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| though in a different sense than you had imagined. It separates you from your surroundings and makes | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will feel quite different from what you have imagined, but whatever God decides will ultimately be best | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| a very different way from what is often imagined by human beings. Those in the highest sphere | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| at all as cold as you had first imagined, and after a very short while it will | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| for your shortcomings as a compensation for your imagined inability to change and thus come to cherish | 31 SHAME |
| emotional conclusions, you will discover that fighting your imagined shames and resistances with the tools of patience | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| needless hurts than would befall you without your imagined defenses. My friends, hurt has to be accepted | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| suppressing his desires, keeping them, perhaps, as an imagined defense against the hurts of life, against the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the opposition to either the real or the imagined goody- goodyness of the law-upholder. When people are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| -- the blaming of others for real or imagined wrongs that forced you to react that way | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you in your misery about a real or imagined injustice. True, something may seem or even be | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other children and feel deeply ashamed about their imagined difference. The maturing of the soul will change | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| conclusions. You sell out your truth for an imagined personal advantage, which increases your self-contempt, though this | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| is such a wrong form of self-love, rejection, imagined or real, must have played a role. Usually | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| for you or to save you from some imagined disaster. When you discover the error of this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| human beings, out of wrong conclusions, because of imagined needs. Find it and your entire outlook will | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and punishes some less fortunate creatures. The other imagined god who rewards you for being a good | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| because you fail to discriminate between actual and imagined selfishness. Every time a rightful and healthy impulse | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| As I said some time ago, often the imagined guilt is actually graver than the real hidden | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it seems harder to bear than the unjustified, imagined guilt. The real guilt may be that you | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and free of emotions, this behavior pattern -- imagined or real -- becomes desirable and something to | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| hide the real you is the shame of imagined weakness, of being yourself with all the tenderness | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| will be no less valuable than you had imagined, or even more valuable, although not necessarily attained | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and the way a little criticism -- real, imagined, or implied -- can spoil the day for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| favorable situation that could come your way. Preconceived, imagined situations, as fabricated in daydreams, are the product | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you experience the real situation, as against your imagined and forcefully wished one, and in much larger | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| should be. In other words, the rigidly built, imagined situations that prohibit reality also prohibit your full | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| reason. You have to find out what your imagined advantage is when you are aggressive and hostile | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is still hidden and then, through understanding its imagined necessity, dissolving it. In that moment, you will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| need for either, without compulsion, without frenzy, without imagined need that does not actually exist. Only upon | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the meaning of the Bible: something negative, imagined, frozen, petrified. And we do worship it in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| disappointment, helplessness, and rejection -- both real and imagined. These feelings create insecurity and lack of self-confidence | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| from annihilation, they comply with the real or imagined demands of others, cringing and crawling to the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| whether it is an actual weakness or an imagined one. Love and goodness are also considered as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life were at stake whenever a real or imagined slight occurs. This disharmony is your distorted instinct | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| The inner process of preparation, based on an imagined need for safety, stems from the imbalance of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| warded off. But in distortion the dangers are imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| front of those who really are, or are imagined to be, stronger people, but who is ruthlessly | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do... 7: ...Let us...confound their language | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is even more difficult to discover the imagined disadvantage that makes you hold on to the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that offers escape. As I said before, the imagined advantage of the false solution pushes to the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| asked exactly what the search meant, how they imagined it to take place, it would be difficult | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the basic understanding that your parents' real or imagined rejection of you had nothing to do with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| frightened to find out that they have only imagined it all, and so they guard against the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| are convinced you should reject according to the imagined, or real, code of this superior world. If | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| give up your little fears and misgivings, your imagined shame and vulnerability, for the sake of loving | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| In this hidden using, the distortion of your imagined love can be found. You pretend love when | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| between your superimposed conscience and your actual and/or imagined lower self take on a new meaning for | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| real person, to the real situation, but to imagined persons and situations: your parents. You do not | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| will cease to exist. By repressing needs, the imagined pain of frustration is supposed to be eliminated | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| channel of vocational success, the slightest real or imagined rejection in your career hurts infinitely more than | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| friction, with misunderstandings, with hurts, with real or imagined rejections. This must lead to withdrawal in one | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| if you could only get to perfecting these imagined solutions, all would be well. You would be | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| unconscious. The no-current is used to avoid the imagined threat. When the pathwork demolishes this pretense and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| order to have your way and avoid the imagined annihilation of your cherished images and misconceptions. Now | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you have progressed, you there still maintain an imagined helplessness toward living, growing, and toward what life | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| satisfyingly when positive melds with positive. It is imagined that this would be dull and boring. This | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| a total rift, with all its real and imagined threats -- for real damage has begun to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| always according to your needs, or rather your imagined needs. You then become resentful of those who | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| unobstructed, but where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined helplessness persist, you cannot contact your universal self | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| all its suffering, appears preferable to the dangers imagined to be lurking in an open, flowing attitude | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a blaming accusation. One can always find actual, imagined, or exaggerated and distorted reasons for focusing the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| really angry, blaming, punishing, and self-victimizing because your imagined real need for love remains slighted. Once you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is strengthened in order to ward off the imagined unjust life experience. What a waste of valuable | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| hurt -- whether this hurt is actual or imagined. The resistance may be linked to self-will that | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| way you really are. When you overcome your imagined need to pretend, when you can be who | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| be in order to fulfill your real or imagined needs. The real person is often totally ignored | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| a constricted and confined circumference to avoid the imagined danger of the unfamiliar. Living a full life | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and polluted by appearance values. You borrow an imagined desire that fits into the appearance value system | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| experiencing your pain and terror -- or your imagined worthlessness -- is death, that it will annihilate | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
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| from the spirit world, he or she somehow imagines that this must happen in a very dramatic | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| also a second aspect. The child in you imagines that you can only be happy if your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| possibility. Freedom does not mean what the infant imagines: no boundaries at all, taking the line of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
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| often unconsciously, find themselves in an illusion, hazily imagining something that they cannot name. Yet, of course | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| individual progress than anything you are capable of imagining at this time. You have made a very | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the clarity to acknowledge your real needs without imagining dire consequences and creating false guilt. You now | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| that could determine a fruitful, constructive, expanding life. Imagining that you must keep a part of yourself | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |