| impossible to fulfill. Each time you fail to live up to these standards, you feel disproportionately dejected | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| higher than the price everyone must pay to live life healthily! What happens when you cannot attain | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feel inferior because you are not able to live up to your high standards. All inferiority feelings | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| see its lack of reason; you have to live through the emotions that led you to create | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| worthless as I suspect when I fail to live up to the standards of my compulsive conscience | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that you be loved exclusively. And you still live -- unconsciously -- with the wrong conclusion that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a different view and have the courage to live up to it, at the price of differing | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| as you wish. You are not forced to live in bliss and light. You can if you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| only reason to rejoice on whatever plane you live, whatever illusions or hardships you temporarily endure. Let | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| same germ with you, manifesting differently? Don't you live it out just the same in other subtle | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| theories, theological interpretations -- thereby forcing themselves to live by misunderstood dogma -- they are living in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free will. People who do not like to live, who fight against life, are usually those who | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life instinct is small, if the will to live is weak, you can be quite certain that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own spiritual nature. One cannot and should not live so much on the surface, in the outer | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| my own self-respect which I can further and live up to only by being fully aware of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The more the child grows and learns to live in this world, the more it realizes that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this reaction, not having been aired, continues to live locked in the soul. In the unconscious of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| yourself, when you truly experience these emotions and live them, your life will gradually begin to change | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| utilize all it has. If people learned to live in peace with their neighbors, they could exploit | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give many many more people the possibility to live on earth. That is the lesson to learn | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more people than you now have. All could live in a much happier state than now prevails | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this respect, for one reason or another, you live in your world of Utopia and therefore struggle | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a dead object to what is obviously a live organism. But their emanation, frequency, rate of vibration | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this development. Whenever they are not incarnated, they live in various spheres in the Spirit World. As | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will get nearer to the truth. The live imprint of the other half in each soul | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| origin of the sex drive as such. This live imprint of one's other half also accounts for | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| sexes have both hormones. A woman could not live without male hormones and a man without female | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the reverse, by which I mean that we live in a materialistic and rather selfish world, and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| doubt. Is it truly possible? Does one really live on? Perhaps, in this way, I will receive | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of freedom and the only possible way to live happily, to be strong in a healthy and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| it is to exorcise this phantom world and live in reality. Only the real you can live | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| live in reality. Only the real you can live in it, for the superimposed layers, created out | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| superimposed layers, created out of unreal concepts, cannot live in a world of reality. You will live | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| live in a world of reality. You will live in freedom; you will no longer find it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| All this prevails only as long as you live in this earth sphere with the limited outlook | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you can love without fear, and therefore you live without sin, if you want to use this | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| an illusory world that exists only while you live in the illusion, but they have no absolute | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| at all; it only affects those who still live in unreality while they live in it. QUESTION | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| those who still live in unreality while they live in it. QUESTION: I would like to ask | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| development, it will not reduce the will to live on earth. On the contrary, developed beings will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the outlook is rather gloomy because you still live in the illusion of evil and sin, in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| go explain previously, however. As long as you live in the imperfect world of unreality, of illusion | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| were on such a path, you would surely live in a very different world, although it would | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the road upward to observe them as they live in you and then to deal with them | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When the illusions are gone, the will to live, to be healthy, becomes stronger and stronger, since | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different quality and steadfast character. The ability to live in the comparative reality accessible to you as | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and thus unable to love, the more you live in unreality, or illusion. These words will do | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in the long run, because it does not live up to your idea of it. Unconsciously, you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will see the special type of unreality you live in. Objectivity versus subjectivity, which we discussed last | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what happens. I often use the expression to live in the now. As in everything else, there | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| more frustrated because you do not dare to live it out. Thus, you force the world around | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what life has to offer now. If you live in the now, there are no daydreams. There | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are no prefabricated situations. You vibrate flexibly and live with the moment, even if the moment is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is so difficult shows you how little you live in the now, how much you are away | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of the moment. To the degree that you live in reality, to that degree will you be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| do you trust that the other person will live up to your expectations. Hence you vaguely feel | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| constantly alert during the entire day and to live in the immediate here and now. Yet, in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| right and for the good. But you all live in your closed-up world in which you do | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| egocentric principle by which most human beings still live. In that state you suffer and enjoy life | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you must become fully aware that you still live in the old, undesirable state. As long as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| ANSWER: Each person has many spheres. You cannot live in every sphere at the same time. Therefore | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| are bound to affect your environment. People who live with this attitude will tackle any event coming | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for love and healthy aggression are meant to live peacefully side by side. Due to this conflict | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of love. There is the basic instinct to live and the rejection of it. By that, I | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| great human transition, when a person ceases to live in the self- centered outlook and realizes he | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in all its aspects determines your ability to live and experience pleasure. The healthier your attitude toward | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| who knows how to die knows how to live. Needless to say, you do not have to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| do not know how to die, you cannot live because you cannot reconcile the opposites that constitute | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| part of you because you then learn to live. The life force will be released and a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| You cannot eliminate time as long as you live on earth. You can only develop a different | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| without running from it that you can truly live; only then will you find that there is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| meanings on many levels. One is that children live and experience very acutely. All their senses and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| can learn to die -- and thus to live! As you become aware of your real fear | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| through it to the ultimate end, I now live in the true, full sense of the word | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and death, you cannot die. You will then live in the true sense of the word. Therefore | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| do not necessarily mean it, feel it, and live it. They, too, may manifest the flight from | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| On the one hand, I would have to live according to the most unchaneled and primitive instincts | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self, to find serenity and self-respect, and to live your life fully. There is much to be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| come to an end if you do not live up to its standards. You will sense and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| tendencies are combined: overexacting moral standards impossible to live up to and pride in being invulnerable, aloof | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| failure whenever it is proven that you cannot live up to its demands. A sense of abject | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| They believe they ought to be able to live up to it. Their whole life is permeated | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| genuine self- confidence fades away. Since you cannot live up to its standards, you think even less | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self were really you; and if you could live up to these standards. Since this is impossible | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| idealized self, the less you are able to live up to it, and the more insecure you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is a rigid, artificially constructed imitation of a live human being. You may invest it with many | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| part of you, the real you, that can live, grow, and be. It is the only part | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| life. The more you take out of that live center in order to invest into the robot | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| this most vital and profound question will your live center respond and function to its full capacity | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you need the idealized self in order to live and be happy. Once you understand that this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self. These two sides will be integrated and live in peace with each other once you accept | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| for us to face death in order to live fully. There is, at present, great publicity given | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Instead, you use your entire psychic strength to live up to this ideal of yourself so as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it is constantly proven that the person cannot live up to this ideal self. Such failure throws | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| For instance, the idealized self-image may dictate to live up to something, or gain something, and the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is so frustrated about one's own inability to live up to the shoulds and the coulds of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life. Just as the body needs health to live, so the soul needs health to live most | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to live, so the soul needs health to live most constructively. In order to live, one needs | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| health to live most constructively. In order to live, one needs to be safe from destruction and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you reject, at least emotionally, the world you live in, yourself included. You demand of yourself a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| all is calm in their outer life, they live with only a small percentage of their capacity | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and needs of the psyche. Since most adults live in daydreams in one form or another, these | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to crumble. When you realize that you cannot live up to these goals and demands, your pride | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| incarnation into the body, enabling the entity to live on earth, occurs at the time of birth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by your unconscious beliefs. If you do not live, experience, and feel these right ideas, they become | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| recesses of your soul you expect God to live for you; to make decisions for you; to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will become strong. For a while you will live without any understanding of grace, but then the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of taking the courageous and appropriate step to live through negative, immature emotions in order to afford | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self-preserving. You will rightly say that if you live out your negative emotions, the world will punish | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this state. Since you discourage their growth, you live by your mental faculties only -- and they | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that humanity is still far too undeveloped to live without outer laws. When it comes to conduct | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| all black and bad. You are unable to live up to what you think you should be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| them. You will first have to learn to live with the frustration of an unfulfilled need. You | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to your disapproval of yourself. Because you cannot live up to your stringent standards you continue to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you harbor superhuman expectations, standards you cannot really live up to in your emotional being, and about | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| standards you have lived by. Eventually, you will live according to these moral standards out of new | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of this latter conscience. Whenever you do not live up to the super-standards you impose upon yourself | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more important life-organism. By allowing an organism to live due to a rule not to kill, you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a relaxed way. The knowledge and intent to live life actively does not include inner unrest. When | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confidence that you will overcome your obstructions and live life fully. Then the peace is genuine. If | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to triumph over others. One can very well live without that. However, such discovery cannot and should | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| now shown you. You need the impact of live knowledge which enables you to go through an | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| whatever it was you thought you could not live without, but are only giving up an illusion | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| act according to a rule, that is, to live together. Apart from that, the more we do | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| up. But if you wish to grow and live a constructive and full life and want to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| pleasure is not so acute because you cannot live without it, but because it implies inferiority. Once | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real self. You will no longer have to live with a cover of pretense that alienates you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| center of your being. As long as you live on the periphery, you put your power outside | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |