| Fabric......................3 | |
| addition, introduce your changing personal problems into the fabric of your prayer, you will reap the fruits | 36 PRAYER |
| will continue to do patchwork until the whole fabric falls apart. False structures always collapse. The most | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| honestly and courageously. And when you see the fabric of wisdom and of purpose in all that | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Fabricate...................3 | |
| world by concocting fantasy situations. The more you fabricate these fantasies, the more you spin around this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| no matter what the isolated aspects of consciousness fabricate in the way of delusion and folly. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| an immensely intelligent plan that only consciousness could fabricate. Something like this cannot happen by itself, cannot | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Fabricated..................3 | |
| could come your way. Preconceived, imagined situations, as fabricated in daydreams, are the product of the forcing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| in life with personal images and misconceptions, having fabricated certain remedies against the illusory dread. These are | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the actual person, but rather to an image fabricated in your mind of what the other person | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Facade......................11 | |
| that, you may use that as the outer facade of your wall. It is as though something | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hostility, and resentment for the man behind the facade of a reasonable discussion, the conscious aim of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| emotions. You will inevitably find behind this entire facade your desire to be loved. You may not | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| no longer aware of it. Such a strong facade of false serenity has been built that, as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| ensure your safety and invulnerability, but this very facade will simultaneously bring you so much admiration that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of a particular reaction and look behind the facade, beyond what it pretends to mean. Once you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| reality, and the only good exists in your facade. Only when this first battle is won can | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| secret and act it out indirectly under a facade that seems its opposite, you, in addition to | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| want to see what is underneath your particular facade of blame and victimization, in whatever guise it | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| mask self is your pretense, your hiding, your facade for the world. It is the idealized self-image | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| the adherence to public opinion, give up the facade and the self- interest that comes from the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Facades.....................3 | |
| are governed by behind their conscious attitudes and facades. You will know what their unconscious says, when | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| recognize the unobstructed, unconcealed destructiveness and negativity behind facades of various kinds. For many years we have | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| anxiety, without shame and hiding, without pretenses and facades. The relief of this kind of living is | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Face........................536 | |
| knot by knot. For only those who courageously face themselves again and again -- and here vanity | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| forward. Again and again take the resolution to face your inner truth with courage. Cultivate truthful thoughts | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| and eating it too. When they have to face the fact that this is not possible, their | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not to postpone encountering the unconscious, but to face it right now. For the unknown part of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| will be a disappointment, for people, until they face themselves, believing that they are far more developed | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| do all this. It is an inconvenience to face oneself over and over again in this kind | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| that it must be God's will that you face yourself in honesty instead of choosing the more | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of your life you have this attitude. Then face yourself in honesty. What is more important for | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| sincere and persevering. But often you will not face the real guilt, partly because in your conceit | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| And you do need help in order to face yourself in total honesty and to know yourself | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is indeed difficult. For knowing oneself means to face many an unflattering trait. It means a long | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| squarely what actually still exists in you and face it. When you are so concerned with positive | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| for your own truth, and be ready to face it. Above all else, pray to have the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| first of all that you would have to face it as it really is, with all its | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| start. It will be easier for you to face yourself in this manner when you realize that | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| In order to reach it, you must first face your lower self, or your temporary reality, instead | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| absolute reality, or your own higher self. To face the lower self you must at all costs | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| patient knew that he or she has to face the lower self, which exists in every human | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| your own protection, each one of you should face himself or herself in utter honesty. You can | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| order to drug himself so as not to face an unpleasant reality, then he or she is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| absolute will to look yourself squarely in the face. If you overcome the resistance to do so | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| do that, I have, first of all, to face within me what I may not like or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| opposite direction? As long as you do not face this and do not want to realize the | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| first find out what your faults are and face them courageously. When these worlds of unhappiness gradually | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| to your understanding. So, to continue: Christ would face Lucifer and tell him: Now, there are so | 22 SALVATION |
| yourself or not. If you are unwilling to face yourself with the truth, and rather believe you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is the law of facing life. To face life's reality means to be able to face | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| face life's reality means to be able to face yourself as you are with all your imperfections | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| with all your imperfections. If you do not face life first, you can never develop. No system | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wants to work. Yet it requires work to face what is in you, especially when it comes | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| completely unrealistic. It is necessary for you to face the fact that the path is long and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and sometimes suffer a breakdown when they come face to face with their lower self in the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| suffer a breakdown when they come face to face with their lower self in the course of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| must first, without fear or shame and vanity, face what is in me. Ask God to help | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| day you have a guarantee that you can face yourself, or that you do not escape what | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| this Pathwork and what you are willing to face. Now, my friends, I want to say this | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| from some of your inner conflicts, you must face stronger repercussions if you continue stubbornly in your | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| with as a powerful opponent. You have to face that part of yourself too, not merely the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| strength and the courage and the light to face yourself, to be open, so as to redirect | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| precious treasure of all without being willing to face your lower self? Does that make sense? Certainly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a corner of disbelief. You are afraid to face the corner of disbelief, and this attitude is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of many contradictory currents. Do not fear to face that one part of you that does not | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the only factor that you are afraid to face within yourself. But whether it is the doubt | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| feeling as long as you are afraid to face it. I promise you that any feeling you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| frightening as you now believe once you do face it. Coming back to the shortcut to knowing | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| God, you will receive enlightenment. However, you must face the question instead of evading it. Then you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| right and what is wrong if they simply face the particular issue and ask themselves honest and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| situation now which you want to change, or face a difficult decision, you will of course not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| over them; if you have the humility to face yourself knowing where you really belong -- not | 31 SHAME |
| it, what stands in its way, how to face your inability to love as you would like | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| means therefore to deliberate each alternative thoroughly; to face not only the advantageous sides of all alternatives | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| bluntly before the other person is prepared to face such truth, the effect will be negative and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| humility. The more serene you remain in the face of other people's faults, the more you have | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the willpower at your disposal. Yet you must face the fact that the outer willpower is insufficient | 38 IMAGES |
| this one respect. Perhaps you also fear to face your images. But how shortsighted this is, my | 38 IMAGES |
| planes of consciousness. Only when you begin to face your own wrong conclusions and fears and are | 38 IMAGES |
| have the courage to delve into your unconscious, face your image, dissolve it, and thus make a | 38 IMAGES |
| for freedom is the courage and humility to face up to things. When you have taken all | 38 IMAGES |
| gets really hard, you will be forced to face your troubles instead of fleeing them. So by | 38 IMAGES |
| emotional reactions, tendencies and inner conditions, they come face to face with the cowardly part of their | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| tendencies and inner conditions, they come face to face with the cowardly part of their personality. This | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to go through what seems so shameful and face yourself as you are. This is the only | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| this kind of image are very afraid to face the world, their feelings, and the unavoidable disappointments | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| avoid them but because you are willing to face them. That is the only way renunciation and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| strength and understanding to overcome your cowardice to face yourself and to overcome your resistance to developing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| according to the right reactions. But if you face your wrong conclusions by feeling them, by reexperiencing | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| mere fact that you had the courage to face the truth within yourself. There are many factors | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not be blind to your shortcomings, but will face them, and they will no longer affect you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| uncertain. In other words, to show your true face, as you show it to God, gives you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| go into the depths of your being to face yourself in truth. For the sake of God | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| relationship, and as the years go by they face two possibilities. The first is that either one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| than you presently are, you have begun to face yourself in the true sense of the word | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| This side of the wall is what you face and know. Behind the wall you store all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you store all that which is unpleasant to face. You store not only your faults and weaknesses | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| have passed the stage when your resistance to face yourself manifested in finding excuses and rationalizations for | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as long as you do not decide to face the real problem and decide for the operation | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your life. Such recognitions are obviously unpleasant to face at first. The two obstacles seem to contradict | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and changed. Yet you do not want to face it, hence you look unconsciously for something you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| can take that justified guilt upon yourself and face it, it will give you more strength than | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not yet perfect -- and the courage to face yourself and to face life as it is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and the courage to face yourself and to face life as it is. Positive thinking, when abused | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| how and why they are wrong. When you face them -- their ignorance, selfishness, and immaturity -- | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you so deeply that you are afraid to face them, then this wrong attitude has to be | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| feel about possible wrongs you may have to face, the more do you escape reality and thereby | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| answer, and if you have the courage to face it without the wrong kind of guilt feelings | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| has to be hurt, you or another, you face the final outcome of a conglomeration of deviated | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| And because of this, people are afraid to face their sexuality consciously so that it can mature | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you want or do certain things. When you face squarely that which is in you, imperfect as | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is. The greater the resistance you have to face from the material which is ready to come | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| is of the utmost importance to discover and face them. When this obstacle is cleared up, recognitions | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inadequacies and, although you do not want to face them and come to terms with them, your | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| side will cause you trouble until you come face to face with it, acknowledge it, allow it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| cause you trouble until you come face to face with it, acknowledge it, allow it to exist | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| wall between reason and emotion. The resistance to face the fact that one holds an opinion that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| When you have found and are ready to face all this within yourself, when you truly experience | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and it is of great importance that you face and see these in a true light. If | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be yours only if you learn to see, face, and give up the infantile concept of happiness | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| I speak of realistic fears that you can face constructively. I refer only to the subtle little | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and the outer unwelcome occurrence, you will come face to face with your inadequacy, but this encounter | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| outer unwelcome occurrence, you will come face to face with your inadequacy, but this encounter, instead of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the proper attitude, you accept your inadequacies and face up to them. In the world of Utopia | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| acute feeling of shame or guilt. You cannot face it, you look away, you struggle to avoid | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of the particular inner obstacles they have to face. There are also very evolved souls -- the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| run away from himself. Whenever people decide to face themselves in truth and honesty, no teaching, method | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and when life and their own disinclination to face themselves catch up with them, they may then | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the individual. Whenever an entity is ready to face himself, thereby assuming true self-responsibility, he or she | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and spiritual birth at other times, when this face of the disc may tilt inward. Man, on | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| meaning of keeping the Sabbath holy in the face of our present-day obligations? ANSWER: This statement has | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is of the utmost importance to clearly face it. There is nothing to be ashamed of | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. On the other hand, if you do face the fact that you have doubts, you can | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is being offered to you. Once you face your doubts in their true light, you will | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilt so that I do not have to face the real guilt. Do not be misled by | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because the real guilt is more difficult to face, emotionally it seems harder to bear than the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for very unimportant shortcomings in order not to face their main guilt. For most of you, the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| as you do not become aware of and face all the ramifications and aspects of your betrayal | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Such healing occurs when the personality learns to face errors, faults, and selfishness -- which are for | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| aspects since only the negative is unpleasant to face and therefore only that needs to be suppressed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| joyful, because it is not always pleasant to face your faults, your childish selfishness, and your various | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| due to unhealthy tendencies and reactions. When you face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is only half willing to allow you to face yourself, how can you possibly expect a real | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| can only be gradual. No one can ever face all that is inside within a short time | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| disappeared. No fear is left in you to face anything. Therefore, you have succeeded, to some degree | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| her inner resistance. Only the inner will to face and change oneself determines the outcome. To know | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| inner will functions most constructively, so that you face yourself fully and then change. And yet, illness | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| what you believe. It is much easier to face shortcomings than to discover the unconscious conviction that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you have to be happy about it, but face the sadness and it will not harm you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| takes time, perseverance, and very effective willpower to face anything that is within yourself, without reservation. As | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you no good if you accept them at face value. You must understand, at least theoretically, how | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| cannot do this if you are unwilling to face your confusions and misconceptions. Be on the alert | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to deceive yourself and do not like to face anything unpleasant, and partly because in your intellect | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| expect. You will be flexible and able to face what is in reality. You will not have | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| does, if you feel the unreserved desire to face anything that is within yourself. If you feel | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unthinkable. Only as you grow and learn to face and accept that which is in your everyday | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| should ask for help to be able to face yourself, or for strength and understanding for your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| instructions should deal foremost with the wish to face yourself, to understand and to assimilate what is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| serve to reawaken the childhood hurt. While you face the present hurt, think back and try to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| comes from ignorance, from lack of wanting to face the truth. Therefore, those who honestly do this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| so as not to have to think, to face, and to make self-responsible decisions. In that way | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| to be able to overcome your cowardice to face yourself, to overcome your resistance to developing yourself | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that the person is subconsciously not willing to face something. What is it? For if you had | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of your own, you do not want to face. That is the key to the whole problem | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and personal safety crumbles. They cannot afford to face what they consider a threat to their security | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the entity grows, the more it has to face the realities of life; therefore the struggle becomes | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| comprehend it at its deepest core, you come face to face with your struggle against death, or | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| at its deepest core, you come face to face with your struggle against death, or anti-pleasure, if | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| if you take the great, courageous step to face your unbelief, your uncertainty, and your fear, and | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| negates the life force itself. But if you face and come to terms with death, your embrace | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are being disloyal to your faith when you face that part of it which is superimposed on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the inner duality. As each person begins to face this problem within, he or she helps to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| As to the practical approach in learning to face death in your everyday life, it is so | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| he running away from it all? Does he face up to reality or is he avoiding it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| temptation is so great because humanity fears to face the truth. Truth is never unpleasant, but it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not yet discovered and at the same time face the untruth that still lives within. You have | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| most important assets in one's development. If you face your suffering and your joy, you will grow | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you meet life's conditions unless you meet yourself face to face in your innermost, hidden conflicts, attitudes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| life's conditions unless you meet yourself face to face in your innermost, hidden conflicts, attitudes, and beliefs | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| be there, if only to a small extent. Face in yourself that place where you still fear | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| doubt, would feel ashamed and afraid of losing face with the disciples. This basic fear is often | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| learned that it is important for us to face death in order to live fully. There is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| one, can we, and should we, try to face the death of these millions of unfortunates in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| are supposedly responsible for your defeat to save face. All these reactions, and many more, indicate the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| seem a major personal disaster, a loss of face, another will not experience as such. A professional | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| May they strengthen you a little more to face yourself as you are now. For nothing will | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| no right to blame others for taking at face value what they offer -- their self- effacement | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| always be cultivated anew. The inner will to face the truth in you, regardless of whether it | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| heaven...lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5: And the Lord | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is always the feeling of helplessness in the face of a difficulty that the child finds impossible | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of truth is determined by your ability to face yourself truthfully and sincerely, no matter how unpleasant | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| child, who at the same time refuses to face the tragic disadvantages of prolonged childhood. This soul-crippling | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| as a crutch to support you in the face of fear and aloneness, but recognizing and bravely | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you have tasted the difficulties you have to face in order to overcome the resistance. You all | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your part to want to look at, to face, and to acknowledge what is in you -- | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to accepting and facing yourself. Only after you face what is in you will your much more | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| time, with the inner will truly determined to face the self in its entirety, destructive emotions will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| very people who fling their immorality into the face of the world -- perhaps because they cannot | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| existing, actual immorality, which you are unwilling to face, makes you moralize with yourself and others. It | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not only destructive emotions which you dare not face and acknowledge within yourself so as to come | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a fear in you to meet life full face and you therefore want to avoid it. True | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ever to give up all inner resistance to face yourself to the utmost. You will recognize that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a communion with yourself. Courage and humility to face oneself with all one's limitations will have increased | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sort is necessary. For instance, admonishing yourself to face yourself honestly, again and again; or resolving that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| action, but by giving up the resistance to face what is usually right in front of you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems to give them relief and helps them face themselves. Would you care to comment on this | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a human being who has the strength to face and pronounce similar weaknesses, faults, or limitations. That | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| courage and makes it so much easier to face the self, while the irrational and unconscious belief | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| frustration, unable to relinquish, because you dare not face an unwelcome reality and cope with it, you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| from your own freedom, from the ability to face and cope with a situation, even if it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| be liked is so strong that you cannot face the possibility of not being liked, then you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to illusion and false hope, your reluctance to face reality, or to relinquish a desired illusory goal | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| produce primary reactions. This will help you to face reality and relinquish illusion, so as to be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and become intense that it is impossible to face reality, to cope with frustration, to relinquish an | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| full intent and realization that you have to face and eventually change, that you want to see | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| so humiliating that you did not wish to face it. Also, the experience made you believe that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| repressed, because the personality is not willing to face either the longing and the pain of the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unworthiness increases, which is even more difficult to face. If you go through the pain of making | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to take recourse to that if you can face those needs and see how you have forfeited | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your craving for self-indulgence. You also fear to face fully that which is harmful to others, because | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| strength, courage, humility, determination, and the reality to face your real needs -- to receive and to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| mental, spiritual and even physical being because you face yourself in utter candor. But this is the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of your life. Live in truth and reality. Face every issue in its entirety. Look at it | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your resentment against it. Only when you fully face the resentment against imperfection can you begin to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| sound foundation from which to proceed, unless you face the reality of both truths -- one in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| What is the use? Why then should I face all these truths about myself? Such reaction indicates | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the basic fear you do not wish to face: the fear of being yourself. Since these are | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| psyche said, As long as I do not face my real fear, I do not mind having | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| way. ANSWER: That is not necessary. If you face the reason why you are afraid of being | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| resist most. If you have the courage to face this and cope with it, you can indeed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you had run away from. You have to face and feel, understand, come to terms with, and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of your needs. On the one hand, you face the need to receive which remains ungratified as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the spiritual side of your nature as you face actual danger, it again is necessary that your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to expose something you do not wish to face? Perhaps it is uncomfortable for you to consider | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| this fault, and that you are willing to face it. In a state of defensiveness you do | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the very unhappiness finally makes you want to face it and change. If the will to change | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| desires, if you acknowledge them in yourself and face them, then you can find the underlying causes | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| yet incapable of feeling love. You cannot properly face this condition which, for now, is the truth | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the real you wishes something unproductive, and you face this fact -- not necessarily putting it into | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| first place, all of you have to fully face that what he fears is correct. It is | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| an imagination on his part. If you fully face this fact, not just acknowledge it superficially, such | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| him, but upon all concerned. When you fully face this fact, you will encounter the problem of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| fear and guilt all around. However, if you face up to that which you feel, and fully | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| tell him will not really help unless you face what is, without moralizing about anyone, but just | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| done only if you are truly willing to face yourself in absolute candor, and dispense with any | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| efforts in this direction. The sincere desire to face the truth in yourself, the reality that is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| some less, are a little better able to face yourselves as you really are. Perhaps not entirely | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| progress in this direction -- the ability to face yourself as you are now. When I say | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| do not let this fear stop you, but face it, examine it, grasp it, instead of repressing | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that God is, if you do not first face what is in you right now, imperfect, faulty | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| peace, creativity without strife, if you do not face the temporary, often unpleasant reality. Only then can | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| onto it. If you increasingly train yourself to face what is in you now, you free yourself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| experienced how your pains take on a new face once you thoroughly understand how you have created | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the two. All you have to do is face yourself without resistance, without the pretense of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of this habit in prayer, he begins to face himself. Only after reaching deeper levels of such | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| truth. His prayer is his sincere intent to face what may be most unpleasant. It is prayer | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| natural outcome of the courage and humility to face oneself completely and without reservation. Before you have | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the world, is the renewed constant intent to face yourself without any reservation; to remove all pretenses | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your sincere will does not falter; as you face these emotions within, in the candor I so | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| goodness. A group of only five people, who face reality as it happens to be now, contributes | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of self-awareness. As long as man does not face his own injustice, greed, selfishness, one- sidedness, pride | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is always due to somewhere not wanting to face yourself. Remember this, and as you do, and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |