| With this attitude, you will not be in illusion or in distortion and you will see reality | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and split yourself further apart in conflicts, for illusion creates duality. This happens overwhelmingly among people who | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| believe they don't fear death. This is an illusion as long as life is experienced on the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in the world of duality, and therefore in illusion, conflict, and confusion. The more you fight this | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| split. Since all this is a product of illusion, the longer the conflict continues, the less it | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the more all alternatives turn against you. The illusion that one side was good and the other | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the inevitable next step on this road of illusion, which is that all alternatives are bad. All | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| into further traps, which are all products of illusion. When the road to the unified principle is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the desired result because it is based on illusion. The dualistic concept is me versus the other | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the realization that the belief in opposites is illusion. Unification does not mean, however, that the good | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| other areas are still deeply submerged in the illusion and pain of dualism. We shall come back | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| find out that the whole idea was an illusion; otherwise, you cannot come out of your perpetual | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| very secret conviction traps you in the particular illusion of your separateness, depriving you of the benefit | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and independence, so that, sooner or later, the illusion of power over others is exposed as fake | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| doubt, that your experience is not coincidence nor illusion; you know it to be a fact. When | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the solar plexus. This is not a complete illusion in the sense that this is actually where | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| point where they no longer fear facing any illusion they may have are fortunate indeed. Their path | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| which you cling. Therefore, when you penetrate the illusion and at last see the negativity lodged in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| must be concerned with penetrating illusions -- the illusion that says, I am fulfilled when one feels | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| I am fulfilled when one feels unfulfilled; the illusion that pretends the world is bad when one | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| that one's feelings are unacceptable or dangerous; the illusion that ignores a particular unhappiness; the illusion that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the illusion that ignores a particular unhappiness; the illusion that makes one unaware of how one holds | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the spontaneous flow of natural feelings, and the illusion that does not want to see in what | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in what devious ways this can be accomplished. Illusion does not refer only to glorifying or beautifying | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| may be half-admitted without your fully seeing it. Illusion also means producing unreal negative emotions. This, too | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| reality, and fear of it is based on illusion. Illusion cannot be maintained indefinitely. The anxiety arising | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and fear of it is based on illusion. Illusion cannot be maintained indefinitely. The anxiety arising out | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| be maintained indefinitely. The anxiety arising out of illusion can be eliminated only when this deep conflict | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| have assumed certain mannerisms that give you the illusion of being unafraid of entrusting yourself to this | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and love. In sentimentality, one lives under the illusion that one has already attained this state. After | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| do. Favorable events may encourage laziness, stagnation, and illusion. What you make of anything that happens determines | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| not noticed it because you were under the illusion of existing separately. It is therefore not entirely | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| truth about oneself, of giving up a specific illusion, of overcoming a barrier to wanting to be | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| condition of human beings. You live under the illusion that life, the sense of I am, can | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| be found only in your separate existence. This illusion has brought death into the human realm, for | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| human realm, for death is nothing but this illusion being carried to its final absurdity. The realization | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| more depleted one becomes. This comes from the illusion that the outer ego is all there is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| dignity. But all this is stark and tragic illusion. As you can only find true safety when | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is used negatively. When you are free from illusion and misconceptions -- and therefore, in contact with | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| inadequate, it is precisely a result of immaturity, illusion, lack of awareness of self, hence of others | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| attempting to go around? The latter is stark illusion, for meeting the difficulty cannot really be avoided | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| moves, lives, responds and reacts. Look at the illusion of separateness between your outer and your inner | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| outer and your inner life as an optical illusion. Nothing could be a greater folly and a | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to danger. But is it not a stark illusion to suppose that this unnatural, evasive way of | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at this moment, that you live in an illusion -- and all illusion breeds pain. The painful | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you live in an illusion -- and all illusion breeds pain. The painful experience you wish to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| natural spiritual pulsebeat rests on just such an illusion. By refusing what is yours -- good or | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| courage to do this. But that, too, is illusion, my friends. It actually requires infinitely more courage | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| healthy rhythm, you allowed experience caused by error, illusion and unhealth to take its course. This is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more vibration and pulsation. ANSWER: It is an illusion that they cease. Of course, this illusion is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an illusion that they cease. Of course, this illusion is much more difficult to establish about death | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not geared to see that it is an illusion. You merely see the physical level, and that | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as orgasm is concerned, it is certainly an illusion that pulsation or vibration stops. As I said | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Unfortunate are those who ascribe this longing to illusion, to lack of realism, and who then resign | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that cannot be denied or thought to be illusion. It is this truth and reality that is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be in God! 159. LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION Greetings, all my dearest friends here. May this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the latter. When the separation vanishes, the illusion vanishes as well -- namely that you are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| separate being. Your fear of giving up this illusion is so tragic because you believe only in | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| so-called good or bad happenings is based on illusion. Thus you will learn, little by little, to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| nothing to fear, absolutely nothing. Your fear is illusion. Fear and illusion are synonymous, as life and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| absolutely nothing. Your fear is illusion. Fear and illusion are synonymous, as life and pleasure are. Be | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| cause of unhappiness within the self is an illusion. Anyone who has ever found the cause within | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| imperfect -- any fear whatever. They are all illusion. You cannot overcome a fear unless you go | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| wisdom, all well-being spring forth. How can an illusion be exposed as such if it is not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| out the truth only when you penetrate the illusion. Without that it is impossible to meet the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| intense state. The good in the duality is illusion; it never fulfills. The reconciliation of all duality | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is. It then dissolves, for it is always illusion. Feelings reconvert themselves into their original substance. Anyone | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Violation of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness, distrustfulness, illusion, weakness, the tendency to damage the self and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| would indeed be unjust. This thinking harbors the illusion that life can be cheated. As such, it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-pity, in making cases against others, in the illusion of being injured. All this affords you a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| most horrible fate in the world. If the illusion about the separation between your true being and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| our work together, attack the problem of your illusion from different angles. These various approaches have a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| ego without deeper connections. In this extremely painful illusion, the real connections remain unused, so that the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| inevitable as long as one is under the illusion that there are always new things to fight | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| growth may not be compatible with a hopeful illusion. Thus, when aspects of the organism stem against | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| against your reason and will is truly an illusion in the state you are in now. The | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a new and beautiful world, even if the illusion of pain must occasionally be briefly endured. Blessings | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| more and better choices. This is truly no illusion, my friends. It is the stark reality of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it also removes, among other things, your childish illusion of omnipotence, which is just as unrealistic as | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| omnipotence, which is just as unrealistic as the illusion of being life's passive victim. Accepting your own | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| our past attitudes and actions were based on illusion and thus were destructive. As long as we | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| These and many, many other examples illustrate the illusion of partisanship, of judging one side or aspect | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| clinging to the old patterns of self-delusion and illusion, and therefore have attained a certain degree of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| should always aim to eliminate false concepts and illusion, and the unworkable pseudosolutions and behavior patterns they | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| insight. Otherwise the path one takes leads to illusion and deals merely with theoretical speculation or alienated | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| not give it up you do need the illusion that others do it. You hope to come | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| truly impairs your integrity. Thus you live the illusion that others are doing it to you, whom | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| way out of the maze of your own illusion and negative creation in which you seem to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| The role or game you adopt in the illusion that it eliminates your deliberate destructiveness is the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| too difficult to do alone. It is utter illusion to hope -- consciously or unconsciously -- that | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| reach spiritual heights but who harbor the unexpressed illusion that to face what I am discussing here | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of others is still an action based on illusion. There is a better way to respond. Even | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| of unjustified hostility on you, it is an illusion to fear it and set up your negative | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| self with others and is thus perpetually in illusion. For no true evaluation of a person's worth | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| truth can be attained and is not an illusion. No, it is not easy to transcend your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| many individuals withdraw from interaction with others. The illusion can sometimes be maintained that the problems arise | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| But contact makes it difficult to maintain the illusion for too long that the inner self is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| inner problems are never called into play. The illusion of inner peace and unity that comes from | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| apparently greatest expense, that of parting from my illusion of how I would like to be. If | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| psychologically -- precisely because you cling to the illusion that going through can be avoided and taking | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| increases the critical tension. The momentary relief is illusion of the most serious nature. It is so | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| evil just does not exist; it is an illusion. This philosophy is as true as its religious | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it brings. The postulate that evil is an illusion is true in the sense that there is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| yourselves, I can say only, you are in illusion and error when you feel that way. Realize | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| real in your realm is as much an illusion as the separateness between your two selves. It | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| really two people? Of course not. The same illusion prevails about all apparently separate entities. Here, too | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| remains that human beings live in this overall illusion of separateness which is the cause of pain | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| need, but the deviation is seldom a total illusion. Such need always harbors the germ of a | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the fear to find that it is an illusion and to choose whether or not you wish | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not you wish to continue living with the illusion. To give it up requires effort and the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Thus you fluctuate between infantile dependency, in the illusion that you are helpless in the face of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of the other's wrongdoing, and omnipotence, in the illusion that others are victimized by your incompleteness. Conversely | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the poisonous walls of separation created by ignorance, illusion and malice. And you now know what this | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| -- not as a mere ideal, or an illusion, but as an everyday reality in your life | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| that they themselves are unacceptable. Thus a double illusion must be removed: the underlying belief in question | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the process. Together with this comes an artificial illusion that going in can be avoided and still | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| ago in a lecture called The Abyss of Illusion I said that the path of self- realization | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fear is not real. It is truly an illusion, but you must go through it by feeling | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| deadened feeling part. They temporarily give you the illusion of being alive. But the aliveness is precarious | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| will truly be the present, rather than the illusion that you react to the present when you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that avoidance is futile. They insist on their illusion. It is therefore of utmost importance that you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| state of consciousness. Then the latter is not illusion, but fact, reality; not wishful thinking or an | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| -- but remember, this comfort is the greatest illusion. However, all illusions seem real as long as | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| a byproduct of this path are only an illusion; as long as any blocked-off, dark, and distorted | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| it is real. It does not lead to illusion and to split-off consciousness. It brings into concrete | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| free from painful feelings, you hope for an illusion. Deep down you know it is so, yet | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| it is so, yet you cling to the illusion. Hence you are afraid and feel shaky and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| aspects of the self. It is a current illusion and wishful thinking to assume that this latter | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of this pathwork that you eventually shed the illusion of being an innocent victim and avail yourself | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| solutions based on unrealizable hopes or on sheer illusion. But there exists a real, realistic and realizable | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the higher self becomes an escape and an illusion. Under these circumstances it is not at all | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| misplaced will to live. You live in the illusion that beyond your most negative aspects nothing of | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| well as more evil. You can experience the illusion of the defense the moment you fully open | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| there is no evil, that evil is an illusion. Others claim that evil is a fact observable | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| same. The separated, dualistic human mind creates the illusion that energy and consciousness are two different manifestations | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| feel and experience that what you fear is illusion and that the universe is a rich and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of your sense of self. To penetrate this illusion, you need all the force, commitment, goodwill and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| state you have so ardently protected is an illusion: the illusion of death and aloneness. Awareness has | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| have so ardently protected is an illusion: the illusion of death and aloneness. Awareness has to be | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| best others increases the separation and sharpens the illusion that this pitiful existence is all there is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and interests, is also caused by pride. The illusion of separation is so strong at this point | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| more intrinsic knowledge of life's eternality versus the illusion of death, the illusion of finiteness. But every | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| life's eternality versus the illusion of death, the illusion of finiteness. But every one of these steps | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the spiritual path. The ego is under the illusion that to stay in the stagnant, narrow confines | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| time since time, too, is a production of illusion, then you cannot fear. Fearless love and joy | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| But knowing what is real and what is illusion is part of the experience of the cosmic | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| real and what is fakery or escape or illusion, you must be open and evaluate with your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| first this is painful. You cling to the illusion that you are an innocent victim. But what | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this illusion! And once you overcome your dishonesty, you will | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are you. The separation is as much an illusion as the either/or duality. It is not that | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of love among human beings. Without honesty, the illusion will always remain that you are separate from | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| swallowed up by it. This struggle is an illusion; the fear is an illusion. The apparently isolated | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| struggle is an illusion; the fear is an illusion. The apparently isolated dot is not really isolated | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| of the vacuum. You want nonmovement in the illusion that movement will carry you into the vacuum | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| put up a good show and foster the illusion that the soul is flexible and in a | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| movement, rejection of movement, hence out of the illusion that movement is undesirable. If you are in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| thus achieved is always short-lived and really an illusion, even though some of the experiences may be | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| comes from and leads to further illusions. One illusion is that anything that exists in you can | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that exists in you can be avoided. Another illusion is the belief that what is in you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you avoid what is in you does your illusion truly become detrimental to you and others. Let | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| from the levels of everyday functioning, is an illusion, because true spiritual bliss encompasses the total personality | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| should already be. The only difficulty is your illusion about how you are and how you should | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| are and how you should be, and your illusion that you could not and must not have | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| can superimpose a functional order, lives in the illusion of a false order at a great expense | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you are in disorder, you live in the illusion that your evasions, your not dealing with what | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the inner life. Lack of awareness, avoidance and illusion create disorder, which creates more lack of awareness | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| which creates more lack of awareness, avoidance, and illusion, until the mind and the will decide to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| more reality. You breed disorder out of your illusion that it will go away by itself. And | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| spiritually mature person does not live in the illusion that peace of mind and comfort can be | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| be different. Often they fall into the further illusion that creating order requires energy they do not | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| may first be to give up a cherished illusion about the self. No matter how ugly the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| The desiring person insists on his or her illusion and is angry when the illusion cannot be | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| or her illusion and is angry when the illusion cannot be made to come true. Usually this | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| love. It has nothing to do with the illusion of manufacturing another kind of person for the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| person because you are still clinging to the illusion that giving and receiving are two separate acts | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| undesirable form. The ego always lives in the illusion that it is not only separate from others | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the danger of using power against others. The illusion that self-interest must be against the interest of | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| before that the blocks and fogs created by illusion and distortion make you blind to true exemplary | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| as long as consciousness is entrapped in dualistic illusion. During different eras and civilizations, and under different | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| then let yourself be poor and dissolve the illusion of poverty. Only after this can the real | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of life and self is off center. The illusion that outer life imposes experience on you is | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| thus capable of quickly penetrating the veil of illusion. However, some clouds still remain, and you will | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| it and the greater the desperation of the illusion becomes. Only when you take the courage and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| long as it lasts. This finality is an illusion, but only when you are in the greater | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| quotation marks because this feeling is again an illusion, as if you looked through the wrong end | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| thinking and restrain pride will protect you from illusion -- and the pain of disillusionment. The specific | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| still wants to hold onto being negative. The illusion is that you lose something. I often have | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| in reality dispel all fear. There is no illusion here of escaping and cheating. You do not | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| home to you that your succeeding is an illusion, and that you are actually fighting an already | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| more tightly and shuts out life's riches. Your illusion of life's negative nature is strengthened, and you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in motion. When humans find themselves in the illusion of being helpless, they have lost touch with | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| as I often said, is nothing but the illusion of a disconnected view of reality. In the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| discomfort or hardship. Of course that is an illusion. Discomfort and hardship exist and must manifest, whether | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of the real self. This is also an illusion. The striving for the bliss is the motivational | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| battle between movement and stagnation, between reality and illusion, between fulfillment and despair, on the side of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| experience. This, too, is every so often an illusion. Extended fasting, concentration exercises, chanting and self-hypnotic reiteration | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| go through your pain: the pain of your illusion, of your guilt, of your undeveloped side. Ultimately | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| what really takes place that creates the time illusion. Or, to put it differently, the false reality | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| that pain may also destroy a bubble of illusion you do not wish to give up. Perhaps | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| do not wish to give up. Perhaps the illusion is that the beloved person ought to be | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| things to hurt you. The purpose of your illusion itself is to avoid unpleasantness -- in this | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| all risks, discomforts and pains by building an illusion into which you invest quite a bit of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and you need to dispose of it. The illusion is that by not acknowledging the pain and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| do this because you wish to maintain an illusion about yourself -- namely that you do not | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| get away from the now point, in the illusion that something can be avoided that is in | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| always been there? Because time is but he illusion of the limited mind. The limitation of that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| line of least resistance. You particularly trust the illusion that it is not necessary to move along | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the potential within you. Thus you create more illusion, more false reality and become more disconnected, confused | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| focus so that you were left with the illusion of silence. When I say you I mean | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| that it exists, if its manifestations are no illusion, then surrendering to it is indeed the only | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| doubt again and think that perhaps it was illusion or imagination or coincidence. Or you imagine you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the fear of exposing the truth. And the illusion of this fear can only be eliminated gradually | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| path, you soon discover that all opposites are illusion and are facets of the same oneness. You | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| only be life. Therefore death must be an illusion. On the level of your consciousness you are | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the process of dying. Staying immobile upholds the illusion of stopping time and sustaining the status quo | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| for resisting and distrusting change and growth. This illusion is so primitive that it is virtually superstitious | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| the precepts behind these attitudes are based on illusion, they must ultimately prove painful and unworkable and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| causes as it penetrates the void creates the illusion of separateness. In separateness itself there must also | 228 BALANCE |
| peace, joy, and creativity. Time itself is an illusion that, as I stated recently, stems from the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| seriously, do not push it aside as an illusion. It is so real, it is so beautiful | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| being values we are talking about. What an illusion it is to hope for self-esteem and security | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| value others or vice versa. It is an illusion that you and others are separate. All is | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| But being removed from grace is only an illusion. It becomes reality for the narrow consciousness that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| for the narrow consciousness that believes that the illusion is real. As you grow on your path | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| no separation between them. As time is an illusion, so is inside and outside, and so is | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| inside and outside, and so is it an illusion that you are separated from that mantle of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| compare in this manner, you are in the illusion that there is a limited quota of perfection | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| This is truly one of the abysses of illusion. Without assurances of the outcome you will have | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| for you to discover you have created the illusion that frustration is an enemy. The overwhelming experience | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of years of duration. But time is an illusion, and you perceive this illusion of time as | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| time is an illusion, and you perceive this illusion of time as different time spans. So the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| path, and you cling to the old protective illusion that your painful feelings of self-rejection are caused | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the experiences that the person is under the illusion that the experience comes to him without rhyme | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| from the body. Because of this process, the illusion is perpetuated that physical death is an extinction | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| threads leading to the source. You are in illusion when you shirk full experience of the pain | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| aware of this, to liberate yourself from the illusion that your weakness, your cowardliness, are really not | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the truth? You encourage evil, you sustain the illusion in the person who perpetrates it that it | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| many people support it. This perpetuates the further illusion that by asserting truth, standing up for decency | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| while activity is believed to be exhausting. This illusion is a distortion in the deeper mind. As | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| They also want to convince you of the illusion that you are separated and isolated, that neither | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to plow through the thicket of confusion and illusion until you experience the Great Light. There are | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| decisions is the already-manifest divinity. It is an illusion to believe that by not making decisions in | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the lower self, you try to cultivate the illusion that there are no effects. If you pursue | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| vision of life is distorted. This strengthens the illusion that you live in a poor, empty universe | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and behavior pattern. When you are in the illusion that both the outer and the inner universe | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to coast along on pretense and cherish the illusion that you can go on indefinitely in this | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| in this way. Thus you build a mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you build a mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion is that this way of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| mask illusion on a lower-self illusion. The mask illusion is that this way of operating can go | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| of operating can go on forever. The lower-self illusion is that the world is mean and poor | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| without the secrets. This fear is an outright illusion, easy to discover once you summon up the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| fully accepting the conditions of the dualistic mass illusion. But when the limitations of these life conditions | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| confront your real feelings, as opposed to your illusion about yourself, you find that you fear the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fear and strain away from is nothing but illusion, even though you may be in the midst | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| the suddenness of the vision is only an illusion, because it actually is the result of many | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| and avoid paying the price for them. This illusion is dangerous, all the more so because it | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| emptiness until you discover that the emptiness is illusion. It is a fullness, a rich world of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| people and their lack of communication created the illusion that others were intrinsically different and alien, and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| of living, dying, suffering and longing, eliminates much illusion, fear and enmity. It contributes to the ever-growing | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |