| serve a need other than that which the goal was supposed to fill in a healthy way | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to the point we first raised; when the goal is not desired for its own sake, but | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| without paying the particular price it requires. The goal thus becomes of doubtful value. Wherever you have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your desires that are not directed toward the goal itself. By finding and facing them squarely, you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inferiority feelings in you, even though the very goal of this desire is to eliminate these feelings | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that stands in no direct relationship to the goal itself. By so doing, you are running around | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| approval that through it I can attain my goal. You then start to strive for such perfection | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| wrong further because you want to reach the goal of perfection right away, since happiness through omnipotent | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| whipping and whipping you, holding up the unrealizable goal, so that each failure causes additional despair and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| another sense this weakens him even more. The goal must be the slow unfoldment of undistorted qualities | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| of these toward the partner is therefore a goal in itself in marriage. In the simplest terms | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| will. Even if both will-currents pursue the same goal, even if the outer and inner will desire | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| just strive toward this fuller vision as a goal. But the true concept cannot become part of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will cannot suffice in bringing you to any goal: it will only tear you apart; it will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| may already sense at this point that the goal of purification is to free your true personality | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| also true that despite your wanting the right goal and having pure motives, your negative tendencies played | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| This awareness will bring you nearer to the goal. At the beginning it will seem impossible to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| have to establish first whether you desired this goal because of unhealthy motives, or whether the unhealthy | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you should find that the fulfillment of this goal would have been right for you, it is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are indispensable and can bring you to the goal without the help of such exercises, the latter | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| It is either the great height, the final goal, or it is nothing. The more the striving | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Since you are unable to achieve the final goal, you withdraw altogether. This is due not only | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| much is possible for you now. The final goal is not. You are not yet able to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| selfishness and vanity. To reach for the great goal with all these feelings present is not only | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and to let them mature gradually -- that goal is attainable. Before you can truly love others | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| He or she realizes that if the desired goal is not accomplished right now, there must be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| glance is directed toward a particular or partial goal on the way. In doing so, you may | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| without even knowing whether you wanted this particular goal or why you wanted it. Such indetermination is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of education. The world is moving toward this goal. Still another aspect in meeting this problem is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| aim of union with all as your personal goal will you be capable of utterly fulfilling yourself | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have to realize that there is a further goal beyond the mere dissolution of your inner problems | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| then one naturally feels guilty for desiring the goal. If a person accepts full adult self- responsibility | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| leader who sets the example of attaining his goal on the path of development while having his | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| personality than the artificial manipulation, even if the goal is the same. At other times, the goal | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| goal is the same. At other times, the goal may not be the same and what you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in seeking a shortcut, which is unrealistic. The goal is unattainable in that way. ANSWER: Yes. And | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life -- will bring you to the desired goal. If you persevere in that, your entire being | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer ones. However, I would not call their goal union, but unification -- the attainment of which | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that is supposed to lead to the desired goal, often brings with it, at least to some | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| truthfulness with the self is, after all, the goal of your self-search on this path. QUESTION: I | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| everyone and to conquer them. For such a goal one needs to be aggressive and often ruthless | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the time this reaches the outer personality, the goal may have been shifted to a substitute. For | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not so, except for negative emotions. Make your goal the leveling off of negative emotions. Eventually true | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| is always dangerous to take on a distant goal when you first have to attain nearer goals | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| but without which you cannot reach the ultimate goal. It may lead you further into increased self-deception | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| come by itself. The view of the far goal may enlarge the idealized self-image. So the near | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| may enlarge the idealized self-image. So the near goal should be the next step, not the end | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| next step, not the end result. The near goal would be, I want to become aware of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that is accomplished to some degree, the next goal will present itself. This is like being a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you will not set out with the final goal in view. The distant summit you eventually want | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| You all should know that this is the goal now. Some of you have wondered why at | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a very paradoxical way. The West is the goal. The East was the perfection you once had | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a way, disharmonious, it is because the goal you attained, whether in a little or in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| false value. That does not mean that the goal is wicked or wrong in itself. But it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and confused even more. If you pursue a goal, believing that its attainment will solve your problems | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a sense it feels better to believe the goal itself is still valid, but for one reason | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| acute disappointment of now having attained a partial goal. You still feel not so different than before | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than before when you thought that attaining the goal would make all the difference in the world | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Depression sets in because the pseudo-solution and the goal seem difficult to attain. You believe you have | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where or how. Let us suppose the false goal of the pseudo-solution that you attempt is to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| analyze your feelings, you will find that the goal of your idealized self was actually partly gratified | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where you begin if you focus on this goal. Take any negative emotion: envy, bitterness, fear, helplessness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not some vague feeling, but a clearly defined goal. You will seek and find how you have | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| needs, of their significance, their validity, their desired goal, you can proceed to observe what you have | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| face reality, or to relinquish a desired illusory goal. This process will free you to develop primary | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| who have already accomplished a part of this goal, and you will see that this is true | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| painful than the unfulfillment of the wish or goal itself. In other words, the pain of not | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| fear, and then to find your own innermost goal, the goal of your real self. If your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| then to find your own innermost goal, the goal of your real self. If your focus is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| awareness. If you do not make it your goal to uncover them, and are not involved in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the unfulfillment, or the failure. You chose the goal out of partly unhealthy motives, and you prohibited | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| motives, and you prohibited yourself from reaching the goal entirely out of unhealthy motives. This may appear | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| my friends, realize for all time that the goal of dissolving your obstructions is to enable you | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to serve not only my own shortsighted immediate goal but to bring others meaning, help and happiness | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Make a note of them. Realize their general goal. This will offer you invaluable material about the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| It cannot possibly be replaced with any other goal. There are riches contained in each individual soul | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of yourself and your life that is our goal. Life, of course, is also struggle. But there | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to other people and to life. When this goal has been achieved, the building-up process can begin | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more fulfilled person; it is another when the goal is clear, and you are aware of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not, my friends. Keep in mind that the goal of this path is finding the center of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the major differences is the well-defined ultimate goal. In mundane psychology, the goal is the resolving | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the well-defined ultimate goal. In mundane psychology, the goal is the resolving of inner conflicts so as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| her spiritual center. But that is not its goal. Our aim is just that -- and it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to detect them at least in part. Any goal you consciously desire and nevertheless do not attain | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| shying away from the effort to reach the goal. Though difficult at the beginning, such effort will | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| will be most wonderful. (1) Ask yourself: What goal do I want now? Where am I dissatisfied | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in your flights of fantasy to a faraway goal of perfection, while underneath you actually fear this | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| perfection, while underneath you actually fear this very goal and thus overlook what stands in your way | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| when the subtle shrinking away from a desirable goal is observed and finally changed into, I want | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| observed and finally changed into, I want this goal with all my heart. I have nothing to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| help you are incapable of accomplishing any great goal. What appears like the greatest contradiction to the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| but the latter is much closer to the goal of swinging into the yes-current. The wise, inner | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| There are many means of working toward this goal -- and you should use them all. One | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| productive way, and are geared to accomplish your goal. In other words, you set new causes in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| specific kind of self-expression, vocation, profession, set the goal you really desire to achieve. Then you may | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you believe in the possibility of attaining the goal. If not, why do you doubt? Here is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| any effort. Their idea of bliss, their final goal of fulfillment, is non-effort, in a stagnating sense | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| have to choose between either this or that goal, the fulfillment of this or that wish. You | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| inadequacy to obtain or maintain it. Wanting a goal does not exclude the fact that in your | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and eliminated before you can get to the goal you wish to attain but cannot because of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| controls destiny. The human soul strives toward this goal. But as long as there is a fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| various approaches -- is concerned with this primary goal. When you realize yourself, when you find your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| a path as I show you can this goal be accomplished. I should like to take a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| you finds your path easier and reaches the goal with less struggle and resistance. What is the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with less struggle and resistance. What is the goal? The goal, as far as you are concerned | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| struggle and resistance. What is the goal? The goal, as far as you are concerned, can be | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is essentially negative and undesirable and the spiritual goal is to get rid of it. Other theories | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| vision and hinder you from reaching the important goal of your self-realization. Let us briefly recapitulate the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| errors, is costly. It actually delays reaching the goal. Only when you are fully possessed of your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| there is anything beyond the ego. Their final goal is to cultivate a strong ego, whether or | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| over-developed ego. It is a dead-end street: the goal is misstated because it is much too limited | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| this instant, the less you grow toward your goal of gradually achieved perfection. These words should also | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Vaguely they hope that they can accomplish the goal without fully exposing every last bit of themselves | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it is as exaggerated and distorted as the goal you feel you should accomplish. The problem is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| accomplish. The problem is not merely that your goal is unrealistic because it is better than what | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to help you a step further toward the goal. Now, what is the goal? Spiritual literature and | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| further toward the goal. Now, what is the goal? Spiritual literature and religious teachings, in all cultures | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and contact with the inner center is the goal not only of this path but, on an | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| way to enable the self to accomplish its goal. The pushing is also directed toward the resisting | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to life and deliberately held this as their goal, they could not be in conflict with themselves | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you often take for granted a general positive goal that is only secondary, while the primary aim | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| spot with the ego, you are accomplishing the goal of your evolutionary process in this particular respect | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| fear growth; for you fear that reaching a goal will bring on its destruction. You delude yourself | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| understanding, by study or aiming at an outer goal. It cannot come by wanting to be different | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| be stunted as long as you view your goal of growth as good, as opposed to bad | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Also, even when you have not reached a goal, you will not suffer as you did when | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and collecting more truthful beliefs can accomplish the goal delude themselves. They do so because they do | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Their very evasion alienates them more from the goal than the honest admission that they do not | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Meditate, expand yourself, and reach for the total goal. Claim this total goal. How often does it | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| reach for the total goal. Claim this total goal. How often does it happen that you feel | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| now. Although you really want to claim your goal, you still feel it is impossible. There is | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Whether you doubt that you can have your goal or feel guilty about getting it, or have | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| often experienced as undesirable because it requires a goal direction, a sense of responsibility. It requires the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| pleasure, contact and oneness with others are the goal of the cosmic plan. The pull toward unity | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| people were educated with the idea and the goal that they contain something deep within themselves that | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Such tense motion -- even toward the desired goal -- defeats it, for tension arises from hopelessness | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| here that in mundane psychotherapy, the highest obtainable goal is usually the level of reality of what | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the one hand, you actively formulate your attitude, goal, and intents -- your attitude being that you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| want to invest the best of yourself, your goal being to remove obstructions and to grow and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| liberation itself. Even self-realization is no specific, finite goal. The person with the gravest afflictions and distortions | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| this more than a hope or a faraway goal. The state of divine consciousness can be yours | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| experienced your own inner life center -- the goal of all pathwork. You have thus seen what | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| vital inner movement can come only when your goal is to enter into the feelings you have | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| two apparently opposing forces work together toward one goal and complement one another. I have discussed unity | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| name you wish to use to describe the goal of all living -- cannot occur unless you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of that state which will always be the goal of your greatest longing, whether or not you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| total experience of pleasure a spiritual and practical goal. You will act unceasingly on behalf of this | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| You will act unceasingly on behalf of this goal. You will remove all inner obstructions and patiently | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your body, soul, and spirit will be the goal that simultaneously advances your self-purification -- for one | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a hopeless and endless chase for an illusory goal that leaves the personality not only exhausted, but | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the same time, the ultimate spiritual and human goal. It is also the curative agent without which | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| maturing of this infant. The ego determines its goal to change the consciousness of the negative inner | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| it to growth. If you work toward this goal, you will steadily move closer to unifying the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the more frantically you strive for a desired goal, the less you trust in its realization, the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| examples of new attitudes are: setting a positive goal of self-acceptance without losing a sense of proportion | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| thought processes, and attitude patterns to a new goal. To whatever degree proper self-identification has not taken | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| words, most of you start with a negative goal; you want to remove a negative condition. Only | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| does an individual start out with a positive goal. Many may pay lip service to the positive | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Many may pay lip service to the positive goal of total self-purification and spiritual growth, but when | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| destructive patterns, the conscious commitment to the positive goal suddenly disappears. With most, the positive goal is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| positive goal suddenly disappears. With most, the positive goal is pursued and strengthened only as you get | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| need. When this need becomes conscious, a positive goal and direction can be set. But as long | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be a conscious and deliberate effort toward the goal of transcending dualistic thinking. Yet the effort is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| which actively and effectively help you reach this goal. All the energy and concentration is directed toward | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and truth of the universe are your ultimate goal, your ultimate fate. Nothing in the world can | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you choose as your topic of meditation a goal, a wish, or a state into which you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| them, so that meditation on the outer desirable goal can later be resumed. Whether you use meditation | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| tactics that remove you further from the real goal that will be reached one day in time | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| to do and even posits as its ultimate goal. In contrast, the pathwork enters its most important | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Though using valid methods to force-fully reach this goal, many spiritual disciplines do not pay sufficient attention | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with certain people with whom you have a goal in common? How much joy are you capable | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| one whole. With spiritual truth as the ultimate goal, you will sit lightly in the saddle of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| me because you refuse to comply with my goal to force you into submission to me. It | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| matter how different the tasks may be, this goal necessarily remains the same for everyone. Reunification with | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| development of each human soul. That is the goal you are trying to reach. But now let | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| its task. Without this you cannot accomplish your goal. This is the only way you can form | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| this differentiation. For a long time the main goal in our meditation was what I called impressing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| as a necessity. Then it will be a goal of aspiration. You need to consciously actualize it | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is a movement that leads toward the same goal. Where there is movement, life must still exist | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| mature entity, and humanity is moving toward that goal. But you cannot do this when you resist | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and apparently loving or creative the effort and goal may be, always connote an insincerity. For what | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| sincerity of your investment, the pursuit of your goal for its own sake without hidden thoughts and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| on one level of awareness or another. Our goal on the path is to make all these | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| away from others in order to reach your goal. At the same time, another person's already developed | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| You need to lose sight, temporarily, of the goal. You need to give up your claim for | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| be more than a theory and a faraway goal. This truth was then misunderstood, misrepresented and misused | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| by your active mind and will. Your total goal in life must be to find the reality | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| ceasing the inner effort, never relinquishing this new goal. Doubt is, of course, part and parcel of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to making your surrender to God your primary goal. Your entire life will change in the sense | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on assets is established. If you keep this goal in mind you will attain it. It may | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is never too high. Complete openness is the goal. It applies to all relationships: to man/woman partnerships | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| let go of every cherished attitude, action, or goal that proves damaging and contrary to divine law | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to change a lower- self action, a lower-self goal, or a lower-self attitude. It requires the trust | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| of being. You must clearly understand that this goal cannot be reached by using the outer will | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| way connected with whether or not the desirable goal is attained? The Christed person does not experience | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fulfillment and consider it an antithesis to the goal of spiritual self-realization. The pursuit of detachment leads | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| tense movement away from one and toward another goal will cease and the underlying unity of all | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the complete way. In every spiritual discipline the goal is to perceive life in this other way | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| found in inner space. In some disciplines this goal may be directly mentioned, or it may never | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| have the right idea and strive toward this goal in their approach to their patients. But unless | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to reject; unless these voices are explored, the goal will forever remain elusive and only a beautiful | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| who deceive themselves that they can reach the goal by seclusion and separateness. They have their rationales | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |