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wish to have your fears, anxieties and uncertainties assuaged from the outside. But if this ever works 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
When one is young, these fears may be assuaged. But sooner or later every human being will 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
some of the hitherto unfulfilled longing has been assuaged. But you have so much further to go 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
He deserves. Your human fears can never be assuaged otherwise. I spoke in a lecture about one 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
 
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the yardstick for your self-value. Validation by others assumes such great importance only because you do not 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
illusion of rejection in any form. The fight assumes various forms. One of them is the creation 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
In order to ward off danger, the personality assumes certain inner and outer behavior patterns, above and 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
both parties. One alternately blames the other, or assumes self-blame. It takes time and understanding, as well 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
never as satisfying as the fantasy. Hence, one assumes that giving up the fantasy means giving up 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
undesirable tendencies. One glosses over them and vaguely assumes that their secrecy invalidates them. Any effect they 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
removed from actual, ultimate reality as anyone who assumes illusions to be the final truth. Ultimate reality 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
alienating state -- not knowing what one believes, assumes and concludes. As I keep saying, you must 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
balance must be found in which the ego assumes an entirely different role. All of my friends 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
cannot recognize what he is doing when he assumes responsibility for another, which may happen in a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
choose such an attitude, the apparent stumbling block assumes a new meaning and becomes vital, strengthening, and 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
flexibility and humility. It also requires courage. Fear assumes that acceptance and acknowledgement of the ugliness will 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the first stage the conscious mind almost always assumes the active part by speaking the word, by 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
to stop the movement toward union. The ego assumes a preposterous and paradoxical position. It is intrinsically 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
to its deeper meaning -- the person simply assumes, this is the way I am, and is 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
child in a similar way. An attitude that assumes that learning and homework is the price to 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
 
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what exactly you believe or not believe -- assuming that you are not an atheist -- that 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
when it is forced. So beware of forcibly assuming the states which I am describing here. Simply 36 PRAYER
You pass over the obvious. You still keep assuming that certain occurrences are due to coincidence or 38 IMAGES
friends. Do not put an occurrence aside superficially, assuming it is unconnected with your personal image merely 38 IMAGES
an entity is ready to face himself, thereby assuming true self-responsibility, he or she will increasingly be 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
also put it the other way around: By assuming self-responsibility, you solve the problems. QUESTION: We are 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of being and are therefore not spiritual entities, assuming the form the human being has been shaped 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
whereby they obtain a degree of self-understanding. Before assuming any position of responsibility, they will be required 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
cowardice. The bargain you wanted to make by assuming a defensive, wrong inner attitude has much stronger 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are at one with yourself about it, fully assuming responsibility, ready to pay the consequences, this imperfect 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
see the outer manifestations and judge them -- assuming that energy wanes with advancing age -- rather 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
reactions and primary reactions. Am I correct in assuming that secondary reactions are the ones that come 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
when you put up a lazy resistance against assuming responsibility in your life, or do so only 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
natural way. Let us take one more example, assuming your main problem is a difficulty in making 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
by diminishing one's own masculinity and femininity and assuming the traits of the very sex one fights 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
urgent. Instead of letting this mislead you into assuming that this proves the absence of a no-current 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
deriving values, goals, ideas, and actions from within, assuming responsibility for them, thereby increasing integrity and self-respect 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
and what destructive? You are used to quickly assuming a ready-made rule, without questioning it. You echo 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
When closely observed, the ego presses and pushes, assuming that thus it will overcome the obstruction. Pain 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
Accepting death in the right way merely means assuming the consequences of one's past direction. It need 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
uncomfortable and strongly compelled when he refrains from assuming the false responsibility. Such a forced act would 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
balance of proper self-responsibility and a freedom from assuming the burdens of others, which has nothing to 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the mask of false security he had been assuming. He now finds that he has unconsciously held 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
your hate and expressing it constructively, that is, assuming responsibility for it, your capacity to love grows 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
or for those who still defend against fully assuming responsibility for their lives and are therefore blocked 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
free to alter whenever you so decide. By assuming the sole blame, you give permission, as it 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
as a whole, do people become capable of assuming responsibility without the distortion that is blame. Now 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
You make no movement toward or commitment to assuming the attitudes that constitute leadership. You can perhaps 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
you do not wish the higher task of assuming the responsibilities to lead, to stand in an 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
up the state of being only half awake, assuming unthinkingly that others should know what you feel 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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you are not religious. You make the mistaken assumption that being religious means to adhere to some 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
question, but I will correct a misunderstanding. The assumption that people find themselves in any situation without 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
no matter how wrong others may be. The assumption of a faulty premise often manifests in an 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
convince yourself of the falsity of such an assumption. You are still filled with the untruth that 53 SELF-LOVE
disaster. When you discover the error of this assumption, you can then get rid of the pride 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
are always held on to in the mistaken assumption that they are useful or protective. Once you 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
would be harmful to go ahead on that assumption and indulge in the lowest instincts. Now, my 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
will protect you and whether or not this assumption is correct. Of course, you will find it 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
opinions and generalizations. They are very misleading. The assumption that the person who loves animals and nature 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
itself, it is not based on a wrong assumption. Therefore it will work out. The claim for 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
itself it is not based on an erroneous assumption. But you are still unaware of the underlying 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
is that, after all, it is simply the assumption of a role. The tragedy of self- alienation 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Admitting them would demand certain obligations and the assumption of self-responsibility, but you would rather take on 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
the gnawing guilt. This impairment encourages the false assumption that wanting to receive is wrong, thereby increasing 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
It does not work that way, because this assumption only leads to the illusion that your finding 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
boundaries you cannot penetrate or control. In this assumption of a limited universe, you make no use 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
and painful alternatives. The third either/or is the assumption that only a limited degree of fulfillment and 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
such a chance is extended, in the false assumption that disappointment will then hurt less. Apart from 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
a haphazard realization. The entirety of the wrong assumption -- that the problem itself is non-existent -- 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
it's me versus the other were a correct assumption. The more you adhere to this assumption, the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
correct assumption. The more you adhere to this assumption, the more shortchanged you must become in the 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
you. In other words, you take a negative assumption for granted. Once you see this, you are 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
which is to question the validity of this assumption. Is your assumption true? What would actually happen 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
question the validity of this assumption. Is your assumption true? What would actually happen if you didn't 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
must be precisely posed. The possibility that your assumption might be false must be seriously considered. At 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
and you grope for these definitions on the assumption that you have to define and understand love 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
things could be different. You must challenge an assumption, once it is put into precise words, such 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
resign themselves to a half-dead life on the assumption that this is the way it must be 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
this can be proven to be a false assumption. What also vary, almost infinitely, are the assumed 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
aggression, intimidation, and persuasion through false strength and assumption of an authority role. Deep down they all 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
least worthy in the universe. Even one such assumption is bound to have innumerable consequences, breeding further 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
one's dealings with the world. Each primary wrong assumption snowballs into a host of untenable, painful, destructive 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
Often, though you have actually recognized a false assumption about yourself, you still do not follow this 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
You fail to see, for example, how this assumption affects what you believe about others and what 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
or incident means in the light of your assumption; what your reactions and the reactions of others 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
worse. This, too, is of course, an illusory assumption, for no truth is ever burdensome, hopeless or 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
also lurks the precise opposite extreme -- the assumption of your worthlessness. If you are not special 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
to adjust to an unhealthy condition, in the assumption that to rebel against it is immature, unrealistic 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
into itself. There is a general conviction and assumption that the affirmative principle is good and desirable 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
a state of utter disunity, of duality. Your assumption that there is no way out is a 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
will not escape until you challenge your silent assumption -- the assumption that life is limited and 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
until you challenge your silent assumption -- the assumption that life is limited and negative -- which 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
of view, rather than indulging in the usual assumption that one is unlucky and unfairly put upon 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
inevitably seem to prove the correctness of the assumption, so that the destructive, defensive behavior will become 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
annihilation, danger, chaos, the logical sequence of this assumption would then be that the world is built 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
befalls you, you must perish. This unspoken, unarticulated assumption creates fear, and often, as the assumption becomes 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
unarticulated assumption creates fear, and often, as the assumption becomes exaggerated, fear turns into terror. The terror 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
unrealistic because the underlying thinking derives from the assumption that the universe has only a limited supply 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
reality behind the feeling. Find out if the assumption that underlies a feeling reaction is valid. It 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
Being honest includes challenging your conscious or unconscious assumption that if you go into pain, you will 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
blame, you surely expect to be ostracized. This assumption is an unbearable load; it is untrue and 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and is presented as if this kind of assumption were arrived at truly honestly and deeply. If 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
leap, you must doubt your fear and your assumption that this fear may be the ultimate reality 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
and woman inferior. In order to justify this assumption, woman was supposed to be intellectually and morally 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
experience bliss? How can you even challenge the assumption of your worthlessness that you all carry inside 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
being valueless, can you begin to see this assumption and cast doubt on your self-doubt. In that 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
on something that cannot be and by your assumption that you have to manipulate reality around you 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
painful state of consciousness. It leads to the assumption that the universe is a world of chaos 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
confronted, you react according to the same erroneous assumption that being wrong, having lower-self attitudes, having made 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
only then can you find out that your assumption was false. In fact, only when you fully 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
and aspects of reality. One example is the assumption that the experience of God's grace is something 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
is something to be given to you. Another assumption is that faith comes also from outside, as 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT

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