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use all your efforts in concentrating on these false or unripe values, you do not see the 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
you are frightened to let go of the false ones fearing that then you will have nothing 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
and you will no longer need to build false values with pride and pretense. You will no 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
learn, accomplish and gain real power, not the false kind. There will not be any distorted ambitiousness 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
the product of your own conflicts and the false solutions you seek. That these conflicts and wrong 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
healthy, mature way presupposes true humility, not a false superimposed one. It presupposes a certain generosity of 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
with the conflict resulting from the other two false solutions. On the conscious, more superficial level of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
they will again quickly withdraw either into a false serenity or into a domineering aggressive, forbidding attitude 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
becomes too much to bear, they establish a false serenity by withdrawing from life. But what I 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
that submissive people, as well as those seeking false serenity, may not even allow themselves to become 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
to castigate yourself for falling short of a false perfection; when you understand the falseness of your 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
little or in a big way, represents a false value. That does not mean that the goal 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it may mix with true aims. When your false aims and values are gratified you are bound 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you are bound to be left feeling empty. False aims are illusions, and even if, at times 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
because it will bring into clear focus the false value and pseudo-solution and show how illusory both 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
know where or how. Let us suppose the false goal of the pseudo-solution that you attempt is 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it is enough that the gratification of a false value occurs to make you restless and disharmonious 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
insecurity and inner haste increase just because the false value and desire has been gratified. Outwardly you 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
angle you look at it. It creates the false guilt of not being as good and obedient 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and obedient as the submissive attitude demands; the false guilt of daring to rebel and to hate 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of obedience and goodness. It also creates the false guilt of not living up to your fantasies 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lecture 52 The God-Image 88. RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for all of 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
of anti-religion, as you may believe, but of false religion. This distortion is promoted by giving to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
trend with many a relapse, leading from the false toward the true religion. Particularly in recent times 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
What are the main differences between true and false religion? One of the main determinants is that 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
One of the main determinants is that in false religion obedience to authority is one of the 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
tendencies that are exploited in order to maintain false religion. You know by now, because of your 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
cannot help but feel injustice in the world. False religion has encouraged and capitalized on this very 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
fell easily into this submissive and dependent attitude. False religion encouraged fear, dependency, helplessness, and a humiliating 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
great that the outer personality takes on a false freedom and independence in a poor imitation of 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
of your task in self-search to ascertain where false religion exists deep in your soul; where you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and false 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and false toughness; or a combination of both. In both 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
perceive at the moment toward the elimination of false religion and its substitution by real religion in 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
religion in the world at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and teaches it, is completely incompatible 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
helplessness, you encourage it, as well as encouraging false religion, even if the weakness and clinging to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
and soul deviations play hand in hand with false authoritarian religion. Anything false always brings an equally 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
hand in hand with false authoritarian religion. Anything false always brings an equally false countermeasure. So, find 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
authoritarian religion. Anything false always brings an equally false countermeasure. So, find in what subtle, deeply hidden 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
with this hidden attitude. And you make a false crutch out of the truth. False religion does 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
make a false crutch out of the truth. False religion does more harm to true religion than 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
leads to the God-image I have discussed before. False religion and your unconscious insistence on remaining an 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
God-image. In the transitional state between giving up false religion and embracing true religion, there comes a 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
phase in which you feel alone because the false god is dissolving and the true God can 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
God. This is the consequence of eliminating the false security, the escape, the crutch that are part 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
not to exist at all. But as the false religion and its God-image vanish, even while you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
fall back into the misleading, shallow comfort of false religion. If you develop your own strength for 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
then can true religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape and the vague beliefs that 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
self, and real security. The emotional climate of false religion can be expressed in these words: I 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
now to let go of the illusion of false religion, of false consolation. And in this transitory 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
go of the illusion of false religion, of false consolation. And in this transitory state, if you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
reinforcing in you the tendency to succumb to false religion. Then true religion will come out of 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the images, the distortions, the wrong conclusions, the false solutions -- directly contradict the spirituality that you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
by removing your own obstacles to fulfillment. The false religious attitude arises when you ask God to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
are often the same for both true and false religion, but the inner experience is entirely different 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the inner experience is entirely different. Both the false and the true religions say that God's grace 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
us after so many decades of learning the false attitude. Wouldn't prayer change too if we discarded 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
certain emotional reactions with this God-image, with the false religious attitude. They are filled with their conscious 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
go, if you cease to be rigid. The false meaning of Thy will be done makes humanity 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you, while you put up a wall of false protection against the impact of emotional experience. If 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
for this by relying on others, or on false religion. This makes you weak and helpless. But 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
to discriminate between genuine good feelings and the false good feelings that you superimpose out of the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
hunt for elsewhere. But you constantly reach for false solutions in order to create an illusion of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
inside you know of your pretense, of your false maturity, of your idealized self-image. And you tremble 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the sense of true religion as opposed to false religion, is again a matter of emotional maturity 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
father-authority out of the need to be protected. False faith and false love always have the strong 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the need to be protected. False faith and false love always have the strong emotional connotation of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you leads to repression and therefore to a false self-image. It leads not only to self-deception, but 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
once. And this urge is dictated by the false belief that you prove yourself unworthy if you 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
one single aspect - - whether true or false -- of how another person thinks or feels 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
truth and try to base your life on false foundations. If you accept this knowledge, you not 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
By the same token, you can have a false need for food. If your body has received 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
for something inessential persists, then you have a false need. Although this false need manifests on the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
then you have a false need. Although this false need manifests on the physical level, it comes 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
and mismanagement of the entire human personality, a false need will appear somewhere. Unreal needs always have 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
need does not necessarily mean this need is false; it may well be real. But some inner 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
discovering that real needs can be borne, while false needs have an excessive and compulsive force. Because 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
real insight into this, the less stringent the false needs become and the more capable you become 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
is a different way of saying that a false goodness, a forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you will then dispense with the practice of false, rigid moralizing. Whoever thought that my discussion contained 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
living according to these great truths indicates neither false moralizing nor true morality based on inner growth 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
take the courageous step of giving up the false values of the idealized self. QUESTION: I feel 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is constructively used, then the peace was a false one. Real peace and strength usually follow unpleasant 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you have yet to understand their inner, though false, necessity. For you, they are a necessary defense 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
faith is truly built on sand. It is false religion that leads to obedience and fear. It 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of destruction. It is not necessarily only the false and imaginary needs that are destructive. A need 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
will you become capable of giving up the false needs. Do not even attempt to forcefully stamp 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
not even attempt to forcefully stamp out these false needs. It would do no good. All you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
needs. This in itself will automatically cause the false needs to disappear. Slowly, their intensity will diminish 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
own healthy inner, and therefore also outer, activities. False needs, even if gratified occasionally, leave you empty 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
develops within, you can first give up the false, distorted, superimposed, artificial needs, and then you can 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
This may be very misleading and may encourage false self-sacrifice, defeatism, and self-destructiveness. You will find this 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
superficial levels of human life. Beware of the false sacrifice which can often be used as a 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
that could be yours -- and then feeling false self-satisfaction, as opposed to real self-respect. The point 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
will uncover your persistent clinging to illusion and false hope, your reluctance to face reality, or to 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
its place. The fact that certain needs are false should not be accepted merely because I say 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
best way to determine the real from the false is to consider what the fulfillment of the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
to you and others. The fulfillment of a false need brings a shallow, temporary, and short-lived gratification 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
I said before, the imagined advantage of the false solution pushes to the surface, but the personality 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
expense of self-finding, leads to escapism and the false religion I discussed recently. It leads to the 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the mother was, the remedy must also be false and ineffective. Let us further assume that this 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
represses the entire process of image-formation, the needs, false claims, destructive defense mechanisms, together with all the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you may confuse submissiveness with giving up your false superiority, just as you will confuse healthy self-assertion 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
impressing others. This then has become a superimposed, false need, covering up the real need. To begin 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
his real need by the pursuit of the false need. He will clearly see the behavior pattern 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
clearly see the behavior pattern caused by the false need and how it damaged the real need 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
no longer has to hold on to the false needs and the destructive defenses. But the change 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
everybody does, and a number of artificial, or false needs. They may not even be very strong 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
to you. It will help you to relinquish false needs and replace them with constructive behavior patterns 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
strong need is involved, be it real or false. When you reach the point of relinquishing, you 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
giving up an illusion, a forcing current, a false need. Ultimately you have to recognize that it 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
of the destructive kind of rebellion with its false strength, defiance, and cruelty; of the unhealthy guilt 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
cruelty; of the unhealthy guilt and self-accusation in false repentance; of the self-indulgence in self-acceptance. These are 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
it is seen in its distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving, and dependency. Let 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
outer layers of awareness in order to find false needs before you find the real ones, isn't 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
needs I just cited can be real or false; you know that. And then you will become 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
anxiety and urgency. Only real needs shifted into false ones have that power. Thus being aware of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
at the unfulfillment and bear it, not in false humility and weakness, but in the strength of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
unfulfillment of real needs and conscious unfulfillment of false needs -- while you search and learn and 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
sort of pseudo-protection. It may fulfill a certain false need. Find this meaning, and you will know 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
without these pretenses, only by giving up their false security, do you have a chance of finding 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
The real self can deal with both, the false self with neither. Why is it easier for 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
is? I am so used to all these false levels, these superimposed, defensive layers, that they have 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
feelings is connected with the pseudo-solution of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both alternatives 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you produce fantasy fulfillments for both real and false needs. The more satisfying your fantasy fulfillment is 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
negative view of fulfillment is, of course, utterly false, since fulfillment is possible in spite of everything 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
also possible that such reverence is unhealthy and false. If it comes from fear, guilt, or wanting 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
push people away and openly hurt them with false superiority. In all instances, you hurt others and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
of their emotional deviations, understanding them and correcting false concepts, then they will see that irrational fear 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
fully and deeply, not just superficially, how these false structures came into being. There are many religious 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
But when their smoldering inner reality disrupts this false peace, they despair. If only you would let 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the experience. Your real self is covered by false layers of superimposition. You may have begun to 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
rather than striving away from it in the false belief that it is spiritual progress to try 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the more does his relationship to God become false. False, because it is based on personal needs 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
more does his relationship to God become false. False, because it is based on personal needs, on 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
way of gaining peace, but there are many false, illusory ways. Most of you have experienced this 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
real reason for your unhappiness. You use a false reason you call legitimate to justify running away 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
destructiveness, while non-relating, even under the guise of false serenity, is further down the scale. You are 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you begin to have real relationships instead of false ones and lead a meaningful life. Even your 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the very situation you strive to avoid by false and unrealistic means, based on wrong conclusions. All 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
you understand its nature, and see it without false moralizing and justification, you will want to change 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
I explained the difference between real guilt and false guilt, but at that time it was not 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
the real guilt that always lies behind the false one. However, not all of my old friends 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
moment, that you would rather produce much worse false guilt, than accept the tiniest real guilt belonging 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
I emphasize how dangerous perfectionism, self-condemnation, moralizing, and false guilt feelings are. You see, my dearest friends 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
times before, you will drive yourself into a false perfection that is superimposed and therefore destructive. Only 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
others may still be struggling to recognize their false guilt. They are still hindered by self-condemnation, by 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
weaknesses and the paralysis of their faculties, by false impressions and concepts, and even by the opposite 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
be. Psychology has already recognized the phenomenon of false guilt accompanied by weakness and paralysis and the 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
for the original fault. Such double-edged guilt produces false guilt, accompanied by a sense of weakness and 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
considerable time to even become aware of the false guilt, let alone the real one. The various 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
to take advantage of you, which is a false way to atone for the real guilt, or 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
of the psychological aspects of your real and false guilt. Self-respect and self-assurance can not exist when 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
It is necessary to penetrate through all the false guilts going through the paralysis and the weakness 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
or the slightest gnawing feeling of real or false guilt. The wish is a clear stream without 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT

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