| Ills........................10 | |
| awareness is the only real weapon against the ills of the world. In unawareness, two people will | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of others like you, are responsible for the ills of the world. No guilt, no self-flagellation, only | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to love. This prohibition causes all the other ills. The prohibition against loving comes from two basic | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| completely wrong. This does not mean that the ills you see in society do not really exist | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| deeply, and still unconsciously, contributing to those very ills you so much deplore. You do it precisely | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| becoming it, renders you free. Concentrating on the ills of others is a destructive act in itself | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| use this key and stop hiding behind the ills of others, the more you will strengthen your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| be so vulnerable and so affected by others' ills. This means you must still return to earth | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| faced and dealt with. Healing of all the ills of the mind, the soul, and the body | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| weakness, anxiety, lack of assertiveness, and all the ills you would like to be free of. You | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Illuminates.................3 | |
| disappear from his or her life. When truth illuminates with its clarity a previously obscure situation, there | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| THE POWER. Only God's power cleanses, delivers, and illuminates the truth. It makes you capable of love | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| growth and expansion, is a golden light that illuminates the universe. It is a powerful force, although | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Illuminating................3 | |
| do not have enough willpower, you lack the illuminating understanding of what it is all about. Yes | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| not possible to accept something, no matter how illuminating, because somebody says it is so; it is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| well, so a discussion may prove to be illuminating for you. Or is there anyone else who | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Illusion....................471 | |
| concept, people dismiss everything, at least emotionally, as illusion, imagination, and a matter of preference. This means | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| He wondered whether He was not under some illusion and whether all His previous knowledge was not | 22 SALVATION |
| and the dangers of approaching it with the illusion that a few meditations and some miracle-formula will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be themselves. Their kind of love was an illusion in the first place. So the only way | 31 SHAME |
| that is your great error and your tragic illusion. On the other hand, a person who is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| if you didn't know that it is an illusion. Actually, you are moving on, and the circle | 36 PRAYER |
| to let go of the old image or illusion, no technical improvement would have extended life. Another | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| toward the goal of unity and freedom from illusion, or mass images. Certainly, violence and hatred, prejudice | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| all life is eternal. Death is but an illusion. An inanimate object you call dead is only | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you and you are living in distortion and illusion since all images are just that. Enumerate the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| itself a wrong conclusion; therefore a falsity, an illusion; therefore away from truth. If you analyze each | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| This is separateness -- and separateness is the illusion of the world of manifestation. Does that answer | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| if it seems that way. That is the illusion of the world of manifestation. The teachings and | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to free you of the illusory. For no illusion can bring you harmony, peace, and freedom. All | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| bound to create problems for you. The particular illusion of this image has many repercussions and creates | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| self-importance. You can easily see that this mass illusion, existing in every human, may at times compel | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| has held you prisoner of the world of illusion. Then you can begin the process of emerging | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| peace. Be in God! 60. THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY Greetings, my dearest friends | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| being. I will call this the abyss of illusion. There is an abyss in each one of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you will become aware of the abyss of illusion in you. I ask you not to take | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| what it wants does not exist; it is illusion or Utopia. The price for illusion is extremely | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| it is illusion or Utopia. The price for illusion is extremely high. The more you want to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to force life into the mold of your illusion in this respect. If you could but see | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| used quite differently. To let go of the illusion and to assume full self-responsibility seems so hard | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you. The only way you can discover the illusion of this fear, this abyss and its phantom | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a very hidden and subtle way. Obviously, the illusion that you must never be inadequate leads to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Utopia as well as the fearsome abyss of illusion therefore depend upon whether or not you learn | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you have freed yourself of the abyss of illusion and the world of Utopia. But there doubtless | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Utopia and therefore struggle against the abyss of illusion. Your whole life must change in many ways | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that exists only while you live in the illusion, but they have no absolute reality. The moment | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| raise your consciousness, you are free of the illusion; it no longer has any reality whatsoever. Even | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| rather gloomy because you still live in the illusion of evil and sin, in error and misconception | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| live in the imperfect world of unreality, of illusion, you are not immortal in another sense -- | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| comprehensive overall view of the inner world of illusion. Even that recognition does not suffice to bring | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| surely come to see the terror as total illusion, as overgrown imagination. Because of this, you are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| view, you have to be rid of the illusion that every slight, hurt, or disappointment is a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unable to give love; 3) your world of illusion wherein you are in terror of being rejected | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| against the person in question. Living in the illusion that the other rejects you and that this | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or she is liberated from the abyss of illusion that not being loved spells terror. Broadly speaking | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you wonder if the past peace was an illusion. The confusion will provide you with a deeper | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conclusions, misconceptions, distortions, create an inner world of illusion. They create fears and tensions. This is bound | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are separated only in degree. It is an illusion that these two facets of the personality differ | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possibly judge another. Moreover, it is your human illusion to believe another person as being so happy | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of you, be in God! 71. REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES Greetings, my dear friends. God bless | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| love, the more you live in unreality, or illusion. These words will do you no good if | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| lack of awareness is a self-deception and therefore illusion. When you consider all this, you may begin | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| less tension and anxiety. Incidentally, another misconception or illusion, which is largely responsible for your fear of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| entirely unreasonable and damaging to you. Unreality, or illusion, is bound to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your illusions requires strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always causes tension and strain, for it cannot | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| possible and strain even harder to maintain an illusion where none is necessary. You constantly suspect that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| endangered. Every indication of reality clashes with your illusion, disappointing you, and in turn creating unconscious hostility | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| she reacts in a way that makes your illusion impossible to maintain. The loss of your illusion | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| illusion impossible to maintain. The loss of your illusion causes an all-black view in you. Your urgency | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your strong and urgent need to nourish your illusion. This urgent need for illusion comes from the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to nourish your illusion. This urgent need for illusion comes from the forcing current of the child | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| find this particular aspect of your world of illusion -- where and how you dramatize yourself, and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| do that are more important. Realize the preposterous illusion of that emotion. By observing this attitude and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it to the lecture on The Abyss of Illusion, you say, You are the master of your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Again in the lecture on The Abyss of Illusion, you state that this basic spiritual truth has | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| seems to me, in contemplating the Abyss of Illusion and what you have been saying about love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| unsafe is one of the great abysses of illusion. As you proceed in this work, you will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| destructive. In the first place, it is an illusion that you were defeated. Therefore, it is an | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| that you were defeated. Therefore, it is an illusion that you can now be victorious. Moreover, it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| can now be victorious. Moreover, it is an illusion that the lack of love, sad as that | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| its own. It lives in such a damaging illusion. As you solve this conflict, your awareness of | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| different experience. As long as you harbor the illusion that you are producing the respective emotion or | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| do not count. You are still under the illusion that you are but one out of billions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and therefore your happiness is not important. Another illusion misinterprets the right to individuality; it claims that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| be in a similar plight. This is an illusion, but it does exist in most of you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| healthy instinct of self- preservation, are based on illusion and misconception. When you understand the basis of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| nothing to fear from the overlayers of error, illusion and compulsion you have. They can only lead | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have. They can only lead you into further illusion and error, and therefore into unrest. The ultimate | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| It cannot manifest in a self-created world of illusion, in a world based on wrong assumptions. That | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| occasionally to give up. Your unhappiness is an illusion. If you are in harmony with the stream | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| be happy. You operate on a level of illusion, and where there is illusion, or untruth, there | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a level of illusion, and where there is illusion, or untruth, there must be constant uncertainty, tension | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are right: as long as you remain in illusion, you cannot hold onto reality, which alone is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| no doubt, and you recognize clearly what an illusion your struggle has been. You will no longer | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have often noticed. When you have considered the illusion of the importance of your wish fulfillment and | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to fear if you come out of your illusion, if you give up the fear, as well | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| have to some degree. It is your human illusion to believe an outer deformity stands more in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will find that need to be an illusion. Once it ceases to be a question of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| neurotic streak? ANSWER: Of course. It is an illusion, because when you feel the need you believe | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| true intensity and significance. Then you discover the illusion and see that the intensity of your emotions | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| life goes on and that death is an illusion, your faith is built on sand. But if | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| but by the time element, and the prevailing illusion of self versus the other. Often the gratification | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| development. In that lecture I showed you the illusion of self versus the other. There is no | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Time is a product of your world of illusion, and therefore the length of time between cause | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| spiritually and emotionally, the more the aspects of illusion are outgrown. Although still in time, such a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| cannot help but become aware also of the illusion of actual physical death, not by intellectual superimposition | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to look into the very difficult abyss of illusion, as long as it is still an abyss | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| something is not real, that it is an illusion, that is different. ANSWER: Yes, that is very | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| those people are still deeply involved in the illusion of opposites and duality; nevertheless, they meet the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of opposites and duality; nevertheless, they meet the illusion and grapple with it, which is honest and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| could that great spirit doubt and fear? Human illusion and idealization would have preferred that Jesus died | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| a reality is permanent and unchangeable. Only an illusion loses intensity as time goes by. Yet as | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and relax into it. You cannot avoid the illusion of suffering by telling yourself it is illusion | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| illusion of suffering by telling yourself it is illusion; for you, it is real, and therefore you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| duality, the struggle between life and death, the illusion that it is a question of either/or. The | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self for what it really is -- an illusion, a pretense, a dishonesty. It amounts to saying | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| self and others in order to maintain the illusion. Once you fully see that what you regarded | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| but also more remote. The pain of the illusion becomes unbearable. All this produces further deliberate escapes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and safety, you have to fight against the illusion of rejection in any form. The fight assumes | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a very good question. Any conflict, distortion, or illusion interferes with creative processes, the search for truth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the courage now to let go of the illusion of false religion, of false consolation. And in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| appear to be. You hold on to the illusion of yourself, in the wrong belief that if | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| for false solutions in order to create an illusion of security that can be pulled from under | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| made the inner decision to part with the illusion of yourself, you will feel much more at | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| compensate you for the difference between reality and illusion. To find that condition in you which so | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you will not be led into the dangerous illusion of relinquishing something that could be yours -- | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you can do. It means giving up an illusion to which you had clung out of your | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| exists. In a primary reaction, free of the illusion of hoping to bring gratification for repressed needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| -- thus making you capable of relinquishing your illusion. Secondary reactions derive from clinging to illusion and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your illusion. Secondary reactions derive from clinging to illusion and not daring to see what actually is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| from the repression of needs, the clinging to illusion, and the subsequent inability to relinquish the illusion | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| illusion, and the subsequent inability to relinquish the illusion and to see the real situation. At the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| awareness, you will uncover your persistent clinging to illusion and false hope, your reluctance to face reality | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| will help you to face reality and relinquish illusion, so as to be free to pursue the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| reality, to cope with frustration, to relinquish an illusion connected to it. As you examine all these | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Thus, what was once reality now turns into illusion, because no such generalization can be valid. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| live without, but are only giving up an illusion, a forcing current, a false need. Ultimately you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the doubtful benefit of holding on to the illusion that you can receive something for nothing. The | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| something utterly good and beneficial. This is reality. Illusion only breeds conflict. By finding where, through your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| can truly perceive that this dilemma is an illusion and exists only because of your confusion, the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and self, your inability to relinquish, and your illusion of being crushed, annihilated and worth nothing if | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| erroneous thinking shuts a door. You believe an illusion, a superficial manifestation. When you understand the previous | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| when you no longer believe in pretense and illusion. The work you are doing on the path | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that part of you that has remained in illusion and immaturity, makes people sometimes read into dreams | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| not get your will. In your state of illusion, however, there is so much more at stake | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| while the unhealthy part in you responds to illusion with illusion. But beware of believing that your | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| unhealthy part in you responds to illusion with illusion. But beware of believing that your self-pity, bitterness | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| endeavors people, often unconsciously, find themselves in an illusion, hazily imagining something that they cannot name. Yet | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that the need to defend yourself is an illusion and stop defending, the sense of liberation you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your defensiveness, you will be freed of an illusion. There is no greater hardship, no greater prison | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is no greater hardship, no greater prison than illusion. There is nothing more destructive on this earth | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of anything. Forcing leads only to self-deception and illusion. By letting an undesirable aspect be, letting it | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| have this to add: it is man's complete illusion to believe that pain and suffering are terrible | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| experience may turn out to have been an illusion. Therefore nothing is really resolved yet. The immature | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| superior world and an inferior world is an illusion. This discovery will set you free and give | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| these can be genuine or an evasion, an illusion, under which fear, uncertainty and many other negative | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of living, therefore my whole life is an illusion. This is what it amounts to. Is that | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| with an attempt to squelch doubt, fear, evasion, illusion, hopelessness, unwillingness to change, and many other destructive | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| brings the knowledge that death is but an illusion. Death is merely a manifestation of transition into | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Even then, you would still be living in illusion, because the outcome does not happen at the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| not -- you would still be living an illusion, because that moment of your recollection is a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| from your life, you are not only in illusion, but you are in fear and in disharmony | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| avoid the effort of obtaining it themselves. The illusion is very tempting: to be entitled to receive | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| will see that your entire shame was an illusion. This is your yardstick of liberation. I advise | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in peace, be in God! 118. DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of reality, confused concepts. Where confusion, and therefore illusion, prevails there must, of necessity, be conflict -- | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| psyche. Split and conflict is the consequence of illusion or misunderstanding. As people gain inner unity by | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| this lifetime with your duality, born out of illusion. When you perceive how you represent your parents | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| personal unresolved conflicts. Its duality is due to illusion and misconceptions. At the same time, its psyche | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| application at all. You react and respond to illusion and not to the reality of the situation | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| would be avoided. Pain is the result of illusion, the illusion being the consequence of the split | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| avoided. Pain is the result of illusion, the illusion being the consequence of the split that informs | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| and free yourself of the repetitive chain of illusion. Once you cease reenacting the old drama of | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| convince yourself how useless, unreasonable, unfounded was the illusion that reality is to be feared and that | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| that it is better to cling to the illusion. How false these unrecognized reasoning processes are! What | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| As it becomes bearable, you no longer need illusion and wishful thinking. You can look the truth | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| because you prefer to cling to a rosy illusion due to your unwillingness to tolerate frustration. So | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| way, because this assumption only leads to the illusion that your finding and your momentary relief has | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to vanish until it shows itself as the illusion it always was, an illusion which has caused | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| itself as the illusion it always was, an illusion which has caused so much suffering. I should | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| The attitude of acknowledging that you are in illusion at this moment incorporates many qualities and soul | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| stop struggling, because you are engaged in fighting illusion -- the appropriate kind of fighting -- rather | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| appropriate kind of fighting -- rather than fighting illusion with illusion, which cannot be successful. You must | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| of fighting -- rather than fighting illusion with illusion, which cannot be successful. You must fight illusion | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| illusion, which cannot be successful. You must fight illusion with reality, even if your present reality is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| with reality, even if your present reality is illusion. The clear acknowledgement of this fact is then | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| this fact is then reality; denial of your illusion is further illusion. The work of self-confrontation gradually | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| then reality; denial of your illusion is further illusion. The work of self-confrontation gradually leads to this | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you, you do not even know this is illusion and can do nothing to eliminate it. It | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| loss -- can cause suffering, one is in illusion. This seeming contradiction will split a concept. When | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| will become bliss. One then reaches beyond the illusion of opposites. If you quietly acknowledge, I am | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| some of these feelings are an outcome of illusion, although you are not yet able to change | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you are not yet able to change the illusion. Your desire to change from illusion to truth | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| change the illusion. Your desire to change from illusion to truth, while acknowledging all your negative feelings | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your negative feelings -- the outcome of your illusion -- will make you stop running and struggling | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the how. The little self is under the illusion that it must perish if its will is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| is possible even while you are still in illusion, provided you are aware of it, and provided | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are damaging because one is somehow immersed in illusion and misconception. But this understanding is not the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| upset; conflict and confusion perpetuate the chain reaction. Illusion and misconception create a duality which appears as | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| The moment you know the truth behind the illusion, split concepts begin to mend; psychic upsets begin | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is known, there is no contradiction. But where illusion and false concepts create duality, an imbalance comes | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| in. This is the relationship between reality and illusion. Illusion appears real, but only as long as | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| This is the relationship between reality and illusion. Illusion appears real, but only as long as you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| order to find out that it was an illusion. Behind the wall of apparent suffering, or annihilation | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| one unending process, and dying is a temporary illusion. If one clings to life because of the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| because of that, makes the latter an unreachable illusion. This may explain to many of my friends | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| that has no realistic justification. You focus on illusion, not on reality. When this recognition dawns upon | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| presence there is no fear, no distrust, no illusion. Love can flower only on the substantial soil | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| first is misinterpretation of reality, in other words, illusion. Illusion produces confusion along with a host of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is misinterpretation of reality, in other words, illusion. Illusion produces confusion along with a host of negative | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| buts. The lack of love, which comes from illusion and confusion, distorts perception and prevents self-evaluation. From | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are entirely free from misconception, underestimation of self, illusion, fear, and other destructive conditions. Hence in these | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| of loving. Behind both fears is confusion, misconception, illusion. It is these misinterpreted hurts and pains which | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| lies a non-love born of fear, hurt, and illusion, then in the way of finding out what | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| a thing as evil: it is only an illusion and in reality it does not exist. This | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| reaction of self-alienation is losing oneself in the illusion that one cannot determine what goes on in | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it. Your apparent lack of self-government is an illusion. How often you exclaim, But I feel thus | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| something other than yourself liberates you is an illusion. You can be instantly liberated from destructiveness by | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| at any moment. But you labor under the illusion that you cannot help feeling as you do | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| resistance or negative emotions. You labor under the illusion that you are at the mercy of what | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| yourself, your fear of them is based on illusion. And the fear of them builds up more | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| more satisfying way. Of course, this is an illusion, because there are not two separate entities, but | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| same. The separation of matter and consciousness is illusion. This illusion is the real meaning of what | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| separation of matter and consciousness is illusion. This illusion is the real meaning of what religion refers | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| some of my friends the area of their illusion and misinterpretation of reality is relatively small. They | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| they are, even on the intellectual level, in illusion or delusion. The latter may suffer more acutely | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| unreality and finding your way out of the illusion. Here you have an exact example of what | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| your disposal, first determine where you are in illusion about yourself and uncover where you are not | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |