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positive pleasure. COMMENT: Very often we put a false price on paying for pleasure. It is not 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
must be when one ascribes these occurrences to false reasons, and how much more constructive your life 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
your side is true, while the other's is false, you are deeply involved in the world of 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
your erroneous fears, and you cling to the false fears because of your indoctrination. Before we discuss 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
the dualistic plane, with its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and fear. When this 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
know this, only you know it in the false way; you believe it to be your undoing 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
and total fulfillment. You seek all this with false means. They are as varied as each individual's 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
how you personally try to set up the false fight leading into more confusion and pain. The 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
achieve mastery, is by letting go of the false need to win, to be separate, to be 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
state, as you know, was a result of false ideas. As these false ideas begin to crumble 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
was a result of false ideas. As these false ideas begin to crumble, the destruction may bring 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
whether others see and admire it or not. False, damaging, tortured moralizing and self-accusation always hides a 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
real values and will do away with all false morality. The more you are willing to truly 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
posed. The possibility that your assumption might be false must be seriously considered. At the same time 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
your outer life as well will reveal how false the fear of loving is, and how safe 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
you empty, dissatisfied, and increasingly frightened, as all false solutions do. The farther you flee, the more 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
is no longer any split, any division, any false concept, is where the universal consciousness is completely 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
joyous and so is life's essence, unhampered by false ideas. Anyone observing a child can see this 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
of feelings and of life, you produce a false self, false feelings, and therefore a false life 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
and of life, you produce a false self, false feelings, and therefore a false life. This is 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
a false self, false feelings, and therefore a false life. This is why people who know about 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
conscious notions. The real is denied and the false substituted -- and this is the answer. This 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
answer. This explains the conflicts arising from the false feelings. This is why conflicts seem to be 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
the relationship between the self, life, or others. False feelings are created because nothing is as frightening 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
of their deadness. You then proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
You then proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- about your spiritual 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
are most confused about the real and the false in themselves therefore often believe this pathwork to 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
to salvation than those who cling to the false theories about life -- false because in their 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
cling to the false theories about life -- false because in their hearts they do not really 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
too, may be subtle. Both positive and negative false emotions can be so subtle that it is 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
to admit them. It is rather obvious that false feelings are produced when one talks oneself into 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
It is less obvious that the feelings are false when the rudiments of the particular feeling actually 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
the difference between the real feelings and the false feelings, the genuine wellspring of spontaneous life and 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
more opposites, more irreconcilable poles. For example, a false feeling of excitement is supposed to ward off 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
Therefore it contains both stimulation and peace. The false feeling cannot combine apparent opposites, such as excitement 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
from one extreme to the other. For a false feeling creates a lack of freedom, enslavement to 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
creates a lack of freedom, enslavement to the false processes set in motion. One no longer chooses 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
peaceful becomes lifeless and finally ends in fright. False feelings always create problems on the dualistic level 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
Let us take the example of love. The false feeling of love breeds and results in the 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
freedom unhampered. This is the typical conflict of false love, which, in turn, is produced because one 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
such conflicts, and all are the result of false feelings. Artificial production of positive and negative feelings 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
each breeds different manifestations on the practical level. False positive feelings breed irreconcilable conflicts. False negative feelings 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
practical level. False positive feelings breed irreconcilable conflicts. False negative feelings, after a time, appear as real 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
sense, played a game and deliberately constructed the false feelings, let us say fear or anger. These 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
soon forgotten, pushed away, and what was a false anger or a false fear appears real and 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
and what was a false anger or a false fear appears real and becomes much more frightening 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
has become stronger. This is not so with false emotions. A real hurt mellows and makes a 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
makes you grow and expand your horizons. A false, dramatized hurt can never accomplish this. Any superfluous 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
waste. Only numbing the real feelings and creating false feelings, no matter how subtle they are, is 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
matter how subtle they are, is a waste. False feelings are the result of a chain reaction 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
working on this path pay attention to the false emotions you initiate. Note how you do not 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
having created their own lack of fulfillment through false feelings. People who live a false life with 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
fulfillment through false feelings. People who live a false life with false feelings often believe themselves further 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
feelings. People who live a false life with false feelings often believe themselves further advanced than those 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
problem with those manipulated feelings differentiate between the false and the genuine feelings? ANSWER: The easiest way 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
to become aware of them; to face where false feelings arise. The attention will then focus itself 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
one truly wants to become aware of the false feelings, to deceive oneself no longer, and states 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
become more obvious. You will see how the false is laborious and the true is easy; how 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
laborious and the true is easy; how the false leaves one flat and the true brings a 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
do: to live in reality, to see the false, to stop it, and to allow the real 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
is the most profound reason for your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity and destructiveness. Deep within 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
consciously recognized and come to terms with, create false guilts and exaggerated standards of perfection. It is 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
own -- whether or not it also causes false guilts. This inner mechanism is exact. No self-deception 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
beings are most impregnated with mass opinions and false limitations, considering them inevitable laws of life. They 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
disturbance. The disturbance may be accepted in a false spirit of inevitability, taking for granted what need 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
eventually enable you to see that it is false. When you fear the hope that opens to 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
realize the power you have within yourself. Each false concept, each wrong conclusion, each erroneous opinion, each 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
of energy. It is not the kind of false relaxation that does not breathe, move, respond. Quite 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
of your own cosmic powers. Another obstruction is false goodness, which we might also term sentimentality. Easily 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
life and the fear to do so creates false goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to do so creates false goodness or sentimentality. False goodness results when real feelings are blocked. The 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
and it also knows no obligatory feelings -- false goodness, sentimentality. It is free and spontaneous, since 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
feel, but, unfortunately, I cannot genuinely do so. False goodness stands more in the way of the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
real love feels naked, so you create a false love. You may really feel anger, as you 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
this real anger feels naked, so you create false anger. You may really feel sadness, but you 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
this sadness, even to yourself, so you create false sadness, which you can easily display to others 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
too, is humiliating to expose, so you create false pleasure. This even applies to elements like confusion 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
so naked and exposed, so you create a false one. This falsification functions like a protective garment 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
mere words that distinguishes the real from the false -- only the flavor of experience and the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
ones. Their intensification then serves to make the false appear real. You first come in contact with 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the courage to be nakedly real without any false covers. You cannot help but succeed if you 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
voice that refuses to move. May all your false layers fall away because this is what you 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
about life and their relationship to it on false ideas. These false ideas are often unconscious and 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
their relationship to it on false ideas. These false ideas are often unconscious and form the images 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
act upon these premises. Since the premises are false, the ensuing actions and emotions are bound to 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
negative experience, due to the presence of unconscious false ideas. You fear the self-perpetuating, involuntary forces. You 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
be sure that -- even after dissolving the false assumptions which formed certain images -- the available 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
over-controlled, and rigid. When the heaviness of the false discipline imposes too much stricture, some personalities break 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
giving in the least, or straining for the false concept of love I just described. Since each 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
and self-depriving the personality becomes. The more the false giving by self-impoverishment and lack of self-assertion takes 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
so much more wonderful than any ideal and false presentation of it could be. The discrepancy between 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
how this can be proven to be a false assumption. What also vary, almost infinitely, are the 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms of false self-protection. When these mechanisms are given up -- 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
cooperate, forceful outer aggression, intimidation, and persuasion through false strength and assumption of an authority role. Deep 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the responsibility for them. You still claim a false perfection -- even though you do not really 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
real self and remaining in ignorance, living with false ideas. Let us begin with the fear of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
in order to hang on desperately. The various false ways of relief from a cramped ego always 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
go of ego control because you believe the false idea that letting go makes you lose strength 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
and exhausts the ego faculties will then seek false relief. Such false relief can take many forms 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
ego faculties will then seek false relief. Such false relief can take many forms. One of the 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
is some effort of overcoming laziness, resistance, and false safety devices. It also includes exploring the conditions 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
when you lose your separation. This is totally false. The separation must vanish. The separation exists due 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
We have talked about many dualistic aspects, many false alternatives human beings belabor and suffer from. You 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
-- therefore erroneous -- alternatives, based on completely false premises. I have discussed many of them and 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
and greedy. At that point, there is no false alternative, no split, or choice to be made 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
imprinted with this duality, is imbued with its false divisions. When you come to the point where 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
you are meant to experience -- out of false fears and ideas -- creates an energy you 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
call upon powers deeper within me than the false fears and ideas. I no longer wish to 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
and vibrant with well-being. We have seen superficial false conclusions and short- sighted character attitudes of defeatism 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
fail, due to the personality's stubborn refusal and false ideas. All self- destruction is a slow form 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
also recognize how I manipulated myself in producing false fears. The moment I could fully see this 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
violate the law of love. Now that the false, pretended love has been removed and disclosed as 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
actually feel, think and believe, whether true or false -- while the haze and fog of unspecific 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
sets of contradictory reactions, counter-reactions, defense measures, further false beliefs and their inevitable consequences, which create more 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
true. Often, though you have actually recognized a false assumption about yourself, you still do not follow 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
precisely because you are so committed to your false ideas that a different mode of approach appears 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
that it threatens you only because of your false ideas. The illusory assumptions compound, one leading to 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
In addition to such nonsense there are also false beliefs and impressions you even consciously assume to 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
even though you may sense they are somehow false. The painful premise seems preferable to another alternative 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
complications and interactions of all the knots, ensnarlments, false beliefs, half-truths and contradictions comprise what actually exists 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
exists, and second, what really is. All the false assumptions you harbor seem to dictate keeping them 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
push on and find out why not. What false beliefs prevent you from doing so? When you 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
you do not clear up the entanglements of false opinions -- of what you believe exists as 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
expression of misunderstanding the processes caused by the false idea that inner blocks can be removed by 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the moment most painful, you trust in a false God -- a God outside yourself. For you 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
suppression becomes, the greater the contrast with the false superimpositions is, the greater will be the likelihood 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
responsibility onto others by buying them with my false unselfishness, through enslavement, through making myself feel so 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the divine kernel, which itself becomes your anchor. False unselfishness makes you lose this center. You are 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the person one is dependent on; weakness, helplessness, false humility -- therefore rage, anger, rebellion. The more 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
kept underground so as not to disrupt the false structure, the greater the discrepancy between the surface 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
all concerned. When the duality splits selfishness into false divisions and false values so that untruthful, pretended 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the duality splits selfishness into false divisions and false values so that untruthful, pretended and distorted attitudes 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
believed to be the right way. It lends false humility, thus false pride, to the person who 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the right way. It lends false humility, thus false pride, to the person who sacrifices. It makes 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
situation. I already mentioned the rebellion, anger, and false sense of goodness, the spirit of being victimized 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
often build on top of this structure a false, exaggerated hurt -- the game of, See what 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
of artificially exaggerated hurt results from all the false layers that separate your consciousness from the original 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
separate your consciousness from the original hurt. The false hurt creates an unbearable pain that leads to 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
concealed by apparently quite opposite patterns. But the false submission cannot ever be a substitute for real 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
removing unhealthy conditions that are a result of false beliefs in the deep psyche, you will see 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
unending. But the fear of death contains every false attitude I discussed in this lecture. Physical death 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
and women come across the identical patterns of false activity. On the one hand they find false 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
false activity. On the one hand they find false aggression, hostility, violence, overactivity, impatience, refusal to wait 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
come to fruition. On the other, they find false receptivity and letting go, meaning denial of self-responsibility 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
and let himself be carried. It would be false to assume that the man who is not 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
and can accept a no for an answer. False love is like a lasso that wishes to 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
strongly compelled when he refrains from assuming the false responsibility. Such a forced act would be unnatural 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
overcome considerable resistance to penetrate the mask of false security he had been assuming. He now finds 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
any loveless action must do, as well as false guilt for being dirty. The cut-off sexuality becomes 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and pretenses. And on and on it goes. False Guilt Produces Real Guilt and Vice Versa The 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
of Misconception-Split-Vicious Circle also demonstrates the interdependence of false and real guilt. A childish misunderstanding often produces 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and real guilt. A childish misunderstanding often produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
A childish misunderstanding often produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and pretenses that lead 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
feeling of being victimized are themselves misconceptions. The false blame launched against the world makes the world 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
her self-pity, accusations, and anger. Whenever you find false guilt in the course of self-confrontation, you must 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
unjustified guilt to mask the real one. The false guilt also may be hidden at first, but 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
open mind and is free from misconceptions. No false beliefs create fear, defensiveness, destructive emotions. Someone who 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
you lose nothing. When the duality of the false, childish greed and false, self-limiting sacrifice give way 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
the duality of the false, childish greed and false, self-limiting sacrifice give way, fullness of experience arises 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS

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