| Confuses....................14 | |
| that a certain misunderstanding may exist here that confuses impatience and striving. I think it was understood | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| least it was mingled with real love. This confuses you since you know that love is the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a great deal more love. This not only confuses you, but also increases your feelings of insecurity | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Therefore, you are inwardly torn. The inner conflict confuses you because you are not aware of its | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| -- the solution to all that puzzles and confuses you. To know this and to move consciously | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| shame its concomitant -- an exaggerated strength. He confuses flexibility, adjustability, the ability to take advice with | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| two opposing things at the same time -- confuses and pains you. What is required for an | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Again, the dualistic concept of life hinders and confuses you. If one attempts to solve such a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| away from it in terror. The resulting frustration confuses you, frightens you, and makes you feel hopeless | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| It is not the world outside yourself that confuses you; it is the world within your own | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of hostility in others. Their subtlety and indirectness confuses you, makes you feel guilty about your instinctive | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| from giving up an attitude that not only confuses others around you who are in a similar | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you who are in a similar state, but confuses you every bit as much. We discussed in | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| levels. Still too often humanity takes these laws, confuses and distorts them, and then either disregards them | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Confusing...................55 | |
| Now, human beings often make the mistake, by confusing the basic concepts, of believing that the ego | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| direct action. So far, this may still sound confusing to you, my friends, because you do not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| come from your higher self. This is a confusing problem for many human beings. You can gain | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| words, their meaning can often be subtle and confusing. As you all know from your work, a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| misunderstanding. I know this may sound contradictory and confusing to some of you. But those who have | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| long and at the time perhaps even more confusing, because knowledge you now have was then still | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul trends, where such misunderstandings can be really confusing for a person, at least for a while | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here also. The phenomenon in itself is not confusing. In fact, it is much less confusing than | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| not confusing. In fact, it is much less confusing than your human language, which is so much | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| error of action and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the struggle between opposites as | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| image into existence. This is all the more confusing, because a part of the image works. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| will eventually come across other concepts which are confusing because they are split. If you become sufficiently | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that has the opposite appearance. This is very confusing for you. Evaluating someone else's action calls for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| is difficult and painful, that it is a confusing and puzzling ordeal, that there is no meaning | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| feels guilty about expressing his healthy, masculine aggressiveness, confusing it with unhealthy, hostile aggressiveness. He finds himself | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| time you are fulfilled without any problematic and confusing crises, you can be sure that there is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Your knowing the truth behind the other person's confusing actions will enable you intuitively and spontaneously to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you and your attitudes. This becomes even more confusing because everything you learn and hear points to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| their relationship to each other? There are many confusing theories about the function of the ego. According | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is eventually bound to dissolve the negative feeling. Confusing the impulse with the deed and therefore denying | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| to the inner. At first this may appear confusing, or even contradictory, but when you comprehend it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| distortion arising from duality. The error consists in confusing fragmentary aspects of the unitive state and separating | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| I say that this need is due to confusing the rightful tendency toward, and the inner need | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| continually with half- truths, which are much more confusing and difficult to extricate yourself from then untruths | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| I wish to stress here is perhaps somewhat confusing at first, since words are so limited. In | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of self-realization all intensity vanishes. This statement is confusing only when you associate intensity with depth, involvement | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| pain and frustration. This is all the more confusing when you believe you have done right to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| much nearer to the state of realization than confusing your desire to feel and love, because you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of limitless possibilities. Accepted pain is not frightening, confusing, or conflicting; it is enlivening. As you dare | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| two opposing directions? This struggle is more painful, confusing, and paralyzing than anything else that goes on | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| meaning to reject the false, escapist spirituality, and confusing the two. As the blocks to spiritual influx | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| creation, must vary accordingly. The mixed-up, conflicting, and confusing lives most people lead testifies to this fact | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| same situation, which makes it all the more confusing. Your mind alone cannot solve such conflicts. The | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| affects you. This is a very painful and confusing state. Such an interaction can be resolved only | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| This terrible fragmentation is the most painful and confusing state imaginable. Its cure lies wholly in your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| be misunderstood and distorted, or simply sound incomprehensible, confusing, and contradictory. Your three-dimensional terms can hardly contain | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| more joyfully you will create. It may sound confusing when I say that you have to learn | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| exists on faulty premises based on appearance, on confusing the outer life with the inner, then the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| it you perceive. You can transcend the painful, confusing and limited state of dualistic consciousness only when | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and burdensome. When you begin to perceive the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| must present experiences that are puzzling, painful, disquieting, confusing, or that simply rob you of momentary peace | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| lot of wisdom. And many things that are confusing for people will cease to be confusing to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| are confusing for people will cease to be confusing to you as you grow a little older | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| manifests in a disjointed way. This is often confusing for the personality. It gets tired of these | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| way, but not in another. If this seems confusing now, ask your inner being to relay the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| group. Such people will have a stake in confusing conformity and mass consciousness with group consciousness and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it is often applied on top of the confusing fog and the negative words, without first sifting | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| reality that you look for and often displace, confusing it with the petty pride of the limited | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| creates positive aggression and self-assertion. Thus a very confusing mixture in perception, understanding and consciousness comes about | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| truth. The resulting inner confusion then breeds correspondingly confusing experiences. If the connections to the ways in | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| to the ways in which these negative and confusing experiences have been created are lacking, life appears | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| blocked, the experience is inaccessible, the voices are confusing. The idea of total surrender to God becomes | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| The idea of total surrender to God becomes confusing. The wish to surrender to the false authority | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| three categories may no longer seem contradictory or confusing to those of you who have worked for | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| decisions to face the truth in difficult or confusing situations, by your choice to fulfill the law | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Confusion...................390 | |
| until there is such a tight ball of confusion that one can disentangle it only with the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| to create tangles and achieve greater and greater confusion. But if there is one person in a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| first he will put up a resistance, because confusion feeds the lower self that prefers the road | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| dark cloud which obscures the truth and creates confusion. You must do so by your own effort | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| first step is to find out whether this confusion exists in you. If it does, formulate your | 18 FREE WILL |
| diluted and spoiled by the unclean one. A confusion of the soul arises because you are not | 18 FREE WILL |
| by them. Even among human beings there is confusion when it comes to these terms. One person | 18 FREE WILL |
| you are often caught up in an emotional confusion about the nature of your soul. You do | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| human beings starve themselves. There is a great confusion about what spiritual nourishment really means. It does | 31 SHAME |
| in the soul, which, of course, leads to confusion and conflicts. For you who are on this | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| at all bad or criminal. It is merely confusion, error, lack of self-knowledge, deviation from divine law | 36 PRAYER |
| a vicious circle in you. You experience such confusion that you do not even know where to | 36 PRAYER |
| your negative reactions and thoughts create forms of confusion, so thoughts and feelings you cultivate in prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| and negative. There is a great deal of confusion about this subject generally in your world and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| obviously wicked will not tempt many; only the confusion and misrepresentation of the good will have the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| contradict another part of their being. In their confusion they might quickly cover up again what they | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you must delve into the darkness of your confusion and error, and that cuts you off from | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| differences between them are. There is so much confusion about this that it will be quite useful | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| puzzling and often upsetting. There is so much confusion in your soul due to the suppression of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your conflicting currents and understand your hitherto unconscious confusion, will you be able to have one clear | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the pure motive from the selfish one. This confusion is so strong at times that many people | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you keep the selfish motives suppressed, the more confusion and disorder are created within you. A basic | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of wrong thinking, feeling, and action. An inner confusion will arise, since life as it is in | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| its counterpart in a negative force, emanating from confusion, ignorance, and wrong motives. Your personality registers extremely | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of falsity and half- truth, of distortion and confusion, can the great Universal Truth, as well as | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| could not unfold. But where deviations, complications, and confusion reign in the soul, there is no other | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| constantly happens where the spreading of light penetrates confusion and darkness in order to hasten the realization | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner deviations and errors. It leads people into confusion. It is not selfish to have the right | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others and the world, but foremost about itself. Confusion creates doubt; doubt impatience; impatience anxiety and tension | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this contradictory. You can now see what utter confusion exists in the human soul. I am sure | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| that this general human conflict adds to the confusion. On the one hand, you learn that it | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child feels it as a rejection, and a confusion arises in the soul. In the child's vaguely | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| approval, and acceptance. A further result of this confusion is that the rejecter seems unloving. The mother | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the peculiar logic of confused emotions. With the confusion about parental rejection in the unconscious, the personality | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| this topic and shed some light on the confusion. It is important for all of you to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| if the past peace was an illusion. The confusion will provide you with a deeper insight and | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or illusion, is bound to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension, and fear. Reality, or truth, is bound | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and in much larger degree. There is widespread confusion about the meaning of mature love. Although we | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| eliminate the areas of obstruction. In these areas, confusion and unreality will persist and hinder your full | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the best time to state your question, your confusion, is after these concentration exercises. This is always | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| regard, the attainment of self-mastery...there is a confusion here, I cannot express it.... ANSWER: Could you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| ANSWER: Could you try to clarify where the confusion is? It would be helpful for you to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be helpful for you to clarify where the confusion lies. Also, I cannot answer your question unless | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| little later, it is not. Therein lies the confusion about self-responsibility. When leaning on the fixed rule | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are confused about a particular subject. Perhaps a confusion exists in you and you do not even | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| angry, you often forget that there is some confusion in you. You do not know exactly what | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you. You do not know exactly what the confusion is or what is incorrect in your conscious | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| need first to find out exactly what the confusion is. Whenever something bothers you, be it merely | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is a contradiction of right principles. Put this confusion down concisely, in writing: I am confused because | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| aware you will become of exactly what your confusion is. Writing contributes most constructively toward eliminating the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is. Writing contributes most constructively toward eliminating the confusion, even long before you are able to find | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your questions concerning a particular complexity, problem, or confusion. The moment you have the concise question clearly | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and all goals are in a fog of confusion and unawareness. Even genuinely unselfish motives are not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for whatever it is you lack. This particular confusion and lack of motivation is directly responsible for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| can you get to the root of the confusion. It is not quite so difficult as you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| all wrong. Since you have brought about your confusion at one time, you are the one, the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| confuse you serve to bring out the deeper confusion. You will always see, when you analyze one | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are constantly blocked and halted by your ignorance, confusion, lack of awareness, or the wrong perspective on | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your concepts, and thereby straighten out the existing confusion. Often the greatest difficulty is that people are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| must delve into the darkness of your own confusion and error, which cuts you off from the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| progress and the haze and fog of your confusion lifted. As the fog lifts, your real self | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion, you are not only unhappy, but, with these | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opposites is waged. The battle creates a tremendous confusion in your life. This confusion concerns the big | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| creates a tremendous confusion in your life. This confusion concerns the big issues as well as the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and darkness. Your confusion comes about because a certain attitude toward life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| between everyday alternatives that confront you often generates confusion. These alternatives are not crassly good or bad | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with the reality principle, however, there is also confusion. So often people are not clear which principle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| life's miseries as unnecessary, as created out of confusion, physical death still remains. It is still a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in acceptance lies annihilation. As long as this confusion is not brought into consciousness, you cannot begin | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| way out of the maze. Faced with this confusion, people often resort to religion in any of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| I wish to touch upon another conflict and confusion. In the course of this work you may | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will be revived by increased self-awareness. A particular confusion confronts a growth-pursuing spirit in its approach to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| when we are living in an age of confusion of tongues. I quote now from Genesis XI/1-9 | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all of humanity's inner conditions. Lack of understanding, confusion, unawareness of cause and effect, contradictory aims, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or maybe because of all the upheaval and confusion, the trend is stronger than ever toward true | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| being, fallible and often confused, then this unavoidable confusion has the power to disrupt you completely. You | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you. And this denial leads to moralizing. Your confusion arises from feeling that awareness of your immoral | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you are bound to suffer from depression and confusion. In the past, you may have gathered a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| meaning, you cannot help but go through renewed confusion, as it were. It is this confusion that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| renewed confusion, as it were. It is this confusion that is most depressing -- and the first | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| applies to your own individual case will your confusion, and then your depression and discouragement, disappear. Let | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you go through the pain of making the confusion and the belief in your unworthiness conscious, you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and see the light results from the following confusion: Since everyone has a streak of submissiveness, you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unity with yourself. There is no doubt, no confusion, no anxiety, and no tension. You are not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of conviction. Whenever you are in crisis and confusion, you find yourself in just such a predicament | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| find yourself in just such a predicament. Your confusion is greater when you are not clearly aware | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| now, at least, you clearly see what the confusion is all about. When I speak of actions | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| You remain incapable of coming out of this confusion, this trap. I discussed the topic of being | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Whenever you are trapped in the crisis of confusion and helplessness, you are bound to find that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| these are, in essence, character defects. In your confusion, you see in each of the two alternatives | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| an illusion and exists only because of your confusion, the two apparent opposites will become one whole | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in yourself into both positive and negative trends, confusion sets in in the same pattern that the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the split of the original whole entity created confusion and darkness. As long as you find yourself | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| As long as you find yourself in such confusion, your true self cannot show you the clear | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| incompatible aspects appear on the horizon, and create confusion. The two examples I have given will show | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in combination with the general misconceptions, increases the confusion. The split also makes communication difficult because one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or bad aspect or trait in existence. This confusion leads to misunderstandings among people, but most important | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| but most important of all, it leads to confusion and conflict within the self. Inner confusion and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to confusion and conflict within the self. Inner confusion and conflict makes it all the more difficult | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| hold a misconception? Where are you trapped in confusion? What do you repress? Compassion makes you feel | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| confusions and conflicts will surface. Even before the confusion is cleared up, you will already feel a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| as well as an unhealthy, destructive kind. Your confusion here arises out of ignorance, in that you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| like being a machine. ANSWER: There is another confusion here, my friend. The answer is very simple | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| what is the real self. There is a confusion because part of oneself has grown into this | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| situation -- and repression causes the conflict and confusion to increase rather than to decrease. It is | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| needs that are not genuine. This displacement creates confusion and knots. It paralyzes your spontaneity, your capacity | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| when a person goes to sleep facing a confusion or a problem and wholeheartedly desires to resolve | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of truth can get to work. When the confusion is not tackled, when one is not fully | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| truth -- you will be in bondage to confusion and unreality. You do not have to force | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| inner pressure, with the accompanying helplessness, inadequacy, and confusion, is the final result. It is the tunnel | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of. There seems to be in me a confusion between the pleasure principle and rejection, as well | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| seek pleasure only in unreality. This is the confusion. By the same token, the confusion between happiness | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is the confusion. By the same token, the confusion between happiness and selfishness is also based on | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| considered the worst sin of all, producing complete confusion? ANSWER: Because in anger, when it is a | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| selfishness. Since both sloth and gluttony come from confusion and disorder, they create more of the same | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it! ANSWER: There is a great deal of confusion here. In the first place, there are many | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of your will and your wish capacity. Much confusion comes from your tendency to regard something as | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the various layers of personality that are in confusion and error and by your lack of awareness | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| knowing yourself. When you know that there is confusion in you, you are more aware of yourself | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mind and will in order to understand the confusion and error of your mind and your misdirected | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| thought and outer will through which error and confusion were created. They can be used to deal | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| how you use the faculties which have bred confusion and suffering and avoid using them for what | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| growth. When used wrongly, thought and willpower create confusion and suffering. When you consider what an image | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| no striving, therefore there is no danger of confusion and suffering. Take the lowest stage of development | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and a direct cause of your misery and confusion, where it prevents the creative process of your | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| images. I am in some sort of emotional confusion, which I have been intellectualizing. Will you please | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| can only dissolve by a process of understanding. Confusion is not eliminated by a forceful act of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of confusion's existence. But if you look at confusion without compulsion, without haste, without moralizing, without denial | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| what he meant: If you resist evil, the confusion and the distortions, you only drive them underground | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| be something different. That is the only way confusion, pain, and suffering can be removed. That is | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| each individual. Nothing can help eliminate suffering and confusion so much as your own efforts in this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you asked is a typical example of such confusion. An omnipotent Creator and man's self-responsibility are only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is worship. In the next stage, when the confusion of the mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Then love can blossom. But where darkness and confusion exist, and the partners do not face reality | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| defenses, all of them are based on error, confusion, and misconception. How often have I discussed this | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| as you know very well, your unhappiness and confusion is always connected with the difficulty of coping | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| substitute for loving, lack of self-respect -- create confusion and make you incapable of coping with close | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Therefore the soul gets more deeply ensnared in confusion and unrest, anxiety and guilt. Its messages become | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| given as much to those who pronounce their confusion as to the others especially by the example | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| from divinity, then there still exists a fundamental confusion -- not so much about this path as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| such, but rather about the inner self, a confusion about one's own motivations, about the significance of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is still lacking to a vast degree. The confusion arises out of the very problem I am | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| do not fall behind and get entangled in confusion and become paralyzed; so that your pathwork remains | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| doing your very best to grow out of confusion and error, and thereby you contribute. Some of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| to understand yourself and dissolve inner conflict and confusion, you cannot avoid the negative emotions that are | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| clogged up for so long with error and confusion. This is the real security I am talking | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |