| must make you happy. Be blessed, be in God! 78. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my dearest friends | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you explain the Biblical passage: The word of God was given to Moses: Thou shalt give life | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| humankind. It has been interpreted to mean that God is a punishing, cruel God of retribution. Of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to mean that God is a punishing, cruel God of retribution. Of course, it is not so | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the attitude in which you blame others, God, fate, life, rather than finding your own causes | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true meaning. Only then will you see that God does not sit on a throne above you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I just read, Imago Dei, the Image of God. I wondered often why you chose the word | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that we were created in the image of God. Is it meant that humans are not supposed | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not supposed to create an image of God since human-made images are only projections, but that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| human-made images are only projections, but that only God can create the image of himself in man | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not capable of creating an image of God, because it would be a distortion. ANSWER: They | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distortion. ANSWER: They cannot create an image of God. It is an absolute impossibility. It is inconceivable | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this commandment, people have made an image of God and it turned out to be so tragically | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| damaging. This led to the anthropomorphic concept of God who is supposed to be like a person | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the result of making an image of God. I have given you food for thought that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universe. Be blessed, be in peace, be in God! 79. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Due to the small | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our group is appended. Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work. Be blessed. Be in peace. Be in God! THE SPRING Deep within every human being is | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from our world. Be in peace, be in God! 81. CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY Greetings | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| 81. CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY Greetings. God bless all of you, my dearest friends. Blessed | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the struggle between opposites as the struggle between God and the devil. The confusions originating from this | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| people are not clear which principle stands for God and which for the devil. Is the pleasure | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| On the other hand, you are told that God is happiness, bliss, light, and the pleasure principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with them. My speaking of the longing for God may sound distant and abstract. When you try | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| no real power to help them. They accept God, and everything that belief in God implies, not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| They accept God, and everything that belief in God implies, not out of real conviction, nor out | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| lives. Be blessed. Be in peace. Be in God! Lecture No. 75 82. THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| AND DEATH OF JESUS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and joy are contrary to the will of God. Many religions teach this error. The healthy way | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the process of activity. Those who believe that God caused their suffering, which they have to accept | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| more relaxed and open. However, the belief that God causes suffering is shaped by a lazy fatalism | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fatalism and leads to the logical conclusion that God is cruel and sadistic. The best way of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| doubt and fear that he was forsaken by God. This has puzzled many people. How could that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| each of you. Be in peace, be in God! 83. THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE Greetings. God bless all | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be in God! 83. THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE Greetings. God bless all of you, my dearest friends. Welcome | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and our blessings. Be in peace, be in God! 84. LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed be this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that it is your idealized self-image, and not God, not life, not other people, who demand all | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| my dear ones. Be in peace. Be in God! 85. DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. God bless this | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| dearest friends. God bless each one of you. God bless this hour. Tonight I am going to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| peace, my dearest ones. Be blessed. Be in God! 86. THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| all our love. Be in peace. Be in God! Lecture 84 87. THE NEXT PHASE ON THE | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The God-image is not an actual concept of God, common to all human beings. The God- image | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a vague authority or an imaginary, severe, punishing God. The decrees of this powerful authority make safety | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and penetrates you. Be in peace. Be in God! world-weariness see lecture 52 The God-Image 88. RELIGION | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| helpless, to force the powerful adult world, or God, or any substitute for these two, to take | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| happiness for being an obedient little child. Since God does not reward such unhealthy attitudes, you must | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| order to make the grown-up world -- or God, or life, or human authority -- see the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Unconsciously, they feel alone. They feel rejected by God, by life, by human authority, and this shame | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| clinging helplessness, but also the hidden resentment that God has not come forth to provide you with | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| opinions. While you may know perfectly well that God is neither a benign nor a hostile authority | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| neither a benign nor a hostile authority, that God has freed us and it is up to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| deeply hidden recesses of your soul you expect God to live for you; to make decisions for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will grow. You will no longer hope for God to give you what you should and could | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| or it can actually be your concept of God, which then leads to the God-image I have | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in which you feel alone because the false god is dissolving and the true God can not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the false god is dissolving and the true God can not yet take hold of your being | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| full of doubts about the very existence of God. This is the consequence of eliminating the false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that are part of spiritual infancy. Since the god of your childish concept indeed does not exist | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of your childish concept indeed does not exist, God Himself appears temporarily not to exist at all | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| go of the phantom-god and develop the real God -- freedom within. The way to Him is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| weak, helpless sinner. I can do nothing without God, without an authority who permits me to be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| authority who permits me to be happy. This God has the right to be good or bad | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| for your fears, as an attempt to appease God to get what you could easily obtain by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to the wrong attitude? Where does belief in God come in if you don't feel He is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| quite follow this. ANSWER: You will feel that God is a help when you come to true | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| The false religious attitude arises when you ask God to help you overcome a hardship in your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| no way of getting out of it unless God intervenes with an act of grace. You do | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| what you want out of your own creativity. God is in you. The divine forces are in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will give you an entirely different relationship to God, as well as an entirely different God-concept. Emotionally | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and rebellious. You then either turn away from God altogether, denying His very existence in the universe | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| circle continues in atoning for your rebellion against God by appeasing Him even more with fearful obedience | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| infer that there can be no grace of God. If you are supposed to be free and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| church authority claiming to act on behalf of God. Thy will be done does not mean obedience | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and peace unto all of you. Be in God! Lecture 52, The God Image Lecture 81, Conflicts | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of you. Be in God! Lecture 52, The God Image Lecture 81, Conflicts in the World of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you, blessed is this | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| without emotional maturity? QUESTION: Is a faith in God and love without emotional maturity possible? ANSWER: That | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of emotional maturity and growth. True faith in God, in the sense of true religion as opposed | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you. Be blessed, be in peace, be in God. 90. MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS Greetings | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless all of you. Blessed is this hour | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and like yourself. Be in peace. Be in God! 91. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my dearest friends | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| 91. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless every one of you. Blessed is this | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always be because I wanted to communicate with God. I wanted it in order to develop myself | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul as healthy as possible. You will find God in that way. You will not need, nor | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| well-sounding pretext that your aim is communion with God. If you want this, there is a fear | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will recognize that your desire for communion with God existed because you wanted to avoid a communion | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person go about re-establishing an emotional experience about God? I am not speaking about the God of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about God? I am not speaking about the God of religion, but about the God that is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about the God of religion, but about the God that is. I know that motives are important | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motives are important. I may want to worship God, which is probably not existent in me. Or | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to where I can get this sense of God. I tried it through my work, from books | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go in order to develop this feeling for God? ANSWER: As for the motives you cited, they | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a genuine God-experience and trust and belief in God if you do not trust and believe in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| trust other people, but you will also trust God. So my advice is, do not search for | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| So my advice is, do not search for God in churches or temples. Do not search for | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or teachings. Search for Him in yourself and God will reveal Himself. God is in you. Trust | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Him in yourself and God will reveal Himself. God is in you. Trust, faith, love, truth -- | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is all you need in order to find God. There are so many people who cling to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There are so many people who cling to God just because they do not trust themselves. This | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your dear ones. Be in peace. Be in God! 92. REPRESSED NEEDS -- RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS -- | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. God bless this | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| dearest friends. God bless each one of you. God bless this hour. We began to discuss needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it not true that prayer and turning to God, asking for help, is of great assistance to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and find the hidden attitude that you expect God to do it for you, then your approach | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| idea that you should sit and wait for God to hand it to you. The latter kind | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| recently. It leads to the wrong concept of God. If you reread that lecture, you will understand | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| what I mean. The idea that you neglect God by not discussing Him, and that focusing attention | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of a childish hope that by speaking about God and the spirit world and its laws you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of self-realization and freedom. Be blessed, be in God! 93. THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless you. God bless this hour. Many of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| DEFENSES Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless you. God bless this hour. Many of my good friends | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and our blessings. Be in peace. Be in God! 94. SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless everyone of you and your dear ones | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| selfish, he is not human, he is a god. This is not a mental or intellectual consideration | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| THE REAL SELF Greetings, my dearest, dearest friends. God bless every single one of you. Blessed is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| growth and happiness. Be in peace, be in God! 96. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| COMMENT: I can't overcome the rebellious feeling that God took my husband. ANSWER: Yes, my dear, but | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| trust in life, in the life force, in God, in the wisdom and love that Creation is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| whole. Be in peace. Be blessed. Be in God! 97. PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Many people in all sincerity endeavor to find God. However, if they were asked exactly what the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| course, there is such a thing as finding God. In reality and in health, this is a | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| or illusory about it. When speaking of finding God, people think of many different things. What finding | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| people think of many different things. What finding God actually means is finding the real self. If | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| approval. All of this signifies your having found God -- by whatever name the process may be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| true self and our fulfillment, our closeness to God. Can you say a word about an individual | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| should never be approached in a spirit of God demands it of me. Then it would be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| somewhere in the psyche, a wrong approach to God, to universal law, and to the self. It | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| blessed, my friends. Be in peace. Be in God. 98. WISHFUL DAYDREAMS Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| God. 98. WISHFUL DAYDREAMS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| call it the life force, an aspect of God, pure reason, pure love, or pure being. Each | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that this is a punishment by an arbitrary God. It is inherent in the laws that work | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| universe at large. Be in peace, be in God! 99. FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| CAUSE AND CURE Greetings, my dearest, dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed are your | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| inwardly open, and inwardly fulfill the will of God, perhaps sometimes at the expense of outer approval | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| really believe, you are doing the will of God. If you ask for this in your prayer | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| from you, then you do the will of God in heaven, and automatically also on earth. QUESTION | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| your old pseudo-safeties. Be in peace. Be in God! 100. MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS Greetings | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| deeply understand that no unkind fate or cruel god has punished or neglected you, so you will | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to function freely. Be in peace. Be in God! 101. THE DEFENSE Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| God! 101. THE DEFENSE Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one of you. Blessed is your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| one of you. Be in peace. Be in God. 102. THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS Greetings. God bless | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in God. 102. THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS Greetings. God bless you, my dearest friends. Blessed is this | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| direct emotion. QUESTION: Is that the wrath of God in the Old Testament? ANSWER: Yes, that is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in Matthew is by way of faith in God. How would you relate that to our teachings | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |