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| your own endeavors. It is one thing to avoid a decision, cover up everything that relates to | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| love. Yet they will not be able to avoid the vague, weary feelings. This is so because | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| people who are preoccupied with becoming free. They avoid anything that could bind them. But the same | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| which are, in reality, nothing but subterfuges to avoid self-search. Use your critical faculties to detect the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| certain events will take place in order to avoid some greater danger. These events are a natural | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| life of man. Sometimes it is impossible to avoid spiritual destruction except by material catastrophe. History often | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| they want contact only with kindred spirits and avoid those who do not give them pleasure. They | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| your inner truth, you will be able to avoid the lie and identify the false emotional currents | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| our friends who hear and read these words avoid the decision and believe it has nothing to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| creates uneasiness, or blaming others and circumstances to avoid the necessity to seek the wrong within you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| It is not their task to help you avoid a little bit of effort to find out | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have no Goethe. God's spirit world wants to avoid this. So whenever such a thing occurs, it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| doubt the part desiring truth in order to avoid disappointment. The higher self and the lower self | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| different picture of the self in order to avoid certain difficulties, unpleasantness, or disadvantages of all sorts | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| have in you, and not in order to avoid putting up with a discomfort. True, it takes | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that they cannot do this but that they avoid those decisions concerning their inner life. They run | 21 THE FALL |
| will not be so any more. You cannot avoid what you need, that I can assure you | 21 THE FALL |
| then you are detached -- not when you avoid the things that bother you. This is difficult | 21 THE FALL |
| free will of the people would work to avoid this particular direction, then this would be a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be paid for everything. Whoever tries to avoid this will finally pay a much heavier price | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| cherish in you does not exist because you avoid facing it. The lower self is immature and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for the lower self that always wants to avoid purification and improvement. Now, my dear friends, let | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to say this: That which you so often avoid facing is not necessarily something that is deeply | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| then, will you reach that point. Trying to avoid the laws of your own world, no matter | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| both or all sides which you wished to avoid. If you test this emotional, and for the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| careful to understand that I do so to avoid completely unnecessary hurt feelings. In learning to become | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the wrong thoughts and feelings that you cannot avoid having at present will be much less forceful | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| will never take another bath if it can avoid it. Out of this misconception conflicts will arise | 38 IMAGES |
| way to ascend in spirit. Thinking you can avoid this apparent descent and yet attain spiritual growth | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| It is self-deception and wishful thinking. You cannot avoid it. QUESTION: You said humans were all given | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| will become less, not because you fear and avoid them but because you are willing to face | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| that by adopting a certain attitude they will avoid what they fear in life: pain, suffering, disappointment | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| building these defenses you not only do not avoid the suffering, but it actually becomes worse. To | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this angle. Not only were you unable to avoid pain, but in the long run it brought | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| from this angle: What did I try to avoid? How well did I succeed? Then think about | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a human being who does not want to avoid it in some way, despite your revolt against | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| more suffering than what you had hoped to avoid, you will become free. So, for the time | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| how you yourself produced it. So as to avoid misunderstanding, I emphasize once more that acceptance of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of pain does not deny your power to avoid it on this path of purification. Quite the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that way, they could to a large degree avoid the formation of an image by helping to | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| what deep down you resent most of all. Avoid such a crisis, my dear ones. If you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that promises security, or utter weakness it must avoid. The child can accept only the first of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| what a part of your emotions wants to avoid. In the presence of other people you want | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| will often do anything in their power to avoid -- subconsciously and ignorantly -- the great experience | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| fear and pride around their souls that they avoid this part of life experience entirely and so | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| finding the soul of the other person. They avoid this in every way they can. My dear | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| aware of the lazy outer layers. Do not avoid eros when it wants to come to you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the very recognitions that the psyche wishes to avoid. When you have decided for this path, you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| know from what angle to approach yourselves to avoid stagnation. Is this clear, my friends? Think well | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| I have the privilege of leading you will avoid these dangers; your outer and inner reactions will | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this approach, my dear ones, and you can avoid unnecessary pitfalls. To find the answer to your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| are so afraid of disappointment; they try to avoid the disappointment by shielding themselves with the negative | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to atone in this way and thus to avoid even greater punishment. The avoidance creates situations and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| if I punished myself I could at least avoid the humiliation, the helplessness, and the degradation of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| think that by being so perfect you can avoid punishment. In this way a second conscience is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| conscience, you feel more strongly that you cannot avoid punishment. You feel the need for punishment even | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| weakness and fear. It bargains; it wants to avoid something that may or may not be good | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| constantly refrains from having opinions in order to avoid friction, to be liked and respected, to never | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| respected, to never differ from other people, or avoid a certain responsibility. From the moment you have | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| recognize. A part of your personality wishes to avoid doing harm; another part does not. So far | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the eyes of God, can cheat life, and avoid self-responsibility. To begin with, such a child will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| will find ways and means of trying to avoid a change of inner attitude. But as far | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| try it but they cannot succeed -- to avoid the disappointments of life in that way. As | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that you force strict measures on yourself to avoid them, you can never rise above them, and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| own soul calls forth; that you do not avoid happiness because you are afraid of unhappiness; that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| are afraid of unhappiness; that you do not avoid positive involvement because you are afraid of negative | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| past you cannot change, and therefore you cannot avoid facing the issue in the present. Least of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and much nearer the extreme one wants to avoid. The right alternative is to recognize the sex | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| blocked, your wish capacity hampered. In order to avoid all possible misunderstanding, let me emphasize again that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| recognition will be healthy and will help you avoid further wrong impressions about God, fate, and life | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| might emphasize once again -- so as to avoid all possible misunderstanding -- that the remedy is | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| seek and invite pain and unhappiness just to avoid the helpless feeling of being exposed to it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| damaging way. The psyche argues: Since I cannot avoid unhappiness, I may just as well enjoy it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| difficulties that other, less privileged people, do not avoid. This approach is also very wrong. It must | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| face it, you look away, you struggle to avoid seeing it. This means that in this respect | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that emotions are dangerous and if one cannot avoid them, one must somehow keep them a secret | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| belief this is the only possible way to avoid the other. You must become acutely aware of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| for the tendency to close the door, to avoid facing yourself. So I say to all of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception and suggestion. Prayer, if | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| success will be fleeting. Therefore you try to avoid the shame and exposure, the failure and grief | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| or astrologer do? Tell the truth, lie, or avoid it? ANSWER: You mean an unpleasant truth? QUESTION | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to the other side and they want to avoid this. It is as though their own unconscious | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have to retreat and withdraw so as to avoid the danger of life. You do not have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the child in you believes that you will avoid the abyss of unhappiness by holding on to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| new term or word. It helps you to avoid stagnation in your concepts. It avoids clinging to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| proof of distortion and deviation. In order to avoid that, you do not have to worry, plan | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| out what the cause was, in order to avoid a recurrence of the psychosis. But is it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| fear are examples of those who want to avoid confronting the reality of death on this earth | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| atheist/materialist and the superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith are two prototypes. Neither | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| so much nearer to what you want to avoid, and you forfeit that which you wish to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that clings to life only in order to avoid death. This motivation is negative and negates the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| But the end result has been used to avoid facing that which still seems unpleasant, if for | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| at the result through shortcuts in order to avoid the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and pain do so because they wish to avoid rather than go through those deep experiences. However | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| only when your consciousness has learned not to avoid it. Conversely, a healthy attitude that retains awareness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in talking yourself out of it. Trying to avoid the inevitable is useless; what really helps is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and suffering and relax into it. You cannot avoid the illusion of suffering by telling yourself it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| that this very countermeasure not only does not avoid, but rather brings on the very thing that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your own failure, you use special means to avoid seeing it. One of the most common devices | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| means to finally win and master life. To avoid uncovering this falsity, these trends become incorporated into | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of certain reactions and incidents and how you avoid them. Examining these ingrained reactions which have truly | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the very danger that you feel you must avoid at all costs. So the immature soul struggles | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| qualities. Because such people wish so strongly to avoid the struggle of life, they cringe like the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a stronger authority than yourself in order to avoid effort and responsibility, you cannot help feeling self-hate | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and both for constructive reasons, rather than to avoid something you fear. The right answer can come | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the long run. The unhappiness you seem to avoid will come to you in a different and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| dull the capacity to feel in order to avoid pain. From that moment onward, you withdrew from | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| own full potential, but you do not really avoid unhappiness, as already indicated. This painful isolation was | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| much more to that which you strive to avoid. Hence you miss out doubly: you do not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Hence you miss out doubly: you do not avoid that which you fear -- not really and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| life full face and you therefore want to avoid it. True spiritual states of elation come undesired | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness, love and pleasure. Super-states of euphoria usually avoid all that. If they are genuine, they come | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| communion with God existed because you wanted to avoid a communion with yourself. Courage and humility to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of strength. That kind of religion you should avoid. Not only is it found in well-known religious | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is so, the less is it possible to avoid the hurts that you have unconsciously labored so | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that you have unconsciously labored so hard to avoid. And, as long as it is unconscious, you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| wall brings the very unfulfillment you wanted to avoid through the erroneous image conclusion. Even if you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you find resistance accompanied by the desire to avoid looking at it. That is the very point | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the pain, and all that you wish to avoid. When your pseudo-solution is a withdrawal from feeling | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| a different inner road. Originally you wished to avoid the pain by providing yourself with a strong | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you much more of what you wished to avoid. However, to clearly recognize this fact and to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| faculties which have bred confusion and suffering and avoid using them for what, by nature, they were | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| deeper levels of such self-facing, will he gradually avoid the kind of prayer he was used to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| up in the very situation you strive to avoid by false and unrealistic means, based on wrong | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| guilt exists. You go to any length to avoid facing the lower self. Perhaps you are capable | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the most immature, unjustified demands from others to avoid feeling guilty or fearing unwelcome consequences. In both | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| and dissolve inner conflict and confusion, you cannot avoid the negative emotions that are unleashed when time | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the present and into the future. Thereby you avoid living in the now. If, however, you were | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| It is our aim in this work to avoid futile struggle. For this purpose we have to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| need to be happy and secure. They can avoid the effort of obtaining it themselves. The illusion | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| moment must come when you can no longer avoid confronting your inner uncertainty. You must raise questions | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| those aspects of love that you wish to avoid, will you begin to sense a truthful answer | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself with something you had wished rather to avoid. Then, as all of you have discovered, the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to bring freshness to it, not only to avoid confusion, but also to give more of an | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| diverge from the way prescribed. They wish to avoid confrontation and decision between the two sources of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what cannot possibly be expected. You will therefore avoid disappointment and frustration. I do not mean to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the role of your own sex, and therefore avoid contact with the opposite sex. Examine what you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this may seem, appears humiliating. In order to avoid the humbling truth that the little self is | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| both are intrinsically the same. In order to avoid such a destructive escape, the life instinct must | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| from which you still shy away. When you avoid parts of yourself, you cannot help but project | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| because the little ego fears and wants to avoid -- often unconsciously -- uncovering the shame. The | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the ring of truth if one does not avoid something in oneself. If the pressure from the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| formed pseudo-solutions and what they are supposed to avoid is unconscious, there is no way of remedying | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| feelings are unconscious. The no-current is used to avoid the imagined threat. When the pathwork demolishes this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the desire for magic represents the wish to avoid the consequences of one's actions; such desire denies | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| happiness in order to have your way and avoid the imagined annihilation of your cherished images and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not out of a must, in order to avoid what you fear, in order to coddle a | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you no longer desire happiness in order to avoid unhappiness, you have reached the fine point of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| dynamically related to it, but in order to avoid death. Such people really do not live at | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of happiness, or wanting it in order to avoid unhappiness. I have discussed general aims, but your | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| question from this point of view, you will avoid a great deal of confusion. Karmic law, heredity | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| truth teaching and spiritual philosophy in order to avoid going where they need to go -- into | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| helplessness, the less the person is able to avoid pain. Children are, by their very nature, helpless | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to change it, or as long as you avoid looking at it closely, in detail. It is | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| terrified of themselves. They do everything possible to avoid looking at themselves. When you have overcome a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you are truly ready to use, provided you avoid using superficial words which have no inner meaning | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in total integrity. In fact, the longer you avoid this, the further you remove yourself from all | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |