| Unrealistically.............5 | |
| may finally recognize quite clearly how unreasonably and unrealistically your emotions react -- and this is a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| It is an unnecessary artificial creation instilling an unrealistically distorted view of oneself as well as of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your problem. The more the live center is unrealistically and inadequately defended and blocked, denied and covered | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| react to their goodness and inner beauty, while unrealistically overlooking their ugly side. You cannot yet grasp | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| adequately and realistically defended, rather than self-destructively and unrealistically. The realistic and adequate defense against the evil | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Unrealities.................3 | |
| acutely aware of all your hidden emotions and unrealities if you are to have any chance of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| You cannot possibly extricate yourself from both these unrealities. You cling to the superimposed conscience in the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you. Both play a role only because psychic unrealities were already in you before you were born | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Unreality...................76 | |
| a lie. They have built a layer of unreality that has nothing to do with their real | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| spiritual life from theory into practice and from unreality into reality. Once you have sacrificed your self-will | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| be destroyed. Convictions and emotions of untruth or unreality have the opposite character. They may last a | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| aware of its existence and gradually discovering its unreality will this form dissolve, little by little. This | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| another always a dishonesty. Because it is untruth, unreality, wanting to get something for nothing, not paying | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| teachings you have received, is a world of unreality. You may term it a temporary reality. The | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| it only affects those who still live in unreality while they live in it. QUESTION: I would | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| as you live in the imperfect world of unreality, of illusion, you are not immortal in another | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| far. You then become aware of the emotional unreality in which you have lived, and thereby you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your inner world. By becoming aware of the unreality within yourself -- that is, by seeing how | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unable to love, the more you live in unreality, or illusion. These words will do you no | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that you are not willing to see the unreality in you. How then can you ever hope | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| attained only by changing your inner world of unreality into one of reality. You cannot do this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| life, while in another you are in deep unreality. In the latter area, you will see only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| yourself is entirely unreasonable and damaging to you. Unreality, or illusion, is bound to bring you unhappiness | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| happiness and freedom. Your resistance to facing your unreality and to changing is in itself an unreality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unreality and to changing is in itself an unreality in that you regard truth as being to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to your ideas. Thus, there is a manifest unreality in your reactions during the entire process. The | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| just different from your perception. You are in unreality because you can rejoice only if what happens | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| at this point. To realize how you create unreality, you must begin by becoming aware of the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| thus you will see the special type of unreality you live in. Objectivity versus subjectivity, which we | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| last time, is one phase of reality versus unreality. You must understand that you create your subjectivity | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| understand that you create your subjectivity, and therefore unreality, through your strong and urgent need to nourish | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reality. Last, but not least, you are in unreality because your concept of time-quality is false when | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you in fantasy only. You build up an unreality. You may think that in the positive manifestation | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you do not discover where you are in unreality, this term will mean nothing to you. Only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you. Only by seeing and thereby eliminating your unreality can you slowly approach the door through which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| they do not realize where they are in unreality. But then, people of little intelligence also are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| degree that you are unhealthy, you are in unreality. You do not see the truth. I said | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| areas of obstruction. In these areas, confusion and unreality will persist and hinder your full experience of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a few minutes on these exercises? See the unreality of this haste. There is some feeling in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| dream world. When you float away into the unreality of your uncontrolled thought process, you are not | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of the moment, and therefore you are in unreality. The background thoughts you float away with are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| those who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| struggle, it cannot evolve. In your world of unreality, unreal and untrue impulses operate. They can no | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| than real feelings can in a world of unreality. Is it surprising then that you lack self-confidence | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| smoothly carry you forward. While you are in unreality, you know two alternatives, which are both equally | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| does not make for self-confidence. But in your unreality you may believe it does, simply by avoiding | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| disturbances and immaturities, where there is distortion and unreality, these instincts become warped and no longer work | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the obstructions that come from unawareness. Unawareness means unreality, untruth. Untruth produces suffering. This might also be | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and matter. Matter is a result of unawareness, unreality, untruth. Humanity has attempted mastery over matter in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| overcome it. Only as you discover your own unreality -- wrong conclusions, pseudo-solutions, evasions -- will you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| alienated from your real self due to your unreality, your pretense, your insistence on remaining at the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| powers cannot express and unfold because of my unreality, my distorted view. They are in me, but | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| friends, the moment you experience yourself in your unreality -- once you truly see how you do | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| very fact that you are aware of your unreality is an important step out of it. You | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the roots of your problems, your errors, your unreality -- understanding them in their full scope and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the mere insight into and understanding of your unreality and distortions. The fuller your understanding, the more | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not make them real. The discovery of their unreality is a tremendous relief, but you cannot come | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you will be in bondage to confusion and unreality. You do not have to force the issue | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| would not need to seek pleasure only in unreality. This is the confusion. By the same token | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| consider them. The other person is a lifeless unreality for you. When this is the case, how | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| so arduously bring about, induces a sense of unreality about everything, even about one's own identity. Hence | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| into your self. By becoming aware of your unreality, you live in greater reality. By becoming aware | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| understand how much you are still caught in unreality. This understanding will lead you closer and closer | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in reality before you have pierced your particular unreality. Being geared to the original experience, you are | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of others who do not respond to one's unreality. It is certainly better to begin with the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| substance is molded in terms of reality or unreality. Human consciousness is the sculptor, the soul substance | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and then desires to become convinced of its unreality, the answer must come. Whenever one meditates in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| become apparent through this work of self-realization that unreality breeds disharmony, and where there is disharmony, there | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| in peace, regardless of how much disturbance and unreality still exist in you as conditions to be | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| a two-edged thing because -- due to this unreality, to your unreal perceptions -- you suffer more | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you will have an easier time discovering the unreality and finding your way out of the illusion | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| because they violate a spiritual law. Misconception is unreality, and unreality cannot help but produce negative emotions | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| violate a spiritual law. Misconception is unreality, and unreality cannot help but produce negative emotions such as | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| are determines exactly the degree of living in unreality and therefore in a state of strife and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the previous one. Because it is based on unreality, it must lead to inevitable disappointment and to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| negative aspects in your personality: more of the unreality, and more of the mask. As usual, these | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| from deep self-knowledge and from understanding your inner unreality. This confusion in your interaction with others is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| forgetting the subsequent steps, which are: seeing the unreality that is always connected with the evil and | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| for others to the point of cruelty and unreality -- the belief that a sheer act of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| I know, at least intellectually, as states of unreality and distortion. And I feel very much that | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| not only to mistrust but really prove the unreality of beauty. And I want very much to | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| manipulate, and cajole. You become the slave of unreality, and reality defeats you. I suggest to all | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| reality in a false way leads to more unreality than not glimpsing it at all and fully | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |