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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 |