| serenity. The misconception behind each one is that living according to the dictates of these solutions will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| even spiritual action, is one thing. But spiritual living, feeling, being, and inner experience is an altogether | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Tower of Babel, especially now when we are living in an age of confusion of tongues. I | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It also creates the false guilt of not living up to your fantasies of glory, of not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pain. From that moment onward, you withdrew from living, loving, and experiencing -- from everything that makes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have if you would not run away from living. For living and feeling are one. The love | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you would not run away from living. For living and feeling are one. The love and fulfillment | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to show you how such moralizing stifles the living spirit of the good and the true to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| either acting out these untamed, destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| true. Verify how you despise yourself for not living up to perfection; how you do not accept | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and compliments make you feel that you are living up to your own expectations. They make the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| I distinguished, in answer to the question, between living morality and lifeless moralizing. Moreover, I explicitly stated | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| state of being, your emotions and mind. Merely living according to these great truths indicates neither false | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| it for yourself and thus make it a living reality. You will thus continue to remain dependent | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| The life has been extracted out of the living spirit of truth, and the letter of the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| grandiose and to accept yourself as being average, living an average life. If you can derive happiness | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| belief is one thing; the inner capacity of living these beliefs is an altogether different proposition. It | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and you have a deeper, wider scope for living. You confuse goodness with goody-goodyness which, if analyzed | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| potential. This can happen only when you cease living on the periphery and return to the center | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| applying the outer knowledge that goodness means productive living to your specific inner problem. No real growth | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it. When you are always together with a living, growing being, you do not see the growth | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of facing the truth about yourself. Desist from living superficially in the sense of satisfying the world | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| years. So many people are held back from living by a feeling of tiredness and even apathy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| must be made to take the chance of living on your own merits, rather than on the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that your self-pity, bitterness, futility due to shallow living -- no emotional depth and not owning up | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| away from sadness, you wind up in shallow living with all its byproducts. Do not expect an | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a joyful person. How can you become joyful living in a very imperfect world? People's conscious or | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| live on the periphery, which is the shallow living I discussed earlier. Full awareness of what you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the pseudo-solution of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both alternatives lead to shallowness, and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| other name. There is no separation between spiritual living and psychological processes, if you consider it from | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of the eternal current. The ultimate reason for living is to make your life meaningful, but without | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| nothing happens. Life continues to be meaningless. Real living is then constantly postponed. When this is the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| satisfaction, revenge and gratified pride. Thus you enjoy living in a way that exactly opposes your deep-rooted | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your sense of inadequacy and eliminating it. In living through such fantasies, you may experience momentary relief | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your psyche refuses to be cheated of real living, the accumulated pressure will often necessitate some outlet | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| fulfillment is impossible, you can completely withdraw from living and no longer try to attain real satisfaction | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| is too much for them. Thus they prefer living in a make-believe world of future fulfillment, expecting | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| daydreaming is that it may prevent you from living in reality. Now, what is the benefit of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| overproduction of daydreams, at the expense of actual living, is unhealthy. Now I am telling you that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Too much daydreaming at the expense of actual living may indicate that a part of the psyche | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| part of the psyche is not reconciled to living. Too little daydreaming, on the other hand, may | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| therefore you are not in touch with the living, dynamic complexity of the human being who was | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as possible. As long as you are still living with a falsification, you cannot cut the tie | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| be dead, and even if they are still living, and you can contact them, there may be | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in a spirit of truth, with a still living member of your family with whom you might | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| parents. The moment you experience them in their living reality -- at fault, surely, but now understood | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| defenses; the individual is open to life, to living, to loving. QUESTION: Could you comment on the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| meanings of fire are: the fire of life, living, loving, enthusiasm, healthy activity, spiritual endeavor, courage, conviction | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| corresponding healthy forces, the only pleasure derived from living is found in pain. I still do not | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a withdrawal from feeling, from loving, and from living, it is a defense against being hurt. Only | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| It causes you to forgo the experience of living in the true sense. Most of you, my | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| for all the years of destructive and unproductive living, as well as for the pain of crossing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| come out of your present state of unproductive living. As you go through the process of becoming | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| from yourself and from the apparent risk of living. Opportunities will come your way. You will see | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| do not wish to take the risk of living upon yourself, you wish to remain the child | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| from self-responsibility and from the apparent risk of living and feeling is caused by an original sense | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to this point of growth, maturity, and productive living, is by simply observing your emotions. Note how | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| for oneself. Thus it becomes something dead. The living spirit has gone out of it. The original | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| mentioned. Sloth represents the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from living and loving. Where there is apathy, there is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| something to the effect that conformity is not living in a house similar to your neighbor's, but | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a house similar to your neighbor's, but rather living in that house in order to impress your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| in which it is usually used, that of living up to other people's expectations, either out of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| determined by the inner spirit, the motive. People living like those around them may do so out | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this does not come in all areas of living and being at once. It may first appear | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| from this observation your capacity for loving and living grows automatically. Find the unifying forces that lie | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a question for my little grandson. He is living in fear most of the time. As a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you cannot recapture the inner meaning and the living experience of an expression, be aware of it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of it. Awareness counts so much. Forgetting the living meaning of a word is a good example | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| layers of your personality. When you experience the living spirit of a term, it is your real | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| standards. If someone wants something, and is not living up to outside standards and preconceived ideas, there | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mature by being channeled? Do you channel any living organism, a growing body? If you did you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| letting all destructive impulses loose, or incarcerating the living spirit of truth for the sake of right | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a whip and a prison, so that the living spirit of love cannot grow. I think it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| habit patterns that hold you back from productive living; from true experience, whether this is God, life | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is its cause that prevents you from really living and fulfilling yourself. What is so easily forgotten | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| your work. Every affliction of the psyche hinders living. It does so because it prevents you from | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and ideas. It applies to the circumstances of living, to the world, to yourself, to your thoughts | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that your depressions are unreal. The flow of living is continuous and only in your limited view | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| the layers that prevent you from feeling, from living, and from experiencing life to the fullest, these | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Are we then to believe that we are living in a world of causality where identical effects | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| in it, you are constantly confronted with the living reality of cause and effect. In the smallest | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| in your self-search, have found your rebellion against living. This rebellion may assume various forms: it may | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| have to go through this active part of living, but you do so against the stream, as | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| in theory, but when it comes to practical living, you wish to absolve yourself from it. Subsequently | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| an advanced stage even the daily routines of living, such as eating, getting up, cleansing yourself, doing | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to cope with decisions, with the strain of living. Or, more accurately, what would ordinarily be an | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| yet emotionally understood; what is not yet a living experience. Then the others may help with clarification | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| humility, and honesty will make your discussions a living, dynamic experience. Otherwise, they will become dull and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| or simply through certain events of your daily living. Also, look at your disproportionate reaction that says | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your daily life, making you capable of fully living. It will also provide you with the stamina | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| and false crutches, I have no way of living, therefore my whole life is an illusion. This | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| faculties free to deal with other aspects of living and being, becomes a task in which all | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| compared with the distorted, artificially strained ways of living, are the best way to heal your soul-substance | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Blessings for your work on this path. Every living organism experiences visible changes, which represent milestones in | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| process of growth. When I speak of a living organism, I do not refer only to an | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| an individual. A group like this is a living, growing organism, because it stands on a healthy | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| its present healthy foundation. The growth of a living organism cannot always be measured by outer signs | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| present and into the future. Thereby you avoid living in the now. If, however, you were to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| away from them, you would be capable of living in the now fully, meaningfully, and dynamically, deriving | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| advocate is one of the best means toward living each day and each hour fully. I venture | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you into extended dimensions, is to utilize each living moment in the manner you learn to do | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the wave of time, in harmony with it, living each now to the fullest. May all of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the case. Even then, you would still be living in illusion, because the outcome does not happen | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it is not -- you would still be living an illusion, because that moment of your recollection | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| out rather than tackling whatever prevents you from living as fully as you are meant to. In | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| hidden distortion destroyed so many possibilities for fully living, for happiness and meaning. Finding what is can | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you may begin to detect the lack of living in the now and therefore feeling real. The | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| never diminishes the now, nor the reality of living, regardless of what beliefs one holds about the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of your own reality, and cannot experience each living moment in its fullness. Wherever such lack of | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to use others. Since you condemn yourself to living a parasitic life, you cannot help using those | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| believe that you need others to strengthen you. Living in the now is living in the wave | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to strengthen you. Living in the now is living in the wave of time. In your dimension | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| curve as depressing, upsetting, or disadvantageous. For each living moment, fully experienced in the reality of the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| then yield adventure, peaceful, harmonious excitement, worthwhile vital living. But this cannot happen unless you first learn | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| for you! It would mean the difference between living and only half-living. You cannot do enough pondering | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| degree can you perceive, determine and love. A living creature is always the product, the sum total | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| objects. Next on the scale is love for living creatures other than humans: plants or animals. They | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one direction, but in all important areas of living. Many of you have found a profound sense | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that you fulfill yourself in one area of living at the expense of another. There is room | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| yourself as being fulfilled in all areas of living. This is due to your harsh, unforgiving and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| resentful and feels cheated when this mode of living and being does not bring the hoped-for results | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to unexamined values, but by examining, feeling, and living according to your own perception. Then you can | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| responsible for your being a human entity and living in this particular sphere of the universe. This | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| awareness imprisons you and makes life not worth living because you are constantly caught between two unsatisfactory | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| force permeates and revitalizes it. It lives. A living organism comes into existence. We previously defined life | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| structures of life. If harmony prevails in the living organism, the triad forms a whole, in which | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| comprehension. Outwardly, the rebellion may manifest in the living out of raw, undeveloped, primitive instincts in a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you will not only experience new fullness of living and bliss, but your productive activities will also | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| incapacitated, weak, and empty in all areas of living. You could not grow at all, nor could | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of the individuals who derive no joy from living. They are always those who have inadvertently stopped | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| unfulfillment, tension, frustration, and other hindrances to full living. The deep insight which comes as a result | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| laws of growth and development apply to all living organisms in the universe. They are identical in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the individual. They conform to identical laws of living and growing. This concept is perhaps more understandable | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| problematic areas, you must encounter this identical infant living within yourself. It is subdued by other parts | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| self-expression. Apart from the need to earn a living, which is the most obvious and most readily | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |