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| follow. Thus, when the time was ripe, Christ faced Lucifer. Now, my friends, I must ask you | 22 SALVATION |
| antisocial or sinful act, the decisions you are faced with could be right either way in principle | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Read my words every day, whenever you are faced with such a decision. We deal not only | 31 SHAME |
| disadvantageous side of each decision has to be faced and accepted. To make a mature decision means | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| voice of that which should really be acknowledged, faced, and changed. Yet you do not want to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| are suppressed, if fears are suppressed and not faced, if hatred is ignored because hate does not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in every soul, and it needs to be faced, my friends, before you can really outgrow your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| themselves. This can happen only if they are faced and dealt with in awareness. As a consequence | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| something. What is it? For if you had faced everything in yourself, insomnia would be impossible. That | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| world, they are unconsciously aware of not having faced and settled everything according to their personal plan | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| out of fear, and believing something after having faced your doubts and come to terms with them | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to find your way out of the maze. Faced with this confusion, people often resort to religion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death in all its aspects -- must be faced before it denies itself. This was not an | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that certain misconceptions exist and need to be faced. Then it is said that one has come | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| me a long time, but anyway I now faced my failure and was at first very unhappy | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| else. Since fear vanishes only after it is faced, met, and come to terms with, pain, the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| danger. The emotional side of your nature, when faced with actual danger, feels only fright and anger | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it always hides something that you have not faced in yourself. This lack of peace, this disturbance | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| accepted because you could change it if you faced yourself. At the same time you battle against | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| also has to be brought to awareness and faced. Sometimes, when the needs are fulfilled, the love | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| continue facing areas of yourself you have never faced before, the experience will not be a crushing | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| in the personality only if hidden opposites are faced, understood, come to terms with, and thereby dissolved | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of disturbance that can only then be fully faced, understood, tackled and come to terms with. In | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| their faulty behavior toward you has to be faced and understood, even though it will seem to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| forbidden immature sexual feelings. They, too, must be faced, reexperienced, come to terms with, if the personality | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| reached advanced earthly age, dissolved your fixation, or faced your original childhood conditions, it is equally important | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| more of his or her major problems are faced and resolved. Therefore, the time element cannot be | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| for desiring to receive. He or she is faced with the unsatisfactory alternative of either giving and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be sure, my friends, that you have not faced an underlying selfish greed, nor have you fully | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of others. Just because these considerations are not faced, out of a sense of shame that one | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the self. To the degree that truth is faced and understood, you become a creator of your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| emotional attitudes themselves will disappear, because they are faced in the now. When you get to the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| as the cruelty within yourself is not fully faced, as long as you run away from it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| it is real. This level is not totally faced and examined. Cruelty is the greatest stumbling block | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| from the self. Once this area is totally faced, relief and growth become possible. As you acknowledge | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| against your own best interest. You are then faced with a further conflict, which arises out of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| begun to be wrought -- you are now faced with the alternatives of having to give in | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| means death, in a sense. So you are faced with the alternatives of admitting a wrong, which | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| with a character defect you have not really faced, nor do you wish to, because you do | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| an inner refusal to love but never quite faced or really understood this fact about themselves. This | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| cannot be reconciled, so that the person is faced with a choice. Often you alternate between the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| will not feel guilty. You will not be faced with the apparent necessity of renouncing something in | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| persist in overlooking what needs most to be faced as they overconcentrate on aspects that they have | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| living. When this point is acknowledged and truly faced, it may appear like a precipice. The new | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be made, or new and different negative emotions faced. It is more a question of the qualitative | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are unhappy, and even when you have faced the exact reasons for it, you still rebel | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| own powers of creation, in spite of having faced up to your feelings. The magnificent creative process | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| they must be ascertained. They must truly be faced up to -- painstakingly and specifically -- not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| into themselves to face what needs to be faced and change what needs to be changed. At | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of the human personality and have to be faced and changed. But the strange thing is that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to approach this state the opposites must be faced and accepted as long as they appear as | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| whom you sacrifice. Whenever such attitudes are truly faced, it shows that never can such a sacrifice | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of awareness I mentioned, which must also be faced in order to become completely capable of the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| in you again shrinks from living, especially when faced with the threat of new painful experience or | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it. Fear is maintained when it is not faced. When you face fear, you can recognize, experience | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| destructiveness. As long as destructiveness is not squarely faced, this conviction is lacking and your holding back | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| leads deep into yourself. After the obstructions are faced, accepted, understood, and eliminated, your highest creative powers | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| safely assume that some guilts have not been faced. Childhood Trauma Not Directly Responsible for Neurosis A | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to this truth, and your ambivalence is not faced, accepted, and understood, the process of unification cannot | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| unrecognized weakness and fear that needs to be faced. If a relationship is dissolved on this ground | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to facing and changing what needs to be faced and changed, and unless you acknowledge these reservations | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| because the underlying causes are not exposed and faced up to. Thus the crises of emotions such | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| become harmful. To the degree they are seen, faced, and admitted, such feelings will diminish in intensity | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this is: To the degree evil is properly faced, self-acceptance, self-liking, new energy and deeper love and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in you as a result of not having faced all your confusions and destructive impulses. No matter | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| accessible: they present themselves because the problems are faced and dealt with. Healing of all the ills | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| when their inevitable divergence from each other is faced and accepted, a unification process can begin. When | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| law, will depend on the extent you have faced your own wish not to love. When you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| resistance and face the truth that must be faced, feel the feelings that must be felt. It | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| faults and character defects. You may have even faced many of them and dealt with them honestly | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| thus to truly overcome it. Evil must be faced and overcome primarily within the self. Only then | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| present narrow confines. Sooner or later everyone is faced with this terrifying illusory end, both their own | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| guilt of your own distortions must be fully faced, felt, and understood in all its ramifications and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| underlying motivation and intention. Perhaps these can be faced with less resistance when you allow your mind | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| come to pass that precisely because you have faced and admitted the worst, you will find your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| think that there are areas that cannot be faced, that have no golden point at their ground | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| exposed yourself; you have not quite understood or faced negative attitudes in you. They may not even | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to the god-consciousness, or you have not sufficiently faced negative aspects in you and still cling to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| They overlap. In one area you may have faced the negative aspects, removed blocks, and be ready | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| also in actions. Only when this guilt is faced, when the pain of it is fully experienced | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| these unnecessary attitudes. You have already acknowledged and faced some of them and it is time to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |