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that at first will seem entirely unjust and hurtful to you. You may also, for that matter 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
imperfect at this stage and the guilt of hurtful self-will. Being imperfect should not in itself make 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
honest with oneself, one can detect that little hurtful truths come from a personal fault or weakness 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
set up to prevent constant heavy impacts causing hurtful dents on the soul-substance, which are experienced as 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
anger away by theorizing about what caused the hurtful action. All the explanations and theorizing make it 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
stop denying your feelings by agitatedly fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories. Let it 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
determined to experience the fear of deep, painful, hurtful, frightening feelings in you. I have often said 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
to what is most difficult and contorting and hurtful for your soul is senseless, because one day 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
indirectly. The hurts of omission are no less hurtful than those of commission. Have you not been 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
and your negative intentionality, it may indeed be hurtful for your pride, but truly for nothing else 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
stopped, you feel dead. When the movement is hurtful, raw, edgy or pointed, you feel anxious, upset 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
of sharp, cutting edges which are pointed and hurtful. Both wanting and not wanting can be harmonious 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the individual's self-honesty and goodwill to abandon dishonest, hurtful, and destructive patterns. If you are hampered, inhibited 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
have done and still do -- then a hurtful imbalance comes about. This is why your path 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
 
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there is a dislike. Always both parties are hurting. If you can be honest and detached from 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
therefore destructive? Can you indulge in it without hurting others? And does the reality principle stand for 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
objections, they will come out in a very hurting way. Your refusal to comply with a demand 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
with subsequent action -- it will relieve a hurting heart, heal a festering sore. Beware of undertaking 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
contact appears to hurt, pleasure manifests either in hurting or in being hurt, to a greater or 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
your cruelty, your need to derive pleasure from hurting others, you may reverse it and direct it 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
of your personality or the motives for the hurting act. There is thus no longer any reality 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
an overt act, has the dire consequences of hurting and depriving not only yourself, but also others 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
of negative intentionality, you cannot help depriving and hurting others, just as these attitudes must inevitably hurt 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
able to tell the truth to others without hurting them, because the hidden motive to hurt others 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
 
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may say so, is to give financially. It hurts least and it means the smallest sacrifice. Everyone 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
is a means of protection. The other person hurts back and a vicious circle is set in 32 DECISION-MAKING
much? Am I afraid of all the little hurts and disadvantages? A searching inquiry is not being 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
no cause for disharmony. All misunderstandings and all hurts are merely imaginary, my friends. They are the 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
pool and finally are responsible for all the hurts of this world, for crime and injustice and 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
actions and reactions will protect you against the hurts of life. Now how can you find your 38 IMAGES
way to begin is by thinking about your hurts, conflicts, and problems. Regard your wrong inner attitudes 39 IMAGE-FINDING
is important. Only after having tasted voluntarily the hurts connected with desire will you be able to 39 IMAGE-FINDING
organic growth that spiritual development always is, the hurts will become less, not because you fear and 39 IMAGE-FINDING
if and when you are completely fearless of hurts and disappointments is the time ripe, my dear 39 IMAGE-FINDING
in your soul that bring you more needless hurts than would befall you without your imagined defenses 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
several times. The image has formed that fire hurts, the conclusion made that all fire hurts. Another 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
fire hurts, the conclusion made that all fire hurts. Another dog may experience fire only as something 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
them, perhaps, as an imagined defense against the hurts of life, against the fact that his wishes 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
into your surroundings regardless of your own possible hurts, then the motive is pure and you will 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
make you feel guilty. But the guilt for hurts you inflict on others -- no matter how 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
I must clearly see the direct or indirect hurts my attitude has inflicted upon others. Then, think 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
has inflicted upon others. Then, think about the hurts you inflicted on other people. Ask God to 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
three possible wrong reactions as you recognize the hurts you have inflicted on others: hopelessness about yourself 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
the courage to be truly sorry for the hurts you have unwittingly inflicted on others, if you 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
always determined first and foremost by whether it hurts others. There may be situations in your life 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the blindness of others. The blindness of others hurts you, and in your own blindness you are 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
cannot be attained by escaping life and its hurts, as some people want to believe, by misinterpreting 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
ideas. Quite the contrary. Only by facing life's hurts in the right spirit, by not being so 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
through it. As long as you fear the hurts, you do not become detached from them. Because 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
aspects. If you are so much afraid of hurts that you force strict measures on yourself to 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
order to protect a higher cause or prevent hurts? ANSWER: My answer cannot and must not be 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
is you yourself who inflict difficulties, conflicts and hurts on you, no matter how much the other 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
you. And it is actually the injustice that hurts you more than the disappointment in a particular 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
me, my friends, whenever you experience something that hurts and that you do not understand, whenever you 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
can collect unhappy incidents, injustices, injuries, wrongs, and hurts. Once you recognize how you have provoked all 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
them. On the other hand, when someone displeases, hurts or disappoints you -- or you believe so 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
or her negative side due to your own hurts and resentments. In its own fashion, this kind 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
take a common and simple example. If someone hurts you, what he or she said and did 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
you come to understand others. Understanding eliminates the hurts because it brings you into truth, or reality 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
God. 73. COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless all of 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
Now, how can you manage to reexperience the hurts of so long ago? There is only one 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
that this pain is present and that it hurts infinitely more as long as they have not 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
the reality of your imperfect self, the resulting hurts will no longer be so serious and tragic 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
yourself. You concentrate on all sorts of other hurts which are only a subterfuge or cover for 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a subterfuge or cover for that which really hurts you. Because of your ignorance of what really 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you. Because of your ignorance of what really hurts, you are also unable to find your own 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
key. Thus you superimpose and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work progresses, you sometimes see it 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it. At other times, you feel the superimposed hurts are sufficient reasons to maintain your resentment. In 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
needing it so much that the non-fulfillment really hurts. COMMENT: May I add something here? I think 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
that starve these needs even more. Since this hurts, you will produce a defense against such hurts 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
hurts, you will produce a defense against such hurts which will prevent the fulfillment you crave even 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
how an image comes into existence. The childhood hurts and frustrations, which every child experiences at least 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the less is it possible to avoid the hurts that you have unconsciously labored so hard to 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
But you go on repressing your needs, your hurts, and your disappointments. Perhaps you experience them to 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
almost never with the understanding of what really hurts you and why. The repeated pattern not only 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
is a defense, not so much against outer hurts, but against your own submissiveness. You find yourself 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
them what they were, what were their own hurts, fears, and frustrations? Understand them as one mature 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
By trying to understand their problems, your own hurts are bound to diminish. First, however, you may 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
think that the weak person is harmless and hurts others less than the outright domineering and aggressive 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
Whenever you feel frustrated and the anger personally hurts, it always hides something that you have not 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
do not wish to face -- be they hurts, resentments, envies, or wrongs committed by you or 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
and this must be made conscious. Repeated unfulfillment hurts so much more than it needs to because 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
unconsciously inflicted upon others. Ruthless indifference to inflicted hurts is not as different from deep suffering about 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
that, I have committed these sins, but it hurts me too much to face it. Such an 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
little if the attitudes that have involuntarily inflicted hurts are not changed. And don't forget that what 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
not looking at the debris of your past hurts and their subsequent destructive tendencies, you accumulate them 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
barricade serves as a supposed defense against the hurts of life. This is too general. One hidden 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
of touching the afflicted areas where the past hurts are. Because the psychic forces have tended toward 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to shed attitudes that supposedly protect one from hurts; and, third, insistence on remaining a child because 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
interesting, speculation. Do not ever forget the childhood hurts that you have not yet come to terms 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
in destructive patterns, inner fear, and insecurity. These hurts cause you to struggle in the wrong direction 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
experience of comprehension of all your outer problems, hurts, unfulfillments, frustrations as a result of your inner 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and deviations come, as you know, from childhood hurts and frustrations -- real or imaginary. When you 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
hostility -- the result of an accumulation of hurts which he cannot cope with. So he often 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
for creating psychic conditions damaging to your self-unfoldment. Hurts and frustrations in childhood have been recognized as 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
many problematic conditions in the child's psyche as hurts and frustrations do. If parents are not sufficiently 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
pseudo-love enjoyed in childhood, is connected with the hurts and frustrations suffered. In other words, just as 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
took considerable insight into yourself to uncover the hurts and frustrations. A child is apt to take 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
already done in the past, pertaining to the hurts and pain during childhood, will now prove useful 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
slightest real or imagined rejection in your career hurts infinitely more than a real rejection in your 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
relationships become fraught with friction, with misunderstandings, with hurts, with real or imagined rejections. This must lead 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
a dark curtain fell away from you. Misunderstandings, hurts, fears, must cease to exist. You will see 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
but refuses to see the truth where it hurts most, where the person still misses liberation. Are 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
self must discover the truth that even what hurts is never quite what one fears. You all 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
matter, with all its distortions, negative emotions, pains, hurts, and hostilities, takes on many forms even while 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
is confusion, misconception, illusion. It is these misinterpreted hurts and pains which are responsible for the foreign 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
who are on this path have found certain hurts and pains you endured as a child. Some 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
it when it remains unfulfilled because the frustration hurts the soul. And you fear it when it 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
cruel impulses. As you do so, acknowledge what hurts you; what you would want to be different 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
problems. You may begin by expressing exactly what hurts you and why. You will come to certain 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
also in these moments that truth never really hurts, nor does it destroy or endanger you. But 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
actual loss or absence of a desired good hurts much less when one does not see this 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
together in the same psyche. One hangs onto hurts, which may be just as illusory as pretended 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
of a subtle spitefulness. The spite comes from hurts you have misinterpreted; it was originally directed against 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
childhood experiences, from misinterpretations of childhood events, from hurts and fears you have not properly understood and 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
absent from the contact. The fear produces defenses, hurts, anger -- all these enter the contact and 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
to yourself the unfulfilled longings, your discontent, your hurts and fears, your real desires. Once this is 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
without adornment, stating the fact and why it hurts you, you create a new pattern. You learn 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
if you do not know or understand what hurts you -- you will not have to become 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
your reservations about becoming involved, exposing yourself to hurts, to honest, deep interaction, to giving up pretenses 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
an inner one. The objectively more traumatic event hurts sometimes less than the objectively less traumatic one 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
longer connected with its source and therefore it hurts more. When you make up your mind, however 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
can now be more directly concerned with the hurts and sufferings you have endured in your early 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
is cleanly experienced when someone perhaps damages or hurts you, it will resolve itself. Other people's denial 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
magnificent game of life. This is what really hurts and pains you now. You must start with 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
ego clings to what it hates and what hurts it most. It lacks the discipline and the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
are forging with your negative attitudes and the hurts you inflict with them, either directly or indirectly 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
inflict with them, either directly or indirectly. The hurts of omission are no less hurtful than those 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
be corrected when you learn to feel the hurts you have inflicted and still inflict without feeling 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
consequently suffer a special kind of confusion that hurts more than physical pain. The benefit of this 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
way. By the same token, others' negative intentionality hurts and hinders you and they are responsible for 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
example when you love a person dearly who hurts and angers you. You do not wish to 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
and it is not wanted, not taken, it hurts. But when the other takes it, this person 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD

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