| thus were different, my life would take another form. All measures, laws and regulations apparently affect you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| become a spirit entity, similar in shape and form to the human form which is a reproduction | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| similar in shape and form to the human form which is a reproduction of the form of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human form which is a reproduction of the form of a spirit entity. They will then be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and are therefore not spiritual entities, assuming the form the human being has been shaped in -- | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| So it is true that spirit entities in form and shape as you can conceive of them | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Can they apply this experience in their spirit form toward further development? ANSWER: Of course it is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want to receive a reward, whether in the form of affection, love, approval, or to obligate others | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| what counts as the inner impressions accumulate to form the images -- the petrified wrong conclusions -- | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| this misconception, you can reconsider the concepts and form new ones according to truth. You will then | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not because they think this is the only form of life and they have to hold on | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| from life in any way. Adversity in any form is in reality a response to your destructive | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| serve the state, and the state takes the form of a god. The individual has no right | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| selfishness, and your destructiveness, which causes you to form images in your unconscious mind, but it also | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| mind should be allowed to relax. The best form of relaxation is attained when the mind is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in the spirit world in a very specific form. It is fluid substance, but fluid in a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| or whether the unhealthy motives merely covered the form of self-expression best fitted for your individual personality | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| take many forms, but it is always a form of exaggeration in order to enhance self-importance, whether | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| The giving will not always take the same form. In some cases it will simply be affection | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what the child who has built this unreal form wants. The unreal form is a constant hazard | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| has built this unreal form wants. The unreal form is a constant hazard, and you forcefully close | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| mind, both conscious and unconscious, as a rounded form. The more evolved and developed a person becomes | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and developed a person becomes the more this form is free of haze and fog. The less | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| means exactly that. If you visualize such a form, you can imagine that as the consciousness is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| imagine that as the consciousness is raised, the form comes out of the fog of unconsciousness. Gradually | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the fulfillment of ambition, because impatience is a form of immaturity. It is the child in you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| think, to judge, to evaluate, to discriminate, to form concepts, to plan, to use your will, to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| very same truth appears again in a new form, perhaps adapted to the civilization and characteristics of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| teachings of truth without overt power, in whatever form it may appear at different periods of history | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| here are bound to be present in some form if one goes deep enough. On a yet | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| body is concerned. All these influences that later form prejudices and images have not yet had a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| think, Perhaps I am rejecting others in one form or another. It may be done out of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not hook in. But most people, in one form or another, are so insecure that your warding-off | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to pass judgment on itself first -- to form plans for activities, for learning and purification in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Sleep, as well as anesthesia, or any other form of unconsciousness, means that one or several of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| subconscious, whether in psychoanalysis or in any other form of psychotherapy, if truly successful, discover the old | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| division of the human being in an abbreviated form, so to speak. But as you gain deeper | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| freedom and fulfillment. This might appear in the form of brook, lake, or geyser, according to its | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- depend on cooperation and communication, although their form and practice may vary. They take a different | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and practice may vary. They take a different form in a primitive society where people organize their | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| understood communication. Cooperation is simply a more superficial form of communication. All universal laws tend to work | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| represents a truth which is conveyed in a form acceptable and understandable to human beings. A myth | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| put together, is a vast truth in picture form, like the picture language in the spirit world | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all represent a form of personal death -- you will see how | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| more suffering -- although perhaps in a different form -- must follow until you no longer allow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of your real fear of death in any form -- physical death itself, or a negative occurrence | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| contrary: to deny your fear would be one form of running away from or negating death and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the deepest wisdom and truth, but in symbolic form. This symbolism I explained extensively in the previous | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and the spirit part of the body. Both form one whole. That is why Jesus Christ appeared | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| she does not need such faith. But this form of expression, through the work produced, emerges from | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the soul imprisoned. It prevents growth, produces some form of stagnation on all levels of the personality | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| more receptive to pleasure in a much higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| how they work in the psyche, how they form a supposed solution, and how the dominant attitude | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| type, but also in their real and healthy form. Warmth, affection, communication, unselfishness: all that is despicable | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| are byproducts of each other: love in the form of strength, and strength coming through love, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| these qualities were healthy but in the distorted form they cannot be combined. Closer analysis will show | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| instinct of procreation. These instincts in their pure form perform a very important role. But where there | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| fight against the illusion of rejection in any form. The fight assumes various forms. One of them | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| continuation of the human race. It includes every form of creativity at all levels of being. In | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| at all levels of being. In its healthy form, it makes you reach out and communicate. You | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| It can happen in any way, in any form of communication. If you now reread the lecture | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| have experienced it, and traditional psychoanalysis in any form knows it too. The resistance to change is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| pseudo-solution has to be found in its particular form within each individual who works on this path | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| this third attempt at solving life takes the form of withdrawal from emotional involvement, a feeling of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the adult, for that matter -- becomes alienated form the real self, and tries to become the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Since most adults live in daydreams in one form or another, these may serve as additional material | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| which you defined as universal truth in picture form. Most people, and even most mythologists, including Frazer | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are bound to find the answer in the form of an inner truth. QUESTION: Is this something | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to authority happens to take a consciously secular form. Thus you must see that such immaturity and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Such a relation to authority can take the form of a vague sense that the world at | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| emotions, the world will punish you in one form or another. Yes, my friends, this is true | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to govern them without repression, it is a form of temper tantrum in which the psyche says | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| so does rigid adherence to rules in some form or other, which always brings moralizing in its | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will appear somewhere. Unreal needs always have the form of compulsiveness and craving. Mismanagement will make people | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| needs occasional approval, let us say, in the form of encouragement. If an inordinate, and therefore unreal | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| process of displacement, they reappear in a destructive form. You then, unconsciously, try to gratify their insistent | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| takes considerable time for a new habit to form in your emotional reactions, but also because you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your emotional reactions, but also because you cannot form new habits until you have gained a fuller | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aspects, as well as the idealized self image, form a part of your defense. But your defense | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| repress the original hurt that caused you to form an image. You not only repress the hurt | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| In a situation like this, the image will form that women are ungiving, rejecting, and do not | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of you are now going through in one form or another. Its clear recognition will not only | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that the real, divine self appears in the form of rigid perfection with a standardized pattern. This | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and ruthlessness in one form or another. If you view your actions, reactions | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| rejected because it is seen in its distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| from a lower state, a plant or animal form where you were in a state of being | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to solve anything. Self-estrangement exists also in the form of projecting your own faculties and powers onto | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| In this stage, the discipline should take the form of finding why you cannot feel right about | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not the second which requires a more direct form of discipline. In the first stage discipline also | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| an idealized self-image. Both are based on a form of pretense. Define this pretense clearly, and you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| instance. Can you understand that? QUESTION: In the form of a motivation? ANSWER: Yes. And in the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of a motivation? ANSWER: Yes. And in the form of using a truth and shifting the real | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| needs an outlet. Sometimes such outlets take the form of antisocial acts. Then the criminality is an | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| separateness. This wall is a useless and illusory form of self-protection. In the last analysis it is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| do not benefit from them. Simply using some form of discipline to repress your desire to daydream | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| given up, but merely take on a different form. QUESTION: I am confused about harmony and happiness | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| an awesome, strange, fixed, and therefore almost inhuman form in your emotional life? Do they seem artificial | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| this would not help my problem is one form of resistance and amounts to saying, I have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the destructive images and defense mechanisms begin to form. In the past we have examined the various | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| effect, perhaps only partly, or in a modified form. You may even have made attempts to compromise | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are important for a cure, but if you form a habit of taking them, you will be | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| separately, and then I will answer. That will form a lecture in itself. QUESTION: In the traditional | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| need that remains unrecognized in its primary, original form, produces lust. To the degree that you become | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| life and your fulfillment. Together all of them form one whole. If one functions independently in a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| You do not understand why rejection, in one form or another, has taken place, when you are | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| transform it so that it reappears in the form of a compromise, but the unclarity produces a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| work. When they attempt to reach the higher form of being by using the tools of intellect | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mind is for. You need the mind to form the intent to remove what it has built | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| get rid of, it always reappears in one form or another, sooner or later. But when you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it. The memory, combined with the tendency to form habits, is the danger of the mind in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Supreme Intelligence. In this stage, prayer takes the form of admiration of the marvel of the universe | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| exist in a much more subtle or modified form, but essentially they must be there. When you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is enormous. Let us begin with the lowest form on earth, which is mineral. Since a mineral | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| contrast, let me immediately go to the highest form of human beings. These are people who relate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| arts, nature, ideas, will take on a new form that is very much alive, whereas before you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| be helped in your problems, nor can you form real relationships. Thus your life will always remain | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a substitute for withdrawing from loving in one form or another. The greater your soul's readiness for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| as one can, is, as you know, one form of prayer. But with beings who are no | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| previous insistence on psychic phenomena was also a form of self-alienation, a lack of trust in your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| change has been established and begun to take form by the process of discovering your fear of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is so lacking in resiliency that the impressions form deep dents and remain imbedded in the soul-substance | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| deep impressions that cannot be assimilated and therefore form dents, so that the imprints remain imbedded in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| our vantage point. In the healthy soul the form is rounded, very smooth, and even. The substance | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| new experiences. In the unhealthy soul the soul form is bumpy, uneven in shape, with the bumps | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it does not mean it is a round form, like a ball. The surface of the subtle | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| lack of a better word -- take the form of particular blessings not easily and instantly recognizable | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| within you, waiting to be tapped. The extreme form of identification with others because of a weak | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| exists in almost every human being, in one form or another, only in a subtle way that | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| resistance to looking into yourself. No matter what form the resistance may have taken, you always had | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| necessitate this in any but the most rudimentary form. Love for ideas and principles is certainly more | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from intimate personal involvement -- the most taxing form of love, and therefore the most fulfilling one | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not go through and face the impure, self-centered form of love you are now capable of? By | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This kind of extroversion will never take the form of true relating. The extroverted person can also | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| none of these emotions may be conscious. Another form of outside search may be looking for theories | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of awareness remain thwarted and, in their current form, are actually destructive. They could grow into something | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are unconscious of the fact that their present form is not the ultimate one. You then conclude | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| channels which have been clogged up before. No form of self-expression needs to suffer at the expense | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| thwarts his masculinity in its natural and healthy form by trying to manipulate it according to circumstances | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of specific images or misconceptions. They all must form one nucleus, manifesting your personal two-way split. Full | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a compensation. The two sets of attitudes together form your basic split, your way of life, which | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| after sufficient practice, the notes will harmonize and form an integrated whole. A misconception of long standing | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| utterly self-centered. The same condition exists in any form of immaturity. When you explore the recesses of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of, and feeling with others so that they form a harmonious whole with others around them in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| others and less self-centered. Humanity thus began to form a society for the sake of which it | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| were completely aware of it in its original form, without displacing the genuine feelings, substituting others, or | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| creates overt one-sidedness in the opposite extreme. This form of substituting the disapproved need or emotion with | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| trend for the one that is denied, another form of displacement is shifting a need into another | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |