| Miraculous..................13 | |
| developed. It cannot come to you by a miraculous outer happening. Physical growth happens slowly but surely | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| understand, comprehension will come to you in most miraculous ways. Even if there is absolutely no one | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| them, the results have been nothing short of miraculous. I would like to ask what this miracle | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| itself to you. This unfolding of goodness appears miraculous to the person who has hitherto embraced only | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| spot. This is no more and no less miraculous than the laws of the mind. As far | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the room beyond actually exists, it will appear miraculous. Spiritually, mentally, emotionally, you so often remain in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| law as any law you no longer find miraculous. The reality of creation is that there is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| first in smaller ways, which nevertheless appear almost miraculous. As you perceive more and extend your concepts | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| through various spiritual practices and wait for a miraculous manifestation of the greater consciousness, while their immediate | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| For instance, you can say: Yes, it seems miraculous. There is indeed a living process and intelligence | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| often startled by this change. It sometimes seems miraculous, yet it is merely a beginning and so | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| my life very much now. It seems almost miraculous. The business venture I've started looks as if | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| your work. The organic movement brought about seemingly miraculous changes of personality in the best sense; it | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Mirror......................25 | |
| is only a reflection, an image in a mirror, a projection of the real. The body, which | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| matter which you can touch is only a mirror image or reflection of the universe fully present | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to us that our reality is only a mirror of the true reality. I cannot understand this | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| seems to you real. When you touch a mirror, that is also real. You feel the mirror | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| mirror, that is also real. You feel the mirror. Let us assume you do not know that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| know that the living being reflected in the mirror is warm and blood flows in its veins | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| experienced in touch. You could then mistake the mirror image for the real person. Imagine the relationship | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| are mirrors that do not reflect reality. Each mirror distorts in a different way. You are so | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| opposite deviation in the other way. In a mirror, your right side is on the left, and | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the same as what yoga calls becoming the mirror of reality? Also that the mind should become | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| can you learn to understand yourself in the mirror of the other? How else can you, best | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| with others and using other people as a mirror. It cannot be emphasized enough how effective it | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| own blind reflexes, they are often a good mirror for you. Do not shy away from such | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| one's own development. Relationship with others is a mirror of one's own state and thus a direct | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| two mates. Relationships are not recognized as a mirror for inner growth, so they gradually wear out | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| given moment, each partner will serve as a mirror to the inner state of the other and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Our path uses this most important and truthful mirror to determine a person's inner state. This more | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| there is. Satisfying relationships with others therefore always mirror the degree of the individual's inner unification. If | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| exterior world is but a reflection like a mirror image. Everything you ever need to know about | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| outer form. In short, the outer life must mirror the inner life in every possible respect. But | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| you know as real is a reflection, a mirror image, an outer projection into which your real | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Contact with others is always necessary. Others can mirror to you where the self is stuck, and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the real universe, while outer space is a mirror image, a reflection of it. This is why | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| such a sight, it is again only the mirror image of the inner event. In the same | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to set distorted perceptions right. You need the mirror of others. You need to learn to be | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Mirrors.....................5 | |
| out of focus in both instances; both are mirrors that do not reflect reality. Each mirror distorts | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| when this split is not conscious, the split mirrors itself in your relationships, or the lack of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| person's life always reflects the inner attitude: It mirrors the inner sense of false abandonment, of wishful | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| The way sexuality expresses itself in an individual mirrors those inner aspects which the person desperately needs | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| use those to whom you reveal yourself as mirrors that help you see and reconsider some of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Misapplied..................13 | |
| try to get out of paying the price. Misapplied or misunderstood positive thinking wants to have outer | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of this condition but the symptoms of their misapplied activity must show by their diminished health, strength | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of the motives of this desire is actually misapplied goodwill. But it consists also of cowardice, pride | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that may be true in some circumstances is misapplied in others, distorted and rigidly set up as | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| They will not be understood properly, will be misapplied by overemphasis on one, so that the other | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| are both an expression of the misunderstood and misapplied principle of restriction or introspection. Correctly understood, the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| objection, is an expression of the misunderstood and misapplied principles we discussed. A further proof of ignorance | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| in their application. ANSWER: Yes. Every teaching, if misapplied and misunderstood, will create fear. A rigid commandment | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| letting go where control is needed. Misunderstood and misapplied control consists of selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| inner processes to transform. For it is a misapplied and misunderstood hurt that has created this condition | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| life and the growth process -- in the misapplied knowledge that growth manifests effortlessly as if by | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| In some personality types the result is inertia. Misapplied will and action produce excessive tension. Where the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| possible to have faith and yet not use misapplied faith to justify the current tendency of your | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Misconception...............184 | |
| imply that a person who has this particular misconception is necessarily selfish. He or she may even | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| lower self, but also because one has the misconception that with the ego one would also have | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| if it can avoid it. Out of this misconception conflicts will arise. In youth the parents force | 38 IMAGES |
| destruction can work in you through the basic misconception that self-centeredness will protect you from hurt or | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and to help others. So beware of the misconception that to love yourself is wrong. Therefore, distinguish | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| its true nature. You may have an unconscious misconception that your true nature -- representing one of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the person feels that way. Where is the misconception? There must be a wrong conclusion somewhere. You | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| But find out further why? What brought this misconception into existence, what led to it? That will | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| cases like this, is to find where the misconception is, the wrong idea. There must be one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| are the result of the same unhealthy basic misconception. Let us go back to this particular mass | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| exist if you were free of this particular misconception. This mass image takes on many forms in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| your discovery why you are so bound; what misconception leads you to the bondage. Then, and then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the female more intuitive. Even that is a misconception, at least it was originally. If it often | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot dissolve. There is a very important general misconception about life. It constitutes the main result of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of them, partly due to the rather frequent misconception I mentioned before, namely, that emotions are dangerous | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| unselfish because of the compulsion based on this misconception, you can never contribute constructively to others, at | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| underlie such acts, possibly based on this common misconception, of responding compulsively rather than out of free | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God! 64. OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS Greetings. I bring you blessings, my | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the underlying reality of your hopelessness. Were your misconception true, happiness would indeed be an impossibility. You | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you were allowed to be selfish. Whether this misconception exists in your conscious or in your unconscious | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| part of your personality where you hold the misconception. First, not everything that makes you happy is | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| reactions mature. This will free you of the misconception that selfishness could make you happy if you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| were allowed to indulge in it. The other misconception, that happiness is selfish and is therefore forbidden | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and is therefore forbidden, exists because of this misconception. Because of these wrong conclusions, your inner will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| advantage, while the selfish one is not. The misconception may be deeply buried and has to become | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you. By that time you have recognized the misconception that can be corrected only by means of | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and when you are entirely aware of the misconception in all its facets, you will have to | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| of what these desires are. Because of this misconception, the desires themselves are often suppressed and have | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Then, and then only can you replace the misconception with the right concept. But find out where | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will find it is a wrong conclusion, a misconception. Only when you realize fully that it is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you realize fully that it is a misconception will you let go of it. Your inner | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions, reactions, and attitudes that correspond to this misconception, you can reconsider the concepts and form new | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| may penetrate the many layers of error and misconception. Yet, you also withdraw behind your shell, or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| illusion of evil and sin, in error and misconception. But no matter how hard you find it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| when you judge others, this is a total misconception, which needs drastic revision. I am quite certain | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you cannot possibly be reconciled with the current misconception that the masochistic tendency to allow the unhealthy | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suffer correspondingly less tension and anxiety. Incidentally, another misconception or illusion, which is largely responsible for your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| say only this: You often labor under the misconception that true love means to give up your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Naturally, you rebel against this. But your further misconception is that the remedy lies in withdrawing from | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reason with it. You will realize that this misconception of love has nothing whatever to do with | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of self- preservation, are based on illusion and misconception. When you understand the basis of your fears | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will encounter the original fear and its underlying misconception. At that moment the fear begins to vanish | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| difficult it will be to unearth this deep-rooted misconception, which creates a tight, tense current -- the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| merely pride, but it is based on the misconception that not getting what you want means terror | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| awareness, and since they are sought under the misconception that getting your will and being happy is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| now know quite well that wherever a deviation, misconception or conflict exists in you, vicious circles result | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspect I repeat, briefly, that it is a misconception that stems from the inherent fear of physical | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| power, and (3) the quest for serenity. The misconception behind each one is that living according to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| can be combined with the instinctual forces. Your misconception about the meeting of real needs produces repression | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| caused to a large degree by the unconscious misconception that you have to be perfect in order | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| are beginning to find out. Because of this misconception you become quite frantic when you have discovered | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| consciously or unconsciously, is a logical error, a misconception, and therefore it cannot work. By gaining the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in your way more than your imperfections. Your misconception about divine perfection leads you to rigidity and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| looking beyond it. Where do you hold a misconception? Where are you trapped in confusion? What do | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| from a new angle. You are under the misconception that goodness is dull and insipid, that it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and mental illness. If, to begin with, this misconception did not exist, if one knew that being | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| nature's plan. No. This again shows a complete misconception of what the human being is and what | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Furthermore, this question arises from the same complete misconception I outlined in this very lecture in that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of them are based on error, confusion, and misconception. How often have I discussed this in our | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| conclusions. All the emotions that stem from the misconception that your real feelings will get you into | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| assimilated if you do not empty yourself of misconception. Therefore, self- knowledge is the prerequisite to love | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contradictory to a life of personal fulfillment. The misconception that personal fulfillment is selfish and opposed to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not mean to forfeit personal happiness -- a misconception that is often held even by the irreligious | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| be as subtle and hidden as the very misconception itself. It may create a pattern of continuous | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| denying his need for love due to the misconception that then he is not manly, he also | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the personality. Consequently, your false belief in your misconception is strengthened and you thereby widen the split | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| will harmonize and form an integrated whole. A misconception of long standing, which has only been eliminated | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the contrary is true. Before prejudice, fear, and misconception tend to prohibit the natural flow of an | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| negative, unpleasurable experience by guilt and fear, by misconception, and the faulty assimilation of experience. This negative | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| person who weakens himself due to the above-mentioned misconception. He substitutes for the weakness and shame its | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| let go of himself. In his fear and misconception, he uses both in the wrong way. He | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| insecure and frightened and hanging on to the misconception that you are unlucky and inferior. Suddenly the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| into the soul substance. It is this basic misconception which makes one reject what one wants most | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| For example, if you are under the basic misconception that you are inadequate and cannot succeed, this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of wanting and deserving the desired experience. The misconception that striving for personal fulfillment is identical with | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| trouble festers, a deep shame exists. Whatever the misconception, the original image with its false premises and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the life force. A fundamental and very frequent misconception in the human psyche says that unhappiness is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| because one is somehow immersed in illusion and misconception. But this understanding is not the same as | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and confusion perpetuate the chain reaction. Illusion and misconception create a duality which appears as an arbitrary | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you will cut yourself. You then find your misconception confirmed. This is the nature of all images | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| forces at your disposal. Apart from the general misconception that suffering is necessary, and therefore should be | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you persist in retaining the particular ignorance or misconception that has created the suffering. The moment you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| worse than the other: both contain the identical misconception, and the results of both are loneliness, resentment | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| denser the matter, the greater the ignorance, error, misconception, prejudice, limitation, and darkness -- hence, the greater | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| for survival and subsistence. It was distortion and misconception that have brought you to this state. At | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| problem itself, nor the conflict, nor even the misconception which create turmoil in your soul, but it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to soul areas which are entirely free from misconception, underestimation of self, illusion, fear, and other destructive | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| fear of loving. Behind both fears is confusion, misconception, illusion. It is these misinterpreted hurts and pains | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| functioning human being. Wherever there is fear and misconception, I wish to understand them so that I | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| or the unitive principle of being. Only through misconception does duality, or conflict, come about. The particular | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of mobility in relaxation results in the following misconception: on the one hand, relaxation is viewed as | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| see only two equally unsatisfactory alternatives. This primary misconception distorts the harmonious rhythm of cosmic movement. You | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| there exists an additional element without which no misconception, regardless of how off the mark, could have | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| total strength of one's being is the ingrained misconception that if you add to life, you will | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| so it goes on and on. The original misconception leads to graver error, to compounded misunderstanding, to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| all matters. It is therefore correct that any misconception in your psyche that creates negative chain reactions | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the self is directly connected with a deliberate misconception about one's personal life. People often want to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| ego faculties is a further result of the misconception that life can be maintained only when the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| a hidden, irrational fear which comes from the misconception: If I give up this entire structure, this | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| creation. Every step in this direction abandons another misconception, and each misconception represents another burden. The giving | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| in this direction abandons another misconception, and each misconception represents another burden. The giving up of what | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| dualistic either/or is realized. People who believe this misconception follow an erroneous path: they hope to attain | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| get love to come through, having found my misconception about spirituality and the physical body. But it | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| with every issue in the human psyche, this misconception is bound to bring about the very aspect | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| tries to avoid. The defense against a dreaded misconception must be as erroneous as the misconception itself | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| dreaded misconception must be as erroneous as the misconception itself: that life, as well as feelings, are | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of joyful outreaching and gusto. Only when pain, misconception and misinterpretation of pain arise, is the natural | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| of speech is an expression of the dualistic misconception operative within all human consciousness. Actually, there is | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| was never taken away from another. The dualistic misconception presents innumerable problems. It not only creates envy | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| delays the evolutionary plan as much as this misconception, held by well-meaning and otherwise quite enlightened individuals | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| all this has brought into the open a misconception lodged deeply in your psyche: that if you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| particularly by the loss of your genitals. This misconception occurs frequently, which does not alter its real | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| The child in you is governed by this misconception, and it is responsible for many of your | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of your difficulties. Finding the source of the misconception within yourself -- not as a psychological theory | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| because you still believe in the threat: Your misconception is that the hope of new life simultaneously | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| resolved only when you truly understand that the misconception is a misconception. The pain will vanish, for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you truly understand that the misconception is a misconception. The pain will vanish, for the pain results | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| will vanish, for the pain results from the misconception and the ensuing conflict. QUESTION: As to living | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the world's censure, and partly because of a misconception similar to that of our friend who asked | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this destructive attitude is in part the dualistic misconception mentioned before. Partly, its motive is childish self-importance | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cramp such intensity causes on all levels. The misconception that intensity is favorable also applies to pleasure | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| ought to exert over their involuntary processes. This misconception makes them go off in a direction that | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| misconceptions, the expanding movement appears fraught with danger. Misconception must always lead to resistance to growth. The | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| On the next outgoing beat the waste -- misconception, fear -- is expelled, just as the physical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| they did not accept. You are under the misconception that only you harbor such impulses, except for | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thus move into a vicious circle. Whenever a misconception is accepted as truth, immediately a vicious circle | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| are concerned. It is just as much error, misconception and evil wishes as it is truth, reality | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| mean renunciation of bliss. The harmfulness of the misconception of this duality is impossible to fully grasp | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| principle in you being strongly activated. Thus your misconception that union with the other sex, and the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| is happiness, while unhappiness is always error and misconception. Do not ever forget this. Knowing this may | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to their innermost expressions when governed by a misconception of the passive principle. They claim rightly that | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| See-Saw Law or Law of Compensation Wherever a misconception exists, your balance structure has been disturbed, and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| balance structure has been disturbed, and an opposite misconception must also exist. Each attitude has an opposite | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| remove the lack of fulfillment. Misconception-Split-Vicious Circle Every misconception creates duality and inner conflict, which in turn | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| finds that he has unconsciously held the common misconception that sex is dirty. The resulting inner split | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| This unnecessary division resulted from a simple, unconscious misconception. The misconception that sex is dirty led to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| division resulted from a simple, unconscious misconception. The misconception that sex is dirty led to the above-mentioned | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| justified guilt because they violate a spiritual law. Misconception is unreality, and unreality cannot help but produce | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| emotions such as anger, hopelessness, and distrust. Moreover, misconception must lead to unfulfillment and therefore frustration and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| futility inherent in all conflict arising out of misconception leads to a feeling of helplessness and the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| for your child's problems is based on a misconception, although you are responsible for your own distortions | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Every sick part of your body is a misconception. The body itself, which consists of dieable matter | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| which have their own consciousness. What is the misconception behind the tension? Answers will come to you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| knit and firmly established. The mind carries the misconception; the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of humanity. I have often shown how a misconception splits the truth into two opposing halves that | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| across, in your personal pathwork, a very specific misconception that makes loving impossible as long as you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| bliss and loving are the same thing. The misconception that giving is losing causes you to close | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of your emotional experience. You can change this misconception any moment you truly and fully look at | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to accept the logical consequences due to the misconception that they are undesirable for you. Here you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| really do not want it, because of some misconception or unjustified fears, or an unwillingness to pay | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| runs its own course. We shall discuss this misconception further in the next section of our talk | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| core feeling is often merely shame/pride and the misconception that the childhood pain existed because of personal | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| in you. This rebellious attitude soon creates the misconception in you that being sad is catastrophic and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| you that fuels your terror and of the misconception that makes you struggle so arduously and painfully | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and hopeless is the inner struggle that the misconception creates. This is the real meaning of the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| necessary to discover the concept, or rather the misconception, entrapped in your strong reaction to an unfulfillment | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| thought process, an approach to reality. The particular misconception must be recognized as such. You need to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| processes. Only through your emotional experience of a misconception can it be replaced by a true concept | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| refusal to experience painful feelings results from the misconception that they will annihilate you or that they | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| will prove that you are no good. This misconception must be challenged and replaced. If it is | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to manifest also on all other levels, every misconception, every distortion and imbalance of the will functioning | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| from hitting out, and also from a specific misconception, then you unify all levels and increase your | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| All sorts of erroneous philosophies arise from this misconception. One of them is the idea of predetermined | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| how what you now know to be a misconception about life has governed your actions and reactions | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| all of you still harbor a very important misconception about feelings, which is that you can somehow | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and capacity for feeling. Like all falsehood, this misconception leads to a dualistic conflict, a double bind | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| too tight, if it evolves out of a misconception that implies any kind of a must, the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| cycle. This is why it is such a misconception to believe that if you love one person | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| its manifestation into a lesser expression, then distortion, misconception, suffering, darkness and disconnection seem to be the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that there are people who have a deep misconception that prevents them from full commitment to their | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| find yourself and develop. But that is a misconception. The process exists always. The only difference is | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| exactly what it needs. But in the dualistic misconception they appear as opposites. Although they are a | 228 BALANCE |
| life. You have to free yourself of this misconception on your own path as either parents or | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| step of your path where you find a misconception, a negativity, a block, a destructiveness, a problem | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| to his potentials will fear death. A common misconception contributes to the resistance to movement. Since movement | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| you are an integral part of creation. The misconception that dedication of your life to God's greater | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and reaction pattern which affects others adversely. The misconception is fixed and frozen in the soul substance | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| individual and always appears to confirm the original misconception, which seems to necessitate the defense, which creates | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| more conflict arises. So if you have the misconception that Christ intended you to deny your vital | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the end, seem to bear out the original misconception. The Jewish mass image is: If my parents | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Now how does this image work? The Jewish misconception is that Jesus was a false prophet, that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| antagonism and actual persecution of Jews. So the misconception created a defense which, in turn, could not | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| but bear out the apparent truth of the misconception. As I have said before, you create your | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| fear of people unless you truly expose the misconception that others want to be your enemies? You | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |