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of that time, and still is for certain groups of people who are incarnated from lower spheres 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
this respect people can be divided into two groups. One clings dogmatically to a set of beliefs 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
the solid ground from under their feet. Both groups represent extremes; both are in untruth and miss 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
call mission spirits. They are divided into different groups. Let us take a misfortune on earth, for 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
it certainly applies also to the development of groups. You may wonder why certain races do not 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
races. That, of course is karmic for both groups and not only for the groups which are 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
for both groups and not only for the groups which are sometimes persecuted. That is also a 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
Some of you have not. But for both groups, it is important to understand how to deal 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
falsehoods and truths of both their own religious groups and the others. They continue to work for 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
token, very high spirits also work and inspire groups, nations, and individuals who are not bound to 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
blindnesses. Without such incarnations in different churches and groups it would be impossible to tear down falsehoods 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
good. God's spirit world needs workers in all groups, in all religions, to attain the one great 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
is too complicated to explain here, but as groups they have their own spheres and remain there 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
tape-recorded and the tapes exchanged between the two groups. In this way you will learn from one 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
regular exchange. This is very important for both groups. What has started in my little group here 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
with many subdivisions -- and often the two groups intermingle and are represented in one and the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
social rebellion, through affiliation with minority parties, anarchist groups, or committing crime. The strongest form of this 47 THE WALL WITHIN
suggestion to all my friends in the three groups. When you resume your activity in the fall 53 SELF-LOVE
cleared up, and then meet in three separate groups again. Work out some plan. You will be 53 SELF-LOVE
by gradually growing mass images -- in certain groups -- regarding this particular subject. There are comparatively 53 SELF-LOVE
Just now, in this symbolic time, two new groups have formed, and I would like to say 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this is not so. The same applies to groups, races and nationalities. QUESTION: Is the total number 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have never even seen. Government and many other groups of people seem to influence your life. If 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and his ecumenical call, and by various denominational groups to get together, in the hope of becoming 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
symbols of your inner problems exist in different groups, nations, religions, languages. All of them are symbolic 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you may always encounter contrary opinions from various groups, people, or spirits. In itself it is not 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
process of this work, privately and in your groups, enables you to become more aware of what 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
under any circumstances. The progress of the various groups depends primarily on the individual's participation and willingness 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
of these sessions. The idea of these discussion groups is to help you put into practice, to 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
not intellectually understood, then, of course, these study groups are the place to air it. If your 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
and dragging. The speed at which these study groups can grow into a meaningful venture depends, first 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
and emotionally, I can promise that these discussion groups will turn out profitable for all concerned. Let 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
measured by outer signs. This holds true for groups as well as for individuals. Anyone with an 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
not quite clear to you. In your discussion groups you will have the opportunity to clarify them 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
individuals, but also among national, religious, and political groups. In this psychological distortion, even minority groups, rebelling 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
political groups. In this psychological distortion, even minority groups, rebelling against the majority, can serve individuals as 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
in which you separate yourself from all ideas, groups, loyalties, and causes. This would be isolation, and 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
your earth sphere, is the same. There are groups, countries, nationalities, religions, sects, sections -- geographically and 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
good education, good influences, and intellectual truth. Certain groups within the human sphere and their aims will 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
their aims will represent this maturity, while other groups and their aims will represent the entity's unconscious 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
authority -- a parent-substitute, public opinion, or certain groups of people who represent the last word of 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
both individual and collective entities such as nations, groups and common endeavors. The same psychic laws apply 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
wonderful experience you had when all small working groups met together. This unification meant more than you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
can roughly be differentiated into the following three groups: The first and least developed is the state 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
have occasionally hinted at. You are pioneers. Other groups of pioneers are springing up in various corners 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
consciousness. This consciousness manifests in many different ways. Groups and community life are taking entirely new forms 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
course, they did live with relatively small family groups, or clans. They already understood to some degree 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
small circle of their own clans. Eventually, larger groups, and, much later, nations came into existence, but 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
in the emergence of monopolies in which large groups master the masses and dictate laws and values 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
amorphous mass. Instead of highly individuated members, such groups have a mass-consciousness that must not be confused 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
movement of group consciousness expresses itself in large groups selfishly running the masses; big concerns in which 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
do so, insisting that others -- parents or groups -- give you the sustenance that only the 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
ready for the individual autonomy that can form groups and ready for the group consciousness that becomes 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
oblivious to inner processes. You can also see groups who sense some of these processes. And then 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
with a helper and with your friends in groups is so essential -- perhaps in a different 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
has been used a lot recently by certain groups of people. Some use it with correct understanding 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
for you to contemplate. Just imagine: two people--or groups of people--are at war on the surface. They 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
surely no coincidence that in your time new groups, new communities of all sorts are springing up 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
-- both in the helper/worker relationship, and in groups, as well as in your interactions in daily 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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established. To achieve true progress, you have to grow from both sides. New outer knowledge has to 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
is an important element without which you cannot grow. You can use the knowledge thus acquired as 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
thus to help my still weak willpower to grow. Everybody can do that. This much willpower, this 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
would want nothing more than to help you grow spiritually - - into happiness, harmony, and light 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
influence -- and the greater their anxiety will grow. In their ignorance, they will violate more spiritual 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
your knowledge with your feeling. Then insight will grow in you, for which no words can substitute 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
hold you, but first your wholehearted wish must grow bigger than all else. Then the spirits of 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
new thought comes to you. This thought will grow, and the more it grows the more you 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
indeed, essential for the person who wants to grow spiritually. Unfortunately, it is often misunderstood and wrongly 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
It will not happen suddenly, but you will grow into it. Like everything else, this too will 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
the higher self, which is perfection, waiting to grow out of these layers of imperfection, is the 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
to the proper nourishment with which you can grow spiritually every day. With this attitude, nothing that 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
from it so that you can continue to grow spiritually and thus grow into happiness! This is 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
you can continue to grow spiritually and thus grow into happiness! This is the only way you 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
by the person who wants, above all, to grow spiritually and come close to God. Such examination 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
learn love through forcing yourself, but love will grow and evolve as an organic consequence of your 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
want to appear, their sense of inferiority will grow. They will feel, consciously or unconsciously: He is 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
have faith by forcing it; it can only grow organically by self-development. It will grow by living 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
can only grow organically by self-development. It will grow by living these laws, even though it may 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
one and the same truth should expand and grow, and that no splitting should occur. Splitting is 19 JESUS CHRIST
increase their self-knowledge. To the extent that you grow stronger both spiritually and emotionally and become more 20 GOD: THE CREATION
being's own initiative. The desire to overcome must grow through ever-mounting enlightenment in each individual's soul, and 22 SALVATION
or with one single act. It can only grow in constant endeavor, in constant effort. Nothing can 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
these teachings, so that this knowledge may eventually grow from being superficial and intellectual to reaching the 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
differences, for only by encountering obstacles can you grow. This holds true for the individual's life, and 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
will not change these currents immediately. You will grow in self-recognition and self-understanding, however. This is fundamental 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
impossible to tear down falsehoods. Truth has to grow slowly. Any religion on earth, therefore, will have 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
into the proper channel, so that you can grow in harmony. Never feel lonely or alone, because 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
desire is not there. But the desire can grow. Be blessed, all of you. Be in God 31 SHAME
These conditions cannot change suddenly. The more you grow, the more you will see, feel, and know 32 DECISION-MAKING
consciousness must remain hidden. Thus, one person will grow up with a strong feeling of God-consciousness, perhaps 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
months, the time the human shell needs to grow. Sometimes the processing is completed a little before 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
and go through them in order to honestly grow out of them. Gradually, in the organic growth 39 IMAGE-FINDING
processes remain hidden, part of your personality cannot grow up with the rest of your being. It 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
only what is out in the light can grow. If a plant is left in the earth 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
earth with its roots cut off, it cannot grow. It is the same with every emotional current 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
know that part of you simply could not grow up because certain parts were left submerged in 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
you love, and your love will mature and grow in stature. Thus you will grow out of 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
mature and grow in stature. Thus you will grow out of the immature state in which you 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
knowledge that your love, instead of weakening, must grow and mature, you can overcome your resistance to 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
therefore this part of the personality could not grow up. Nothing that remains in hiding can grow 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
grow up. Nothing that remains in hiding can grow; you know that. Therefore, even in many grownups 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
that sex was sinful, the instinct could not grow and meld with the love force. Consequently, sex 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
discharge them on others. The more self-aware you grow, the more unselfish you must become, the more 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
build them up. You may even let them grow to disproportionate significance to prevent yourself from penetrating 47 THE WALL WITHIN
and, in the cleansed state, the tissues can grow together again. That is the regenerating pain. The 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
they do, only part of the personality will grow while another part -- and a very important 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
right act. In this way, gradually, something will grow and bloom in you. By doing the right 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
your power to give them the opportunity to grow. This is best accomplished by constant observation and 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
Let them be a medicine for you, and grow strong and happy with whatever comes your way 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
the inclination unnecessarily, while the personality may otherwise grow out of it. This is the negative side 53 SELF-LOVE
duty, beyond yourself, is to learn and to grow and to take everything that occurs in your 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
harmony can be created in the soul. To grow out of the confining walls of your ego 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
cultivate the other forces that need encouragement to grow and blend harmoniously with your particular main strength 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
of it, think about it. Knowledge has to grow naturally, never forcefully. Cultivation of the awareness without 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
and life. You will give yourself time to grow into the necessary state of development, where to 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
all those who truly manifest a desire to grow and change. They receive the personal help without 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
each one of you. Continue on this path, grow in it, rejoice in it. Be in peace 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
so that the healthy emotions could begin to grow, that finding is not yet sufficient -- a 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
they need at this time in order to grow and develop. All this is neither coincidence nor 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of development, affording them the greatest chance to grow out of the particular inner obstacles they have 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
effect on the person who is ready to grow up inwardly. The very reluctance to assume adulthood 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
because of a must, but the recognition should grow in you that love and truth make one 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
much sooner than you think. This conviction will grow in you. It will become an inner fact 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
what you gain each time, how much you grow after each mishap, whether it touches a big 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
then not wallow in damaging self-pity, but will grow sufficiently to shed those tendencies that prevent you 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
know, love cannot be forced, but love will grow organically as you remove the obstacles. Your inherent 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
register such incidents at present. As you thus grow and mature, not being loved, or being disapproved 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
rigidity. You cannot artificially force the stages, they grow out of your work, your individual needs, your 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
openness, and a spontaneous, free situation can slowly grow. My dearest friends, to find and change all 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
reality and seeing what is, your intuition will grow more reliable, and so your trust in yourself 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
creativity without intuition is unthinkable. Only as you grow and learn to face and accept that which 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
extremely frustrated and their sense of inadequacy would grow rather than diminish. Only by exploring the significance 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
mind, is a necessity without which humanity cannot grow sufficiently to make use of cosmic, spiritual, and 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
evaluated and come to terms with. Thus, children grow up never quite understanding why they are unhappy 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
do the work of self-recognition, and so to grow inwardly to his or her optimum, to establish 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
such people, the natural attitude will be to grow from coping with problems, assimilating them and the 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
affect the children so favorably that they will grow up with less rigidity, paralysis, images, and problems 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
because the call of your life is to grow to the maximum. However, it is also possible 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
they manifest in each individual. Only when you grow, and therefore become aware that the wrong reactions 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
part of life. To the extent that you grow in this direction the life force will flow 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
face your suffering and your joy, you will grow. The person who cringes away from suffering -- 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
accept the other. And as you rise and grow through the one, so do you rise and 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
through the one, so do you rise and grow through the other. Your attitude toward suffering determines 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
passivity, while at the same time wanting to grow and learn from the experience, you will recognize 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
positive sense, because the experience caused you to grow. It added to your whole personality, not only 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
resignation or repression. It happens because the instincts grow within the rest of the personality and therefore 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
of you, the real you, that can live, grow, and be. It is the only part that 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
they will have an opportunity to mature and grow. Feelings will become every bit as reliable to 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
real self, centered within. Then you will truly grow, not only on the outer fringes that may 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
then can the lower side gradually develop and grow out of its blindness. But as long as 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
real self and life, the less can life grow, the more it shrinks and is prohibited from 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
in your own eyes. Thus you will truly grow with each life experience. You will learn, accomplish 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
Just observe, and little by little you will grow into true dignity. You will loose your sense 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
follow through these feelings, you are bound to grow out of these pseudo-solutions and therefore you will 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ability to perceive truth automatically grows. It cannot grow by a direct technique or process. It is 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have a lasting effect. May you continue to grow, as you have grown, in the immediate months 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and excuse your childish tendencies to refuse to grow up. Your conscious right opinions are worth very 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
understanding, and resolving these distortions, you not only grow up and become a stronger and happier human 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
begin to change -- and your strength will grow. You will no longer hope for God to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
feel temporarily alone, an inner force begins to grow in you, long before you become aware of 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
or less what is necessary to make it grow and remain healthy. A good portion of humanity 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
in order to afford them the opportunity to grow and thus become mature and constructive, the childish 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
gave your body and mind a chance to grow out of the immaturity and to reach a 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
years you often hold opinions which you later grow out of. While later you perceive that these 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
or your opinions, your mental faculties could not grow. Strangely enough, there is much less resistance in 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
it. Actually, the truth is that you can grow out of the falsity only by first of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
lie dormant without giving it the opportunity to grow. Let us examine this for a moment, my 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
Then the next step will be, as you grow still more mature, that you will gain the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
also hate because I feel hurt. As you grow in the way of this path, little by 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
it can gradually come, very gradually. Hurt will grow less and therefore love will grow more. QUESTION 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
Hurt will grow less and therefore love will grow more. QUESTION: In your answer to this young 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
what is feasible. Your self- confidence will therefore grow in proportion to your self-acceptance. You will base 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
immaturity. Only by doing so will your maturity grow. And now we come to a third condition 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
of the instincts you disapprove of, you cannot grow out of them. I might sum up the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
or act by it. You will quite naturally grow out of it. You see, my friends, you 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a disaster. You will give yourself time to grow. It goes without saying that if the compulsion 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
much later. Persevere, my friends, and you will grow into human beings who can love, respect and 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of laziness, without the desire to change and grow. Soon, you will perhaps sense the difference in 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
does not work. Therefore the constantly frustrated needs grow and are again and again repressed, because the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
realistically, so that your desire to change will grow. The desire to change can arise only out 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
you so desire. You do not have to grow up. But if you wish to grow and 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
to grow up. But if you wish to grow and live a constructive and full life and 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
that this is a distortion, you will eventually grow out of it. As you do so, your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
it into motion and thus enable it to grow, so that eventually a real and noticeable change 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
to relinquish; a new force and security will grow in you. You will begin to experience yourself 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
convince the negating part to become flexible and grow with the rest of you. This part puts 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
many mutual undercurrents involved, but only as you grow into your real self will you understand them 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
accepting your own imperfection can you begin to grow and experience the joy that comes from your 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
perception. This makes it impossible for you to grow enough to be able to accept imperfection. You 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
and your relationships will be spoiled. You cannot grow, and thus change whatever is changeable and could 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
to live fully, to increase your awareness, to grow steadily in your capacity for full emotional experience 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
accept the imperfection, for only then can you grow. The very existence of your perfectionism stunts growth 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
trusted to function organically and not encouraged to grow. A wrong kind of caution, an unrealistic fear 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
between perfection and growing. If you wish to grow, and if you realize that you can only 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
and if you realize that you can only grow a step at a time, while still being 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
life, but wish with all your heart to grow and change wherever it is possible. This is 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
said, this is the only way you can grow. However, being perfectionistic is such a strain, leads 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
order to hide them, only then do you grow, only then is the soil fertile for growth 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of fulfilling a superimposed duty. The more you grow into life and into yourself, the more you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the last analysis, it is not possible to grow spiritually to the fullest without psychoanalysis, or self- 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
outer obstructions, and the more their power will grow on you. Finally you will come to believe 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
even cruelty. The general climate in which you grow up affects you like a constant minor shock 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
locked his or her soul and refused to grow in his or her own capacity to give 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
various sorts, your ability to give could never grow within your psyche. However, during all the work 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
again. As you battle through this phase and grow stronger, you will no longer run away from 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
then little by little increase it as you grow and change your patterns. You must understand that 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
your sense of strength, adequacy, and resourcefulness will grow steadily -- with occasional relapses, of course -- 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
healthy, or that it is not possible to grow out of them -- not forcefully, by superimposition 101 THE DEFENSE
being can even remotely understand it. As you grow into emotional and spiritual maturity, you realize your 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
mind: God. Knowing that is wisdom. As you grow, sometimes, perhaps in a few short moments in 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS

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