| Imbalanced..................3 | |
| other hand a great creative talent is particularly imbalanced by this disharmony. What I said before should | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| associated with the ego functions, you become completely imbalanced and your life becomes emptied of substance and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| power, yet on the other hand it is imbalanced and disturbed -- the centers close up. They | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Imbalances..................5 | |
| in the process; reason and intelligence will adjust imbalances and deviation from reality. But when reason is | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| cultivates only one or the other, distortions and imbalances are inevitable. Because it is impossible to use | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| muscular blocks the physical body expresses conceptual errors, imbalances of the will, and stagnant, denied feelings. Tensions | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| actualize it by constantly checking up on the imbalances in these two directions and modifying them. Only | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| inevitably also a material one. The thus established imbalances can be covered up only for so long | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Imbedded....................6 | |
| womb. The truth is that you all have imbedded in your spirit the vague memory of a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| demand. The need comes from a vague memory imbedded in the spirit. Now you may ask, If | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| protect yourself. However, this defensive reaction is so imbedded in you, and has become so much second | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that the impressions form deep dents and remain imbedded in the soul-substance. When you recollect my explanations | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| therefore form dents, so that the imprints remain imbedded in the soul-substance, the effect on the personality | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| little importance, of minor significance for you, remains imbedded and dictates your reactions towards future events? You | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Imbibe......................3 | |
| the minimum of masks and defenses possible, you imbibe a very healthy medicine for yourself. At the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| over and is also touching this earth sphere. Imbibe of this light, of this wonderful strength, so | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| No matter how much truth you try to imbibe, no matter how hard you try to feel | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Imbued......................5 | |
| becomes part of you and until you are imbued with this truth. Furthermore, prepare yourself that going | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| consciousness is deeply imprinted with this duality, is imbued with its false divisions. When you come to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is still, in part, primitive. You are still imbued with the self-command you have learned throughout many | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| it no longer becomes inanimate. It remains forever imbued with spirit. It has become so refined, its | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| this fact is that matter is more strongly imbued with life. Life can therefore have a greater | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Imitate.....................7 | |
| cause homosexuality, because he wants to emulate and imitate his mother. He wants to identify with her | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| that you cannot stand and feel compelled to imitate, thereby counterfeiting your very existence. The moving stream | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Yet you cannot force your individual path to imitate the sequence of the lectures. Rather, the process | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| energy. Human beings frequently experience the urge to imitate others. This takes on many forms and applies | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| a facial tick, experience a strange urge to imitate his postural or facial aberrations. Haven't you experienced | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Haven't you experienced the sometimes irresistible desire to imitate something that is highly undesirable for you? At | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| will spring up in you. You will not imitate something that is foreign to your nature. Basic | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Imitation...................16 | |
| have to turn to Lucifer. This is an imitation of what exists in God's world and what | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| For earthly objects are only a reflection, an imitation of the corresponding spiritual forms. They actually could | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of forms you know is only a limited imitation of what existed in spirit before this material | 22 SALVATION |
| well. Both are rather static, dead, and an imitation of life, depicting pseudo-reality. It may be very | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a falsity. It is a rigid, artificially constructed imitation of a live human being. You may invest | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| a false freedom and independence in a poor imitation of the real qualities. Because such people wish | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this tendency is always a poor and shallow imitation of the real goodness. Only because you are | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and the quality of being are different. The imitation feelings are often subtle and so deeply ingrained | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the real feelings cause in you. The subtle imitation not only reproduces other, or opposite feelings from | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the way you are. You will stop the imitation, the counterfeit feelings and ways of being, and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| tightly held together. Thus living becomes a poor imitation of what it could be, and should be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| takes on many forms and applies to self- imitation as well. It is a process of deeply | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| give you an example of the power of imitation and creation of new experiences. Many of you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of excellent quality. Some is defective, a cheap imitation, and rotten. When these two incompatible types of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| inflicting the same on others by your vindictive imitation and perpetuation of the very attitude that hurt | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| process of influence through exemplary figures leads to imitation, emulation, and identification. All of this can exist | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Immature....................170 | |
| to sacrifice. Yet where the blind, sick, or immature parts of the soul resist this striving, two | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| overcome. You often call an emotionally ill person immature, at least in those areas where the soul | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to want the impossible, like a child. An immature person does not have enough reason to recognize | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| give up the impossible, whereas emotionally sick and immature souls would insist on having the advantages of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| people, you will receive different answers. The spiritually immature, after thinking about it for some time, will | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| other people, no matter how convinced the spiritually immature person is of this fallacy. Spiritually mature people | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| also, inevitably, in their outer life. The spiritually immature think that happiness has to be created first | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the great temptation of the spiritually and emotionally immature person is to push everything uncomfortable into the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| taken away. That would be the wrong and immature way of asking. But if you ask the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| By the same token, an emotionally unstable and immature person can have strong and even compulsive inner | 18 FREE WILL |
| showing lack of character, my friends. What an immature notion this is! The question here remains as | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| immediately lessen your troubles or problems is very immature and childish. Certainly your outer and inner problems | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| you avoid facing it. The lower self is immature and ignorant -- its very nature is faults | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Your unconscious and often conflicting desires are always immature. You often desire the impossible, like a child | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to understand this. Self-will is a blind and immature state, too blind to realize that what it | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| lack of self- respect. The blind, unconscious, and immature side of you believes that if you receive | 31 SHAME |
| less; quite the contrary. And they who are immature and therefore incapable of love will not be | 31 SHAME |
| Then, when you see the unreasonableness of the immature side of your soul, you can readjust them | 31 SHAME |
| To the ignorant lower self the childish and immature side of the personality, the protective measure seems | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| if you want to. And if your unconscious immature nature were not so unreasonable that it wished | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a part of an otherwise mature being remains immature. Actually, this part continues to make the same | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| stature. Thus you will grow out of the immature state in which you love like a frightened | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| build on the good that is already there. Immature love means viewing the other person in terms | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| on the same level of development, is equally immature. The other person may not even be less | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| basically emotional person chooses, because of fear and immature currents, a mask of intellectuality that is foreign | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the right partner. Either the person is too immature to have found the right partner, or the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| sex instinct arises in the infant. The more immature the creature, the more sexuality is separated from | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| else. In the growing child who is naturally immature, the sex drive will first manifest selfishly. Only | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| another and gain maturity together. Even where an immature choice was made, it could still become a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the other's maturity meets one's own maturity. The immature person will blindly choose the object that may | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| existence. The more selfish you are, the more immature you are. You may be extremely unselfish in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| withhold love from others. Therefore, you are emotionally immature, although you may have reached intellectual maturity. Emotional | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| very important one at that -- will remain immature. There are very few adults who are as | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| strained and tense with weak, unhealthy, and completely immature motives. Since this need can never be fulfilled | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| risk as long as it continues to desire immature childish love. As long as it cannot risk | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| adult is. The inner child has only the immature desire and craving for love, and wants to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| loves you that much less. All this is immature and based on entirely wrong conclusions. Only by | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| few subdivisions. For instance, the child or the immature person feels different from her or his surroundings | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in the child, as well as in the immature adult, there exists another form of punishment, the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| ANSWER: The sexual impulse in the infantile and immature personality is entirely self- centered and egotistical; it | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are thus paralyzed in your soul. Since the immature and primitive personality experiences the sex impulse in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the sex force. True, in the way the immature person experiences sex, it is harmful because of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such hidden reasoning in your unconscious, you are immature. You know that very well by now. And | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| know that very well by now. And the immature person wants the impossible. A child cannot have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the awareness that everything requires a price. The immature part of your personality hopes against hope that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a truth from being used by your unconscious, immature, and unhealthy reactions. For if you use it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as it seems to happen for the emotionally immature. Pain is not something to be shunned at | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| exposed to it against his will. But the immature person often does, and this leads us to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| being a prey to his or her own immature and selfish nature. Does that answer your question | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that softness in a man, based on his immature dependency, makes him weak and therefore less of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| regions. The outer will is often motivated by immature feelings, desires, reactions, and reasonings. The inner will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| motivation for the desired result may be so immature and truly selfish as to overshadow the good | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of it as if it were your really immature and crude selfishness. The question now is how | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| treat the real selfishness that exists in the immature part of every human being. The usual and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be happy. This sounds completely illogical, but the immature unconscious is this illogical and this contradictory. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| with the parent withholding it. In the confused, immature mind of the child, the rejecter now becomes | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| exclusive and limitless love is unrealistic, its desire immature. The wrong conclusion of this lies in thinking | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to distinguish between healthy, mature love and unhealthy, immature, dependent and weak love which is not real | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to be loved. We also discussed how the immature part of yourself, the child in you, requests | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| such as the wish for approval. The more immature a person is, the more he or she | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| now know that those who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of understanding, as demanding and one-sided as all immature creatures are. Its impossible wants are: to be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not only to the either/or attitude of the immature part of yourself, but also to a tendency | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| sign of maturity, because it is only the immature who must have the entire answer immediately; it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| parent. More often, however, both parents are emotionally immature and cannot give the love the child craves | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the difference between mature, genuine love and the immature, over-demonstrative variety offered instead. Proper guidance and security | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| warming, comforting love is absent in their own immature personalities. Other parents may be too severe, too | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| she is similar to your parents in certain immature aspects. But since you now know that there | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| coming from that part which is weak and immature. However, a more mature person will affect others | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| for faithfulness may be just as unhealthy and immature as the motivations which lead a person into | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| from yourself and an awareness of your childish, immature self-concern that prohibits a true recognition of the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| partner turns out to be really much too immature, you may then attract another partner fitted more | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| said, the majority of humanity was still too immature to use it inwardly. By making outer rules | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the difference between an emotionally mature and an immature person? How can you recognize it? ANSWER: An | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| love -- both realistic and unrealistic, mature and immature. On the other hand, there is the aggressive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not fully recognized. There are some unrealistic, immature and distorted motivations, in addition to the conscious | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| after you are able to comprehend fully the immature and distorted emotions can you attain the healthy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| only present in an unhealthy situation based on immature craving instead of free readiness to love and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| answer lies still deeper. The difference between the immature desire and the craving on the one hand | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| soul considers safe differs from what the unhealthy, immature soul considers safe. The unhealthy soul experiences any | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you must avoid at all costs. So the immature soul struggles to get both safety and pleasure | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to get along with others despite so much immature egocentricity. Alone, you are now advanced enough, generally | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obscured by encouraging humanity's weakest, sickest, and most immature tendencies. It is those tendencies that are exploited | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your struggle is primarily for happiness, and since immature emotions lead to unhappiness, your secondary aim becomes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| courageous and appropriate step to live through negative, immature emotions in order to afford them the opportunity | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotional expression can be mature and constructive or immature and destructive. As a child you possessed an | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and destructive. As a child you possessed an immature body and mind and therefore, quite naturally, an | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| body and mind and therefore, quite naturally, an immature emotional structure. Most of you gave your body | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| period of growth now. In this growing period, immature emotions have to express themselves. Only as they | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a point when you no longer need such immature emotions. This will not happen through a process | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| deceive yourself, that the crisis reactivated the still immature emotions. It just does not penetrate your mind | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self-deception. The fact that you put raw, destructive, immature emotions out of sight instead of growing out | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mechanism, but this is a very misleading conclusion. Immature emotions earned you punishment as a child; either | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| or another. Yes, my friends, this is true. Immature emotions are indeed destructive and will indeed bring | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will see the tremendous difference between merely allowing immature and destructive emotions to come to the fore | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| other hand, create such an urgency that the immature, unconscious condition in which you cannot stand frustration | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| with second best, while knowing this to be immature and unrealistic. But I can't feel different. It | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| child in you resists growth, desires to remain immature, and is burdened with unworkable wrong conclusions and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| solution. This helplessness and weakness points to the immature, distorted part of the personality. Wherever you are | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your personality in which you are conflicted and immature, in modern psychological terms neurotic, is in essence | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not have to endure. This is something the immature person cannot do; the unbearable thus becomes a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| accept life's uncertainty and cope with it. The immature person will not. As far as you are | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| was perfectly all right were governed by superimposed, immature reasons, crutches, rather than the reality of your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| what your attitude is toward them. The more immature people are, the more successful their daydreaming will | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| all the defenses. Constantly observing your unrealistic and immature emotions and reactions weakens their impact and begins | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| unhealthy and unrealistic can be dissolved, what is immature can mature, and the healthy but repressed forces | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the need to be loved is childish and immature. It is only so when the adult person | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| this need has become exaggeratedly strong and therefore immature, because of your repression of it and the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is bound to suffer. Your concepts will remain immature and limited, even if you happen to have | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is natural. It is certainly natural to have immature, unproductive reactions, because everyone else has them too | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| broadest terms, sin is lack of love. An immature person is never able to love. Anyone in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the value of the Creator. Only the very immature, the spiritual infant, will abuse himself, not knowing | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it not work? Are there always selfish, greedy, immature currents in the human soul? But then no | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| incapacity. Even if the other person's response is immature, it does not matter. Do not refuse to | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it is strained, if it is governed by immature motives, if you are unaware of it, if | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| need, as it now exists, is childish and immature, you know that it is much better for | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| need, transposed into will, even if imperfect and immature, is healthier than a mature and healthy will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| will see what I mean. Of course the immature soul has many destructive impulses which can only | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| -- and rightly so, for they are still immature. How can they mature by being channeled? Do | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not mean they have grown out of the immature state. I have discussed this at such length | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cycle. Their teachings were adapted to this still immature stage, rather than to drawing people out of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| illusion. Therefore nothing is really resolved yet. The immature psyche always fluctuates between underestimation and overestimation. Neither | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| not mean that those people are just as immature in this respect as you are? To emulate | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| or you may give in to the most immature, unjustified demands from others to avoid feeling guilty | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| nothing to do with genuine love but indicate immature needs and dependency and thus often bring rupture | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| immaturity shows in stormy relationships are indeed more immature and may indeed have a troubled soul. But | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are as yet unproductive and self-centered in their immature state, but are destined by nature to become | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| it be allowed to grow. Only in its immature manifestation is it self-centered. Society's emphasis on its | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| pleasure supreme, regardless of the consequences. In the immature creature, the pleasure principle would like to function | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| It is exactly the same with the forbidden immature sexual feelings. They, too, must be faced, reexperienced | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of a lag in overall development. Frequently an immature individual will use the pleasure drive for other | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| know, utterly dependent. Concomitantly, the so-called neurotic, conflicted, immature person is emotionally dependent. You all know, and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| on earth, in spite of the remnants of immature trends in the psyche of humanity. Many aspects | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the world spirit is truly mature, forcing still immature aspects of itself into submission would contradict the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| adult and mature, while continuing to harbor very immature and destructive elements. The fact that humankind is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| your discrepancies and contradictions, as well as your immature expectations. The more clearly you see how you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the greatest contradiction to the spiritually and emotionally immature person becomes self-evident truth for the spiritually and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| independent person as an act of will. The immature refuse to stand on their own feet. They | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you truly wish to let go of the immature wishes, but without resignation, in a positive spirit | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| in adults whose psyches have remained childish or immature. The trouble spots in one's inner life are | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| though the form these wishes take in an immature being may be damaging and unrealizable, their essence | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| for the blockage are thoroughly understood. The child's immature ego faculties make adequate dealing with the negative | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the negative effects become worse and worse. The immature believe that self-responsibility means confinement. Of course, the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at all. By the same token, the old, immature pleasures cease to be attractive and no longer | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| may be frightening for those who are still immature. They recoil, not because they do not appreciate | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the assumption that to rebel against it is immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it is immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies also frequently strive away from self- | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| even more misleading because, as mentioned before, such immature rebellion and self-destructiveness actually exist as well. But | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| may indeed be a temporary solution. For an immature mind unequipped to comprehend and handle certain emotional | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in constitute a balance, which is disturbed by immature self- centeredness. The balance will be effortlessly achieved | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you get away with the specialness that your immature desires want to arrogate to yourself. Such answers | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| in your entire personality, regardless of how negative, immature, or destructive the answers may appear to you | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| life too much for them because they are immature. This is merely a label or an explanation | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| obvious, less visible, and longer-range. Emotionally and spiritually immature people are not sufficiently aware to be able | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mean that the longing per se stems from immature, greedy, or neurotic attitudes? No, my friends, it | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| dispensing with it. Order always means discipline. The immature person refuses discipline in any form, associating it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| make egocentric and antagonistic claims to omnipotence. Undeveloped, immature and destructive people do too, and they often | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| added on from the outside as the distorted, immature personality expects. Growth can only unfold from within | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| truly nurture in you. By childish I mean immature. Immaturity is the misunderstanding, the ignorance of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| inability to accept frustration, which is childish or immature. It is the false belief that if you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| in an equally potent negative way. The spiritually immature and young appear in the human sphere quite | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| woman for exploiting him and overburdening him. The immature soul of both wants the advantage without paying | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| aspects of adults as well. In that distorted, immature state the self-will dictates total omnipotence: I want | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| others. The kind of omnipotence attempted by the immature state always infringes on others and wants to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| is, are you still in such an undeveloped, immature inner state that you require others to lead | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| from my words that they are wrong and immature and that you should attempt to eliminate them | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| understood this truth. Such people are still too immature to grasp the immense strength, autonomy and freedom | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| life. While human beings were still in their immature mental and emotional states, their wills were not | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Too often individuals who were too young and immature to form a really meaningful union chose marriage | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| avoid the responsibility for your life- creation. This immature part weakens you in a different way. Neither | 254 SURRENDER |