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| search for perfection immediately. This again would be unrealistic because you cannot attain perfection quickly without having | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and your life conditions. This again is completely unrealistic. It is necessary for you to face the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| goal and therefore your hurry is futile and unrealistic, but this period of constant self-recognition where you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| descent and yet attain spiritual growth is utterly unrealistic. It is self-deception and wishful thinking. You cannot | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| from where you can start to outgrow the unrealistic and unrealizable concept of happiness and build the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| wrong motivations, by misunderstood basic principles, and by unrealistic approaches to life. Thus it is lived out | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| may be. Nevertheless, these conclusions are wrong and unrealistic if applied as a general truth of life | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to happen in the future, which is vague, unrealistic, elusive and unconnected to your real desires, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| come to them any longer. This is completely unrealistic. It just is not so. True, certain outer | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| will therefore simply cease is, putting it mildly, unrealistic and childish. The only way you can measure | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is true that exclusive and limitless love is unrealistic, its desire immature. The wrong conclusion of this | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| go about making this desire come true is unrealistic, unhealthy, and damaging, not the desire itself. Are | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to others. This attitude is highly subjective and unrealistic and affects others more strongly than you can | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will then be relatively easy to see how unrealistic and unfair it is to request something that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| when it cannot, your crushing disappointment is equally unrealistic. The many repercussions and ramifications of this state | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a few months later, you can judge how unrealistic that mood was. Perhaps you are hopelessly depressed | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and this is a good demonstration of how unrealistic it is to evaluate the importance of any | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| good? I say, no. If the joy is unrealistic, the disappointment will be all the more crushing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| with all these feelings present is not only unrealistic but unfeasible, and therefore discouraging. To learn of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not to. As you cease being fear-ridden for unrealistic reasons, when fear does come up you will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| words, the child's desire to be loved is unrealistic. Yet it is also true that the child | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| love. In fact, if it were given, the unrealistic demand for exclusive love would be diminished considerably | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will cease. That expectation is, of course, utterly unrealistic and wrong as long as you are incarnated | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| must not be misled when you find an unrealistic current hiding behind a rational excuse. You must | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| loved and to love -- both realistic and unrealistic, mature and immature. On the other hand, there | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them because of a wrong conclusion and an unrealistic desire. You are under the mistaken impression that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| existence of additional motivations, which may be childish, unrealistic and unproductive. At that point, you don't yet | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impatience is in seeking a shortcut, which is unrealistic. The goal is unattainable in that way. ANSWER | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which are not fully recognized. There are some unrealistic, immature and distorted motivations, in addition to the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the power solution. Both solutions are equally rigid, unrealistic and unrealizable. Each is a constant source of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| ever quite as serene. Hence such dictates are unrealistic and unrealizable. They, too, include pride and hypocrisy | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| hate. This is a typical example of how unrealistic all negative emotions are. In the last analysis | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| But in distortion the dangers are imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened by not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| bound to end in failure, for it is unrealistic. It is just as illusory as building a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| best, while knowing this to be immature and unrealistic. But I can't feel different. It is impossible | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a very concrete process. There is nothing hazy, unrealistic, or illusory about it. When speaking of finding | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to grow. A wrong kind of caution, an unrealistic fear, and a forceful will -- the forcing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| healthy need fulfillment is hindered through your pseudosolutions, unrealistic fears and erroneous images, which paralyze your constructive | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| insight into yourself will you see what an unrealistic, shortsighted remedy this is. You will want to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| go of all the defenses. Constantly observing your unrealistic and immature emotions and reactions weakens their impact | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the old destructive ones. Such an expectation is unrealistic and not according to truth. Constructive patterns cannot | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| all that first. Then what is unhealthy and unrealistic can be dissolved, what is immature can mature | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| properly assimilated and is no longer present, the unrealistic, although often unconscious expectation exists that now life | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your own unhappiness through your own destructive and unrealistic evasions and defenses. You will now realize, with | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| on the defensive in psychological conflicts, for irrational, unrealistic reasons, your glandular system does not question the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you are frightened. Therefore, it is important that unrealistic fears should cease, and being on the defensive | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be adequately handled only to the degree that unrealistic defensiveness is absent. QUESTION: If the accusation covers | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| emphasize again that the freer you are of unrealistic defensiveness, the better you will be able to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| how they are erroneous, inadequate, destructive, disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with your knowledge -- as | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| why one way of reacting is unproductive and unrealistic, while the other is productive and realistic. Fully | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| saying. Man's inordinate fear of suffering is utterly unrealistic, and again a product of the mind, in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| willing to give. Both claims are distorted and unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows the potential | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| such deep relationships. This would be impossible and unrealistic. But there must be quite a few, all | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| situation you strive to avoid by false and unrealistic means, based on wrong conclusions. All the emotions | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| distrust is often partly justified, because your destructive, unrealistic concepts and attitudes prevent fulfillment in the now | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| for survival; how you distort issues in this unrealistic fight for survival; how you spoil the growth | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is behind the fear. Nagging, persisting fears are unrealistic fears you do not cope with properly, regardless | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| inborn resistance to facing and changing what is unrealistic and therefore destructive in yourselves will begin to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| as long as it is divided within by unrealistic concepts, wrong conclusions, self- centered and infantile pursuits | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| two nations have opposite aims, it is as unrealistic and senseless as opposite aims within one individual's | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| number of facets, constructive and destructive, realistic and unrealistic. For a while, you appear to get by | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| respect, and their entire value system suffers from unrealistic reflexes. To be more specific, if the drive | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Many distinctions between the sexes are arbitrary and unrealistic, but there are also some which are true | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| mind because the absurdity of conscious misconceptions and unrealistic outlooks is more easily detectable and can therefore | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| become part of the psyche. It is an unrealistic expectation that when the new is built, the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| lower way, than others, singling yourself out with unrealistic self-appraisal. This selfish form of distortion automatically brings | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| happiness, which is all too often regarded as unrealistic. For many, it is so much harder to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| or frustration. Without an ego these strivings are unrealistic, even destructive. You all have experienced in your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| be or to become. But this ideal is unrealistic and unrealizable because it is outside of yourself | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Your concept of your present self is also unrealistic because it is as exaggerated and distorted as | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| problem is not merely that your goal is unrealistic because it is better than what you can | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is problematic. Since the ideal has always been unrealistic, it becomes unattainable - - even undesirable. The | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| that with some people the area of their unrealistic understanding is relatively small, while with others it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| other person. Comparison between two people is totally unrealistic; it measures what cannot be measured. The person | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| concepts about the way out are hazy or unrealistic, so will be the temporary solutions that will | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| fulfill your need precisely because your attempts are unrealistic. Consciously you know none of this; you do | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| assumption that to rebel against it is immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies also | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| is immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies also frequently strive away from self- responsibility | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you will indeed come to see that this unrealistic dichotomy is present in your attitude. When you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| three aspects of relationship operate in a distorted, unrealistic, disharmonious way, relationship cannot possibly be fruitful or | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| the way you insist on its fulfillment is unrealistic and leads to pain and disappointment. At still | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| childish illusion of omnipotence, which is just as unrealistic as the illusion of being life's passive victim | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| longer deceive yourself by pretending that this is unrealistic, childish magic -- which was only a pretense | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| become more real. This power cannot lead to unrealistic arrogance, specialness, and self-idealization when you are constantly | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| on humanity's present plane of consciousness is as unrealistic as to believe that two separate forces exist | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your demands, and your expectations of yourself are unrealistic, it is absolutely unthinkable that mutuality between you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| out, even if it is childish, destructive, and unrealistic in its present manifestation. Additional layers of vagueness | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and to an apparently even more justified negativity. Unrealistic hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| apparently even more justified negativity. Unrealistic hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two extremes which lead | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not be so harmful, except that such an unrealistic phobia must be an expression of unrecognized and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the existence of the mistaken, destructive, mean and unrealistic attitudes, but it is not enough. The next | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| irrational demands making it clear that they are unrealistic and unfair and showing that the resulting emotional | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| extent almost all human beings suffer from totally unrealistic feeling experiences. Children suffer from them with one | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and competitiveness come in. Why are these feelings unrealistic? They are unrealistic because the underlying thinking derives | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| in. Why are these feelings unrealistic? They are unrealistic because the underlying thinking derives from the assumption | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| vaguely know that a feeling is destructive and unrealistic. Such vague knowledge helps you to maintain an | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| attitudes, if you do not fully realize how unrealistic your underlying assumptions, beliefs, and interpretations are, you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| but they must be known to be deeply unrealistic and destructive. It also needs to be understood | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| idea is distorted and leads to a rigid, unrealistic image. The more you are capable of experiencing | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| for this utopian kind of happier state is unrealistic and should be abandoned. But does this truly | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| I described need not be given up as unrealistic or wishful thinking. It need not be given | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| creates a constant threat that the untruthful, the unrealistic will sooner or later be exposed. Therefore a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| life and hence one's reaction to it are unrealistic. Positive identification can never lead to an image | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to be free to a considerable degree of unrealistic expectations. Your gaze has to be clear and | 254 SURRENDER |
| fulfillment that is indeed possible and not as unrealistic as you sometimes suspect. Yet you make the | 254 SURRENDER |
| total inner and outer relaxation. Also, expectations are unrealistic, for it may take many incarnations of development | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |