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| it a guilt-complex which, of course, is entirely destructive and negative. What do your emotions actually say | 31 SHAME |
| self-acceptance to be senseless, then you have the destructive and weakening kind of shame, which will never | 31 SHAME |
| is wrong to think about yourself in a destructive way filled with self-pity, complaining about your fate | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| are used for good or for evil, selfish, destructive purposes. In the latter case, material progress will | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Bad feelings and bad thoughts add to the destructive forces in the universe. If you could even | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Such a person cannot help being selfish and destructive, although this kind of selfishness is different from | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to show them openly. Thus they hide the destructive impulses and thereby create obstructions and conflicts way | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| surface, the repercussions occur outwardly and directly. The destructive forces are directed openly toward the other person | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| therefore bring an open result. However, when the destructive forces are kept under lock and key, they | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| error caused by the egotism that is so destructive. You will not bury the selfish emotions and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to shoulder your responsibility without the pride of destructive wrong guilt feelings that make you exaggerate your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| on others: hopelessness about yourself -- the negative, destructive guilt feelings that make you despair of yourself | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of the soul. Tiredness results from suppressing the destructive forces of the soul, barring them from the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the absolute truth and cannot be conquered by destructive forces. But that does not mean that you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| life force goes into the wrong channel, becoming destructive instead of creative and regenerating -- and therefore | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| who always become involved in a negative and destructive way. At the other extreme is separateness, the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| because the raw and often dangerous and quite destructive sex force manifested in the wrong way in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the life force that was turned into a destructive force by ignorantly using it in the wrong | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| he searches for. The expanding forces must turn destructive, unless the other two principles are at work | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| used entirely constructively, but unwittingly also in a destructive way. Not being aware of what your true | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| desires which are obviously unhealthy because they are destructive. Instead, we will delve into the deeper regions | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| -- may they be ever so subtle -- destructive currents result. These destructive currents either prohibit the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| ever so subtle -- destructive currents result. These destructive currents either prohibit the fulfillment of the particular | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| I am even more guilty. This is most destructive; it is very wrong, my friends. It is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and therefore becoming more hopeless than ever, is destructive and weakening. My dear friends, let these words | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this trend, you will also free yourself from destructive self-accusations. You will simply know that you have | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| negative attitude, doubt, and any number of other destructive feelings? Superficially one may say that this simply | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will go into a wrong direction and become destructive. The same with a repressed passive current, where | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes destructive if not allowed to function openly and healthily | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by being too passive in a wrong and destructive way. Were he not passive where he should | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| resources that are now used for unnecessary and destructive purposes. Moreover, they would discover many resources and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even though the problems, assets and liabilities, unconscious destructive or constructive desires of everyone concerned, may differ | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be lost in wrong channels and finally become destructive -- even self-destructive. Much more could be said | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| rightful desires -- not the crude, undeveloped and destructive desires -- and subordinate them because of such | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| form is in reality a response to your destructive impulses, no matter how hidden and unconscious they | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you find the reason why you unconsciously harbor destructive tendencies and wishes, you will alter them with | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| not allowed to be. It is evident that destructive tendencies, based on wrong conclusions in the unconscious | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be necessary to continue searching and finding these destructive images in all their aspects and variations. I | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| has a negative connotation and stands for a destructive emotion. And then we read in Scripture that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| In other words, it is constructive rather than destructive. Without this danger signal you would be destroyed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| This is decidedly different from the psychological, unhealthy, destructive fears we generally discuss in our work. As | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| come to realization. This entire procedure is utterly destructive. In the first place, it is an illusion | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| subconscious mind, how shrewdly it goes about its destructive and illogical ways. If you learn to look | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| lack of clear-cut motivations, or the presence of destructive ones, you will see the law of cause | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| are good reasons for such a recommendation, because destructive guilt is in itself such a heavy burden | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and remain the same in some wrong and destructive ways. Truly, you have nothing to fear in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| direction, the urgency of this blown-up desire becomes destructive. It no longer fulfills its original purpose. But | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way that is not really you, that is destructive. Once you find this hidden reasoning process, you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you rightly said, thoughts and emotions can be destructive, and in that sense they are acts of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It also does not apply merely to your destructive emotions and thoughts negatively affecting -- killing -- | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the devil's. That which is intrinsically selfish and destructive often appears on a superficial level as righteous | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| devil. Is the pleasure principle selfish and therefore destructive? Can you indulge in it without hurting others | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| be unhappy forever. Then the tragic, unnecessary, and destructive struggle against death or unhappiness begins. Birth is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| motivations are truly and genuinely more constructive than destructive -- not only proclaimed, but truly felt -- | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| resorting to pseudo-solutions. This should absolve you from destructive guilt feelings about the original pseudo-solution you have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will take full responsibility upon yourself, without any destructive guilt, for maintaining the pretenses that are always | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| so. As you know, stringent self-judgment is usually destructive and hinders your search. It must not be | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that symbolize your inner pseudo-defenses that are so destructive for the individual, have nevertheless contributed to remove | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is not advanced enough to be free of destructive impulses, the laws to prevent such destruction need | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| turn often has to find outlets that become destructive toward others, as well as the self. Rebellion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you let go of some damaging attitude, something destructive that, again, is up to you to find | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| suffice to protect society from their untamed and destructive impulses. The truly divine can function only in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and buried, so that they remain inadequate and destructive, even though the person is unaware of their | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| can be mature and constructive or immature and destructive. As a child you possessed an immature body | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| existing self-deception. The fact that you put raw, destructive, immature emotions out of sight instead of growing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| friends, this is true. Immature emotions are indeed destructive and will indeed bring you disadvantages. But your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and expose your negative emotions, that is indeed destructive. Try to distinguish between constructive and destructive aims | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| indeed destructive. Try to distinguish between constructive and destructive aims, try to realize the purpose of exposing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the tremendous difference between merely allowing immature and destructive emotions to come to the fore in order | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a rule as long as your emotions remain destructive and childish; they are unreliable in this state | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your system in a manner that was not destructive for you or for others. After thus having | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is the first necessary step to destroy your destructive processes and to build a real solid self | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| even though they are at the moment still destructive to quite a degree, will take on a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| determined to face the self in its entirety, destructive emotions will not only appear at the proper | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| while the basic defense-mechanism is left untouched. If destructive emotions govern you, instead of your being able | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| these energies along paths that will not be destructive and then, as a result, we would stop | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| actually means repression. The necessity of channeling powerful destructive emotions exists, of course. But, unfortunately, mostly the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| does not matter. It is still growth-inhibiting if destructive energies are not dissolved, but rather rechanneled, so | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the alternatives are either acting out these untamed, destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| inner growth that must eventually make you outgrow destructive impulses. But where this cannot yet happen because | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| see your real values in spite of your destructive trends. It is the only way. Your attempt | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| constantly have to guard yourself. Such defenses are destructive in themselves, as you well know. Without these | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| never proposed that people should act out their destructive impulses. It is one thing to be heedlessly | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is one thing to be heedlessly and ruthlessly destructive, and another to want to be a saint | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the inner process this way: If I have destructive instincts, I am horrible and cannot like or | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to bear, I must look away from my destructive impulses and hope that by my looking away | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the real conscience, then there will be no destructive hopelessness, despair with oneself, anger at oneself, impatience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have discovered a negative motivation or a destructive impulse inverted into a forceful compulsive superstandard. QUESTION | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of emotions are repressed. You crush not only destructive emotions which you dare not face and acknowledge | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of not killing something, even if it is destructive like vermin, for instance, would be extreme fanaticism | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a lower kind of animal life that is destructive, and if you would all abide by the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where does it all end? If a small, destructive life-organism is maintained because of such a rule | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can we decide which animal life is predominantly destructive and which is predominantly constructive? This also depends | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have not recognized that the defense is destructive and ineffective, that in fact it brings you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| extreme anxiety. This, in turn, would produce other destructive patterns. Or, if you continued helplessly in the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be speeded up. The necessary step before a destructive pattern can be dispensed with is understanding the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be mature acceptance of the results of this destructive defense until such time as the psyche is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| leads to obedience and fear. It is so destructive, reinforcing weakness instead of strength. That kind of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only the false and imaginary needs that are destructive. A need which in itself is healthy and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in itself is healthy and normal can be destructive when awareness of it is repressed or non- | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a process of displacement, they reappear in a destructive form. You then, unconsciously, try to gratify their | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and, subsequently, a defense mechanism which is very destructive. Some of you, my friends, have begun to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in your feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. The destructive defense mechanism, trying to do justice to two | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| for you, then your approach is not only destructive, but it also indicates a more deeply rooted | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and is burdened with unworkable wrong conclusions and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| body, before you can convince yourself of its destructive influence, which causes many unnecessary and unfavorable results | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unconscious, you have no way of stopping this destructive process, which is entirely opposed to your own | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| entire process of image-formation, the needs, false claims, destructive defense mechanisms, together with all the traits of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| on you. Only by repeatedly observing how your destructive defense feels in you, what it makes you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| recognition. You somehow know that the defense is destructive in general, and you obey this general understanding | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| relief, but in the long run it was destructive. The first few times you try to dispense | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| hold on to the false needs and the destructive defenses. But the change can never happen by | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| may be so great that you produce other destructive trends and remain unaware of them. But if | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| nature. This does not apply, of course, to destructive actions of a crass nature. On this path | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| also learn to discriminate between what is really destructive and what is not. You completely overlook this | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| confused and anxious. The opposite course is clearly destructive, and although you may wish to follow it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| two alternatives, which seem neither particularly constructive nor destructive, leave you equally dissatisfied. In either case you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the split, was good and constructive. Qualities become destructive the moment one aspect of the trend is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| trend, while the other has its negative and destructive side in mind. Take, for instance, rebellion, repentance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| oneself as one is. Another thinks of the destructive kind of rebellion with its false strength, defiance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| covering up a negative one. Why is pity destructive? Apart from the obvious answer which you all | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| do not have to discuss further, pity is destructive because it paralyzes you. In compassion, you are | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a healthy kind as well as an unhealthy, destructive kind. Your confusion here arises out of ignorance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| up even the kind of selfishness that is destructive of yourself and others. Moreover, if you believe | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| image. The result will be anxiety and new destructive patterns. Nevertheless, there comes a point when repeated | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in you that still clings to the old destructive way, in spite of your seeing it also | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in spite of your seeing it also as destructive. Bring that to the surface, and then you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |