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 Insatiable..................7
children experience rejection, and since all children are insatiable in their demands, when will there be an 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
original pain in this life leads to greedy, insatiable demands, such as to be spared all frustration 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
another vicious circle. You submit to another's equally insatiable, unreasonable demands and join in a power struggle 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
becomes so painful that the non-fulfillment of these insatiable demands for total, unconditional gratification of selfwill and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
fact that you are immersed in expressing your insatiable demands which are your false needs, you may 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
specifically let go one by one of your insatiable demands and unreal needs, you will find out 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
I will punish you for not fulfilling my insatiable demands. I will not love you or give 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
 
 Inscribed...................3
existence of an individual are marked and deeply inscribed. The significance of previous lives, merits, and so-called 18 FREE WILL
called the Book of Life, wherein everything is inscribed. From the time this particular entity has been 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
personality trends that brought it to fall are inscribed and updated. Recorded also are all the various 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
 
 Insecure....................47
Why? Because your fellow creatures feel just as insecure as you do. If they see you as 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
person you really are. Of course you are insecure and lonely in that state. But only you 31 SHAME
you are, and that is why you feel insecure. And that is also why you doubt others 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
them feel unloved and criticized, or at least insecure. Their severity is a defense. If you rest 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
secure in your value, you will not feel insecure and you will therefore develop a natural tolerance 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
tolerance. But most of you are still so insecure that you resort to such defective defensive measures 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
deep down in your heart you are so insecure about your own ability to love that you 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
as you must show yourself to God: groping, insecure, uncertain. In other words, to show your true 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
symptoms and rationalizations. To the extent you feel insecure and inferior there must be a side in 53 SELF-LOVE
people, in one form or another, are so insecure that your warding-off attitude will have an effect 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
may be right or wrong, but you remain insecure. It is an unnatural forceful procedure. The other 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
so often discuss. When you feel rejected and insecure, you often assume an attitude of trying to 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
snowballs, and becomes worse and worse. The more insecure you feel, the more stringent the demands of 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
to live up to it, and the more insecure you feel. It is very important to see 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
of being dependent on others and therefore feeling insecure -- the dictates of the idealized self- image 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
protection; craving pleasure and happiness; feeling vulnerable, submissive, insecure, and dependent. If the predominant tendency is a 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
to solve your problems, by leaving you still insecure, frightened, and restless, you are at a loss 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
needed and I am still unhappy, alone, and insecure. I still lack something, I still have nothing 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lonely, misunderstood, not accepted for your own sake, insecure, frightened. Only by adhering to certain rules do 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
rely on your intuitive processes, you must be insecure and lacking in self-confidence. You try to make 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the time and which makes you even more insecure and fearful of exposure. Deep inside you know 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
and rules you borrow because you are too insecure to delve into your own soul. But since 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
the real goodness. Only because you are too insecure to trust yourself do you think you need 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
that were unrealizable, impossible, and unfeasible, you were insecure. You can be secure only when your expectations 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
self, it does not mean you are never insecure, afraid, frustrated, that you are never unhappy. But 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
live on earth. Of course, you will be insecure, afraid, sad and unhappy at times, but you 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
unhappy at times, but you will not feel insecure, victimized and uncertain about yourself. That is a 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
Your inability to discriminate is what makes you insecure. Keeping your reaction hidden will make discrimination even 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
capacity for loving and relating. They never feel insecure and helpless because they do not have love 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
yourself, you will remain helpless and dependent and insecure. If you can accept frustration, you will have 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
result that you are disappointed, and even more insecure, and hopeless of ever finding it. You wish 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
out exactly what it is you are so insecure about. But until such time, you will find 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
within. How can you love if you are insecure? It is not possible. Again, of course, there 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
But I will add this: If you are insecure, you cannot trust yourself. If you do not 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
to feel wanted and desired because one feels insecure and helpless. Often aggression and hostility are taken 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
missing mate, you must become overintense, anxious, hostile, insecure. Every little slight, or apparent slight, will hurt 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you desire most, you can no longer be insecure and frightened and hanging on to the misconception 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
an easy solution, an insurance against an apparently insecure future, makes you falsify truth. It makes you 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
about the person who is afraid or too insecure to show righteous anger? What is happening to 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
of human beings -- become tremendously frightened and insecure. They must feel inadequate, and their sense of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
downright insufficient and must leave the individual uncertain, insecure, inadequate. The real self, on the other hand 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
in the universal intelligence? Therefore, whenever you feel insecure and shaky within yourself, anxious and frightened -- 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
why it is so painful and feels so insecure and why in no state could one be 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
of the mind. Nothing renders the individual so insecure and inadequate as the incapacity for love and 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
real masculinity he has, and consequently the more insecure and inferior he feels. He must hide his 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the undesirable effect. Are you frightened? Are you insecure? Do you feel inadequate? Do you feel an 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
within your innermost being. This idea makes you insecure, for you believe that security lies in fixed 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
 
 Insecurities................8
here is that your conflicts, hungers, needs, and insecurities will persist as long as you do not 32 DECISION-MAKING
and unpleasant because of his or her own insecurities. Even then such a person is not rejected 32 DECISION-MAKING
Can you really grasp and understand your fears, insecurities, and complexes from the point of view of 36 PRAYER
of the best motives, but unaware of certain insecurities, causing a particular temperament to alleviate this insecurity 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
evaluation. Only when you question your fears and insecurities, your reactions to those aspects of love that 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
this path, think about your anxieties and your insecurities and realize in what ways you try to 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
unhappy: your anxieties, your worries, your self-dislike, your insecurities, your discontent with life, your frustrations, your sense 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
ideas, beliefs, dreams, aspirations, feelings, fears, goals, yearnings, insecurities, and hopes. The world of the mind and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
 
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can one dissolve a deeply embedded fear and insecurity? ANSWER: You can do it only on this 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
only from blindness, ignorance, and a great inner insecurity, erroneously attempting to protect himself. Consider how often 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
wanted to but because in your own blind insecurity you thought that this was the best way 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
her pain, not yours, see his or her insecurity, not yours. And ask God to give you 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
too when you lose the constant fear and insecurity in your soul. It spoils everything for you 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
remedy for this constant state of loneliness, of insecurity, and of growing self-despisal is the one step 31 SHAME
fear of life, of disappointment, of inferiority, of insecurity, and any number of symptoms of a sick 32 DECISION-MAKING
You may feel an unhappiness, unrest, disharmony, fear, insecurity, loneliness, yearning. All of you, my friends, including 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
motives. Why one person chooses to manifest his insecurity and dependency one way and another person the 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
too many layers of imperfection, of fear, of insecurity, of self-will to have God manifest in all 47 THE WALL WITHIN
insecurities, causing a particular temperament to alleviate this insecurity by means of gaining power over others. This 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
The fear of the unknown really comes from insecurity: Will I be able to cope? Will my 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
will automatically lose some of your fear and insecurity. You will know that you are capable of 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
impulse related to this outlook creates fear and insecurity and is futile and senseless. The new state 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
currents show. Forget about your own vanity and insecurity and open your arms yourself, and then see 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
unconsciously use the aggressive force to overcome your insecurity, your feelings of inadequacy. You use it to 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
or weakness, be it pride, vanity, self-will, rebellion, insecurity, frustration, or whatever. Even if these inner motives 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
with this super self you build up additional insecurity, and further vicious circles come into existence. The 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
further vicious circles come into existence. The original insecurity which was supposedly whisked away by the establishment 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
-- both real and imagined. These feelings create insecurity and lack of self-confidence, which the person seeks 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
is the creation of the idealized self-image. Emotional insecurity, is experienced to some degree by every person 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
Self-centeredness brings frustration, anxiety, tension, compulsion, guilt and insecurity, to name but a few of the negative 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
be further from the truth. Nothing induces greater insecurity than being egocentric. Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
not obeyed. When the rules prove ineffective, your insecurity is increased for two reasons: 1) you do 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
soul areas and understand their full significance, your insecurity increases. You tend to strengthen the rigid rules 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
the other person did came perhaps out of insecurity. Then another set of feelings erupts that spell 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
the personality going through the process feels acute insecurity and anxiety when called upon to give up 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
the following process occurs: The young child experiences insecurity, either from lack of love, from lack of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
this condition? What should I do now? So insecurity and inner haste increase just because the false 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only way to alleviate the danger of your insecurity and of your pretense which you sense all 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
to govern you. Moreover, you cannot lose this insecurity because the rules and regulations are mostly so 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
and the origin of this predicament. Rigidity, fear, insecurity, intolerance -- all these exist in you because 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
be alive and true in you. In humanity's insecurity, in the fear and denial of human imperfection 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
all over again, but it increases his inner insecurity and inferiority. He originally deduced that if he 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
that is, your real self. Only after risking insecurity without pretense do you find real security in 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
of his or her needs, vulnerabilities, problems, and insecurity. In your demand to possess a strong and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
those around them may do so out of insecurity, needing to conform, or out of the freedom 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
is exposed. They rebel against the need and insecurity in themselves, rather than against society. Such rebellion 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
be that at one time the need and insecurity of one person may be greater, and then 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
confuses you, but also increases your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt, injustice and victimization. Let us look 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
a lack of self-respect that causes feelings of insecurity and inferiority. Consequently you make your damaged self-respect 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
conviction and inner experience; false faith covers fear, insecurity, childish needs. In order to establish true faith 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
yourself makes you unable to determine and differentiate. Insecurity, in turn, is the result of an impaired 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
do not have love. Whenever you find such insecurity in yourself, you now know that it indicates 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
eliminate its existence. When you struggle against your insecurity, denying its existence, it rises up behind the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
will you feel the full force of the insecurity that becomes stronger as it builds up behind 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
you with all the despair of helplessness and insecurity you had never dared to face. So by 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to face. So by struggling to repress your insecurity, you actually increase it. By denying its existence 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to live in destructive patterns, inner fear, and insecurity. These hurts cause you to struggle in the 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
people discover that there is a type of insecurity they were not able to recognize as long 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
may succeed in disregarding the gnawing feeling of insecurity that clamors for alleviation. You may drown out 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
means. The only realistic way of meeting your insecurity is by facing it, admitting it, accepting it 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
such tasks, drown out his or her inner insecurity. But you will readily admit that this is 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
be capable of love. But to the degree insecurity permeates the soul, complete capacity for loving is 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
It is absolutely correct. The child's helplessness and insecurity makes him strive desperately for acceptance by his 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
at least a slight element of rejection, fearfulness, insecurity, or pain. When these negative emotions are completely 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
union, and these three make fear, distrust and insecurity disappear, life's unity is plain to see and 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
step leading directly to freedom from fear, distrust, insecurity, isolation, separateness, and stagnation. Such objectivity must open 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
this is what I said at first. The insecurity, the fear of having to confront life alone 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
unhealthy kind because of the personality's unresolved problems, insecurity, guilts and doubts, uncertainties and contradictions. The issue 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
anger as opposed to twisted, tortured anger. When insecurity makes a person too anxious to express justified 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
feeling healthy anger. When the issue justifies anger, insecurity induces conflicting feelings. Healthy anger makes you stronger 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
causes unbearable tension and anxiety. This basic mental insecurity, with all its byproducts, can be overshadowed by 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
one hand, you are very disturbed by the insecurity of your existence. You sense the waste of 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
center in which all good, salvation from anxiety, insecurity, and confusion exist? If so, are you willing 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
is a crushing feeling of anxiety, guilt and insecurity. What more can you tell me about this 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
within themselves an inexhaustible well of wonderful feelings. Insecurity and weakness cannot exist when these feelings are 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
consequently, life must be fraught with fear and insecurity. The longing for escape from the tension of 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to your self-image. The destructiveness causes fear and insecurity because you do not wish to face and 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
levels of the personality -- causes fear and insecurity. It is such an insufficient life, so finite 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
-- with all its pain, guilt, discomfort and insecurity -- you forfeit the good feelings without any 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
For example, a young man recently discovered his insecurity about his masculinity. He had to overcome considerable 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and inferior he feels. He must hide his insecurity and sense of inferiority from the world and 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
human being who experiences feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority. To 174 SELF-ESTEEM
indirect one. You can certainly sense shyness, uncertainty, insecurity, apprehension about being rejected or criticized, as well 174 SELF-ESTEEM
of pain, difficulties, upheaval, uncertainty, or merely the insecurity that comes from starting out on unaccustomed ways 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
at the tremendous cost of guilt, self- deprivation, insecurity, and fear of not being able to run 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the false struggle of covering up your hidden insecurity. Decide, again and again and again, every day 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
free from guilt, and therefore from anxiety and insecurity, from confusion and fear, which are the only 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
A restlessness, a discontent, a vague feeling of insecurity may all be rooted in psychological problems on 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
from the threats of death, nonbeing, pain, injustice, insecurity, loneliness. The externalized life in the body, in 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
the pursuit of selfish ends, the greater your insecurity will be, accompanied by a frightening sense of 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
relationship to your Creator. Where you have fear, insecurity, anxiety, self-doubt, conflict with others, altercations with your 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the other for being different, thus challenging your insecurity about your spirituality and your religious background. Some 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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