| Immaturely..................3 | |
| you have chosen as most people do -- immaturely, with half-closed eyes, not accepting beforehand the disadvantage | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| with a tendency to hidden rebellion. Both react immaturely and ignorantly. The inner motivations of the law-upholder | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| gain a deeper understanding of why you react immaturely. You see with ever greater clarity what the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Immaturities................6 | |
| now because they had their own conflicts and immaturities. The light of conscious reasoning has to be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| there is hardly a really mature person, these immaturities in your partner will no longer be the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| role. But where there are psychological disturbances and immaturities, where there is distortion and unreality, these instincts | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| what is there. Wherever your distortions, images, repressions, immaturities -- in short, your neuroses -- exist, there | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| relationships, if you fight against their imperfections and immaturities that hurt you, it is only because you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| individuals cannot learn unless they experience mistakes and immaturities, neither can the collective consciousness. New ways have | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Immaturity..................61 | |
| those areas where the soul is unhealthy. Indeed, immaturity is a childish quality, because it means to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| pretexts and excuses are, the sluggishness and the immaturity of your lower self has the better of | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are in that part of your being. This immaturity takes over wherever your image is affected. Mature | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| because the choice to marry was made in immaturity and both partners lack the desire to fulfill | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| rigidity, an obstruction. You rightly call this an immaturity. In this part of your personality you have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in you due to your ignorance and emotional immaturity. Are there any questions on this subject? QUESTION | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you face them -- their ignorance, selfishness, and immaturity -- without being ashamed, and apply your conscious | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| came into existence as a result of the immaturity that said sex is sinful, the sexual drive | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is egocentric, separated and loveless because of emotional immaturity or whether it finds union and integrates with | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seek the wrong remedy in blindness, ignorance, and immaturity. You can be quite certain, my friends, that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| certain times of outer ease. One aspect of immaturity and separateness is that people always think the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| know that those who cannot love are immature. Immaturity causes unreality. Unreality, being untrue, must perforce, cause | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| all this is tied together with one string. Immaturity is non- acceptance of reality because reality is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| because reality is not always perfect or pleasant. Immaturity exaggerates the imperfection so much that you close | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your eyes to it, thereby inviting more conflicts. Immaturity causes crippled intuition and crippled creativity, for creativity | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| of ambition, because impatience is a form of immaturity. It is the child in you who wants | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| could never come to pass. With your existing immaturity and incapacity, you may nevertheless build a more | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| most outstanding would be a similar kind of immaturity and incapacity to love. That alone is sufficient | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| their weaknesses. QUESTION: Would you say that emotional immaturity is indicated by an emphasis on strong likes | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the human sphere. But the awareness of your immaturity, a real insight into and understanding of your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| such behavior would indicate a certain aspect of immaturity. It may be a search and a longing | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| both of these partners must have a corresponding immaturity and division within themselves to attract this type | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the pain. That is a sign of emotional immaturity, not facing life and reality as they are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| accept them that way. Another sign of emotional immaturity is the rejection of responsibility. I do not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| maturity not to do that. This would be immaturity throughout. I mean the responsibility to the innermost | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| It is often a clear indication of emotional immaturity to shy away from taking on certain responsibilities | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and its risks is a sign of emotional immaturity. This is only to give a few of | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| secular form. Thus you must see that such immaturity and soul deviations play hand in hand with | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| mind a chance to grow out of the immaturity and to reach a certain physical and mental | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| itself is the effect of the hidden emotional immaturity, as well as of the existing self-deception. The | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a necessary basis. Love and faith and emotional immaturity are mutually exclusive, my child. The ability to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| also serves to protect you from yourself. Wherever immaturity and emotional disturbance exist, so does rigid adherence | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| either/or attitude is the basis for emotional disturbance, immaturity, and ill-health, but it especially creates the moralizing | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| observe these emotional reactions means to observe your immaturity. Only by doing so will your maturity grow | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| heard many aspects of what constitutes maturity and immaturity. One of the great milestones on the road | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tolerate frustration is one of the marks of immaturity. This lack of gratification combined with frustration then | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of you that has remained in illusion and immaturity, makes people sometimes read into dreams a high | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| by the person who is still embroiled in immaturity and pseudo-solutions. Once you are real, your own | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| fully accept yourself as you are, recognizing your immaturity. If you do this, without being angry and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In other words, the result of inner distortion | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| sin. The common denominator of any sin is immaturity of the soul, which makes it incapable of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is selfish, egocentric, blind, and cannot understand others. Immaturity means separateness. In separateness, one does not love | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| may be in itself, such a pursuit indicates immaturity. The stronger the urgency, the greater the frustration | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| other person's incapacity reflects his or her emotional immaturity, inner problems, and conflicts. But you become angry | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| without moralizing about anyone, but just accepting your immaturity, and by doing so, learning more about it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| supreme Being. But simultaneously, man's spiritual and emotional immaturity producing fear and many other problematic emotions, colors | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of awareness of reality, it shows such spiritual immaturity, that it cannot even be answered in any | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| stage, when the confusion of the mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| this respect as you are? To emulate such immaturity cannot ever produce self-respect and certainty in your | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| yourself, you now know that it indicates emotional immaturity. Love is an essential ingredient in life. But | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you never fight against yourself. Overcoming impurities and immaturity does not mean struggling against yourself, but rather | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| learn. It may be true that people whose immaturity shows in stormy relationships are indeed more immature | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The same condition exists in any form of immaturity. When you explore the recesses of your psyche | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| need for it at all indicates neurosis, disturbance, immaturity. In the well- functioning personality, the need for | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| is inadequate, it is precisely a result of immaturity, illusion, lack of awareness of self, hence of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that this is the manifestation of another person's immaturity and fear of love. You must investigate all | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| may be. A person of spiritual and emotional immaturity and crudeness will always put the bulk of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| freedom of self- responsibility. This indicates the emotional immaturity of humanity as a whole. It also indicates | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and more free. It is a hallmark of immaturity if one's attitude toward responsibility is considered a | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| expression of the infant's claim to omnipotence as immaturity and destructive egocentricity. It is that, but it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| nurture in you. By childish I mean immature. Immaturity is the misunderstanding, the ignorance of the very | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Immeasurable................19 | |
| Persevering in this fight will eventually bring an immeasurable spiritual strength and with it further spiritual consequences | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| time I can only say little about the immeasurable complexity of the spirit worlds and their different | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| These worlds consist of subtle matter of such immeasurable harmony and beauty that you, my friends, cannot | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| and experience that this group work is of immeasurable importance. How else can you safely allow your | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| voice your confusions, these discussions will prove of immeasurable value. Help will then be given as much | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the opposite sex becomes possible. Apart from the immeasurable bliss of this experience, the union enables the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a way that will give you and others immeasurable happiness. On the other hand, it is also | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of the substitute need. Doing so will bring immeasurable relief and peace. You may be frightened of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| door to full relating and living, to that immeasurable happiness which every individual human soul so desperately | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of the conscious will. The latter is of immeasurable importance, but it must be geared to make | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| enables you to be in possession of the immeasurable wisdom, energy, and peace of the life force | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be accepted, that the universe is open, that immeasurable abundance is available for all human beings right | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| This is why your pathwork is of such immeasurable importance; for without recognizing the daily little dishonesties | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| your real self, where all good exists in immeasurable power, forever and ever. This power waits for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| truth is that each now is charged with immeasurable life force, an energy that can be released | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the opposite positive attitudes. The blessings are truly immeasurable. Perhaps this lecture, as a sequence to the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you and through which you will discover the immeasurable beauty of that process, the wisdom of it | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| same degree you will free yourself of an immeasurable burden and will gain a deep new security | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| them, the benefit is immense. It represents an immeasurable amount of saving for you. Much energy, expenditure | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |