| Faces.......................9 | |
| transfiguration. There are, for instance, mediums whose actual faces take on an entirely different shape, even a | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| life in a fuller dimension. The person who faces what is inside thereby begins to understand life | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| believe that the person is a machine who faces an issue squarely, and upon discovering that here | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| destructive tendencies can only be dissolved if one faces and understands them. This will not harm the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in what you call death. Death has many faces. Those who are afraid, tightly holding onto the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| a haphazard way. Feeling the anger, one accepts, faces, and ceases to fight what is. There is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| evil is a fact observable by anyone who faces reality. Some religious philosophies contend that evil stems | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| his own weakness. He meets his own weakness, faces it and thereby gains his real strength. He | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of course, is then anyway illusory. Once he faces his weakness he must gain his true strength | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Facial......................4 | |
| what you wear, what your posture is, your facial expression. This is not egocentricity, nor does it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you thus observe yourself, you may discover certain facial expressions you may otherwise not have noticed. You | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a cripple who limps, or perhaps has a facial tick, experience a strange urge to imitate his | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| a strange urge to imitate his postural or facial aberrations. Haven't you experienced the sometimes irresistible desire | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Facilitate..................15 | |
| contact and explain the principles that govern and facilitate it. But the desire for it has to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you analyze your reactions this way, you will facilitate matters greatly. And now some further advice about | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| insights. Your philosophical understanding would increase and thus facilitate your incentive for purification. Two: you would recognize | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pseudo-solutions, and distortions can bring this about. To facilitate this process, it is very important to receive | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| one. Working them through as one unit will facilitate matters greatly. Try to detect the hidden fear | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| essential key to your own development. It may facilitate a letting go that can happen only when | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| by allowing yourself to perceive it, you will facilitate the unfolding of your natural destiny. Unfortunately, people | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| self-pity -- exists. Your discovery of this will facilitate your further progress greatly. You will see that | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| greater wisdom in you more accessible; it may facilitate your capacity to concentrate and meditate; and it | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| You have learned certain approaches in meditation that facilitate this contact. The difficulty is not that the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| of being creator of your chosen life. To facilitate the discovery of this connecting link of positive | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to you a greater influx of energy to facilitate your efforts and make them increasingly more effective | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| words, but sufficient progress has been made to facilitate the new influx of energy which will now | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| a new climate in your life that will facilitate your growth and development, the solving of painful | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| must come from the outside in order to facilitate the opening of the channel, so that the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Facilitates.................3 | |
| a world, which, in certain states of development, facilitates life in general but by the same token | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the occasional glimpse and sense of it that facilitates the proper attitude toward one-self. This genuine God-experience | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| painful. Increased awareness of higher states of consciousness facilitates the synthesizing process immeasurably. The human predicament is | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Facing......................219 | |
| free yourself of all chains only by knowing, facing, and conquering yourself. Observe yourself clinically. Then just | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| deeply; instead they react emotionally without thinking about facing the lower self. The subconscious feels it necessary | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of these laws. It is the law of facing life. To face life's reality means to be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| other areas your conscious mind still flees from facing the inner truth. You may even know your | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| why your lower self turns you away from facing yourself. One reason is that to recognize yourself | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is in you, especially when it comes to facing the unpleasant things. So the first step, my | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in you does not exist because you avoid facing it. The lower self is immature and ignorant | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| blind spot in them, a stubborn resistance to facing their outer and inner dilemmas. Oh yes, the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| say this: That which you so often avoid facing is not necessarily something that is deeply covered | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| important thing that this earth-life stands for, namely, facing yourself. Try to remember this; do not go | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and by really going through your lower self, facing it and dissolving it step by step with | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| means you are lacking the humility of courageously facing everything about yourself -- and that is pride | 31 SHAME |
| few years. However, if you are capable of facing these weaknesses; if you meet them with open | 31 SHAME |
| not only by destroying your own and courageously facing up to your real self, but also by | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you sometimes make superficial decisions, not weighing or facing what is involved in them, and then thwarted | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| law when you escape from yourself instead of facing yourself. This should also bring into clearer focus | 38 IMAGES |
| way genuine desirelessness can be attained is by facing the fear of life and love. To risk | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| will feel the relief and freedom that only facing one's own truth can bring no matter how | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| approach leads to the perfection you strive for: facing and admitting the wrong desires without giving in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sorting out of your emotions, finding their meaning, facing all that you have looked away from. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| locked behind the wall and prevent yourself from facing it. Now what is the spiritual substance of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the search is, almost everyone wants to resist facing certain things within. The two contradictory desires can | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| If, for instance, someone capable of searching and facing the self gives up because of laziness, pride | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The operation itself would be the unpleasantness of facing what is wrong with you. It is the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you dissolve the inner obstructions, the petrifications, by facing your misconceptions, misunderstandings and the untruth that lives | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| to be regenerated by your own efforts in facing yourself, in overcoming your resistance and sluggishness and | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| make them disappear. On the contrary, only by facing those negative emotions can you understand their origin | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and effort to break down your resistance to facing yourself. For only then can you truly become | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| for good to suppress basic instincts rather than facing them with courage and sincerity. QUESTION: Is it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| as it is. Positive thinking, when abused, avoids facing that which is now. It can be successful | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fear. As long as you shy away from facing your erroneous reactions, because of a faulty attitude | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| misinterpreting spiritual ideas. Quite the contrary. Only by facing life's hurts in the right spirit, by not | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you cannot change, and therefore you cannot avoid facing the issue in the present. Least of all | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be heightened by guilt and suppression. But by facing it, it will be reduced. In that way | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| directed toward the goal itself. By finding and facing them squarely, you will automatically eliminate a certain | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and therefore the more puzzling the outcome. By facing the negative side, you evidence the bravest emotion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| middle way. It applies much rather to your facing yourself honestly and entirely forgetting, for the time | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| rightly understood, by finding your inner truth, by facing your innermost self, by freeing yourself of untruth | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is nothing to be ashamed of. Only by facing such doubts directly can you deal with them | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Therefore our work until now dealt mainly with facing the repressed negative aspects of the human personality | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| true concepts, it feels certainly more painful than facing something you have suppressed because you thought erroneously | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| particularly flexible and willing unconscious, have arrived at facing yourselves as completely as is humanly possible. In | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| In the first place, this very process of facing oneself can only be gradual. No one can | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| begins to happen when all inner barriers to facing yourself have disappeared. No fear is left in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| fruit too, it has nothing to do with facing the self. It is also possible that someone | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in return for a minimum of effort in facing yourself and in the willingness to change and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| this is what you are so afraid of facing that you set up a tight resistance against | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the tendency to close the door, to avoid facing yourself. So I say to all of you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| child in you when it comes to fully facing yourself is entirely unreasonable and damaging to you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| bring you happiness and freedom. Your resistance to facing your unreality and to changing is in itself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your intention to put aside all resistance toward facing yourself and changing where necessary. This is the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be a letting go of all resistance to facing yourself fully and honestly, without any restrictions. In | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| That is a sign of emotional immaturity, not facing life and reality as they are, and lacking | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| should not think that he or she is facing everything. This is a question of emotional constitution | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| unpleasant the temporary truth in you may be, facing it results in a vibrant feeling of being | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not in reality, in its true sense. By facing yourself squarely and courageously, you must eventually find | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through the work you do on this path, facing and examining your feelings and reactions, and understanding | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and evasions are doomed to fail. Instead of facing the issue squarely, you superimpose ready-made answers which | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the strength and courage that come only from facing the issue. You chose rather the way of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| self, from within. It comes only by courageously facing these problems, questions, confusions and fears, and examining | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a healthy, strong acceptance of the inevitable. Squarely facing it, not cringing from it, you will come | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| more we find that the solution lies in facing the unknown and confronting the fear of it | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| tension pushes you into it. Courage, an honest facing of the self, and a relaxed attitude will | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| out of duality by no longer negating, but facing up to it. This will then show the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| only after it has been worked through by facing the fact that it still exists for you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the end result has been used to avoid facing that which still seems unpleasant, if for no | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| shortcuts in order to avoid the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity clings to such words | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and pain happens only by accepting and fully facing the duality: life and death. Those who misunderstand | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and pleasure, when one consciously or unconsciously avoids facing and meeting death and suffering, the escape will | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| who cringes away from suffering -- denying, never facing it, and irrationally fearing it beyond its true | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| physical level. Such inclusion comes, in turn, from facing death and suffering. It happens through eliminating negation | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| always causes another. Thus, establishing balance comes from facing truth and changing whenever possible. This new balance | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| be. To the degree that you succeed in facing yourself, your ability to perceive truth automatically grows | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the nature of your resistance to accepting and facing yourself. Only after you face what is in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have already accomplished through the hard work of facing yourself, sooner or later all of you will | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that is an extensive search of self-finding, self-realization, facing oneself, followed by the reconstruction of certain personality | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with. You cannot determine what you are really facing and make a choice. You are driven. As | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| It is intelligent expediency, arrived at through fully facing a real situation. If you relinquish something that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| on a conscious level. You escape into not facing that thing in you which you feel destroys | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the surface, but the personality is afraid of facing it. Thus, the same process of overcoming resistance | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| feeling of being unlovable that the soul resists facing. He fears that what he will find will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and evil too much of an obstacle to facing the self. These tendencies in you made it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| of a positive idea: self- forgiveness and fully facing one's sin. Both derive from courage, humility, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| have to do the work of recognizing, of facing, of changing. In short, it is your struggle | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to me, I can overcome them, first by facing them fully, then by my willingness to cope | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| change and growth where the hard work of facing and initiating change still has to take place | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| awareness of your real needs not only because facing unfulfillment is painful, but more so because unfulfillment | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Free them from error, evasion, the fear of facing the truth about yourself. Desist from living superficially | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| be accomplished in any other way than by facing your errors and illusions. Your little self may | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| pleasant message from outside yourself. Your fear of facing yourself makes you turn away from the constructive | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| step is to allow yourself the luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints against life | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| You will wish to override your resistance to facing that which you suspect is there but wish | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| will. Therefore, when a person goes to sleep facing a confusion or a problem and wholeheartedly desires | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and, under the fear, hate. Protecting yourself from facing this hate can mean maintaining the exaggerated glorification | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| from something that is or was, thus not facing and coping with your reality, that caused your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| lifetimes in which you have shied away from facing the same problems, and facing life as it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| shied away from facing the same problems, and facing life as it is. Now, as you learn | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| near you, out of the unconscious fear of facing exposure, and you are bound over and over | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| change becomes. The more you run away from facing up to yourself and continue to resist change | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not by pseudo-solutions and defenses, but by squarely facing all that is in you, understanding it and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| this pressing question makes you shy away from facing it and you become more compulsive in trying | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| If self-knowledge and self- understanding, and the honest facing of what is, were cultivated in the child | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| encouraged from the beginning to develop inwardly by facing the truth. Outer, superimposed standards would only be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and into himself. Thus he cultivates awareness by facing the reality within. As he proceeds to do | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| be in your present confusions, errors, and pains, facing and understanding them, you cannot ever be in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the stage of active pursuit of self-awareness, of facing himself as he really is, he may, at | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not felt. But love can grow out of facing a truth, no matter how imperfect it is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| exists. You go to any length to avoid facing the lower self. Perhaps you are capable and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| vastly underestimated. In order to become capable of facing your lower self in its entirety, you must | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| if only they persevere. But to force the facing of real guilt before the readiness manifests naturally | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| as my earlier words may indicate. Self-exploration and facing lesser evils make the psyche strong enough to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of how you, too, shy away from fully facing your lower self. Question yourself: Do I wish | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to keep in mind. If you thus continue facing areas of yourself you have never faced before | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| a moment consider the corroding effect that not facing the lower self and real guilt has upon | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| disregarding your lower-self trends does to you. Not facing these afflicted areas will render you helpless when | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| so subtle -- reaction of shying away from facing yourself in this touchy area. Observation will enable | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| belief is often an unconscious reason for not facing the guilt. One can make restitution when one | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the lower self. The first is finding and facing these aspects, calmly and proportionately, without self-condemnation or | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| cope with the difficulty, actual or seeming, of facing oneself. Yet this is the very key to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| will not bring you one iota closer. Only facing that within yourself that you shy away from | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| there always is a lot of resistance to facing guilts. Whether they be guilts of commission or | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it is pursued regardless of the cost of facing negative aspects, of shattering one's cherished ideas about | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| this body of truth, but it is the facing of your self in utter candor that represents | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| in yourself, of security, can grow only by facing in yourself what you would rather not see | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| realistic way of meeting your insecurity is by facing it, admitting it, accepting it. That is the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| we will gain clarity. If introversion leads to facing oneself and then utilizing the material to become | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the extroverted person can escape and run from facing the inner truth as well. This kind of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sometimes as difficult, or even more so, than facing your destructiveness. This may be so for a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| loving. And if, through your inner growth, through facing yourself in complete candor, through dispensing with all | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that always stands in the way of your facing yourself in utter candor, painful as it may | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| but have not taken the final step of facing their hidden conflicts, their inner confusions. If they | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| serious efforts to overcome your inborn resistance to facing and changing what is unrealistic and therefore destructive | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| complete organic growth. Do not be afraid of facing these feelings. Encourage them! You have nothing to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Encourage them! You have nothing to fear in facing them -- on the contrary. Be alert, my | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the most tragic and unnecessary way. For by facing your condition, you can change it in a | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| being forever more determined to overcome resistance to facing the truth in yourself, the more do you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you have grown considerably in the process of facing the truth within yourself. The identical mechanism works | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| This discipline of self-awareness and the self-responsibility of facing the real situation makes you grow; it inevitably | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| union, is determined directly by the following chain-reaction: facing the selfish, greedy child within you brings liberation | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| -- what could these words possibly mean? If facing truth and reality were more difficult -- which | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| calmly wishing to be enlightened. The combination of facing the now without struggling against yourself and desiring | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| vague future. Go on in the search of facing yourself in utter truthfulness. For, when you do | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| so strong. Awareness means acknowledgement of one's limitations, facing wrong conclusions, destructive emotions, self-defeating devices, lack of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is often not based on the fear of facing unpleasant aspects, but, just as often and on | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| of self-awareness. It must begin with the truthful facing of the self, with courageous confrontation of the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| different. Impressing the need for expressing -- for facing what dwells inside, for overcoming resistance and the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| from involvement and contact with others, or from facing faults and destructive attitudes in yourself, but primarily | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| good progress. The struggle to turn away from facing this disturbing nucleus of foreign matter, with all | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| it can no longer be corrected. Admitting, acknowledging, facing an emotion, no matter how undesirable, can never | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| So to the extent that you succeed in facing and understanding your conflict, the pleasure principle will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the horizon only in exact proportion to your facing in yourself what you fear most -- and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| reasons for all resistance and fear of self- facing. Often, these cruel aspects can be found only | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| conceivable point of view. It never deprives. But facing yourself requires courage and integrity. It appears as | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| inner feelings -- and this grasp comes from facing personal inner errors and self-deceptions -- then an | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and philosophies can all be abused to avoid facing where you, and you alone, deny life. Often | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| reached the point where they no longer fear facing any illusion they may have are fortunate indeed | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| fear life and run from it and yourself. Facing this would require you to stop doing so | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| There is a great deal of difference between facing the negativity, understanding that here I am negating | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| goes on within. Whenever your courage falters in facing the conflict, as it manifests nakedly deep in | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| In both instances it is possible to avoid facing the unflattering facets that destroy the ideals one | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| This is inevitable and necessary and constitutes the facing of the self we are always talking about | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| begin with your questions. QUESTION: I find myself facing a repeating problem, which is the feeling of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in you, for you are still frightened of facing the reaction you have to feeling frustrated and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- not by acting them out but by facing them, feeling them, expressing them in the way | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth. You attain it in exact ratio to facing the very impulses you feel most guilty and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, different from the one that I am facing now. Or in what way is mine different | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experience how what was best became distorted, then facing your destructive side will not be the horror | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Such strength and ability grows from direct, head-on facing, not treating the fear as if it were | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in truth. It is always pride that makes facing fear impossible. When you reverse the old habit | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| basic destructiveness will be abandoned through your squarely facing it. Then the divine can be activated. This | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| own intuitive faculties, freed more and more by facing the truth you did not want to see | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| that you actually are worthless and beyond redemption, facing such a fact would indeed be a hard | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| doing your best to overcome the fear of facing something unpleasant; giving the best in you to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| that it is this attitude that makes the facing of the rage and the agony perilous. Rage | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of self- realization, your honesty in seeing and facing the truth, your goodwill to change and give | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| than unhappiness. This strength can be acquired by facing the truth and shedding illusions about the self | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| addition to the general pathwork of self-awareness, of facing the truth, of establishing contact with the universal | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to hope -- consciously or unconsciously -- that facing these aspects of your being can be avoided | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to find the right measure of self-discipline, self- facing, and summoning your goodwill to see the truth | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the problem, seeing its origin and its effects, facing the results and really wanting to change. All | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| the problem of dealing with others and of facing up to one's own stubborn blindness about the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| -- which was only a pretense to avoid facing that you are not really willing to pay | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to give to and receive from life, to facing and changing what needs to be faced and | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| problem is that fear creates more fear of facing and of transcending itself. Then one fears this | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of adult self- responsibility that takes action by facing the self; by wanting truth and change; by | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| The pathwork is, of course, primarily concerned with facing these undesirable parts in order to remove the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| suffering. As you progress in the discipline of facing yourself you become more able to accept your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| for their evil because you shy away from facing your own. In this state you are extremely | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| nothing to focus on and cope with. By facing the fear directly, you proceed into other feelings | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and phases the main concentration should be on facing one's negative aspects, distortions, and ugliness, for the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| strength and objectivity. By your renewed commitment to facing the truth in yourself over and over again | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| almost impossible to describe. Resisting evil means not facing and accepting the evil in you. This resistance | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| one of the most important keys you need. Facing the guilt for the pain you inflict on | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| on others is really not very different from facing the pain you have received. In both instances | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| with the ulterior motive to get away from facing blame, accusation, and self-justifying victimization, this may lead | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in paths which promise that one can avoid facing these problematic inner areas. If you think of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| dint of a false belief: the belief that facing one area of the self may imply a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the self is bad. Such a belief makes facing the self difficult or even impossible. Hence it | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| affairs, one's use of time. It may mean facing and overcoming habits of procrastination, the pattern of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| on whatever issue is on hand; reality is facing the effects of one's manner of living. They | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| through which you travel in the spirit of facing your own creation. When you deny this process | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of fulfillment because of your honest investment in facing yourself in truth. Divine blessings are with you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| abuse the energy that you should use toward facing, confronting, and dealing with an aspect of yourself | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| makes a total commitment to truth, to self- facing, to self-purification, to giving up all defenses and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| you here should not be used to avoid facing what is actually negative and destructive. Do not | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| reality, which frightens you, and so you avoid facing the negative self even more, until later when | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| face one day what the personality frantically avoids facing now. There is wishful thinking in believing that | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| come only after overcoming many hurdles and after facing this basic fear on different levels, no matter | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| accepting the self with its lower-self aspects, squarely facing its negativity, and yet seeing its destructiveness and | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| who you really are. The very fact of facing this lower self deserves the mercy, forgiveness, and | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| you see and who have no intention of facing, admitting and changing it. This may even apply | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| are no longer needed to keep you from facing your lower self. If children grow up with | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| substitute maneuvers of false self-value, making room for facing your painful belief in being valueless, can you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| dictated, in order to allay the fear of facing those roots of the personality where these states | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| indulge in every destructive action or attitude without facing the consequences. This great leader, more like a | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Or does the necessity on the path of facing the truth of your lower self, with its | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| search arduously to attain a truthful balance in facing your lower self honestly and -- not in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| It is not superimposed in order to avoid facing the underlying fear. In this vibrancy there is | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| causes the deeper fear of injustice. In not facing the consequences of the lower self, you try | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |