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| of artificially accelerated emotions, desires and ambitions. The artificiality, in turn, is the result of pretense. The | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain aspects of the human soul, art and artificiality symbolize others. You will learn to perceive anything | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. You may have discovered their destructiveness, their artificiality, but you are as yet still unable to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| order to fully participate in life? The shallow artificiality of superimposed positive emotions lacks real substance and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| how hindering this tautness in you is. The artificiality of it creates an incompatibility between your inner | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| genuineness you try arduously to convince yourself. The artificiality of this role you indulge in must be | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
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| conscience with the second conscience that has been artificially created out of compulsion to atone for a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| could never make you feel inferior. Without your artificially high standards, you would not feel the need | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| loved, but that the substitute layer that you artificially concocted is the problem. You will then not | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| understanding there can be no rigidity. You cannot artificially force the stages, they grow out of your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| function freely or naturally. Either you whip them artificially into a more dramatic state, exaggerating them for | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| safely through the stream of life. Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your natural feelings. Maybe | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you do not need to increase your emotions artificially. You will feel as strongly as you should | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| you have heard and try to apply it artificially. When an emotional obstinacy is discovered in the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| has been accomplished. Compulsion is a result of artificially accelerated emotions, desires and ambitions. The artificiality, in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you think you should have. This, too, causes artificially produced acceleration -- and therefore compulsion. Since impatience | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have the courage to free yourself of the artificially produced strength, and investigate its origin and the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| under lock and key. Thus you superimpose and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work progresses, you | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aspect. I have also talked about how you artificially overdramatize your life, your emotions, and everything pertaining | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| evasion. If belief in the end result is artificially clung to, it has the very opposite effect | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| soul whose serenity is not real, or is artificially cultivated, is much less developed than those who | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self is a falsity. It is a rigid, artificially constructed imitation of a live human being. You | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| not necessarily in financial matters but emotionally. So, artificially and dishonestly in the last analysis, such people | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and less defined attitude toward people in general. Artificially cultivating a toughness that is no more real | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| thinks that power is the solution, is the artificially cultivated view of how bad the world and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the conscience of the higher self, and an artificially constructed, superimposed conscience which derives from the idealized | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you experience this state? Not if it is artificially produced. The only way to distinguish between genuine | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| overlap. Not only do the superimposed, unhealthy, and artificially created needs of the idealized self create guilt | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| distinguish between the natural, healthy needs, and the artificially created needs of the superimposed idealized self-image. Only | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| because you cannot cope, caught between the two artificially constructed attitudes that unconsciously seemed to be the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you cannot possibly go back and make yourself artificially asleep. You have to follow the rhythm of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| for yourself that this is so. When you artificially cut out the mind by exercise and discipline | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| more thoroughly. Do not try to reproduce them artificially and voluntarily. It will not work. The moment | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| they oppose the organic growth into it by artificially holding on to an overemphasis on the mind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| All this does not mean that you should artificially try to force love where it does not | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| act of discouraging your natural, warm feelings and artificially producing toughness. Again, all this is not conscious | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| ready to accept in yourself, you produce, almost artificially, an overreaction of despair, hurt, self-abasement, or a | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| hurt as such can be a defense. You artificially overproduce sensitivity in order to evade something. You | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| glimpses of health, as compared with the distorted, artificially strained ways of living, are the best way | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| inclinations, thoughts and feelings that you hold down artificially because you erroneously believe them to be wrong | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| uncertainty that need not be feared. You often artificially encourage negative feelings, though the real you is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the opposite sex are not fought against, nor artificially bolstered up out of fear of not being | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| her femininity, to that degree may she often, artificially, create a false femininity by repressing her so-called | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to give of herself completely, she has to artificially suppress her activity in order to falsely create | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| more securely locked than hate. Often hate is artificially fostered as an antidote to forbidden pleasure, and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to give -- no matter how forcefully and artificially you may practice giving in order to squelch | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| much more constructive, accepting, positive person than you artificially make yourself. Once the artifice is shed, this | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| expresses itself more freely. You cling to the artificially negative side, almost as a sort of superstition | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| own organic development proceed, in not halting it artificially. Most of you have made enough progress to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| course. But when this state is sought after artificially because the task of developing the ego seems | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| due to blockage. Hence, the feeling is manipulated, artificially exaggerated or dramatized. Again, this may apply to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is inevitable. Even purely chemical medication attempts to artificially loosen up the cramp and reestablish an easy | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to experience. All these are limitations which you artificially and needlessly inflict upon yourself. The next obstruction | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| been one all along and were split asunder artificially. One part was then forgotten, its existence denied | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| destiny of the pleasure current is willfully and artificially stopped. Pleasure comes about when the stream of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| force you to act differently. This kind of artificially exaggerated hurt results from all the false layers | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| different dynamics from what you used to do: artificially fitting feelings into a superstructure of explanations and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| first appears more difficult to bear than the artificially aggrandized one, because the latter seems to promise | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| explode out of you because they have been artificially denied and held back for too long, then | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| what you think you would have to produce artificially, laboriously, and through forcibly contorting your very nature | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| This doubt then becomes the excuse for the artificially maintained status quo. This is the sin against | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| may then try to force the sexual drive artificially with very unsatisfactory results. The person may resort | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| tasting and savoring the blissful now points by artificially induced means. I include mechanical exercises and practices | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| will soon find out that you made yourself artificially dull by packing yourself tight: tight in the | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| uses a great deal of energy in an artificially stirred up way. There is a lot of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
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| self are sickeningly sweet. If you are an artist or are artistically inclined, you know how to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| I would put it this way: When the artist puts daydreams into actual creations then they cease | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| then they cease to be daydreams. When the artist plays with these thoughts of fantasy for the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| strong urge to become, let us say, an artist or a scientist, in spite of contrary environmental | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is the same with a scientist, or an artist for that matter. With all his talent, he | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of my dear friends here who is an artist will be inspired to draw such an image | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to the same thing. Often, an inventor or artist wakes up with a new idea or conclusion | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you do menial labor, or work as an artist, a scientist, or whatever else, the law is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| skill, energy, and accomplishment to play creatively. An artist who wants to bypass the effortfulness of learning | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| sciences. You cannot be inspired as a great artist, no matter how much genius you have, unless | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| course to every other area of life. The artist will create differently. The economist will solve problems | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |