| Evaluations.................4 | |
| simply register the desires. Refrain from judgments and evaluations such as, But this is silly, this is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| make their own decisions based on their own evaluations, they want to adhere to a dead ruling | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| content. You must therefore be careful in your evaluations. These two distortions are faulty counter-reactions, each one | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| By knowing this, you will beware of quick evaluations, and you will assume the responsibility to search | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Evaporate...................4 | |
| the spark in the relationship which seems to evaporate the more habit and familiarity with one another | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| experienced this great truth, although afterward it may evaporate again. Once experienced, it is easier to recapture | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| they may have a temporary effect, only to evaporate, or to end up in an equally evil | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of love and of dying -- all these evaporate like ice in the sun. Are there any | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Evasion.....................44 | |
| very unintelligent in this one respect because of evasion. Evasion is blindness, and blindness is the contrary | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| unintelligent in this one respect because of evasion. Evasion is blindness, and blindness is the contrary of | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the soul are based on just that: on evasion of the payment of the rightful price. There | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| way. Ultimately, the price you pay for the evasion is so heavy, so steep, my friends. You | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| belief that life can be dealt with by evasion, deadness results. No matter how unpleasant the temporary | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| away from gets much worse. Out of this evasion, you create conflicts and wrong attitudes which result | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more misery than you would have without such evasion and cowardice. The bargain you wanted to make | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| death. Both are based on negation: one by evasion, the other by deliberately going into what you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| But they do it in the spirit of evasion and fear. Thus religion, no matter how true | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| every day. This strength does not come from evasion, or from anything negative. You will know that | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you may encounter the danger of negation and evasion. If belief in the end result is artificially | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| already. One has to be very careful, since evasion and self-deception are always so close at hand | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and consciously battle against it. You recognize the evasion and the escape-mechanism at work. But some of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| can be, is the result of such cowardly evasion, such a wrong solution. Using such evasive tactics | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a treasure within you. Free them from error, evasion, the fear of facing the truth about yourself | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| on the root. You shift your emphasis from evasion to reality. The real pain has to be | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of the word. Beware of turning back into evasion all over again. Do not believe that this | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| come into existence as a result of your evasion. In this work, you have often noticed that | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| The fear is an inadvertent result of the evasion that was not deliberately chosen, of course. But | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| was not deliberately chosen, of course. But all evasion must have more unpleasant results than feeling the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| healthy to live with than any result of evasion, be it fear or anything else. Since fear | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of self-involvement. The price you pay for such evasion is very high. Many of you do not | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| belief in God. This comes predominantly from fear, evasion, escapism, wishful-thinking, denial of self-responsibility. The latter is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| pain he experiences is due to his own evasion of truth and reality; once he not only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| outer actions may so easily lead to self-deception. Evasion can take many forms. I repeat, wherever there | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a psychological problem is nothing more than the evasion of the lower self. Or, to put it | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| This capacity is there by nature, and your evasion cripples its unfoldment. Therefore, you are inwardly torn | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| resistance. So begin to penetrate the wall of evasion by realizing that you are a free agent | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| Each of these can be genuine or an evasion, an illusion, under which fear, uncertainty and many | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| mixed with an attempt to squelch doubt, fear, evasion, illusion, hopelessness, unwillingness to change, and many other | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| feelings fully, formulating their existence without the slightest evasion -- while you also acknowledge that the very | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| This is a truth, not wishful thinking or evasion of the self. When you meditate, my friends | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your efforts to compensate create a weakness and evasion that can produce only more weakness. As long | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a path. To counteract the danger of continual evasion and therefore of continual misery, the assertion of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| with others is impossible. You also know that evasion can exist in many forms. If you have | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the letting go means giving up destructiveness, cruelty, evasion, or any other unproductive way of life, or | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you block because you evade the truth. Such evasion always causes needless suffering, an oppressive burden, fears | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| prefer an idealized notion of themselves. Their very evasion alienates them more from the goal than the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Other personality types choose, as a way out, evasion through indulgence. This is a frequent occurrence, particularly | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or when it is rejected to begin with, evasion may lead to drug addiction in one person | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| done by fully going into it, not by evasion. The courage to accept what is inevitable strengthens | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| on the other, of self-indulgence, denial, repression and evasion. Such understanding requires continual inspiration from the higher | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| change is true and when it is an evasion. As with everything else, so with change: it | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| examine. So here we are also dealing with evasion and untruth. You are untruthful in the sense | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Evasions....................12 | |
| attempts to solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions are doomed to fail. Instead of facing the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| discover your own unreality -- wrong conclusions, pseudo-solutions, evasions -- will you reach the core of your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| which you find your deviations and misconceptions and evasions, and, after having done so, nothing but bliss | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| own unhappiness through your own destructive and unrealistic evasions and defenses. You will now realize, with a | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| sincere in spite of all his self-deceptions and evasions and has thus opened a channel within through | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| drown out this voice by all sorts of evasions, pleasurable or painful, constructive or destructive. But eventually | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It simply means full integrity, direct purpose, no evasions, uncovered motivations, doing the thing for its own | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| less you will become entangled in detours and evasions. Directly reaching the core of one's feelings or | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| defenses against the truth in you. Watch your evasions. Notice how busy you make yourself with other | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| near as threatening as the foggy half-truths and evasions, no matter what it is. What you believe | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you down in the end, for they are evasions, born in the hope that you will not | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| disorder, you live in the illusion that your evasions, your not dealing with what must be dealt | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Evasive.....................3 | |
| cowardly evasion, such a wrong solution. Using such evasive tactics you do not experience life at its | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a stark illusion to suppose that this unnatural, evasive way of self-defense is a more trustworthy protection | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a case against the other -- all these evasive tactics build the strife and conflict, the pain | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Eve.........................19 | |
| of this in the story of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Actually this happened in a very | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| self-development. QUESTION: Bearing in mind that Adam and Eve in Genesis stem from the masculine and feminine | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| back to your question: The symbolism shown in Eve, taking the active part, hereby being responsible for | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| very harmful effects. The incident of Adam and Eve is not to be taken as historical fact | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as historical fact, but as a symbol. Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes destructive if | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| should not have been, he could have stopped Eve. In other words, he was passive where he | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| passive where he should have been active, while Eve was active where she should have been passive | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gross misunderstanding, and also illogical. For Adam and Eve symbolize original human entities, the basic qualities present | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for womanhood. The symbolic incident with Adam and Eve shows that active and passive currents are present | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Adam as the symbol of man and of Eve as the symbol of woman. But I thought | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| passive elements as such. ANSWER: No. Adam and Eve represent much more than merely the active and | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspects of the two sexes. QUESTION: To me Eve seems to be one step closer to the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But both elements exist in both sexes. When Eve was found to be more immediately responsible for | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that activity and intellectual curiosity were suppressed in Eve, but it is shown that they were indubitably | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tried to explain. QUESTION: This night is the eve of the Sabbath. It also happens to be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Sabbath. It also happens to be the eve of Yom Kippur which is the Day of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the Bible -- such as Adam and Eve, Eden, Heaven and Hell. He was immediately accused | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| deep symbolism of the story of Adam and Eve. The nakedness of reality is paradise. For when | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| 1973 at the Center -- one on Christmas Eve, and the other on the occasion of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |