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are still in a low state of development, live in a certain harmony, while much more highly 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
world rather than your own standards. Do not live for appearance's sake in any area of your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
appearance's sake in any area of your life. Live in truth and reality. Face every issue in 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
not expect an impossibility of yourself. You do live on earth. Of course, you will be insecure 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
and uncertain about yourself. That is a difference. Live life fully with all that it brings, without 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
struggle and crisis, are all glorious and wonderful. Live life fully and you will become strong and 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
joy, no, but a life in which you live fully and derive the joy of experience, of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
impatient, compulsive, and restless about it. I cannot live in the present, but must somehow always look 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
present, but must somehow always look for and live in the future, when I hope to be 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
do not have to be already perfect to live fully, to increase your awareness, to grow steadily 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
on growth rather than on perfection, you will live in the now. You will dispense with superimposed 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
is prohibited and thus you impoverish yourself. You live on the periphery, which is the shallow living 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
almost impossible to understand if you do not live this pathwork and have not come across areas 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you wish to do it in order to live a fuller and happier life, and thus give 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
paralyzes your spontaneity, your capacity to feel, to live, and to experience reality. This, in turn, creates 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
your fulfillment can become real. In fantasy you live a life of your own behind your walls 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
more desirable than life. But the more you live in these daydreams, the less it will be 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
they will be capable of and willing to live their lives in the here and now. They 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to control everything, throw away the blueprints, and live spontaneously. All this should make it quite clear 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
can be gained; it may spur you to live more fully. Also, it can function as a 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
life, you shut off this awareness and you live as though this other part of you had 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
result of their groping, pathetic, human struggle to live which, when viewed from the larger picture of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
person is unable to assert his right to live, love, and to have pleasure -- masochism is 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
become free to unclog the love channel and live a productive life in which you feel useful 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
The strength, the self-reliance, and the capacity to live fully with all your constructive patterns beginning to 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
out a stronger, happier person, better equipped to live in the true sense of the word. Beware 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
easier, so much more honest and healthy to live with than any result of evasion, be it 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
If you do not wish to love, and live in fear of being hurt, if you do 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the heart of another person. The courage to live and to love enables you to help others 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
being exposed to the possibility of danger. You live in a constant state of war, with most 101 THE DEFENSE
is impossible to convey. You simply have to live it to know the joy of it. Let 101 THE DEFENSE
the psychological conditions that make it harder to live in sloth because the instinct of self-preservation finally 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
people conform with the society in which they live? ANSWER: If we use the word conforming in 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
relationships are impossible without love. Nor can you live productively without the will functioning properly. Love and 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
they are. Thus you may force yourself to live with something that is by far inferior to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you do need the will to grow, to live, to love. And yet on another level you 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
self. Do not try to push yourself to live up to all this. See rather where, when 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
as fully as possible. However, if you do live true to yourself, imperfect as this self may 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
due to my own imperfection? How can I live with such knowledge? Your unconscious knowledge of this 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
not there to begin with. He has to live out his problems, as you are required to 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
out his problems, as you are required to live out yours. Your imperfect parents and environmental conditions 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
in the past. In spiritual spheres where you live without your physical body, you are in a 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you had no resistance whatsoever, you could not live at all. Yet when you resist too much 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
the degree passes a certain limit, you cannot live either. Life on earth requires a certain equilibrium 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
resistance of matter. To the degree that you live productively and harmoniously, your vibration will be in 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
would become an imbecile. As long as you live in this world, you need the mind. Dissolve 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
only you would let go of trying to live up to ideals that you are inwardly not 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
condemnation. That only happens when you wish to live up to superimposed standards and ideals; you do 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
unhappiness is caused by the compulsive need to live up to what you think exists. If you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
than their neighbors. If everyone else were to live like them, they would not be unhappy, yet 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
QUESTION: I don't know how a person can live without self-discipline. ANSWER: That is something completely different 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the now, but without awareness. In order to live in the now in awareness, various stages have 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
doctrines you follow. If you are unwilling to live through, and be in your present confusions, errors 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
conflicts and confusions, if you truly face and live it, instead of running from it, even that 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
do not relate at all, you do not live. Life, or relationship, is relative -- relative to 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
or negatively. But the moment you relate, you live. That is why the person who relates negatively 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
at all, for then that person would not live. Destructive relationships lead to a climax that is 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
from the former. They are both completely withdrawn, live in outer and inner isolation. They can hardly 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
not dare to acknowledge to yourself? Thus you live in isolation and unfulfillment. You fear death because 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
only when you allow yourself to feel, to live through your emotions and thereby determine the specific 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
in a negative way, or you withdraw and live in bitter isolation which, in turn, breeds frustration 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
hard for human beings to accept that they live in a world of causality is not easy 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
and behaviors that are infinitely more difficult to live with than the love you originally wished to 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
you keep this in mind and try to live it, all the outer details will easily fall 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
other. Just perceive and experience, just try to live the experience. Beware of labeling, it does not 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
a wave of hope and security that you live in a benign universe in which you have 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
that only by fully utilizing the dimension you live in can you outgrow it. Experiencing everything that 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
being commensurate with the dimension of time you live in. Once in this state, you follow the 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
said, in essence, that very rarely do people live in the now. They push into the future 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
strain away from the now. Only when you live in the now do you live in reality 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
when you live in the now do you live in reality. You cannot live in reality when 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
now do you live in reality. You cannot live in reality when you strain into the future 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
new segment of time. You react in fantasy, live in fantasy, and not in the reality of 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
more than you can imagine a future and live it. Your own subjective colorings, stemming from your 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
and thus stunt growth -- in order to live your fantasy. You are afraid to allow the 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
the future; you do not trust yourself to live the now when the future comes. This distrust 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
as you are meant to. In order to live in the now, in reality, you have to 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
your own reality becomes dependent on others. You live through others. Now, please, my friends, I do 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
can change; that you do not have to live in such useless dependency, which weakens rather than 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
to resist, to be untruthful toward yourself, to live in destructive patterns, inner fear, and insecurity. These 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
self. By becoming aware of your unreality, you live in greater reality. By becoming aware of your 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
this is not such a bad world to live in, after all. Such thoughts may not be 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
goals of this path of self-realization. When you live unto the day without understanding the relationship between 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
powers you can possibly need in order to live a satisfactory life. I have said this so 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
own idealized self-images but we actually try to live up to the idealized selves of our parents 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
is right and another is wrong, you still live under the yoke of the superimposed conscience which 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
do not see to what degree they still live in inhibition and self- deception. If you discover 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
truth and reality, he or she has to live within conditions that manifest the illusory state. That 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
arrive at this awareness will you begin to live on the firm ground of peace and reality 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
this process and understand its workings. You cannot live in reality before you have pierced your particular 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
persons and situations: your parents. You do not live in reality; you do not respond according to 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
represented by your parents, the more you will live in reality and free yourself of the repetitive 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
my friends. I do not advocate that you live out your childish instincts. All I mean to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
desperately need in order to find yourself and live the full and satisfying life you are destined 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
full and satisfying life you are destined to live, the easier will it become to make disturbances 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
years. Do you think that this world you live in would have wars, upheavals, crime, starvation, and 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
only help you to understand the world you live in better, but will deepen your self- understanding 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
life must be, the more constructively you will live your life, the greater understanding you will gain 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
and union with others. Conversely, the more you live on the outer fringes of your consciousness -- 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
other apparently contradictory needs and self-expressions, can harmoniously live side by side in healthy interaction only if 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
cope will prove how essential it is to live in truth. Even though you may still shirk 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
personality finds the strength and discipline required to live productively in union, by living self-sufficiently as an 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
find the eternal now. In it you can live fearlessly with rightful confidence in the unknown. You 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
one does not use the inborn faculties to live fully and therefore no longer fear life or 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
unfair and unkind fate, that you do not live in a chaotic world, where the law of 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
because your conviction of not being able to live up to it will make it frightening. Once 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
You will then know what it means to live without shame, without the need to be isolated 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
futility are still absent. If you continue to live with the burden of error, you gradually come 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
the vaster intelligence to help you. If you live in the now, you are in tune with 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
it is God's will for human beings to live in joy. At the same time, on a 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
none of these unhealthy aspects existed, one would live through the pain and grow out of it 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
you realize that you have the resources to live in dignity and self-respect and are not wholly 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
you really feel and think that you cannot live in the now. But sufficient progress has been 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
need to know about yourself in order to live successfully. Finding God cannot be done by discussing 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
which you not only understand, but know and live. For example, you must become capable of living 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
close their eyes in fear and believe they live behind fenced-in walls. Although there is no prison 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
behind. If you do not see that you live with a fence around you, you cannot discover 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
hopeless, and that therefore you must pretend and live in make-believe, you can then start to make 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
can then start to make the change and live in earnest, striving for real goals and dispensing 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
for the person who ceases effort ceases to live. But that kind of effort is always labored 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
alone, where you have no relationship, where you live in conditions in which it seems almost impossible 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
be perfection on all counts. Then I will live. If I am unhappy, I must die. There 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
to avoid death. Such people really do not live at all. Fear of death and dying prohibits 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
are relatively free from this fear and therefore live meaningful and pleasurable lives. Since it is almost 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
at this moment, if you do not fully live in the moment and understand it in relationship 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
circumstances. These approaches are interdependent. In order to live meaningfully and dynamically, an interrelationship between them is 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
in which your personality and your body now live can you then deeply comprehend your real faculties 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
that is hard to conceive until the inner live center has been experienced. The foreign substance covers 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
this very experience of the real self, the live center where a spontaneous, loving intelligence and fulfillment 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
it feels to function out of your vital, live center which is now less obstructed than ever 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
to know, so that I will reawaken and live in the state of fulfillment, selfhood, and beauty 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
have any direct relationship with another person, who live merely in fantasies that are utterly attached to 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
must pretend. Therefore, where you harbor distortions, you live a lie -- a needless lie that you 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
a lie -- a needless lie that you live because of false fear of yourself. Some individuals 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
are no longer alienated from yourselves will you live in that vibrant experience where desire is never 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
a part of you remains in hiding, you live by proxy, as it were. It is always 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
defense you alienate yourself more from the vital live energy and meaningful presence within yourself that alone 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
wonderful part in yourself through which you vibrantly live in absolute self-trust. Here all the limitations of 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
In this way, you activate that most potent live center. It will guide you step by step 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
is that without these assets people cannot adequately live and cope with anything they encounter. Therefore, the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS

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