| Suffered....................20 | |
| freedom from matter that the pain to be suffered is little and of short duration in comparison | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| It is possible that a heavy fate you suffered on earth made you very sad then, but | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| evil. Therefore, that was not the reason Christ suffered and died. You will also understand why Christ | 22 SALVATION |
| Why someone else and not me? I have suffered so much. I am due for it now | 31 SHAME |
| no way of judging how much you have suffered, and when the grace is due, and how | 31 SHAME |
| for many spirits, particularly for those who have suffered a great deal, physically, mentally, or otherwise. The | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| have to reexperience the acute pain you once suffered but you pushed out of sight. Now you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| -- you will not suffer the agonies you suffered before such awareness. The unfulfillment will not weaken | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| child? Is it really the frustration the child suffered from the parents, and nothing more? No, my | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| childhood, is connected with the hurts and frustrations suffered. In other words, just as the parent may | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| can you relive the frustration and pain you suffered as a child, and therefore still suffer often | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| all the old negative, destructive emotions returned. I suffered and suffered; I couldn't stop it. I didn't | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| old negative, destructive emotions returned. I suffered and suffered; I couldn't stop it. I didn't know until | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| are merely distortions and limitations that consciousness has suffered in the process of losing its connectedness, or | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| be done safely. Too much of what you suffered as children, especially the extent of your unhappiness | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| analysis it is always a pain you have suffered. You cannot, of course, go further back than | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in this life are essentially those you have suffered in previous lives. Your accumulated residual energy block | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| one another. And thus the loneliness you all suffered from has begun to disappear, sometimes by giant | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| force, the Christ consciousness, the Christ reality has suffered so much from misunderstanding and strife. The spiritual | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| is destroyed, a pain that needs to be suffered. This pain is ever so different from the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Suffering...................354 | |
| the power to correct. The sickly enjoyment of suffering -- you call it masochism -- is caused | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| development can happen only through the path of suffering. Unfortunately, indeed. There was an attempt to arrange | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| karma does not always have to do with suffering. Karma is also the good; it means simply | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| worthy of such a communication. If unclean or suffering souls find their way to a medium, the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to you. You can liberate yourself from your suffering by concentrating on the thou instead of the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| body encloses the spirit and imprisons it, the suffering about each trial and blow of fate is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| position, so that it suffers, and only this suffering will bring it nearer to God. Because only | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spheres of slime and dirt, spheres of intense suffering through overcrowding or through isolation, and many, many | 21 THE FALL |
| principles, even though it means a path of suffering for those who wish to get out of | 21 THE FALL |
| On the one side Christ experienced nothing but suffering -- both physical and psychological, as well as | 22 SALVATION |
| which you cannot image. The humiliation and psychological suffering were a great deal worse than the physical | 22 SALVATION |
| were a great deal worse than the physical suffering, as bad as that was. On the other | 22 SALVATION |
| you. Your God can only offer you intense suffering and hardship in every possible respect. Can you | 22 SALVATION |
| to put God above everything, even above His suffering, and above His not understanding why, was the | 22 SALVATION |
| born after Him. So when you are in suffering and you do not understand why, think of | 22 SALVATION |
| off karmic debts -- and often after some suffering and a number of divine influences -- will | 22 SALVATION |
| certain race in which there is much collective suffering, it is of course due to this particular | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not love me. That makes you feel alone, suffering, and cold. You think that all the affection | 31 SHAME |
| That is why their souls become sick and suffering. Great disorder is created in the soul, which | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| any deviation of spiritual law and are therefore suffering often hurt others, because they think hurt is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| regarded as sinful but also as causes of suffering and personal disadvantage to whoever violates the laws | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| justice because you have to endure so much suffering while you are trying your best to be | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| inasmuch as it accepts the temporary state of suffering, understanding that it is self-inflicted; but it is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to fight, and to recognize self-responsibility for all suffering in the most direct way possible. This is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| must understand what in you brings all the suffering. Only then will you gradually be able to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| inner, hidden images -- the causes of your suffering, the causes of all the repetitive patterns running | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| will avoid what they fear in life: pain, suffering, disappointment. The error, the wrong conclusion lies in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| defenses you not only do not avoid the suffering, but it actually becomes worse. To the ignorant | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and how they have actually brought you more suffering than what you had hoped to avoid, you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| find out (a) where you have caused your suffering and (b) how it is in your power | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| your purification, the more you will alleviate the suffering. Among other requirements, that means not expecting a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you can be in viewing yourself and your suffering, finding out the causes and eliminating them, the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| drawn. These very images are responsible for your suffering, for the phantoms you carry about decade after | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| yourself, and you cannot eliminate such points of suffering unless you go through them and understand their | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| turning away from their origin within yourself, the suffering will last. The pain will endure as long | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| because of the simple reason that your inner suffering needs a different answer. The love you crave | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| want others to change. If I make my suffering clear, they might. No one who truly realizes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| do you indulge in a false piety by suffering the consequences of your wrong actions, thoughts, or | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| simply suffer without understanding the origin of your suffering. Only by taking the cross upon yourself in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| long as you ignore the cause of your suffering that must lie within yourself. The release of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fact that they were self-provoked. Certain aspects of suffering are enjoyed by humanity, although this will never | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of the possible, and ask for pain and suffering instead. Once you find out all that, and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the way to outgrowing the prison of self-inflicted suffering due to errors and false concepts. This is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| vindictive, vengeful, inadequate god who inflicts so much suffering on us? I could do it so much | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| suffer. But instead of extending the period of suffering unduly by wallowing in a feeling that the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| unduly by wallowing in a feeling that the suffering is senseless, not realizing what can be learned | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of the entity, the shorter the period of suffering and the faster the arrival of the moment | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the way God wants you to be, not suffering, not in pain, but in true happiness. Be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a case, a sickness may remain, but the suffering, physical and mental, will decrease in proportion to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| realized, many more people would try harder. All suffering comes from ignorance, from lack of wanting to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| be accompanied by the delusion that no more suffering will come to you, and you also will | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and you also will not cringe from such suffering. You will know that it cannot harm you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| mission on this earth voluntarily takes on such suffering so as to show humanity that suffering is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| such suffering so as to show humanity that suffering is not so terrible, that it can be | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| explained to you before, great religious teachers took suffering upon themselves not because it was something they | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to prove and show the world to accept suffering and use it for purification, too. Many people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Ghandi of the other? Jesus voluntarily accepting the suffering, Ghandi paying off a karma? ANSWER: Yes, that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| We can observe human beings who are constantly suffering because of the prejudice of others. Why are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of the prejudice of others. Why are they suffering? If there is a consistency here, this is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| opposites cannot be brought into harmony, pain and suffering must result. But once this battle is successfully | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| his life to a culmination in the greatest suffering and the greatest joy. This is meant not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| also in a very human and concrete sense. Suffering and joy, pleasure and pain are dualities that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will is not done and you cringe from suffering in the wrong, unhealthy way, you increase the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you reject life. The flight from death and suffering causes flight from life and pleasure, often inadvertently | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| or unconsciously avoids facing and meeting death and suffering, the escape will also be a flight from | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| when in reality they simply reject pain and suffering, and therefore also pleasure and joy. Such persons | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| assets in one's development. If you face your suffering and your joy, you will grow. The person | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will grow. The person who cringes away from suffering -- denying, never facing it, and irrationally fearing | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| cringe from it, just as you cringe from suffering. And since suffering and pain, or death and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| just as you cringe from suffering. And since suffering and pain, or death and life, are connected | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| also connected to your attitude toward death and suffering. As you accept the one, so will you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and grow through the other. Your attitude toward suffering determines whether or not your soul benefits during | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| later. Even a blind and rebellious attitude toward suffering will eventually benefit the soul, and is better | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| soul, and is better than a flight from suffering by paralyzing and deadening the capacity to feel | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| experience. However, a blind and ignorant attitude toward suffering will make you suffer more and longer than | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| does this imply that you should deliberately choose suffering and reject happiness in the false belief that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| teach this error. The healthy way to meet suffering is perhaps the most important key in life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to the degree you have grown from the suffering you have gone through. If suffering deadens your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| from the suffering you have gone through. If suffering deadens your soul, more suffering -- although perhaps | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| gone through. If suffering deadens your soul, more suffering -- although perhaps in a different form -- | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| confronts a growth-pursuing spirit in its approach to suffering. Many self-aware people understand that suffering is self-created | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| approach to suffering. Many self-aware people understand that suffering is self-created. Your realization of this, whether vaguely | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| or fully, causes you to become frantic whenever suffering comes your way if for no other reason | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| having this knowledge makes you fearful that more suffering may come from this hidden cause. Since you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| activity. Those who believe that God caused their suffering, which they have to accept without understanding the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and open. However, the belief that God causes suffering is shaped by a lazy fatalism and leads | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and sadistic. The best way of dealing with suffering combines the active spirit of searching for one's | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| You cannot truly solve the seeming mystery of suffering in life if you do not solve your | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your particular way of fleeing from death and suffering, and therefore from life and happiness. To begin | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| death in the little things and recoil from suffering in the minute details of life that could | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| unaware that what you fear are death and suffering. Rejection of love signifies both. You run away | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| You run away not only from death and suffering, but also from your fear of both. And | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the hour of the culmination of his suffering. It was very important that this utterance be | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the unknown -- death -- and the acute suffering of physical, mental and spiritual pain. Jesus met | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| as in his death. He went through his suffering to the full extent, without restriction, without shame | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| degrees of death, such as all forms of suffering, must also be experienced in order to discover | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| they are not the extremes of death or suffering that were feared. Often they are not painful | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| really helps is to acknowledge your fear and suffering and relax into it. You cannot avoid the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| into it. You cannot avoid the illusion of suffering by telling yourself it is illusion; for you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| it easier for you to go through the suffering and really experience it. For only a wholehearted | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| do not flee from your fear of death, suffering, and the unknown, but go through it, you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| inclusion comes, in turn, from facing death and suffering. It happens through eliminating negation and slowly, bit | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| these suffers from isolation. In not admitting the suffering, this type is as dishonest as the other | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to eliminate from this earth cruelty and injustice, suffering and pain. Such general complaints are often motivated | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| from unawareness. Unawareness means unreality, untruth. Untruth produces suffering. This might also be expressed as the struggle | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Nevertheless, you suffer from it. The combination of suffering it and believing it to be an unalterable | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| use the faculties which have bred confusion and suffering and avoid using them for what, by nature | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| used wrongly, thought and willpower create confusion and suffering. When you consider what an image is, you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| therefore there is no danger of confusion and suffering. Take the lowest stage of development, mineral life | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cannot say that mind, intellect, and will cause suffering and misery, but using them when they should | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| That is the only way confusion, pain, and suffering can be removed. That is the only way | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| self-awareness of each individual. Nothing can help eliminate suffering and confusion so much as your own efforts | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man's complete illusion to believe that pain and suffering are terrible in themselves. Please, try to understand | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| what I am saying. Man's inordinate fear of suffering is utterly unrealistic, and again a product of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the mind, in error. Man fears pain and suffering mainly because he believes he has nothing to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| life against which he feels helpless. Thus, his suffering will take on an entirely new aspect and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| then, will make man see that the actual suffering is not half as frightening as his fear | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| imperfection, many patterns transform and you cause less suffering for yourself. But your conscious or unconscious expectation | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to erect barriers which cause more imperfection and suffering than life would otherwise contain. So it is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| otherwise contain. So it is your attitude to suffering, to life, to your position in life and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| and towards yourself, that determines how you experience suffering. If man's attitude toward suffering were not as | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| how you experience suffering. If man's attitude toward suffering were not as distorted as it usually is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| do what you could to help alleviate such suffering. If you are so intended, open yourself for | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| view, we view these things so differently. Temporary suffering, parting, and death is, in reality, not what | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| no is not only due to fear of suffering, hurt, and disappointment. The three aspects to be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| into compassion, and to give constructive help to suffering people will be possible, whether through action, or | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| inflicted hurts is not as different from deep suffering about the discovery of one's lower self as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| to find a warding-off process in such a suffering reaction. The psyche says, I cannot take it | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the personality is heavy. Then unfavorable circumstances create suffering that goes way beyond what is warranted in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| inevitable if the soul suffers too much. The suffering makes a wider and more truthful view quite | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the isolation and separateness that cause so much suffering and loneliness. Since your inner spiritual self is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| resulting confusion and chaos brings so much needless suffering. If you would start reacting to the real | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| and pleasure, and the less its pain and suffering. This is due to correct evaluation and realistic | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| believe you should not have -- while actually suffering from thwarting that need and resenting the necessity | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hurt, rejection or disappointment causes an infinitely deeper suffering in the displaced area than the suffering connected | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| deeper suffering in the displaced area than the suffering connected with the original need. If you are | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| substitution results in much more severe and bitter suffering than would the relaxed admission of an unfulfillment | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| favorable, pleasurable, advantageous, as well as your hardships, suffering, disappointments, unfulfillments, so-called bad luck, the repetition of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| your determination -- then the end of your suffering is near. Say, I want to come out | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| was, an illusion which has caused so much suffering. I should like to point out a difference | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| has not succeeded is not in truth, is suffering from self-delusion. He or she may make good | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| untold pain. Without this senseless falsity so much suffering would be avoided. Men and women would be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it rejection, criticism, or loss -- can cause suffering, one is in illusion. This seeming contradiction will | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more you suffer. Often it is this needless suffering that finally brings you to self-honesty. The suffering | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| suffering that finally brings you to self-honesty. The suffering could have been avoided if your vanity were | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| You fear the freedom and, rather, choose unnecessary suffering. But one day you discover to your astonishment | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| effort does not lead to hardship, slavery and suffering, but to happy experience, freedom and pleasure. In | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| amply discussed that misconceptions are responsible for all suffering. This includes the illusory fences and the labored | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and the self. You suffer because you believe suffering is necessary and inevitable. If you believe that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your disposal. Apart from the general misconception that suffering is necessary, and therefore should be sought, the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and spiritual law you begin to realize that suffering is unnecessary. On the other hand, the acceptance | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| speak of acceptance, do I mean acceptance of suffering? Of course not. In an indirect sense it | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| particular ignorance or misconception that has created the suffering. The moment you truly decide to change -- | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |