| Erudition...................4 | |
| into the highest sphere? ANSWER: But of course! Erudition has nothing to do with self-knowledge, unless it | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| self-knowledge, unless it serves and helps development. If erudition is an end in itself, it does not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this path but that is something completely different. Erudition is sometimes even more a hindrance than an | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and rationalization, even as an escape. QUESTION: Also, erudition does not stay with the monad. In other | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| Eruption....................10 | |
| the likelihood of a breakdown, of a violent eruption which the personality cannot control. We shall come | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| distribution is uneven, in a nonorganic, distorted way, eruption may occur. When the distribution is even, balanced | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the end of continually swelling negative self-perpetuation. When eruption comes, the choices of recognizing the meaning or | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| escape become more clearly defined. Even if this eruption does not lead to recognition and an inner | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| not wait for crisis to come in an eruption as the natural, balance-establishing event that takes place | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| death will occur. In the latter case, the eruption takes the form of the spirit's breaking out | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the same inner distortions all over again. Since eruption, breakdown, and crisis always aim at discontinuing old | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| agony. This attitude seeks to avoid the necessary eruption of the boil, which consists of a painful | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| swelling of the boil impossible. Hence no painful eruption is needed to destroy rotten structures. This will | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| grows because your innermost being knows that crisis, eruption, breakdown, are inevitable and are steadily drawing nearer | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Escape......................152 | |
| keep a little back door open as an escape route, a reservation; you are ready but at | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of cause and effect and not trying to escape the effect by mere thought control. Happiness cannot | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| reality. If your life is very difficult, you escape from your actual life and its problems by | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| to bring about. It is very tempting to escape in this seemingly harmless way, but my advice | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is like. After this one time, you cannot escape any more, for you are caught. The same | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| layer because you want to be unaware. You escape from it although its symptoms and signs may | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your way in peace; be in God! 27. ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH Greetings in the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| this path in itself is no guarantee of escape. You all know that anything can be an | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| You all know that anything can be an escape. This is true certainly of religion and even | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| self-deception, then the path is used as an escape. If you are blind to that part of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| your particular case, then these teachings are an escape. Do not believe that simply by being on | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| can face yourself, or that you do not escape what is yet unsolved in you. This may | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| level in spiritual development, even though you do escape from some of your inner conflicts, you must | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| this path will not be another form of escape. It will be reality, as it should be | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| reckon with if you do not want to escape your present reality. The more you try to | 31 SHAME |
| your present reality. The more you try to escape the facts of your life, the sicker your | 31 SHAME |
| having the wrong kind of shame, you do escape reality, for what your emotions express is that | 31 SHAME |
| kind of shame means pride, laziness, injustice, and escape from your present reality. This is what makes | 31 SHAME |
| to yourself, or how much you deceive and escape yourself, or how much you hide behind a | 31 SHAME |
| may neglect this part of their task and escape the issue by their strong emphasis on helping | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| By defiance, self-pity, wanting to flee life or escape your trouble in one way or another, you | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| you the very trouble you are trying to escape from, since life cannot be cheated. This is | 38 IMAGES |
| increasingly difficult. You violate divine law when you escape from yourself instead of facing yourself. This should | 38 IMAGES |
| your old patterns may go right on and escape your attention. You are so used to shoving | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| lesson from that. Only those who do not escape unhappiness can become happy. And only those who | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| become happy. And only those who do not escape unhappiness can achieve true desirelessness, though perhaps only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| they are both motivated by the desire to escape self-responsibility. And the more you escape this in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| desire to escape self-responsibility. And the more you escape this in your inner life, the more chained | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| do not take this wonderful opportunity now cannot escape this work at a later time. Granted, the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| as a subterfuge and rationalization, even as an escape. QUESTION: Also, erudition does not stay with the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| avoidance of partnership is unhealthy. It is an escape. The real reason is fear of love, fear | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| can never occur when there is fear and escape involved, as is the case with most human | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| divorce is an easy way out, a mere escape. There are other cases when divorce is reasonable | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| because of that, you will try first to escape into subterfuge-desires. To see your subterfuge-desires, you must | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| same holds true for the soul. You cannot escape this reality, my friends. You have the choice | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| may have to face, the more do you escape reality and thereby inflict harm on your soul | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| who are afraid of life and love often escape into the distorted idea of detachment. But this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in you, maybe deeply hidden, which wishes to escape living. It hopes to get a return from | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| which may be partly healthy and partly an escape from solving one's inner conflicts. The conflicts are | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| drawn to influences which apparently foster tendencies of escape. Or they will pick out especially those aspects | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are the very result of a desire to escape from and to deceive oneself. As to philosophies | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen through your illness, or that you can escape certain unpleasant facets of life by unconsciously choosing | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be happy and does not