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this and I am that. This is as insincere a mask as the other extreme. Such people 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
be a hindrance and lead to a forced, insincere reaction and self-deception. Allow yourself to have all 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
right thing. This would produce only a forced, insincere response on your part. Instead, you should first 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
more for genuine self-respect than all the forceful, insincere strivings for an idealized perfection that is not 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
of saying that a false goodness, a forceful, insincere one, produces a moralizing that many people rebel 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
may be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are only substitutes for 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
 
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impossible, whereas emotionally sick and immature souls would insist on having the advantages of both the opposing 4 WORLD WEARINESS
are better off than if you were to insist simultaneously on two impossibilities, desiring only the advantages 4 WORLD WEARINESS
uncover what is in you if you still insist on attributing so much importance to your pain 4 WORLD WEARINESS
and unimportant. A spirit of God will always insist that every person should establish an independent connection 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
purposes seem to you also worthy reasons, never insist on the contact, but leave it to God 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
your own course of action, or do you insist on having the solution handed to you? Such 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
what you happen to be now. If you insist on trying, the result will illustrate how the 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
You struggle against the dependency that you simultaneously insist upon as a result of your infantile self-centeredness 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
slave to it, but its master. You stubbornly insist that you are at the mercy of the 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
do not yet know why and how you insist on the negative desires and why you harbor 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
fear anything, nor do you cling and tightly insist that your good should be given to you 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
your own innermost self. This is why people insist on dividing body and spirit and why the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
your efforts. The emphasis must shift. If you insist that you must win on the wrong level 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
incapable of, shedding your idealized self-image, if you insist on living up to its unreasonable demands, then 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
this self-perception. You still battle what is and insist on being the way you are not. Thus 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
itself is perfectly valid, but the way you insist on its fulfillment is unrealistic and leads to 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
different possibilities of experience if you do not insist on a limited form right now. If you 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
terribly unhappy about the result, but you nevertheless insist on hanging on to your negative will. You 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
as a by-product. But to the degree you insist on being an irresponsible child -- wanting to 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
the line of least resistance, which is to insist on viewing the issue only according to one's 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
now; it must be my way, and I insist that it is. This attitude makes admission of 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
accept the truth that avoidance is futile. They insist on their illusion. It is therefore of utmost 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
have a covert concept that it will, and insist that it will, simply because you are disinclined 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
Conversely, to the degree you cling to and insist on the other's fulfilling you, to that degree 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
must give me what I need, what I insist upon. If you do not, I will perish 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
these feelings, reactions and attitudes, yet you still insist on holding on to them. Why? Often it 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
does nothing but bring undesirable results, and yet insist on maintaining it. Why does this apparently senseless 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
you unless they are extremely blind, undeveloped, or insist on not seeing it. They may have a 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
compared to what you give, how differently you insist on being treated from how you treat others 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
creative block. It hinders the very fulfillment you insist upon most. The tightness, the saying no to 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
to make this clear. For instance, if you insist on not having any pain, you will be 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
do not directly concern you? Or do you insist on being right merely for its own sake 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
you when you no longer need it and insist upon it. It is the little ego that 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
truly be free is if you do not insist on other things and other people in the 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
in a state of evil and suffering who insist that turning around is very complicated or impossible 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
life. This can no longer continue. Those who insist on this way lock themselves out from a 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
movement will feel victimized by it and will insist that everything is hopeless. But those in the 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
this, you will perhaps gladly learn not to insist any longer on the distorted perfection, immortality and 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
spiritual measurements, these months are lifetimes, yet you insist on holding on to your old habits and 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
of greedily holding on to what was. You insist on not giving up anything of the old 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
be trusted. Only too often you want to insist that the part in you that is most 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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than you were willing to give. They also insisted that you be loved exclusively. And you still 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
see other ways and possibilities but the one insisted on. Therefore it cramps up within itself. A 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
quiet down and let things happen; where you insisted on taking the controls, you must now relinquish 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
 
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cost, but exactly because you give up the insistence on your dignity can you win what you 4 WORLD WEARINESS
rightful price. There is a strong desire and insistence on having both ways, the easy way. Ultimately 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
always have. Once you have found this unconscious insistence on remaining a helpless child, you will soon 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
have discussed before. False religion and your unconscious insistence on remaining an infant combine to produce this 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
begin to understand this. If you do, your insistence on remaining deadened and dulled will finally give 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
self due to your unreality, your pretense, your insistence on remaining at the periphery and seeking a 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
only one. Now you will increasingly understand my insistence on the necessity of letting your emotions come 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
parent's humanity and therefore let go of your insistence that the hurt inflicted on you was unjust 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
faculties that develop through your growth. Your previous insistence on psychic phenomena was also a form of 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
that supposedly protect one from hurts; and, third, insistence on remaining a child because then others are 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
humiliation, pride and shame, hurt, arrogance, self-importance, self-pity, insistence on unreasonable demands, and many more. You struggle 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
own resources has to do with your childish insistence on having to have your way, and your 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
knowledge of this fear and of your childish insistence. The emotional maturity we seek is the ability 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
forms. You may through a conscious or unconscious insistence expect that others bend to your will so 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the equally strong wish to grow up. The insistence on remaining a cared-for child necessitates your holding 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
once had causes hurt, anger and hostility. The insistence on having the protection, and the real as 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
a resistance to fully grown selfhood and an insistence on artificial infancy. This carefully nurtured parasitical state 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
problems remain untouched. Important also is the negative insistence on concentrating on issues that the pathwork does 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances and misconceptions, the insistence on a childish way of life create the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the simple common denominator. Your destructiveness and your insistence on holding on to both feelings are the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
this: testing it, going into it, relinquishing the insistence that it needs to be feared and therefore 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
moralizing and self-accusation always hides a deep inner insistence not to change. Hence, moralizing is a tortured 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
you do not, find out why not. The insistence upon holding onto something that violates your integrity 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
means true that the only alternatives are intense insistence, rigid demands, or renunciation of happiness and fulfillment 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
unimportant. But the other distorted response to frustration, insistence and rigidity with a do or die attitude 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
this balance. It is rigidly one-sided in its insistence to receive, for this is its need. The 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
left you unfulfilled for so long. This one-sided insistence on being loved by a person one deeply 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
to be fair, to let others free, your insistence to win and have your way, and your 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the irrationality of your negation, of your destructive insistence on remaining separate and ungiving, you will indeed 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
you changed. You became conscious of a tense insistence in one direction. As long as the situation 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
not happen did you give up your tense insistence. Something in you relaxed -- you let go 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
were desperate, could you give up your stubborn insistence, old beliefs, and destructive patterns and find the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
have the power to let go of stubborn insistence and rigid upholding of unconscious attitudes whose nature 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
even healthy, as I implied before. But the insistence that I must have this now or I 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
find that resistance to growth is fear. Your insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
may not be expressed openly -- then rigid insistence on one's own way, arrogance in demanding special 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
expression of a super-tense will that your infantile insistence on having what you want right away generates 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
impossible. Selfwill is too bent upon its own insistence that it is unwilling to accept present reality 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
they are not responsible for your misery. Your insistence that they are is a profound manifestation of 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
a psychological refutation of self-responsibility and to the insistence on blaming life or others for your misery 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
hard pain. For the hard pain coming from insistence on the false needs contains the vengeance. The 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
be looked for. You must find your own insistence that says, It must be this way, not 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
by preconceived, unchallenged, and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and tight selfwill, and by the negation and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
negation and repression of feelings and thoughts. Hardened insistence must not be confused with the determination and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
not that. The cause is your persistence and insistence on staying hooked on needs that are by 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
see and perceive. It would require a deliberate insistence to blind oneself not to be aware of 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
is in childhood. It is now your inner insistence on forcing your bad parents to become good 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
We have discussed various false reasons for one's insistence on remaining in a state of falsehood and 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
there must be no hard knots. Selfwill, anxiety, insistence, forcing currents and distrust create an energetic climate 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
implies first of all letting go of the insistence of your wish. The wish must be let 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
a different emotional and spiritual climate. Often your insistence to have the wish fulfilled in the one 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
gain the result without paying the price. The insistence to be in heaven without being ready for 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
to give up the outer battle, the outer insistence, and to go into an inner order and 228 BALANCE
of omnipotence of the outer personality is an insistence on magical solutions that are supposed to eliminate 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
already within you. Only as you abandon your insistence of possessing them right away will you even 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
yourself of the impediments of selfishness, of the insistence to never experience frustration, of unlovingness and ungivingness 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
question your quick conclusions, and so your stiff insistence on them will bar the way to clarity 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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