| wickedness. Added to this is your general guilt feeling that arises from the main vicious circle. Hence | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| some of your opinions. By listening to or feeling your reactions you will be able to get | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is just one body, does that have any feeling and emotional personality? ANSWER: Yes, but in a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| feels, and sees, but as differently as your feeling is different from a child's. Your reaction would | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or nurturing a desire for self-destruction. All this | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that one day you will be capable of feeling entirely at one with yourself in doing the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| generated by a chain reaction of wrong thinking, feeling, and action. An inner confusion will arise, since | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| points. One of your handicaps is your guilt feeling, or rather your wrong attitude toward guilt. To | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is subtle, and is easily confused with the feeling of gratefulness and joy of living, which are | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is very thin. The slightest deviation from the feeling of gratitude and rejoicing in the life-force may | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| attitude. But beware of the opposite extreme, of feeling guilty when you gratefully enjoy life, because you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you to cut off the good and healthy feeling that lies right next to the distorted reaction | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to give himself completely. Therefore, a flatness of feeling will set in after the first period of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of impressing others, or to alleviate an inherent feeling of inferiority, then it is unhealthy: then it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| there may be several additional reasons for it, feeling undeserving and disinclined to pay the price are | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| these two. Let us get back to the feeling of being undeserving, which is nothing but an | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| being undeserving, which is nothing but an inferiority feeling. Such feelings are rarely based on what you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it, you would cease to have the gnawing feeling of inferiority. Or, if it can be altered | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in the unconscious only, they manifest as a feeling of inferiority. That is why one loses one's | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the next turn, in order to eliminate this feeling, you strengthen the wrong motive, believing that more | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is an utterly constructive and strengthening activity. But feeling that because you are responsible for your life | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| experienced this occasionally. You know what a wonderful feeling it is. The greater the resistance you have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| know that you are as yet incapable of feeling differently. But this self-honesty will give you strength | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that. So you seek relief from this unpleasant feeling. You believe, mistakenly, that this can be accomplished | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of self-importance. You can only do so by feeling the need to be special, and understanding that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| pain and unhappiness just to avoid the helpless feeling of being exposed to it against his will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| find the instances when you are incapable of feeling according to the right concept of love and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| other way around. There is no greater guilt feeling and shame in the human soul than the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| period of suffering unduly by wallowing in a feeling that the suffering is senseless, not realizing what | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| For man, a woman's way of thinking and feeling is an enigma, and vice versa. They both | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings, you will discover that it amounts to feeling endangered because your world of Utopia is proven | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| guilt feelings. The very nature of a guilt feeling, which stifles your determined effort to find out | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| for something I cannot help. Therefore, a guilt feeling inevitably contains an element of self-pity. Without self-pity | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| self-pity. Without self-pity there could be no guilt feeling. The true and constructive way of searching within | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| others, and yet you do not have this feeling of shame and guilt. You can admit them | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| or a reaction, may give you an acute feeling of shame or guilt. You cannot face it | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| namely that a person has an acute guilt feeling and is not necessarily ashamed. QUESTION: Many times | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| give you the sense of things getting worse, feeling more depressed, more confused. In reality it is | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place, men and women suppress their opposite trends, feeling guilty and inadequate about them. Needless to say | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| latter is pure consciousness, it is alive, thinking, feeling, willing, endowed with all the qualities of life | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the existence of God to whom thought and feeling should be devoted, at least to some degree | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work of self-search and self-finding. The vague feeling of something being wrong makes you altogether uncertain | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| about a desire, it is accompanied by a feeling of guilt. Yet the desire may be doubly | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| justification of it. You have a vague, unconscious feeling that your possible selfishness will jeopardize obtaining what | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the outer will, you will have a slight feeling of doubt, scruples, a certain guilt and a | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a reward of another sort, namely the good feeling of being at one with yourself, the security | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| fear of others is always based on your feeling weak and inadequate. By coming to terms with | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| individually. Prepare yourselves by thinking about it, by feeling how these words apply to you. Are there | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| like to know how to handle a guilt feeling -- and also how does one make amends | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilt feelings: One often feels guilty when that feeling is unjustified, as I said before. As I | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know that every child does -- whether this feeling is justified or unjustified makes no difference -- | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| for something, or when you detect an acute feeling of shame about showing your heart and exposing | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| some degree, without compulsions, without fears, without uncertainties, feeling at ease with life and people. QUESTION: If | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| weakness this desire implies, nor being afraid of feeling simple sadness that will never have an unhealthy | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the unreality of this haste. There is some feeling in you that this is a waste of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| sitting down for five minutes or so, your feeling is, This is a waste of time. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| person. You will then be uninfluenced by it, feeling neither obliged to give in, nor feeling guilty | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it, feeling neither obliged to give in, nor feeling guilty if you do not. You will see | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to be heard. This manifests in a vague feeling of discontent, as of missing something, you do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will learn to give up your demand without feeling hostile; you will reach a point where you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| -- all of which are based on a feeling of inadequacy and closely connected with the sense | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in what is really going on and a feeling that it is more pleasant to wander in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| an interest in what is around you without feeling tension within yourself. QUESTION: You have stated that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| such a mutual interplay, it will relieve the feeling of isolation and guilt you all are burdened | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| aware of a hurt without anger and without feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| without feeling hostile. You may feel sad, but feeling sad seems to many people so humiliating that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| own life. You will thereby instantly lose the feeling of injustice, which may be conscious in some | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| do about either. This is a deep- rooted feeling in almost everyone, and it is of utmost | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| involved, the personal hurt will be removed; the feeling of personal rejection will be diminished, at least | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is in vain. You can only change a feeling genuinely if you understand it, but not if | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| see and thoroughly understand all that without a feeling of guilt and depression, but rather in a | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| first experience in the new state is the feeling that whatever you experience at the moment is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| experienced them. That you seem to produce a feeling does not mean that you have actually done | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you produced negative emotions yourself gave you a feeling of greater protection. This is all wrong. The | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| on a subtle inner level; (3) guilt: the feeling of I do not really deserve it. This | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of manifestation. You cannot penetrate anymore into the feeling of reality you have tasted at other times | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| so when you exaggerate and dramatize a positive feeling about a person. And you do so when | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your work. Unless you become aware of it, feeling it almost like a separate element in you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| or your knowledge, or your decision is right, feeling neither guilt nor pride nor doubt. You will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| may be, facing it results in a vibrant feeling of being alive. Most of you know this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you should. The latter directs your thinking and feeling and perceiving into a more correct channel; you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even if it is only in a vague feeling. In reality, the two are the same. Now | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is also a question of pride, of the feeling of being exposed to others, while one is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are going. Seek another way out. Your conscious feeling only knows futility and this gives you a | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of hopelessness, impatience and disgust with life, the feeling of What is the use? Yes, this mood | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real reason. In this disgust with life, this feeling of pointlessness, you must hurt yourself. You must | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to approach this work with a freshness in feeling and outlook. This may be helped along by | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work. The psyche indicates your inner world of feeling and reacting, generally speaking. Is that clear? Yes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at least for a while, you cannot help feeling and reacting in a certain way. Further insight | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| If you keep in mind that any negative feeling, be it lack of strength or whatever else | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you will get what you want by feeling, reacting and being in a way that is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| add something to this discussion? I have a feeling that a certain misunderstanding may exist here that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other, is not determined by intensity of feeling, but by the time element, and the prevailing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| before you begin to experience the difference in feeling between the genuine desire to gradually work toward | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| never give up whipping yourself, castigating yourself, and feeling a complete failure whenever it is proven that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| their unreasonableness, their impossibility. When you have a feeling of acute anxiety and depression, consider the fact | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| solution. One of these pseudo-solutions is love. The feeling is, If only I would be loved, everything | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the despised aggression of others, in spite of feeling superior in spiritual development or ethical standards, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| does is wrong and induces guilt, shame, a feeling of inadequacy, and therefore frustration and self-contempt. Let | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| fear of being dependent on others and therefore feeling insecure -- the dictates of the idealized self- | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| have never truly been aware of. Then a feeling of strength and self-confidence will make you see | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| selves? ANSWER: The negative or distorted thought and feeling forms emanating from others will affect the corresponding | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you which also harbor distortions. The thought and feeling forms, emanating from the real self, will affect | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to the effect of your own thought and feeling forms on yourself, it would be misleading to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of self-preservation is distorted, it fights against this feeling destructively. As you proceed with this work, you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot help feeling threatened, endangered. Deep within, you panic as though | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| But as you proceed with your self-examination, the feeling will become clear. You will become acutely aware | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| superimposed one. It presupposes a certain generosity of feeling, a certain greatness in that you can admit | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| can one find out which is the right feeling? ANSWER: I should think it not too difficult | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| too difficult to know which is the right feeling, provided both feelings are genuine. Of course, it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to fully reach surface awareness. Therefore the negative feeling has to be let out in its full | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| People often conclude, incorrectly, that to recognize a feeling and to act accordingly are the same. Actually | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| underlying reality, certainty, and stability of the real feeling slowly coming to the fore. Yet a part | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| overemphasis on thinking and reason rather than on feeling and intuition. The very fact that this question | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the form of withdrawal from emotional involvement, a feeling of wanting to be left alone with the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| for love and protection; craving pleasure and happiness; feeling vulnerable, submissive, insecure, and dependent. If the predominant | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| shifted from thinking, intellectually evaluating, and deducing to feeling and experiencing all your positive and negative emotions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the inhibition of spontaneity and for a certain feeling of flatness that you have about life, a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| spiritual action, is one thing. But spiritual living, feeling, being, and inner experience is an altogether different | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be experienced only after the inner world of feeling has been explored and understood. The inner world | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are gratified you are bound to be left feeling empty. False aims are illusions, and even if | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resulting in the main image, is always the feeling of helplessness in the face of a difficulty | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unloved, or felt unloved makes no difference -- feeling lonely, misunderstood, not accepted for your own sake | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distortion generates, there is the added yoke of feeling that you have to obey, whether you want | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will give you a personal answer. The guilt feeling comes from the unrecognized desire yourself to be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in turn, causes bitterness, rebellion, and a deep feeling of injustice. You feel cheated. After all, you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to avoid effort and responsibility, you cannot help feeling self-hate and self-contempt, and you become weaker and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| direction -- and this is not some vague feeling, but a clearly defined goal. You will seek | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| them. But there will not be a gnawing feeling in your soul that you are a neglected | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the capacity to feel. The capacity to experience feeling is synonymous with the capacity to give and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and discouraged yourself from experiencing the world of feeling. Why is there such a predominant emphasis in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of the root anyway. In the world of feeling you experience the good and the bad, the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| hurt of isolation, of loneliness, of the gnawing feeling of having passed through life without experiencing its | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be loved while you dull your world of feeling into a state of numbness and thereby prohibit | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not run away from living. For living and feeling are one. The love and fulfillment you must | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| feel as much as you are capable of feeling? Realize that it is you who caused this | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| pseudo-solution is the following: as in everything else, feeling and emotional expression can be mature and constructive | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| did not wish to experience the pain of feeling unhappy. You also found it necessary to repress | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is possible while you neglect the world of feeling and allow it to lie dormant without giving | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| were using empty words, always veering away from feeling, reacting, and experiencing. Now, how can you love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| comfortable way? If you numb your faculty of feeling, how can you truly experience love? Is love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| rules you talk about? Or is love a feeling that comes from deep within the soul, a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| indifferent and untouched? Is it not foremost a feeling, and only after the feeling is fully experienced | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| not foremost a feeling, and only after the feeling is fully experienced and expressed, will wisdom, and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| forbid yourself to feel what you cannot help feeling at any given time and then dislike all | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| denial leads to moralizing. Your confusion arises from feeling that awareness of your immoral instincts will lead | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |