| the faults in this case indicates the deep fear that noticing the faults would mean to stop | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of you that does believe, you will not fear that the recognition of your doubts may lead | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| no disharmony in your life whatever and no fear in any respect. But none of you have | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| unsatisfactory. Perhaps not enough love is forthcoming; perhaps fear and caution cloud the expression of the innermost | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| withdraw from other people, if you withdraw in fear from your own feelings while you are trying | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| exists the ego with all its vanity, pride, fear, and ambition. This ego layer believes that the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| are not able to overcome your ego, pride, fear, and the cowardice that allows you to cheat | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| that all faults come from pride, self-will, and fear. It is essential that you see and feel | 36 PRAYER |
| and often unconscious attitudes rooted in pride, self-will, fear, and error. They equip you to be the | 36 PRAYER |
| other creature in existence. The self-will, pride, and fear inherent in every human being will give way | 36 PRAYER |
| fears by being able to accept what you fear, provided it is God's will for you and | 36 PRAYER |
| not flinch from life's clouds. I will not fear the darkness. Only by going through adversity courageously | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of test and difficulty about pride, self-will, and fear. Isn't the seeker who kicks and struggles against | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you can learn that in difficult times. Your fear can only leave you if you learn to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| are present in the soul, they inevitably bring fear in their wake. Fear and dignity cannot coexist | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| soul, they inevitably bring fear in their wake. Fear and dignity cannot coexist. The soul that can | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| only in this one respect. Perhaps you also fear to face your images. But how shortsighted this | 38 IMAGES |
| separating wall that encloses you in darkness, loneliness, fear, guilt, and false shame. Only in this way | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| only way to discover your phantom world of fear and shame that has no reality whatever. Remember | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| common phenomenon. Only those who have no such fear can understand the true meaning of desirelessness and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the true meaning of desirelessness and renunciation. Wherever fear of life is embedded in an image -- | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| desirelessness can be attained is by facing the fear of life and love. To risk the hurt | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| love. To risk the hurt and bear your fear that your desires will not be fulfilled, rather | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the hurts will become less, not because you fear and avoid them but because you are willing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| with the unconscious motive of escaping what you fear. This is the only valid procedure: accepting that | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| develop, which exists just as strongly as your fear of it. You all desire happiness and you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| One of the universal elements of images is fear. If you analyze how a particular fear is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| is fear. If you analyze how a particular fear is connected with your personal faults, if you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| things going against their will. Because of this fear -- which, of course, can exist only because | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a certain attitude they will avoid what they fear in life: pain, suffering, disappointment. The error, the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| will all realize that pain is also relative. Fear of pain is always infinitely worse than the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to change it. (2) Find out about your fear of being hurt. Realize that this causes all | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that this causes all your misery. This excessive fear makes you behave like a person so afraid | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that. You may feel an unhappiness, unrest, disharmony, fear, insecurity, loneliness, yearning. All of you, my friends | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Blessed is this hour. There is so much fear, shame and separateness in the human heart! We | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| heart! We recognize it again and again. The fear and shame are often hidden away, so that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| It is but a phantom, my friends. The fear and shame you are so busily hiding have | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| sign that you are not objective, that you fear the truth, most probably because of the two | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| pride. For the truly humble person does not fear to show himself as he really is. She | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you shy. And where pride and self-will exist, fear too must exist. If you were entirely unconcerned | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the courage to be what you are, no fear could touch you. You are unconsciously afraid that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are not what your outward actions pretend. You fear that your pride and self-will would not be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| their intuition, because intuition is blurred by their fear of it, by their distrust of its supposed | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a great deal of experience, mostly out of fear and pride. This type fears that emotion might | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| example, a basically emotional person chooses, because of fear and immature currents, a mask of intellectuality that | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| there also a certain courage that comes from fear? ANSWER: Definitely. A positive attribute can originate in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| One who by nature is more emotional may fear emotion and thus assume a mask that does | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| purification which ultimately will eliminate the phantoms of fear that have blocked harmonious functioning. This person will | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| Understand one another. Remove the walls of your fear of one another, for they stand without reason | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| another, for they stand without reason. You who fear the other, remember that the other is just | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| would remain deeply submerged in their souls. Their fear of love would remain stronger than their desire | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| -- the great experience of unity. Although this fear exists in many human beings, there are few | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| who have built such a tight wall of fear and pride around their souls that they avoid | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| entirely and so shortchange their own development. This fear might exist because in a former life they | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of losing the love of your beloved; this fear will be justified only if you refrain from | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| concepts in your unconscious. You may discover your fear of the great adventurous journey with another, which | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of losing the love of your beloved; this fear will have justification only if you refrain from | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| who is unwilling comes out of the hidden fear of undertaking the journey yourself. You magnetically draw | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| all probability it will relate to your own fear, unwillingness, and your ignorance of the facts. Search | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| It is an escape. The real reason is fear of love, fear of the life experience, but | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| escape. The real reason is fear of love, fear of the life experience, but the fearful renunciation | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| this respect. Try to find out whether you fear love and disappointment. Isn't it more comfortable to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| real sense can never occur when there is fear and escape involved, as is the case with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| any rate, when you feel pure joy, without fear of losing it again, without any disquieting disharmony | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| they decided to join the enemy camp. The fear of their own exposure makes such people doubly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| law-upholder described here are rooted in weakness and fear. And an act or an attitude that comes | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or an attitude that comes from weakness and fear can never produce positive results. The fact that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| upholder who has chosen that position out of fear and in order to become free of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to protect him- or herself from their own fear and rebellion. As a result, the rebellion and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| law- upholder who is motivated by weakness and fear. As I said before, the vicious circle, when | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| There are too many layers of imperfection, of fear, of insecurity, of self-will to have God manifest | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| current in the case of the law-breaker and fear in the case of the law-upholder? ANSWER: Yes | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to an unconscious wrong conclusion, you continue to fear all that is locked behind the wall and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to love at all; also too strong a fear and self- will, which prevent you from letting | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| ever by letting go of yourself entirely. The fear of giving up the self is a very | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the giving up the self. And the fear of this creates the extreme of prohibiting the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| -- can be yours without the trepidations and fear of losing it again that accompany temporary happiness | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| rather than the cause, because of their unconscious fear of the sharper pain of the operation. Under | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| being overconcerned with your own person and your fear of being hurt. You withhold from others your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a few other obstructive forces. More primitive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be afraid of love -- to relinquish a fear that is selfish in nature. If you allow | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| God-given force instead of feeling guilty about your fear of loving, which is born of selfishness and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to become different, desire to give up your fear of loving. This attitude is healthy and constructive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| will give you the incentive to lose your fear and your selfishness. My advice, dear friends, is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| maturity is a matter of degree. But wherever fear of being hurt, fear of disappointment, or fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of degree. But wherever fear of being hurt, fear of disappointment, or fear of life's risks exists | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fear of being hurt, fear of disappointment, or fear of life's risks exists, emotional maturity does not | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your own emotions: if you have negative emotions, fear of them will not make them disappear. On | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| them. In emotional maturity you will no longer fear your positive feelings, either, because you will accept | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| self-recognition and for self-deception out of pride and fear. There was in him an impatience to be | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and disappointment are greatly feared. And if you fear them so, you lack healthy resistance. I mean | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| are on the path of searching into yourself. Fear is a disease. Now, my dearest friends, God's | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| says, I desire to be punished. Thus a fear of punishment arises in the soul, which again | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| chain reactions I will describe next. With the fear of punishment a further reaction sets in. Whenever | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| dearly wished for in life. It is this fear of happiness that leads a person to all | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for happiness and fulfillment, on the other, a fear of happiness prohibits the fulfillment. Although the desire | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| helping to fortify this chain reaction. Now, the fear of being punished and the fear of not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Now, the fear of being punished and the fear of not deserving happiness create a further and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conflicts of love and hatred, of guilt and fear of punishment exist in every human personality, only | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| yourself as you are now without guilt and fear. The compulsive conscience does not know anything of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The second conscience is motivated by weakness and fear. It bargains; it wants to avoid something that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| outwardly, by adopting the opposite opinion out of fear and weakness. Such opinions are often particularly rigid | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| reasons behind your inability? It could be a fear of committing yourself. It could be that a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| about God. To the degree a child experiences fear and frustration, to that same degree will fear | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fear and frustration, to that same degree will fear and frustration unconsciously be felt toward God. God | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| may also prohibit pleasure out of ignorance and fear. Thus it is impressed on the child's mind | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| injustice is strengthened. Such experiences also intensify your fear of God. All this forms an image which | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| experiences benign authority to a greater extent than fear and frustration. Let us assume that overindulging and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| with, such a child will know much less fear. But since life cannot be cheated, one's own | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| this wrong attitude will produce conflicts, and therefore fear will be generated by a chain reaction of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| atmosphere in the child's home is filled with fear of this parent. The other parent may be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in the opposite case. Although severity, injustice and fear may have manifested as the weaker elements during | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| two indulgent parents, but a severe teacher instills fear in you and has a greater influence on | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of other people's shortcomings, but your ignorance, your fear, your pride, your egotism that directly or indirectly | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| this, you can dissolve your God-image, whether you fear God because you believe in injustice and are | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| misunderstanding and a wrong conclusion in itself. Your fear often makes you so paralyzed that your faculties | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| no longer connect with the origin of your fear. As long as you shy away from facing | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| sincere love for God. Find out whether you fear God more than you love Him. If you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| deep, absolute knowledge that you have nothing to fear. There is a type of personality so negative | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| objectivity. Being human, it is understandable that you fear life and love, but you cannot force fear | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fear life and love, but you cannot force fear away through the wrong kind of practice of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to go through it. As long as you fear the hurts, you do not become detached from | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| do not become detached from them. Because the fear is worse than that which you fear. That | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the fear is worse than that which you fear. That always holds true. Therefore, one has to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| go through it, so that you lose the fear of it. This has to be done in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| masochistic, self-destroying attitude, nor in an attitude of fear and a sick kind of self-love. So the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fellow-creature's free will or self-will? The deeply hidden fear of dependence on other people's actions and motives | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| two without stifling the right emotion in the fear and guilt caused by the possible wrong one | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Another reason for homosexuality may be an excessive fear of women in a man, or of men | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| may lead to homosexuality. Then it is a fear and hatred of the mother, or female mother-substitutes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| stimulation. The remedy is in finding the inner fear of letting go, of giving oneself, of revealing | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| common denominator. One inevitable factor in bondage is fear. As you well know, fear can only arise | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in bondage is fear. As you well know, fear can only arise out of self-will and pride | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| currents -- the desire for love and the fear of losing the love or of not getting | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give up the desire, you act out of fear and out of a pressure that amounts to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot manifest if you make decisions hide a fear that you are responsible and may have to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Your unconscious wrong conclusions, plus your guilt and fear, caused your sexuality to remain almost as infantile | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I may say that there is a great fear and resistance regarding recognitions. There is an unjustified | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and resistance regarding recognitions. There is an unjustified fear of change. So do not fear, my dear | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an unjustified fear of change. So do not fear, my dear friend. Trust in the wisdom of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Unhealthy and tense desires are always linked with fear. In certain teachings you hear much about a | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| becomes tense. It becomes a need, and therefore fear must follow in its wake. Let me give | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| hidden. And the hidden motive always causes the fear that you might not get what you need | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| have found mostly one particular aspect: your unreasonable fear of God, the monster created by your misconceptions | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| into consideration in the Plan of Salvation. The fear that damage can come to you by the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is possible that the world is now in fear of excessive growth of population, of population explosion | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that this is so. There is a strong fear in you that whatever happens contrary to your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| then see that what made you tense with fear and anxiety was as illusory as this abyss | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Utopia is proven unreal. This is the phantom fear which makes you believe your life is at | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| full self-responsibility seems so hard to you that fear of it becomes a good part of the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| way you can discover the illusion of this fear, this abyss and its phantom quality, is first | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the ignorance, and the selfishness of others. This fear is as illusory as the abyss. This fear | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |