| Pressures...................4 | |
| eventually these strong reactions and inner desires and pressures will become weaker. They will not cease right | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| have fully recognized? If you observe when such pressures exist and when not and analyze the reasons | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| through but repressed due to outer influences and pressures. So my description is only a vague general | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to other matters. The | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Pressuring..................5 | |
| cannot accomplish what you want instantly. Instead of pressuring yourself into a state of bad conscience, relax | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want, and what you indeed should have, by pressuring an outer source with all your efforts. The | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| those which were negative or dead. Rushing and pressuring the resisting part is as useless and ineffective | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| need if you gave up the pushing, holding, pressuring struggle. You believe that you are condemned never | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| reduce the tension of this painful state by pressuring life into giving you the fulfillment of the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Presupposes.................13 | |
| will has to come from within, and that presupposes the existence of a healthy soul. If and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| To experience defeat in a healthy, mature way presupposes true humility, not a false superimposed one. It | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| true humility, not a false superimposed one. It presupposes a certain generosity of feeling, a certain greatness | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a spirit of adventure, so to speak. Pleasure presupposes the willingness to risk. But such risk is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| face of abuse. Quite the contrary. Full commitment presupposes wide-awake choosing, the freedom to do so without | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| their divine origin in an artificial duality that presupposes they are evil and regards them as the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| help another to be in the now, which presupposes the absolute and primary desire, I want to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| are, I do not want this experience. This presupposes that the experience has nothing to do with | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| nothing to do with causes within yourself. It presupposes that others, circumstances, chance have brought this experience | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| forward to the new beginning. Every new beginning presupposes the termination of the last phase, thus ending | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| mold life- substance. Visualization of a fuller state presupposes desire. These concepts must be fostered by the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| it will be clear to you that one presupposes the other and is not possible without the | 254 SURRENDER |
| and of brotherhood and sisterhood. Obviously, true communication presupposes communication with the self, with the inner levels | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Pretend.....................59 | |
| with such clarity that it can no longer pretend and make excuses the way humans like to | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| that you are not what your outward actions pretend. You fear that your pride and self-will would | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| have not got your will: you try to pretend that what you really wanted is no longer | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| lack but think you should have, while you pretend to yourself and others that you do have | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you will quickly say, Oh, I do not pretend; I do not do anything for appearance's sake | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| about your imperfections and do not need to pretend in order to hide them, only then do | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you knows that you are not perfect, you pretend. Again, I emphasize: this does not concern the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| are quite relaxed and free, and do not pretend. But there are other areas in which, emotionally | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| winning in certain areas of life, and therefore pretend that you don't care, while you do not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that you don't care, while you do not pretend in others. This pretense is not a crass | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that you do not want it. Outwardly you pretend to yourself and to the world that you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the destructive feelings, the more you have to pretend to feel what you do not really feel | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| God-experience. Love cannot grow out of trying to pretend a truth that is not felt. But love | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the latter can more easily deceive themselves and pretend that things are not so bad, and thus | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of your imagined love can be found. You pretend love when you merely need and have to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the courage to look at myself, rather than pretend the opposite? Do I have the courage for | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| will disappear when you deny their existence and pretend opposite intentions and wishes. In your confusion you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are so inadequate that you cannot even successfully pretend; yet if you could only get to perfecting | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| You are ashamed to admit this, so you pretend you possess what you do not. You could | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and how this affects others; (c) how you pretend to have or be what you think you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| desire is hopeless, and that therefore you must pretend and live in make-believe, you can then start | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| impossible and dangerous undertaking for many that they pretend that life is dismal and hopeless, clinging to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to take a chance. The doubt means, I pretend to expect a maybe, but I am convinced | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| must constantly be on guard, and you must pretend. Therefore, where you harbor distortions, you live a | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| want to be is an ideal, which you pretend to be or to become. But this ideal | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| yourself uselessly and needlessly unhappy. Soon you must pretend that you do not believe in the existence | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| gloss over your difficulties, your emptiness, or you pretend that their cause has little or nothing to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in the moment. Because of this feeling, people pretend. This is a different kind of pretense than | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of pretense is deeper, more subtle. You may pretend things you actually feel. You may really feel | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and destructive -- to cheat, to defy, to pretend, not to give but to take, to harbor | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| between what you partly are and what you pretend to be -- also to yourself -- is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pain. Is it really as painful as I pretend? I mean here pretend in a deeper sense | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as painful as I pretend? I mean here pretend in a deeper sense. As you convince yourself | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| In this case you do not love but pretend to love, for your own ulterior motives. The | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| dominate and hold tight. It seems easy to pretend that the latter is the former, but the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| streak of cruelty; or you hate. If you pretend that your selfishness is the healthy version of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Usually people are aware only of what they pretend to be to themselves. If they cannot bear | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| see that it is none of what you pretend it is. It is never good. You are | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| it covers. It is a hating attitude to pretend being a victim of the hate of others | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| I must hide this fact, so I must pretend that I am more. Of course, these thoughts | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| think you are more than others or only pretend in order to hide your feelings of worthlessness | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you must be tense, anxious, contracted. You cannot pretend when you are in a relaxed state, and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| require yourself to defend your defenses or to pretend to be so perfect that everything in you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| than to deny your fear of it and pretend to be unafraid. By freely admitting your fear | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| as it may seem, the more helpless you pretend to be vis-a-vis your life experience, the less | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| give up me. All I can do is pretend that I am different. This is a devastating | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| beautiful. It is beautiful because you no longer pretend; you risk being truthful and thus become beautiful | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are. When you overcome your imagined need to pretend, when you can be who you are, there | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| not wish to love and you do not pretend otherwise, this is your responsibility. If you realize | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| group of people that hide their evil and pretend it does not exist. That will set an | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| bitter and hopeless the suffering becomes. Then you pretend to yourself that your thoughts and your intentions | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| in front of others because you want to pretend to be other than what you are. The | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the poor enrich? Nor is it possible to pretend, for followers do know, in a deep inner | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more you stop cheating in ways which you pretend do not exist and the more you stop | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feelings of inferiority and weakness, and wished to pretend that he did not have these feelings, he | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| phase. Do not try too hard, do not pretend to know more than you do. All you | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| own deeper nature. Therefore you hurriedly try to pretend that you are in a perfect state, without | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| If you give grudgingly and unwillingly because you pretend it is demanded of you, it cannot be | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| me not as I am, but as I pretend to be. Once you clearly see this, you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |