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| receive love, you have to give it first. Impressing other people, whether you do it consciously or | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you desire financial security for the sake of impressing others, or to alleviate an inherent feeling of | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your fight for approval, for proving yourself, for impressing the world. You will then understand what you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Because, if you concentrate on being successful, on impressing others, on receiving admiration -- which all fall | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of this need. Instead, he pursues success, approval, impressing others. This then has become a superimposed, false | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| automatically diminish the drive for ambition, success, approval, impressing others, being glorious, special, and so on. He | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to its truthfulness and reality. The second is impressing, molding and directing the powers within yourself, so | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| happy interaction, this mutual interplay between expressing and impressing, between emptying out and putting in truth. When | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| all know that taking a truthful concept and impressing it over as yet unrecognized, untruthful ideas is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Now I come to the second approach, the impressing, the putting in. Where you are in untruth | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| your particular untruthful concept. Only then is the impressing of your psychic substance feasible. As long as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| on this path - - first expressing, then impressing. Up to a certain point, a person's pathwork | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| analysis of this material begin. Both expressing and impressing must exist throughout, from the beginning onward. Both | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and impress the self with truthful statements. This impressing has the power to gather inner forces and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| needs to be emptied out, constant interaction between impressing -- stating truth and formulating constructive intent -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| empty out, but its character is completely different. Impressing the need for expressing -- for facing what | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| as opposed to the false one. To recapitulate: impressing has two distinct facets. One helps to overcome | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| come to this understanding, the second type of impressing is necessary. Without it, the understanding fades away | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is finding the proper rhythm and balance between impressing and expressing, finding which kind of impressing is | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| between impressing and expressing, finding which kind of impressing is to be used at what juncture. When | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| well launched on the intercourse between the volitional impressing and the soul movement that expresses from deep | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| what the truth is in this? And that impressing is uniting, identifying with this inner intelligence, this | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| necessary. Since a healthy balance between expressing and impressing does not mean one versus the other, so | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| thoughts of truth about this entire matter and impressing them onto your destructive psychic material, recreation begins | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| frustration; living for the sake of approval and impressing others or -- often simultaneously -- for the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| scale is to live for the sake of impressing others. We discussed this often and found repeatedly | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| yourself from this point of view. Living for impressing others permeates you more than you know. The | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the following stages or phases: (1) concept (2) impressing and allowing to be impressed (3) visualization (4 | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| conscious and unconscious directly affects the second stage: impressing and being impressed. With a unified consciousness, impressing | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| impressing and being impressed. With a unified consciousness, impressing will be strong. No defenses and hiding are | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| meditation, like all creative acts, consists of both impressing by active principle, and receiving the impression by | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| This is where visualization comes in. In conceiving, impressing and being impressed, visualizing and having faith, you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| meditation, in which your mind performs the active, impressing part and affects the receptive soul substance, other | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will immediately bring about the proper concept, with impressing and being impressed, visualizing and faith in the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| by your thinking, by expanding your vision, by impressing your intents into yourself, and by requesting the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| goal in our meditation was what I called impressing. In one of the basic lectures about meditation | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| lectures about meditation I spoke about both aspects: impressing, that is, instructing, claiming, conditioning, re-creating; and expressing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| daily review; you learn the power of repeated impressing in meditation that you do want to be | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the various ways of meditation, particularly those of impressing and expressing. Many of your meditations have dealt | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| expressing. Many of your meditations have dealt with impressing, and should continue to do so. Impressing is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| with impressing, and should continue to do so. Impressing is a cleansing of the mind and serves | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| which means you have given up making an impression, wanting love from others because you appear so | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| idea but a feeling -- is a vague impression of a very strict, pedantic school teacher who | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| I certainly do not wish to give the impression that I advocate war. By no means. But | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| chain reaction of consequences resulting from the original impression creates mishaps and hardships. These will be even | 38 IMAGES |
| the plane ascends, you will be under the impression that it is descending, and vice versa. This | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| strengths. In the last analysis, the wrong inner impression exists as a rigid form that controls all | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| You will not be under the emotional, subjective impression that you alone have such feelings. For that | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it still remains objectively an hour. Your own impression, what you think and feel during that time | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| do not understand what made you retain an impression upon which you formed a wrong conclusion. Your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| events until the new discovery makes its lasting impression. When a child finds out that what it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the child thought them to be. Although the impression that created the shock may or may not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you show it to God, gives you the impression of humiliating yourself, and that is pride. For | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| he who is so much concerned with the impression he makes is proud, or, if you prefer | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| superficial revelation is reached, you are under the impression that this is all there is, and you | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| imperfect. See that unconsciously you are under the impression that authority means only the wrong kind. Once | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| growing human being becomes conscious of such an impression, he or she often does not understand that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| weaker, it may have a much stronger inner impression on the soul, and the resulting image may | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| manifested as the weaker elements during childhood, the impression on the individual soul may be much stronger | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| state everything seems hopeless; you are under the impression that nothing changes and nothing can ever change | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| In your predicament you remain under the wrong impression that no change is possible. Of course, no | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| is completely irrational. It outpictures symbolically the petrified impression in the soul, that only by having what | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distribution. I might add here that the general impression existed for a long time that only woman | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| an otherwise mature being, but retains the particular impression that is bound to color his or her | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the loving parent. The child then gains the impression that the loving parent is weak, while the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| no way leads you to reconsider the first impression that loving is shameful. In the first place | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| from consciousness. In the second place, the first impression, causing the wrong conclusion, is much stronger, infinitely | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| it may also be important because a constructive impression may add something to your life, to your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you -- mostly by trying to make an impression on them, and by proving yourself in one | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beyond your control. You will have this wrong impression as long as your inner self-responsibility is not | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| realistically envisaged, the person may be under the impression of having fully solved a problem, while this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| explain it, an inner wrong conclusion, a wrong impression about the facts and about reality, must exist | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| produce artificial feelings because you are under the impression that this is the way you are supposed | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an unrealistic desire. You are under the mistaken impression that you will get what you want by | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you; they were angry, and you had the impression you were no longer loved. No wonder badness | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| are not. Yet you are under the vague impression that you must not ever resent anything and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you with anxiety, you are still under the impression, in this respect at least, that goodness is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| self, which is your reality. The child's fragmented impression of reality causes distortions which influence the way | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| someone else in your early surroundings. A certain impression of another person or persons is imprinted upon | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| who were important to you. Analyze this feeling impression and compare it with your intellectual view. Then | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| intellectual view. Then begin to consider whether your impression of them is perhaps just a fragmented, limited | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| most important for your own sake that your impression and experience of this person be as realistic | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| where each person fits into a niche. Each impression becomes then a static image, which gives you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| but now understood in their dynamics -- the impression and reaction must change in you. This does | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| over it immediately. QUESTION: I was under the impression that the mind is the builder, but according | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| I am saying. When you have retained an impression in unresilient soul-stuff, your entire psychic mechanism functions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| your entire psychic mechanism functions according to this impression, exaggerating it way beyond its reality-value. As you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| reality. Therefore the soul suffers more from an impression than it needs to and even favorable impressions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| soul- substance is so easily indented that an impression of little importance, of minor significance for you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| shifted this way, to obtain an effect, an impression on others. Or you may discover, in a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| gratification. The most enlightened people are under the impression that any need for it at all indicates | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| life. When these attitudes derive from a truthful impression and a constructive attitude prevails, the soul substance | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| this principle, you are often under the wrong impression that you have first to reach a certain | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| doing your best, rather than giving the best impression. If you look at all your past discoveries | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| determine the vast difference between giving the best impression, so that the best will be thought of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| frame of mind and come out with the impression that this experience was not the way it | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| God! Lecture 81 131. INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION Greetings, my dearest, dearest friends. Blessings for every | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| unreal fear to do so -- means using impression in order to be more capable of expression | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| sufficiently expressed what is inside, the nature of impression becomes that of stating the truthful concept as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| contribute to life, rather than to make an impression and grasp for approval. When the immediate barriers | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| both impressing by active principle, and receiving the impression by the receptive principle. The more you can | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| will not take, your substance will refuse the impression until you remove this violation of law. Life | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| cruel, and brutal attitudes, you always give an impression that you cannot help being the way you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| seems more important to people to create an impression than even to consider what a tragic, wasteful | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This impression causes a great deal of fear and distrust | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| delay, I do not want to give the impression that you should be hasty and rushed in | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| difference. Appearance values always aim to create an impression. Such false values may have crass manifestations, such | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| But as long as you are under the impression that your lack of freedom is imposed on | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| disruption of conscious connection will temporarily create the impression of non-existence in the life outside the physical | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| and Christians who in their distortions, created this impression. Jesus Christ came to be a bridge, a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |