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can you truly express a wish that is free of hindrances stemming from your misconceptions. You, who 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
unkindness that it is left to your own free will to seek contact with them or to 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
illusory. The purpose of this work is to free you of the illusory. For no illusion can 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
your difficulties need never exist if you were free of this particular misconception. This mass image takes 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
the bondage. Then, and then only, can you free yourself of the bondage and compulsion so that 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
Then you can begin the process of emerging free. This can be done only by analyzing, by 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
When you recognize this trend, you will also free yourself from destructive self-accusations. You will simply know 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
truly within yourself -- and you will be free. False concepts are always held on to in 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
is no exception. No human being is completely free of what I have just described. It may 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
simply a strong desire without compulsion, you are free to let go of it, if need be 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the difference of time, called forth by the free will of the human being, is rather unsubstantial 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
an impossibility. It is Utopia! You cannot be free and at the same time have no responsibility 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
own food and shelter. A wild animal is free, or freer, but it is responsible to look 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
of weakening you will make you strong and free. You are so conditioned to the habit of 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
self- responsibility, and the continued wish to be free. The world of Utopia as well as the 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
inadequacy, and whether or not you learn to free yourself of the phantom conclusion that you cannot 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
even discuss them with others. Here you are free. Other faults, perhaps less severe and at times 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
towards real freedom and true independence. This will free you of your basic fear of life. It 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
life with a completely new attitude: as a free being without fear. You will know with a 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
you, it contains no guilt. If it is free of self-pity, of the flavor of Poor me 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
your soul are to become really healthy and free, the understanding of this truth is essential for 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
words. Continue on your path and it will free you forevermore. It will liberate you from your 62 MAN AND WOMAN
in you that love and truth make one free. Love should always be the key word. May 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
unconscious. Thereby, your soul will become healthy and free. This, in turn, will enable you to experience 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
misconception, of responding compulsively rather than out of free choice. If you are true to yourself, you 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you will be unselfish in the healthy and free sense, reserving for yourself the consideration that you 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
regulations -- no rigidity in any direction, but free choice used wisely. One can overwork and yet 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of this experience. It will thereby make you free and further your growth, independence and happiness. QUESTION 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
would be violating the other person's privacy and free will. That person may not want to be 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of untruth, so that you will evolve a free and happy being, capable of giving freedom, happiness 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you cannot get what you desire unless you free yourself of the unhealthy and erroneous motives may 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
your will and conviction. It cannot be a free act, independently chosen. Whenever you do something out 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
for yourself as another person. Only as a free, strong, and happy person can you have fulfillment 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
decision is not wholly your own and therefore free. In the meantime, all you can and should 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
will give you the desire and activate the free will to decide for the unselfish act rather 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
mature way without ulterior motives and out of free choice, you will reap a reward of another 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
Only then are you capable of making a free choice that is not driven by compulsion. This 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
advantage, provided your motives are right, your decision free, your reactions mature. This will free you of 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
your decision free, your reactions mature. This will free you of the misconception that selfishness could make 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
the state in which you freely choose. This free choice can be made only after you realize 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
be yours. QUESTION: Although I have made the free choice myself, knowing all these wrong motives, but 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
me? Is it constructive? Does it make me free? Does it help me to develop myself? Does 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
rejected. Since the rejecter seems cold, aloof, and free of emotions, this behavior pattern -- imagined or 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the child has withheld the love and the free giving of feelings, love must be something shameful 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
point that the goal of purification is to free your true personality. That is the real meaning 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
any longer prevent you from loving and being free. You then remove the part in you that 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
The moment you raise your consciousness, you are free of the illusion; it no longer has any 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
not fear anything, even before you are actually free of the fear. At least, you will see 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
being can be far enough developed to be free of this. But this was not my point 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
stage you can hope to reach is to free yourself of the fear that something might happen 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
the soul. Hence, the ideology in the so-called free world is closer to what is healthy from 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
of self-understanding. You do not have to be free of all your conflicts before you can help 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
that everyone who is a good subject is free of such tight holding-on to the self, has 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
some extent, or if the hypnotist's personality is free to some degree, without compulsions, without fears, without 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
people. QUESTION: If the hypnotist has to be free and the subject has to be free, there 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
be free and the subject has to be free, there seems to be a lot to fulfill 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
The subject may seek the help to become free. In some cases hypnosis helps in this direction 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
an analyst, who also has to be relatively free and emotionally mature. An analyst, as well as 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
make the sick part of human nature strong, free, and healthy; we are interested in the unfoldment 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
are tired of life's problems and hope to free yourself of them in this way. However, are 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
whereas you could be loved if you were free of the entire layer of substitution. If you 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
or compulsive, or intense. This sadness will be free of self-pity and it will not be a 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
you can have the chance of experiencing this free gift only if you don't force it. You 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
don't force it. You can never experience the free gift of love as long as the forcing 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
consciousness. Thus you first have to let people free by permitting them not to love you, if 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
only by this process do you forfeit the free gift of real love -- and not because 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
in Europe, and he would then also be free of hay fever. In such a case, the 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
why it is said that truth makes you free. This is why the resistance of the child 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
to give up your forcing current and become free of a great inner tension, to that degree 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
inner tension, to that degree will you be free to receive something. Perhaps it will be no 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
current and thus your self-created illusions, thereby becoming free to receive real value; or, not receiving it 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
the other person's negative reaction. These insights will free you and further your maturing process. With the 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
person will feel your openness, and a spontaneous, free situation can slowly grow. My dearest friends, to 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
you more fit to function where you are free already, but the discipline by itself will not 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
to a point when you not only will free yourself of tensions and fears, of many unnecessary 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
loving bears no danger. In it, you remain free. You do not become enslaved. It is as 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
have dissolved; now you let the other be free, liking and respecting him or her as a 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
for meditation. When you consciously consult your intuition, free from the forcing current and free from wishful 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
your intuition, free from the forcing current and free from wishful thinking, you will sense certain potentials 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
a person becomes the more this form is free of haze and fog. The less developed a 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
love now. May you find the courage to free yourself of this unnecessary burden of fearing love 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
cannot come that way. Only when you are free of this ever continuing repetition, will you no 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
you may nevertheless build a more mature relationship, free of the childish compulsion to recreate and correct 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
moment it turns into a healthy growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
short in his love-capacity. In this partner the free and spontaneous expression of love may be paralyzed 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
unfaithfulness, because she is looking for that very free self- expression, needing it first in the other 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
may need another kind of partner, who is free enough to help you toward liberation. But neither 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
you peace but which will enable you to free within yourself that which had remained completely hidden 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
to be true. This truth will make you free. If you do not choose adulthood by adopting 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
of the lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness -- and a human being rarely 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
useful to remember. That is up to your free will. But when the cycle of incarnations is 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
aim of this work of self-search is to free you from the superimposed layers so that your 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
certainty, at that moment you must have been free of the forcing current. Your real self and 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
lead you to unsatisfactory pseudo-solutions. Only if you free yourself of the idea that you always have 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
in order to be happy, will you be free of the I want current. And only when 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
outwardly calm and well balanced are not necessarily free of this aspect. In fact, it may only 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
all living organisms. If you let this spark free to become a burning flame, instead of burying 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is. Thus you will become real. This will free your intuitive faculties so that they can take 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
function if you first have the courage to free yourself of the artificially produced strength, and investigate 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
long, it is the only way to really free inherent capacities. The very impatience that is a 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
behavior, no matter how camouflaged, never expresses a free choice for healthy independence and interdependence. Now, my 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
in both at various phases of the relationship. Free interaction on the part of both partners is 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
have to worry about this, because if you free yourself of the exaggerated need, your innermost self 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
unhealthy situation based on immature craving instead of free readiness to love and communicate. Since you are 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
dualism in your own soul. Hence you cannot free the life force that lies within unutilized. So 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
loved. With the help of this awareness you free yourself to some extent from the craving. Nevertheless 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
death itself, or a negative occurrence -- you free the life force in you, which will then 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
to its full capacity, will you become spontaneous, free of all compulsions, will you trust in your 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
on the outer fringes that may have been free of the idealized self's dictatorship, but wholly and 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
the idealized self's dictatorship, but wholly and fully free in every part of your being. This will 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
your life -- not faultlessly, not by being free of all failure, not excluding the possibility of 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
gain the true dignity that will set you free. You no longer have to fight against impossible 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
Without this activity, it will be impossible to free yourself of conflicts and problems. The whole weight 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
And this, in turn, will help you to free yourself of them. QUESTION: In a relatively well-integrated 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
there is no human being who is entirely free of inner distortions and soul disturbances, everyone has 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
aware of it. If the personality were entirely free of it, if there were no self-estrangement, there 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
in the third place, the desire exists to free yourself of the yoke of such a person 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
out of these pseudo-solutions and therefore you will free yourself of the guilt, which is only one 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
role. True religion does not obey. It is free. True religion is a willing process: a free 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
free. True religion is a willing process: a free, self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
much enslaved by its passions to be let free. Therefore obedience had to be stressed in order 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
of humanity is not advanced enough to be free of destructive impulses, the laws to prevent such 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
is completely incompatible with the idea that a free human being can attain divinity. Once blind obedience 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
religion, genuine spirituality, aims primarily to make you free, to make you strong, to make you responsible 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
for yourself if only you decided to become free and mature. Find in yourself this element that 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
such a state, you cannot come out a free, strong individual. You may again fall back into 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
point of view. For none of you are free of the distortion of spirituality; namely, its use 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
of God. If you are supposed to be free and independent, where does grace come in? You 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
impulses. The truly divine can function only in free souls, and this will happen. The whole trend 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
altogether different to expect yourself to be quite free of negative impulses and emotions and to reject 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
one of you. Your stringent need to be free of any imperfection, of any immoral instinct, makes 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
working on the negative aspect until you can free yourself from it through understanding yourself. Do not 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is intrinsically human, and even necessary. Once you free yourself of resistance and repression, it will be 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
and the less capable of being alive and free in a real situation. Therefore, you cannot respond 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
reactions. The healthier a psyche is, the more free it is of the neurotic condition just discussed 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
to what actually exists. In a primary reaction, free of the illusion of hoping to bring gratification 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
nothing to do with reality. If you are free enough to cope with not being liked, you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS

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