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roots, therefore there are a variety of possible causes for world weariness. Of course the yearning for 4 WORLD WEARINESS
safe bargain not only locks the door, but causes a distortion in the soul which then can 4 WORLD WEARINESS
energies of their soul. There are also other causes for feelings of world weariness. All of them 4 WORLD WEARINESS
is always a sign of spiritual desiccation and causes the gifts you possess to lose their luster 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
visible. You see the symptoms and not what causes them. These undercurrents cannot be controlled as long 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
spiritual laws, you find yourself in disharmony. This causes the difficulties which you so often, and so 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
could be a great obstacle. Illness has different causes. They may be karmic, or they may be 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
find an inner echo to a message which causes you discomfort, be very careful before rejecting it 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
and truth. Such victory frees many powers and causes a wonderful vibration that leads to meditation, even 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
to seek the wrong within you. Contemplate what causes your inner resistance, and you can be sure 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
are connected to personal problems, for another the causes might be more directly of a personal nature 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
10. MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES I greet you in God's name, my dear 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
but is impossible to attain without eliminating the causes of your unhappiness, which are your faults -- 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
Deep within, the spirit entity will understand the causes. The meaning will open up clearly from these 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
your problem. Hate or resentment may have different causes or motives in different people. The same things 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
even the smallest one, of each human being, causes a tremendous chain reaction in the universe among 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
Those factors are only effects brought about by causes you yourself have set in motion. Let me 18 FREE WILL
your immediate apparent interests, this is due to causes you yourself have brought about, even though you 18 FREE WILL
or apparent advantage, you yourself set the respective causes in motion; whether in this same lifetime or 18 FREE WILL
by more and more people today. Many, many causes of what is happening in your life can 18 FREE WILL
into the human soul to find such hidden causes, whether good or bad, favorable or unfavorable. As 18 FREE WILL
As I said, there are a number of causes stemming from this same life which you do 18 FREE WILL
a result. Some effects occur quickly, so their causes are easier to trace. Others take a longer 18 FREE WILL
law. That is when you find the inner causes responsible for your trials and hardships. Unfortunately, you 18 FREE WILL
for it is very painful to them; it causes an extreme pain they cannot stand. Therefore, a 19 JESUS CHRIST
Making the connection between your troubles and their causes, which you subconsciously yet deliberately had pushed out 21 THE FALL
mistake a human being can make, for it causes infinitely more trouble, more problems, and more inner 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
or wanting to be honest with yourself, which causes pain at first, are other positive, constructive desires 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
get to work--partly automatically as an effect of causes set in motion, and partly administered by spirit 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
show you first how to understand the inner causes responsible for the outer effect. I show you 35 TURNING TO GOD
a very good opportunity for everyone exploring the causes and solutions of the inner and outer conflicts 35 TURNING TO GOD
constructively, you will also find your own inner causes for the dark hours. Apart from all hardships 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
and you ask yourself why. Ignorant of the causes behind this inability, you are often inclined to 38 IMAGES
my friends! It is this very image that causes you so much trouble, although unconsciously you do 38 IMAGES
you, counteracting your conscious wishes. Indeed, your resistance causes you to lose what could be rightfully yours 38 IMAGES
strangely, everything connected with these distorted inner images causes you acute shame, even when the image is 39 IMAGE-FINDING
no apparent connection with a fault or sin causes you acute shame, however, as long as you 39 IMAGE-FINDING
When you first come across this realization, it causes you acute embarrassment. This is a typical image 39 IMAGE-FINDING
merely be regarded as sinful but also as causes of suffering and personal disadvantage to whoever violates 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
only if you search first for the inner causes, the wrong conclusions; in short, your images. Before 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
approach your own inner, hidden images -- the causes of your suffering, the causes of all the 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
images -- the causes of your suffering, the causes of all the repetitive patterns running through your 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
the moment you have fully understood your own causes and effects. Self-responsibility is crucial in this connection 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
your fear of being hurt. Realize that this causes all your misery. This excessive fear makes you 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
viewing yourself and your suffering, finding out the causes and eliminating them, the faster you will get 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
is up to you to eliminate the negative causes. There are, however, certain difficulties you cannot overcome 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
does not mean that you cannot eliminate the causes -- that has to be done at one 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
a pattern. This does not mean that the causes were not started in former lives and are 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
a karmic debt or whether it applies to causes started in this life, perhaps with a seed 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
reluctance and resistance. But these are the very causes you have planted within yourself, and you cannot 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
shock referred to. You all know that shock causes numbness. Your body, as well as your nerves 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
rule you can be sure that one mass-killing causes another, changing the roles from torturers to victims 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
weighty. If it is of deep significance and causes conflicts, it must have karmic origins, but to 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
do not realize that the very event that causes you temporary pain is an answer to your 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
sluggishness, out of mere contentment and vegetation. It causes the soul to surge, to go out of 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
violence and hatred, prejudice and selfishness, all the causes of war, are unspiritual. But many people still 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
effects that the personality would never know what causes the effects. But if it is used, even 47 THE WALL WITHIN
divine harmony! You have to understand the wrong causes you have set in motion before you can 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
can get rid of that in you which causes and has constantly caused pain. You must learn 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
that is the inevitable result of understanding certain causes and effects in one's own life must have 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
that it is not sufficiently loved. This frustration causes the child to feel rejected, which, in turn 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
the child to feel rejected, which, in turn, causes hatred, resentment, hostility, and aggression. This is the 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
The need for love that cannot be gratified causes hatred and hostility toward the very people one 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
into the subconscious where it festers. The hatred causes guilt because the child is taught early that 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
in the subconscious, which in the adult personality causes all sorts of inner and outer conflicts. Moreover 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
love and hate, which started the vicious circle, causes further splits, as you can see quite clearly 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
of God -- forgiving, good, loving, indulgent. This causes the personality to unconsciously think that one can 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
guilt. Look rather for that in you which causes the wrong kind of self-love. There must always 53 SELF-LOVE
an overgrown, sick self- love on the other causes fluctuation between the two wrong extremes. People cannot 53 SELF-LOVE
of the deviations. The misinterpretation of these soul-forces causes emotions to deviate. We know that is so 53 SELF-LOVE
balance. Today's trend does have its drawbacks. It causes many young people to make a virtue out 53 SELF-LOVE
a cause. ANSWER: No. You set your own causes in motion by your decisions or the lack 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
his choice within the framework of his own causes. If an entity stubbornly refuses to take advice 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
both positively and negatively in you. The overemphasis causes a negative effect, a deviation in the expansive 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
the more you find out how one thing causes and influences another. What was first a mass 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
motive remains hidden. And the hidden motive always causes the fear that you might not get what 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
that the impure and selfish motives are conscious causes the wish capacity to function better. Because, as 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
to yourself, and this, more than anything else, causes inferiority feelings. Often, you cannot both please the 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
is important for you, and what this dependency causes you to do or to forsake. But the 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
more. The existence of these two images together causes a vicious circle. One current is: I need 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
to look for that part in you that causes you so much trouble. It is the part 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
to obtain the first desire. This, in turn, causes acute feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, of regret 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
up the unrealizable goal, so that each failure causes additional despair and guilt, increasing the feelings of 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
be happy. The wrong concept of happiness inevitably causes a wrong concept of love as well. Let 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
person is dishonest. In that sense, everything that causes emotional problems is dishonest. Only humans draw a 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you might call the effects of your inner causes fate. Any other label might serve the purpose 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
accidental death also brought about by one's own causes? ANSWER: Death must come to every human being 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and pseudo-love. Only after fully understanding the inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all their ramifications and 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
compulsions, rebellion, and guilt for the rebellion. It causes all sorts of inner deviations and errors. It 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
It will give you understanding of the inner causes of this experience. It will thereby make you 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
conviction that you are in an insoluble situation causes you to try to get out of it 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
the following: An isolated event, with all its causes and effects, will have a different aspect than 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
fact that the impure, selfish motives become conscious causes the wish-capacity to function better. ANSWER: That is 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
exists in one soul or involves many. One causes the other and it is therefore the same 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
attitude, an emotion, an action or a thought causes guilt, one has not found the roots of 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
part of their nature. Let us consider what causes this inner tragedy, this senseless struggle. One main 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
It may be a distortion of love that causes the weakness. Or, the capacity for love is 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
To recognize this is so important because it causes you even more hardship. A further complication is 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
just explained, the shame of loving and giving causes you to hide your true self behind a 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
remaining aloof brings censure and loneliness. The latter causes you to assume a veneer of outgoingness, expressing 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
at the core of your inner conflicts, the causes of this fear, you will see the way 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
the moment, without trying to find the underlying causes, then it is not constructive. If it is 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
give certain relief while still finding the inner causes, or if it is used with the aim 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
your faults, your selfishness, and your destructiveness, which causes you to form images in your unconscious mind 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
images in your unconscious mind, but it also causes you to forfeit the best part of your 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
in the course of which you recognize what causes you to suppress your individuality with all its 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
lack. The fight wears you out, and it causes reactions that defeat the very end you wish 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
requires strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always causes tension and strain, for it cannot stand by 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
by itself. The effort to maintain your illusions causes many vicious circles and chain reactions. As you 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
impossible to maintain. The loss of your illusion causes an all-black view in you. Your urgency to 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
urgency to be loved by a specific person causes the illusory construction, whereas in many cases, no 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
spoil the day for you. This black-and-white attitude causes you to dramatize yourself. You not only overdramatize 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
that those who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
eyes to it, thereby inviting more conflicts. Immaturity causes crippled intuition and crippled creativity, for creativity without 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
is a question of finding the block that causes this particular obstruction. When this happens, you will 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
can see what damage the unconscious faulty thinking causes you and others around you. When you can 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
selfishness, your happiness is unimportant. This inherent misunderstanding causes a deep guilt in the human soul because 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
harmony. This basic rebellion of your inner nature causes many conflicts that can never be solved entirely 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
fulfilling a purpose or the lack of it causes, in the aggregate, your personal vibration. That vibration 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
This is very closely connected with the psychological causes I just discussed and with tonight's subject. You 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
the reason for old people's insomnia and what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
what causes insomnia in younger people? ANSWER: What causes insomnia in general for all people? The cause 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
have set in motion through your own inner causes. And if you drink the pain instead of 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
mere intellectual knowledge will never bring freedom. What causes all your conflicts and deviations is your desire 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
even the conviction that you never will, and causes you to adopt means which are so defeatist 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
and wisdom. The better you understand your own causes and effects, the more convinced must you become 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
On the other hand, your lack of assimilation causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create blindness 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
how you caused it. Only in understanding the causes that you have set in motion will you 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
God, fate, life, rather than finding your own causes. It is withdrawal from life, or antagonism against 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
squarely and courageously, you must eventually find your causes and be liberated by this insight. You do 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
mean the attitude of impatience. The inner child causes you to rush ahead, to think you must 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is you think you should have. This, too, causes artificially produced acceleration -- and therefore compulsion. Since 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
seems most desirable to you produces impatience. It causes you to assume artificial attitudes and emotions. Since 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
therefore ineffectual. This paralyzes success, which, in turn, causes frustration. The frustration causes frenzied compulsion, which manifests 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
success, which, in turn, causes frustration. The frustration causes frenzied compulsion, which manifests as impatience, so easily 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and yourself. Nevertheless, it exists in you and causes damage. This, for instance, is a typical and 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
psychological reasons, but could there also be physical causes? ANSWER: No. My advice here is not to 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you will understand that this hitherto unconscious current causes the door to close in the other person 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
need to guard against loving. This pseudo- protection causes you to withdraw into isolation; you refuse to 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
this, you have to connect past and present causes and effects. You learn this anyway in your 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
reject life. The flight from death and suffering causes flight from life and pleasure, often inadvertently. No 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
Your realization of this, whether vaguely or fully, causes you to become frantic whenever suffering comes your 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
better. They may not discover their self-created underlying causes -- and this is a pity since this 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
relaxed and open. However, the belief that God causes suffering is shaped by a lazy fatalism and 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
spirit of searching for one's own inner hidden causes with the relaxed attitude of accepting, for the 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
makes a person as vulnerable as pride; nothing causes so much fear. In most cases these two 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
yourself in what particular areas it manifests. What causes and effects are connected with it? A further 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
gradually you will recognize the basic damage it causes. It makes the letting go of many an 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
idealized self by fully understanding its function, its causes and effects. Then you will gain the great 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
they have to be hidden. This double hiding causes inversion and has serious repercussions on the personality 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
become aware of, the more you understand the causes and effects of negative emotions, the weaker they 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
lecture, the distortion of the instinct of procreation, causes the other person to withdraw, because the movement 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
and also the particular distortion that each instinct causes when the soul is disturbed. A distortion results 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
becomes to make them work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
soul, and since the distortion of one invariably causes distortion of the other, both pseudo-solutions will be 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
unpleasant at first, you begin to eliminate the causes that have made you only half alive, using 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
it is healthy and constructive. One imbalance always causes another. Thus, establishing balance comes from facing truth 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
responsibility is just not there. This, in turn, causes bitterness, rebellion, and a deep feeling of injustice 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
tendency of religion to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the other. If one function is underdeveloped, it causes a disharmony in the human structure, and also 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
previous findings. Now let us further understand what causes human beings to particularly neglect, repress, and cripple 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
root of the problem, bypassing the outer, general causes which are only symptoms of the root anyway 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you realize that your own lack of understanding causes the hurt and therefore the hatred. Then the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
you to hide what you disapprove of and causes you to have a stringent, rigid, moralizing attitude 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
view arising from certain negative instincts or feelings causes an inordinate fear. The more you fear your 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
not see the condition clearly. The pressing need causes you to hold tight to that which you 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is driven even more into hiding and that causes you to pursue gratification compulsively. Under the accompanying 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
inability to give up certain gratifications. This then causes the neurotic symptoms of helplessness, dependency, inability to 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
must have become attached to it. This then causes the healthy need to get out of hand 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
roots, when you are able to recognize what causes this complete twist in your psyche and how 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
at one point. Ignorance of this process often causes distress because you may believe you have relapsed 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
seems to you the very protection you seek causes the psyche to resist. Yet such states of 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
know, there is always one main image which causes the most important unfulfillment in your life. Because 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
can convince yourself of its destructive influence, which causes many unnecessary and unfavorable results. Let us now 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
full scope and depth, their significance and their causes, effects, links, and connections. The second phase is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
is not only the discrepancy as such that causes the disharmony, but the fact that they have 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and initiating change still has to take place causes you to remain frozen and rigid in another 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
will take some time before new, constructive, positive causes can go into force and produce comparable effects 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
others, on circumstances, but actually comprehend your own causes and bring your problem back to yourself -- 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
experience cannot be conveyed in words. This inability causes pressure and frustration. You cannot find the right 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
reactions to an imperfect situation -- and repression causes the conflict and confusion to increase rather than 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
authority. This effort, be it ever so subtle, causes and leads to further self-alienation. The productive approach 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
The very existence of your perfectionism stunts growth, causes rigidity and inner extremism. You are so conditioned 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
your genuine emotions. The urgency of unrecognized needs causes you to build up your emotions out of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
your true reactions is a universal phenomenon that causes diminished awareness of life and self, as well 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
in our work where we begin to see causes, while in the past we dealt much more 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
that has been laboriously prepared in daydreaming; this causes frustration. In truth, reality is infinitely more satisfying 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
your reality. The child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions which influence the way you relate later 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
as the lack of love or attention. It causes as much frustration as the lack of love 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
with life and resolving your own problems. It causes you to forgo the experience of living in 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
this path is the understanding of your own causes and effects and of the sense of strength 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
objectively, the more you will find the underlying causes for such an imbalance, and the more you 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
yourself and others, which triggers your defense-mechanism and causes both parties to mutually reject each other. While 101 THE DEFENSE
a doubt that hiding the truth is what causes rejection. This is why a free admission of 101 THE DEFENSE
What can this criticism do to you that causes annoyance? Have you ever analyzed it from this 101 THE DEFENSE
result, while the psychological approach shows the underlying causes and the different currents and components leading to 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS

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