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| will be disturbed, because two conflicting needs and compulsions work against one another and cause a short-circuit | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of this mass image is bound to cause compulsions, rebellion, and guilt for the rebellion. It causes | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way it may manifest by contrary drives and compulsions. Heartbreaking problems arise from this conflict. They can | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| many and long-standing images, wrong conclusions, false concepts, compulsions, and so on, which are all interwoven in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| hypnotist's personality is free to some degree, without compulsions, without fears, without uncertainties, feeling at ease with | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to see the power of your hidden trends, compulsions, and images will not only readily believe it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| pretense, in one way or another. All your compulsions, drives and a good part of your motivations | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives, and compulsions. In addition, these often confront one with obligations | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| capacity, will you become spontaneous, free of all compulsions, will you trust in your feelings because they | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| an even greater anxiety. Why people have these compulsions again cannot be generalized. I may just say | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in the anxiety and the guilts when these compulsions are not lived up to. It shows in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| A drive, as I mentioned earlier, comes from compulsions, which, in turn, come from misconceptions, your images | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| you are driven by blind needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions, reactions, and actions that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| constantly driven, and suffer from all sorts of compulsions you cannot understand. A compulsion is the direct | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you all know, strange and even more disquieting compulsions arise, with the result that you feel even | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| its self-perpetuating nature creates highly damaging impulses and compulsions. This is why it is so feared. It | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| varies, of course. The strongest manifestations are wash compulsions, and the like. This factor is important to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
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| problems; when you have liberated yourselves from your compulsive ego will, from all distortions, you will be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and immature person can have strong and even compulsive inner wishes that may be either partially or | 18 FREE WILL |
| reactions and decisions by his or her own compulsive and unconscious trends? The particular path on which | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hand, reaction toward authority remains childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes prevail, then this milestone remains to be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that was so unrewarding but rather false and compulsive goodness. Drawing the wrong conclusion, you may now | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| every human personality, only the degree varies. The compulsive desire for self-punishment due to wrong and ignorant | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| often by their very nature be ungodly and compulsive in the same sense as your second, artificial | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do not let the voice of the second compulsive conscience overrule the real conscience. When your real | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| warning against your selfish desire may be your compulsive conscience is unjustified. At times the right way | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| may be what both your real and your compulsive conscience are saying -- only the motives may | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have no courage to obey it because your compulsive conscience speaks too loudly. This voice says, I | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| constantly whipped by the slave driver of their compulsive conscience, which has come into existence by the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| by the chain reactions I mentioned earlier. The compulsive second conscience makes demands that are impossible to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| disproportionately dejected. With each failure to satisfy the compulsive conscience, you feel more strongly that you cannot | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do not know that the standards of your compulsive conscience are irrational, unreal, and impossible to realize | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| before that at times the divine and the compulsive conscience may strive for the same thing. In | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you are now without guilt and fear. The compulsive conscience does not know anything of the kind | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to live up to the standards of my compulsive conscience. Naturally, these thoughts are never reasoned out | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to be loved and admired becomes much more compulsive than it originally was. All the various points | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| proportion between their willingness to give and their compulsive need to receive is very uneven. Because of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| invest. When you invest freely, without weak and compulsive motives, you may not get the love back | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the aim of forcing their will and their compulsive childish need to receive the child's utopia of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| from all your wrong conclusions, liberation from your compulsive high standards which make you feel guilty and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is and how the must is executed. A compulsive must is, of course, not advisable. But let | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| When you discover that your former motives were compulsive and not entirely genuine, there is the danger | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is so bound that he or she is compulsive know a right action from a wrong one | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| Masochism arises out of the unhealthy reason of compulsive submission in order to get something, such as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of grateful. ANSWER: In that moment either a compulsive element, or any other number of sick or | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to do that, there would already be something compulsive about it. There cannot be a choice for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| it is that the originally healthy wish turns compulsive. This is one form of compulsion. There are | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with a repressed passive current, where an unhealthy, compulsive activity is superimposed. Both sexes have been afflicted | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the person in question, results in a constant compulsive and senseless action of acquiring objects. This action | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and how they suppressed the hurt, making the compulsive need all the stronger, they will begin to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the stronger, they will begin to understand their compulsive actions, and by that process, they will cease | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| give me the answer to a question of compulsive acquisitiveness on the part of one who already | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and reactions may bring them to do that. Compulsive acquisitiveness in those who have what they need | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because of the possibility that someone's faith is compulsive or escapist, and then it is not real | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this insight, unselfishness will no longer be a compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is to suppress it and superimpose a compulsive unselfishness that is not genuine. Out of the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| If you try, your unselfish action will remain compulsive and unfree. In other words, you first have | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| also that the act in question was selfish, compulsive, and unfree, especially because you wished approval. Therefore | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and will be unable to give up the compulsive fight. But with the help of these words | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| but it will never make you tense, or compulsive, or intense. This sadness will be free of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| follow the work of letting go of the compulsive wrong way. ANSWER: As I said, the first | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not the real you. It consists of the compulsive drives and impulses which you unconsciously think you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| real self, which is right underneath the tense, compulsive, emotional behavior pattern. Once you stop believing, as | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| believing, as you unconsciously do now, that the compulsive drive is necessary, and use instead your real | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you are bound to become aware of this compulsive current, and feel it distinctly, almost as a | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| and therefore constitutes a major part of your compulsive drives. Subdivisions, divisions of this drive, such as | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Your real self knows. Trust it. Your superimposed compulsive behavior pattern is completely blind. The one is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| distinguish between the real feelings underneath and the compulsive manipulations, drives, and impulses which you confuse with | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| flow out the moment the subterfuges, the superimposed, compulsive feelings are shed. And this, in turn, can | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friend, you constantly manufacture an artificial strength, using compulsive elements to build it up. The more you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the difference between healthy, relaxed striving and frenzied, compulsive impatience has to be seen. The latter can | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make it difficult for you to discover the compulsive attitude that denies present imperfection, the pride and | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| give us some insight into the reasons for compulsive acts? In particular, what is the general emotional | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| particular, what is the general emotional basis for compulsive buying and eating? And how can these two | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| If the attempt is made to force the compulsive behavior away by discipline, the best you can | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| but one does not heed its voice. The compulsive pride of the idealized self-image exerts its rules | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| In the last analysis, all negative emotions are compulsive. There comes a time on this path when | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and justified, reason holds on to the superimposed, compulsive aspect and does not allow the true feelings | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you cannot be in reality when you are compulsive, for reality cannot be evaluated in the extreme | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| borne, while false needs have an excessive and compulsive force. Because of this you often repress them | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| mature love and affection, you will have a compulsive need to receive love and affection. Or if | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| simply because one wants to. There is no compulsive anxiety about the issue. It is a clear | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or a destructive impulse inverted into a forceful compulsive superstandard. QUESTION: Why do I feel so exhausted | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| scattered. You make up for this with a compulsive I must do the right thing, which you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is nothing but a product of your self-alienation. Compulsive overactivity comes from the same root as energy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| cause. Needless to say, that remedy is precarious. Compulsive overactivity as well as laziness and apathy stem | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| inability to accept you are so frantic and compulsive. Without the rebellion, you would not need to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| problems are unresolved; therefore, I must be impatient, compulsive, and restless about it. I cannot live in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| answer much sooner than through the cramped and compulsive drive that says that you already should not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| demands it of me. Then it would be compulsive and indicate, somewhere in the psyche, a wrong | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| and your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create compulsive drives. The needs, on the other hand, may | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and guilt make love and honor into something compulsive that destroys real understanding and subsequently real love | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| early impressions of the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive love and honor, you are even further from | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it, if it is split, if it is compulsive and too eager -- then it is very | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| any questions about this topic? QUESTION: Can this compulsive over-giving lead to sadism? And, on the other | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| away from facing it and you become more compulsive in trying to eliminate these destructive feelings that | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| fear. The strain is caused more by your compulsive striving to be something you cannot yet be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| way. So much unhappiness is caused by the compulsive need to live up to what you think | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not a natural, spontaneous process, but artificial and compulsive. But this natural concern and warmth for others | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| confuse real, healthy, free sacrifice with its unhealthy, compulsive, ungenuine counterpart. If sacrifice occurs out of a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| child has, so may the child use the compulsive need for overindulgence to compensate for the negative | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| must be a willing, free choice, not a compulsive one. Too often you try to force yourself | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| greed may then be superimposed with a false, compulsive giving which - - just because it is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the denial, displacement and substitution. To recapitulate: unfree, compulsive, problematic giving is often the result of denying | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it by emphasizing the opposite. This, then, becomes compulsive. This is the third layer. As a further | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you which in the past have made you compulsive, guilty, confused, and wavering. A disharmonious mood will | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate, the inability to lose. All | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| not being like others, then you will feel compulsive and overanxious. But when you know that perfection | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| an apparently opposite attitude of indifference, hostility, or compulsive and blind rebellion and over-aggressiveness. Few things give | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| where they are sublimated. Other, more or less compulsive, needs come into existence. All the while you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will then know that this is precisely the compulsive need with which you enslave, weaken, and paralyze | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| from testing the reality of further chain-reactions and compulsive behavior patterns based on such assumptions. So, when | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| do inwardly will lessen the intensity and the compulsive drive to perpetuate it. Life can bring you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you say no. The more strained, the more compulsive, the more urgent, the more impatient the outer | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fluctuate between two damaging extremes: either resignation or compulsive, blind, and consequently inappropriate overactivity. This obstructs the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| habit and easily justifying it. You indulge in compulsive, negative, hopelessly circular thinking, and your present consciousness | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| personality fought hard against the stagnation by superimposing compulsive action, and then became more alienated from the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| into terror. The terror of sadness creates a compulsive urge to avoid sadness. If life finally forces | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| attempt to resolve inner disorderliness. When orderliness becomes compulsive and you are tense and obsessed, afraid and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| outer plane. Order in such instances always becomes compulsive and obsessive. The compulsive orderliness creates as much | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| such instances always becomes compulsive and obsessive. The compulsive orderliness creates as much trouble and hardship in | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| it with your spiritual self -- without untimely, compulsive forcing, but in a natural process. You will | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| inwardly as a result of it. Consequently a compulsive restlessness may develop that may manifest as an | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to endure staying in the same place. A compulsive restlessness may make him or her travel all | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| unreal fulfillments. The longing may also manifest in compulsive drives. Whatever it may be, it is important | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |