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of it, but because his defense against being hurt is to be arrogant, rejecting, superior, and fearful 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
in the open. This does not mean more hurt, but less, my friends. When you appease or 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
you will discover and become aware of being hurt, of feeling rejected. Your shame and fear of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of aggressiveness. Once you become aware of the hurt, which is a more genuine element, it is 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
to cope with your feelings, and soon the hurt will dissolve and make room for even more 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
yourself whether it is not a distortion of hurt. Then own up to the hurt. This way 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
distortion of hurt. Then own up to the hurt. This way you may find the answer much 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
be the same. For instance, a truth may hurt, at least temporarily. To a spiritually developed person 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
aspect of a whole person. When you feel hurt or angry about one or both parents, do 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
as one who is invulnerable and cannot be hurt, just because he or she hurt your vulnerability 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
cannot be hurt, just because he or she hurt your vulnerability? This phantom creates havoc in your 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
being. You cannot understand those traits that have hurt and affected you unless you see the wholeness 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
person. The understanding will dissolve the still hidden hurt and anger, setting you free, and unclogging the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
bad in your eyes, then the slight and hurt he or she has inflicted on you becomes 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
therefore let go of your insistence that the hurt inflicted on you was unjust in the extreme 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you may have to become aware that a hurt exists. What if the parents are no longer 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
experience your parents, and how you have been hurt, although on the surface you may have a 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
it was never you who was rejected. The hurt inflicted upon you, due to their blindness, irresponsibility 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
irresponsibility, and undiscovered powerful currents of frustration and hurt, had absolutely nothing to do with you, but 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
difference, in the last analysis, because if you hurt someone else, you must eventually hurt yourself. And 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
if you hurt someone else, you must eventually hurt yourself. And if you hurt yourself, you must 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
you must eventually hurt yourself. And if you hurt yourself, you must eventually hurt someone else. This 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
And if you hurt yourself, you must eventually hurt someone else. This is so because this current 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
from living, it is a defense against being hurt. Only after considerable insight into yourself will you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
that part of their human nature, and thus hurt them. By the aggressive solution, you push people 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
aggressive solution, you push people away and openly hurt them with false superiority. In all instances, you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
them with false superiority. In all instances, you hurt others and thus inflict further hurt upon yourself 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
instances, you hurt others and thus inflict further hurt upon yourself. The hurt you inflict cannot help 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and thus inflict further hurt upon yourself. The hurt you inflict cannot help but bring consequences, and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
of that is bound to bring you pain, hurt, frustration, unfulfillment. You chose a way out of 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to love, and live in fear of being hurt, if you do not wish to take the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
are self-alienated and perfectionistic, you cannot help but hurt others. When the pretense of your idealized self 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
you and for your surroundings. Whenever you are hurt, you erroneously believe yourself to be under attack 101 THE DEFENSE
to your safety. Thus you immediately repress the hurt -- your primary reaction -- and you substitute 101 THE DEFENSE
say, you are no longer in truth. The hurt you experienced, unpleasant as it may have been 101 THE DEFENSE
elaborate defenses, infinitely more damaging than the original hurt could ever be. Also you are no longer 101 THE DEFENSE
you are no longer aware of the original hurt, but only of the secondary reaction -- the 101 THE DEFENSE
its permanent existence. You not only defend against hurt as a supposed mortal danger, but also against 101 THE DEFENSE
permanently defensive because you believe, erroneously, that any hurt or frustration, any criticism or rejection is a 101 THE DEFENSE
institute the very patterns which cause others to hurt and frustrate you again and again because you 101 THE DEFENSE
against an unreal danger. Such dangers are emotional hurt, rejection, frustration of your will, and criticism. When 101 THE DEFENSE
Are you really endangered or threatened because of hurt, frustration, or criticism? You, yourself, will have to 101 THE DEFENSE
which you believe might bring rejection, frustration, and hurt. At that moment, it becomes more important for 101 THE DEFENSE
fear and dislike others. So does the erroneous hurt you suffer when something is brought out which 101 THE DEFENSE
lie. The original feeling is often one of hurt. If you owned up to the original feeling 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
to inferiority, you feel humiliated when you are hurt because you give someone else the power to 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
because you give someone else the power to hurt you. Therefore, you substitute anger for the original 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
you find yourself in -- that of being hurt. In pride, you lie about your real feeling 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
while owning up to your feelings does not. Hurt, free from anger, cannot negatively affect others: therefore 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
self. If the primary emotion -- pain or hurt -- is no longer conscious, or if it 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
no difference. When you admit that you feel hurt, you do not cut off the bridge to 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
can you penetrate deeper and find the underlying hurt or pain. I might also add that many 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
Whoever reaches out takes the risk of being hurt and accepts this risk as worth while. When 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
I have discussed. In your fear of being hurt, you defend yourself by becoming lazy and indifferent 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is not only due to fear of suffering, hurt, and disappointment. The three aspects to be considered 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
refusal to comply with a demand cannot really hurt another, provided you love. Therefore to disagree or 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
you observe your oversensitivity and see how easily hurt you are, and how you give in to 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
pamper yourself by the very strong reaction of hurt you produce, then you have an indication of 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
you produce, almost artificially, an overreaction of despair, hurt, self-abasement, or a feeling of injustice. You forget 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
I mean the attitude of discovering your disproportionate hurt at any suggestion of certain negative trends, and 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
You are ignorant of how you may have hurt others with it, belittling them, shoving them aside 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
conscience, but because you actually experience the other's hurt, bewilderment, unfulfillment, belittling. And this increased awareness comes 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
an oversensitivity. It is a reaction of being hurt due to the hurt one has unconsciously inflicted 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
a reaction of being hurt due to the hurt one has unconsciously inflicted upon others. Ruthless indifference 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
further insight. If this advice is followed, the hurt will diminish, while a genuine regret will remain 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
that people often build a defense against being hurt. But now we go a step further and 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
a step further and learn to observe that hurt as such can be a defense. You artificially 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
yourself against insight and change by being so hurt. Only after such discoveries can you learn why 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
what you withhold from others can also cause hurt! And now to the part of your question 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
may not only exist due to fear of hurt and disappointment, but also due to the fear 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
short, everything in you that belongs to the hurt child in you. Why do people resist becoming 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
differently, the resistance is a defense against exposure, hurt, and vulnerability. It is of the utmost importance 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
self-finding only in those areas that do not hurt, that do not create anxiety in me? If 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
may be manifold: hostility, humiliation, pride and shame, hurt, arrogance, self-importance, self-pity, insistence on unreasonable demands, and 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
parents, you elaborately build a defense against this hurt, trying later to correct it. You have found 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
it to be true that this actual childhood hurt need not burden you for life, but your 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
of humiliating helplessness. She erroneously feels that being hurt and being helpless against it is femininity and 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
unresolved problems. This applies not only to inflicted hurt, but equally to pleasurable overindulgence. It too will 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
inability to repeat what one once had causes hurt, anger and hostility. The insistence on having the 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
condition, what it experiences. If the child is hurt, it may suffer from it, rebel against it 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
as unaware of the damage as of a hurt. PARTICIPANT: If a girl loves her father very 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
person is sick, he will be disappointed and hurt when the love is not forthcoming. At the 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
hate is due not only to rejection and hurt, but equally to what seems forbidden love. In 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
perpetual starvation you expose yourself to. Any unfulfillment, hurt, rejection or disappointment causes an infinitely deeper suffering 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
insecure. Every little slight, or apparent slight, will hurt much more than if you were aware of 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
fulfillment occur. However, unfulfillment of needs does not hurt half as much as believing, consciously or unconsciously 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
accept a no without becoming an angry or hurt child within yourself, then your independence and self- 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
causes deep shame. Whether you are frightened or hurt, your sense of being isolated with a guilty 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
you because they rightly feel you may be hurt and may not wish to accept what they 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
in the false assumption that disappointment will then hurt less. Apart from the fact that this is 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
hostility? ANSWER: Yes. It is hostility, it is hurt, and it is at times a kind of 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
to love lies a non-love born of fear, hurt, and illusion, then in the way of finding 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and evil becomes quite clear. Children who feel hurt, rejected, and helplessly exposed to pain and deprivation 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
level, to be so indifferent. The desire to hurt others may exist merely as an emotion, without 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
slightly, that at the moment when you were hurt a specific process took place. The erotic, or 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
principle, was put in the service of your hurt, your suffering, your pain. All the emotions arising 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
pain. All the emotions arising from this original hurt, according to character and temperament, also combine with 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
transform. For it is a misapplied and misunderstood hurt that has created this condition. Cruelty without the 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
will be no anxiety, no befuddlement, no bitter hurt. All this can be avoided only with the 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
a tender and soft center. When children are hurt and puzzled -- when they misunderstand the events 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
interpret events which seem to call for the hurt and defenses -- and as long as you 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
Let us consider together whether or not the hurt is justified. Is it really the way you 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
question the reality of your experiencing slight and hurt, you have a firm foundation from which to 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
all their psychological consequences of misunderstanding, misjudgment, and hurt, which, in turn, create further negativity. Let us 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
Whenever I come to see the pain and hurt in another person, I immediately bring out the 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
presents itself that you are more vulnerable to hurt when you love. And yet, when you say 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
contains a much greater terror than any live hurt, pain, or unhappiness ever could. You see, my 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
as pretended fulfillment or a denied unfulfillment. Anger, hurt, suffering may all be dramatized and clung to 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
feelings do exist, real anger, real fear, real hurt. But they never rob the person of peace 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
is not so with false emotions. A real hurt mellows and makes a wiser person; it makes 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
grow and expand your horizons. A false, dramatized hurt can never accomplish this. Any superfluous emotion always 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
two fundamental defensive reactions: either the desire to hurt or the sense of being hurt which are 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
desire to hurt or the sense of being hurt which are inevitable byproducts of the contact. Since 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the pleasure becomes negative. Since contact appears to hurt, pleasure manifests either in hurting or in being 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
pleasure manifests either in hurting or in being hurt, to a greater or lesser degree. The connection 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
a greater or lesser degree. The connection between hurt and pleasure engenders a vicious circle. The more 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
personality. Negative contact manifesting in the desire to hurt expresses itself in quarrelsomeness, hostility, aggression. On the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
is sadistic. Negative contact that manifests in being hurt, expresses itself in a tendency to be taken 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
not reciprocate in kind, who will reject and hurt and take advantage. These may indeed be valid 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
-- and still is -- the wish to hurt. It is a response, an automatic reflex reaction 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
more you will genuinely lose the urge to hurt. It must be that way, because this is 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you diminish the force of the impulse to hurt. You understand that such impulses are conditioned reflexes 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
an apparent freedom from cruelty, the wish to hurt, violence or vindictiveness, and the genuine freedom from 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
benign circle. When you no longer wish to hurt, you will no longer take for granted that 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
fear of others with the secret wish to hurt, the less this wish will exist. Do you 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
friends who asked the previous questions wish to hurt the female sex out of anger, frustration and 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this urge. Thus sexuality and the wish to hurt have temporarily melded into one stream. In your 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
if I have pleasure, or if I am hurt or disappointed. These are illusory fears. I do 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
other emotions you had denied -- perhaps rage, hurt, sadness. When these emotions are fully experienced in 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
hundredfold. You need to look at everything that hurt and upset you in the past, as far 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
depressed or anxious or hopeless or angry or hurt or fatigued, you are content to call a 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
Let us say, for example, that you feel hurt. In many instances, you completely deny the hurt 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
hurt. In many instances, you completely deny the hurt, even to yourself. You often manipulate it into 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
using distorted facts about the perpetrator of the hurt. But this can be at best only a 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
reality behind the elaborate, reasonable-sounding explanations. The denied hurt turns into anger, which is also denied. You 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
theorizing make it impossible to really experience the hurt. And when you deny an actual experience, you 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
on top of this structure a false, exaggerated hurt -- the game of, See what you have 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
See what you have done to me? My hurt now will force you to act differently. This 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
to act differently. This kind of artificially exaggerated hurt results from all the false layers that separate 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
layers that separate your consciousness from the original hurt. The false hurt creates an unbearable pain that 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
your consciousness from the original hurt. The false hurt creates an unbearable pain that leads to desperation 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
and never to a satisfactory conclusion. The real hurt is a gentle, soft experience, never unbearable, always 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
If you can let yourself feel such a hurt, simply and without adornment, stating the fact and 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
true identity. If you can endure your real hurt and let it be -- even if you 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
honestly register and endure your feelings. The gentle hurt first appears more difficult to bear than the 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
saying no to the real, much more gentle hurt. No destructiveness will arise when the soft and 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
will arise when the soft and gentle original hurt is accepted. Out of it soft and gentle 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
so that no one, including yourself, will be hurt by the effect -- all the while knowing 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
distress a human being can experience is not hurt -- it is lack of feeling, inner deadness 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
produces inner fight and self-division. When you fear hurt, disappointment, frustration, you fear experience per se. If 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
with your feelings. Perhaps you fear rejection, ridicule, hurt, but whatever your fears may be, you must 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
your sense of wasting yourself and life, your hurt and your pain, are all direct effects of 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
will to be hating, unforgiving, punishing, resentful, and hurt. You will become aware of your attempt to 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
commit myself to seeing it, regardless of the hurt to my vanity. I want to be aware 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
such, unnecessary. In this sensitive state, everything must hurt and penetrate you. If you do not repeatedly 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
experience, and thus increase the accumulated pain and hurt. More of this reexperiencing must still be done 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
you delude yourself that avoiding the feelings will hurt you less than exposing them. There are many 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
are afraid of pain, loneliness, or of a hurt to your pride or a rejection, or frustration 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
one substitutes for those who caused the original hurt in childhood: You must now give me all 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
your strong reaction to an unfulfillment, to a hurt, a criticism, or a frustration. It is then 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
is an unreal need to assume that being hurt will harm you. It only harms you when 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
from the pain of a real unfulfillment, a hurt or a deprivation. The moment these difficulties are 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
are: fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt and humiliated, fear of and refusal to experience 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
not only unloving, but you actually deprive or hurt others. This may not take place on the 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
of their own defenses, they will experience the hurt because they are aware. They will experience it 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
leave them unscathed. It will be a momentary hurt, and it will not add to the repressed 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
the thought, I do not want to be hurt -- whether this hurt is actual or imagined 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
not want to be hurt -- whether this hurt is actual or imagined. The resistance may be 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
to self-will that says, I must not be hurt; to pride that says, I will never admit 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
I will never admit that I can be hurt; or to fear that says, If I am 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
or to fear that says, If I am hurt I must perish. The resistance expresses distrust of 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
resistance expresses distrust of the universe. In reality, hurt must pass, for it is no more an 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
stronger you are. The more you admit your hurt, the more dignity you have, regardless of the 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
are never healthy reactions. Though feeling anger and hurt can be justified, as long as you do 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
work against you in a way that will hurt and deprive you, for you are driving a 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
those of commission. Have you not been deeply hurt by what was missing in your life as 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
imitation and perpetuation of the very attitude that hurt you most. If you are crushed by the 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
hurting others, just as these attitudes must inevitably hurt you. For there is no conceivable difference between 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
aware of your negativity, only dimly sensing the hurt that it inflicts on others, you are caught 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
not give it up. Others are out to hurt, to victimize, to exploit you. If you open 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
But I do not allow you to feel hurt, because although I want to hurt you, I 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
to feel hurt, because although I want to hurt you, I do not want to be made 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
to be made to feel guilty by your hurt. Just imagine how this would set you free 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
not having your way, the pain of being hurt a little, the pain of having to give 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
without hurting them, because the hidden motive to hurt others so pervades your energies and affects your 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
constructive way, and still the other person is hurt -- maybe because he or she insists on 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
frustrated. But if you can deal with the hurt that arises in you from this reaction, you 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
you speak the truth because you need to hurt but do not wish to admit it, the 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
show up in a sexual inclination to be hurt, humiliated, or rejected. There are innumerable possibilities and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
know the consequences of your negativity, of the hurt you inflict on yourself and others. You do 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
you fight against their imperfections and immaturities that hurt you, it is only because you do not 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
them in a framework where no one gets hurt by these expressions. But you feel stumped because 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
to be perfect and never do things to hurt you. The purpose of your illusion itself is 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
not know does not exist and will not hurt you. You deny that you miss out on 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
others do wrong by you. You may be hurt or angry, but in an entirely different way 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
not to say that you would not be hurt by hostile judgments, unfairness and the intent to 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
a world of difference between the kind of hurt that can never shake your foundation and the 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
that can never shake your foundation and the hurt that does shake your foundation. If you operate 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
how you are judged and how it may hurt you, you experience the unshakable truth of your 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
words cannot convey the enormous difference between the hurt of being misjudged when you do not lose 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
not lose your being from it and the hurt that destroys you -- or the difference between 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
your expressions and your attitudes are. They can hurt, they can influence, they can harm -- or 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
will not love, love is dangerous, it will hurt me. It is another word of untruth that 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
rather than with the attitude of being rejected, hurt and misjudged. When you listen for the truth 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
of being very aware of how my judgments hurt me and poison my life. Yet I can't 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
This must include the willingness to be temporarily hurt, rejected, or put at a disadvantage. It must 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
the tools of cruelty and the intent to hurt. Disconnection from deeper reality will blind you to 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
when someone wounds you, hates you, wishes to hurt you. The confusion of not quite understanding what 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
be classified as pain of being wounded and hurt. There is more to it than that. It 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
the obvious fear of being less protected from hurt and disappointment without the secrets. This fear is 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
development does not really know that it is hurt or lonely, that it needs more love, attention 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
a new connotation that will free you of hurt and shame, as well as the need to 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
shame, as well as the need to put hurt and shame on others. Yes, my friends, this 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE

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