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| and feelings must lead them into the same conflict within themselves since all thoughts and feelings have | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| there. Such self-deception must inevitably bring you into conflict with yourself and often also with your environment | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| find the way to health. When the inner conflict is not quite so explicit and one current | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| currents when you shed your body. Then the conflict must be entered. This will be a disappointment | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| under any circumstances. QUESTION: I perceive a great conflict in what the Bible says, which is that | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you. For the outer form of the inner conflict you may be working on right now cannot | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the feelings in us and not be in conflict? ANSWER: When you meditate, listen within you. Just | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| When you recognize that you may get into conflict with your surroundings by giving in to your | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| direction. These desires pull alternately. By keeping the conflict in the subconscious, the soul has failed to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| create a great deal of harm; they create conflict and disorder within you. This all represents the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| higher and the lower self, which are in conflict with one another. The higher self registers the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| while another part wants exactly the opposite. This conflict of opposite desires, which at first is always | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| where you make comparisons between your emotions which conflict with what you have long recognized as being | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| always noticed, but you all know the outer conflict is only a reflection of the inner one | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to advance in a certain way, the outer conflict will eventually cease and they somehow expect conditions | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| But do not believe that because of this conflict you are despicable. No, you should know that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| seems to be a repetitive pattern and a conflict involved. The right procedure is to decide wholeheartedly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| form a whole. As long as there is conflict within you about a direction of your life | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| be successful in anything when there is no conflict within you. And spontaneously, when you have solved | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you. And spontaneously, when you have solved the conflict between your conscious desires and the unconscious ones | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| she is simply too afraid to get into conflict with his surroundings. However, we are not discussing | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and things that are against spiritual law. This conflict between the conscious desire and the unconscious desire | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| itself will shed a new light on the conflict in question and bring you deeper insights necessary | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| in people who are free of a particular conflict. Yet they will form one in a person's | 38 IMAGES |
| in a person's soul who has brought that conflict into this life. Although it is essential to | 38 IMAGES |
| revolt against your self-inflicted lack of freedom. This conflict can be resolved only by finding out why | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| supported and strengthened in later life. Your image-conclusions conflict with the grown-up desires and aims of your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| form that seems unpleasant to you -- a conflict, or a friction, or something that induces you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| purify yourself. How can you recognize your inner conflict unless it manifests outwardly? Only then can you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| some grain of truth somewhere in this painful conflict? By recognizing it I will continue to learn | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| it will furnish you the answer to your conflict. The answer must come from within yourself, and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| one of you. Be in God! 45. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES Greetings in the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| two impossibilities, and often more. By hiding this conflict, you thought that you would rid yourself of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| my dear friends. Authority is the very first conflict for a growing child when it reaches a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it. But even if love is there, the conflict still exists. On the one hand, the child | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| adult you still suffer from the same basic conflict: on the one hand, openly rebelling against the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of being ostracized, despised, of not belonging. This conflict can only be resolved if the unconscious emotions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| extent your desire is colored by selfishness. This conflict is often not yet conscious. You are aware | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| parents, and yet they are your authority. The conflict came into existence because you loved them. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to an objective third person, detached from the conflict, perhaps the person you work with, and repeat | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to the person with whom you have the conflict and be the advocate in his or her | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| have it both ways, which brings them into conflict with themselves and their surroundings. The emotionally mature | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you do not understand the reasons, when this conflict results in a negative outcome, you become disappointed | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to give a semblance of divine love, the conflict we are discussing here would not arise. But | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the child suffers even more. So the first conflict arises from two opposite desires. On the one | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| loves most. Generally speaking, this is the second conflict of the growing human being. If the child | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and did not desire love in return, this conflict could not arise. The very fact that hatred | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| very person one loves dearly creates an important conflict in the human psyche. It is self-evident that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| these negative emotions, and therefore it puts this conflict into the subconscious where it festers. The hatred | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| responsible for them at all. Thus a further conflict comes into existence. On the one hand, the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| important in your life. Children experience their first conflict with authority at an early age. I have | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a strain on the emotions and create this conflict. More specifically, it creates in certain temperaments a | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends, you can find this image behind every conflict, outer or inner. Sometimes the connection is indirect | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| to obey. What is the result of this conflict? Due to the unconscious nature of the inner | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the God-image is this: it creates a further conflict in the psyche. The stronger the mass image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| image is much stronger than the other, the conflict will exist, of course; it will create many | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| against one another, the person who has this conflict cannot handle life any more. The existence of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| for such approval, the guiltier you feel. This conflict arises out of two different directions: one direction | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you, you would rather forsake happiness. The inner conflict can be stated in this way: If I | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| in yourself. I venture to say that this conflict exists to some extent in all human beings | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| sometimes find outer reasons and rationalizations. This very conflict is the underlying reality of your hopelessness. Were | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| conclusion was wrong. It becomes self-evident that this conflict frustrates your inner will and prohibits the deserved | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| one with yourself. You must be divided, in conflict, you must lose your inner peace and your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| respect your own rights, and they will not conflict with the interests and rights of others. If | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| ask about indicates the existence of an additional conflict in the human soul. It touches a very | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| question, I will mention that this general human conflict adds to the confusion. On the one hand | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out of your true, honest, self. Thus the conflict is a double one, or rather a quadruple | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personal psychological conflicts. The results of this fourfold conflict is that you feel guilty for being selfish | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our view it makes no difference whether such conflict exists in one soul or involves many. One | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your personal conflicts add to the general world conflict. Try to see this, and if you really | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understandable limited logic in the child's mind. No conflict that arises in the psyche is utterly meaningless | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| drives and compulsions. Heartbreaking problems arise from this conflict. They can be eliminated only by recognizing the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the other hand, the shame of loving. This conflict in itself tears apart the human heart. You | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| self-search you can find the existence of this conflict by recognizing various symptoms. Self-observation will reveal how | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the best in you? This is another universal conflict. Sometimes it is very obvious, then again it | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| hard to detect. Nevertheless, some of this basic conflict exists in every individual. Certain particular circumstances also | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a role and determine the intensity of this conflict. Observe your relationship to the other parent, the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and perhaps even a little bit despised, the conflict becomes even stronger in the soul -- whether | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| may then have desirable qualities, but they often conflict with one another. You may unconsciously despise in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is at the same time the most dominant conflict in your soul. In the course of your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| very fact of becoming aware of the universal conflict around the shame of the higher self, of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Oedipus complex the connection between it and the conflict I have discussed is as follows: The awakening | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| rejecting parent. Whenever this is the case, the conflict is aggravated. When the awakening sex instinct turns | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| lose their power over you. Once this psychological conflict is straightened out and you have gained inner | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| charged with emotion in our time of world conflict. May I ask for a little patience so | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you, in the Spirit World, look upon this conflict and what can we do to resolve it | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will tell you how we look upon this conflict. As I have already indicated some time ago | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have already indicated some time ago, the world conflict is an exact duplication of the individual conflict | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| conflict is an exact duplication of the individual conflict. The elements we constantly observe between two or | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that, one has to be aware of the conflict to begin with. If this awareness does not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| cannot be given, at least in this particular conflict which might very well be a most important | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the answers in yourselves, wherever you have a conflict, a disagreement, an unpleasantness in life, no matter | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| deviations -- in short, the images which cause conflict and unhappiness. We focused on the healing of | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| emotions and inner conflicts that never express the conflict itself. They might bring the nucleus of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| itself. They might bring the nucleus of the conflict to the fore, if the symptoms are analyzed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| because it is indicative of a symptom of conflict; it may also be important because a constructive | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be the obedient child, is part of this conflict. The entire topic of forming one's own opinions | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| have examined before -- is part of this conflict. Many people have a little of each of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| desire. Your frustration and unhappiness always has this conflict at the roots. You fight as though your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| inwardly you do. You need to recognize this conflict before you can find the original desire to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| great and beyond expectation the extent of this conflict is. Each time you observe these reactions within | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| not exist in the other country. Naturally, the conflict is not in the country or the outer | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but these outer environments may bring the inner conflict to the fore. Something is triggered off in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discrepancy, the more you are torn in this conflict -- and in other conflicts arising from this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| life's happenings brings in its wake a further conflict. That is the tendency to dramatize oneself, which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you who have finally become aware of the conflict do not yet fully understand why you are | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause unhappiness and conflict, darkness and ignorance. Thus, maturity is really the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| As long as you are unaware of this conflict between your longing for a perfect love from | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of it through development and progress. This hidden conflict eclipses your otherwise growing soul. If you already | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| already have a partner, the uncovering of this conflict may show you how he or she is | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| on the particular road toward dissolving this basic conflict. Mere intellectual evaluation will not yield any benefit | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| with the wisdom and conviction that a hidden conflict, in the long run, does as much damage | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| further steps indicated. To work on this inner conflict is of great importance for some of my | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in the other. As long as the child's conflict remains unresolved in you, the difference seems enormous | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| such a damaging illusion. As you solve this conflict, your awareness of other people will increase. As | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| marriage, or friendship. Indetermination may create tension and conflict in a particular personal relationship. Check your real | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| important for the entire universe. When there is conflict between people, strong energies clash. In this particular | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| from others. That is the error and the conflict. In the old state, that is the way | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will never be again torn by the old conflict that either you can have a happiness that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| do with your desire to be happy. The conflict will vanish the moment you train your outlook | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| want and this creates an additional element of conflict. You seek ways to overcome the threat of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are not only inefficient, but they bring further conflict. On the one hand, these inner strivings are | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| may find two or three ways simultaneously which conflict with one another. All this is very individual | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| quite well that wherever a deviation, misconception or conflict exists in you, vicious circles result. They snowball | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is bound to fail. It creates a tremendous conflict within. As long as you are not acutely | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as you try to struggle out of this conflict by blind and unconscious attempts to make two | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be torn apart. Only conscious awareness of this conflict will show you the way to make peace | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| live peacefully side by side. Due to this conflict tearing you apart -- and the time has | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, meeting it fully, implies. There is the conflict in the human soul between construction and creativity | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work on this path is a larger conflict always related to your world of duality. Behind | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Behind your images and misconceptions you always find conflict. In one way or another, you find that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| creates the world of duality, and therefore your conflict. It is equally true, however, to say that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| longing for this pleasure supreme is constantly in conflict with reality as you know it on earth | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| principle. Now I wish to touch upon another conflict and confusion. In the course of this work | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the fulfillment of a wish may produce a conflict because it may simultaneously prove damaging to another | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in the healthy manner. Once you overcome this conflict, the pathway will be smoothed toward that real | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the other hand, this would bring me into conflict with my environment and therefore I would be | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| idealized self and how you deal with this conflict. So, as you proceed in this particular phase | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| One contradicts the other, so that they create conflict. This happens because one of these attributes is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the attitudes are more hidden and are in conflict with each other. A further symptom of the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to be disturbed. Can you picture what a conflict this is in the soul? How torn the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| her, let the effects of the raging, underlying conflict finally emerge, and it will show how false | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the other angry -- there is always a conflict. How can one find out which is the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| 86. THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| in life. If the instincts are distorted, they conflict with, rather than complement, one another. Therefore, a | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| in half. When the pressure of the inner conflict becomes too great to bear, this secondary, superimposed | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is adopted in order to cope with the conflict resulting from the other two false solutions. On | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| friends. You will then know and experience the conflict, not as a theory, but as an observable | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| by side, tearing the person apart in constant conflict. But even if one tendency predominates strongly, it | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| tendency predominates strongly, it does not mean that conflict is absent. Just because something is not on | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are even consciously convinced that there is no conflict. If they obey and do everything expected of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| two tendencies are mutually exclusive and therefore create conflict, and additional conflict arises from the very shame | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| mutually exclusive and therefore create conflict, and additional conflict arises from the very shame of the underlying | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a whole being, completely integrated, in harmony, without conflict, without contradictions. This is the meaning of one | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: This is a very good question. Any conflict, distortion, or illusion interferes with creative processes, the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| act according to the child in you. This conflict will create more anxiety, more tension and impatience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Or else, you may be in such a conflict about the matter that you repress awareness of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more. Before overall understanding of the entire inner conflict is reached, you are bound to suffer from | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| own submissiveness. You find yourself ensnarled in this conflict. You cannot give up the defense that keeps | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| as possible. Even before you can resolve the conflict, you will find relief because now, at least | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and beneficial. This is reality. Illusion only breeds conflict. By finding where, through your natural development in | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| see two alternatives and neither is constructive. This conflict may not be conscious at all, but it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| important of all, it leads to confusion and conflict within the self. Inner confusion and conflict makes | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and conflict within the self. Inner confusion and conflict makes it all the more difficult either to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| there must be an underlying problem, an unresolved conflict. To carry this a step further, you may | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| step further, you may see such an unresolved conflict as the result of self-alienation, or see self-alienation | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| an imperfect situation -- and repression causes the conflict and confusion to increase rather than to decrease | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| governs you, paralyzes you, and puts you in conflict even now. Needless to say, this understanding is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| one's parents will not resolve this kind of conflict. ANSWER: I do not say this is the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to do so. He may then come into conflict with his surroundings; or he may find it | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is a healthy one, is caused by a conflict within you. Such a conflict is your being | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| caused by a conflict within you. Such a conflict is your being afraid -- perhaps unconsciously -- | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| common denominator. Since the human personality is in conflict and not one-dimensional, one level of the personality | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| cultivated in the child, there would be no conflict between two unsatisfactory alternatives: either letting all destructive | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| eventual understanding? The question also contains an eternal conflict in mankind, conflict in religious concepts. On the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| question also contains an eternal conflict in mankind, conflict in religious concepts. On the one hand, man | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in the state of being, there is no conflict between the two. All you have to do | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| has merely triggered off some unresolved, festering inner conflict in you, does not matter. It may be | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| represses feelings. The two types often get into conflict with one another. The demands and the forcing | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| unfoldment. Therefore, you are inwardly torn. The inner conflict confuses you because you are not aware of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of a human being in a state of conflict is counteracted by a contrary feeling which makes | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self is liberated; if you have removed inner conflict as well as the illusory crutches that the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| person who can have destructive motives without inner conflict -- success does not come. One side of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it becomes a burden and a source of conflict. If you use each such growth opportunity for | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| utmost possible to understand yourself and dissolve inner conflict and confusion, you cannot avoid the negative emotions | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| exploration. Constructive, realistic, and positive feelings do not conflict with time, because time is utilized as it | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| be an organic flow with a minimum of conflict. Or you can, of course, resist by straining | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to you. Let us now discuss the particular conflict that human beings have with time. Each one | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the best inkling about one side of humanity's conflict with time. The picture is entirely the opposite | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the opposite on the other end of the conflict. Human beings fear the future while they strive | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| death, which is an integral part of the conflict with time. Fear of death causes a backward | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the soul -- for the resolution of inner conflict and dissolution of inner error. The daily review | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| healthy in one respect, while one is in conflict and has problems in another area of one's | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| clearly defined, there will no longer be a conflict between spiritual and worldly interests. There are two | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| raging inside of you. As long as this conflict is not out in the open, you cannot | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| create the damage, but the guilt, confusion and conflict of the parents. The identical act may derive | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| therefore illusion, prevails there must, of necessity, be conflict -- split concepts -- which divides the psyche | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| concepts -- which divides the psyche. Split and conflict is the consequence of illusion or misunderstanding. As | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| other parent produces the other side of your conflict. You could not resolve this twofold split before | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| in a state of duality, of illusory conceptual conflict when the entity is born. This, my friends | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| important one. I refer to the underlying basic conflict that is responsible for your being a human | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| in this particular sphere of the universe. This conflict is not inaccessibly hidden once you realize how | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| negative involvement with another person will express this conflict. If there were no conflict, there would be | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| will express this conflict. If there were no conflict, there would be no negative involvement. Since the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| be no negative involvement. Since the involvement expresses conflict, it must manifest both sides of the split | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| All other relationships are geared to this inner conflict. I have given you a lot of material | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Some have already begun to understand this basic conflict. But not one of you is aware of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the personality untouched, the greater the crisis and conflict of the personality must be. Society's taboos regarding | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| sexuality are one force, and there is no conflict between the intellect, the emotions, and the spiritual | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| longing of the soul may occasionally counteract such conflict, but the longing is always diluted by the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| inverted way until you grow out of the conflict; otherwise, you would become more and more incapacitated | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| infant dwells within, it must always be in conflict with the whole personality. The infant can grow | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the one without the other. Many an inner conflict rages just because of this interconnection. You struggle | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| against them, they will be painful and present conflict and disharmony. To the degree that you embrace | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| For example, displacement and superimposition result in a conflict between the need for vocational self-expression and the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| supports and strengthens the other, rather than causing conflict. If you believe that a need or feeling | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| relief. There is a particular and quite common conflict between the compulsion to give and the guilt | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |