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| one person who furnishes the material for the confusions, but all the other people involved in the | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| for their images cannot help but go through confusions and upheavals for a while and encounter reluctance | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| find the way out of your distortions and confusions where they stand directly in your way, for | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| path of self-search will eliminate such temporary, harmful confusions. QUESTION: How does one go about increasing one's | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and inadequate. By coming to terms with your confusions, by making independent decisions for carrying out unselfish | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| and disharmonious situation -- for your self-deceptions and confusions are bound to negatively affect other people -- | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hidden parts of the self, by clarifying unconscious confusions. That is the only way doubt can disappear | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to truth. You will then see that many confusions and errors exist in you, causing you to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| still have to solve their inner problems and confusions. This is for their own protection. They would | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| this if you are unwilling to face your confusions and misconceptions. Be on the alert for the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it does not, they are submerged in their confusions and therefore removed from reality. The difficulty with | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| friends, be in peace, be in God. 74. CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| they are too deeply submerged. The outer, little confusions, however, are the symptoms of the larger, hidden | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to the inner condition. Thus the little everyday confusions, the by themselves insignificant or unimportant things are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your complexes, your images, misconceptions, and your unconscious confusions and conflicts. I stressed the necessity of doing | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the struggle between God and the devil. The confusions originating from this duality are said to be | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you are engulfed in one of humanity's major confusions. Underneath all the conflicts you have discovered through | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| comes only by courageously facing these problems, questions, confusions and fears, and examining how you have tried | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| yourself. Chaos comes into your life. The outer confusions and problems, conditioned by the inner ones, are | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can you understand others? The more distortions and confusions exist within you, the less you will be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the healthy, mature, and flexible person will handle confusions and the desire to do the right thing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| are split. If you become sufficiently aware, your confusions and conflicts will surface. Even before the confusion | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of your question, it contains a number of confusions and misunderstandings, for instance, that at the core | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of one of humanity's great inner conflicts and confusions. Intellectually, you all know that there is no | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| wrong? I have shown you many times how confusions arise when opposing points of view can be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| into being when you remove your errors, your confusions, your preconceived ideas, and your dependency on the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to live through, and be in your present confusions, errors, and pains, facing and understanding them, you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the moment, the product of your conflicts and confusions, if you truly face and live it, instead | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| have to fully experience all these feelings and confusions before you can actually feel the reality of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| so? To the degree that you voice your confusions, these discussions will prove of immeasurable value. Help | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| closer to unearthing your present hopelessness, doubts, guilts, confusions, illusions. May you thus free yourself of constriction | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| step of facing their hidden conflicts, their inner confusions. If they recognize these, it is only in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you so well know, your personal misconceptions and confusions, your erroneous conclusions blot out this reality. In | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| outwardly but does nonetheless exist. In all these confusions of unconscious ideas, he thwarts his masculinity in | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| both concepts and other aspects of reality. Unresolved confusions remain in the psyche and are bound to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Life conditions then are bound to bring the confusions to the fore, unless the personality persists in | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| are those between parents and children. The unresolved confusions, conflicts and the subsequent basic split must be | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| an opportunity for such additional help. To clarify confusions and difficulties, bring examples of the split concepts | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| are pride, self-will, and fear. All faults, problems, confusions, distortions, conflicts, and misconceptions derive from pride, self-will | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| of prayer, meditation, and daily review; of formulating confusions, unanswered questions, vague uneasy feelings in a concise | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| self, this greater intelligence within you, answer your confusions, guide you to the truth you need to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| clear formulation and exact awareness of your problems, confusions, split motivations, and limitations is necessary, as well | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| resistance and can pinpoint your exact misconceptions and confusions, you have already won, because then you have | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in particular, seem contradictory. If you formulate such confusions, you have already overcome them because you have | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| one is unaware of such dormant, smoldering, festering confusions and apparent contradictions. Let us now discuss some | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| magic? Whether or not you have made such confusions conscious, they often exist, and it is important | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| cannot ever know the truth behind another person's confusions. True knowing and relating removes all havoc. I | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| sickness and dying, are the expression of humanity's confusions, its state of consciousness which clings to destructive | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| filled with misconceptions and utterly unaware of its confusions. Then all this material needs to be expressed | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| not dare to face. The existing misconceptions and confusions, as always, stop the flow of love. Just | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| distorted way because of all the misconceptions and confusions. You strive toward this end, but in the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| The further removed you are in your mental confusions and destructive emotions, the more difficult it becomes | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| with ruthlessness or selfishness. When caught in these confusions, you do not find the way to resolve | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the greatest error, leading to the greatest of confusions. For how could nature, including the depth of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and all sorts of guilt feelings, conflicts and confusions -- such as wanting closeness and fearing it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you hold in check the negative reactions and confusions by covering them up, denying their existence, the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| knows from experience how burdensome such misconceptions and confusions and mutually exclusive ideas are and what a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| obtaining the former. You must bring all these confusions out in the open and examine them so | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| topic of duality. I repeat: your tensions and confusions, as well as your suffering and fears, are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| lacking in the vital joys of life? Such confusions are rarely conscious and concise. If they were | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| or other people. This creates deep entanglements and confusions. I must particularly stress once more that it | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| healthy movement within yourself. It is only your confusions and dualistic splits that create your misconceptions, fears | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a result of not having faced all your confusions and destructive impulses. No matter how much you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your way further through the maze of these confusions, it is essential for all of you to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be looked into, and the many angles where confusions might exist which must be straightened out. As | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| such an admission can suddenly clear up many confusions! It is not very likely that you would | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| through obstructions. It is essential to deal with confusions, inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and fulfillment, and to avoid already existing negativities, confusions and pain, is great. But this attitude defeats | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| may become involved in some confusion and contradiction. Confusions and apparent contradictions come from the dualistic consciousness | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| more, that you could live without painful tortured confusions and function on a level of inner resilience | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Self-awareness, whether it concerns awareness of inner problems, confusions, one's faults and negativities, or the awakening of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and secure state can exist, obstacles and dualistic confusions must always be removed. It is usually so | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that you can find the key to your confusions and conflicts, which make it impossible for you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| heard me explain that there are many other confusions and conflicts from which humanity must laboriously find | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your path, you discover the many conflicts and confusions of your mind. But when you work your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| pass only when you are free from the confusions that inevitably arise as a result of denying | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contradiction also exists that has led to many confusions in the human mind, particularly among spiritual aspirants | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of your mind that is steeped in dualistic confusions. This is the fact that every so often | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| it or to experience its reality through your confusions and your momentary suffering. It is always there | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |