, to truly experience them. It is impossible to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| made it possible for all these hitherto hidden emotions to become conscious, so that you can really | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it. So, my friends, begin to see your emotions in this light. You will then find what | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Such experience must happen if you allow your emotions to come to the fore and work with | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| entire process is painful at first, because the emotions of anxiety, frustration, guilt, shame, and so on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| analysis of your problems, your attitudes, and your emotions. As you proceed in this way, the real | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| way will not cause you to hide from emotions, experience, life, and your own conflicts; love and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| objective. True serenity is not avoiding experience and emotions which may be painful at the moment but | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be emotionally stingy. If you carefully examine the emotions of prejudice, you will see that preconceived ideas | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you understand the causes and effects of negative emotions, the weaker they will automatically become. Inner reactions | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to name but a few of the negative emotions thus generated. The error is all the more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are not yet ready for over your actual emotions. Just observe, and little by little you will | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| difficult to find only one tendency in the emotions. For instance, when you feel humiliated, one set | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| instance, when you feel humiliated, one set of emotions recognizes that what the other person did came | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reaction and self-deception. Allow yourself to have all emotions come out without policing them. Then, and only | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emphasize strongly enough that to recognize these childish emotions does not force you to act upon them | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |