| Distinguished...............4 | |
| may also be designated as Choirs, and are distinguished from one another by special marks, appearance of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| a godlike status. However, it has to be distinguished from self-will, the will of the little self | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| a rule? ANSWER: In the first place, I distinguished, in answer to the question, between living morality | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lower self so that its voice can be distinguished. This teaching must become a substantial aspect of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Distinguishes...............3 | |
| right in every respect. This feeling is what distinguishes God's way from your human way. Here again | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you can possibly say in mere words that distinguishes the real from the false -- only the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| to self-knowledge -- in short, to everything that distinguishes consciousness. Think, for example, of electricity and atomic | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Distinguishing..............4 | |
| it was. Perhaps this is one way of distinguishing real and false recognitions. In the former, you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| truthfulness. QUESTION: What is the best technique for distinguishing between truth and opinion? Or fact and opinion | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of your efforts come to you. A major distinguishing point in the evolution of a human being | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not be made. Humanity was then incapable of distinguishing good from evil, between what was constructive and | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Distort.....................29 | |
| that people who have not had such experiences distort the accounts given by those who have had | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| as a child of God. You will not distort his or her negative side due to your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| danger. The fear of the unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| even one of these measures is bound to distort the law of communication and therefore sabotage your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| themselves insignificant, yet they are important enough to distort your life. We have penetrated into the world | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| safety, you are bound to overemphasize and therefore distort the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore the instinct of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| dictates your reactions towards future events? You thus distort the relationship between the event and your reaction | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| subjective colorings, stemming from your desires and fears, distort reality, blind you to factors that existed or | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it were a fight for survival; how you distort issues in this unrealistic fight for survival; how | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the deepest level of your being, you must distort the cosmic stream within you. Since you oppose | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| I am aware of the fact that I distort reality. I wonder how this applies to my | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the body and mind. Tensions in the back distort and congest the smooth flow of energy. Let | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fail to experience the evil in you. You distort your concept of yourself when you deny any | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| evil so as to deny your own. You distort and exaggerate to falsify. You deal with half-truths | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| are negative, and in what way do they distort truth. You then can intelligently consider the realistic | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| It is always relatively easy to deny, rationalize, distort, conceal, or use half-truths to justify this attitude | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| already aware of your stake and inclination to distort rather than be impartial to the answer you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| where you deny rather than affirm, where you distort truth rather than are in truth, then you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and doubt -- about the duality that can distort faith as well as doubt. This is the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| entity in itself. Those who obstruct group consciousness distort it into mass consciousness, and individual consciousness into | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reality that counts. When you do so, you distort the truth. I will say to you, my | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that sometimes their own projections interfere with and distort the exact nature of what they perceive. If | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| The self-judgments that you do not face openly distort the personality into becoming self-righteously severe with others | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| into becoming self-righteously severe with others. Religionists often distort reality in that way and rationalize their narrow | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the outer personality, they both seek out and distort the truth of immortality in order to avoid | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| expression to those who abuse the laws selfishly, distort them according to their own, self-serving purposes -- | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| course, personal misinterpretations due to limited consciousness can distort their vision. Since the world recording system exists | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| different means. The forces of darkness can again distort the truth and tempt people away from the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you create a specific confusion in which you distort the limitations as if boundaries implied enslavement. I | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Distorted...................369 | |
| as I have explained, such woes stem from distorted soul currents, which you have the power to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Currents coming from the higher self are often distorted by the lower self. Now here is a | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| uses it in a wrong direction it is distorted by the lower self and becomes an impure | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| unfortunately, for various reasons, not maintained or even distorted. Furthermore, this quotation means that anyone -- then | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| able to recognize yourself in truth, without the distorted view the self generally reserves for itself. Ask | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of you. You will have wrong reactions and distorted instincts, which you will then want to interpret | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| respect are due every living creature. In the distorted view you suffer loneliness and you go on | 31 SHAME |
| from the godself. However, the same can be distorted by luciferic powers. It is so also with | 31 SHAME |
| aspects to cleanse this current of its exaggerated, distorted, and negative aspects which are: a certain type | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a test your view of things is completely distorted. When you are convinced that your negative outlook | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| no danger. There is, however, a hidden and distorted wrong extreme masked and covered over by many | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| if you do not flinch from unhappiness in distorted self-love, self-pity, and cowardice. If you learn from | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| flowing through a human soul become disturbed and distorted. A short circuit is established. This is the | 38 IMAGES |
| attention is that, strangely, everything connected with these distorted inner images causes you acute shame, even when | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| It calls attention to itself. To make the distorted emotions whole and healthy, one has to work | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| relationships with others, in ideas, or in a distorted concept of God does not make any difference | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| You see a picture that is just as distorted as when you are too severe and intolerant | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| although it does seem extreme. Because of these distorted conditions and this vicious circle, humanity came to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| guardian angels and everything connected with them was distorted to an opposite extreme. Humans put the responsibility | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| mind half as much the existence of the distorted and weak brother of the true authority and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| religious attitudes has a healthy form, which become distorted when you embrace its extreme. Rightly understood, positive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and cruel. The person who unconsciously maintains the distorted God-image rightly fears this deity and resorts to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| all know that each true idea can be distorted into an untruth by taking it to an | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of life and love often escape into the distorted idea of detachment. But this should not make | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and again -- that each truth can be distorted into an untruth. This is, perhaps, the most | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| true in some circumstances is misapplied in others, distorted and rigidly set up as an inflexible rule | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| meaning of any concept or idea can be distorted to the extreme point of nullification. It is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| soul. But wherever unconscious attitudes and currents are distorted, healthy self-love will be distorted as well. Wrong | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and currents are distorted, healthy self-love will be distorted as well. Wrong kind of self-love exists in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| your own inner, and possibly hidden currents of distorted self- love. First find the proper concept and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the right sense is the cause of your distorted self-love. When you do not love yourself as | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| proper way and it will automatically reduce your distorted self-love. I realize this is slippery ground, my | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| healthy feeling that lies right next to the distorted reaction. Thus you will be able to retain | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the healthy, that is, between self- respect and distorted self-love. People often agonize about making the proper | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| spoke without using this particular expression. Self-love is distorted when the life-force is directed toward the self | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| security is in itself. The goal then is distorted to serve a need other than that which | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| easy matter to find your own truth, your distorted and temporary truth. What may appear true to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the development of each individual. Due to a distorted concept of happiness, another desire comes into existence | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| logically, you will find that the primitive and distorted concept of happiness actually amounts to a desire | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the effect of the chain reaction this fundamental distorted concept sets off. The more the child grows | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for this ideal, unselfish love can easily be distorted by the unhealthy desire to suffer which we | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to the surface. Strangely enough, in a very distorted way, the desire for unhappiness seems to approach | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| still exists in the superconscious memory, but is distorted by wrong motivations, by misunderstood basic principles, and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can make us mentally or physically even more distorted. ANSWER: No outer influence can ever make you | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| No outer influence can ever make you more distorted. This is one of the most flagrant illusions | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person may be, is an indication of something distorted or ignorant in the self. In the ideal | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| way to truth. Also, one may have very distorted emotions and embrace a truth by coincidence, so | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is bound to bring to the fore all distorted motives, no matter how deeply hidden and unconscious | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| why you are thus deluded. According to the distorted God-image, people feel that God requires them to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be so great. Your inner child's exaggeration and distorted black-and-white perception of life's happenings brings in its | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| was this tendency which caused religion to be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the very irrational, unfounded | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unknown, you learned that it is always the distorted God-image which is responsible for that fear. You | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| all truth always tends to be diluted and distorted by the masses who are not ready to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| outer rules and regulations they imposed restrictions that distorted it. If you study the history of religion | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you. When your ultimate outlook on life is distorted or not clearly formulated, your creative and health-giving | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the road of self-development. ANSWER: Well, in a distorted, ignorant way, yes. A spiritually blind person always | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| truth can be found that has sometimes been distorted by well-meaning people who thought that the birth | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you will inevitably find that, perhaps in a distorted or modified way, you have a very similar | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| taken out of its setting and given a distorted meaning. It suggests a negative fear as though | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has been misunderstood, I believe. It has been distorted as meaning injustice. The words in Mark 4 | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth, who translated it, have misquoted, misunderstood and distorted the original meaning. Everyone who ever did so | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tendency, coming from the higher self, can be distorted by your inner deviations and conflicts and therefore | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fully recognized. There are some unrealistic, immature and distorted motivations, in addition to the conscious valid ones | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development, then the laws become broken, twisted, and distorted, and communication cannot take place. Thus the path | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of the other person, but of your own distorted need and urgency. Only on the basis of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you have healthy interdependence. However, both can be distorted, and that, unfortunately, is very often the trouble | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| are able to comprehend fully the immature and distorted emotions can you attain the healthy ones. You | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| so in your state of temporary reality and distorted vision. People have to let go of a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is needed, as opposed to a mixture of distorted activity and passivity. You cannot truly solve the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| At the same time, the sicker or more distorted a soul, the less it is capable of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a very unhealthy phenomenon. It can be a distorted and harmful process in the religionist's as well | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of expression in life. Only the limited and distorted soul has to make such choices. It is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and serenity, and how they manifest in their distorted forms. In the healthy person these three principles | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| contradict or interfere with another. However, in the distorted personality they mutually exclude one another. One contradicts | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| as weakness and hypocrisy, not only in their distorted forms as in the submissive type, but also | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| serenity, chosen as a solution and being thereby distorted. Originally a person may have been so torn | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| hardly ever apply to the total person. The distorted attitude may be present to a stronger degree | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in spite of all your striving toward a distorted independence of either the aggressive or the withdrawn | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in a healthy way, as opposed to a distorted way. Love will not be a means to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the false kind. There will not be any distorted ambitiousness, compulsion, and haste. Serenity in the healthy | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| can cause the greatest war within yourself if distorted. Now my friends, are there any questions? QUESTION | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| can combine them, but do it in a distorted way? ANSWER: Again, a very contradictory attitude exists | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| if these qualities were healthy but in the distorted form they cannot be combined. Closer analysis will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a healthy independence. QUESTION: I wonder, could a distorted attempt at unification masquerade under the belief that | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life. When the effects of these attempts and distorted attitudes are sufficiently analyzed, it will be found | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| with our different selves? ANSWER: The negative or distorted thought and feeling forms emanating from others will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Under no circumstances are you a prey to distorted forms of others because, if you truly search | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the wrong attitude. Your own or other people's distorted thought forms can only bring out your underlying | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| in childhood. When the instinct of self-preservation is distorted, it fights against this feeling destructively. As you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| or imagined slight occurs. This disharmony is your distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to refrain from self-endangering activity. Yet when the distorted instinct of self- preservation operates, inner or outer | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the healing of distorted soul forces lie in eliminating the pseudo-solution and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| soul to adopt the quest for power. The distorted instinct of procreation leads the soul to the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| are necessary in life. If the instincts are distorted, they conflict with, rather than complement, one another | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| little more specific. If the self-preservation instinct is distorted, the following process occurs: The young child experiences | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| above and beyond the character distortions that the distorted instinct of self- preservation ordinarily brings in its | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| entirely different terms than those mentioned here. The distorted instinct of self-preservation will lead to the pseudo-solution | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| which does not understand me. In contrast, the distorted instinct of procreation contains the pleasure drive, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| while protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct of self-preservation and its pseudo-solution, the quest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the soul will starve and stagnate. If the distorted instinct of procreation and its pseudo-solution, the quest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| rigid evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains only one distorted instinct. It is not as simple as that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| healthy aggressiveness, which is altogether different from the distorted one. Thus a proper inner balance will begin | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| true spiritual development cannot occur without clearing up distorted emotions, your knowledge is still largely theoretical and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that through civil law. Religion need not be distorted and truth obscured by encouraging humanity's weakest, sickest | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| has set up rules and dogmas, and has distorted the law into such a rigid concept that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and others will show you how your unconscious distorted pattern has affected others in exactly the opposite | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| ignorance of educators and parents have created a distorted view that induces you to repress and to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| within, you can first give up the false, distorted, superimposed, artificial needs, and then you can go | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| You will be close to resolving a sick, distorted aspect of your soul that has brought you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| alternatives, either of which could be healthy or distorted. You will find the answer only when you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| This helplessness and weakness points to the immature, distorted part of the personality. Wherever you are mature | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and rejected because it is seen in its distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your core, rather than from the erroneous and distorted superimpositions. Only when you act and react from | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self, of others and of life is not distorted but in accord with reality, you will express | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| experience of self and of others is so distorted that you feel any frustration as personal rejection | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Your real being is simply inactivated by your distorted perception of reality, of certain factors in your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| through this process and gain insight into your distorted sense of reality, your sense of reality itself | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| turn, was connected with and resulted from your distorted experience of life and self, your inability to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| express and unfold because of my unreality, my distorted view. They are in me, but can only | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a person and perceive them in a very distorted way. Your intellectual evaluation may be pretty accurate | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| contribute, and not by badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses -- once you truly | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| matter what word you use, it will be distorted if your inner perception is limited. And when | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| stake and therefore you experience life in a distorted way. That is why frustration cannot be borne | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| emotional experience gleaned from the parents is very distorted. In the crassest case, the child may emotionally | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| life in this way, he is twisted and distorted, and loves the rejection rather than the love | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| that has reached humanity? Any truth can be distorted, you know that. When humanity has progressed sufficiently | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| fighting, are healthy processes, but both can be distorted. Many other elements, too numerous to consider now | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a moment of the effect of the negative, distorted soul parts of a human being in the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| used in other situations, the human psyche is distorted and put out of balance. Looking now at | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| even if it is brought out in a distorted way, perhaps due to his or her own | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| times. Merely observe the wrong, childish, untrue, and distorted reactions and concepts. The more you observe them | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and hidden factors may play a role. Even distorted and unhealthy motives, when finally brought out into | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| functioning properly. Love and will can have many distorted aspects, manifesting in many ways. We have discussed | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| If man's attitude toward suffering were not as distorted as it usually is, he would find that | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| neither is willing to give. Both claims are distorted and unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| experience is the confirmation of their worthlessness. Their distorted view prohibits a true evaluation of the situation | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| be loved. Second, they have to find the distorted concepts and understand why they are distorted. Third | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the distorted concepts and understand why they are distorted. Third, they must allow themselves to experience all | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| many true concepts, principles, or attitudes can be distorted and become untrue, although they parade under the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Such glimpses of health, as compared with the distorted, artificially strained ways of living, are the best | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| within yourself that cause you to be subjective, distorted, and out of touch. In short, you will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| to maintain it, often in precarious, hidden, and distorted ways. Unfortunately, emotional independence is often misunderstood as | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of you: Humans so often have a very distorted view about the essential issues of life, such | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| compartments, some of them healthy and fine, others distorted and conflicted. This faulty perception surely shows how | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is an unnecessary artificial creation instilling an unrealistically distorted view of oneself as well as of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the aspect you find shameful in a slightly distorted, untruthful, colored way. Hence the gain would be | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| this work to understand and resolve images, misconceptions, distorted unhealthy attitudes, in short, everything breeding problems in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| represent your basic attitude to your parents. One distorted attitude exists because of influence exerted upon you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to experience must suffer. When your feelings are distorted and one-sided, it is because you misinterpret reality | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a blessing. The life force must enter into distorted areas, even when compelled to manifest in an | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self for the sake of others in a distorted sense of martyrdom -- which is always a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |