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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

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