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| yourself as you are: This implies having no illusions about yourself; attaining a healthy attitude toward your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| of Christ in this respect, too. Crucify your illusions which you build up for your ego, for | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| You will discover how many mass images or illusions exist that affect your personal life, and doubly | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| at fault. If you are free of images, illusions, wrong conclusions and wrong concepts, the wrong deeds | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| them be an instrument to liberate you from illusions, my dearest friends. I bless each one of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to rejoice on whatever plane you live, whatever illusions or hardships you temporarily endure. Let them be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| distorted. This is one of the most flagrant illusions on the earth plane. Distortions can only be | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various layers of error, deviations from truth, and illusions that are prevalent in the manifest world. In | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your real motive for praying and have no illusions about it, your prayer is bound to have | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others. The latter is one of the greatest illusions of humankind. Some of my friends who have | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| your deviations and the phantom world of your illusions, so that you can change it all into | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| as to overcome your weaknesses, your misconceptions and illusions, your limitations and blindness. God in you can | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the personality lives in a fearless world. The illusions, being untrue, in the last analysis always create | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| create fear and withdrawal from life. When the illusions are gone, the will to live, to be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this, you would not resist. Moreover, maintaining your illusions requires strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| stand by itself. The effort to maintain your illusions causes many vicious circles and chain reactions. As | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| up your forcing current and thus your self-created illusions, thereby becoming free to receive real value; or | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| old, undesirable state. As long as you have illusions about that, or as long as you are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| unhealthy ways of doing this, and these are illusions. QUESTION: Doesn't the healthy state deny the unpleasant | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to be left feeling empty. False aims are illusions, and even if, at times, they materialize, they | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| why you always feel reborn when you outgrow illusions that had kept you alienated from yourself. QUESTION | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| other way than by facing your errors and illusions. Your little self may obstruct this endeavor, may | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| emotions -- whether exaggerated or repressed -- are illusions, and that you really do not feel that | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all illusions, all measures to strengthen the idealized self-image. As | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that says, If I let go of my illusions and false crutches, I have no way of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to unearthing your present hopelessness, doubts, guilts, confusions, illusions. May you thus free yourself of constriction and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| possible means to learn, recognize, and overcome the illusions. Therefore this earth life expresses the general state | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| in the way of finding out what these illusions are, you must finally come to real love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| inner and outer state. They can help destroy illusions and erroneous ideas. You cannot do this by | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| Only as you become aware of your own illusions can you simultaneously become more aware of the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| be primarily concerned with uncovering your defects and illusions, your negativity or destructiveness, which you deny and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| more to remove the obstacles of your remaining illusions and to orient yourself to what is eternal | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- about your spiritual development, your character, your | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| difficult thing for you is to penetrate these illusions. Most people would rather do anything than that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| not wanting to see the rest of their illusions, which they unconsciously believe they cannot live without | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| over. What must be torn down are only illusions, falseness; never real positivity, affirmation, or constructiveness. Those | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| appear that way from the viewpoint of their illusions. When you suffer an unfulfillment, you hesitate and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| hard to face that you cover it with illusions to which you cling. Therefore, when you penetrate | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| and nothingness. It is impossible to eliminate the illusions unless one comes face to face with the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Therefore this path must be concerned with penetrating illusions -- the illusion that says, I am fulfilled | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| you. This will happen -- not through shortcuts, illusions, wishful thinking, panaceas, but through decency and honesty | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| admit your problems and shortcomings, and shed your illusions. This does require a great deal of effort | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| look at yourself in truth and shed your illusions about yourself, the more you will realize that | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of all your deceits, your character defects, your illusions, pretenses and destructiveness. Then I discussed a third | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| previous self-deceptions. It can cast off all the illusions nurtured about the self. It can determine to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-confrontation. Nothing dangerous can ever happen, provided all illusions about the self are rigorously given up. This | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| mean the recognition of facts that contradict cherished illusions about the self, discipline becomes a rigid constriction | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ensnarled in this trap of misconceptions, distortions, and illusions with all the destructive emotions that follow suit | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and determination to do away with self-glorification and illusions about the self. The claim to be more | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| from actual, ultimate reality as anyone who assumes illusions to be the final truth. Ultimate reality is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| preconceptions or preconditioned sensory reflexes. Your preconceptions are illusions, and they can be penetrated only when you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| or laborious when you meet your obstructions and illusions; it becomes liberation itself. Even self-realization is no | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| whatever they need from others, from substitutes, from illusions. As I stated, the movement toward the center | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| be acquired by facing the truth and shedding illusions about the self and life. The second reason | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and have therefore overcome some fundamental blocks and illusions about yourself, you will find out how the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| but from having met and successfully overcome the illusions behind them. We can roughly indicate an individual's | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| many of you in various forms. Once these illusions and cheating intentions are abandoned, the realization of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to expose its vanity, its cherished prejudices and illusions. Yet your total personality must cooperate and invest | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| at first seem. I want to shed all illusions I have about myself, for this is the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| step by step through the maze of your illusions -- the maze of your illusory fears of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| have to endure this feeling. Thus you build illusions. And it always seems most difficult to abandon | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| always seems most difficult to abandon one's cherished illusions. Whenever an original experience -- say, of sadness | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| well as the mask. This fragmentation creates misunderstandings, illusions, and misconceptions. It is one of the tasks | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| this comfort is the greatest illusion. However, all illusions seem real as long as the possibility of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| as long as the possibility of their being illusions is not questioned and as long as no | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| other than the temporary manifestation of your errors, illusions, and intentional negativities -- which could end whenever | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| endless confusion and pain. While you believe in illusions, you usually reverse the true order of the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| purpose; it comes from and leads to further illusions. One illusion is that anything that exists in | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| problems and attitudes. Unless you give up these illusions and take stock of whatever is in you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| work. Are you willing to give up your illusions about yourself and your expectations -- which come | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you from it. The misconceptions, false images, negativities, illusions, pretensions, defenses, unexperienced and therefore unassimilated feelings and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| from your inner processes. These are the same illusions as your concept and experience of time, distance | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| humanity is, as a whole, of negative feelings, illusions, misconceptions, of negative intentionality and attitudes. Every bit | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| thus implies a hard, honest look at your illusions, your pretenses, and your dishonesties. As you know | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| puny fears and defenses, of false safety, of illusions, of the laziness and the lure of the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| that effort in itself is one of the illusions you created by constant belief in falsity -- | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| important that you see that your fears are illusions. But in order to really believe that your | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| order to really believe that your fears are illusions and you do not have to fear anything | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| call. If, however, it is explained away and illusions and delusions accepted as if they were valid | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your jealousies and envies appear as the painful illusions they are. Still all too often you take | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| them seriously, you do not acknowledge them as illusions and you justify them; you act as if | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| device, if you will. One of your greatest illusions -- and you have many -- is that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| annihilate unity and trap the mind into deeper illusions of the world. But they do not connect | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |