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| the soul is unhealthy. Indeed, immaturity is a childish quality, because it means to want the impossible | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you deny truth for any silly, stubborn, and childish notion, you are thus denying God, at least | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| not think what I am telling you is childish because Lucifer and Christ would not talk together | 22 SALVATION |
| your troubles or problems is very immature and childish. Certainly your outer and inner problems will lessen | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| shies away from meeting the self. It is childish to imagine that whatever you do not cherish | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Such a person will say, Oh, this is childish and primitive. But the primitive ideas some people | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| becomes worse. To the ignorant lower self the childish and immature side of the personality, the protective | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you will then see what an unreasonable and childish streak lives within you. For that is what | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| pleasure. While your image lives, you continue the childish procedure because in that respect your mind remains | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| procedure because in that respect your mind remains childish, regardless of how much the rest of your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the experience consciously, and therefore one's mind remains childish. It remains in the state in which it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| compared with your conscious mind, you will discover childish stupidities. When you first search for your images | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| In the last lecture I spoke about the childish mentality that continues to exist in your images | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| that. Therefore, even in many grownups, sex remains childish and separate from love. And this, in turn | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| beings deny this fact. They think it a childish superstition. They are influenced by a present mass | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| on the other hand, reaction toward authority remains childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes prevail, then this milestone | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a few other obstructive forces | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| loving, giving, unselfish feelings. Instead, it has remained childish in its self-directedness and egotism. Your unconscious sexual | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| matures harmoniously and provided that none of the childish reactions remain hidden in the unconscious. If they | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| as long as it continues to desire immature childish love. As long as it cannot risk anything | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| outer and conscious actions, but in your unconscious childish requirements and aims. So, my dear friends, work | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a sickness which will be a form of childish temper tantrum, or they may simply make life | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| aim of forcing their will and their compulsive childish need to receive the child's utopia of perfect | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| such circumstances. In reality a breakdown is a childish temper tantrum -- the degree is stronger, but | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that part in yourself that persists in being childish and unreasonable. As far as the proper concept | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| cry at my funeral. You all know these childish reactions, often occurring even in quite adult people | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| personal images which are the result of wrong childish conclusions: they remain that way because they are | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give- and-take, a two-way-street. But contrary to the childish concept, love in its right concept does not | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the root, you will undoubtedly find that this childish part of your being desires just that. You | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of suppression of all desires and impulses, the childish and therefore actually selfish ones cannot mature and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| it by sometimes actually acting out your most childish and selfish impulses rather than your legitimate and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not always pleasant to face your faults, your childish selfishness, and your various misconceptions. The work becomes | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| by virtue of the constant honest recognition of childish emotions. This is such a healthy and liberating | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| simply cease is, putting it mildly, unrealistic and childish. The only way you can measure your progress | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| itself, is entirely creative, if stripped of the childish exclusiveness and one-sidedness. Only the way you go | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of it. Before you can entirely eliminate certain childish emotions, you have to have a vast amount | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you therefore feel guilty about having such a childish reaction. But it is essential that you train | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your concept of time-quality is false when your childish emotions are involved without your awareness. The child | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that continue to fester in your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in the now can be done in the childish, unhealthy way, as well as in the mature | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the other to love you according to your childish concept. He or she is required to worship | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Hence only when you recognize your own unconscious childish distortion about love will you be able to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you be able to sense or recognize the childish demands of the other person. You will then | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not fear it. If you do not make childish demands and are therefore able, gradually and little | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| logical as that. When you give up your childish idea of how others should love you, you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| psyche, and weakening the aspects that are unhealthy, childish, and resistant. After all, God lives deep down | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| build a more mature relationship, free of the childish compulsion to recreate and correct the past. You | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| will be quite easy to see how the childish process still operates. The outside is the offending | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| aware that they do expect it. Since the childish, unconscious expectation was so often disappointed, they made | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| but not least, to educate or reeducate the childish emotions by implanting your own concepts that you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to think. On the other hand, unchecked and childish emotions can influence your thinking capacity by coloring | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| That is the subjectivity that arises out of childish emotions. Of course, a halfway intellectually mature person | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| understand that they reacted out of the same childish blind needs as you did. Now you can | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| detachment from yourself and an awareness of your childish, immature self-concern that prohibits a true recognition of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| contribute to the other's unfaithfulness by your own childish craving to be loved instead of giving love | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you try to overcome the obstacles to your childish concept of happiness. This may not only vary | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| the existence of additional motivations, which may be childish, unrealistic and unproductive. At that point, you don't | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than just the problem you mentioned. For some childish reason, you think the real hurt is inadmissible | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| healthy mutuality; there is in you a one-sided childish demand as though your very life were at | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| are worth nothing. You will understand that your childish, exaggerated craving has nothing to do with healthy | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| just as damaging as the other extreme of childish craving and forcing. These are the two major | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the healthy wish for mature love and the childish craving need to be loved. With the help | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| created. Nor is it enough to say that childish craving is one-sided, while mature love is willing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| one wishes to receive. In the adult, the childish craving subtly merges with the mature love-capacity, so | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| aware of the intensity of the anger, the childish demands and claims, which are the real reason | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| will it become utterly clear how outrageous and childish your demands are on others and on yourself | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| cannot emphasize strongly enough that to recognize these childish emotions does not force you to act upon | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| when you cannot yet get away from the childish distinctions between so called good and bad. This | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| precepts behind which you hide and excuse your childish tendencies to refuse to grow up. Your conscious | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of spiritual infancy. Since the god of your childish concept indeed does not exist, God Himself appears | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| grow and thus become mature and constructive, the childish emotions are suppressed, put out of awareness and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| as long as your emotions remain destructive and childish; they are unreliable in this state. Since you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| comparatively large area of your personality is still childish, incomplete, and imperfect. It falls considerably short of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| fear from it. After you have evaluated the childish emotions, you will hold in your hand the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a danger in becoming aware of and expressing childish emotions. There is danger only if you let | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| or you still want to cling to the childish hope that spiritual growth is possible while you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to be personally involved, and not about the childish need to be loved and cherished which is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| favorable incidents. This dramatizing is based on the childish view of the world as either all good | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| seem good and right and beautiful. In such childish either/or attitudes, this is it, this is final | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you muster the courage to admit to such childish reactions. The more strongly you hold on to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| all three share the common denominator of the childish either/or attitude. It is impossible to withstand the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that any momentary situation is permanent. And your childish emotions, despite your intellectual understanding, still feel that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| will be an insight into one's tendency toward childish selfishness or greed or whatever else, but without | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if it does mean giving up a shortsighted childish advantage, even if it does mean the recognition | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as to be perfectly happy. This includes the childish attitude we have discussed frequently of not accepting | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be often utterly inadequate. Your blindness encourages the childish greed to reach for immediate fulfillment all along | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| if not to the ideal extent of your childish fantasies. However, the actual fulfillment will produce much | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| spite of its lack of perfection, than the childish fantasies. Such realism is a consequence of the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| hidden. It may be the expression of a childish hope that by speaking about God and the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| It certainly cannot be approached lightly and irresponsibly. Childish willfulness, always wanting to get something for nothing | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| you turn, the alternative is always between your childish self-will and a rigid rule or principle. Incidentally | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and dependency derive from the same greed as childish rebellion and hostility. It is always the same | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| said that the need to be loved is childish and immature. It is only so when the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| how they are still geared to the one-sided, childish desire to merely receive. The more you observe | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| forcefully, by superimposition, not by feeling guilty that childish reactions still exist within, but in the way | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have said many times. Merely observe the wrong, childish, untrue, and distorted reactions and concepts. The more | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| will give you peace simply to observe the childish emotions in action, while knowing, and getting to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| spirit of egocentricity or isolation. It is the childish attitude of I want to have, to get | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| substitute need. If this original need is still childish and destructive, it can mature only by bringing | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may be selfishness, or it may be a childish self-concern. Yet there is another part of the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and changing the conditions that prevent fulfillment, namely childish self-concern and selfishness. Since both sloth and gluttony | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you could not experience in non-involvement or in childish dependency and over- involvement. From a certain point | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this love force was not entirely free of childish currents, then at least it was mingled with | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of your need, and perhaps also out of childish greed, you disregard the other, cannot sit back | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| if this need, as it now exists, is childish and immature, you know that it is much | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is superimposed and not experienced by your still childish emotions, you are in for much greater trouble | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is you want to know. QUESTION: If my childish desire and my love and my will are | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| more the case than that I advocate a childish, clinging, belief in God. Both are stages. In | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| This genuine God-experience is very different from the childish belief in a self-projected God which the mind | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| what is in you right now, imperfect, faulty, childish as it may be. It would be misleading | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| when you will be capable of expressing unreasonable, childish, imperfect emotions without explanations. Then, and then only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| real relating and communication is confused with the childish compulsion to tell everyone everything. Thus you may | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a kind of black magic, due to the childish belief in one's omnipotence? ANSWER: Yes, of course | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| against the dreaded disappointment by summoning their inherently childish claim for omnipotence as a counter-measure. If they | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| safeguard yourself against the excessive, and perhaps even childish demands of others is by curbing your natural | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| more comprehensive view, and thus change these very childish attitudes. When you have the courage to be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| more than it needs to because of a childish inability to stand frustration. Before fulfillment can come | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| human being with many unpurified emotions, with many childish, selfish, and shortsighted attitudes -- and learn to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and inner experience; false faith covers fear, insecurity, childish needs. In order to establish true faith all | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| instances the demands of others are excessive and childish. On other occasions, the demands are simply a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| these, and transform the unreasonable greed of your childish expectations, you will become perfectly capable of coping | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| You further fear having to give up your childish desire for instant gratification of all your wishes | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| your own resources has to do with your childish insistence on having to have your way, and | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the knowledge of this fear and of your childish insistence. The emotional maturity we seek is the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| existence of the persisting negativity. The more the childish, one-sided egocentricity is hidden in guilt and shame | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| completely overcome the lower self and no such childish, preposterous selfishness and self-concern should have a place | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you are asking too much, despite the actual childish overdemanding that exists on another level. This proves | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is reluctant to give up his clinging to childish dependency which may never be manifested outwardly but | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| experience pleasure is unable to develop. It remains childish and self-concerned. If it does manifest, it is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| therefore excluding. Emotions that remain fixed in the childish state are less sinful than indicative of a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| do not advocate that you live out your childish instincts. All I mean to say is that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| meaning of gaining true independence through giving up childish, limited self-centeredness. Hence, self-centeredness and dependency are interconnected | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| out and incorrect concepts, and leave behind your childish seclusion which can no longer work for the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| As the individual grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through reason and the power to understand | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| false guilts, a person's sexuality may remain selfishly childish and is therefore unable to meld with the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| psyche. If a person could clearly see the childish, greedy selfishness and express it -- Since I | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to my childhood, I have in me a childish greed which manifests in a need for special | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| are very right. You so completely denied this childish greed until recently that you went way overboard | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| still undeveloped part of yourself in which the childish greed exists, but also about the legitimate, rightful | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| feelings and requests, your unfair demands, and your childish selfishness. Let the irrational voice reach your surface | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| needs, to your demands that come from the childish voice within you that keeps demanding more, angrily | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| be unnecessary. It may be due to the childish desire of not wanting to pay the necessary | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| deviations, ignorances and misconceptions, the insistence on a childish way of life create the contradictions. The moment | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| does not mean self will. When the greedy, childish self will is given up, self-government and entrusting | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not be sought in order to strengthen one's childish desire for magic, to encourage the equally childish | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| childish desire for magic, to encourage the equally childish greed for everything one wants when one wants | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| take such pains to grow out of this childish state when, in the same breath, you are | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| consider why one must be free of the childish desire for magic and be able to accept | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| surpassing even the greediest self will of the childish self. This is why pride, fear, self will | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| This is why pride, fear, self will, greed, childish dependency, and refusal to stand on one's own | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| fact, the wishful thinking has to go, the childish greed be given up. All attitudes which make | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Misunderstood and misapplied control consists of selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| concerning self-centeredness versus other-centeredness. Self- centeredness can be childish self-importance in which you expect the whole world | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| reverse one so that it becomes an unhealthy childish distortion, the other will follow suit. The same | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| in power, is real, and not my vague, childish fears that cause the resistance. Another prevalent attitude | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you all heard from psychological teachings about the childish striving for perfection, but you have experienced it | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| comprehend this only after you have shed the childish distortion of this knowledge that is flawed because | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| first found and then let go of the childish distortions of utter perfection, utter power, and utter | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| about the reluctance of letting go of this childish desire for omnipotence, the dream of pleasure supreme | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| corner of your being you believe that the childish state where no adult responsibility exists can be | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to care for you, you believe that the childish state can be perpetuated. In your self-observations you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| deep inside you clamors to have all the childish wishes fulfilled. You do not want to give | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| state where the higher self attains these initially childish wishes on a different level. You must first | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| mature and self-responsible enough to give up the childish version of essentially realizable wishes. Beware of the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| awaits the good possibilities, even though the rigid, childish version is abandoned. Part of this maturing lies | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of rejection is analyzed, one always finds that childish fear which precludes love, regardless of how much | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to exist in adults whose psyches have remained childish or immature. The trouble spots in one's inner | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| aside what is given you. Even though your childish, selfish aim is to receive as much as | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| immediate result. To expect instant results is a childish demand from life, an angry refusal to cooperate | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| as long as the personality plays such magical, childish, bargaining and -- in the final analysis -- | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| make the selfishness and dishonesty existing in the childish nature, where the tendency to cheat life always | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| dualistic misconception mentioned before. Partly, its motive is childish self-importance, waiting to set oneself off from the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| This is as much wishful thinking as the childish hope that a deity will do your salvation | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| that an actual rejection took place, but your childish misunderstanding of the conditions made you interpret them | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made in one sweep. There is the old, childish, fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and dependent on the parents. But in the childish corner of your being you either do not | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and do not be afraid to give yourself childish, irrational, illogical answers. Allow anything that comes forth | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| real inherent wisdom, while negating and denying the childish misunderstandings in your personality. To admit what childish | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| childish misunderstandings in your personality. To admit what childish nonsense is lodged in the unconscious is so | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| order. It is hard to admit the utterly childish side, with all its senseless ideas and beliefs | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| its senseless ideas and beliefs. The moment this childish side is out in the open, you know | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| on your part, you get confused between the childish aspect that desires unreasonable and unrealizable love and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| about what exists in the other person. The childish level may conclude you are being rejected, since | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| must treat the unconscious -- even the destructive, childish, distorted part of it -- with respect. It | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a difficult one because it may easily mislead childish, self-centered, falsely selfish, separating personalities, who may desire | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| because it also removes, among other things, your childish illusion of omnipotence, which is just as unrealistic | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the interdependence of false and real guilt. A childish misunderstanding often produces false guilt. The false guilt | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| lose nothing. When the duality of the false, childish greed and false, self-limiting sacrifice give way, fullness | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| obtaining your real advantages -- not the short-sighted, childish ones -- you ultimately also benefit others. To | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| must blur your view to your rights. No childish greed must rationalize your self-centeredness. You must see | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| an integral part of the present reality. The childish desire for omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| by observing the following stages: 1)The most childish and therefore troubled state is one in which | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| are undesirable for you. Here you have a childish resistance to giving of yourself, a distorted attempt | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that they are only manipulative tricks of the childish mind to avoid accepting life as it is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| deceive yourself by pretending that this is unrealistic, childish magic -- which was only a pretense to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| explore the causes embedded in your own egocentric childish level. Meditation is an absolute prerequisite here: it | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| truth, can be acquired. It is not a childish attitude that wants an authority to do it | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| working out the inner dissensions is neglected. The childish idea prevails that once the initial act has | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| be totally thrown out, even if it is childish, destructive, and unrealistic in its present manifestation. Additional | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| beautiful edifice requires patience. I will not be childish enough to expect this to be done at | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so on, is obviously the result of a childish, undeveloped state. If such people plead humbly enough | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| from it. I want to give up the childish, cheating position from which I grab at life | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| intelligently consider the realistic situation instead of your childish, distorted view of it. If you can first | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| adult thinking has to express itself alongside the childish destructive thinking about the issue in which you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| confused in situations where you express your irrational, childish demands, and then your destructive intent once those | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and that is not to be confused with childish, neurotic demands. Not giving feelings makes mutual exchange | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the time interval between cause and effect. The childish mind sees effects of causes only in an | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Where negative intentionality exists the mind remains proportionately childish and blind and its perceptions are commensurately limited | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| against the flow of your inner movement. The childish part in you declares that nothing pleasant should | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| general rebelliousness coupled with and nourished by a childish will to refute genuine authority, truth, guidance and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| times you said that such and such is childish. I want to know what you mean by | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that. ANSWER: Let us make a distinction between childish and childlike. Childlike is beautiful, and no adult | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that you should truly nurture in you. By childish I mean immature. Immaturity is the misunderstanding, the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| described, the inability to accept frustration, which is childish or immature. It is the false belief that | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you can never be happy again. That is childish. So is the inability to take discipline. That | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is the inability to take discipline. That is childish in the sense that a person who is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| perhaps, you hear occasionally the voice of the childish, demanding, negative self. Then, of course, you are | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the craft and the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the channel to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| dos and don'ts, commands and prohibitions. The totally childish and self-indulgent consciousness does need such rules imposed | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| yet very narrowly, its manifestation then is the childish claim for omnipotence that you all know exists | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| want to be a leader. Yet in this childish, undeveloped part of yourself, that is often allowed | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| very damaging. When you have not outgrown a childish, negative attitude, but you are dealing with it | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| way, without indulging your lower self and its childish demands, you will find that being firm with | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your freedom diminish steadily. When you are without childish temper tantrums and blind rebellion, you will be | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Where do you prevent experiencing your freedom by childish denial of boundaries and structure, of laws and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| flow. The positive, energetic, aggressive movement will replace childish and destructive rebellion and denial. Graceful giving in | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| after all, their parents were right. In the childish consciousness everything is always either/or. You know that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| their parents stood for. On a very primitive, childish level the threat the rebelling Christian experiences now | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you still hesitated to let yourself be called childish and primitive by people who believe themselves to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| clearly. The false way of self-revealing is the childish, lower-self way that says, in effect, If I | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| attained -- is an aberration. It expresses the childish desire to gain omnipotence in a cheap and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| gaze has to be clear and undistorted by childish or destructive motivations. When this is the case | 254 SURRENDER |
| any specific issue in your life. But the childish, dependent person abhors the patient way of probing | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| and finding out, for this means labor. The childish dependent person wants quick, easy answers and therefore | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| that the part in you that is most childish, most destructive, most shortsighted, is the self that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |