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| be fulfilled the fulfillment is very temporary and illusory, you become frustrated. Practically speaking, what must your | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| yourself. Since this is an image, it is illusory. The purpose of this work is to free | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| this work is to free you of the illusory. For no illusion can bring you harmony, peace | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you harmony, peace, and freedom. All that is illusory is bound to create problems for you. The | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the side of the real self and the illusory side, where the false God-image rules, do not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not taken the necessary steps to discover its illusory character. When you cannot let go of your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you tense with fear and anxiety was as illusory as this abyss. So I repeat: the abyss | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the selfishness of others. This fear is as illusory as the abyss. This fear can exist only | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of destroying something: the old and obsolete and illusory. This will give you the sense of things | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| expression. Evil and sin are products of an illusory world that exists only while you live in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| love because they are still living in this illusory world you will quietly withdraw, without losing your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| philosophies agree that the world of manifestation is illusory. The only reality exists beyond your earth sphere | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| on, the more rigidly and tensely you construct illusory forms, in the hope that your desire can | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| every favorable sign in the context of an illusory construction. Even if you actually obtain the love | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be loved by a specific person causes the illusory construction, whereas in many cases, no such construction | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| gained by forcefully superimposing right concepts on childish, illusory fears that continue to fester in your unconscious | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| disapproval, if it actually exists, is but an illusory hurt. And you cannot be certain of yourself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reality so unbearable that you escape into an illusory world by concocting fantasy situations. The more you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| bound to disappoint you, since part of the illusory childhood world is the desire for instant gratification | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| why this world of the earth plane is illusory. As long as these are merely words you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| transcendent insight that your fear is unnecessary, futile, illusory, and completely senseless. In that realization you will | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| this, you can determine how real or how illusory the wish is. Only after you are able | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| time, such a person begins to sense time's illusory character. Practically, this manifests in the ability to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and effect move closer together, and therefore the illusory character of time lessens in your perception. You | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| resolve, the closer you come to sense the illusory nature of time. So in this respect you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| pain are one. QUESTION: Is it not equally illusory to think that the problems of everyday life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| order to avoid the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity clings to such words as there | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| for it is unrealistic. It is just as illusory as building a tower that reaches the heavens | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the false value and pseudo-solution and show how illusory both are. Depression sets in because the pseudo-solution | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When one neglects to satisfy one's real needs, illusory or imaginary needs must appear. These should be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is that your dependency often hinges on completely illusory circumstances. So you battle against something that does | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to face reality, or to relinquish a desired illusory goal. This process will free you to develop | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| concrete process. There is nothing hazy, unrealistic, or illusory about it. When speaking of finding God, people | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of separateness. This wall is a useless and illusory form of self-protection. In the last analysis it | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may experience momentary relief, but it is purely illusory. It is not enough to say that daydreaming | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of being. They may, however, lead to an illusory, imaginary state of being. The great spirits of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of gaining peace, but there are many false, illusory ways. Most of you have experienced this, at | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the unfounded danger that the growth experienced was illusory. I close with very special blessings for every | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to your helper and reveal all the comfortable illusory ideals you harbor. Maybe this voice will state | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| have removed inner conflict as well as the illusory crutches that the psyche has built up as | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the clamoring voice by outer, and therefore inadequate, illusory means. The only realistic way of meeting your | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| storms of life. As I implied before, finding illusory security from the outside need not necessarily be | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| has to live within conditions that manifest the illusory state. That state produces the conditions and the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| express and personify for you your duality, your illusory way of life. When this is truly understood | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a personal experience as any psychological discovery. The illusory way of life, for lack of a better | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is still in a state of duality, of illusory conceptual conflict when the entity is born. This | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the sharp cleavage between life and death, their illusory opposition, begins to dwindle. The true understanding of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| The fear may be based on an entirely illusory premise and therefore be unnecessary. It may be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and misconceptions, having fabricated certain remedies against the illusory dread. These are the pseudo-solutions, connected with the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| peace. Be in God. 128. LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES Greetings, my dearest friends, God bless all | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| are responsible for all suffering. This includes the illusory fences and the labored, resented, tiring effort. People | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and chafe with the effort of rattling the illusory prison bars, while they refuse to step outside | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| help her see that this either/or is false, illusory. As long as humans desire positive experiences out | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the underdeveloped ego, these desires are not only illusory but selfish and destructive. They have to be | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| The denial of manifestations of evil is as illusory as the belief that evil represents a separate | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| be in peace, be in God. 136. THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF Greetings, my dearest, dearest | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| human struggle for life or death is as illusory as death itself. For no matter how many | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| problem. You have to struggle with the arbitrary, illusory division of the unified principle, through which things | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| As long as you find yourself in this illusory dualistic conflict, you will experience hopelessness, for there | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| dualistic concept is me versus the other. This illusory belief makes the transition from the dualistic to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| make yourself utterly dependent on others with your illusory concept that unless they approve of you you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| path: they hope to attain one of the illusory opposites as the salvation. As long as one | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| is actually not a fixed spot. In your illusory vision of time, space, and movement, the life | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| in the status quo and cling to an illusory life, not being sufficiently aware of its pain | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| hangs onto hurts, which may be just as illusory as pretended fulfillment or a denied unfulfillment. Anger | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to its final absurdity. The realization of the illusory character of a separate ego-existence is an extremely | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in, or leaning on the static -- is illusory and breeds forever more fear. The principle is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of reality, thus diminishing your fear and your illusory, isolated, ego-existence. How to apply this, my friends | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the universal power. They are responsible for your illusory fear and shame. This shame is just as | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| longer split within itself as a result of illusory dualism. The down movement -- death -- represents | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| vast whole, the universal mind, only by an illusory belief that you are separate. You do not | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| so tragic because you believe only in this illusory, separate state as being real, as having identity | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| if I am hurt or disappointed. These are illusory fears. I do want the resiliency that is | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| actually it is not. All these difficulties are illusory. Your unconscious fear about finding the cause of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| for you. You will eliminate some of the illusory difficulties so that your inner guidance will manifest | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you only because of your false ideas. The illusory assumptions compound, one leading to another, and you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| even worse. This, too, is of course, an illusory assumption, for no truth is ever burdensome, hopeless | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you, and this cannot happen by wishful thinking, illusory magic, or denial of the facts. Let us | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| bad and undesirable. This is always an erroneous, illusory way of perceiving and experiencing life. Opposites are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in the first place. The difficulties are truly illusory, as illusory as the split of good versus | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| first place. The difficulties are truly illusory, as illusory as the split of good versus bad, but | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| function organically, mutually aiding each other. In the illusory perception of mutual exclusiveness, they create a short-circuit | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| fulfillment and happiness is not avoided, but its illusory nature is unmasked by going through it. Thus | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| This way of dealing with pain is not illusory wishful thinking. It is the most real attitude | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| reason for self-rejection is imaginary violation, according to illusory standards of perfection. Perfectionistic ideals are, as you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Each loss will soon be discovered to be illusory. Increasingly, you will be governed by true considerations | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| whatever suffering you human beings feel is truly illusory in the ultimate sense. Once you find your | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| remained whole knows the pain is short and illusory, but the part of you that is in | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| away. The imaginary need to run proves so illusory. There is no need to run away from | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is a hopeless and endless chase for an illusory goal that leaves the personality not only exhausted | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a painful chasm. You must always bridge an illusory duality to reach your natural and real state | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| yourself, only to find that all risk is illusory and that giving yourself to life is the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this reality must be discovered by taking the illusory risk. Only when you own yourself can you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is indeed one of the most harmful and illusory processes imaginable. Perhaps only a few of you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| The lesson must then be repeated until the illusory fear of change is exposed as an error | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of your illusions -- the maze of your illusory fears of life, of self. All the steps | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| avoid recognizing that you in fact experience this illusory self alienate you from your nucleus, your true | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| open will, at least, protect you from the illusory nature of your faith in humanity and its | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you will find out that they are indeed illusory. You started off with the premise, for example | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| reality, apprehension, fear, and despair are inevitable. These illusory perceptions can only be eliminated by the arduous | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to those who are still involved in this illusory view of life. The truth is that every | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| It does not mean wishful thinking, daydreaming, fantasizing, illusory hope. All of these are attempts to whisk | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| courage. Then truth will prevail. Theory allows only illusory faith, never the real. Real faith is knowledge | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| other should be more important. All these erroneous, illusory attitudes are part of the ego consciousness and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| why and in what way these feelings are illusory and destructive. You may know some of the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| or later everyone is faced with this terrifying illusory end, both their own and others'. But even | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in more reality from the world beyond the illusory confinement is the task. Indirectly, this applies to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| move beyond seems terribly tiresome. This feeling is illusory because the stagnant state is really a contraction | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| too involved in the dualistic struggle, defending their illusory self-image. They are therefore blind to the psychic | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| with the greater consciousness. You will understand how illusory this fear is, and you will see that | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| this deep inner spiritual reality, and not some illusory religious escape. Quite the contrary, this path is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the fallacy that if they are not their illusory perfection, they are hopelessly bad. This error should | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| of wishful thinking and avoidance. It reflects your illusory state. Outer order in a person's life, however | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| real person. The absence of bliss indicates the illusory nature of the search, it reveals instead the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| When you have no stake in maintaining an illusory image of who the other person ought to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Time and distance are part of the three-dimensional illusory state of consciousness, so they do not exist | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| nature is strengthened, and you fight against this illusory negative vision so as not to fall into | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| The bliss will, at best, be a very illusory and shortlived one. When the blissful universal state | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| meditational exercises are mechanical, the way is an illusory one. Only when the now point is a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the temporary reality you have created -- an illusory reality, if I may coin this apparently paradoxical | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| least you will stop the creation of an illusory and false reality that gives so much pain | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| reality that gives so much pain and fear. Illusory reality may sound like a contradiction, but it | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| for you constantly manufacture and believe in temporary, illusory realities. Life on earth is the best example | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| do so to your detriment. Such sacrifice is illusory, and not an expression of divine love, kindness | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| security, joy, and self-expression. It is not an illusory image of wishful thinking; it is stark reality | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| you call the real life is the most illusory life, where almost everything is turned upside down | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Once you connect with this reality, the superficial, illusory outer appearance will become much easier for you | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to penetrate and fill the void, the temporary, illusory separation fulfills its task, spiritualizing the void and | 228 BALANCE |
| as later and after. These are of course illusory, for the whole concept of time is illusory | 228 BALANCE |
| illusory, for the whole concept of time is illusory anyway. But to squeeze these ideas into your | 228 BALANCE |
| their original connectedness with the whole. The temporary, illusory disconnection must also create a temporary, illusory imbalance | 228 BALANCE |
| temporary, illusory disconnection must also create a temporary, illusory imbalance, leading to chaos and disintegration. But because | 228 BALANCE |
| deepest processes of their inner light. These are illusory shortcuts meant to avoid finding the spontaneous functioning | 228 BALANCE |
| his acceptability, which, of course, is then anyway illusory. Once he faces his weakness he must gain | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| can point out the fallacies, misconceptions distorted expectations, illusory aims and negative feelings within you and can | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| on another level. So the break is as illusory -- it occurs only on the manifest level | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| psychology developed, it recognized the distorted manifestations as illusory pseudo-solutions and designated them as neurotic states that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| these walls begin to crumble, and what was illusory separation turns out to be what it always | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| despite the commitment. But time is only an illusory hindrance anyway. The fuller your commitment is, and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the fear of poverty and deprivation may be illusory. As you start giving to God in trust | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to different causes. Such rationalizations only maintain the illusory picture of life and encourage the tendency of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| put it differently, you believe only in the illusory wealth acquired through scheming, pretense and greed, and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| in and a hope for what might be illusory wishful thinking. My dearest ones, Christ's embrace enfolds | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |