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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 |