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the great eternal truth about love remains a lofty ideal you cannot possibly apply to your person 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
unconscious concept of the real self is so lofty and so holy that it is utterly foreign 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
handing out information about generalities, no matter how lofty the spiritual truths may be. These lectures must 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
without anything else to go by except a lofty theory, is absolutely impossible for you. Therefore, you 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
 
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then you will benefit from using simple, healthy logic, which will tell you that nothing can remain 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
to grapple with the mud first. The simple logic of this will be comprehensible to all. Why 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
-- in their own way and not without logic -- why should God grant a human being 36 PRAYER
They are not completely devoid of a certain logic, albeit limited and erroneous. As the years go 38 IMAGES
this whole procedure for its lack of rational logic, and also because you were ashamed that your 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
happen, it just came to me, your everyday logic will agree. Yet, after you have found your 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
a disharmonious way. You often overlook this simple logic, and persistently take the frictions in your life 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
even though consciously you may know a better logic. Everything in the unconscious is primitive, ignorant, and 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
illogical, although it does follow a certain limited logic of its own. The vicious circle that is 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
This may sound utterly paradoxical according to human logic, but I cannot explain it any further. This 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
thoughts, it has its own quite understandable limited logic in the child's mind. No conflict that arises 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
can be obtained only after understanding the peculiar logic of confused emotions. With the confusion about parental 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
experience, the deductions you make with the surface logic of the intellect which ignores spiritual and absolute 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
situation. They are not without their own peculiar logic, limited as it may be. Nevertheless, these conclusions 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
are merely shortsighted and erroneous and of limited logic, as the inner child always is. These motivations 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
avoiding error. It strengthens your mental faculties, your logic, as well as your range and power of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
not have to be manipulated. This is simple logic. The only way to dissolve the undesirable is 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
ideas. They cannot discriminate between reason, common sense, logic, and their opposites. They depend on being supplied 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
with the pain of another. There is no logic and no sense of responsibility. The infant is 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
mass image prohibited it -- without any justification, logic, or meaning. This conviction will strengthen your desire 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
to the values, rules, and concepts of ego logic. When you want to be transformed, you must 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
inherent nature. This cannot be explained by the logic the ego is used to; such logic is 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
the logic the ego is used to; such logic is much too limited to comprehend this. A 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
own, independent life, their own laws, their own logic and wisdom. You would do better to explore 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
feelings and superimpose over them your puny ego logic, ego law, and pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are an 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
has nothing else. There is no intelligence, no logic, no lawfulness other than the ego's when the 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
it? Such considerations will give you the necessary logic to look at what you believe exists, in 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
be contradictions suddenly unify without a breach of logic. Fear vanishes, and life becomes unending pleasure just 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
do not resist going beyond the faulty, limited logic of materialistic consciousness in which life appears a 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
If you truly question yourself with all the logic and reason at the disposal of your mind 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
structure you have created, with its own inner logic and laws, you can relinquish it, you can 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
neither is good will and meditation, visualization and logic. None of them will make you really accessible 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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still present. It is an error in healthy, logical thinking. A revision of thinking is necessary. Look 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
is understandable and typical of human nature. Your logical conclusions can be very limited, and then you 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
world or in divine law and order, the logical third alternative is that some factors are determined 18 FREE WILL
it, even though he was the natural and logical choice. Someone had to come to earth and 19 JESUS CHRIST
will bring you liberation. So it is only logical that it cannot be easy. It means, in 21 THE FALL
an intense jealousy of Christ. Thus it was logical that Christ Himself should prove His love by 22 SALVATION
God in his attitude. So if it were logical for him to be incarnated at all, he 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sense to you; the answer will become so logical and will make a complete picture. And that 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
it intelligently . Continuing this discussion with yourself, the logical side of you might say: All right, if 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
receive it? This argument seems, at first sight, logical. But the simple fact is that a person 36 PRAYER
a threat, my friends. It is just a logical consequence. Besides, how can anything be a threat 38 IMAGES
personality, the protective measure seems very good and logical. Still, you cannot help but realize how faulty 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
techniques. You will find that your image-conclusions are logical in their own limited way. You may even 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
outer miseries and unfulfillments. The latter are a logical result, an inevitable projection of the former. Perhaps 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
are, the more powerful they are. This is logical, for anything that is out in the light 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
again find that although the process is not logical when analyzed and the emotions are translated into 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
most of these answers are either theoretical and logical deductions or they are only vaguely felt emotions 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
become enslaved. It is as simple and as logical as that. When you give up your childish 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
universe, with all its infinite possibilities, with its logical, just laws operating within man and between man 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
reasons -- which at times may be quite logical -- you should investigate these reactions with will 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are still conjectures. Thus, by following through in logical steps, we see that the fear of death 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
by a lazy fatalism and leads to the logical conclusion that God is cruel and sadistic. The 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
will come to the conclusion that reincarnation is logical and in keeping with the universal laws of 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you absorb, you train your memory and your logical reasoning. All this furthers mental growth. But why 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
be underdeveloped in the emotional arena, it is logical that their unfulfillments are primarily emotional. But such 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
urge for gratification becomes much stronger. This is logical, because awareness of a need and clear knowledge 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
the claim for success itself there is no logical error. However, the unconscious aim and claim for 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
To believe so, consciously or unconsciously, is a logical error, a misconception, and therefore it cannot work 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
if you are your real self. It is logical and reasonable that the struggle and the effort 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
scientific fact, or philosophy is carried to its logical end and conclusion, the less is it possible 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
too modest in your expectation. This is a logical consequence that occurs automatically. It is based on 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
or theories, but will be seen as a logical sequence of an unbroken chain. There is no 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
At first glance, such questions seem justified and logical, but when you take a closer look, you 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
self. This is a law. It is a logical law, for then you act out of strength 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
how can you experience happiness? This is as logical as any physical law. For instance, if you 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
every creature in the universe. It is as logical a law as any law you no longer 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
principle. The separated state operates dualistically; it seems logical that the more one gives, the less one 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
explanations for -- whatever seems most acceptable, most logical or most compatible with your superficial approach to 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
with giving nothing. In fact, it is a logical connection. The more human beings believe they must 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
very way of being. These are natural and logical laws. If your character and attitudes are incompatible 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
time you do not wish to accept the logical consequences due to the misconception that they are 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
the realization of personal pleasure. This is very logical, my friends. You know that you can truly 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
exists would mean doom, annihilation, danger, chaos, the logical sequence of this assumption would then be that 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
against one type of inner experience, it is logical that all other types must be equally hindered 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
and the force given. It is thus quite logical that you first respond to this force with 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
seems like a miracle, it really is quite logical. It will come to pass that precisely because 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
were put into haphazardly, was really a very logical extension of your own inner attitude and explicit 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
perceivable by inference, by intuition, and even by logical deduction, if the deduction is carried far enough 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
thought leads to another in a series of logical sequences. The series of thoughts leads to actions 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
every possibility is taken into consideration in complete, logical connection with the total picture: the task of 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
infuse it with truth. You can see the logical sequence of psychic events here in clear demonstration 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
this line of inner, unconscious reasoning to its logical end, you create an imaginary world of injustice 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS

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