| something goes wrong, most people are unable to feel what they can sincerely feel when they pray | 36 PRAYER |
| are unable to feel what they can sincerely feel when they pray. So the importance of prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| to cultivate thoughts you are unable to sincerely feel when you do not pray. In prayer you | 36 PRAYER |
| will become theirs at all times. Others, who feel strongly -- although they may not be conscious | 36 PRAYER |
| are the most important beings, will learn to feel differently by cultivating thoughts in prayer that gradually | 36 PRAYER |
| and their entire outlook on life. People who feel their ego to be the center of the | 36 PRAYER |
| -- have an inner image which makes them feel that they are the highest, most important creatures | 36 PRAYER |
| a favor from someone more powerful. How many feel ashamed to do so and are even proud | 36 PRAYER |
| to do so and are even proud to feel ashamed? Isn't that a sign of pride? In | 36 PRAYER |
| I do not need to pray unless I feel particularly inspired. This is utterly wrong. The further | 36 PRAYER |
| are good words as such, you do not feel as strongly about them as you did when | 36 PRAYER |
| it and ask God to help you to feel wholeheartedly within yourself love for everyone, at least | 36 PRAYER |
| divine truth, peace, and love, will make you feel more responsible, and your prayer for all these | 36 PRAYER |
| in yourself exactly where you react, think, and feel differently from what is pleasing to God. Pray | 36 PRAYER |
| In spite of what you often think and feel, admitting a wrong will never injure your dignity | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| freely to your adversary, explaining calmly what you feel has been a misunderstanding, the ways that you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| what you do not like or what you feel is directed against you in some way, and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| world see images. The way you see and feel them is through unhappiness, anxiety, and puzzlement over | 38 IMAGES |
| in their present state of mind, such people feel very heroic if their guilt mingles with their | 38 IMAGES |
| flowing to each one of you, you will feel courage. And if you keep that strength, you | 38 IMAGES |
| not mean very much to those who still feel reluctant about embarking on this path and who | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| any justification for the shame; you would not feel that such behavior deserved shame if you encountered | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you are still struggling with it, you will feel the shame very strongly. You may have a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| accepted it by now; therefore, you do not feel ashamed of it anymore. You may even be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that is what you unconsciously believe when you feel so ashamed. You have created separateness for yourself | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| hour. Your own impression, what you think and feel during that time, is subjective and has no | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| which makes you afraid to live, afraid to feel, and afraid to love. The outer intellectual knowledge | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| friends, it is not so. So do not feel guilty if you also become happy. But do | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| elation and a liberation that you do not feel on the downward curve, which you have now | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in such periods of temporary darkness you cannot feel God's absolute truth, that you do not vibrate | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to accept yourself as you are. When you feel uncomfortable doing this work, ask yourself, What do | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| doing this work, ask yourself, What do I feel? Often you are not even aware that your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you do this, you will find that you feel guilty at having erred. And then ask yourself | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| And then ask yourself again, Why do I feel guilty of being fallible, of making mistakes, of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| me to have found out that I actually feel this way when I thought that my motives | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a burden to you as long as you feel guilt at finding your inner errors. But once | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| I want this instead of that. You may feel an unhappiness, unrest, disharmony, fear, insecurity, loneliness, yearning | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| than you are, and that is why you feel insecure. And that is also why you doubt | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| actually going on in me? then you will feel the relief and freedom that only facing one's | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| image-recognition feels a profound shame. You do not feel shame because all of a sudden you discover | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| cannot make progress by forcing yourself not to feel disharmony, but you can go to the roots | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are very severe with those who make them feel unloved and criticized, or at least insecure. Their | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| rest secure in your value, you will not feel insecure and you will therefore develop a natural | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| blindly idealizing the person in whose love you feel secure. In such cases you do not see | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| When you pray to God you quite naturally feel humble. And to appear so humble in front | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| so humble in front of others makes you feel as though you were humiliated. To be humble | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that you either act more secure than you feel, thus being untrue to yourself, or else it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| proud -- which is a fault -- you feel guilty? The unconscious of the personality will say | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| many other sins come. And that makes you feel guilty. QUESTION: What is the connection, and the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in the spirit world, rejoicing you too must feel sooner or later in your own heart, be | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| blessing for you. Whether or not you can feel it at the moment, this blessing is a | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a friction, or something that induces you to feel unjustly treated. You do not realize that the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is negative, it must materialize as something you feel in a disharmonious way. You often overlook this | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| your own inner reactions, my friends, when you feel unjustly treated or hurt, and you will see | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| wrong conclusion. Led by the wrong conclusion, they feel or unconsciously think that their own extreme is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| clear? Can you explain why you do not feel that courage and will go together? QUESTIONER: Well | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to surpass themselves. Even a criminal will temporarily feel, at least toward one person, a goodness he | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| have no difficulties? Isn't really this what you feel deep inside and what you want to cover | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| any unimportant incident on any day when you feel disharmonious, angry, irritated, or, for that matter, joyful | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| fulfilled. What was this desire? And if I feel hopeful, is it because the chances seem greater | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| that deep in their heart they know or feel that a new outlook makes good sense. Changing | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| God? ANSWER: Certainly that is possible. You may feel joyous because of a victory in yourself. I | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| entire answer, fine. At any rate, when you feel pure joy, without fear of losing it again | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the respective mass image. Then they will not feel inclined to break the image for some time | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is prejudiced. Others, born into the same country, feel an urge to get out, to see other | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| who rebel and revolt outwardly against authority. They feel authority as an enemy because many desires that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| want. Yet, authority hinders them, and they often feel that the authority is not only unjust, but | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| much as anyone else's. You will no longer feel that authority, as such, is an enemy force | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| against anyone or anything just because you may feel that it represents authority. Unless you focus your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you would not be in a position to feel and perceive the difference, because your intuition is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| when you use certain terms and do not feel their true meaning anymore, then the time has | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and naked in your soul, then you will feel quite clearly where and in exactly what way | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| everyday life from this viewpoint: What do I feel? How would I want to be? Why do | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Before undergoing an operation, for instance, first you feel the kind of pain of becoming sick, often | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| The first manifestation must always be that you feel and react differently inwardly. The rest follows later | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| meant that you should visualize it, you should feel it as a concrete something in your soul | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| see it physically. It is just that you feel a hardness in you, something that prevents you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| They are most of all the guilts you feel because you are not perfect. It is commendable | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| state of development -- your present inability to feel different than you do -- instead of wanting | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| become more than you are now. If you feel guilty because you are still what you are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that which seems sinful to you, and then feel guilty because you cannot do so. The remedy | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| there will no longer be any reason to feel guilty about sex. Try to understand that, my | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| understand how confused your unconscious thinking is. You feel guilty about a God-given force instead of feeling | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Being imperfect should not in itself make you feel guilty. But the guilt for hurts you inflict | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| exaggerate your own badness and lead you to feel hopeless about yourself. There are three possible wrong | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| reactions. Beware of each! Find the right way: Feel with the person you have hurt, take the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| attitude is healthy and constructive. The hurt you feel when you realize the hurt you have unwittingly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| outwardly according to the universal truths, yet you feel that their behavior is not quite genuine. Inwardly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to hide what was behind it. Now you feel abused, taken advantage of, without realizing that it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not correspond to your ideal and makes you feel guilty, the self is destroyed. The self-destruction takes | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| learn to become aware of what you unconsciously feel. A mere thinking formula can never be truly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| defend yourself? Ask yourself such questions when you feel this resistance and this battle in you. I | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| sufficiently loved. This frustration causes the child to feel rejected, which, in turn, causes hatred, resentment, hostility | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| spite of this being a natural longing, you feel you do not deserve it. The guilt of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in you. That is also why you constantly feel guilty. If it were really a matter of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a matter of the past, you would not feel this acute guilt all the time, even though | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Such misinterpretations may close in some individuals. They feel acutely what is expected of them and what | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| your divine conscience speaks to you, you must feel liberated; you must feel in complete harmony with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to you, you must feel liberated; you must feel in complete harmony with yourself and with the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| fail to live up to these standards, you feel disproportionately dejected. With each failure to satisfy the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| each failure to satisfy the compulsive conscience, you feel more strongly that you cannot avoid punishment. You | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| more strongly that you cannot avoid punishment. You feel the need for punishment even more than before | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can succeed while you alone do not, you feel completely isolated and ashamed, with your guilty secret | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| yourself as you are now. You must therefore feel inferior because you are not able to live | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| but this by itself could never make you feel inferior. Without your artificially high standards, you would | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| Without your artificially high standards, you would not feel the need to be better than or at | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and respect and admiration from others this would feel like the same gratification which I originally yearned | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| When you had a sound sleep, you will feel much more refreshed than when you had a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| from your compulsive high standards which make you feel guilty and undeserving of what God wants you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| children want to be like other children and feel deeply ashamed about their imagined difference. The maturing | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the contrary, that is fine. However, when you feel disharmonious whenever an opinion contrary to yours is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| contrary to yours is being offered, when you feel angry inwardly or when you feel the great | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| when you feel angry inwardly or when you feel the great need to convince others that your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| The fact that your divine personality does not feel and react in the same way as your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| does not mean, however, that it does not feel and react, too. But the feelings are refined | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is the right thing to do, we still feel we must do the right thing, even if | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| are not quite ready to do it. We feel we should do it because of love. Is | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| do the right act while realizing how you feel and that your bargaining for certain results should | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| these reactions you will gradually discover what you feel about God rather than what you think. Your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| there is a resisting block that you can feel if you look for it. Then, at least | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of your own vicious circle. The guiltier you feel about possible wrongs you may have to face | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not think all that. But many of you feel it deeply hidden in your subconscious. Try to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| find that part in you where you do feel that way, regardless of your simultaneously sincere love | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| this reaction, at least occasionally. Examine whether you feel more alive in a negative situation and more | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| but symptoms and rationalizations. To the extent you feel insecure and inferior there must be a side | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| out your reactions, analyzing them, and trying to feel out your emotions, will furnish the answer as | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Only your emotions can do so. Don't ever feel guilty because of such discoveries; rather accept them | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| out what lies underneath; why you react or feel that way. Find out what rejection must have | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| read these words carefully again and try to feel an echo within yourself. I would also like | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| person does not do your wish, you often feel a desire to punish. This can happen in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your fellow-creatures in many other ways. Whenever you feel rejected or slighted, check your innermost reactions where | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| was discussed in this lecture. Does anyone else feel that it was not sufficiently explained? If others | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that it was not sufficiently explained? If others feel that my words were not clear, I will | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to the measure that you despise yourself you feel inferior because in some way you are dishonest | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| -- along the following lines: Why do you feel God should make decisions for you? Didn't God | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your thoughts, but this is what you must feel when you hide behind this wall of a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sex drive hidden. You were often made to feel how bad you were in this respect, and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the way that there are people who feel, if they get any favor, obligated instead of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| giving, but when it comes to receiving, they feel humiliated -- therefore often unduly obligated. Yet, there | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| This circumstance may be entirely unrecognized. You may feel only a pressing need. You may find abundant | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you may enjoy this envy. It makes you feel strong and powerful at the expense of another | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| conscious opinion of yourself. Not knowing why you feel so inferior makes you feel so hopeless. If | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| knowing why you feel so inferior makes you feel so hopeless. If you only knew why, you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| famous vicious circles: the wrong motive makes you feel even more inferior. Then, on the next turn | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| how you react to people, or how you feel in certain situations of your life, that much | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to go further than that. Why do you feel a need for pride? Because of the wrong | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |