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| law of brotherhood in some subtle way. Not isolating yourself requires a certain amount of humility which | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| experience a liberation from the confining wall of isolating self-centeredness. You will feel a deep purpose in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| actually struggling to maintain is a state of isolating darkness. It is a senseless struggle from which | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| avails you nothing. You cannot protect yourself by isolating yourself even more. The only way to master | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and principles is certainly more outgoing than the isolating pursuit of loving mere objects. Next on the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of concern, subjectivity and unfairness due to blind, isolating tendencies. If two nations have opposite aims, it | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its masculine and feminine sides and will feel isolating separative tendencies as being more constructive or mature | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| even more helpless, while at the same time isolating herself and forfeiting her destiny. For such is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
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| spheres of intense suffering through overcrowding or through isolation, and many, many other varieties. Since one of | 21 THE FALL |
| But if you realize that this feeling of isolation is common to everyone, that it is a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| mutual interplay, it will relieve the feeling of isolation and guilt you all are burdened with. You | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| 75. THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state of self-centered separateness. The transition from self-centered isolation to the state of union with all is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you are back in the old state of isolation. It takes a lot more work to make | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state of oneness. In your present state of isolation, many creative forces, such as love or talents | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| aim: the transition from the self-centered state of isolation into the state of union with all. This | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| erroneously feel that you are safer in your isolation and become more exposed and vulnerable as part | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| others, life, or the world. They withdraw into isolation, never experiencing the dreaded defeat, never realizing what | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| This pseudo- protection causes you to withdraw into isolation; you refuse to communicate. When you make no | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| into withdrawal, or by insisting on your own isolation and refusing to risk your way out of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| which is nothing but fear and withdrawal into isolation, protection against being hurt. The hurt of course | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the trouble. Whoever withdraws into a shell of isolation, or who aggressively antagonizes people, shows an unhealthy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| which one can rigidly adhere. I recapitulate: Since isolation and loneliness come from an inner, unrecognized dependency | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| warmth and affection, and without these suffers from isolation. In not admitting the suffering, this type is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| painful, but indirect way. The bitter hurt of isolation, of loneliness, of the gnawing feeling of having | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| really avoid unhappiness, as already indicated. This painful isolation was not willingly chosen by you and therefore | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| but it also leads you more deeply into isolation, unhappiness, alienation from yourself, and unsuccessful, unrewarding patterns | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that you are unwilling to leave your inner isolation. You are too fearful and selfish, too self-centered | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| you and prepare you to surrender your inner isolation. And now, my friends, I would like to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| reality. When you are unwilling to leave your isolation, your needs cannot be fulfilled. As you know | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| life of your own behind your walls of isolation and can direct everything as you choose, without | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| which comes from not daring to leave one's isolation and separateness, may paralyze the life force so | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| independence and strength; it creates just as much isolation, although through a different inner road. Originally you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| that you are doing so. All the rejection, isolation, and pain that you inadvertently inflict onto others | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| from life. Pretense and self- deception, self-alienation and isolation must be the result. Defensiveness not only damages | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is indulged in a spirit of egocentricity or isolation. It is the childish attitude of I want | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| both completely withdrawn, live in outer and inner isolation. They can hardly relate to other human beings | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to acknowledge to yourself? Thus you live in isolation and unfulfillment. You fear death because you let | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| way, or you withdraw and live in bitter isolation which, in turn, breeds frustration. These, then, are | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| for the real guilt of withdrawal, unlovingness, and isolation. In other words, these little guilts are supposed | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and cowardice surround you with a wall of isolation when you could be freely flowing and floating | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| If you voluntarily give up your wall of isolation, and thus let the richness of your inherent | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| ways. Unfortunately, emotional independence is often misunderstood as isolation, whereas withdrawal from involvement while frantically holding onto | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| ideas, groups, loyalties, and causes. This would be isolation, and even irresponsible toward society. But there is | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of necessity, result in drawing a wall of isolation around the person indulging in such a destructive | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| through which you find fulfillment -- not in isolation but in unity. If you look outside in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you look outside in order to alleviate your isolation, you must become more isolated. If you look | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| self-concern, but you will in fact lessen the isolation and separateness that cause so much suffering and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Healthy involvement does not bring more pain than isolation. Fulfilling one's needs only partially does not make | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| leading directly to freedom from fear, distrust, insecurity, isolation, separateness, and stagnation. Such objectivity must open the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| on to self-protective behavior in the pseudo-safety of isolation. However, you cannot risk revealing yourself if you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fulfillment. It is discord, and spreads disharmony and isolation. Those who are enmeshed in it follow a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| outgoing, unifying. I no longer wish to embrace isolation and hostility. When you meditate in such a | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Being overcautious about loving increases one's withdrawal and isolation. Many an individual is half-willing, but this half-willingness | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| long in a climate of negativity, limitation, and isolation because of your misguided fear of yourself. Once | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| human beings is between their desire to overcome isolation and loneliness and their simultaneous fear of close | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| This causes a tremendous strain. The pain of isolation will always push people into attempts to escape | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is the real relating, the closeness which eliminates isolation. Intimate self-expression and relating flows with the life-stream | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| responsible for the pain you feel in your isolation and for the pain when you are relating | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| same. To the degree that you suffer from isolation, to that degree interrelationship must be problematic and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you. To the degree you stem against overcoming isolation, isolation must be painful. The key lies in | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| To the degree you stem against overcoming isolation, isolation must be painful. The key lies in the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| not by selfishness or any other destructive attitude. Isolation, and the attitude of me versus the other | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| add to life; consequently, deep sorrow and suffering, isolation and conflict, guilt and frustration must cease. Then | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| through the terrible struggle they suffer in their isolation, wanting to reach others and yet, the minute | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| moment people eliminate barriers because the pain of isolation becomes unbearable, they already set up new barriers | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| long as destructive goals exist in the psyche, isolation gives one a sense of identity and seems | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| into limitless possibilities. It will change darkness and isolation into light, union, companionship, intimacy, and the knowledge | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| when I withdraw and punish others with my isolation. Now, in spite of having found this, I | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| direction of love and the direction of hate, isolation and fear, or the positive and negative directions | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| forget that it is impossible to completely want isolation, withdrawal, and separation. If it were possible to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| negative situation. In the meantime, the pain of isolation in B becomes unbearable, and B ventures out | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| do not wish to give up self-centeredness and isolation and accept a new way of life in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in increasing feelings of emptiness, helplessness, despair, and isolation. You then try to counteract these feelings with | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| but inwardly you remain uninvolved, isolated, separate. This isolation cannot be maintained for long, because ultimately it | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| remain in the old position of refusal and isolation. As long as you fail to let go | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| concepts that spiritual growth is being furthered by isolation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the crass extremes of total outer and inner isolation, at one end, and the deepest, most intimate | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| conflicts. The unfulfilled longing becomes unbearably painful when isolation is chosen due to the difficulty of contact | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| painful dilemma in which both available alternatives -- isolation and contact -- are unbearable. Fear of pleasure | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| this renders you helpless indeed and brings about isolation, or unending pain and friction with others. It | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you turn your feeling of despair into bitterness, isolation, faithlessness -- the apprehension that there is no | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| out of you. That state is the true isolation of the disunified, fearful being, who issues a | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| know that you are the one who wants isolation, loneliness, lovelessness, hate, and spite, instead of blaming | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| only stem from pride but also directly perpetuate isolation and are therefore used as ego tricks to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| another trick of the ego to maintain its isolation. The moment negativity appears, the energy system begins | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| transcend the ego, and what that really means. Isolation and separateness are, without a doubt and without | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| tension, or with loneliness and a sense of isolation? Do you need a lot of overactivity in | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| with and therefore struggled against seeing, this shameful isolation ceases and the aspects are seen exactly for | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Of course, this does not mean going into isolation. Help and reactions from others are always an | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you. It is a seeking of safety through isolation and separateness. It is a movement reaching inward | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| humanity had to go through a period of isolation and separateness from the invisible realities in order | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| others. Such periods of privacy do not indicate isolation or separateness. They merely mean that a time | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you maintain this painful and unnecessary state of isolation and deception -- for that is what it | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| world has a definite impact on spiritual growth. Isolation and separateness between people in the past made | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| brotherhood. Love is union. Hate is split, dissension, isolation. Love means mutual understanding. Yet for understanding to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the temptation to keep yourself locked up in isolation and resentment. Desist equally from yielding to the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| change. Such individual change cannot take place in isolation, but always in conjunction with others. For individual | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| It is obvious that refusal to expose creates isolation. When you deny exposure it always means that | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |