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 Longings....................22
has ample material for self-search. Whoever has such longings should know that his or her unconscious emotional 4 WORLD WEARINESS
I understand how the fallen spirits, through their longings, created for themselves the earth. But I do 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the origin of the difficulties, the sorrows, the longings, the unfulfillments of your life. And this you 47 THE WALL WITHIN
yourself the luxury of facing your desires, unfulfillments, longings, your complaints against life or fate or others 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you can express your real sorrows, needs, worries, longings, wishes? Very few, if any. To the degree 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
vague, general acknowledgement. The full intensity of partly-repressed longings and frustrations must be aired out. The third 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
when you first admit to yourself the unfulfilled longings, your discontent, your hurts and fears, your real 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
in the negative there are always conflicts, contrary longings and will directions that weaken the force. In 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
are in fact secretly unwilling to share, your longings must remain unfulfilled. People would be well advised 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
would be well advised to consider their unfulfilled longings from this point of view, rather than indulging 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
for. You dull your senses, your feelings, your longings. When we started our work together many years 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
life, your suffering, your frustration, and your unfulfilled longings. All levels must be dealt with by looking 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
an inner longing that goes deeper than the longings for emotional and creative fulfillment, although these are 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
you are also confused about your own desires, longings and goals. This confusion only adds to your 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
and repressed. It then becomes transformed into subsidiary longings, such as longing for health, for happiness, for 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
long as possible. Obviously, every one of these longings is most legitimate. Do not infer from my 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
eliminate them. Quite the contrary is true. These longings are most legitimate. However, there is an enormous 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
ways, such as the conscious, subsidiary but legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
legitimate longings I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- longings for false, unreal fulfillments. The longing 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
I mentioned before, or in displaced longings -- longings for false, unreal fulfillments. The longing may also 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
or sound. Thinking of your desires and surface longings, your emphasis in prayer may be on outer 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
even though in themselves quite legitimate fears and longings. Have the courage and commitment to go deeply 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
 
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your spirit demands and which your higher self longs for. The rest will come by itself. But 19 JESUS CHRIST
and know what it is in you that longs for this experience and what is your true 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
still exists. On the one hand, the child longs for the love of the parent, on the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
to enable her to express it herself. Everyone longs for true fusion and unity of souls; some 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
negation of the very thing for which one longs most deeply. Humanity longs for bliss and eternal 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
thing for which one longs most deeply. Humanity longs for bliss and eternal life, but many who 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
person cannot experience what his or her soul longs for. Nevertheless, this is not as negative a 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
omnipotence, pleasure supreme, and the ease the spirit longs for, a state where hardship does not exist 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
to be the effortless state that the soul longs for. Or movement seems so necessary because you 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
with the universe. The fact that humanity constantly longs for this oneness -- whether or not you 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
what one consciously desires, wishes, wants, wills, intends, longs for. The person is convinced that their lack 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
your actual state, that your whole inner being longs for something desperately. Therefore a third layer has 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
serene state of being which every soul unconsciously longs for is not cautious passivity which must avoid 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
order to have what a part of you longs for and another part of you negates. But 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
and superficial representation of what the soul really longs for but is too blind to understand and 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
other person. The fulfillment and bliss your soul longs for can only be satisfied through fusion with 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
the fulfillment and bliss that every created being longs for is possible to the degree that a 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
countermovement in you. One movement embraces life and longs for the divine. But the countermovement denies all 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
what you long for, what every human being longs for and should indeed experience, you simultaneously speak 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
which you cannot experience the fulfillment your soul longs for. You are then caught in an involuntary 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
prevent the movement that another part of you longs for; you make it absolutely impossible. You do 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
that the personality first unconsciously, and finally consciously, longs for. When this longing is unfulfilled, the separation 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
self often opposes most vigorously, your inner self longs for most ardently. When the outer self succeeds 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
world because the soul deeply knows it and longs to return to it. Thus painters, musicians, poets 254 SURRENDER
 
 Long-term...................3
The perfection of the law is that the long-term remedy is an effect of these very violations 38 IMAGES
consists of dieable matter, is a result of long-term errors of perception. Conversely, to the extent the 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
sustained, can feelings expand and contact blossom in long-term relationships. So you can see, my friends, that 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
 
 Looked......................35
them. For as long as one has not looked at these currents in the light of one's 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
and show you major problems that can be looked at and worked with. When you progress further 36 PRAYER
any false security ever could. Whether you have looked for this false security in your relationships with 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
finding their meaning, facing all that you have looked away from. The more you learn self-honesty, the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
my friends, that both alternatives are to be looked for, even if one appears stronger to begin 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
a virtue out of something that should be looked into and considered a sickness. If a young 53 SELF-LOVE
develops those qualities in him which are generally looked upon as being feminine, he will become more 62 MAN AND WOMAN
develops those qualities in her which are generally looked upon as being masculine, she will become more 62 MAN AND WOMAN
its significance, is not really new. You merely looked away but it was always there. It was 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
it is a combination. Certain aspects are unconsciously looked for and found and they are actually similar 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
longing for it. Then a shortcut substitute is looked for in such substances. QUESTION: We are surrounded 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
This has been discussed in previous lectures and looked at in our work. If the entirety of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
standards, ignoring the fact that if only you looked at yourself as you really are, you would 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
I wish to discuss is something we have looked at only in a fleeting way so far 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
to link several points that we had previously looked at separately, because you then lacked the inner 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
life circumstances -- all this has to be looked at with a penetrating spirit of truthfulness. When 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
speak of on this path. If God is looked for as a substitute for mature self-responsibility and 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
awareness gained, so that the now can be looked for and seen, the soul movements can be 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
exist, it will remain tame, but if you looked at it, it would act up, forcing you 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
of being inadequate, of being rejected, of being looked down upon or not taken seriously. Whether or 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
need. If only you stopped running and really looked at yourself, you would see that you are 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
feel good. If self-realization is arduously forced and looked for, it cannot come. It comes as a 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
Substitute pleasures are then -- often frantically -- looked for, which are hollow and leave you exhausted 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
possibility from which the good way can be looked for, seen, and undertaken. The marvel of the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
many ways. Hidden, easily glossed-over thoughts, when finally looked at, eventually reveal desire for illness, for death 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
power without any threat if these snares were looked at, discovered, and dissolved. It is of utmost 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
to find security -- the security you once looked for in the sustenance given you by others 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
your life, an unreal need has to be looked for. You must find your own insistence that 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
necessary, the many areas that have to be looked into, and the many angles where confusions might 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
feeling is again an illusion, as if you looked through the wrong end of a telescope. You 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line of least resistance and therefore 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
belong to the Jewish community and faith. Jews looked down on pagans as inferior. They saw themselves 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
ends. Even worse, this pollution and displacement was looked upon as if it were morally desirable. Whenever 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
new-age marriage. Fleeting sexual encounters should not be looked upon as the final state of liberation. They 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
majority of humans have, for the longest time, looked for God up in heaven. When Jesus Christ 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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