wish to escape from life in any way. Adversity in any | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the difference between true, individual spirituality and the escape into a pseudo-religion out of weak motivations. This | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in relationships of old standing. This is an escape from reality which is so bleak that you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| true, but there is more to it. The escape is part of a vicious circle. The reality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is what makes reality so unbearable that you escape into an illusory world by concocting fantasy situations | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in a haze of vague background thoughts or escape, but rather by being right there. Nonthinking while | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| one born with afflictions, spirituality serves as an escape? ANSWER: You cannot do justice to all. Someone | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| reject the difficulty of life, you try to escape these difficulties by various, often unconscious means. Imbibing | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| avoids facing and meeting death and suffering, the escape will also be a flight from life and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| all have to take it. No one can escape it. But how do you take defeat? That | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the consequence of eliminating the false security, the escape, the crutch that are part of spiritual infancy | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape and the vague beliefs that serve only to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the distortion of spirituality; namely, its use as escape, as a substitute for your weaknesses, as a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the honest answer to whether or not an escape from the difficulties of life played a role | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that such a state is a combination of escape and a real foretaste of genuine spiritual experience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are aware on a conscious level. You escape into not facing that thing in you which | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| something else even deeper comes up, and you escape once more into this same illness. This is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it is illness or anything else that offers escape. As I said before, the imagined advantage of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you proceed, you will become aware of your escape mechanism and resistance at the moment it manifests | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in connection with dream events. The tendency to escape from unresolved problems, from conflicts, from that part | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| connected with the pseudo-solution of withdrawal, false serenity, escape from living and experiencing. Both alternatives lead to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is actually a relief and not merely an escape from a drab reality. When you are unwilling | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your real fears, they therefore represent the same escape mechanism as your daydreams. You experience either substitute | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| reality. Reality means rejection and unpleasure, therefore you escape from it and build your pleasure in fantasy | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to think and look at himself. He may escape from himself the same way as the person | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| as the person who uses God as an escape from himself. When man reaches the stage of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| genuine counterpart. Yet the former is based on escape from unpleasant truth about the self, while the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| be a worthless pursuit. You may try to escape from yourself by doing good for society; by | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| help others. They go under the heading of escape because security cannot be found outside the self | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and genuine. It can as well be an escape. If it is healthy and genuine, it manifests | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| while the latter may hide his wish to escape under an unhealthy preoccupation with an abstract God-idea | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by the same token, the extroverted person can escape and run from facing the inner truth as | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| embodies this struggle, my friends. The avenues of escape, even within the framework of this path, are | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| state of terror, you would all too easily escape into death, even though, in this case, death | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| same. In order to avoid such a destructive escape, the life instinct must be very strong. And | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| a true God-experience is possible. Every desire for escape must disappear first. Then the experience is built | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| anxiety. It infuses hope: not wishful thinking, not escape or daydreaming of a vaguely hoped for miracle | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| specific areas of your personality. Humanity's tendency to escape reality is often not based on the fear | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| exists, where only bliss exists. To attempt to escape the struggle by finding a shortcut to bliss | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of yourself, which is, in principle, the same escape you used before going on such a path | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to persevere. You make a tremendous effort to escape the negativity you have produced and chosen to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| isolation will always push people into attempts to escape from it. When such attempts look like succeeding | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| their own innermost being, because the mechanism of escape is often so deeply entrenched. This lecture, once | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| situation. The reasons for the strong tendency to escape from the self -- and therefore inevitably from | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| many of the possible motives and reasons for escape. Let us now pay specific attention to one | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| pertinent question for those whose tendency is to escape from their unfulfillments, to deny them, to gloss | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| it becomes so exhausted that it leads to escape from the self out of weak motives. Letting | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of weak motives. Letting go is then an escape which may become dangerous. To properly let go | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| fears and misconceptions lead to self- alienation and escape from life, then a conflict arises in the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| many ways exist in which a person can escape from himself. These are the false, misunderstood, inadvertent | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| person experiences the negative results of such an escape from the self, he or she is all | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| causes needless suffering, an oppressive burden, fears, and escape from the self. Once this area is totally | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| into it head on. Such individuals do not escape fear of death. Quite the contrary. Their constant | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| ever. It must lead in some fashion to escape from the very emphasis that is so important | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| construction is invented, you find yourself unable to escape from it. This happens despite your awareness that | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| every fraction of life, provided you do not escape from it -- perhaps by pushing yourself to | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| are driven to betray your truth. One can escape from the vicious circle only by working on | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| fraught with fear and insecurity. The longing for escape from the tension of the ego, as well | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your real motives and the actual situation often escape you. Since you fear feelings and see reason | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Desirelessness must not be confused with indifference, resignation, escape from the conflicts that one's undeveloped desires may | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| from morbid fears and from the desire to escape. Thus I do not say that to overcome | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| people and thus escapes into solitude, rationalizing the escape as healthy. Such a person will often denigrate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| in this situation -- if you do not escape from it -- this very moment of unpleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| caught in a trap from which you can escape only when you recognize it as such. You | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you recognize it as such. You will not escape until you challenge your silent assumption -- the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| deeper, so that it seems almost impossible to escape. For there seems to be nothing outside when | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to change, must be cultivated in order to escape the painful dilemma in which both available alternatives | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| than as a result of spite, fear, or escape. To explore the underlying interaction and the various | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| or to indulge in it as the ultimate escape. Nevertheless, on the whole, more and more people | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| even those who have used this as an escape, change their perceptions, and this heralds a new | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| choices of recognizing the meaning or continuing to escape become more clearly defined. Even if this eruption | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| by over-identification with figures in books and plays. Escape into them is often due to fantasy living | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| because it leaves no room for projection and escape. Some fall by the wayside because they are | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| a hard taskmaster, precisely because it allows no escape. It dispenses with all sentimentality that encourages your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the opposite state and the hope of an escape. In other words, if you wish bliss because | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| but fact, reality; not wishful thinking or an escape, but the stark reality of being and of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| it, motivated by hostility and the wish to escape. You can truly remove this fear when you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your identification with the higher self becomes an escape and an illusion. Under these circumstances it is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| often, such admission becomes in itself a subtle escape. By merely admitting a destructive feeling over and | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| The admission of negative feelings can be an escape if the admission is made glibly, perhaps just | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| provided their activity does not serve as an escape from the self. Harmonious movement is not tiring | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| itself any longer. It adopts various forms of escape, such as drugs or other means of false | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| what is real and what is fakery or escape or illusion, you must be open and evaluate | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| inner spiritual reality, and not some illusory religious escape. Quite the contrary, this path is immensely pragmatic | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| most cases, it is merely another kind of escape. For many it is easier to sacrifice something | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| always bring you to what you want to escape from. As far as your inner pathwork is | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you suffer from it. You may manage to escape from this particular suffering, due also to your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| yourself eliminates the need to cover up and escape from anything in you and therefore must make | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the opposite of what you fear is an escape and leads to a split rather than to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| no longer blame it on others and thus escape from your truth. As long as other people | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is your creation. Spiritual activity then becomes an escape from psychological factors. But it is equally true | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| way psychology proceeds today it too becomes an escape from one's deepest self-responsibility and thus robs one | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the other becomes in its own way an escape and an incomplete approach to humanity's struggle on | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| giving. And in giving to others, you cannot escape giving to the self. For in reality, as | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| although very rarely sustained. When sexuality is an escape from the problems, difficulties and unpleasant aspects of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| essence, be similar to the more crassly destructive escape routes we mentioned before. If meditational exercises are | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| with the future because you don't need to escape from the present. Then the forever now takes | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| nor is it wished for as the final escape from life's difficulties which are not meaningful and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| difficulties. So when neither fear nor desire to escape occupies the personality's energy system, the unified inner | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| personality then attempts to squelch this voice, to escape from it, to produce a lot of superficial | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the self, because spiritual development can become an escape, even though you may gain spiritual knowledge, achieve | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| speaking here of protracted states of disharmony, of escape, of resistance on a larger scale to deal | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| danger that they will use these teachings to escape from their hidden inward selfishness. Thus they will | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the Path, you are using spirituality as an escape from self, an avoidance of personal purification, a | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| yet exist. This abuse and misuse, this dangerous escape from the necessary developmental steps, necessitated a new | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| desirable your life becomes. Increasingly you wish to escape from it by spinning daydreams that substitute for | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| more you indulge in the wishful daydream to escape from the negativity, the less you can truly | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| spirit and create false needs -- needs to escape, needs to avoid parts of yourself. Just as | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| organism become polluted by its false need to escape from some levels of the inner being. The | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| it, never using spirituality as a means to escape from it. All dualistic confusion will dissolve when | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |