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| one of you. The higher your development, the unhappier you must become if you do not follow | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the further away you are from God the unhappier you are, therefore the more assuredly must you | 18 FREE WILL |
| The more love is given to you, the unhappier you become if you are not able to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| is everything and everybody except yourself -- the unhappier will you become. Unhappiness must follow whether or | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| real or supposed wrong done to you. The unhappier you become because of other people's wrongdoing, the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of creative and regenerating -- and therefore the unhappier and more disharmonious you are bound to become | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
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| resulting disharmony will lead to a sense of unhappiness. Be aware that the intellect is an instrument | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| lower development may be the cause of your unhappiness. The soul of a highly developed person is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| do not draw the right conclusions from their unhappiness, which actually is a message of their very | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of their very own essence. They ascribe their unhappiness to all kinds of external circumstances and conjecture | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this respect. This is the only remedy of unhappiness and of the gnawing discontentment with the self | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| themselves are solely responsible for their happiness or unhappiness. They know that they are capable of creating | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to attain without eliminating the causes of your unhappiness, which are your faults -- as well as | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| lacking in your life? To the extent that unhappiness or discontent exist in your life you have | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| voluntarily, and by that act they have created unhappiness and disharmony for themselves. For happiness can lie | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| ultimate truth where everything is possible, where no unhappiness may exist. But when the lower self is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and chains that were directly responsible for your unhappiness. Afterward you will recognize without a shadow of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you have a problem or some sort of unhappiness, you think this is the end of the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| back to God through this very state of unhappiness. In breaking the law and experiencing the resulting | 18 FREE WILL |
| In breaking the law and experiencing the resulting unhappiness lies the remedy itself and the means to | 18 FREE WILL |
| Yet, when they experience a crisis or some unhappiness, that becomes the starting point for them to | 18 FREE WILL |
| make it easier for you to understand that unhappiness is the remedy. It is a very important | 18 FREE WILL |
| and face them courageously. When these worlds of unhappiness gradually came into existence and the separation from | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| mother has to go through this karma. This unhappiness is in her plan that she has somehow | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are actually as scared of happiness as of unhappiness. You desire great happiness, all of you, but | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| underlie all faults and are responsible for all unhappiness and all untruth that exists in the human | 31 SHAME |
| come out of the webs of darkness, loneliness, unhappiness, but not until after you have shown ample | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to everything life may bring: hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness, periods of light | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| course is: I expect life to bring me unhappiness as well as happiness. I will not flinch | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| poise only if you do not flinch from unhappiness in distorted self-love, self-pity, and cowardice. If you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Isn't the seeker who kicks and struggles against unhappiness acting out of pride? Doesn't the personality often | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| not self- will that makes you struggle in unhappiness? Every one of you can learn that in | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| only leave you if you learn to embrace unhappiness as a necessary medicine, without thinking that you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| negativity would say: All I can expect is unhappiness; the sun will never shine for me anymore | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| way you see and feel them is through unhappiness, anxiety, and puzzlement over many apparently inexplicable things | 38 IMAGES |
| one factor in your life responsible for every unhappiness. No one but you is responsible for your | 38 IMAGES |
| now equipped to eliminate the source of your unhappiness. And please do not say, How can I | 38 IMAGES |
| humility are absolutely necessary. You may revolt against unhappiness, yet when you realize that you, not God | 38 IMAGES |
| to become perfect quickly, you humbly accept temporary unhappiness. There is a vast difference between resigning yourself | 38 IMAGES |
| is a vast difference between resigning yourself to unhappiness without understanding why, and the course I have | 38 IMAGES |
| to you to learn both from happiness and unhappiness, will not give in to the desires of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| from that. Only those who do not escape unhappiness can become happy. And only those who do | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| happy. And only those who do not escape unhappiness can achieve true desirelessness, though perhaps only much | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| yourself and happiness. This means going through the unhappiness, self-inflicted by error and ignorance. The outcome will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the right kind of humility to accept the unhappiness you have produced without getting angry at yourself | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| caused your problems, your worries, your discontent and unhappiness, will make you stronger than any false security | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this instead of that. You may feel an unhappiness, unrest, disharmony, fear, insecurity, loneliness, yearning. All of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| mean? Doesn't it mean that I revolt against unhappiness and I wish for change but I am | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| long as the soul is separate, loneliness and unhappiness must be its lot. The erotic experience enables | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| life difficult for those around them. By their unhappiness such people constantly inflict hardship on others with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| except yourself -- the unhappier will you become. Unhappiness must follow whether or not you are right | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| aggressiveness toward others, punishing them by one's own unhappiness -- and many other factors. These are the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not avoid happiness because you are afraid of unhappiness; that you do not avoid positive involvement because | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is concerned, there need be no hardship or unhappiness. I would like to discuss tonight the prerequisites | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS Greetings! God bless all of you, blessed be | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| as it may seem, is a desire for unhappiness. I shall now discuss the chain reactions set | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in-between. Either there is happiness or there is unhappiness. If things happen in accordance with its wishes | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no way related to its anger, fury, and unhappiness. This part of the personality, freely expressed in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| beings it happens at least to some extent. Unhappiness does not faze them because they recognize that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| truly accepts that life holds both happiness and unhappiness. So when unhappiness comes along, the mature person's | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| life holds both happiness and unhappiness. So when unhappiness comes along, the mature person's world does not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the mature person seek and invite pain and unhappiness just to avoid the helpless feeling of being | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and this leads us to the desire for unhappiness. We will come to it in a moment | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| occasions. Now we come to the desire for unhappiness -- how it arises in the human soul | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| person argues: Since happiness is denied me and unhappiness inevitable and inflicted on me against my will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| liability into an asset by trying to enjoy unhappiness. Superficially, this may appear to be a smart | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| course it never is. Although some aspects of unhappiness can be enjoyed in an unhealthy way, there | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| process is unconscious anyway, the unenjoyable aspects of unhappiness are never connected with the fact that they | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in a very distorted way, the desire for unhappiness seems to approach a state of being beyond | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| way. The psyche argues: Since I cannot avoid unhappiness, I may just as well enjoy it. Furthermore | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I want to alleviate the humiliation that the unhappiness is inflicted upon me against my will, making | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a helpless prey. I will call forth the unhappiness myself! Then I am not quite so helpless | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reaction into renewed momentum. Because the desire for unhappiness is unconscious, the injuries collected in the process | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| injuries collected in the process of provoking the unhappiness make you feel even more inadequate, the world | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| again that the enjoyment you derive from the unhappiness you provoke is never felt to be truly | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| same time you enjoy certain aspects of the unhappiness you produce. You might enjoy, for instance, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that self-destruction -- that is, the desire for unhappiness -- is the result of deep-rooted guilt feelings | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| than the guilt due to provoking and collecting unhappiness. You may ask why this should cause more | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that the guilt and shame due to provoking unhappiness and collecting miseries is the mother of all | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| again the ways in which you call for unhappiness, you will cease to call for it, since | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it up voluntarily, you will give up provoking unhappiness and misery. It is not easy to come | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in different human beings. One person may provoke unhappiness and collect misery to a high degree, while | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| recognizing this, you cannot recognize your desire for unhappiness, your provocations in that direction -- and it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this subject? QUESTION: Would you say that enjoying unhappiness is the same as Weltschmerz? ANSWER: That is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for instance. But the crasser form of enjoying unhappiness is enjoying the process of provoking the situation | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of provoking the situation that will bring on unhappiness. QUESTION: Would you elaborate on the statement that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| some circumstances. The wish may be due to unhappiness, to predicaments one feels hopeless about. This creates | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one else -- create your own happiness and unhappiness. Observation of the manifold connections and chain reactions | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and hold it responsible for their failure and unhappiness. At first such a person embraces this authority | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has blamed one or both parents for his unhappiness, even though this blame may have been unconscious | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| selfish according to this erroneous concept. There is unhappiness either way. You may fluctuate between the two | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| times. Know that the shadow is not truth. Unhappiness, hopelessness is not truth. For the world is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death, but also in the sense that sorrow, unhappiness, darkness, disappointment, hurt are each a little bit | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| He or she knows that occasionally life brings unhappiness and pain. It is also bound to bring | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| in short, the images which cause conflict and unhappiness. We focused on the healing of the sick | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not what you really desire. Your frustration and unhappiness always has this conflict at the roots. You | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| happiness is greater than theirs, while their own unhappiness is greater than the others'. Let my words | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Unreality, or illusion, is bound to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension, and fear. Reality, or truth, is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| one but yourself creates your own happiness and unhappiness. Again in the lecture on The Abyss of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| even that there was anything missing. This basic unhappiness has to come to awareness now, if you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you against the current, meaning that life produces unhappiness, and sometimes the waves may be smooth and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| pays a terribly high and unnecessary price in unhappiness, helplessness, and hopelessness. To be adult in the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| secure, may be full of inner unrest and unhappiness, guilt, and anxiety that you never know about | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| afraid it is to leave a state of unhappiness for a state of happiness and security! How | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is a senseless struggle from which you reap unhappiness, and this alone proves that the direction is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| removal must mean to go through the self-inflicted unhappiness out of error and ignorance, not to shirk | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of fear that these good things bring increased unhappiness. The symbolism of Jesus' blood is pain. Blood | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| getting what you want means terror, darkness, and unhappiness. Simultaneously, the evolving conscious part has realized that | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to wait and occasionally to give up. Your unhappiness is an illusion. If you are in harmony | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| believes that you will avoid the abyss of unhappiness by holding on to this current. But again | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| not only unhappy, but, with these trends causing unhappiness, you compound the unhappiness. Thus, from the poor | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with these trends causing unhappiness, you compound the unhappiness. Thus, from the poor will be taken away | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there is a disturbance, a disharmony or an unhappiness, no matter how much outer circumstances lend themselves | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| great opposites are life and death, happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and darkness. Your confusion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| people who believe that the very presence of unhappiness is what gives happiness its flavor. Of course | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in terms of extremes, such as happiness versus unhappiness, with happiness standing for life and unhappiness for | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| versus unhappiness, with happiness standing for life and unhappiness for death. While still struggling in this duality | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| tragic, unnecessary, and destructive struggle against death or unhappiness begins. Birth is a painful experience for the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in the false belief that it will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasure, and death, is the creation of the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is supposed to be a means of avoiding unhappiness. Since unhappiness automatically robs the child of security | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to be a means of avoiding unhappiness. Since unhappiness automatically robs the child of security, its self- | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self- confidence is diminished in proportion to its unhappiness, though this unhappiness cannot be measured objectively. What | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| diminished in proportion to its unhappiness, though this unhappiness cannot be measured objectively. What one personality type | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| quite well and does not experience as drastic unhappiness, another temperament and character feels to be dismal | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| feels to be dismal woe. At any rate, unhappiness and lack of belief in oneself are interconnected | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| will you slowly discover the links between your unhappiness and your idealized self-image. You need to grasp | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| No wonder badness associated itself with punishment and unhappiness, goodness with reward and happiness. Hence to be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| make safety and happiness impossible, cause frustration and unhappiness. Here you are, the helpless, unloved child -- | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for happiness, and since immature emotions lead to unhappiness, your secondary aim becomes the avoidance of unhappiness | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| unhappiness, your secondary aim becomes the avoidance of unhappiness. This creates the early, mostly unconscious conclusion: If | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to prevent the pain and the experience of unhappiness. In the past we have discussed why this | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and pleasure while not really avoiding the dreaded unhappiness in the long run. The unhappiness you seem | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the dreaded unhappiness in the long run. The unhappiness you seem to avoid will come to you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| present time. Since this was your defense against unhappiness to begin with, it is understandable that unconsciously | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| full potential, but you do not really avoid unhappiness, as already indicated. This painful isolation was not | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it also leads you more deeply into isolation, unhappiness, alienation from yourself, and unsuccessful, unrewarding patterns that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| You will no longer feel any frustration or unhappiness as a disaster. You will give yourself time | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child experiences at least to some degree, cause unhappiness and discontent. The situation that brings this about | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you have not, consider your main problem, your unhappiness, unfulfillment, and then proceed to find it. It | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| never unhappy. But you can deal with the unhappiness. You can come to terms with it in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to probe. He makes good horseshoes. He has unhappiness in his life. He seems to be quiet | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in many respects you have caused your own unhappiness through your own destructive and unrealistic evasions and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| outer life becomes so unbearable that the very unhappiness finally makes you want to face it and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be mustered before life becomes so unbearable, much unhappiness can be avoided. This is why you often | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| opinion is out of the way. So much unhappiness is caused by the compulsive need to live | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| these outer standards, you would not be unhappy. Unhappiness often comes from comparison, and therefore is not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| others have more, they suffer. Is that real unhappiness? If it is not, then it comes from | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| well worth your consideration to look at your unhappiness from that point of view. Even though some | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not be met, you would see that your unhappiness is aggravated by comparing yourself to others. Diminishing | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| deceive yourself about the real reason for your unhappiness. You use a false reason you call legitimate | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| others. Yet, as you know very well, your unhappiness and confusion is always connected with the difficulty | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| rebel against life? It is not only the unhappiness or the pain you fear and rebel against | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| timing in approaching this deepest cause of human unhappiness and disease of soul. As long as worldly | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| inner disturbances. You now understand why a certain unhappiness or unfulfillment is a result of inner error | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| wanting to become a better person. It is unhappiness and confusion that lead this type on to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| out this reality. In the last analysis, all unhappiness and strife is the result of ignorance and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| acutely aware of the fact that all your unhappiness and unfulfillment is not a remote effect of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| for that matter, if it seems expedient, false unhappiness in order to manipulate, or punish others. The | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| wanting to change the attitudes that cause your unhappiness, you grumble and blame the pathwork for not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you believed that you can ward off real unhappiness by indulging in a false one. You express | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the death of a dear person, how can unhappiness not be there? ANSWER: Here lies such an | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the same time I know that in this unhappiness I am somehow not quite in truth, you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more peace and vital new insight fill you, unhappiness and happiness become one. Because you cease struggling | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| attitude to an event that causes happiness or unhappiness, never the event itself. This discovery liberates and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| frequent misconception in the human psyche says that unhappiness is a virtue. To correct this, I advise | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| cannot possibly detract from another person's. However, my unhappiness adds to theirs. This meditation will help you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| and exclusively, the misconceptions that create havoc, disharmony, unhappiness. Nothing else can ever do that. When you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| no longer desire happiness in order to avoid unhappiness, you have reached the fine point of a | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| without urgency, without guilt, without the fear of unhappiness. Calmly, and with certainty, you will know that | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the cause that has brought the effect of unhappiness. When this decision is fully made, then further | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to be made brings incredible liberation from guilt, unhappiness, frustration, from helplessly waiting for something that others | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in accordance with their personal inclinations. Happiness or unhappiness is the result of the personality, of beliefs | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fear. If you want happiness because you fear unhappiness, happiness remains unreachable. If you want happiness for | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| happiness, or wanting it in order to avoid unhappiness. I have discussed general aims, but your specific | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| yourself in relationship to this very moment, momentary unhappiness notwithstanding, you must be happy. In other words | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| there is nothing to fear, that fear and unhappiness are error. Be in God! 132. THE FUNCTION | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that you punish others with your state of unhappiness. If you can acknowledge all that, your fear | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| partly because you derive pleasure from complaining and unhappiness. Partly you truly fear these powers. You fear | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| as humanity lives in this dualism, conflict and unhappiness must persist. Absolute, universal, cosmic truth is always | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| what name you give it: neurosis, sickness, distortion, unhappiness. You are free merely to remove symptoms. Consider | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| enslavement, conflict, death. It creates restlessness, anxiety, and unhappiness. Even though all important spiritual teachings, including modern | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| greater terror than any live hurt, pain, or unhappiness ever could. You see, my friends, you must | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| fulfillment, your sufferings, your state of happiness or unhappiness, the reactions of other people to you. Then | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| recognizing it would be admitting to nonlife, admitting unhappiness or some form of deadness. This, in turn | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| or dangerous; the illusion that ignores a particular unhappiness; the illusion that makes one unaware of how | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| life. In fact, precisely in the areas of unhappiness, the will to be negative and destructive -- | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| but they always exist to the extent of unhappiness and discontent, hence to the extent you are | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you feel unhappy and only vaguely face your unhappiness. Therefore you are unable to connect it with | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| it is a distortion of reality. The very unhappiness you suffer from is as much a creative | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| separation are you practically forced to ascribe your unhappiness to dark powers that seem to have nothing | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| outer results in your life. All sorrow and unhappiness, all emptiness and unfulfillment, all frustration and suffering | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| also occasionally before, you produce whatever you experience. Unhappiness does not actually mean that you have -- | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| those who one thinks are responsible for one's unhappiness, and even some form of deliberate self-destruction as | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Your unconscious fear about finding the cause of unhappiness within the self is an illusion. Anyone who | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| must be investigated in everyone who suffers from unhappiness. Where is the violation? Where do I keep | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is so good. The truth is happiness, while unhappiness is always error and misconception. Do not ever | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and it leads to more separation, frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension produced by trying | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| up to it, knowingly and willingly. A person's unhappiness is almost always considered an indication of sickness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is almost always considered an indication of sickness. Unhappiness is usually interpreted in a wrong, distorted way | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self, your spirit being, which speaks through the unhappiness, sending the conscious ego a message that something | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| core is completely content. Thus a neurosis, an unhappiness, is in a deeper sense a sign of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| lawfulness of universal life. They do not register unhappiness when they violate their integrity and may even | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| your being, you pursue a path in which unhappiness is equated with unselfishness, which is equated with | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual blindness, unhappiness, and suffering followed. Each successive distancing from the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| way, the way that leads to destructiveness and unhappiness, but also because an end is feared. The | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| unconscious blocks and comprehend the obstructions and the unhappiness in their lives. It is a great moment | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| it works. No obstruction can be removed, no unhappiness eliminated, unless the personality, be it man or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the effort of finding the cause of the unhappiness within oneself. In other words, a person must | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| much less difficulty. For the very nature of unhappiness is frustration at not having what you want | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| at not having what you want. Therefore each unhappiness implicitly holds out the promise or knowledge of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a powerful energy. Happiness requires more strength than unhappiness. This strength can be acquired by facing the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and fulfillment require the greatest of all strengths. Unhappiness requires much less strength than happiness. Strength can | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| must give to himself. Blaming life for one's unhappiness is another way of negating self-responsibility, as mentioned | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Responsible for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in short, neurosis | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| all that. The healthy soul also experiences early unhappiness but throws off the effects without deeply imprinting | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and feeling. Their closed state is responsible for unhappiness, negativity and lack of feelings. How closed the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| fear and tension; hence closed life centers; hence unhappiness and unproductivity in every respect. 2)The state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| must become so strong that the causes for unhappiness can be seen and eliminated, and this, too | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| up, are a creation. To believe that your unhappiness and your suffering are inflicted upon you by | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| folly. It is insanity to believe that any unhappiness can accrue from something outside of or other | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that you indeed create negatively, that the very unhappiness you deplore and render others responsible for is | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the state before it, when you projected your unhappiness outside, blaming the world, blaming others, and not | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| limitation and disunity. Not learning to walk creates unhappiness, weakness, pain and limitation, which are all overcome | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| is self-created, whether we live in happiness or unhappiness, fulfillment or misery. This basic metaphysical concept may | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| will render others responsible for his or her unhappiness and disharmony in a given interaction and is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| wrong. I mean the subtle blame for personal unhappiness. This is what must be challenged. The only | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| have a great deal to do with your unhappiness, with your difficulties and your unfulfillment. Could you | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the connection between your suffering, your unfulfillment, your unhappiness, and your inner refusal to give up persisting | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| danger of evil, its life-defeating power, and the unhappiness and suffering it brings. The postulate that evil | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| suffered as children, especially the extent of your unhappiness, is still only intellectual knowledge for you. You | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that reason you can still delude yourself that unhappiness and bad moods just befall you out of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| death; if you wish happiness because you fear unhappiness; if you wish fullness because you fear emptiness | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| one's inner growth; the lack of it brings unhappiness. The person must then proceed to search for | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| fully face the opposite of fulfillment, namely your unhappiness, your suffering, and your distortions. As you do | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| free when you do not feel responsible. The unhappiness you breed with your negative intentionality is not | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to investigate your hidden attitude toward the specific unhappiness. I do not mean the conscious intent, I | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that you are an innocent victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this illusion! And once you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| life, which are the true causes of your unhappiness. The moment you can risk looking at your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| you that you do not see. Your own unhappiness is your gauge, and you can use it | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| circumstance seems to be the cause of your unhappiness and dissatisfaction, it is really your own negative | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| little ego's selfwill mean having to settle for unhappiness and unfulfillment? Is the striving for fulfillment that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the next day something blurs the picture. Some unhappiness comes to you, doubts, heaviness, anxiety. It is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| has concocted all sorts of other explanations for unhappiness. Some of these theories may be valid as | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| then you see the place where you create unhappiness and frustration. It cannot be any other way | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of sin, evil, and personal responsibility for human unhappiness were being denied. But now your human condition | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| recognition of their negative nucleus that creates their unhappiness, their guilt and self-destructiveness, but cannot find the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| that you are doing this, you create obstructions, unhappiness, strife, frustration, crisis, and finally destruction, so that | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| for the word you say that creates the unhappiness. What is specifically the word in a particular | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| still go around complaining about this or that unhappiness or unfulfillment, choosing not to connect with those | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |