| inflicted. In that part of your being you feel exactly the way I described. Try to put | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| To gain this special place of approval, you feel tempted to do the very thing you in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| do not give in to the temptation. You feel it vaguely, without real awareness of its significance | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| In fact, you are so afraid when you feel such a temptation and such emotions that you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of the universe. Then you will no longer feel that an injustice has been done to you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| such an outer event does recur, you will feel very differently about it. You will learn a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| will be strengthened rather than weakened. You will feel something very constructive about it, and you may | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and that you do not understand, whenever you feel unjustly treated because you cannot find any wrongdoing | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| need to be special, and understanding that you feel so not out of malice, not because you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| self-search is undertaken in this direction. QUESTIONER: I feel consciously and very definitely that other people's opinions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| understand the cause of it. The guiltier you feel, the less you dare to look into the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| following vicious circle is created: the guiltier you feel, the more you need approval in the belief | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you clamor for such approval, the guiltier you feel. This conflict arises out of two different directions | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| such times are not useless, they do not feel hopeless, but fight with courage until the sun | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the process of provoking the unhappiness make you feel even more inadequate, the world even more cruel | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| has difficulty understanding the other world. You often feel discouraged because to bridge the gap between the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Plan of Salvation? And also how we should feel toward the threatening Russians and Chinese? ANSWER: The | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with you or has certain faults, you may feel all tense and full of anxiety. If you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and its phantom quality, is first to visualize, feel, and experience its existence in you in the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| note in yourself, you will automatically cease to feel victimized. Although a part of you enjoys just | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| apparent wrong of the other person that you feel victimized by it. You put blame on everybody | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| done in the right way, you will not feel guilty about it. In the right approach there | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| say, I cannot help it. I have to feel guilty for something I cannot help. Therefore, a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| there doubtless are areas where you do not feel in accord with your knowledge. With these areas | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| by one of your wrong tendencies and you feel truly sorry about it and this gives you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your path, whatever your problems are. May you feel the love with which we come to you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the relevant emotions of their childhood. When they feel how much it hurt not to get what | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| advise in this respect. QUESTION: But when you feel low, how can you put together your reactions | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| irrational and seemingly senseless feelings. Pronounce what you feel, why you feel low, what you want, why | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| senseless feelings. Pronounce what you feel, why you feel low, what you want, why you would desire | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| imagination to meditate upon this subject, you will feel the truth and that is a lot. It | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| self-deception. It is often the case that people feel themselves overly responsible for others, thus deceiving themselves | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whys and the hows. QUESTION: How do you feel about our continuing with atomic energy tests? ANSWER | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know that something is wrong. Although you will feel it but vaguely, you know it is not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| entitled to it. Your outer will can also feel so impatient, so urgent, so tense that you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| inner will functions in certain cases, you will feel very different. You will feel absolutely no qualms | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| cases, you will feel very different. You will feel absolutely no qualms; you will feel a very | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| You will feel absolutely no qualms; you will feel a very calm serenity in your wish. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| calm serenity in your wish. You will also feel the certainty that you will get it. It | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if they do not do so consciously, they feel it unconsciously -- that whatever brings them happiness | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that it is wrong to be selfish, you feel you must suppress your selfish desire. You fail | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| really selfish desires in your unconscious make you feel guilty, but so also do the rightful desires | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| rightful and healthy impulse for self-expression manifests, you feel and think of it as if it were | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| accounts for the utter hopelessness you so often feel -- a hopelessness that finds an outlet in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| out? Not doing the unselfish act makes you feel guilty, doing it seems to be a violation | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| happy either in doing something that makes you feel guilty, or in doing something that appears to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| on this earth plane. When you think or feel that selfishness would be to your advantage, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to be good and unselfish, but you still feel deep inside that the selfish act would be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you are doing an act and what you feel when you are doing it. To summarize: At | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the same time desiring to change, I still feel it is a little selfish. It is not | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| motive may also be superimposed. The moment you feel that selfishness is still there, in spite of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| know what is going on within yourself. You feel disturbed, but you cannot pinpoint the reason. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| to become aware of this each time you feel disturbed and anxious, you will have made great | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| strive to become more selfish than we really feel like being. ANSWER: This question touches a subject | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| results of this fourfold conflict is that you feel guilty for being selfish, and guilty and ashamed | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the right concept. But find out where you feel that way, even if you do not think | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do not think you do. Not everyone may feel it about prayer. But many of you may | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it about prayer. But many of you may feel it about asking another human being for a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer proof you received, the guiltier you would feel about the continuance of your doubts, and therefore | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or weakness, for reasons still hidden. Therefore you feel guilty. That means you have to find out | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to give it up, you will no longer feel guilty. You continue to feel guilty only if | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will no longer feel guilty. You continue to feel guilty only if you try to give up | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| really want to give up what makes you feel guilty? Or isn't there some hidden recess of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that which yearns to love and give, to feel and to sympathize, to be generous, to be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bring happiness and liberation. If only humanity could feel that, so much sorrow and hardship could be | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hardship could be avoided! For many of you feel that although God's ways are wonderful, they are | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you the guilt and shame all human beings feel about their lower selves, their faults and weaknesses | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| because you are ashamed of it. Thus you feel guilty for not loving and ashamed to love | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| matter how the outer situation appears, you acutely feel the dependent, wanting, needing parent as inferior, while | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| The mere inclination is sufficient for you to feel this as a betrayal and, in a sense | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| way, and for one reason or another you feel or imagine this person to be helpless or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| thing. Only in your personal work can you feel whether or not this is so, and to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| shame of the higher self, of beginning to feel how it exists in you personally, even long | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| when people behave negatively, you will no longer feel frightened or personally involved. It will no longer | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you no longer fear it, you no longer feel personally at stake, and therefore you lose the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| such doings? This is still reality. We still feel the effect of all this. ANSWER: I realize | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| no solution and as a consequence you will feel safe. Whenever you feel unsafe, this is so | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a consequence you will feel safe. Whenever you feel unsafe, this is so because of yourself, never | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| one hand, you ought to be cautious and feel responsible, while on the other you should know | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you to open your hearts and try to feel the strength that is right here in this | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it. You think you have to do, think, feel, act and express in a way generally prescribed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you may do so right away, if you feel the urge, and resume the concentration exercise another | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you can do it, the more you will feel rested after such periods. Many other benefits will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will. Most important of all is not to feel frustrated when you do not succeed, when you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and outer life. Doing this, and trying to feel the difference between volitional and unvolitional thought processes | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Many of my friends consciously believe or vaguely feel that when they have worked on themselves for | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the surface pseudo-calm prevails. Only what you really feel can ever be the yardstick. Outer confirmation cannot | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| clarity on this subject, you will no longer feel it an injustice that undeveloped, selfish people seem | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| -- of favorable outer manifestation. Nor will you feel it an injustice that you, or others who | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| love is limitless, but it is made to feel that such a desire for exclusive and limitless | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is wrong. The right conclusion would be to feel, The type of love I wanted so far | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of your unfulfillment exists, but you will also feel it -- and that is good. You will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| layer of substitution. If you allowed yourself to feel the original longing, not being afraid of the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| experience liberation and a new strength. You will feel that you have shed a cumbersome burden you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and reality. You may not be able to feel differently as yet, but the remaining wrong reactions | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thus deluded. According to the distorted God-image, people feel that God requires them to be unhappy, to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are ashamed to show love or devotion, you feel more secure to be -- or at least | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different ways. But those of you who still feel this shyness, question yourselves seriously and as honestly | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| last session you said, You will no longer feel it an injustice to see undeveloped, selfish people | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hear or read these words, you may not feel an echo in yourself. In fact, at the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to your idea of it, and therefore you feel yourself endangered. Every indication of reality clashes with | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| disappointed about a little thing, and you therefore feel guilty about having such a childish reaction. But | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unconscious mind. A mature soul will, of course, feel the momentary impact of a tragedy with all | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| inner reactions work in that way, and you feel all the more frustrated because you do not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| start by questioning, every day, what you really feel. Then you can go deeper to discover the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| hidden hostility and resentments. The other person will feel your openness, and a spontaneous, free situation can | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| loving makes you withdraw and how guilty you feel, deep down, about withdrawing. Find also how you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you will give another person the freedom to feel about you as she or he wants. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| two extremes. Either you are submissive, which you feel is unhealthy for all concerned and has no | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you may otherwise not have noticed. You may feel, for instance, that your mouth pulls down, or | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| from the here and now. You can almost feel yourself standing poised on guard at a sort | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the present phase of your development. Whenever you feel confused or uncertain about something you have found | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| does your subconscious cooperate? It does, if you feel the unreserved desire to face anything that is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| face anything that is within yourself. If you feel uneasy and anxious, if you wish to limit | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| intentions in clear-cut foreground thoughts every time you feel you cannot stand on guard anymore. Each time | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| acquiring the ability to allow other people to feel about you as they wish. If you can | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| work with on this particular aspect. You will feel an entirely new emotional reaction in you as | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| give up your subtle forcing current. You will feel as though a heavy burden were removed from | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| live up to your expectations. Hence you vaguely feel that you do not trust the other person | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| how can you love as exclusively as you feel you ought to if you do not trust | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will be able to see, observe, sense, and feel what is true, and not merely believe what | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| It may be that certain people do not feel about you as you would wish -- and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| people who have not attained such power would feel extremely frustrated and their sense of inadequacy would | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| safety of the fixed rule. You seem to feel as though you could lean against a wall | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| but in the wrong way. It does not feel the reality of the morrow, therefore it thinks | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it should be. Or, in extreme cases, they feel especially isolated, believing their lot is like no | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a deeply suspected inability to love maturely. Children feel the truth very acutely. They may not think | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| or consciously observe it, but inwardly children keenly feel the difference between mature, genuine love and the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| being able to explain it rationally made you feel guilty and uncomfortable. You therefore pushed it out | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| hurt. But at first you only have to feel the similarity of the pain. However, this requires | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| evaluation will not yield any benefit. When you feel the similarities, while at the same time experiencing | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| fear to uncover the real emotion and will feel, even in the temporary experience of acute pain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| intellectual knowledge. You have to allow yourself to feel the pain of certain unfulfillments now and also | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| happens, the insight you gain, the experience you feel exactly as I say here, will enable you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the subconscious of the other. So often, people feel unjustly treated when they know their actions were | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will diminish automatically. Therefore, you will no longer feel the need to provoke the other person. Also | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you become fully aware of what you really feel. Actually, you are only half aware of it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| accomplished. Allow yourself to see what you really feel and why. And when you have an overall | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| without anger and without feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |