| of your conflicts and confusions, if you truly face and live it, instead of running from it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| This applies to all who truly desire to face themselves. Many of you, my friends, have progressed | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| due to an inner, perhaps hidden, unwillingness to face some area of one's being. This resistance always | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| forget that one needs complete inner will to face everything within. To stress the outer actions may | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| from certain emotions you do not wish to face -- be they hurts, resentments, envies, or wrongs | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to cover up something you are unwilling to face and come to terms with. Whether that something | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and confusion exist, and the partners do not face reality, love cannot come into being. The fact | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| this category is threefold. First they need to face their lack of belief in themselves and find | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| You must expose yourself, and act in the face of risk. When you do not say yes | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| explored and understood before it was possible to face and come to terms with the real guilt | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| and misconceptions, you will be able to come face to face with your real guilt. In all | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you will be able to come face to face with your real guilt. In all the time | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| difficult thing for a human being is to face the lower self, and it is in connection | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self. Perhaps you are capable and willing to face parts of it, yet certain other parts you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| on the one hand I invite you to face your lower self, your real guilts, to make | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| phase in which they become organically ready to face their real guilt, while others may still be | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| lesser evils make the psyche strong enough to face very unflattering truths. Such strength can be cultivated | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the prerequisite to creating the resiliency needed to face yourself in utter truthfulness. It requires you to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| cause, which basically is always the refusal to face the lower self, and its consequence: carrying the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| all have to be eliminated before one can face real guilt productively, with a sense of proportion | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| seeing your impaired integrity. When, however, you courageously face the impaired part in yourself, you will repair | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| at the healthy self-acceptance in which you fully face your real guilt and certain hitherto hidden aspects | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| as long as you do not want to face the pain you have inflicted, you cannot truly | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| you have inflicted, you do not want to face your lower self in its entirety. When the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| exploited by others. You will then come to face what you have kept private so far. The | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a reality? Is it not much better to face the underlying hopelessness until hope -- as well | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| God in order to be in God. To face the truth within is being in God -- | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| sins, but it hurts me too much to face it. Such an attitude discloses an attempt to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| be on the lookout for these reactions and face them. This always has to be done before | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to develop, to grow and to change, and face the self in utter candor, so as to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| incident. You will cultivate the inner will to face and understand in yourself all there is to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| helplessness and insecurity you had never dared to face. So by struggling to repress your insecurity, you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| bring out what is inherent in it, and face those feelings that you would rather evade -- | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| toward yourself and this will enable you to face all that is in you. Harsh unkindness with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| must raise questions you have never dared to face. You must bring out exactly what it is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| loving, if you do not go through and face the impure, self-centered form of love you are | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| result of a full and thorough will to face oneself. Then the interconnections will gradually afford a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this path have overcome the inherent resistance to face themselves and subsequently change. You have made considerable | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| often very painful until you have truly come face to face within yourself with something you had | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| painful until you have truly come face to face within yourself with something you had wished rather | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| facets within yourself you are deeply ashamed to face. You cover these facets with a pretense that | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| varies. But whatever it is, when you come face to face with such an aspect, it takes | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| whatever it is, when you come face to face with such an aspect, it takes a considerable | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| because usually the psyche is not ready to face all its pretenses at once. To the degree | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the degree you stop pretending to yourself, and face what you had regarded as too shameful to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to terms with it, instead of neglecting to face the significance of your lack of freedom. Find | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| of these emotions only if you learn to face these feelings, to understand their origin and reason | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| other negative emotions may have been difficult to face because they contradict one's idealized self- image and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| degree in each of you until you truly face them and free yourself from your self-imposed prison | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| yourself from your self-imposed prison. When you do face and come to terms with these heretofore hidden | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is always possible when one unreasonably fears to face something that is hard to accept. The ignorant | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| behind the outer manifestation -- when you truly face the issues you encounter there, although it may | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| are disregarded. The greater the resistance to openly face a problem, the more important is it to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| or willing to fulfill them. If you can face these facts, being able to first stand the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| thinking. You can look the truth in the face and accept what is, no matter how imperfect | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| discipline and self-responsibility. In this way you can face the reality of the relationship in question and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| if need be, together with your ability to face what is, rather than closing your eye in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| demands you issue forth, if you can just face that, my dearest friends, you will no longer | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| able to subsequently come to terms with them. Face your anger about the fact that your demands | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fact that your demands often remain unfulfilled. Also face your apprehension of other people's demands on you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| so interwoven, so interconnected! Only when you honestly face this inner little child, as it truly exists | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| perfect, in a sense, when you can calmly face, acknowledge, and come to terms with your present | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| now is confusion, depression, and stagnation, and you face these feelings fully, formulating their existence without the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| only because of your wrong convictions, you fully face the now, your own now. And then you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| untruth. In this way, you know and fully face the now, you do not run from it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| automatism is always the result of unwillingness to face certain material. This applies to everyone, to some | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| exposed, investigated and given up, until you are face to face with the blind reflex itself. When | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and given up, until you are face to face with the blind reflex itself. When this takes | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| they choose to explain away. The moment they face the hostility fully, by becoming aware of it | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you are still battling against the resistance to face what lies behind blind reflexes. The awareness that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Extended progress on your path has brought you face to face with the climate you emanate. Although | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| on your path has brought you face to face with the climate you emanate. Although it is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and fulfilled because you are in reality. Coming face to face with the inner expectancy of ending | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| because you are in reality. Coming face to face with the inner expectancy of ending up as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| For many, it is so much harder to face the fact that life could be meaningful and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| of a no, which I am unwilling to face so that I can go on pretending. Because | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| certainly, it does not create helplessness in the face of abuse. Quite the contrary. Full commitment presupposes | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| are in fear you do not have to face your real emotion. QUESTION: My hostility? ANSWER: Yes | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| areas which the soul does not dare to face. The existing misconceptions and confusions, as always, stop | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| much more helpless must I be in the face of life itself? Actually, the correlation between the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| denying it, looking away from it, you must face it. As you face it and understand it | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| from it, you must face it. As you face it and understand it, without guilt or shame | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| about only when you have the courage to face this marriage. As you become capable of clearly | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| be given up. A battle rages in the face of this decision. It is exceedingly important now | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and your actions. Simply state, I shall fully face these destructive feelings, which will not force me | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| go of it. Meditating on your intent to face it and give it up is an activity | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| absolutely nothing to fear. You must finally come face to face with that rich, forever renewed, and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to fear. You must finally come face to face with that rich, forever renewed, and unchangeably wonderful | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| only if and when you are willing to face it squarely. Becoming integrated with your divine center | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| conscious that they literally stare you in the face. Only then can their futility be comprehended so | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| none of my friends were quite ready to face this aspect in themselves. It could only be | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| elements of cruelty. This cruelty is hard to face. But when you do face it, relief and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| is hard to face. But when you do face it, relief and liberation must follow, because nothing | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to be desired, and does not want to face missing something, suffering from something. This kind of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| I just ran the other way. I couldn't face it -- and all the old negative, destructive | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| I determine to make up my mind to face whatever it is. And I request all the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the problem which you are still reluctant to face, perhaps one session with the medium may open | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| intense self-search, when you vigorously confront yourself and face truth upon truth, setting up new inner conditions | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| form of deadness. This, in turn, brings you face to face with the fact that you fear | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| deadness. This, in turn, brings you face to face with the fact that you fear life and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to be negative. This is so hard to face that you cover it with illusions to which | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| impossible to eliminate the illusions unless one comes face to face with the discrepancy between what one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| eliminate the illusions unless one comes face to face with the discrepancy between what one consciously believes | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| put on, it controls you. You must come face to face with the mechanisms which deny natural | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| it controls you. You must come face to face with the mechanisms which deny natural life, so | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| anything and anyone you encounter. Those who are face to face with their negativity, and see how | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| anyone you encounter. Those who are face to face with their negativity, and see how they stop | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the wish to become aware of them; to face where false feelings arise. The attention will then | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a layer within your selves where you are face to face with your own destructiveness. And I | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| within your selves where you are face to face with your own destructiveness. And I am referring | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and run away from. Because you do not face up to this, the outer conditions become unresolvable | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| must be explored in order to meet and face a deeper universal, metaphysical conflict -- the one | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| when you have the courage and honesty to face what you do not like in yourself can | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| circumstances, no matter how you feel, if you face the now thoroughly and do not run away | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this mood, your nucleus, your now. If you face this now, experience this mood, whatever it is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| apply to areas where people don't want to face the truth about themselves? ANSWER: This is, unfortunately | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to look at. A person who refuses to face what seems most difficult is not in a | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| obligatory goodness because I do not want to face my refusal to have real feelings? you can | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| no need for me to do anything -- face anything unpleasant, change my personality, or give up | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Each individual, himself. The truth so difficult to face for so many people is that no one | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| efforts. You must overcome resistance in order to face yourself in truth, admit your problems and shortcomings | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| approved of. During our discussions we have come face to face with many aspects of this triad | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| During our discussions we have come face to face with many aspects of this triad. Once I | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| ever-renewed will to be truthful with the self. Face whatever the self is, give your very best | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| I want to look the truth in the face, whatever it is, under all circumstances at all | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a rational and unexaggerated way, really meet it face to face and understand it, then you produce | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and unexaggerated way, really meet it face to face and understand it, then you produce the love | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being. Your impoverishment is self-inflicted because you cannot face that moment I spoke of when you refuse | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| women. On your path, you begin to come face to face with your images. That is, you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your path, you begin to come face to face with your images. That is, you begin to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are inwardly locked in battle. The more you face these feelings, the more you allow them to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings toward women. I may also have to face the feeling of unacceptability more than I already | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| put it this way: When you can fully face the sadistic feelings, without the threat and terror | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with which you approach them. The decency to face up to what seems unfaceable must produce healthy | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it works, in whatever respect: Whoever begins to face and accept and intelligently deal with the hitherto | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go all the way, that one wants to face the whole truth about the self, without shirking | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possible every day, such as I want to face the truth, I want to let come up | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- I intend with all my being to face and change. Such meditations set up a powerful | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rejection. I invite all of you to vigorously face this area in yourselves. Some of you have | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Perhaps some of you may still have to face up to it. But all of you must | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| in following this reasoning you cannot really come face to face with yourself. Only by coming face | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| this reasoning you cannot really come face to face with yourself. Only by coming face to face | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| face to face with yourself. Only by coming face to face with your weakness and dependency, with | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| face with yourself. Only by coming face to face with your weakness and dependency, with your forcing-current | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to others you must, can you also come face to face with your strength and beauty, and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you must, can you also come face to face with your strength and beauty, and with all | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| many times you feel unhappy and only vaguely face your unhappiness. Therefore you are unable to connect | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the path you are on. The more you face your inner difficulties and the true causes of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| step possible. Look the fear squarely in the face. Have the integrity and courage to go through | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| cause of this split of desire and motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your pride squarely, which | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of desire and motivation. Face the fears squarely. Face your pride squarely, which makes you so perfectionistic | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| hopeless resignation. It requires an unexaggerated honesty to face up to what is within. This begins to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Path can experience it any time they truly face up to themselves. Quite a few of you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| how anxiety can loosen up as you fully face and understand it, as you express it directly | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your mind, again and again: I want to face the cause of the evil in my life | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| attitude is lacking. If you are willing to face the fact that, at one point, you have | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| sufficient progress on their path to have come face to face with their own destructiveness will perhaps | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| on their path to have come face to face with their own destructiveness will perhaps understand a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and insecurity because you do not wish to face and acknowledge it, let alone give it up | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| catches them and looks them squarely in the face. Then they become quite distinct. Perhaps the destructive | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| comprise what actually exists in you. You must face them before you can make any further progress | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| wrongly and neglect to go into themselves to face what needs to be faced and change what | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| that is in you, your intent being to face whatever the truth may be. On the other | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| growing guilt. Yet, they cannot permit themselves to face it, for this would make the structure they | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| steps in your personal evolution. Progress brings you face to face with your pitfalls, with those things | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| your personal evolution. Progress brings you face to face with your pitfalls, with those things you have | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| long as this negativity exists, the courage to face, experience, and express the destructive feelings cannot be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| can ever exist, because you learn, as you face the negative temporary truth, to also call upon | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| maintained when it is not faced. When you face fear, you can recognize, experience, and alter it | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the life force within you, you must really face the fear on the deepest level - - | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| also exists. Thus, the only way is to face exactly what you fear, what you want, and | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| your negative emotions and desires. When you fully face these feelings, they will lose their power. But | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| when you lose the fear of self-responsibility and face the entire truth about who you are at | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| are subtly infused with such emotions but cannot face them, all their feelings are affected. The frustration | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| It is as though your personality, unwilling to face up to the real guilt but pressed by | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| more desirable way. I have the courage to face it and go beyond the life experience I | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| than the actual destructiveness itself. For once you face the naked destructiveness, you confront a truth in | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of all living -- cannot occur unless you face your deepest negativities and hypocrisies, and your deliberate | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| but who harbor the unexpressed illusion that to face what I am discussing here can be avoided | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is not something you have to take at face value. You can experience it yourself. Now let | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| more difficult steps out of a reluctance to face apparent unpleasantness. The self does not wish to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| be -- or seem to be -- to face. Only then can you be as constructive and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to bring out the deviating, conflicting side and face it -- face the entire ambivalence. Only then | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the deviating, conflicting side and face it -- face the entire ambivalence. Only then do you find | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| dishonesty in which I am too self-indulgent to face myself and change, and choose rather to suffer | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| much to life that I am willing to face unflattering, undesirable truths about myself, even at the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| so deeply involved with life that you will face yourself in all honesty and challenge what life | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and unless you acknowledge these reservations and profoundly face their significance, you cannot make your life fuller | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| then feel that you should be able to face your depression rather than being depressed about it | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| see and not wish to change? If you face this, and truly wish to face the real | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| If you face this, and truly wish to face the real issue and make the necessary change | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| stands. If the willingness is still lacking to face the deeper issues in truth, subterfuges and excuses | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the wishful thinking that makes you unwilling to face the irrational, destructive aspects of yourself. This brings | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of it you are, the better you can face and deal with it and the sooner you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| for what you feel too guilty about to face squarely. Even you, who work so diligently on | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the illusion that you are helpless in the face of the other's wrongdoing, and omnipotence, in the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the key I am constantly recommending to you: face your evil -- your irrationality and primitive, destructive | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| will be unsuccessful because you have learned to face your destructive self. Your freedom may sometimes cause | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| give up these negative traits or even fully face and investigate them when you believe that they | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| existence. Since this conflict is too painful to face when it is believed to be real, the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to make a decision, for instance, to truly face this conflict and to observe its various expressions | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| You may hide this terror from yourself or face it. To the degree you do the latter | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| finally make the full decision and commitment to face your fears, the terror disappears and you realize | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| friends, how important and essential it is to face and accept those aspects, feelings, convictions and attitudes | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| is put to the test. You have to face the discrepancy between what you claim to believe | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| often dissolve fear. You must confront and squarely face these issues. Only thus can the way be | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| words. What are the feelings you fear? Really face that. And then try to open yourself to | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and your commitment at last to try to face and experience them constitute the healing process that | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| you feel ashamed and uncomfortable but you don't face this fact because you don't wish to experience | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will make itself known when you first fully face the opposite of fulfillment, namely your unhappiness, your | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will be infiltrated with doubt. But if you face your incommensurate attitude -- your hatred, your demanding | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| You can thus overcome fear and resistance and face the truth that must be faced, feel the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| attitudes and traits one does not wish to face and give up, or residual feelings one does | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| from the lower self and are unwilling to face it, you will not find the courage to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and openness, when I remove the defenses and face my lower self, when I am willing to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of life. Now many of you are truly face to face with a basic negating attitude toward | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Now many of you are truly face to face with a basic negating attitude toward life: an | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| where one is born, as what, how one's face and body look, what one's talents are, will | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| and new energy to your understanding. When you face and accept your deeply ingrained negative intentionality, you | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| quite important. By now, most of you accept, face, and admit some of this negative intentionality, but | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to happen from outside -- or in the face of which you have given up and adjusted | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and defiance. The two voices must be brought face to face, and the conscious personality shall make | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| The two voices must be brought face to face, and the conscious personality shall make the final | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Conversely, it is true that the more you face and feel that pain, the less you will | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| vicious circles: because you imagine that you cannot face the pain of your guilt, you cut yourself | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| yourself, but it will never work unless you face the secondary guilt and give it up by | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| them. So this path must teach you to face whatever is in you, for only when you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| guise of following your spiritual inclinations refuse to face whatever is in you, this is not the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to be in truth with the self, to face every particle of the self, the difficulty vanishes | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to sacrifice something and chastise themselves than to face and deal with their dark aspects. The guilt | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| has to be questioned. Then you need to face the fear of experiencing certain feelings: it is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| create more order and more light as you face what you had evaded. You literally feel in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in order for you to be able to face, understand, accept, and deal with them and to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| for human beings to take every conceivable evil, face it, and not act upon it. Today there | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of our work dealt with your ability to face negative attitudes, faults, distortions, destructiveness, impurities. Last year | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| anything in you. You meet your demons full face. Then they will dissolve and their original nature | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is an organic process that develops as you face the self-serving opportunism and vanity of your little | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| extremely difficult to give up the former and face the latter. If you seem to get what | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and faults, those areas which you need to face squarely and honestly. The defense against your shortcomings | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| note this fact. The alternatives you seemed to face were either to express your full energy flow | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| mundane aspects that are unwelcome for you to face and deal with. Only then will you be | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| any number of times that when you fully face the most undesirable, dishonest and petty infringements of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| all defenses and all subterfuges in order to face what seems most difficult and momentarily painful -- | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| project your darkness outward, in order not to face your own shadows, you cannot light the candles | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| longer depend on perfection in order not to face your imperfection. The effect of others' destructiveness will | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| path that the more courage you muster to face your truth, the more humility and honesty you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| openly trust, where you look away rather than face, where you deny rather than affirm, where you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you on this path have by now come face to face with your basic negative attitudes, the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| this path have by now come face to face with your basic negative attitudes, the negative nucleus | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| are destructive and they cut out life. You face and know this, but you do not know | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| as for example the fear of having to face one day what the personality frantically avoids facing | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to continue this exploration in meditation whenever you face a lower-self aspect. You have forgotten to pursue | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| continue busying my mind in order not to face the terror that I am nothing inside, that | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| futile. It is of utmost importance that you face this fear and deal with it openly. You | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| than the emptiness. And perhaps you had better face that. When you make yourself sufficiently empty, the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| turn to it, the moment you lift your face to it, allegorically, inwardly, symbolically. Lift your hands | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mercy with yourself, and in which you can face the lower self precisely because you have this | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| toward all being, including your own. You can face your lower self unstintingly -- without whitewashing, without | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| can then make it possible for you to face whatever exists in you. Realize that the lower | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| you have to hate yourself in order to face the truth about the lower self, or in | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| part of man, who does not want to face his own feelings of weakness and inferiority and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| game. Similarly, to the degree man does not face his fears, guilts, and weaknesses, he will play | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a new strength because he is able to face his weakness. That is how he expands the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| discard their reactions nor take them blindly at face value. They will learn the process of investigation | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| a hidden sense of worthlessness that you never face squarely, comprehend, work through in its details and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| structured into the personality. Because you refuse to face your deep lack of faith in yourself, you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| appearance faith. The self-judgments that you do not face openly distort the personality into becoming self-righteously severe | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the tunnel of that fear. Only when you face the tunnel with courage and go through it | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and go through it -- as you must face and go through all feared feelings -- will | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| particular inner condition you are called upon to face and to alter, if necessary. Each entrance to | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| nothing in you that you cannot see and face and go through, that there is only light | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| ask for the force to be able to face the apprehension that I feel mounting and to | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| positive commitment you have just expressed: I will face the truth. I am divine manifestation. I can | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| you, every intent to be in truth, to face the truth, to confront the worst in you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| every attitude, no matter how distorted. Once you face yourself in truth, you can find your underlying | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| will be of great importance, my friends, to face why you are so angry about this fact | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| You are already in a condition to truly face aspects of your lower self and find more | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you are divine, that you need to fully face all aspects of yourself and that this will | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| break through the wall, one truly needs to face it and to deal with it, so that | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and personal little truths often so difficult to face. The greatest truth of God's reality and immediacy | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the truth to get to know yourself, to face the lower self and thereby begin to transform | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| intentionality and utter commitment to the truth to face, live through, and transform the deep, universal, existential | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| give life a most exciting and safe new face. All the fragmentation that is the result of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the chance of being rebuked and having to face the consequences. Passive listeners cheat by trying to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to point out that here again you are face to face with an apparent duality which you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| out that here again you are face to face with an apparent duality which you can transcend | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| people. They can never be forgiven. I cannot face this possibility. I must deny this possibility in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| lower selves and their inability and unwillingness to face and therefore transcend the lower self, frequently made | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| obviously interrelated. For example, the unwillingness to clearly face and make restitution for your guilt leads to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| that results from it. Underneath the resistance to face the lower self is the pain of an | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| resistance -- often quite strong resistance -- to face not only lower-self traits, but also their consequences | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| here. Try to perceive that behind resistance to face certain negative aspects lies an even greater resistance | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| become; the less you can permit yourself to face them -- or so you believe -- the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| that God does it right even while you face the Great Unknown -- however near or far | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| that combines your determination to search for and face all of your lower self and to understand | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| your path, by the many daily decisions to face the truth in difficult or confusing situations, by | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |